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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 6-13, 2015

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All times and dates strictly UT [NOW 5 hours ahead of `ELT` during EST; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-05 UT period to the previous date by ELT].

Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside or N-S random wire; 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/page41

These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA,Âunidentified [if any], separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order

** CANADA. 1610, Nov 10 at 0140 UT, ads in Italian including one for cheeses, with 905 area code. My phone book doesn`t list it, but internet check leads right to S Ontario, Mississauga, Niagara Falls, etc., new? Getting this instead of Anguilla, i.e. CHHA Toronto, Voces Latinas. This page has a program schedule in embedded pdf format:
http://chha1610am.ca/programming/
As before, the language I`m hearing does not match up with what is shown: Mondays at 8-9 pm ET [01-02 UT Tue], `A Drink of Water [ENG]`. They do allegedly have Italian elsewhen: `Bella Italia` at 11 pm-midnight M-F [04-05 UT Tue-Sat] and 9-10 pm Sunday [UT Mon 02-03] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Nov 10 at 0143 UT, KGYN Guymon is buried in QRM, and has been for the past several nights, implying that finally after months they have resumed proper night pattern with a null toward Philadelphia and almost toward Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Nov 11 at 0451 UT, KGYN Guymon is again dominant, so back on day pattern, ``From the 90`s till now, Today`s Country, 1210, KGYN`` and ``Today`s Country for Elkhart, 1210 KGYN``. That means nearby Elkhart KS, but tonight including Elkhart IN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1270, Nov 8 at 0115 UT, KRXO Claremore (Tulsa), ID for ``NBC Sports Radio on 1270 AM and 107.9 FM, KRXO The Fan`` --- huh? They were an outgrowth of 107.7 KRXO in OKC; while 1270 goes on and on with national ads, PSAs, NBCSR promos at least until 0121 UT, 107.7 is amid play-by-play of some SBG. Originally 1270 was // 107.7 but way out of synchrony. Now it`s independent with its own FM, but wonder of wonders, the 250-watt translator is not getting top billing (yet?)

Here`s the info about 107.9 in Broken Arrow, K300CY:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=157502
showing its primary as KTUZ, all owned by Tyler Media; this page not updated for KRXO call-change on 1270 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 530, Nov 7 at 0637 UT, EZL music from R. Enciclopedia (overdue for a new name), CUBA, can be heard without K530AM Vance AFB QRM if I null the latter, far enough away from the 10?-watt pointless TIS, still playing in rotation same old stale off-topic PSAs from Ad Council as in previous years. If not completely nulled, makes fast SAH, as reactivated K530AM is slightly off-frequency to low side. If there is ever an emergency at the base, I`ll be listening whether the nonsense be overridden for something useful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 960, Nov 7 at 0727-0730+ UT, local KGWA Enid is open carrier/dead air with some hum, and nulling it as much as possible at 0729 UT I can hear one or two English stations, but no ID. The ones I used to get most in the midnight Fox-hole were KMA IA and KGKL TX. No telling how long before or after this KGWA was moribund (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Nov 11 at 0451 UT, KGYN Guymon is again dominant, so back on day pattern, ``From the 90`s till now, Today`s Country, 1210, KGYN`` and ``Today`s Country for Elkhart, 1210 KGYN``. That means nearby Elkhart KS, but tonight including Elkhart IN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1360v & 1420v, Nov 13 at 0533 UT, spurs from 1 kW KCRC 1390 Enid are not audible as close as Hennessey on caradio, but are still heard day and night inside Enid, always slightly off-frequency producing hets; at this point, 1390 itself not QRM-free but atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, Nov 13 around 0430 UT, not far outside OKC on the road north, KOKC is torn up by CCI, presumably KOLM MN perpetually cheating, abetted by KOKC, site on the SE side, still on 12.5 kW ND STA instead of 50 kW direxional away from Buffalo. It`s habitually this bad in Enid too.

800, Nov 13 around 0430 UT, KQCV OKC now has a clear signal with no XEROK QRM, since that station has powered way down, so much that we first thought it was gone. On previous visits to OKC, XEROK would tear up KQCV on the north side via caradio; its site on the SW side.

740, Nov 13 around 0430 UT, KRMG Tulsa continues to put a good signal into OKC at night, tnx direxional pattern aimed that way, but as we approach closer to Enid, it`s losing out as we get away from that lobe. Yet KRMG IDs mainly as 102.3 FM, which is blocked in OKC by a Del City translator! {Or, as the Tulsa World insists, ``OC``, not to imply anything positive about the rival city.}

1170, Nov 13 around 0535 UT, KFAQ Tulsa is amazingly weak on US 81 north of OKC, in fact creamed on the caradio by 1173 IBOC noise from KSL 1160. 50 kW KFAQ night pattern is supposed to be broad to the west, away from WWVA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Nov 6 at 0659 UT, KFSW Sallisaw, still claiming to be with its singing ID, ``Arklahoma`s talk radio, KYHN Fort Smith``. Probably paid a pretty penny for their jingle package which the call change will obsolete, if they ever admit new identity (why not ``Oklansas``?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 600, Nov 8 at 0127 UT, ad for Kelowna Auto! Has me going, but isn`t the BC station on 600, CKBD, in Vancouver, and also gone for good? No, it must be merely WMT Cedarapids IA, as they continue with ``on highway 1 south of Iowa City``. However, I don`t find any such hiway around Iowa City, but the Trans-Canada Hiway is not too far (north) of Kelowna; hmm. I must suppose this Auto bizness in IA is otherwise spelt too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 670, Nov 6 at 0640 UT, Cuban music from R. Rebelde is now unimpeded by cheatin` daytimer KHGZ Caddo Country, Arkansas. What happened? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 670, Nov 10 at 0148 UT, ``Caddo Country, FM 98.9 and AM 670`` IDs, country music. Dominating WSCR Chicago unless I null this, from Glenwood AR, daytimer resuming on late and maybe to be all-night again. The name probably derives from the Caddo River in the ARea, as the Caddo Nation/Tribe HQ is in Binger OK. I`ve yet to hear them utter KHGZ, but presumably do so at hourtop legal ID time only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 680, Nov 13 at 0406 UT on caradio north of OKC, `Jim Bohannon` from presumed KFEQ St Joseph MO, in and out, and it`s *not* // JimBo on 690, KGGF Coffeyville KS. KGGF carries him live starting at 0306 UT, while the sked on KFEQ is 0406-0700 UT, so I had assumed KFEQ would also be live for two hours, and play back the first hour at 0606 UT (as presumably continues all night on the WW1 network feed). Instead, KFEQ apparently delays the whole thing by one hour, so don`t try calling in while tuning 680! The 04+ UT topic on KFEQ is the University of Missouri situation, something else on KGGF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Nov 9 at 0350 UT, national adstring culminating in fleaspray.com at 0353, presumably from KKOB and KKOB, and this time I detect a very slight reverb, as if the two transmitters are not precisely synchronized --- which they really need to be, to avoid self-QRM between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Also another station in English QRMing, KAAM TX? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Nov 10 at 0147 UT, mention of Sandoval County, i.e. KKOB New Mexico, and with a light reverb, again implying I am getting both transmitters, the 50 kW main one in the north valley of Albuquerque, with a null toward WABC and almost toward me; and the ND 230-watt night-only fill-in for Santa Fe. Unless, of course, they are deliberately introducing reverb for effect in the studio, but I doubt it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 780-USB, Nov 11 at 0453 UT, country music, but on 780-LSB, no country music, just WBBM without QRM, unlike on the hi side. Therefore KCEG Fountain CO is another station with suppressed LSB (but full carrier, presumably), like KHAC 880 NM. 0459-0500 UT going from bluegrass to country tune, pause but no ID at all. Does anyone know of others? Guess we always need to switch LSB/USB with any new catch. Yes, I made sure the passband tuning on the NRD-545 was neutral, and L/U`d it several times to be certain (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1799, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. {880 [non]} 6219.99, Nov 10 at 0152 UT, ranchera music makes S8, and soon ID as ``La Ranchera``. So the relay of WMDB 880 Nashville TN by WNQM 1300 Nashville TN is still getting shortwaved as a parasite to 7520 WWCR, 1300 kHz away from it (but nothing exceeding the noise level on matching 8820). 7520- is also very slightly on the low side while blasting at S9+55. Fortunately, on 6220, very little WWCR audio comes thru. There is intermittent ute QRM for which switching LSB/USB makes little difference. In B-15, the span on 7520 has expanded to 00-03 UT Tue-Sat only, all of which is now after 1300 supposedly cuts from 50 kW ND day to 5 kW direxional night. Just before 0300 the same #4 transmitter changes to 5890, so one might find a corresponding -1300 kHz spur on 4590 or maybe + 1300 at 7190 for the rest of the night, but so far I have not: filters might have been installed for those but never for 6220/8820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1799, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4590, Nov 11 at 0509, I am deliberately looking for another WWCR minus WNQM spur now that the WWCR-4 transmitter is on 5890 instead of 7520 after 0300. I do detect a JBA carrier, but beneath a heavy ute blob and some CODAR. No way to ID anything unless that abates. 1300 kHz up, the fundamental 5890 is suffering from a dropping MUF, only poor at S8 with BS. 5890 is currently on air 03-13 UT Tue-Fri, 03-12 UT Sat, 05-12 UT Sun, 04-13 UT Mon --- mostly BS but some other g.h.`s before him in evenings. The WNQM relay of WMDB 880, La Ranchera, may not run all night, but you can`t tell from the WNQM website. Other #4 frequency is 9980 in the daytime, so look for parasite on 8680 when it is on, and maybe 11280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 910, Nov 8 at 1319 UT as I tune in, promo for NPR All Things Considered on Iowa Public Radio, so ex-WOR affiliate WSUI Iowa City (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1080, Nov 13 circa 0530 UT, KRLD Dallas ought to own the frequency 300-400 km away in OK on caradio between OKC and Enid, but is torn up by CCI; cheaters from MN and/or UT? Often the case on home receivers in Enid too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1150, Nov 8 at 0122 UT, promos for programs on ``Newstalk 1150, WHBY``, at least three of them so three such IDs, then mentions Wisconsin Badgers; surprised to hear this dominating 1150 as I tune across, rather than KSAL KS. NRC AM Log shows WHBY is 20/25 kW (yes, more at night), so no wonder it gets out, from Kimberley (Appleton) WI, U4. NRC Pattern Book shows very tight day and night patterns with huge lobe to the northeast! Must be out of whack, like non-direxional now; no wonder I haven`t heard it before. Looks like it should barrel into Europe if on proper patterns (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

It does come in well into Europe when conditions are good. I've not heard it for a while here, though (Andrew Brade, UK, MWCircle yg via DXLD)

** U S A. 1290, Nov 6 at 0707 UT, Jim Bohannon show about the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, with guest Bruce DuMont, as tuxed JimBo has just emceed their annual awards show. DuMont founded the Museum of Broadcast Communications and is the nephew of Allan(sp?) DuMont, TV pioneer who started the first TV network (until 1955*; I remember seeing it during my earliest TV DXing days in NM). {or rather, probably in OKC 1954-1955, affiliate one of the early UHF stations, KMPT-19 or KTVQ-25.}

Presumed this 1290 is Wichita Falls, but uplooked later in the station-finder, no, it`s from the opposite direxion, KOIL Omaha NE. Anyhow I soon switch to KSL 1160 UT where I know reception will be better, once I evade the IBOC from 1170 KFAQ (take that! KSL throws the same noise on KFAQ). Anyhow, it`s too late to keep listening, but this JimBo show should be of especial interest to broadcast historians, and they are available OD: not yet as of 1640 UT, but click on November 5 here:
http://www.jimbotalk.net/programhighlights?pid=42031

http://www.radiohof.org/ 
for some details, and
http://www.museum.tv/index.htm

Before 0700 UT I was also hearing Bohannon on 680, i.e. KFEQ St Joseph MO, which plays the first hour at 0607 UT instead of live at 0307 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not: see 680

** U S A. 1380, Nov 11 at 0500 UT, USA ``news``, ``Good Gospel music on WKJV Asheville and WKJW Black Mountain [1010],``, local weather, 0501 UT into gospel huxter from Idaho. Quite a surprise, as I was just experimenting with trying to pull anything past my strongest local, 1390 KCRC and here`s something in NC, 859 miles away and beyond four other 1380s in between; LSB helped as well as the east-west Wellbrook. Only later did I see other reports of this, such as in NRC-AM list:

``At 2200 CST on Tuesday night 11/10, I am hearing WKJV Asheville NC dominating a very crowded 1380 kHz. This station has a day power of 25 kw ND and a night power of 1 kw and its night pattern throws its signal away from my QTH in Madison WI. This is a new station for me. Currently the station is carrying "The Gospel Hour" with Dr. Oliver B. Green. 73 Bill Dvorak Madison WI``

Yes, night pattern is supposed to throw southeast. I assume all broadcasters on WKJV must suppress/forsake all other versions of the Bible; but I doubt King James would recognize the American gospel music of today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1380, Nov 11 just before 0502 UT as I have just IDed WKJV in Asheville NC, I catch another ID (nothing but) underneath, WLRM --- that`s in Millington TN, 2500/1000 watts U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510, Nov 13 at 0716 UT, ``our colorful musical portfolio on KMSD``, classic rock, medium SAH from WLAC? Loops NNE/SSW. Wasn`t certain of call at first, KNST? KNSB? But now I`m sure it`s this, 5000/14 watts in Milbank SD. Site appears misplaced in the NRC AM Pattern Book, circa Sioux Falls in SE SD. Daytime coverage map on radio-locator as ``Mibank`` shows site is in NE SD, NE of Watertown barely on the SD side of the border, i.e. where Milbank really is; but with address in Valley City ND, which is not even within the fringe contour! So much for being the ``Hometown Station``; or rather, plenty ambiguous (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1570, Nov 11 at 0503 UT, I`m DXing now because a few hours ago northerners were reporting ``auroral conditions`` but not very now, not here. On the E-W antenna I am hearing CBS News in English instead of XERF, seems cutaway already at 0504 UT, and ``country music`` on WTI#. Uplooked later, the closest fuzzy call to this is WYTI, Rocky Mount VA, 2500/220 watts U1, format C&W; but not CBS per NRC AM Log --- that may well have been a different station. Geo area fits as I just got NC and TN on 1380.

I do a quick eyeball scan of the Log`s 1570 listings, and believe it or not, of the 60 stations, find only one C for CBS, WPTW, Piqua OH, 250/250 watts U1. But news net affiliations are too subject to outdating, and it`s easy to miss a hit with the eyeballs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1630, Nov 6 at 0701 UT, news all about Iowa, how strange in the nightmiddle rather than plugging into some national network at hourtop; I bet it`s recorded. 0702 UT weather from some TV station; 0703 UT ``The Mighty 1630 --- loud & clear, KCJJ`` and rock music. Split format from Iowa City of TLK/AC per NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1630, Nov 10 at 0138 UT, YL DJ informally talking on and on about some music group, then invites calls to 358-1630 or 1630kcjj.com and also KCJJ IDs from Iowa; at the moment in ascendance over KKGM TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1700, Nov 12 at 0650 UT, open carrier/dead air; DF fits for KKLF Richardson TX, mixed with two talk stations, IA and RGV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1190v, Nov 13 before and after 0528 UT, low audible heterodyne on caradio south of Enid, roughly 0.1 kHz? and also noted for some time. Which station is off-frequency? At home I wasn`t certain whether it was de a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1220, Nov 11 at 1353 UT, ad for something on ``Hiway 95 in Athens``, soon fade-out, long past sunrise here. This should be easy to pinpoint, but not: first of all, there are no 1220s axually in any community of license called Athens. The Wikipedia entry for Athens (Greece) has a handy list of ``Other locations named after Athens`` in the USA, some being townships, including AL, AR, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, KS, MI, MN, MS, OH, TX, WI (skipping some too far east or west). I`ve looked up most of those on atlas maps and so far haven`t found any hwy 95, US or state, in their vicinities. Ideas? Perhaps I will keep searching more minutely. No idea of the direxion on this one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Nov 13 at 0523 UT on caradio at Dover OK, ``spooky`` music over WLAC in & out, 0530 UT Spanish announcement; more spooky at 0551 UT on caradio almost to Enid. Probably XEQI, Monterrey NL, which I haven`t logged from home since Feb 24; but the music could have been another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, Nov 13 at 0524 UT on caradio S of Enid, soul/gospel music often atop. Looks like WPFC BÃton Rouge LA is most likely, heard before, 5000/42 watts. AFAIK, KLFJ Springfield MO, the Branson barker, is still silent; forever? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) end

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