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- Subject: Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, January 15-22, 2015
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:04:48 -0800
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These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser
And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access:
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page30
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E-W longwire as specified
** CUBA [and non]. 530, Jan 16 at 0440-0455, enjoying the music from R. Enciclopedia, approaching Enid from OKC on caradio, and no sign of ``K530AM`` Vance AFB TIS on 530, even in downtown Enid. The thing has been getting weaker and weaker with its endless useless loops of irrelevant PSAs such as what to do in a hurricane. Had been hard to hear even in the daytime; solar powered? Cuban is playing knockoff instrumentals of ``I`ll Only Love You``, ``Whiter Shade of Pale``, etc., with soft-spoken YL DJ leading up to midnight. So comforting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 640, Jan 17 at 0241, best signal from E/W in full null of Okie SSE, rapid national Mexican news in Spanish referring to Iguala, CNDH, whales, with stingers; 0243 music bit, swishes, 0245 interview about violence toward women. No doubt it`s XEJUA in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, listed by IRCA as with Milenio TV audio simulcast, 5 kW daytimer. Cantú agrees on daytime, nombre as BM Radio, which is a major group in the state. So when do they sign off? WRTH shows power as 5 without a d, implying it is really full-time. During this, hardly any KFI to be heard underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, Jan 17 at 0247, live Spanish coverage of a SBG, looping NE/SW, crowd roars, announcer has to compete with loud PA from the venue; 0247 mentions ``Dorados de Chihuahua`` which is enough for me to conclude it`s XEACB in Ciudad Delicias, 3/1 kW per IRCA, breaking from otherwise ROMantic music format; Cantú agrees on power but WRTH 2015 shows 5 kW fulltime.
However, somewhat stale Wikipedia entries indicate Dorados de Chihuahua were both a baseball and a basketball team, but both were going to move elsewhere out of state. However2, further searching to latinbasket.com indicates this name is still active as BKB in Chih and I suppose even in Mexico, baloncesto is more likely than béisbol in January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Quick check of regular sunrise-skip XEs, Jan 22 at 1340-1345 in case some are lost to the FM transition: definitely still 650 XETNT with 6:40 TC and ``agenda de hoy``; 730 XEHB with joint ID for 107.1 FM; presumed 870 XETAR with announcements in Spanish; and 710 XEDP, Spanish not off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 900, Jan 19 at 0632, YL jazz singer in English dominates, loops toward Cuba, and soon confirmed as such by // 890 with WLS nulled. So both are R. Progreso, but 900 is much stronger. So how do we explain this? 890 is WRTH-listed as 200 kW in Ciego de Ávila, while 900 is only 50 kW in further Holguín. It would be nice to know about Cuban MW direxional patterns, if any. Is there any source for such info? Don`t bother asking Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 970, Jan 19 around 0600, 0630 and 1345 chex, nothing detectable from XEJ Ciudad Juárez which used to be regular; just US stations in English. Now like John Wilkins, CO, I also wonder what`s become of XEJ. Is it completely off, or QRP? Supposedly 10/5 kW, 24h NSP per IRCA. A DXer in El Paso could tell us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1757, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1550, Jan 17 at 0237, bouncy Mexican music from NE/SW, 0238 ``La Rancherita, 15-50 AM``, ad, then losing to something in English. IRCA Log shows it`s our closest, XENU in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 5000/250 watts --- and WRTH 2015, Cantú both agree on all this! Quite a coincidence. But is it really on night power? Both ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1566, Jan 22 at 1335-1340 UT, I am straining to detect a trans-Pacific carrier, and there may be one at imagination level; following neighbor Richard Allen`s catch of HLAZ, South Korea, 48 hours earlier; it`s the 250 kW FEBC station on Jeju, presumably with a variety of antenna configurations since over the 24 hours it broadcasts in Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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