[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, January 15-20, 2011

[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.

** MEXICO. 710, Jan 20 at 1320, TC for 6:20, ``Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` SID, slow SAH and CCI from US stations, i.e. 7 kW XEDP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 660

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. OKC`s only holdout running IBOC noise, WWLS-640, COL Moore, ex-Norman, sometimes turns it off unpredictably, such as Jan 17 at 2005 UT with remote from a car dealer, but still off at 2020 during sports talk, so avoiding asynchronism during live ballgame is not the reason. 

This audiblized very weak something on 650, probably KGAB WY, and on 630, probably KHOW CO, but the latter still has IBOC upon it from KMKI 620 Plano TX. The next Metroplex station up the dial, 660 KSKY, is also bothered by WWLS IBOC when on, and now without it, I can detect KCRO Omaha underneath; all groundwave, on caradio (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 640, WWLS Moore, IBOC is still/again off, at 1345 UT check Jan 18. I still don`t dare to hope they have nixed it permanently, tho it did happen more than a year ago with another CC station at 50 Penn Place, OKC, KTOK 1000. Right: at 1650, IBOC is back on 640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Jan 18 at 1350 UT, Spanish with report from Mari Sánchez about fútbol in Tampico, Poza Rica, so is it KGBT or an XE? No, it`s E/W so likely the Tulsa market, serving to block local daytime reception there of KOKC 1520. At 1352, plug calcomanía de Qué Buena 15-30; adstring mostly by super-hyper voice actor who must be making a mint, heard all over US and Mexico, including: 

1353 La Maquinaria Norteña appearing in concert Jan 21; 1356 Cambio de Cheques El Paisano. 1359 inserts ID as ``KXTD, Tulsa``, KXTD pronounced in English, Tulsa in Spanish. Trouble is, city of license is Wagoner, not heard mentioned. Dominant but with slow SAH of about 1 Hz from algo. Googling confirms they spell it Que, rather than Ke, so qudos for qeeping good Spanish alive. It should really be Qué, imperatively. However, it`s exhausting to listen to this guy; give it a rest. He starts the next word before the previous drawn-out one fully decays, obviously edited to overlap (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1360, Jan 18 at 1330 UT, ``La Poderosa 13-60``, 7 y media timecheck, hi today 52, plus extended forecast. Ergo it`s not in México, but could not detect any other meteorological clues. 1334 traffic report concerning Grapevine, Fort Worth, so it`s KMNY Hurst TX (studio address: Dallas), which is indeed powerful, having managed to attain 50 kW on what used to be considered a regional 5-kW-limit channel, but highly direxional. On the FRG-7 with longwire E-W, badly oriented for this, but stayed atop the jumble for a while. NRC AM Log shows format as Spanish religion, but none such heard while I listened, a welcome weatherly respite (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 1370, as I tune across Jan 18 at 0640 UT on the portable DX-398, ID as ``This is KSEN(?) Country``, loops north/south. The only thing that resembles phonetically in the 2010-2011 NRC AM Log is: KSUM, Fairmont MN, which is indeed C&W format, 1000/1000 U4. And the NRC Pattern Book shows day and night patterns` major lobe is NNE, minor lobe opposite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4050-, Jan 19 at 0709, country music peaks S9+8 and sounds like the strongest I have yet heard this third harmonic of 1350 KWMO Washington MO near St Louis. 0711, ``From Waylon Jennings to [missed; what`s the opposite of him?], we`ve got you covered in Country``; really cranking out the sesquiwatts tonight, but some fades below noise level; 0714 the usual YL DJ, syndicated or local? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4050-, KWMO, Jan 20 at 0716 makes only S9+3, not enough to overcome the noise level on 3 x 1350, unlike 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1210 kHz, Jan 20 at 1330, KGYN OK in open carrier, allowing KHAT ID clearly with one-sesquihertz SAH, Mike & Mike in the Morning, then Sports Center news. KHAT is Laramie WY, should still be on night power 1 kW instead of 10 kW day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Seldom is heard on radio any more the Star Spangled Banner, but there it was on 1600 at the odd time of 1335 UT Jan 20, then segué to another anthem, unfamiliar, a state song? Certainly not Oklahoma! Ah, must have been South Vietnam`s, as song and announcements in Vietnamese followed at 1338 from KRVA, The Metroplex, TX. 

YL says ``Good morning`` before resuming Vietnamese. Just signing on? Surely not, as NRC AM Log says NSP, but up to 25 kW day power from 930 watts night. FCC official sunrise is 1330 UT for January, sunset 2345; February: 1315-2415.

Was atop signals from Denver, heard mentioned at tune-in, and the constant off-frequency audible het from KMDO, Fort Scott KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 660, Jan 20 at 1317, plug for La Hora Nacional, then sounded like Caliente mentioned and calls XEFW, neither of which figures on this frequency. Maybe Aguascalientes, the 50 kW XEEY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1670, quite a mystery here, Jan 20 at 1340 UT, rosary in Spanish, loops roughly NW/SE, then praise song in Spanish. WTDY Madison no problem but can hear it in null of unID. Ranges from deep fades to good peaks. 1345 YLs still discussing, or addressing ``Santa María, Madre de Dios``, more low-key talk. Fast SAH of about 15 Hz, 1348 losing signal. The only US Spanish station on 1670 per NRC AM Log is KHPY in Moreno Valley CA, address in Burbank.

El Sembrador Ministries is Catholic, so that fits, but the trouble is, KHPY has an extremely direxional pattern toward the SW, altho nite power is 9 kW vs day power 10 kW, instead of the usual 1 kW night on X-band. No doubt they do rosaries, but a specific program schedule is lacking at http://www.esneradio.com/cms/index.php?page=programacion

I have been paying more attention to 1670, since news arrived of a new station testing all night near Mexico City, XEANAH, at Universidad de Anáhuac, Huixquilucan, Estado de México; tnx to Héctor García Bojorge and Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF. 1 kW day and night per Fred Cantú`s website via Terry Krueger, and this is its website: http://www.anahuac.mx/radio/

Streaming worx, heard at 1743 except it`s just a music loop. Program grid http://www.anahuac.mx/radio/programacion.html shows an eclectic format, and ``Tres Bambalinas`` when I am listening. Not in my Random House dixionary, but Google says that means ``Three Scenes``. 

The inauguration ceremony was just this morning at 1430 UT, and a live video webcast was apparently available. Video still running, but audio is annoyingly off-mike, about something else at 1800: http://www.livestream.com/sintaxistv

But the History webpage for XEANAH says the radio station started in February 2004. Do they mean on the web, or some other radio frequency? I vaguely remember hearing about it before. 

BTW, the Talking House in NW Enid on 1670 is still audible out to a few miles away at low-noise spots in western Enid on caradio, but not enough to block DX like this beyond its immediate neighborhood (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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