** CUBA [and non]. 9700, July 19 at 0206, huge clash of two in Spanish
adding up to S9+10/20 direct: RHC and RRI ROMANIA which is
legitimately on 9700 this hour, vs somewhat stronger RHC, which Aoki
shows at 01-07, but of course is sporadic. Something`s always wrong at
RHC. RRI needs to move; of course, the Cubans have no love for
countries which have overthrown the yoke of Communism, long ago (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. A number of Okies are intermixed with KS, TX, LA in my FM
DX report for July 17 under USA; note especially those found to be in
MONO (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Only a few 10m beacons audible, and nothing phone up to
28500, July 19 at 1839-1846, by sporadic E but which does not MUF into
the FM band; from 3 adjacent states. WI5V listings, and QRZ.com
pages:

28279, DE WA4OTD/B CARM...
28.2788 WA4OTD C CARMEL, INDIANA # 5W, attic dipole New 19 Oct 2010.
WA4OTD, Leroy S Wignot, 14040 Brookstone Dr, Carmel, IN 46032

The 10M beacon on 28.278.8 MHz, is running again and I am getting so
many reports, THANKS VERY MUCH! Listen if you get a chance and send
signal report if you hear it! Wignot@yahoo.com. The beacon is HTX-100
running 25 watts into dipole at 40 feet in my attic.

28281, DE AG8Y/B E...79
28.281 AG8Y C MIDDLETOWN OHIO # 8W GP VERTICAL. Callsign change to
W8EH on 28 Feb 2023 {make that FROM, as below}

AG8Y, ERNEST W HOWARD JR, CITY RADIO CLUB, 401 Eastline Dr,
Middletown, OH 45044

Station AG8Y is the club station for the City Radio Club of Middletown
Ohio. We have a 10 meter beacon on 28.281 with the AG8Y call.
Previously it identified as W8EH. If you hear the beacon, send an
email and let us know where you heard it. The beacon is running 7 to 8
watts to a Cushcraft Ringo about 15' above ground, at 860' elevation.
73 Ernie W8EH, AG8Y License Trustee

28215, long series of dit = E widely spaced, brief dash, and:
QST QST QST DE KD9OWT/B
28.2147 KD9OWT C SHOREWOOD, ILLINOIS # 5W SQUALO new 18 April, 2021.

KD9OWT, Ezekiel Z Lutz, 547 East Constitution Drive, Unit 1, Palatine,
IL 60074

KD9OWT/B 10M BEACON
I am currently operating a coordinated CW propogation beacon on the 10
meter band at 28,214,700 MHz. The construction of the beacon was a
collaborative effort between myself and my father N9JL.

The beacon consists of a beacon keyer circuit that uses an Arduino Uno
to key the radio. I programmed the arduino to transmit the location of
the beacon (EN51VM) as well as my callsign. The beacon operates at a
power of 5W using a Cushcraft ASQ-10 square halo antenna mounted
approximately 20 feet in the air.
KD9OWT/B 10 Meter Beacon Setup
KD9OWT/B 10 Meter Beacon Transmitting Antenna
If you hear the beacon on 10 meters, please send me a QSL card!
Reception reports are appreciated! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 17855, Wed July 19 at 2200 tune-in, no token English from
SNR, but continues Spanish in progress; about political parties`
positions, debates. No doubt because of big elexion coming up July 23.
Beware of policy changes at REE, as its director, the SW/DX-friendly
Antonio Buitrago, is retiring from RTVE at yearend, but has already
turned over REE leadership to Luis Manuel Fernández Iglesias, who has
been head of the foreign languages department. Buitrago took over in
2018 and is credited with reviving SW which his predecessor had
decided to cancel, per a report in the AER group (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** TURKEY. 11785.009, July 19 at 2200, no signal direct from VOT
English; nor into UTwente when checked around 2220. Something`s always
erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2199 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday
July 18 at 2330 on WRMI 9395, S9+5/15 into Missouri SDR.

Also confirmed Wednesday July 18 at 2119 the 2100 on WBCQ 7490, -68 Hz
= 7489.932, S6/S8 into Maryland remote. Next:

0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW

No new contributions this week by MO or check in US funds on a US bank
to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Monday July 17, DXMAPs show some sporadic E FM DX reaching
OK, so out to the car in the not yet too hot garage, on the Nissan
Sentra 2004 stock caradio with fender vertical antenna only, so no
antenna manipulation but disfavoring horizontal-only stations, if any;
all logs in real time with my own ears, one frequency at a time, no
RDS capability, no recording, no internet for stream comparisons; but
research later from my scribbled notes, mainly the excellent WTFDA FM
Database, also in general searching if needed.

All times strictly UT! Numbers just before geo coordinates are kW ERP
and antenna height above average terrain in meters. Identical horiz
and vert figures, u.o.s. Last figures are distances in km/stmi
city-to-city so approx., not site-to-city, from distancefromto.net.
Showing distance does not necessarily make a log more definite, but
FYI.

I do not count stations, states or anything, what`s `new` or not, and
am not in a competition. Each DX log I view as a potential learning
experience. Clarifications, correxions welcome. All times strictly UT!
In four sessions, 1554-1640, 1658-1720, 1759-1817, 2026-2108.

As happens too often, instead of Es in the ~1000 mile range, I`m
getting tropo from no further than Shreveport, but still plenty of DX!
No Es until the fourth session, and only one definite log at the end
of this report, from WBJC 91.5 Baltimore.

Along the way I have noted some OK-area stations which are in MONO.
Altho there is a field, MODE, for this in the WTFDA FM Database, it`s
often missing. This and misc. other info should update the FMDB if
editors take note of my logs:

93.7 at 1554, song in Spanish: can`t be KSPI Stillwater, something has
captured, 1555 ``escuchas Don Cheto al Aire``, again at 1559; 1600 ID
as ``KNOR La Raza 93.7``; 1610 now Don Cheto takes a caller. 1712
still Spanish CCI after 93.7 DX moved on to Shreveport, below,
KNOR 93.7 KRUM TX Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN LA RAZA 93.7 43.0 600.2
33-29-05 97-24-44 33D1 LA Raza Yo Soy Raza 93.7 FM Rock 353 km/219
stmi
Krum is a town on edge of The Metroplex, N of Ft Worth, just W of
Denton where I35 remerges E/W into one northward; better known as
abode of DXer John Callarman. KNOR is the call foolishly abandoned by
1400 Norman OK to rebrand as KREF like in referee/sports nonsense.
Here maybe it connote Norteñ@. I think Don Cheto is on a national net

94.5 at 1555, AC (469), 1556 Kroger ad; 1600 ``Majic 94-5``. Foolishly
first spelling it correctly Magic, I got this no-fitter:
KLYK 94.5 KELSO WA HOT AC MAGIC 94.5 / 93.5 3.0 145.0 46-16-49
122-52-34 A588 // K228FA 93.5 Longview
(469) is in fact a DFW overlay, so:
KZMJ 94.5 GAINESVILLE TX HD URBAN AC MAJIC 94.5 100.0 591.0 33-32-14
96-49-54 5345 THE NEW MAJIC 94-5 www.majic945.com Rhythm and Blues
94.5 at 1621, Ernie Williams Insurance Agency, which is in DeSoto, S
side of Dallas, and Palestine, SE of DAL toward LA; phone (972)
200-7089 chex as DeSoto - too far from Gainesville? I guess not,
118/73. 1620, urban something, TV One, Black-oriented ads. 315/196

96.7 at 1602, sports talk; 1612 DFW ad, in MONO; 1759 KTCK ID still
MONO; still audible at 1910, 1934 rechex, holding up after other
Metroplexes have faded:
KTCK-FM 96.7 FLOWER MOUND TX SPORTS SPORTS RADIO 1310 & 96.7, THE
TICKET 90.0 621.0 33-26-13 97-29-05 426A All sports all the time KTCK
The Ticket //KTCK 1310 381/236

101.3 at 1607, ``K-Law 101``, rather than usual Wichita KS:
KLAW 101.3 LAWTON OK COUNTRY K-LAW 101 FM 100.0 178.0 34-32-59
98-32-21 2D22 KLAW-101 Artist - "TITLE" Country 204/127
Shifted to a rarer 101.3 Okie, below

90.7 at 1609, religious talk, mentions KPM? Probably closest Wichita
but normally inaudible on `clear` frequency:
KYWA 90.7 WICHITA KS CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN WICHITA'S 90.7 WAYFM 53.0
kWH 51.1 kWV 144.0 37-28-37 97-04-28 519C WayFM (Title) by (Artist)
152/94

98.3 at 1613, Spanish, (214) AC, CCI from Kansas below ``98.3.com``
partial website pronounced in Spanish. 1633 SS CCI again. PTA
Bridgeport is NW of Fort Worth:
KBOC 98.3 BRIDGEPORT TX Spanish SPANISH HITS LUNA 98.3 98.0 620.0
33-26-13 97-29-05 1412 KBOC - Song/Artist in Spanish - Luna 98.3 Rock
354/220

98.3 at 1614, ``My Country`` CCI to KBOC; plug ``35-South Show``
Friday on station. Pratt KS ad. 1638 Hays KS ad. A bit far from Hays
for semi-local right over the OK border, but site is further north and
it`s the only KS full-power on 98.3. Mere translator K252EY Concordia
of KNCK 1390 might reach Hays, but 1807 again ``My Country``:
KQZQ 98.3 KIOWA KS COUNTRY MY COUNTRY 98.3 97.0 208.9 37-24-09
98-34-51 88/55

95.1 at 1609, Bott gospel huxter dominant vs Wichita, logged only to
note is in MONO, as may be other Botts?:
KQCV-FM 95.1 SHAWNEE OK RELIGIOUS TEACHING BOTT RADIO NETWORK 100.0
100.0 306.0 306.0 35-15-47 96-22-43 3A89 Bott Radio Network [Program
Name] Religious Talk 146/91

91.5 at 1622, gospel huxter from Sun City KS, which is near Medicine
Lodge, i.e. KSNS, the one which was in dead air for a week; now with
$ tereo pilot, also music. At 1659, AFN news, legal ID as ``Medicine
Lodge-Pratt-Alva[OK]`` 118/73

91.5 at 1622, CCI to above, another gospel music station, likely:
KCBK 91.5 FREDERICK OK SOUTHERN GOSPEL THE GOSPEL STATION 100.0 155.0
34-21-52 98-50-04 //KCBI 90.9 238/148

94.1 at 1625, Lawton ad, ``Z-94, Lawton-Fort Sill weather``:
KZCD 94.1 LAWTON OK ROCK Z-94 35.0 178.0 34-32-59 98-32-21 523B Z94
Lawton/Fort Sill's Rock Station Rock 204/127

100.7 at 1628, managing beside local 100.9 KGWA xltr, plug pledges for
ACLJ.com, virulently anti-Biden ``Christian`` org with 800 #. Sponsors
Sekulow Show with large affiliate list, only fit:
``TX Highland Village/Dallas/Fort Worth KWRD-FM 100.7 11:00 AM C``
However they have KEXB Dallas on 640 instead of 1440! So, WTFDA:
KWRD-FM 100.7 HIGHLAND VILLAGE TX RELIGIOUS TEACHING THE WORD 98.0
606.0 33-32-14 96-49-54 4BD5 Religious Teaching/Talk 375/233

104.9 at 1629, Asian lingo, English ad, discountpower.com, Texas,
Dallas ad; 1704 S Asian song, so again surpassing OKC station, even
Ringwood, ha2:
KZMP-FM 104.9 PILOT POINT TX HD ETHNIC FUNASIA 35.0 535.0 33-33-37
96-57-34 534B KZMP-FM 104.9 Pilot Point, Dallas, Fort Worth
WWW.FUNASIA.COM 344/214

101.5 at 1634, not our nearby Okeene OK in Spanish religious, rather
commercial en ``101.5 y 93.9``, ads, Estrellas Jalisco, ``La
Mexicana``, Wendy`s in English, Spanish music; not TX but KS:

This is a rather convoluted situation; WTFDA info for 101.5 I heard:
KSMM relays:KMML 92.9 101.5 LIBERAL KS Silent Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN
LA MEXICANA 100.0 165.0 37-03-20 100-48-40 40CC - Silent 4/28/22; xmtr
failure 281/174
Well, 101.5 is NOT silent any more. I`m sure they jointly IDed with
93.9, not 92.9, so that would be as listed but unheard:
KZRD 93.9 DODGE CITY KS Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN LA MEXICANA 100.0
246.0 37-55-56 100-19-02 // KSMM 101.5
The trouble is, KMML originator? Is on 102.1 NOT 92.9, also unheard:
KMML 102.1 CIMARRON KS Spanish REGIONAL MEXICAN LA MEXICANA 40.0 166.0
37-46-48 100-27-38 //KSMM 101.5
The ONLY 92.9 in KS is unrelated, English, Country, in Osage City, but
with suspicious call KMXN! All per WTFDA; FCC, R-L not checked.

91.7 at 1637, note that near-local KOSU OKC, is MONO and presumably
all-daytime during public radio/NPR talk; $ tereo all-night with `The
Spy` music. ~83/50 --- 1640-1658 I take a break.

93.7 at 1700 ID ``KXKS-FM, Shreveport-Bossier, Townsquare Media``, has
overtaken KNOR TX above in Spanish, and near KSPI OK:
KXKS-FM 93.7 SHREVEPORT LA COUNTRY KISS COUNTRY 93.7 95.0 308.0
32-40-39 93-55-41 4DD2 [TITLE] [Artist] Kiss Country KXKS-FM 93.7
Country 575/357 [distancefromto.net insists on measuring to somewhere
in Texas for Shreveport LA, so I use Bossier City LA instead!]

97.3 at 1709, EWTN, the little RCC station SW of OKC, 1 kW and
inaudible except with tropo; in for quite a while before & after:
KKNG-FM 97.3 BLANCHARD OK RELIGIOUS TEACHING 1.0 244.0 35-10-38
97-36-10 2BC0 Visit us at WWW.OKCR.ORG 141/88

104.7 at 1718, ``Classic Hits KSLE 104.7``, low power only 1.7 kW,
unheard before as Ponca normally rules:
KSLE 104.7 WEWOKA OK CLASSIC ROCK THE PLANET 104-7 1.7 154.0 35-05-31
96-32-29 A4AA CLASSIC HITS 104.7 KSLE SEMINOLE WEWOKA No Program Type
or Undefined 186/116

102.7 at 1720, soft rock in $ full quieting; can it be KJYO OKC which
has been inaudible on low power? and/or desensitizing by local 103.1
KOFM? but now tropo boost. After lunch break until 1759, at 1804
Asian? language rock so maybe else? NO, it is ``KJ103`` OKC soon ID:
KJYO 102.7 OKLAHOMA CITY OK HD CONTEMPORARY HIT RADIO KJ-103 94.1
372.0 35-35-52 97-29-22 1A42 KJ103 Artist/Title Top 40 108/67

103.7 at 1805, ``K-Love`` ID in passing:
KYLK 103.7 OKEMAH OK CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN K-LOVE 72.0 282.0 35-15-47
96-22-43 A588 K-Love Title & Artist Adult Hits 178/111

104.5 at 1809, normally dominant Mooreland/Woodward gospel huxter has
CCI, mention 42nd Street, ads for StevensSolutions.biz, holyaroma.com
https://www.stephenssolutions.biz/ is the only spelling that worx,
about digital marketing? Own website with broken linx! and no physical
location. holyaroma.com, really weird, sells frankincense imported
from Dhafar, Oman; myrrh from Somalia; amber from Lithuania; dragon
blood from Socotra Island, Yemen. As oil, resin or powder. Phone
country code 668 which = Thailand; if it were area code, somewhere in
Mexico. This also seems religious, but no fits in KS or OK. I am
tempted to think it`s this low-power 2.5 kW, not far from Shreveport
LA as definitely earlier, opening have moved on from The Metroplex:
KJTX 104.5 JEFFERSON TX URBAN GOSPEL KJ 104 2.5 157.0 32-49-23
94-28-32 517/321
Here`s the station it would have to bypass:
KKDA-FM 104.5 DALLAS TX URBAN CONTEMPORARY K 104 99.0 508.0 32-35-19
96-58-05 2AB6 K104-FM Title & Artist on @K104fm MyK104 Rhythm and
Blues 414/257

101.3 at 1815, (918) AC, ``-- you know, songs you love, K-1-0-1``;
again at 2040, McAlester ad, weather, K101, so instead of Wichita or
Lawton, now:
KMCO 101.3 WILBURTON OK COUNTRY K-101 FM 100.0 188.0 34-59-13 95-42-10
2FF2 KMCO 101.3 This is today's country 284/177

93.5 at 1816, Ellis County Rodeo. It so happens that there are Ellis
counties in OK, TX, KS! No 93.5 fits for OK: Gage/Shattuck; TX:
Waxahachie S of Fort Worth; so must be my regular fringer not too far
from Hays in Ellis County, Kansas, as also ``My Country``, i.e.:
KKDT 93.5 BURDETT KS COUNTRY MY COUNTRY 93.5 95.0 304.8 38-36-32
99-42-12 248/154

Time for a break but keeping an eye on DXMAPs, sporadic E again
supposedly reaching OK and by midafternoon maybe the tropo will have
further abated; resuming at 2026 now in the hot garaged car:

94.5 at 2027, unID local weather from somewhere but without any local
references, grrr! and CCI, rock. One of my `open` freqs for Es. At
2037, ``AFT`` seems like partial call but no matches even fuzzy.

94.1 at 2028, Es? CCI here too, ad mentions ``wa-wa``. 2030 an Audacy
[not Odyssey!] station call like WYVA but can`t find anything even
similar; talk. Audacy provides no quick-ref station list, but top
searches go to WIP Philadelphia, sports; some others are musical.
WTFDA lacks any data about ownership, group or otherwise! FWIW:
WIP-FM 94.1 PHILADELPHIA PA HD SPORTS SPORTS RADIO 94WIP 9.6 338.0
40-02-30 75-14-12 997A WIP-FM 2019/1254

92.1 at 2034, ``Classic Rock 92.1``: On 92.1 there are many classic
rock *formats*, but only two exactly *branded* explicitly:
WMEQ-FM 92.1 MENOMONIE WI CLASSIC ROCK CLASSIC ROCK 92.1 17.5 219.0
44-54-59 91-41-55 74D0 Classic Rock 92.1 The Valley's Rock Station
1076/668 -- OR:
WBVX 92.1 CARLISLE KY CLASSIC ROCK CLASSIC ROCK 92.1 32.0 186.0
38-11-19 84-22-13 5985 CLASSIC ROCK 92 ONE Classic Rock 92 One No
Program Type or Undefined 1241/771

106.1 at 2044, CCI, ``I-24 and Arkansas River``. 106.1 I would assume
Tulsa and the Ark. River goes thru there, but no known hwy 24, state,
US or Interstate. I-24 runs SE from IL, never crossing the Ark. River.
The only possible correlation but without any 106.1 would be US 24
circa Buena Vista CO and the headwaters of that great river. BTW, they
insist on pronouncing it BEW-nuh, VISS-tuh.

89.3 at 2050, semi-local noted to be in MONO: same as on one of the
K17JN-D Enid 3ABN satellator audio-only subchannels:
KIEL 89.3 LOYAL OK RELIGIOUS TEACHING 3.8 47.0 36-03-43 98-12-41 RADIO
74 INTERNATIONALE [sic; no, is not in French]

91.5 at 2053, semilocal KSNS now pushing wacky creationism, but there
is classical CCI. No, Rochester isn`t the only one in the east. 2101
ID WBJC Baltimore, AP headline news read by local YL DJ with
Britishish accent; 2103 weather, stox; 2104 ``5 past 5`` and back to
classical, after which I quit at 2108!
WBJC 91.5 BALTIMORE MD HD CLASSICAL MARYLAND'S CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION
50.0 152.0 39-23-11 76-43-52 5838 WBJC 1890/1175
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** U S A. 96.7, July 19 at 2019 UT as I am driving away on an errand
and not expecting any DX at temp 97F, caradio happens to be tuned here
to a strong steady station, plugs AdAstraradio.com for weather,
``border to border``; mentions `MPK`? Country music and 2028 ``Real
Country``; 2036 ad for something in nearby Hoisington. Gone by 2100.
Quite a grandiose name for a Kansas group of ``hometown`` stations
including this one on 96.7, but must have changed format:
KMPK 96.7 MCPHERSON KS ADULT CONTEMPORARY MIX 96.7 6.0 75.0 38-20-30
97-40-12 3140

95.3 also has a bigsig capturing frequency from KOKC OKC translator,
July 19 at 2030, Mytownmedia.com with news about Kansas. Website has
all-important hyphen, otherwise would have to pay $ 8K+ for site. Among
many stations classified by format and live-linked found this one on
95.3: https://mytown-media.com/listen-live/news-talk/ i.e.
KWKN The Cowboy, ``Hays``. The group`s towns may not match city of
license; they even put 98.3 Kiowa in ``Wichita``!
KWKN 95.3 WAKEENEY KS TALK/SPORTS 95.3 THE COWBOY 100.0 158.0 39-15-57
99-50-00 341/212

But there is one other on 95.3,
https://mytown-media.com/listen-live/classic-mix/ i.e. Z 95.3 FM KINZ,
``Chanute``, which is in SE KS, so I suppose PTA of ``Hays`` be more
likely in this opening
KINZ 95.3 HUMBOLDT KS CLASSIC HITS Z 95.3, THE CLASSIC MIX 24.0 102.0
37-44-52 95-33-39 268B 268/166
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

** U S A. DTV Tropo DX bandscan, July 19 around 0530 UT, too late to
explore in detail: BAD signals on many `open` channels and some
`closed` *channels have become BAD due to DX QRM: 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 17,
20, 21, *23, *29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36. Whenever there is anything on 6
into my highband VHF antenna toward OKC, it`s got to be KBSD
Ensign/Dodge City KS. 17 presumably local K17JN-D Enid still
underpowered and not decoding, regardless of DX. 7, KOCO OKC for ABC
often no decode either regardless of DX. Only these in Tulsa market do
decode: 11 KOED, 22-KOKI, 28-ION. Strangely, no signal from 26-KOTV.

Also some tropo next morning, 1524 UT July 19: BAD sigs on RF 10, 11,
26. Bootup time for Zenith STB DTV converter varies: this time it took
22 seconds for Blue eye to show after turn-on from Red eye; and
another 6 seconds to kick in as seen on screen (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 2359 UT July 19
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