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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Opening to Mexico City
The hour or two prior to local sunrise is also my go-to time for DXing the same directions, from SSW to West. I've had sometimes very good signals deep into Mexico on channels where I never hear a peep out of any Latins at other hours. The precise peaks times usually vary within this window, and sometimes there is nothing much to be had while other times it's action-packed, and sometimes the window is open for only a few minutes. During the recent aurora (mid-late March) I had a couple of days in a row where fantastic stuff was coming in from 0645-0715 and then it all dropped to nothing within a couple of SECONDS, like a switch turned it off. In two consecutive days, I had my first-ever graveyard from Kansas (1490 Topeka) at 960-odd miles, my first ever graveyarders from Nebraska (1340 Kearney and 1400 Ainsworth, Ainsworth checking in at about 1060 miles), 1390 in Meridian MS (MS very rare on the regionals here), and Mexicans crushing WTAM 1100 and WCBS 880 and appearing on regionals like 1410 and 1470. I have tons of audio clips to review (in fact I'm drowning in hours and hours of recordings from the 1560 NYC outage in February).
THU MAR 19 — BR
620 WJDX MS Jackson — 0645 — iHeart radio plug with 844-BUY-RADIO phone number, “Jackson weather” jingle at 27 seconds of recording, jingle with calls at 1:15 of recording, and Fox Sports radio. NEW. SC-BR
620 unID — 0659 — Presumed Mexico City. Likely IDable information on Tape 006.
880 XEAAA MEX Guadalajara — 0700 — Legal ID along the lines of “Radio, XE Triple A, 880 Kilohertz AM, ?? watts de potencia…Guadalajara.” Into Spanish talk. Have yet to go through my recording to transcribe fully. NEW. SC-BR
1100 XETGO MEX Tlaltenango — 0705 — Radio Canon ID heard before recording started, then after Mexican music another ID mentions Radio Canon and FM. Completely over-top WTAM. Maybe also start 009. NEW. SC-BR
1410 XEBS MEXICO Mexico City — 0713 — Spanish talk between Mexican ballads includes “del Estado de México” and “en La Más Perrona.” Also “cinco con trece” which matches my time, two hours off. Possibly mixing with another Spanish-language station. NEW. SC-BR
1470 unID — 0714 — Two stations appearing to be Mexicans, one likely Mexico City but no IDable material.
1580 unID — 0716 — Fox Sports Radio during intermittent CKDO open carrier.
1600 KLEB LA Golden Meadow — 0726 — “Get on the hot songs express, the Ragin’ Cajun” ID and Zydeco music. SC-BR
1500 WPSO FL New Port Richey — 0747 — Green talk, phone number in English beginning with 727-934 which checks to nearby Tarpon Springs. SC-BR
1200 unID — 0755 — Spanish talk on 016. Chicago or better?
FRI MAR 20 — BR
1070 KNX CA Los Angeles — 0655 — “KNX news time is 3:55.” SC-BR
1060 KNLV NE Ord — 0707 — Let It Be (Beatles), then ID: “Regional Radio KNLV with your official central Nebraska weather,” followed by ad for something in Ashton (nearby). NEW. SC-BR
1400 KBRB 1400 NE Ainsworth — 0713 — Ad for Red & White Market. PSA: “This National Ag Week message on KBRB has been brought to you by Perfect Valley Irrigation of Bassett.” Into ‘This Date in History. Time check for 15 minutes past the hour. New GY state. NEW. SC-BR
1340 KGLW NE Kearney — 0715 — York and Kearney high school sports scores, other sports. “For more visit our web site KGLW.com.” NEW. SC-BR
Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON
> From: bw@xxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 06:43:41 -0400
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; am@xxxxxxxxxxx; lbi-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [NRC-AM] Opening to Mexico City
>
> Most mornings I get up around 5am and after making coffee and firing up the email I check two things that 'set the tone' for the radio day - first 738 to see if there's a 'trace' of Tahiti [you'd be surprised how often there is a whisp of a carrier floating by though no real audio yet ... after 5+ years] and 760 to remind myself I'm from Michigan and, more importantly, to see if there's anything coming around/through/over WJR.
>
> Yesterday, as I went from 738 to 760 and before I switched the Wellbrook array to 'south' I heard some great ranchera music under WJR. After checking to see that the station was not coming in near as well on the south array I switched back to the west array and set Mestor to record across TOH at 1000utc.
>
> In going over the recording last night I got only as far as 790. Here's what I have so far:
>
> WYHM - 580 - Rockwood, TN - 'The Holler' - new here @ home, heard previously at Bay House, near Reedville, VA on a 1400' BOG facing west.
> http://realmonitor.com/stations/WYHM.wav
>
> XEPH - 590 - Mexico City, Mexico - Sabrosita - again, new @ home, heard at Bay House on west-facing BOG - 'Sabrosita' @ :14 with fill ID following
> http://realmonitor.com/stations/XEPH.wav
> - better a little later in the wav file - http://realmonitor.com/stations/xeph1.wav
>
> WAGG - 610 - Birmingham, AL - not new but fun and confirming the 'southwest' trend.
> http://realmonitor.com/stations/wagg1.wav
>
> XENK - 620 - Mexico City, Mexico - ID begins at :10 - new @ home, heard previously while visiting my mom in Lansing, MI in 2011.
> http://realmonitor.com/stations/XENK.wav
>
> XEABC - 760 - Mexico City, Mexico - only heard @ home on 4/26/09 when WJR was off.
> http://realmonitor.com/stations/xeabc1.wav
>
> XERC - 790 - Mexico City, Mexico - Formato 21 - call at :25 - new here @ home.
> http://realmonitor.com/stations/XERC.wav
>
> Hoping for more ...
>
> Bill Whitacre
> Alexandria, VA
> Perseus/Wellbrook 4-element delta phased array
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