[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, October 18-19, 2010

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. MW log editors are welcome to excerpt items, reformat and change to favorite timezone if necessary. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; some caradio as specified; above 2 MHz on FRG-7 with 110-foot east-west longwire.

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Breaking away from MW DX session on internal antenna only due to storms, by 1300 Oct 19 it was safe to reconnect the 110-foot east/west longwire to the FRG-7, but a bit too late to get much on 120-60 meters; nevertheless, at 1304, KCBS 2850 was still audible in Korean, and different Korean on 3480 from V. of the People, south to north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. T-storms in the area Oct 19, so even more reason to concentrate on sunrise MW DX, only with internal antenna in the DX-398; not too many lightning crashes per minute, and diminishing. Prime reference is the WRTH 2010; Cantú if necessary:

540, in CBK null, at 1230 TC as 6:30, temp 12 grados, SID ``XETX, 5-40 AM, 5 mil watts, La Ranchera de Paquimé, . . . Sonora, y el sur de Nuevo Méjico y Tejas``. But it`s axually in Nuevo Casas Grandes, the NW part of Chihuahua, and could also claim to reach another state, Arizona.

610, at 1233, ``el noticiario más informado de Sinaloa``, soon mentioning Guasave too: so it`s XEGS.

640, at 1219 music, 1222 ad for what sounded like Iluminaciones Loya, but that does not Google; CNDR PSA, ID mentions 640, Radio Vivo (?), definitely ended in -o, CCI from another Spanish; with WWLS nulled. Most likely Radio Uno, XEHHI, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, tho there is another Uno in Zacatecas.

650, at 1225-1228 ad/PSA string, finally Radio 65 ID in passing, 1228 music: i.e. XETNT, Los Mochis, Sin., a regular. 1234 more journalists found executed, risky profession. By now WWLS 640 IBOC bothers but can be nulled.

710, at 1220, ``la mejor programación, XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` singing ID, TC, music, from hi-elevation Chihua2.

730, at 1238, XEHB canned ID by super-hype announcer, 50 mil watts (Parral, Chih.); by now KRMG 740 splatter is a problem with its own 50 kW day power. XEHB and Tahiti 738 listeners note: KRMG official sunrises, UT: Oct 1230, Nov 1300, Dec & Jan 1330, Feb 1315.

760, at 1208-1210, Mexican NA playing late; op overslept? UnID roughly from WSW direxion, then mixing with Antena 7-60, plus more Spanish from the south (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Musical call-signs in the OKC market, even for talk stations: I would never deliberately listen to an outlet dedicated to stupid ballgames; thus it was solely fortuitous that on caradio I happened to pause on 1340 at an hourtop, 1900 UT Oct 18, and heard a new legal ID: ``The Game, KGHM, Midwest City-Oklahoma City``, on to Fox Sports Radio news. (Don`t some ESPN or Fox Sports affils default to real non-sports news on the hour from some other net, even CNN?). 

FCC AM query confirms KGHM is now the call for this old graveyarder which like most OKC market stations has gone thru convulsions of callsign and/or format changes. To us, 1340 is the original KOCY, which in its 60s heyday was a major rocker. FCC callsign history, which does not go back nearly that far for any station, just shows:

Call Sign 	Begin Date
 KGHM 	 10/02/2010
 KEBC 	 08/23/1996
 KXXY 	 08/05/1985
 KCNN 	 11/03/1984
 KXXY 	 08/29/1983

I`d forgotten about KCNN – or was out of state during that gestation period, but KXXY was also the call on 96.1 FM (and still is, I think, glibly contracted to ``KXY``). KEBC was also on FM 94.7, a C&W force for many years. Then the KOCY call came back on 1560, the station hijacked to The Metro from poor little Chickasha, originally KWCO as Women`s College of Oklahoma; now Radio Disney, but how much longer? 

What has Midwest City to do with this? 1340 KOCY was not attributed to that SE suburb as city of license, so why should 1340 KGHM be now? [ex-]KEBC address per NRC AM Log is in NW OKC on NW Expressway and Penn and 50th at the towering Clear Channel building, topped by its logo, across from deadly Penn Square Mall, along with KTOK-1000, et al.  

Still no Tiger maps from Census available via FCC, but http://www.radio-locator.com linx to Google maps pinpointing KGHM site still at NE 29th St, 3 blox east of N Santa Fe, and just a bit further from I-235, i.e. appropriately for an ND graveyarder, close to the center of OKC, not MWC. If it were out there, would have a hard time getting to the NW side at night vs hundreds of other kilowatters. 

I wonder if CC ``needed`` the KEBC call somewhere else? FCC currently has it nowhere on AM or FM; someone else should go get it, preferably an educational station. ``KGHM`` will encourage some misundereducated Okie sportsnuts to misspell the word ``game``, I am afraid --- or is ``ghm`` already textese for the word, saving a hefty 25%? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3160, WPJK Orangeburg SC, 2 x 1580, not heard Oct 19 as local T-storms kept me off SW till it was too late, so I submit this instead of a relog: 

Some might have better luck hearing it in the evening, just before official local sunset and sign-off, UT: Oct 2245, Nov & Dec 2215, Jan 2245, Feb 2300. Per FCC AM Query for WPJK`s coordinates. Like the sun, these are not dependent on DST, which means that in terms of Eastern time, Nov 1 thru 6, it should go off at 6:15, but from Nov 7, 5:15. Some stations get mixed up, or don`t reset their clox/timers, and stay on an hour too late during the Week of Confusion. Morning sign-on during that week is supposed to be at 1200 UT = 8 am EDT, becoming 7 am EST Nov 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Amid all the Mexican sunrise skip, I caught a few domestix too Oct 19:

720, at 1252, KDWN Las Vegas NV, talkhostess Heidi Harris defending Sharon Angle, so that`s all we need to know about Heidi. Has channel to herself, yet at 1317 she`s gone and am hearing Cubs talk from WGN.

760, at 1256, central Arkansas weather, on Morning Express, 66 degrees; in Kansas City null. Lo key ad for auto sales in Camden (? that`s down in south-central AR) --- anyway, wonderful to hear a car lot which doesn`t scream at us. ``AM 760, KMTL Radio, Sherwood - Little Rock - North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Inspiration Radio``. This is 10 kW nondirexional daytimer, Sherwood being a suburb NE of NLR. 

770, at 1239, Albuquerque ad, mixing with something in Spanish. Perhaps the Santa Fe 230 watt relay as this is more than a semi-hour before Albuquerque primary cuts to day pattern. Standing by again at 1314, and comes on a few sex before 1315, saying that NM governor candidates` debate will be Thursday 7 pm on KOB-TV ``4``, repeated on KKOB 770 Friday night, same time. Signal now is fair and steady.

870, at 1243, WWL dominating with NOPD PSA. It seems eastward stations are making a comeback after sunrise today, tho XETAR may have been in earlier.

950, at 1217, 50s and 60s music, playing Pet Clark, loops NW/SE, holding its own so far against local KGWA-960 which is also to the NW. By format and time, most likely KRWZ Denver CO, except they supposedly have a day and night null SE toward us. What was once KIMN.

950, at 1244, in local KGWA null, ``Radio 950, KWON``, sounded like, sports talk. But can`t be KWON as that is 1400 in Bartlesville OK. Searching 950 listings, closest match is KWOS in Jefferson City MO, which NRC AM Log says is News/Talk, but includes ESPN among its networx (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX-398, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier scan Oct 19 at 1212-1215: only very weak ones from NW on 792, 774, 747 and more like SW on 738. See MEXICO 730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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