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[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, April 10-16, 2015

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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/page33

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. 950, April 10 at 0118 UT, as I have just logged XERN in Nuevo León [see MEXICO], I hear the Radio Reloj ``RR`` Morse code sounder, so I know it has to be Cuba, brought in a little better by rotating the DX-398, but still all I can copy are the minutely time tone followed by RR for the next two minutes, and compared to WWV, Reloj is 17 seconds slow!! Good enough for Commie government work? WRTH 2015 shows two CMBDs on 950, each 10 kW: in Camagüey and closer Arroyo Arenas, Habana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 950, April 10 at 0117 UT, Mexican-sounding PSA, then ``La Mera Mera`` slogan (plus ``La Ranchera``? Not sure about that part), but I am sure an 8:17 timecheck followed and temp in Montemorelos. So it`s XERN, 5/1 kW in that Nuevo León city per Cantú, which however calls it ``La Jefa``. Even further off is the IRCA Log listing as La Jefa in Monterrey. Where will WRTH find it? Monterrey, but called ``Radio Naranjera`` --- at least that matched the call letters. Could that be what I heard, rhyming with mera? No, ``La Mera Mera`` was pretty clear and a slogan used by several Mexican stations, odd as it sounds.

That ex-name obviously had something to do with oranges, but what, exactly? My Random House LA SS dixionary spells it out: naranjera is orange-seller (if feminine), but what`s that got to do with radio? Naranjal is orange grove; naranjada is orangeade; naranja is orange, the fruit; while naranjo besides meaning orange tree can also informally mean lout or blockhead. I guess the color naranj@ can be either gender, depending.

Montemorelos is about 52 km SE of Monterrey on Carretera 85, so just about a suburb easily linked to the metropolis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA

Nice catch with XERN. Here's their website. http://radionaranjera.com.mx/ 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ABDX via DXLD)

** MEXICO. 1030, April 14 at 1245 UT as I tune in, ``Radio Fórmula, Ciudad Juárez`` ID, quickly losing out to gospel huxtering in English, KCTA TX or KCWJ MO. It`s XEYC, 1/1 kW per IRCA, or 5/0.5 kW per Cantú and WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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