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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, January 15-21, 2016

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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/page43

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

** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Jan 20 at 0108, YL in English with gale warning, barely audible vs noise level. Canadian Coast Guard site shows just starting at 0107 was MCTS Labrador / VOK - via St. Anthony site at the top of the Rock, 2598J3E, ``Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts for marine areas 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 235, 237 and 238. Ice conditions and forecast for the East Coast of Newfoundland, and the Labrador Coast, south of 54N. Iceberg Bulletin â Newfoundland Coast and Strait of Belle Isle`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 2749-USB, Jan 17 at 0443, YL in French with marine weather, S9 but so is the noise level. Canadian Coast Guard website finds the most recently scheduled broadcast is originating from MCTS Les Escoumins / VCF - at 0437 via Natashquan on 2598-J3E and this via La VerniÃre on 2749-J3E, ``Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis and forecast for marine areas 215 to 221 and 301 to 302. Wave height forecasts for marine areas 215, 217, 219, 220, 221, 301 and 302. Notice to Fish Harvesters (when available).`` Nothing about it being in French, as specified for some other transmissions. Nor pointing out that this place is in les Ãles de la Madeleine = Magdalen Islands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** OKLAHOMA. 640, Sat Jan 16 at 1337 UT, open carrier/dead air from KWPN Moore, easifying audibility of KFI; 1358 UT recheck now it`s funxional with ESPN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 890, Jan 19 at 2017 UT on caradio bandscan, I find that KTLR OKC is modulating two programs at once! At equal levels. One is from BizTalk network, which I wasn`t aware they carried. The second audio sometimes has pauses, like other side of phone conversation unheard, and sometimes sounds like somebody left his (produxion?) mike open + on the air with comments not intended for broadcast. Between errand stops, rechex at 2035 UT and 2044 UT find the doubletalk still emitting! No one at station listening to itself. Don`t know for how much longer. 

One promo still uses slogan ``Kommunity TaLk Radio``, tho KTLR originally stands for TyLeR Media, the conglomerate in OK which has bought up lots of radio and Spanish TV stations around Oklahoma City, including even KOKC & KOMA. BTW, 1520 KOKC is registering only S9 on the N-S antenna, but 890 KTLR is S9+32: lower-frequency advantage with only 1 kW ND, compared to 1520 with QRP of 10 kW ND.

Here`s the 890 program schedule showing BTR weekdays from 1 pm to sign-off (Jan: 5:45 pm CST), and various other times on weekends. Some blox mixed in are in Spanish:
http://www.ktlr.com/engine/emw.exe/*qshome=home&st=561&rec=4&kw=news&parm=4&trec=2&lktype=6&snum=1
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 910, Jan 17 at 1339 UT and still at 1350 UT, open carrier/dead air looping E/W, presumably KVIS Vinita OK, 1/1 kW U3. Missing Sunday-morning prime preaching time! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 19 at 2048 UT on caradio, KETU briefly with double audio, announcements mixing, Tulsa ads, 2049 UT, ``11-20 La Diferente``. Recheck on NRD-545 at 2101 UT in time for full ID in Spanish as ``KETU, 11-20 AM, La Diferente`` also giving 10 mil watts, Tulsa, Oclajoma, ``con mÃsica del presente y del pasado``, one minute of the most important news headlines, leading, natch, with SCOTUS reviewing POTUS` immigration policy; 2102 UT music show `La Rumba``. 

This belies a new(?) item: ``La Zeta 95.7 Inc. acquires 98.3 K252DT Seneca KS from First Ventures for $37,500. K252DT will rebroadcast Spanish Christian "Radio Victory" 1120 KETU Catoosa/Tulsa OK (Radio Insight via Shawn Axelrod VE4DX1SMA, Winnipeg MB Canada, Jan 15, NRC-AM via DXLD)`` 

I haven`t been able to find it on radioinsight.com and KETU has not called itself Radio Victoria, nor been religious for over a year. This may come as a surprise to the Seneca translator? Was someone reporting this relying on outdated info? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. Another scan of the MW band during another presidential candidates` debate, this one the Democrats originally on NBC-TV, UT Monday Jan 18 at 0220 UT: NOT a single station found carrying it, neither the bigsig clearish channels nor anything recognizable on the regionals and locals. This includes of course, all the stations which did carry the last Republican debate, and some carrying the previous Democratic debate. Just too much more important stuff, like far-right talk show reruns, silly sports talk, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, Sun Jan 17 at 1340 UT, no signal from KGGF Coffeyville KS, nor several minutes later. Often runs open carrier into the night, but now no carrier at all, when it should be in well by groundwave around sunrise. (Neighbor 860 KKOW Pittsburg is OK as usual). Recheck at 1709 UT: now 690 is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Jan 15 at 1339 UT, Albuquerque and Santa Fe ads, with a slight reverb, leading me to believe that I am hearing both the 50 kW KKOB main transmitter in the North Valley still on night pattern nulling toward WABC, and not quite toward me --- AND its 230-watt night-only non-direxional relay fill-in for Santa Fe, a.k.a. KKOB. 

They should be precisely synchronized as there will be many places in the prime coverage area where the signals are close to equal; and they are nearly synched but surely only milliseconds apart, at almost the limit of perception. Night hours when both KKOBs are on air: January, 0015-1415 UT; February, 0045-1400 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 830, Jan 21 at 0519 UT, I check the Spanish station dominant here with WCCO auroraled-out, just in case it`s something more Latin than only WFNO Norco LA. Nope, it`s United Statesian, with a string of Ad Council PSAs in Spanish, including understood.org twice, which is about ADHD and children`s learning disabilities. 0521 UT ID as ``Fabulosa 830 AM, mÃsica todo el dÃa``. Even with non-auroral conditions, WFNO does amazingly well for 750 watts beamed into the Gulf at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 830, Jan 21 at 1931 UT, WCCO Minneapolis MN is making it on daytime skywave, but faded out a few minutes later at 1937 UT check. 720, WGN Chicago is also heard at 1932 UT and still at 1937 UT continues to be. Nothing unusual at the hi end of band, altho at midband, 1040, WHO Des Moines IA is also making it with Rush atop the Metroplex station SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 850, UT Sun Jan 17 at 0450 UT, KOA Denver with Art Bell musing on the Clinton re-elexion campaign vs Bob DÃle! And wishing that Bill Clinton would not be re-elected, in light of Whitewater, but afraid he will be. It`s the widely broadcast `Somewhere in Time`` Saturday night reruns of the original Art Bell show, this one from 1996y, a bi-decade ago. What`s the point? For diehard fans of Art Bell, I guess. Apparently whoever threatened Art enough to get him to quit his new show has okayed the reruns. Also on several other bigsigs as I scan across the MW band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 870, Jan 16 at 1341 UT, very poor signal with non-ID as ``Great Country`` which I think is a syndicated format. Can`t get a DF on it due to local hash (probably too many chargers running). Prime suspect is KPRM Park Rapids in the middle of MN, 50/1 kW in NRC AM Log, which has a split personality, not only ``Classic Country`` as format in Radio-locator, but also with far-right nincompoops such as Limbaugh and Hannity per own website
http://www.kkradionetwork.com/page/show/348825-kprm-870-am-25-000-watts
Notice the disparity in power levels, but still plenty in daytime. FCC says 50 kW, but January sunrise is not until 1400 UT! (Feb: 1330 UT). Natch, no program sked on website. No other existing country stations on 870 likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1130, Sat Jan 16 at 1347 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is open carrier/dead air. The January sun just rose officially at 1345 UT (Feb: 1315 UT), allowing it to boost from 1 watt (ha ha) night power to 250 watt day, which is plenty for groundwave to here. Or rather, they also have a PSRA of 250 so could have been modulating that much since 1200 UT, despite 50 kW KWKH. Not unusual to hear dead air from KLEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1130, Jan 19 at 2104 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is off --- audiblizing some weak sports talk, presumably KWKH Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Hi Glenn, I just came across your 1290 [as unID] logging in the 1/6 DXLD, and WZTI is indeed an oldies station, but it runs the "True Oldies Channel," whose jingle is run frequently in the course of an hour. Also included are frequent mentions of "100.3 FM and 1290 AM." FM gets top billing, even though it's only a 250 w translator, which nulls at Chicago, protecting the 100.3 there.

The playlist is late-fifties through late-seventies oldies, and does not feature any of the crooners, although, prior to the format change as "Martini Radio," the crooners featured prominently. If memory serves, the change was approximately three months ago.

The daytime pattern outside of its main lobe closely emulates the legacy contour of when the station was 1000 watts ND, daytime only. They went 5/5 U4 in September, 1981, when they were WZUU, also an oldies format. The pattern, particularly to the south, tightens up quite a bit at night. Driving toward Chicago on I-94 at night, it rapidly is overwhelmed by WHIO in Dayton, OH within 20 miles of having passed Rawson Ave., the road on which the four in-line towers are located. Hope this helps (Steve Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI, Jan 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Following this report in AM Switch of NRC DX News Dec 28:
``1480 KBXD TX Dallas â Silent Dec. 17, 2014; on the air Dec. 10``

With what programming? I`m looking for KBXD, but have seen no other reports of it and have been unable to hear it myself on several chex in January, such as Jan 20 at 1354 UT. Now the dominant signal day and night continues to be KQAM Wichita. That`s because the next NRC DX News of January 11 reported:

``1480 KBXD TX Dallas â Had been back on the air Dec. 10; silent again Dec. 21 to replace transmitter and hopes to be back on the air within 30 days``

So was that the old transmitter Dec 10-21? It used to make a fast SAH with KQAM. Possibly it was this along with another unID log on 1480: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, Dec 6 at 0126 UT, as I tune in, ID as ``1480 WGRA`` or maybe WGRE --- but there is no such station listed by NRC or FCC on 1480, nor any fuzzily similar call. Lots of QRM, maybe a music station vs all the talk stations. Also a low rumbling het from somebody too far off-frequency. Frustrating.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1660, Jan 15 at 1403 UT, ``1660, The Score`` ID from Kansas City, as the station for national sports; also promoting 610 (KCSP) for local sports; 1405 UT into Dan Patrick show. Change of KWOD from ``KMBZ Business Channel`` (sub-station of 980 outlet) to ``The Score`` missed the August deadline for the 2015-2016 NRC AM Log. (Before that, from 2001 to 2011, it was classical KXTR, sob, as a sop to ex-KXTR (FM) listeners, except for a month in early 2007 when the WDAF calls (ex-610) were parked on 1660). And then there was KUDL from 2011 to 2014. Strange they haven`t changed calls again to distance from previous format. 

Furthermore, in checking FCC AM Query, I see that KWOD has a CP to change to a different transmitter site; why? It`ll remain 10/1 kW U1 like most X-banders. Old and new coÃrdinates show it moving about 2 minutes further north and about 4 minutes further west:
Licensed: 39Â 02' 17.00" N Latitude, 94Â 36' 56.00" W Longitude
New site: 39Â 04' 19.00" N Latitude, 94Â 40' 58.00" W Longitude
The CP expires Dec 17, 2017, granted 3 years earlier. Old site is very close to the state line, but I think barely on the KS side, so the new site will be more securely inside Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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