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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, May 29-June 4, 2015

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All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during DST; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 UT period to the previous date by ELT].
 
Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E/W longwire as specified
 
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/page35
 
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA, unidentified [if any], separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order

** OKLAHOMA. 930, May 31 at 1950 UT on caradio at the cemetery, north side of Enid, WKY OKC is off!!! No longer Indomable, very unusual. Fairly quiet location but some powerline noise from edge of property. At midday I can`t hear anything else on 930, but only in this absence of WKY can I hear spikes/splatter so far away from nearby local 960 KGWA. It does open up 920 for presumed KLMR CO; see USA. I should have spent the evening DXing 930, but did not get around to it until 0454 UT June 1 when WKY was still off. See MEXICO. Rerechecked at 1510 UT June 1, now WKY is back on. Nothing seen on homepage about an outage
http://www.laindomable.com/
and the latest Facebook entry was May 30, https://www.facebook.com/laindomableok 

BTW, the not very detailed ``full schedule``
http://www.laindomable.com/common/more.php?m=10&mode=schedule&r=1
shows large blox of ``Indo Music`` --- what`s that, really, rather than just a play on its slogan? hardly Indonesian, including all weekend from 8 pm Friday to 6 am Monday [0100 / 1100 UT], and not showing the token pubaffs show en inglés Sundays at 7 am CT, which I have not reconfirmed lately but likely still exists. WKY also will not turn down a commercial in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, May 31 at 2012 UT check, KEOR/KETU is still off from Sperry. Last date heard with any modulation and carrier was May 13 as in DXLD 15-19. I expect to mention it no further until/unless there is at least a carrier. Altho unscrambling which call is really in effect would be nice (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, June 1 at 1849 UT, KETU/KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is back on the air with usual music, shortly after I posted that it had not been heard since May 13. On caradio, after seeming open carrier circa 1800 UT. Breaks between music at 1859 UT and 1901 UT but no ID, no announcements at all, nor have I heard any since, no commercials even. Most of the tunes are `norteña` with male vocals. Perhaps still plugged into La Picuda format from Los Ángeles.

1120, still/again on June 2 at 0123 UT with music, making SAH of ~6 Hz with growing KMOX silly baseball game; and music continues past 0130. In June, official SR/SS for facility 3651, known to FCC only as KETU, are *1100/0145* UT (July: 1115/0145 UT). It also has a Critical Hours proviso, reducing power from 10 to 7 kW, which presumably means during the two hours after sunrise and before sunset. Another check 1650 UT June 2: it`s on (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1560, May 31 at 2013 UT, bandscan on caradio finds dead air from KEBC Del City. No one is paying attention on a Sunday afternoon (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, June 3 at 0218 UT, seems that KYHN Sallisaw is off the air: all I am getting is Fox Sports from IA or Spanish from CO, with nothing in between; ditto at 0602 UT recheck. 

However June 4 at 0126 UT, I have a weak signal from the direxion of Fort Smith AR, resuming the Jerry-something show, 0131-0132 UT CBS News Update. Schedule http://kyhnradio.com/schedule confirms it`s the Jerry Doyle show on KYHN (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, June 4 at 0509 UT, `Info Wars` with Alex Jones is on KYHN Sallisaw, instead of `Red Eye Radio` so not // 1640 KZLS. Own sked http://kyhnradio.com/schedule continues to show Info Wars ending at local midnight CDT weekdays, and RER after midnight --- I can only conclude that KYHN sometimes fails to make the proper program source switch during CBS news on the hour. One far-right wacko is as bad as two others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 720, June 4 at 0541 UT, I`m getting something in English with WGN easily nulled --- it`s Roy Masters, plug for Foundation for Human Understanding, address in Grants Pass OR. I`ll bet it`s 50/50 kW U2 KDWN Las Vegas NV, which is normally inaudible here on night pattern, cardioid with deep null toward Chicago crossing Colorado and Nebraska, so we are quite a ways out of it. Yes, per
https://www.fhu.com/radiostations.html
RM/FHU, is on one 720 station, KDWN, M-F at 9-11 pm PDT = 04-06 UT Tue-Sat.

[At 0835 UT June 4, Les Rayburn in AL asked ``Who carries Roy Masters on 1530 kHz here now overnight? Cincinnati?`` Yes, same sked above shows WCKY as his sole 1530, but only at ``new time`` of 3:30-4:30 am ET = 0730-0830 UT] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 750, June 1 at 0607 UT, Spanish music and talk atop WSB and hardly nullable, i.e. opposite KAMA El Paso, still blasting away eastward instead of protecting WSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 920, May 31 at 1950 UT on caradio in absence of 930 WKY, very weak signal unobscured here with music, 2000-2007 UT talk with some fading, but can`t make out anything definite. Presumed 5 kW ND KLMR Lamar CO, our nearest at 460 km = 286 stmi, city-to-city. Little Rock is a bit further and never makes it on groundwave, also direxionally unfavorable, and may be on reduced power. KYFR in Shenandoah IA dominates 920 at night with a 2.5 kW lobe this way; 5 kW day lobe is a bit more due south from there, and distance is 533 km/331 stmi (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1220, June 3 at 0615 UT, S Asian music with big het on hi side, i.e. KZEE Weatherford TX, 1600/200 watts, and the longtime off-frequency Texan, KMVL Madisonvillle, 500/11 watts and/or its experimental co-channel booster in Huntsville, KM2XVL, 170/11 watts. Day powers, anyone? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1530, June 3 at 0159 UT with WCKY nulled, church notices including one for New Salem, Arkansas. No doubt KVDW England AR again, the 2.5 kW cheatin` daytimer. Rand McNally has two towns called Salem in different parts of AR but no New Salem. One of them, also on the outskirts of Little Rock, should be in the KVDW coverage area. Critical hours before sunset it`s supposed to cut to only 270 watts [not 27 as mis-read in original report], but if you`re going to go late past official June sunset of 0115 UT (same in July), why bother with less than 2500? FCC won`t get `em for that, but maybe God`ll (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1530, June 4 at 1220 UT, ``FM 92 and 1530 AM, 19 past the hour of 7`` and then immediate fadeout losing to Tulsa Spanish before I could even evaluate its format. But only match in the NRC AM Log is 500-watt C&W daytimer KMAM Butler MO, which is // KMOE 92.1. Butler is on I-49 south of Kansas City, midway N/S in MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1590, June 4 at 0127 UT NWS robot with tornado watch for central KS, closing with those annoying beeps interrupting programming, which must therefore be KVGB Great Bend; maps confirm it`s so, while here in OK, weather is quiet and warming up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, May 31 at 0605 UT, I`m getting something in English besides KSTP, with that nulled as much as possible. Local weather break attributed to The Weather Channel, but can`t copy any details! Then music, which turns out to be prélude to Coast to Coast AM (they play a different piece of music at the start of every hour and after the half-hour), since 0607 UT definite mention of Coast to Coast AM. 

The 2014-2015 NRC AM Log mentions no `B` network affiliate on 1500. So I try to find a 1500 affil at the Coast to Coast website, where listings are sorted state by state only. It must not be up to date.

Would you believe that yahoo search on 1500 site:coasttocoastam.com/stations leads to three possible states: MN [!], NM, and NY. But if you look at the roster for those three states there are NO 1500`s nor any explanation of why that figure would possibly come up for those pages. Google search in same way gets zero hits on 1500, but gets reasonable hits for 1490 and 1510. 

Suspect this 1500 is a cheating daytimer, maybe normally carrying C2CAM on an FM translator only? There are lots of them from TX to OH and the SE quadrant of the USA, including one in Pawhuska OK which is normally sportstalk. The NRC Pattern Book shows one with a favorable lobe this way, rather than ND, Indianapolis` WBRI, which does have an FM translator, but it`s supposedly religious, and the affil there is WIBC-FM. 

Could it possibly be 50 kW WFED Washington DC (ex-WTOP)? We never hear it here with its very unfavorable pattern out into the Atlantic. Website http://federalnewsradio.com has nothing about C2C, but linx to weekday and weekend program schedules are not hot. C2C site state list does not even include DC.

Broadening the search thru the NRC listings, there are surprisingly few news/talk formats on 1500, with a lot of Oldies, etc. TLK was KDFN Doniphan MO, 1 kW daytimer, which had been silent since 4/2014 as of publication in 8/2014. Another is WKXO Berea KY, 250-watt daytimer which was OLD/TLK. Own site shows WKXO is now an SRN gospel station. KDFN is apparently still off as it`s not on the Fox Media Network/Fox Radio Network station list for SE Missouri.

Google search on program name and 1500 leads to this:
http://archive.coasttocoastam.com/affiliates/aa.html
mentioning two 1500s, KSTP (before it went ESPN), and KRMS Osage Beach MO, so not meant to be current? Anyhow, all affils are on one page for easy searching. Trouble is, KRMS is now on 1150; was it ever on 1500? 

KJIM 1500 Sherman TX is not far, and often heard before sunset, as a nostalgic daytimer; can`t see how they could pick up a talk show AND manage to be on overnight.

Perhaps my closest 1500 is the answer, seemingly a long shot, but maybe not: KPGM Pawhuska OK, 500-watt daytimer, with ESPN and Sports Animal sub-network in OK --- BUT it`s sibling station in http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com to KWON 1400 Bartlesville which IS a C2C affiliate. BTW, KPGM 1500 using radio-locator.com claims daytime to reach Enid at fringe which is true, and KWON 1400 even a bit further --- except totally blocked by 1390v KCRC here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, June 2 at 0459 UT I make another attempt to ID the station audible with KSTP MN nulled as much as possible, as heard 47 hours ago with `Coast to Coast`, despite lack of any known affiliates on frequency. Now I am getting only an open carrier, making SAH of ~10 Hz with KSTP. At 0500 UT a bit of rock music but probably a third station, as OC continues to dominate 0504-0507+. The null on KSTP is not far off from Pawhuska OK east of here, and I still suspect this is coming from KPGM daytimer as explained in May 31 log. Still same at 0534 UT final check (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, June 3 at 0200 UT, with KSTP nulled, blues song mentioning Oklahoma, ``I got a woman`` --- not exactly the format we expect from KPGM Pawhuska, but tantalizing us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1560, June 3 at 0606 UT, `When Radio Was` is opening, to feature a Red Skelton and a Richard Diamond; loops roughly NE/SW.

The only 1560 in a search of every state from TX to MN to OH to AR on the show`s station finder 
http://www.radiospirits.com/onradio/stationlocator.asp?sid=MzQ2NTM4NDY6Ni80LzIwMTUgMTowNTo1MSBQTQ==&Svr=.62&l=1&source=wrw&scode=WRW2008
is KBEW, but not at this time as it`s a 1 kW daytimer:
When Radio Was
Station      City, State/Province Broadcast Times 	 
KBEW 1560 AM Blue Earth, MN       Su 2p-4p

And KBEW website, which is a merely inside its FM, agrees:
http://www.kbew98country.com/Programming/10732443
``When Radio Was --- Hear all of your favorite radio programs from the past on When Radio Was! Tune in Sunday afternoons from 2 - 4 on AM 1560!`` lacking a complete program schedule. 

It`s possible KBEW AM has a 24-hour webcast repeating programs and if the transmitter happens to be on overnight, out they go. Apparently no FM translator in this case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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