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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, December 23-29, 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

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/page54
[over 187,000 views as of Dec 29, 2016]

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

** OKLAHOMA. 960, Dec 24 circa 0145 UT, I`m a few blox from the KGWA transmitter site in NW Enid, looking for Xmas lighting displays, so also try to hear the plus/minus 80 kHz spurs on exactly 880 and 1040, which I have detected further at home in daytime --- no trace, vs KRVN and WHO. Will have to try for these and maybe more in full daytime near site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1300/1330/1360 and 1420/1450/1480, Dec 23 circa 1945 UT after dining at Pizza Inn across the street from 1390 KCRC transmitter and studio site in Enid, once the caradio is away from a noisy spot, I go after the perpetual spur field of KCRC. The closest pair, 1360 & 1420, are plenty loud as junior 1390s, here overriding KTJS OK and KPHN KS, which further away in Enid, can be detected as hets against the not-exactly plus/minus 30 kHz spurs from 1390. I`ve also heard much weaker hets on 1330 vs KNSS KS and 1450 KGFF/KSIW OK, and up close they are of course much stronger. Now the supreme catches: plus/minus 90 kHz JBA spurs causing hets on 1300 KAKC OK and 1480 KQAM KS/KBXD TX. But not enough another 30 kHz out to hear anyhets on 1270, 1520. Way to go, Hiram, seven frequencies for the price of one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 770, Dec 24 at 0259 UT, after getting XEACH on the N/S antenna (see MEXICO), on the E/W antenna a full ID as ``Happy holidays from 94.5 FM and AM 770 News Radio, KKOB Albuquerque``, bong and CBS News still exists. Seems to be a slight reverb, implying I am getting not only the main 50 kW transmitter in the North Valley, supposedly protecting WABC, but also the 230-watt night-only fill-in from Santa Fe. Someone recently claimed a log of Santa Fe based on double audio, but I wonder just how much out of synch they were and are? 

Also, the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log does not show any FM simul for KKOB. Is 94.5 new? Nor does the WTFDA FM Database, with only two 94.5`s in NM:

``KYAT 94.5 GALLUP USA 100.0 100.0 420.0  35-36-22 108-41-26 KYAT FM COUNTRY NAVAJO FM STATION COUNTRY  

K233CG // KQRI 105.5 94.5 SANDIA NM USA 0.0  0.25 1240.0 35-13-00 106-27-07 AIR ONE CHRISTIAN ROCK`` 

But 94.5 is now on the KKOB homepage, and of course getting top billing there as well as on the air: http://www.770kkob.com/

So NM`s #1 commercial AM station has recently had to get on FM to let a mere translator wag its dog. Apparently just acquired it from Air One/KQRI. It`s on Sandia CREST, not Sandia the town/res, which does make a big coverage difference even with 250 watts --- if there is no co-channel. 

Which there is. I always anticipated, while approaching ABQ from the east on I-40, emerging from Tijeras Canyon and picking up the 100-kW Gallup on 94.5 which at that elevation has a line-of-sight, unlike further down in the valley. Maybe still can get it in spots, as even some of the bigsigs atop the Crest are blocked within the canyon. But not a pretty picture.

The *real* KKOB-FM was and presumably still is, on 93.3, 20 kW from the Crest, but separately programmed from 770/94.5 with CHR. Turnabout: in Gallup, 93.3 is blocked by a local gospel-huxter translator, K227CB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 880, Dec 24 at 0256 UT, it seems that KHAC AZ is off, as I am hearing only KRVN and some weak Spanish music on USB. Then I realize I am on the N/S antenna, and switching to the E/W antenna, there`s KHAC religioning on USB side only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 880, Dec 27 at 0313 UT, Spanish giving an AC 713 phone (Houston TX), ``Aleluya BrÃÃdcasting NÃtwork``. On E-W antenna, no KRVN to speak of, but bigsig from KHAC AZ on 880-USB, none of that on LSB, only this, which has to be KJOZ Conroe TX, 10/1 kW U4, which has undergone a big change since the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log August deadline which had it as UC:NWS/TLK/SPT - YSR (in English). It also has an application for 5/l.2 kW U4 and change CoL to Baytown. Radio-Locator does have it as Radio Aleluya but still old facilities. This group has more and more AM & FM stations around Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1130, Dec 28 at 0149 UT, sports talk in English on steady and dominant S9+20 signal, presumed 50 kW KWKH Shreveport, but then fades a bit. I continue to think their pattern is out of whack, to throw so much signal this way, if not just N-D as in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1380, Dec 23 at 0326 UT tune-in, immediate ID as ``Vida 13-80, transformamos con la palabra de dios``, carol. KRCM Shenandoah TX is totally dominating this frequency, obviously *still* running 22 kW day facility at night rather than licensed 50 watts (!). Someone in UK recently had an unID Spanish religion, probably this rather than Latin American as suspected. Here`s the KRCM day pattern showing broad coverage, except from WNW, CCW to SE:
https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1707118-128267.pdf
For me that pdf flashes and then goes blank. I think this is the same:
https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1614981-123098.pdf

They have two different applications on record involving an even lower night power, but presumably some overall advantage. Shenandoah is due north of Houston on I-45 just south of Conroe. Site is really near Prairie View, west of there, and NW of Houston, so the day pattern only covers about half the big city:
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/map-display#appid=1614981%26antsysid=123098%26call=KRCM%26freq=1380%26contour=0.5%26city=SHENANDOAH%26state=TX%26fileno=BP-20130426ABP%26.map
No doubt running 440 times the legal power at night helps a lot
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1420, Dec 24 at 0249 UT tune-in, ``Information Radio 1420, KCON[?]``. Not at all sure of the call but best fuzzy match is KTOE, Mankato MN, 5/5 kW U2, ``Your Information Station`` per NRC AM Log 2016-2017. Night pattern goes NE/SW, good for us, null toward WOC IA which is what I usually get and was expecting to hear now, on its own WSW lobe. Fortunately, night signals can overcome the KCRC spur but still be hetted; see OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Dec 23 at 1838 UT, S Asian music is audible, mixing with KQAM Wichita with usual slow SAH produced by KBXD Dallas. Midday skywave, 6 minutes after mean noon, is funxioning over a 400-km path, with sun about as low as it can go. Yet, another 50 kW Metroplexer, KTNO, is not making it, 1440 vacant of Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1650, Dec 27 at 1326 UT, on the E-W longwire, I am trying to hear anything at all from KFSW Sallisaw OK, but main signal is sports talk, ``The Fan`` no doubt KCNZ Cedar Falls IA, 1330 UT Radio Iowa network news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2520, Dec 24 at 1343 UT, S7 carrier, open or just barely modulated? Suspected WOCO Oconto WI second harmonic. If I ever wake up by 1300 UT must check for it then. Still audible at S6 by 1402 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2520.01, Dec 27 at 1307 UT, some talk modulation is audible, 1312 UT music. Mod level is not commensurate with steady S5 signal from presumed WOCO Oconto WI, 2 x 1260 harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 2520, Dec 25 at 1250 UT, the S6 carrier now has some music modulation audible, 1301 announcement by YL, but vs S9+10 storm static crashes approaching from western OK/TX. Presumed WOCO, 2 x 1260, Oconto WI as per other definite logs, such as Dave Valko, PA, Dec 23 at 1205-1256. (Art Delibert in Maryland says Washington DC talk station WWRC 1260 also harmonicizes around there on 2520.) 

My standard remark about DXing MW harmonix: unless it cause harmful interference, do not report to the station about it, let alone seek QSL, as that may encourage them to suppress it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Note that there is also a harmonic on 2520 kHz from WWRC, AM 1260, in Washington, DC, branded "The Answer."  Conservative and religious talk.  Love of Jesus one minutes, love of guns the next.  Not sure how far beyond the DC metro area the harmonic reaches (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, Dec 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 2520, Dec 29 at 1227 UT, weak music audible, presumably again 2 x 1260 WOCO Oconto WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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