[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, October 15-21, 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.
       
These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes, utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser
And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html

** CANADA. 750, Oct 17 at 1202 UT, amid QRM, Canadian news in English about HIV outbreak in Ottawa from unlicenced clinic; temps in Celsius, but could not catch any locations. Since it`s inconceivable any American or Mexican station would do this, fortunately there is only one Canadian possibility: CKJH Melfort, Sask., 25000/25000 U3. Per NRC AM Log, 24 hours as ``CK 750, The Greatest Hits Of All Time``. A new one here; NRC Pattern Book shows all the night signal going just east of due north, yeah right, but non-direxional daytime which it is not yet. It`s certainly not CBGY in Newfoundland, nor one of two 40-watt LPRTs in Quebec/Québec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 1190, Oct 17 at 1219, pizza ad with phone 848-5000, AM-1190 ID, C&W music from N/S. Leads to Weyburn, Sask, and a Facebook item from August:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=250555248308868&id=111247462239648

``Call 848-5000 or play along on the AM 1190 Facebook page. The winner will be given the title od [sic] Coffee Row Genius of the Day and win lunch at T & C Dallas Pizza in downtown Weyburn. Good luck! - Corey``

So it`s another unexpected Canadian, CFSL, Weyburn SK, 10000/5000 U2, C&W 24h, ``AM 1190`` per NRC AM Log. If I had heard ``Dallas Pizza`` mentioned that would really have led to a wild goose chase. Like CKJH-750, CFSL-1190 night pattern is supposed to throw all the signal slightly east of due north, yeah right2; daytime non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[Mexican logs are sorted here by date and then frequency under each date:]

** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX, October 15 UT, with Cantú and then IRCA listings:

690, Oct 15 at 1201, Monterrey NL mentioned in full ID:
690 XERG RG La Deportiva Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 1,000
690 XERG NL Monterrey 10000 1000 La Deportiva 690, R-G 690 1200-0600 VAR GRC/ORO

800: see UNIDENTIFIED

1090, Oct 15 at 1157 UT tune-in, XEAU ID, 5000 watts, Multimedios Radio group. 
1090 XEAU Milenio Radio (audio Milenio TV) Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500
1090 XEAU NL Monterrey 5000 250 La Más Buena 12000-0600 TRO ORO // XHPAG 103.7 FM, and quoting Cantú on TV audio 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Sunday Oct 16, with Cantú, then IRCA refs:

680, Oct 16 at 1202 UT, MDT/CST timecheck in Spanish, speaker mixing religion and sports right away, two of my unfavorite subjects, so onward to 700 below. TC means it is one of these two:
680 XEFO Éxtasis Digital Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
680 XEFO Chih Chihuahua 1000 250 W Radio, Extasis Digital 1200-0100 JUV CIMA

680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
680 XEORO Sin Guasave 1000 500 La Mera Jefa, X-E-oro 1200-0600 RAN RDIO

700, Oct 16 at 1203 UT, news, ID for R. Red, 1110 AM in the DF, then local ID for XEDKR, Radio Red, 700 AM, 10 mil watts, Guadalajara, Jalisco, ``la mejor radio . . . del Grupo Radio Centro``
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
700 XEDKR Jal Guadalajara 1000 1000 Radio RED 1200-0300 VAR OIR // XERED 1110 [note power disparity; WRTH: 1 kW; I could believe 10]

850, Oct 16 at 1207 UT, NA ending at tune-in, KOA nulled with SAH of 3 or 4 Hz, full ID for XEM, Chihuahua2, Renacimiento, ``la mejor selección de música ranchera y mariachi`` altho it`s really religious.
850 XEM Radio Renacimiento Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500
850 XEM Chih Chihuahua 5000 1000 Radio Éxitos, Renacimiento 8-50 1200-0600 MEX/NWS FIRM/GRD

870, Oct 16 circa 1209 UT, XETAR with three-slogan 29th anniversary promo ending with ``defendiendo la cultura``, then switch to native language
870 XETAR La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara Guachochi, Chih. 10,000 D
870 XETAR Chih Chihuahua 10000 [D] La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara 1200-0100 IND/RAN SRCI

1300, Oct 16 at 1229, Radio Trece ID, its own street address in Juárez, atop channel.
1300 XEP Radio 13 Cd. Juárez, Chih. 38,000 200
1300 XEP Chih Ciudad Juárez 50000 500 Radio 13, Radio Centro 24h VAR GRM/RAMA, Woody Woodpecker theme
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 17, UT, with Cantú then IRCA lookups:

670, Oct 17 at 1206 UT, TC as 7:06, ``la voz del pueblo`` slogan again twice, maybe a program title which seemed to be ending, full ID as Radio Ranchito, mil watts, including street address in Colonia Ampliación Los Ángeles, Torreón, Grupo Radio México. Then to live DJ mentioning date 17 de octubre 
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreón, Coah. 1,000 250
670 XETOR Coah Torreón 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR
So they claim only 1000 watts, not 5000, and it sounds like the lower

680, Oct 17 at 1210 UT, greeting listeners who are pescadores, or in Municipio de Angostura; 1212 mentions ``el sur de Sonora, y Chihuahua``; loops E/W or so. Greeting fishermen implies it`s near the coast. Altho there are surely several Angosturas, there is one SE of Guasave near Guamuchil, so these clews lead once again to:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
680 XEORO Sin Guasave 1000 500 La Mera Jefa, X-E-oro 1200-0600 RAN RDIO

680, Oct 17 at 1228 UT with KNBR nulled, TC for 6:29, ``noticias en punto``, news of an event Thu-Sun, norte de México, mentions people coming from diverse states including BCS, Hidalgo, Durango. CCI from another Mexican with music. XEORO is also UT -6 but now it`s likely the more northerly one:
680 XEFO Éxtasis Digital Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250
680 XEFO Chih Chihuahua 1000 250 W Radio, Éxtasis Digital 1200-0100 JUV CIMA
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 18, UT, with Cantú, IRCA lookups:

730, Oct 18 at 1230 UT, Radio Viva Villa singing ID, into song, dominating frequency for a while:
730 XEHB Radio Viva Villa Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 50,000 1,000
730 XEHB Chih San Francisco del Oro 1000 300 Radio Viva Vida/Villa? 1300-0100 RAN CORP/RAMA, ex-770 Grupo Radiofónico Zer

Note contradictory info. The IRCA listing from 2010y was when the slogan was unsure. But surely is 50 kW now with big signal. The two towns are near each other at the southern border of Chihuahua state.

770, Oct 18 at 1228 UT, gobierno federal PSA lauding the president`s accomplishments; modulation a bit distorted. 1229 heard Los 40 Principales mentioned, and then a full ID for XEACH, 25000 watts, Monterrey NL. Therefore a mixture of these two:
770 XEACH Radio Fórmula Primer Cadena Monterrey, N.L. 25,000 1,000
770 XEACH NL Monterrey 5000 200 Radio Fórmula 7-70 1200-0600 NWS/TLK ORF/RAMA
and
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
770 XEREV Sin Los Mochis 5000 100 Los 40 Principales 24h MEX PM ex-XEJJR

830, Oct 18 at 1226 UT, Spanish atop WCCO, mentions ``vamos a Ciudad Acuña, y Torreón``, implying it`s the Coahuilan, but not 100%:
830 XEIK La Norteñita Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 D
830 XEIK Coah Piedras Negras 5000 -5000 La Norteñita, 8-30 AM 1200-0600 VAR CMR/RCN [nite power -5000 means uncertain; while Cantú has it as daytime only; WRTH 2011 as 5 kW fulltime]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 20 UT, with Cantú then IRCA listings:

590, Oct 20 at 1204 UT, Veracruz mentioned in QRM, 7:04 TC, cumpleaños, so tentatively:
590 XEOM Radio Fórmula Coatzacoalcos Coatzacoalcos, Ver. 1,000 1,000
590 XEOM Ver Coatzacoalcos 1000 1000 Radio Fórmula Coatzacoalcos 1200-0600 NWS/VAR ORF1/RAMSA

660, Oct 20 at 1210 UT, after mañanitas-like song, TC for 6:09 ``en La Tremenda, Número Uno``; phone on air; 1211, 6:10 TC still a minute slow, and Radio 6-60 ID:
660 XEACB Radio 660, La Tremenda Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000
660 XEACB Chih Ciudad Delicias 5000 1000 Radio 6-60 1300-0600 VAR OIR

670, Oct 20 at 1212 UT, yet another with mañanitas, 1215 R. Ranchito ID, naming birthday person:
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreón, Coah. 1,000 250
670 XETOR Coah Torreón 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR

710, Oct 20 at 1216 UT, big dominant signal with ``Noticias 7-10``, MDT/CST TCs 6:+ but one minute slow, introducing first ad block of the day, but really just two PSAs, gobierno federal on how the president is successfully fighting the Zetas and other drug cartels (with a disclaimer-like condensed too-fast-to-be-spoken-by-a-live-human appendix), and another for the Senado; back to news, item about how Mexican Día de los Muertos celebrations are infiltrating the US` Hallowe`en, including Albuquerque and Houston:
710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100
710 XEDP Chih Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 7000 -5000 La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc 24h RAN/NOR RAMA Possibly 24h on weekends

900, Oct 20 at 1224 UT, from WSW, highly produced show with musical effects about astrobiology, called `Radio Esfera` (?), topix including water on Moon, life on Marte (Mars); outro as a UNAM produxion; 1228 Radio Vida ID in ``un café por la mañana``, program title? 
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
Obviously Fred Cantú is not reading my reports, or he would have updated this by now, no more ``La Reina``
900 XEDT Chih Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 5000 -1 La Reyna/Reina, R Divertida 1400>0200 CAR FIRM Format includes US Classic Country 

980, Oct 20 at 1232, IMER [pronounced Imer] PSA about ``80 años del cine sonoro en México``, gobierno federal PSA, IMER con ``18 emisoras con personalidad propia``, 1233 ID as ``La F-Q, La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre``, 1234 ``Antena Radio en el Mundo``, news of Libya:
980 XEFQ La Voz de la Cd. del Cobre Cananea, Son. 2,500 500
980 XEFQ Son Cananea 1000 500 La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre 1200-0700 VAR/TLK MER/RCN Antena Radio news -- so is it 2500 or 1000 watts?

18 stations hardly amount to national coverage in this huge country, especially some little ones in remote spots like Cananea, but at least IMER counts with one big one, XERF, 1570. There are also a few non-IMER noncommercial/cultural/indigenous stations, some of them run by state governments, universities or federal indigenous agencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1570, Oct 21 at 0419 UT, tuning past XERF found big signal more or less overcoming all the QRM, but modulation way down compared to 1560, 1580 signals et al. I assume someone just wasn`t paying attention to levels, no OPTIMOD. Could hear OK by turning volume up.

Pre-sunrise MWDX Oct 21, UT, then Cantú and IRCA info:

590, Oct 21 at 1207 UT, 7:17 TC in Spanish, mentioned Tamaulipas. Not much to go on, but like tentative log of 590 Coatzacoalcos, Ver., I make this tentatively:
590 XEFD La Mejor Reynosa, Tamps. 5,000 500
590 XEFD Tama Reynosa 5000 500 La Mejor 1030-0500 NOR/RAN MVS/PM v/s:

630, Oct 21 at 1209, automated ID twice by YL voice as ``7 y 9, 7 y 9``, i.e. in CDT zone, then ID as ``Radio Centro 10-30, red nacional . . . en sistema satélite``, then keyboard music. I was expecting morning newscast usually heard from XEFB Monterrey. IRCA has that as a GRM [Grupo Radio México] affiliate, not GRC [Grupo Radio Centro]. I can`t find any national network affiliate list for it, at http://radiocentro1030.mx/
This Cantú page is supposed to list the network newscasts in NL, but is blank: 
http://www.radiotvmexico.net/contenido.php?seccion=noticiero&edo_id=19&siglas=radio
Instead you have to go to this list, which also shows Grupo Radio México for XEFB:
http://www.radiotvmexico.net/contenido.php?seccion=estacionesEdo&edo_id=19
Other cross-references also put XEFB with GRM, not GRC. From signal and proximity I still think I am hearing XEFB, but would sure like to know if there is another 630 station really with GRC.

630 XEFB FB La Estación Que Da Las Noticias Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 10,000
630 XEFB NL Monterrey 20000 20000 F-B, La Estación Que Da Las Noticias 24h NWS/RCM GRM directional antenna. Noticiero Entrelínea
So is XEFB 10 or 20 kW? WRTH shows 10

780, Oct 21 at 1214 UT, TC for 7:14 ``en La Poderosa``, with KSPI OK nulled. The slogan is too generic, not listed for any XE 780 in Cantú, IRCA or WRTH; Googling however, leads to the prime suspect:
http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/La-Poderosa-780-San-Fernando-Tamps/208401075867066
780 XESFT La Triple T San Fernando, Tamps. 5,000 1,000
780 XESFT Tama San Fernando 5000 1000 La Triple T/La Caliente 1100-0600 CHR CORP/RAMA Notisistema news. Night power 0100-0600
So what are the three T`s in their name about?

altho XEXY also has some hits as ``La Poderosa``:
780 XEXY La Voz Del Balsas Cd. Altamirano, Gro. 2,500 1,000
780 XEXY Guer Ciudad Altamirano 2500 1000 La Voz del Balsas 1200-0430 VAR FIRM

1050, Oct 21 at 1305 UT, Spanish monolog mentioning electricity and California, east/west. Don`t see any likely US stations from TN to CA, so good assumption is one of these two (?) 10 kW daytimers, more likely XED:
1050 XED W Radio Mexicali, B.C. 10,000 D
1050 XED BCN Mexicali 10000 1000 Radiorama Siglo 21, W Radio 24h SP VAR RAMA //WIND 560 kHz?

Tho I`d rather it were this one:
1050 XEBCS Gobierno del Estado La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 D
1050 XEBCS BCS La Paz 10000 -1 Radio Cultural Surcaliforniana, Gobierno del Estado 1300-0500 CUL Universidad Autónoma de BCS
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[OK, US and unID logs are sorted here by frequency during past week:]

** OKLAHOMA. 930, WKY, Sunday Oct 16 at 1212 UT, Spanish adstring first with SHVA about a gold buyer with Michoacana in its name, (but address in the SW quadrant of OKC); State Farm ad by a boychild (could have been a girl, except he was ``contento``, a clue you don`t get in English), another ad for Home Depot, ``sólo en Estados Unidos`` (in case anyone is DXing La Indomable south of the border, unlikely). 1213 ``Welcome back to Sunday Morning Magazine``, their format-busting pubaffs show in unaccented English. You`d think they could come up with a few commercials in English too (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1600, Oct 20 at 1550 UT and past 1600, no signal from KUSH Cushing. It`s occasionally been absent before, but you never know whether it`s going to be temporary or permanent. Still missing at 1445 Oct 21, uncovering weak signals probably KS/TX. Cushing BTW is the nexus of an oil pipeline network, lately in a big controversy about whether to bring in a new one from Canada on the way to Houston (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 670, Sunday Oct 16 at 1154 UT, open carrier/dead air atop a Mexican station; no doubt WSCR, in maintenance? Or no one paying attention. Retune 1158, now wrapping up half-hour interview with Sen. Dick Durbin; was ``At Issue from cbschicago.com, NewsRadio 780 and 105.9 FM WBBM!`` Then switch to WSCR ID and promos. Too late to check whether this or WSCR programming was on 780 at same time. 

Finally found program schedule for WSCR at
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/670-the-score-on-air-schedule/
currently showing specific dates. They claimed to be airing `Score Values` at 6-7 am [CDT] Sunday Oct 16. The equivalent WBBM website has no link to a schedule! Looks like studio-transmitters feeds of these two stations were mixed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)

** U S A. 680, Sunday Oct 16 at 1241 UT, cowboy poetry, then music, ``Powder River Queen``. Loops NNE/SSW, probably KFEQ St Joe MO, but yet another station which sees no need to post a complete program grid; this doesn`t even make their list of ``special programming`` besides farrightwingnut talkshows on weekdays, format-busting now:
http://www.680kfeq.com/section/view/special_programming/93/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, Oct 15 at 1203 UT, ``KSAH, Universal City, Texas`` legal ID in English, right back to Spanish ID by SHVA [super-hype voice actor], also with an FM, and this is another ``La estación de la raza``, which in chicano terminology is not considered racist. It`s the one appropriately producing a sub-audible heterodyne with WGN most of the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 750, Oct 18 at 1207, M&W with news in Ukrainian from NE/SW, political items mentioning parliament, communist. Only possibility is WNDZ Portage IN (Chicago IL market), which has a multi-lingual ethnic format. It seems there is no program schedule, just general info here:
http://www.accessradiochicago.com/page1.htm
NRC-AM log shows it as a 15-kW daytimer, in $tereo
FCC AM Query shows SR/SS converted to UT:
Oct 1200-2315; Nov 1230-2230; Dec 1315-2215
Own detailed coverage map shows main lobe goes NW from Portage toward the Loop, but it`s quite broad with plenty of signal to the SW too. 
http://www.accessradiochicago.com/Maps/750MAP.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)

** U S A. 770, Oct 21 at *1315, KKOB Albuquerque NM cuts to day pattern and signal suddenly appears amid chat about Hallowe`en devices; already fading by 1319. No sign of KKOB Santa Fe 230 watt fill-in before 1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 850, Oct 16 at 1245, religious choral music from NW, surely still KOA, Sunday format-busting. KOA schedule merely says ``religious programming`` at 6-8 am Sundays [12-14 UT]
http://www.850koa.com/pages/schedule.html
Then heard `Lutheran Hour` mentioned, and its website does show KOA at 6-7 am Sundays: http://www.lhm.org/broadcastresult.asp
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 900, Oct 16 at 1246 UT, gospel music, mentions Homecoming Radio, http://www.homecomingradio.com

Is KSGL Wichita KS, after 1230 UT October sunrise power-up from 28 to 250 watts, and it does provide a program schedule for weekends at http://www.ksgl.com/5.html
but not starting until 8 am [1300 UT] with `Gaither Homecoming` which has above website. Altho with secular elements, it`s basically about southern gospel; homecoming presumably refers to wayward Christians, rather than fall college reunions with heavy sports emphasis. KSGL is reciprocally on the show`s affiliate list but which does not bother to include times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)

** U S A. 910, Sunday Oct 16 at 1236 UT, talk show with local references to Salt Lake City, YL interviewing OM Rotarian. Even when you start with the KWDZ website
http://radio.disney.go.com/music/yourstation/saltlakecity/index.html
When you click on on-air-schedule, under Music, you get the network feed listings only. 
http://radio.disney.go.com/music/schedule.html
That`s no help with another format-buster! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1020, Oct 18 at 1215 UT, Spanish is unusually overriding semi-local KOKP Perry OK, so it`s pretty clear with KOKP nulled, and coming from N/S, making SAH of exactly 1.0 Hz. Phone report about drug wars in Mexico, Ciudad Juárez, Cancún, etc. 1219 jingle I couldn`t catch, 1220 Spanish ad for Tax Hotline to help vs IRS (pronounced in English), 800-971-3401 (not certain of that). Boing SFX, restaurant ad ``al sur de Omaha`` clinching it as KMMQ, I recently IDed as the source of Spanish I was getting after 1230, which is supposedly the October sunrise/power-up-from-1400-to-50000-watts time. Except it`s much stronger now that it had been after 1230 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1020, Oct 21 at 1222 UT, Spanish making 1 Hz SAH with semi-local KOKP Perry OK, KMMQ Plattsmouth NE again, ads for Wired City at Calle 25 y M; same restaurant as heard before, ``al sur de Omaha``, which offers seafood, and beer to treat your weekend headaches (?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1150, Sunday Oct 16 at 1217 UT, Broadway tune from N/S, outro as Angela Lansbury for her birthday, then another by Ray Bolger for his, this week. Retune 1231, Salina ads on ``NewsRadio 11-50`` back to ``Dave Granby`s [?] Audiophonic Collection``, to play ``Ain`t Gonna Be More War`` from WW II. KSAL Salina KS website shows `The Bill Miller Show` Sundays 5-8 am CT, which appears to be similar, but not a match: http://www.thebillmillershow.com/index.php
Anyhow, it`s another Sunday format-buster, hardly news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1190, Oct 21 at 1232 UT, Disney-like teeny-bopper music ``Yesterday --- Gonna Be OK``, definitely looping NE/SW, i.e. KPHN Kansas City MO, 5000/500 watts; 1234 ID only as ``AM-11-90, Radio Disney``. Many of the RD calls have some obvious connexion to Disney characters, but I can`t figure out what KPHN would mean. Should have just powered up at official October sunrise of 1230 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1440, Oct 18 at 1405 UT, weather info for Yuma, but certainly not AZ as it`s NW/SE; then also for Wray, clinching it as nearby KRDZ Wray CO, on day power 5 kW, almost a sesquihour after LSR here.

1010, Oct 18 at 1408 UT, `Funeral Notices` for Fort Morgan, Brush, sponsored by Sterling Monument Co., also in North Platte NE. I.e. KSIR on 25 kW day power now for an hour.

1310, Oct 18 at 1410, ad for snow-blowers, discussing solar industry, NW/SE, likely another NE Coloradan, KFKA Greeley. Also had music on 1190, likely KVCU Boulder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier scan Oct 16 at 1224 on DX-398 in USB found very weak ones at: 747, 774, 828, 972, 1053, 1134, 1287, 1566, 1575 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW DX 9-kHz-step scan on DX-398 with internal antenna only in offset USB mode, Oct 17 at 1225-1228 UT: very weak carriers on 1044, 828, 774, 747, 738 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 20 at 1238-1241 UT found JBA weak signals on: 594, 702, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1035, 1098, 1134, 1143 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Oct 15 at 1204 UT, this early more than a semi-hour before LSR now, the extremely distorted station is dominating, and prime suspect remains: 
800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500
800 XEDD NL Montemorelos 10000 [D] La Tremenda 24h BAL/RAN SMR Stereo
which no doubt anyone near the border could confirm in the daytime or deny (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1110, Friday Oct 21 at 1229 UT, I can barely hear some Qur`an amid CCI with KFAB nulled. Still wondering whether this is KVIL Dallas market or KTEK Houston market. Or something else?

Terry Krueger in FL has also been hearing this on 1110: ``2347 October 18, rather unusual (Hindi?) vocals with no instruments supporting
-- as if religious script poetry not unlike Islam/Qur'an -- blasting in way atop WBT briefly, but already dropping down by 2354.`` And someone at KTEK implied it was not them but KVTT, yet no definite info on what programming KVTT is really carrying at these times. Could some of the active DXers in Houston and Dallas areas check? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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