[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, October 24, 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.

** OKLAHOMA. As I am hunting for Spanish sunrise skip from Mexico on MW, without much luck in poor conditions Oct 24 at 1226 UT, on 930 I hear English! WKY is just ending ``Sunday Morning Magazine``, I think it was called, immediately back to La Indomable ID and Spanish programming. Is there anything about this, let alone a plain old program schedule at their website 
http://www.laindomable.com/default.asp --- of course not! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, Oct 24 at 1243 I can detect a weak signal apparently from KDWN night pattern with null, as hearing the same voices after day pattern without null cuts on much stronger at 1244:40, Heidi Harris discussing Harry Reid with Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston --- once again illegally on day pattern one hour too early. If FCC fined them for every such infraxion, what would it add up to? Dream on. Not audible after 1300.

770, standby by for KKOB Albuquerque NM cut to non-direxional day-pattern at 1315 UT Oct 24, but no show. By 1318 a weak signal is fading in with SAH vs Texas. Perhaps the KKOB signal happened to be in a fade at 1315, but I am not sure they always hit the button right on time.

1040, not getting much from Mexico on MW, so have to settle for Spanish from elsewhere --- Oct 24 at 1250 sermon with musical background, a bit overmodulated, looping NW/SE so probably Colorado. Then promo for some fin-de-semana program at 9 am on Radio Vida, 10-40; 1300 Spanish gospel music across hourtop, 1303 finally legal ID in English as KCBR, Monument-Colorado Springs. Was making SAH of about 1 Hz with mostly-nullable WHO. 

Searching for website I try first http:/www.kcbr.org but that goes to Kittitas County Barrel Racers, and they assume everyone knows what that is and where that is, so I locate it in central Washington State; but I digress; seems to involve horses.

The real website of KCBR is http://www.1040kcbr.com/ which shows it`s religion in English M-F, but Vida 1040, all day Saturday and Sunday.

1090, at 1231 Oct 24, KEXS Excelsior Springs MO, daytimer sign-on message, 8000 watts, owned and operated by Catholic Radio Network; immediately into citing John IV.

1360, at 1306 Oct 24, open carrier; then I hear a couple dings, so I figure it`s one of those Catholic masses better suited to TV, with long boring pauses on radio. Then when something is spoken, there is an echo, and furthermore it`s // to 11550 WEWN but slightly more out of sync. Therefore these are my two closest 1360s, which can also be heard in parts of NW OK on full-day groundwave echoing against each other, both carrying EWTN Radio --- KDJW Amarillo TX, and KAHS El Dorado KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW carrier search Oct 24 at 1236-1239 UT upward in USB mode on DX-398: only very weakies detectable on 585, 594, 828, not 747 or 774. At 1239-1241 downward in LSB: none. Local sunrise today 1247 UT, getting 1 minute later every morning. K-index at 1200 UT was 3, down from 4 previously, suppressing hi-latitude paths; SW also very below par this morning from 120 to 16m, and 13m dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1200, Oct 24 at 1225 UT, handbells with hymn, seems unlikely for WOAI, and loops more E/W than N/S. Perhaps WAMB Nashville TN, 50 kW daytimer already on the air. Sundays are risky for matching format listings, as a lot of non-religious stations divert to such stuff on the alleged holyday of mainstream Christians. NRC AM Log says WAMB`s is Nostalgia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      
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