[IRCA] XEXQ is back, on 6045

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** MEXICO. XEXQ is back! I`ve been keeping a close watch on 6045 since R.
Universidad de San Luís Potosí disappeared almost 4 months ago. My last log of
it was Aug 3, in DXLD 7-092.

Finally, Nov 23 at 0625 I detected the tell-tale subaudible het mixing with KBS
World Radio in Spanish via Sackville on 6045. After that went off at 0629, a
hefty carrier of S9 +10 remained on frequency, and I kept listening until 0643,
but absolutely no modulation heard.

Retuned at 1352 and now there was classical music, good signal on 6045, Gaîté
Parisienne. The can-can girls were celebrating with high kicks! Segués to more
pop classics with no announcements, XEXQ`s usual style, until 1359, timecheck
for 7:59, ID as R. Universidad, 25,000 watts on 1190 AM, no mention of SW. Then
a string of government PSAs including one for transplants from the Secretaría
de Salud, and another full ID for XEXQ including their phone number 826-1345,
8:02 TC and 1403 back to music. Still coming in well past 1452 at S9+10. It
will be interesting to see in solstitial conditions how far it can penetrate
north of the border during daytime, perhaps even at low noon.

There is more news here, as their MW frequency used to be 1460 with 250 watts.
Seems there has been a major upgrade to 1190 with 25 kW, along with a change in
transmitter site. Note the night power is only 300 watts. 

John Callarman`s Mexican list of early 2007 has this entry:

1460 SAN LUIS POTOSÍ XEXQ "Radio Universidad*" San Luis Potosí. (250/250*)
Universidad de San Luis Potosí, General Mariano Aristo 245, Colonia Histórico
78001 T: (444) 98-26-13-84 uaslp.mx/rtu
http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1912 N 22-09-08 W 100-58-39
(1,000/500)(+ N 22-10-19 W 100-57-48 25,000/300 on 1190) 

In this originally color-coded listing, the first part was from WRTH 2007, the
long URL from SCT, and the last part about 1190 from Fred Cantú`s website. I
haven`t found exactly what the plus symbol means in the lengthy introduxion to
John`s list, but maybe it`s construction permit.

Craig Healy`s Westlist, allegedly offline, came up in a Google search, the SLP
state page as of Nov 2006, already showing XEXQ on 1190 with 25/0.3 kW.
http://www.am-dx.com/lists/104stat.htm

There is precious little on the UASLP website about the radio station.
Searching on XEXQ, we got this item about a radio marathon when they were on
1460, date Thursday Sept 30, no year given, but has to be several years old
since in 2007 that was a Sunday:
http://www.uaslp.mx/Avisos.aspx?na=128
 
Oh, here are pages about this year`s Radio Marathon, which was on Sept 28, and
as of then they were already on 1190, with 6045 also displayed.
http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1944
http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1948

The page I had previously bookmarked showing their FM 88.5 program schedule, at
least, is now blank:
http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=1915

Both http://www.uaslp.mx/rtu and http://uaslp.mx/rtu no longer work.

Digging further into the UASLP website, found this about the station:
http://www.uaslp.mx/Plantilla.aspx?padre=3516

which says they are on the ``sixth shortwave band`` and also webcasting, but
any further details? Of course not! Are there any further links from this page,
such as to a webcast or a program schedule? No. It does show the person in
charge, LCC. Leticia Zavala Pérez.

Despite the abysmally poorly-designed website, we are delighted that XEXQ is
reactivated on SW and hope it is back to stay this time. The signal seems
better than before, and the frequency is relatively clear much of the time.
Aoki shows hardly anything else on 6045 between 0630 and 1430 UT when India
starts.

It`s also of note that all three currently active Mexican SW stations are
cultural ones, playing lots of classical music. (Excluding XERTA 4810, reported
once recently but still not heard again here.), while zero US SW stations are
cultural, let alone non-commercial and would not be caught dead playing
classical. (One could hardly classify VOA as cultural these days.) Clear
evidence that the United States of Mexico are way ahead of the US of A (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


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