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- Subject: Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, August 28-September 3, 2015
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:16:19 -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/page38
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside or randomwire; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E-W longwire as specified
** MEXICO. 740-, Sept 3 at 0659 UT, with auroral boost, horrible low rumbling het against KRMG Tulsa, and somewhat separable with LSB tuning on the DX-398 and nulling: PSA about Puebla; Radio Fórmula, Chihuahua also mentioned but call ID for flagship in the DF, XERFR 970. Really must be XEQN Torreón, Coahuila, 10/1 kW, the only other Fórmula on 740 being in Q.Roo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 780v, Sept 3 at 0702, WBBM is wiped out by auroral conditions, instead ID for Exa-FM, 3-minute-fast 2:05 TC, making low rumbling het but not as bad as 740 XEQN/KRMG. Last year`s IRCA log and WRTH 2015 show two Exas on 780, but surely it`s the closer one, XEWGR, Monclova, Coahuila, 10/0.25 kW, rather than 5 kW daytimer, XEZN in Celaya, Guanajuato (and Cantú as of last Feb listed no Guanajuatan on 780). I can null both this and what`s left of WBBM to hear 720-watt KCEG Fountain CO with country music in the clear.
{Note, on Aug 26 at 1139, I logged: `````La Poderosa, 103.5 y 780`` ID, 6:39 TC; i.e. XESFT, San Fernando, Tamaulipas, 5/1 kW; with KSPI OK nulled, otherwise, makes annoying low audible het with it; also afflicting WBBM in the evenings```. So are both XESFT and XEWGR off-frequency producing LAHs? As for correlating with FM frequencies, I was not sure of the last digit, but XHSFT is listed as 103.7} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 870, Aug 31 at 1205 UT, non-Spanish language mentions Guachochi, pronounces call XETAR as in Spanish, Secretaría de Salud PSA in Spanish. So this indigenous Chihuahuan is again audible around sunrise here, but soon fades (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Aug 28 at 0556, XE NA with KRVN nulled, and tnx to dead air from KHAC-USB. 0557 ID for XEPNK and a similar FM call, plug Radio México network. This is Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 10/2 kW, surpassing 24h NSP XEV Chihuahua if it`s really on, 5/0.25 kW per IRCA Mexican Log (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 970, Aug 31 at 1207 UT, ranchera music, roughly SW/NE; splatter from local 960 KGWA worse than usual. XEJ Juárez was ranchera, but long gone. Could be any one of another Chihuahuan, Sonoran or Sinaloan. 1213 announcement but fading out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Aug 28 at 0546.4 UT, timecheck in Spanish for 11:45; loops WSW, music. Only two XEs are in the summer UT -6 zone, XEJL in Sinaloa, 1000/250 watts; and XEP Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 38000/200 watts, but the latter often heard here with suspected day power at night. However, it soon lost out to the CCI. No US SS stations in the UT -6 zone according to the 2015 NRC AM Log, but some Texans in UT -5. Assuming the TC is only a sesquiminute off instead of an hour off. No, the Mexican NA can be heard at 0602 UT, so local midnite in MDT zone. Spanish music still audible at 0613 by monitoring LSB only, conveniently suppressed by KHAC which had resumed modulating on USB.
1300, Aug 29 at 0548 UT, I am rechecking 24 hours later the SS circumstantially identified as XEP, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Again a dominant signal from WSW (or ENE), apropos for 38,000 rather than legal 200 watts, but plenty of CCI. Is playing romantic song, ``Aquellos Ojos Verdes``; 0551 ``En Radio México Noticias, también música bonita``, then ``16 Tons`` in English! but not by TennErnFord, no bass this one. 0557, Radio México Noticias promo, federal promo for La Hora Nacional, promo some RMN morning shows; more music; 0602 ``Escuchas Radio México Noticias``, no further ID and into choral NA. 0604, NA is over already, and finally an ID for Radio México Noticias, including XEP call. This station is obviously determined to maintain its ``news`` identity even when playing music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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