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[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 20-26, 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/page41

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; ICR-75 with E-W longwire; FRG-7 with NW-SE shortwire

** MEXICO. 770, Nov 23 at 1301, full ID for Los Cuarenta Principales Los Mochis, XHREV 104.3 and XEREV 770, then at 1303 NA, mixing with KKOB and/or KKOB. A bit surprised, since the normal dominator from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 650 XETNT is quite weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 900, Nov 23 at 1307, multi-verse choral NA from WSW does not end until 1308, full ID for Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, XHDT, 98.3 FM with 25 kW, street address, but this is XEDT, with ``el programa número uno en Cuauhtémoc, Country Hits`` and into --- country hits, in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1190, Nov 24 at 0708, as soon as I tune in, clear ID as ``Radio Centro, 11-90 AM``, and into romantic music, loops roughly southwest. None such listed in WRTH for Mexico or any other Latin American country on 1190. Nor USA in the NRC AM Log 2015-2016. So a Google search leads to: 
https://www.facebook.com/radiocentro991/

There are a number of posts starting this month that 1190 is ``our new home`` for various programs that were on Radio Centro 99.1. It may be that for a few months previous they were simulcasting, but now only on 1190, it seems. One is hard-pressed to find anything on this FB relating this station to Ciudad Juárez, as all the locals obviously know where it is. But there is a link to their real website whose URL remains as if on 99.1:
http://www.radiocentro991.com/
but everywhere else it`s branded only as RADIO CENTRO 1190. Altho it appears to be 100% Mexican, part of Grupo Radio México (not Radio Centro [flagship XEQR 1030] itself), their studio phone number has an El Paso area code! ``Cabina: (915) 229-1991``. Nothing on the Contacto link any closer than that, let alone a street address in CiJz. Is the studio really across the frontera??

Anyhow, the 1190 CiJz facility is XEPZ, ex-Radio Norteña per WRTH 2015, IRCA log 2014-2015, and Cantú as of Feb 2015, with 5000/100 watts (yeah, sure). Many years ago I visited XEPZ, when it was also an adjunct to some bigger station, and consisted of little but a record player on a table (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1801, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 621, Nov 23 at 0236, 1 kHz het upon 620 Dallas, probably Canary Islands; then check 1520 at 0240 and a JBA het there too from 1521, presumably Saudi Arabia. Seeking beyond mere 1 kHz hets, I try 783, and find a carrier there too, probably Mauritania. But can`t get any audio out of them with maximum manipulation of the NRD-545 features (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1521, Nov 22 at 0118, 1-kHz het upon KOKC OKC during silly football game, presumably 2 megawatt BSKSA Duba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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