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- Subject: Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, February 20-26, 2015
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:10:24 -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/page31
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
** MEXICO. 700, Feb 23 at 1303, indigenous language, then Spanish mentioning Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI), its sponsoring agency; at 1304 call-letter IDs at least twice as XEETCH. Poor signal perhaps about to fade out, but no significant QRM, loops WSW. This is in Etchojoa, Sonora, or Navojoa, 5 kW daytimer per Cantú, La Voz de los Tres Rios, and per IRCA serving three linguistic groups. Website with much more about it in Spanish:
http://ecos.cdi.gob.mx/xeetch.html
including
``700 AM / 5000 watts
Dirección: Carretera Navojoa - Huatabampo, Km. 27, C.P. 85280, Etchojoa, Sonora
Horario de transmisión: Diurno de 6:00 a 18:00 horas [UT -7]
Cobertura: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua
Lenguas en que transmite: Mayo, yaqui, guarijío y español``
It would be interesting to see what the same text would look like in those languages, but I see no link to them. Does provide audio streaming, and gallery of station staff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Re my several MW logs early UT Feb 24, and lack of northerlish US stations, in ``auroral conditions``, WWV reported the K-index was 4 at 0000; 5 at 0300 & 0600. And as of 0300 & 0600, `` Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710, Feb 24 at 0147, IFE PSA from NE/SW, then mentions Cuauhtémoc (could be an historical or street reference, major figure in México), but it`s really XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, in the Chihuahua city named for him, with singing ID jingle at 0147, which they frequently play. No het and little QRM in auroral conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 870, Feb 23 at 1306, a bit of the Mexican NA is overtaken by XETAR IDs, mentioning Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de Pueblos Indígenas, as I had just heard on sibling station 700 XEETCH. 1307 full ID in Spanish by W & M alternating, as La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara, poor signal and soon fading.
CDI page linking to all its emisoras:
http://ecos.cdi.gob.mx/index.html
There are 20 around the country, but only heard XETAR and XEETCH here.
And XETAR page, same format as for XEETCH:
http://ecos.cdi.gob.mx/xetar.html
``870 AM / 10000 watts
Dirección: Felipe Ángeles y Francisco M. Plancarte Col. El Salto
Guachochi, Chihuahua. C.P. 33180
Horario de transmisión: Diurno de 6:00 a 18:00 horas [UT -7 until DST]
Cobertura: Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango
Lenguas en que transmite: Tarahumara, tepehuano y español``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1762, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1110, Feb 24 at 0136, ID sounds like R. Metropolitana, 11-10 in promo, with SFX. I was expecting 100/50 kW XERED in the DF, but this is further southwest, and fits really for R. Guadalupana, XEWR, Ciudad Juárez, which IRCA lists as a 500-watt, 24-hour daytimer (i.e. blank for night power). But WRTH says 1000/500 watts. 0137 IFE PSA (sounded like, outdated one instead of INE?), 0138 regreso a su programa, `Levántate con ---``, YL-hostessed talk on the tema, ``la mentira``. A wakeup show? Then it`s an evening playback.
Conditions are auroral, and KFAB 1110 Omaha in the opposite direxion is absolutely no problem, not needing avoidance by nulling. Other northerlish clears are blacked out, including WLW 700, WGN 720, WBBM 780, WCCO 830, WHAS 840, KOA 850, WLS 890, KMOX 1120, WLAC 1510, WCKY 1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1220, Feb 24 at 0134, Spanish news and it`s about one word ahead of XERF 1570, so sibling station, or rather parent station XEB in the DF with `Antena Radio` from IMER; despite its 100 kW clear-channel (ha, ha) status, not always audible at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1320, Feb 21 at 0131 UT, Spanish talk looping SSE/NNW, mentions Sonora, then fades vs all the CCI. Suspect KXYZ Houston, which is controlled by the ChiCom front running CRI English on 1520 and 1540 most of the time, while 1320 is supposed to be in Chinese; yet, NRC AM Log shows it as Ethnic/brokered/SS at least part of the time. Could a Houstonian confirm whether KXYZ is in Spanish evenings, or ever? Other possibility would be XECPN, Piedras Negras if my DF was off a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1320, Feb 24 at 0132, Spanish news by YL anchorette, with quick sounder between items, looping SSW/NNE. She brings up a reporter on phone. Presumably XECPN, Piedras Negras, Coahuila again, with news format, La Poderosa with 10000/100 watts. Recheck at 0148, cáncer PSA, group ID ``Radiorama, la cadena que une a México``, and that chex for XECPN too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1470, Feb 24 at 0128, Spanish norteña song, slightly clockwise from N/S, 0130.5 SHVA with XEHI ID, 7-30 timecheck. XEHI is in Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, across from Roma TX. Cantú shows 10000/250 watts, slogan La Caponera. IRCA says 3000/250 watts, La Consentida. WRTH splits the difference with 10000/250 watts, La Consentida.
What does Caponera mean? My Random House Latin American Spanish dixionary says: ``coop for fattening capons``; informally, ``gaol``; or ``place where one lives well free of charge``. But root word capón also means castrated or gelded, as for roosters. A great name for a radio station, eh? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1510, Feb 24 at 0127, Spanish talk from N/S is dominant, presumed XEQI in Monterrey NL; no WLAC needing to be nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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