[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, November 7, 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.
  
** JAPAN [and non]. TP MW carrier search Nov 7, on DX-398 with BFO in US mode, upwards from 1247 UT: 557, 594, 693, 702, 747, 774, 828, 891, 1008, 1242, 1332. Back to 747 at 1253 and could make out a bit of audio, no doubt JOIB, NHK Sapporo 2. Several of these made it the morning before to a DXpedition in northern Alabama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 730, Nov 7 at 1303, R. Viva Vida ID by super-hype voice actor, poor, i.e. XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua. 

770, Nov 7 at 1241, infomercial in Spanish for a médico, phone 55- something, promoting medicina natural, shilling a book. Name sounds like Dr. Abel Cruz. 1246 breaks for ID as R. Fórmula, 103.3 and 970, (970 is XERFR, net HQ in the DF), Grupo Fórmula, phone for Dr., 55-25-28-70; 1314 still Grupo Fórmula, with its phone 30-08-33-27 (I think). The R. Fórmula affiliate on 770 is XEACH, Monterrey NL, 25 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 930, WKY OKC, a previous Sunday morning before 7:30 am CDT had something in English instead of Spanish, but only Spanish music this Sunday from 1305 UT and some other chex following semihour, i.e. same time in CST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1580, KOKB Blackwell off the air, not just open carrier, Nov 7 at 1501. Dominating signal at the moment instead from E/W playing theme from ``Have Gun, Will Travel`` to open gun show. KHGG Fort Smith? KOKB still off at 1745 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3160, WPJK, Orangeburg SC: what will it do on the first day of standard time, having failed during the first week of November to sign on at the correct legal sunrise time of 1200 UT? Just as I suspected, they keep signing on at 7:30 am local, regardless of DST or sunrise changes. Nov 7 at 1203 UT, no signal, but open carrier at 1228, S9+20. 1231 usual canned sign-on message as 1580 kHz, 1000 watts, by authority of the FCC (not including 3160), address, station manager gives his name, but I have never been able to copy it, and into gospel music. No toots, so maybe on Sunday the program is not called Gospel Train. 

If it keep signing on a semihour later than it needs to the rest of November, that will compensate for the illegal semihour early during the first week, but diminish its DXability. Nevertheless, I could still detect a carrier at 1257. This situation will only improve as we have two months to go until the latest sunrises, tho only one month until the earliest sunsets. Now will it really be signing off at the correct November and December time of 2215 UT? Please check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Nov 7 at 1354 UT, ``The Talk Monster, KKOB`` Albuquerque NM, then report on Auto-Tune, the computer process messing up vocal music, outro as Perspective from ABC News, so still scheduled at 1305 UT Sundays, but KKOB doesn`t go to day pattern until 1345, after which it dominated the frequency for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1350, Nov 7 at 1459 UT, big band music from N/S, fade for ID, but 1500 bong and CBS news. Direxion, nostalgia format and news network all converge upon KRNT Des Moines IA per NRC AM Log 2010, so presumed. Skywave still incoming in upper end of band, KOZN Omaha also in a few minutes earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1620, ``The Zone, ESPN radio for Omaha``, still audible at 1452 UT Nov 7; KOZN; no WTAW as northern paths with lower sun favored (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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