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- Subject: Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, May 29-June 4, 2015
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:26:09 -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/page34
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. XEMU is definitely gone for good. So gone that the entire purpose of that odd update was to remove XEMU! I've never seen anything like it from the IFT (Raymie Humbert, AZ, May 28, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. 580, June 1 at 0616 UT, Mexican music under much stronger WIBW Topeka talk; can`t really null either, like the case with XEMU opposite in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, but which has been reported migrated to FM-only. Still trying to get an ID on this. If not still XEMU, the other Mexican closest to the same direxion beyond there is XEAV Guadalajara. Chihuahua or Sonora might be more likely but off the DF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 580, June 2 at 0520, I am trying again to ID the Mexican music station mixing with, and mostly way under WIBW Topeka KS with `Coast to Coast`. If WIBW is nulled, so is the competition. But occasionally the XE fades up when the KS fades down to a SAH, such as at 0524, seeming live DJ with birthday music dedication, but no local references caught. (In Spanish, instead of nacerdía, they say cumpleaños, literally ``completing years``.) Finally at 0550 another fadeup clinches it: ``La Rancherita del Aire`` ID in passing, which is XEMU, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, 5/2.5 kW --- so contrary to Raymie`s suggestion, it is not yet quitting AM for only FM 103.7, tho likely to be its eventual fate (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1776, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 930, June 1 at 0454 I start monitoring this frequency intensively, as WKY OKC has been off the air since at least early afternoon. I have previously been able to log several stations despite it by tight nulling (and it was on slightly reduced power for a while), but now that`s not necessary. At first I am mainly getting a weak but steady signal with Spanish music and wonder if that could be WKY on much reduced power as its initial comeback? But this música is romántica, far from the lively stuff WKY normally plays and loops about SSW, not SSE. No, it`s México, as 0459 segué with no ID to choral national anthem. Likewise no ID right after it, just ``son las 12 con 2 minutos`` and back to romx. Some QRM like NW/SE in English, which would be another good catch.
Finally 0507 canned full (?) ID so over-produced that I can`t understand it! It includes beeping if not code SFX. At 0523 recheck, this signal has faded out leaving a weak mix of US stations. 0537 fades in again with XE music; I doze along and at 0602 finally catch a partial ID as ``---- Radio, 90.3 FM``, so that means it`s one of my two main suspects listed: XEQS, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, which on FM is XHQS 90.3, ``Romance en Radio, Romántica`` per IRCA Mexican Log (rather than closer XESHT Saltillo, Coahuila, with FM on 102.5). XEQS is 10/3 kW, three sources agree; city-to-city distance 1548 km = 962 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1776, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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