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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, November 27-December 3, 2015

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All times and dates strictly UT [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 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; IC-R75 with E-W longwire; FRG-7 with NW-SE shortwire

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 29 at 0200 UT, Spanish promo for an Ecuadorian event in Toronto, i.e. CHHA Voces Latinas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 2749-USB, Dec 2 at 0144, YL voice in English with day-by-day wind forecasts thru Sunday night at least, also sea heights, visibilities, past 0152, then Notices to Mariners at 0153; 

S8 signal, and noise blanker must be employed on the NRD-545: it`s effective contrary to what I had heard. Lately have been bugged by increased line noise level below 3 or 4 MHz here --- even tho power was still out across the street. Xmas season is typically bad with all the lighting displays at houses, altho I don`t see any yet in the immediate neighborhood. 

Anyway, according to
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2015/Part-2-Atlantic-Facilities-Information
starting at 0140 UT is VCS Halifax, via the Chebogue NS site:

``Radiotelephony (English followed by French):
    Technical marine forecasts synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts for marine areas 201 to 2014.
    U.S. weather forecasts for Coastal Waters â Eastport to Schoodic Point, Maine and Offshore Waters â Gulf of Maine to the Hague Line.
    Notices to Shipping in areas Bay of Fundy, South and West Coast Nova Scotia.``

2598-USB also has a CCG station at this time, but too weak vs QRN level. Per same sked source that would be VOK Labrador with two sites shown starting at 0137 --- is it one or the other unpredictably, or what? Cartwright and Hopedale. Both are on the Labrador coast, Hopedale further north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA. 1320, Nov 28 at 1934 UT, NewsTalk KCLI Clinton is talking about AM 1590 and FM 95.5, i.e. KWEYs Weatherford, which I suppose are sibling stations rather than competitors, media concentration in axion! Back to Rush weekend. No problem in the daytime, but whenever skywave is in, KCLI makes low rumbling het being off-frequency itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Dec 2 at 0700 UT, gospel music: must be a format change somewhere; 1155 UT recheck, it`s gospel rock, 1200 ID as some FM and KFSW Fort Smith! So KYHN has finally changed call and format from ``Arklahoma`s Talk Radio``. The FCC officially changed call from KYHN to KFSW at beginning of November, but all month long they kept IDing as KYHN. 

Paul Walker says the FM is translator K254AM on 98.7, ``Life 98.7``, contemporary Christian music. So I look up FCC info on that: Licensee is Educational Media Foundation, which is really a huge nationwide gospel-huxter network. CoL Fort Smith AR, rebroadcasting KKRI 88.1 which is 1 watt! horizontal, 17 kW vertical in Pocola OK, also EMF. That in turn retransmits KLRD, which is apparently the EMF flagship in Yucaipa CA on 90.1. I assume all that is now at least partially outdated.

So has EMF bought the 1650 facility, or has the different KYHN licensee bought or rented the translator, which appears to be slightly on the AR side of the border, south of Ft Smith, but barely reaching that city, and not reaching further Van Buren with its 60 dbu contour (and not reaching Sallisaw OK at all, the true location of 1650). 

I am chagrined that most DXers appear to insist that 1650 KFSW/KYHN is an Arkansas station for counting purposes, not an Oklahoman, even tho there is no doubt whatsoever that its signal emanates from Oklahoma. (But don`t let such minor technical details get in your way.)

Meanwhile, RIP ``Arklahoma`s Talk Radio`` whose website is still up as of Dec 2:
http://kyhnradio.com/

The /about page still says:

``At KYHN it is our desire to both entertain and inform. We like to say, "We're conservative, but we're not mad about it". While most of our programs and hosts hold conservative values and principles we have purposely moved away from those hosts who desire to scream & holler and who want to be controversial. We believe we are a radio station that reflects the majority of voices and thoughts of our listeners in Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. We have chosen to carry programs that are more intellectual and thought provoking rather than those of anger and conspiracy. [HA! Including Alex Jones! --- gh]

We have also made a conscience [sic] choice of offering a variety of programs ranging from business and financial programs to talk shows. We have programs from technical computer experts to lawyers, from garden shows to real estate, from call in shows to local news broadcasts. We don't want the same three guys saying the same thing every day. We want to be a different option on your radio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1802, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. The long-predicted ice storm has indeed hit us in most of western Oklahoma, causing various anomalies among broadcasters noted as follows, all times UT, starting with Nov 28:

[AM items only excerpted here; full reports, mainly FM and some TV, have been posted on the WTFDA gg and Forum]

On MW in the daytime at 1932 UT, the only station found to be missing is 1460 KZUE, not surprising as El Reno is very hard hit by power outages.

1640, later at 0151 UT Nov 29, KZLS Enid-OKC is dead air, but for constant big hum; maybe due to icing/power outage somewhere, but it doesn`t take that much for this station to lose modulation/program feed. Wish they`d turn the transmitter off too. I can hear WTNI etc., under it.

Follow-up to outage report, as of morning of Nov 29, UT:

530, Nov 29 at 1332 UT, `K530AM`, Vance AFB is off again, and I believe was also yesterday for the ice storm. So much for it being of any use in an emergency situation! 

1460, KZUE El Reno is still off, but I can detect two JBA carriers at 1710 UT, one surely 11 kW KCLE Burleson-Cleburne-Fort Worth TX, the other perhaps 1 kW ND KKOY Chanute KS.

BTW, a TV ad for an Indian casino tells us that Reno means reindeer, certainly until today an odd name for anyplace in OK, or NV. My Spanish dixionary confirms that from English to Spanish but not from Spanish to English.

3030 kHz, Nov 29 at 1317, ESPN and big hum, no doubt a sum of local KCRC 1390 ESPN and its sibling station KZLS 1640, on the R-75. Probably receiver overload as the transmitter sites are far apart. Meanwhile, 1640 itself is still dead air except for big hum at 1351 Nov 29 check.

Our AC power has remained on except for a split-second glitch, enough to stop the clox and restart the computer, at 2038 UT Nov 29. {Yet there has been a lengthy outage, darkness right across the street --- whew!} Governess Fallin has declared all 77 counties disaster areas, eligiblizing us for some of that dirty Federal money.

Ice crashes upon our roof continued sporadically until Monday noon. Trees do not overhang the roof so must have been coming off TV antennas, some of them abandoned but still up. By 1700 UT Nov 30, ice on the trees and lines has all melted, as temps have been higher above freezing overnight than originally expected.

Further updates on anomalies caused by the ice storm, all times UT:

AM check at 1842 UT Nov 30:
 530, ``K530AM``, Vance AFB is back on with generic PSA rotations
1140, KRMP, OKC is now OFF
1460, KZUE, El Reno, still off (I think: some weak signals there)
All other AMs in The Metro are on, except 1220 KTLV and 1400 KREF are always too weak or blocked to tell from here.
1640, KZLS, Enid-Hennessey-OKC, dead air with hum as usual
1640, KZLS, still on but dead air at 2212, and still at 0205 Dec 1

Further obs of ice-storm related outages, afternoon of Dec 1, all times UT:

At 2105, 1140 KRMP OKC must be still off; getting a SAH, and maybe an open carrier, hard to tell on caradio. Skywave is already coming in a couple hours+ before sunset.

1460, KZUE El Reno seems back, on at least something in Spanish with CCI. Doesn`t take much skywave to overcome KZUE here

1640, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC is still dead air except for hum. Ditto Dec 2 at 0700 UT and 1155 UT chex, and the hum is really big. Finally Dec 3 around 1330 UT it`s back to local talk programming.

Another bandscan morning of Dec 2 at 1455-1501 UT on the PL-880:
1460, Spanish music, so KZUE is on
1640, KZLS, still nothing but hum

A few more chex Dec 2 on caradio:
1460, at 1745 UT, ``La Tremenda, la potencia sin competencia``, super hype --- yes no one can compete with their pennywhistle 500 watt daytime power. Approaching noon, there is still a SAH, probably skywave from The Metroplex. Then call letter ID pronounced in Spanish, KZUE, but I still haven`t heard how they pronounce ``El Reno``. Ads for nearby town Yukon.

AM check at 1822 UT Dec 3, one dekaminute before local mean noon:
1140, KRMP OKC, is finally back on, soul music
1460, KZUE El Reno, remains on, Spanish
1640, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC, tho normal earlier, back to dead air
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 760, Nov 29 at 1335 UT, bluegrass gospel harmony, with KCCV KS nulled, otherwise making fast SAH with it. Surely KMTL, 10 kW daytimer in Sherwood AR, not yet faded out post-sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1220, Dec 1 at 0208 UT, South Asian songs dominating, vs multiple SAHs, but nothing from alleged 100 kW XEB detectable. This from south is certainly The Metroplex`s KZEE Weatherford TX, 1600/200 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1440, Nov 29 at 1347 UT tune-in, ``Radio Luz, 14-40 A-M, Dallas`` --- pronounced DAH-lahss, not DALL-uss, and not DA-yahss, a compromise between English and Spanish. Officially it`s KTNO, University Park, Tejas; do they translate that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1590, UT Sat Nov 28 at 0154 UT, a basketball game, quick ad for an overhead door company, phone 289-2211. Game is in Steel (sp?) Gym, fades out and in and out. Could not copy names of teams or any other details except an ID in passing as ``Basketball on 1590, WAKI (?) radio at half-time``. That led me to WAKR Akron OH, but nothing chex out there. So try search on Overhead Door with the phone number and get such a biz in Knoxville IL, on Galesburg Road. Knoxville is just east of Galesburg in NW IL, so aha, this is really WAIK Galesburg IL, confirmed by what they say tonight on FB: 

``On AM 1590 WAIK, the Galesburg Silver Streak boys basketball team will start their highly anticipated 2015-16 season with a Galesburg Thanksgiving Tournament game against East Peoria. Shawn Temple, Jimmie Carr and newest member of the PRSN team, Steve Cheesman will have the call with their pregame show at 7:10, tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 from John Thiel Gym in Galesburg. Happy Thanksgiving from the entire staff at Prairie Radio Sports!!`` 

WAIK has a not unfavorable pattern day and night, flat null northward, but broad from east to south to west; 55 watt night power, however, is hardly sufficient, so how about 5 kW day power? Unfortunately for ABDX this doesn`t qualify as HSFB since it`s BKB. O well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 6220.0, Dec 1 at 0106, surprisingly strong S9+10 signal of ranchera music from WMDB, 880, Nashville, as relayed  by WNQM, 1300, as transmitted spuriously by WWCR 7520, minus 1300 kHz. At this time, 7520 itself is only S9, as falling MUF is getting past it but not yet to 6.2 MHz. Well, the 10 over 9 signal on 6220 includes some utehash QRM and does fade down soon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 880, Nov 29 at 1338 UT, big hum as long as KRVN is nulled; also bits of Spanish. Unsure whether the hum is from KHAC NM or KLRG AR; SS could be KJOZ TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1700, Nov 29 at 0150 UT, dead air is the strongest of 3 signals here, presumably KKLF Richardson TX which can`t get its act together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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