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- Subject: Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 20, 2015
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:36:04 -0700
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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/page32
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
I got so much Mexican DX on March 20 that here is that roundup without further delay. Even with auroral conditions, it`s still very tough to get anything beyond Mexico.
** CUBA. 680, March 20 at 0420, I decide to try to hear a R. Rebelde here next to main frequency 670. I think I do have a very weak // to it and/or 5025, but uplooked later, WRTH shows no Cuban on 680. Rebelde website http://www.radiorebelde.cu is no help with no frequency list, and even searching on 670, let alone 680, goes nowhere.
Terry Krueger however linx to this listing
http://www.radiocubana.cu/index.php/directorio-de-radio-emisoras-cubanas
but it`s woefully incomplete, doesn`t show very many frequencies.
Terry`s own historical roster by frequency,
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmbG9yaWRhZHhufGd4OjU0MzRiMDQwYzUxNWJjYTI
shows there used to be three Radio Progresos on 680, and in 2001-2007y one R. Rebelde on 680 in Ciego de Ávila.
Mauricio Molano`s article from 2011y lists nothing on 680:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmbG9yaWRhZHhufGd4OjdmMmJhYmI4Y2ViMTBhYmQ
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 890, March 20 at 0427, once I have nulled KVOZ in the RGV, nothing from aurorally-blocked WLS, but instead R. Progreso mentioning radioprogreso.cu and onda corta 4765 (which would have signed off at 0400, but unchecked tonight); nothing much on 900 from further Progreso outlet as often audible. 890 is Chambas, Ciego de Ávila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 650, March 20 at 0445, Spanish is totally dominant, maybe a trace of WSM if I null it. Auroral conditions are still blocking many but not all of the USA big`uns. Loops NE/SW so suspect usual XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Información segment is historical about Topolobampo (right near Los Mochis) and Don Miguel Ángel Carillo, interviewing YL on phone for a few minutes; 0449 timecheck for ``11 para las 10``, i.e. UT -7, and ``sigue con nosotros, Guardián de la Noche`` (program title?) 0450 PSA for Tribunal Estatal Electoral, de Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 680, March 20 at 0421, Spanish from NE/SW with ad for Pancho el mecánico; ``arriba Sinaloa --- la radio que nunca`` slogan, maybe a word missing there, 0422 into polca with thumping tuba in the lead. Surely no other state would promote Sinaloa, so this is XEORO, la Mera Jefe in Guasave, 1000/500 watts per IRCA. Then I null it and try for Cuba, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 740-, March 20 at 0423, overcoming KRMG, easily nulled, with that awful lo audible heterodyne, YLs conversing on phone in Spanish; already IDed as from XEQN in Torreón, Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, March 20 at 0451, seldom-heard ``Guadalajara`` song looping slightly clockwise from N/S, dominant with a JBA trace of WJR if I null it. There is a tapatía station on 760, XEZZ with 5/1 kW, R. Gallito, but as expected this is really from the DF, since followed at 0454 by ID as ABC Radio, 70/10 kW XEABC really in the adjacent EdoMex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 780-, March 20 at 0455, Spanish talk, then music dominating, making that awful lo audible heterodyne ruining WBBM reception at night, even tho WBBM is now JBA if I null it. Also would beat against any other USA 780s such as Colorado (and Stillwater if on). The het here is of a slightly higher pitch than the one against 740 KRMG. It was tracked to XEWGR in this report from last year:
``779.93, XEWGR, Monclova, Coah., AUG 28, 1226 - Noted with talk by man announcer, occasional ads, CDT time checks; no ID heard. Fair at best and fading by 1300. Logged on this frequency a few times in 2009-2010, but last logged on exactly 780 in 2012. Semi-local 780 KCEG was off the air but are back on now (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop, NRC IDXD 5 Sept via DXLD)``
IRCA listed slogan is Exa FM, but there`s another 780 one in Celaya, Guanajuato (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, March 20 at 0430, string of PSAs: Encuentro Social; Instituto Electoral del Estado de Chihuahua, Tránsito trans-fronterizo from SCT; so it`s XEDT in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. Separable from `W Radio` further east, i.e. XEW in the DF, no stronger despite 167 times the listed night power, tho almost twice as far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1010, March 20 at 0414, romantic music in Spanish from SSW; 0416 ``Tu Recuerdo, 106.7``, phone numbers, promo for Radiorama publicidad, Que Buena, mentions serving La Laguna y el país; noticiero Radiorama promo, which is at 1 a 2 de la tarde en 106.7 y 101.1; 0418 ``Tu Recuerdo, siempre contigo, 106.7``. BTW, this is also on MW! via XEVK in Torreón, Coahuila, transmitter in adjacent Durango. Laguna refers to local landmark of an ex-lake dried up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1040, March 20 at 0433, ``Estéreo Sensación, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, una señal Radiorama``, noticias about World Water Day; i.e. XEHES, 5000/250 watts, dominant with no WHO audible. Recheck at 0500, now WHO is back way on top. WWV says from 03 to 06 UT the K-index declined from 5 to 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1050, March 20 at 0548, I notice that XEG Monterrey runs political ads for El Partido Humanista, and then for El Partido Verde! Imagine such a diversity North of the border (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1060, March 20 at 0500, Mexican NA, LAH vs KIJN with Spanish praise music, presumed XERDO Reynosa, where it`s midnight already on the border. 0501 INE PSA, mentions Ciudad de México, 0502 another INE PSA, 0503 low-key introducing a bunch of songs with English titles, accompanied by the London Sifonietta. This is very much in the style of Radio Educación as heard on XEPPM 6185-, but that is NOT //!
XEEP must have replaced XERDO without notice, since it`s still an hour from midnight in the DF. First song is ``You Are My Love`` and sounds like Sinatra. Exhaustive XEEP playlist uplooked later
http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/jueves-19-de-marzo-de-2015
does show this for March 19:
``23:03:31 NAC-0176-Frank Sinatra. The Love Collection
13 You Are My Love
23 Fools Rush In
26 East Of The Sun``
So at this hour, anyway, SW is separate. 6185 currently stays on until 0600v*, but when DST finally arrives in April, will be 0500v* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 1170, March 20 at 0411, KFAQ Tulsa is getting Spanish CCI, SAH of 127/minute, 2.12 Hz, presumably usual XERT Reynosa, Tamaulipas, the closest and the rightest angle in KFAQ null. However, a week ago at SRS the SAH between them was calculated as 80/minute = 1.333 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1310, March 20 at 0407, YL song in Spanish, NNE/SSW, ``13-10, la frecuencia de la mujer de hoy, Mujer 13-10`` ID by OM, another upbeat YL song. IRCA shows it`s XEVB, 5 kW in Monterrey NL. Cantú adds a night power of 250 watts, both with entire station name the single word ``Mujer``. WRTH puts this all together.
At 0557 I happen to retune to 1310 and find the Mexican choral NA playing, stops at 0559* and nothing further heard, apparently closedown rather than a quick fadeout. May or may not be same station; IRCA shows XEVB as 24 hours, and of the 13 stations on 1310, the only one scheduled until 0600 is Mia, XEHY in Villa Corregidora, Querétaro.
So what exactly does a station branded as ``woman`` do? Play only female singers? Is it only OF women, or FOR women? Covertly or overtly Lesbian? What about men who like women? Or women who like men? I`m afraid the whole concept must be very sexist. Even in a country like México, it`s hard to imagine a station named ``Hombre``.
There are however a few more Mujeres, searching the entire Cantú listings: 1040 Guadalajara XEBBB; 1290 XENX Mazatlan +104.3 FM; 1340 XEOS Obregón + 105.7 FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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