[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, January 22-February 12, 2012

[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

** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Jan 30; ours is not until 1335 UT:

620, Jan 30 at 1303 UT, instrumental NA, 1305 another anthem, of the state? vocal by M. 1307 sign-on mentioning 10 kW in Chihuahua, so XEBU in Chihuahua city, a frequent catch claiming double its listed power.

700, Jan 30 at 1304 UT, soft-spoken YL in Spanish with birthday greetings, introducing mañanitas in three languages, Mayo, Yaqui and Guarijío. (Mayo is invariable, apparently different from Maya; Guarijía is OK when feminine is required.) First one is a guy with guitar, not the usual tune heard in Spanish about Rey David, etc. 1309 segué to another one with different instrumentation. 1310 back to soft-spoken YL DJ with immediate ID as XEETCH, La Voz de los Tres Rios, greeting listeners in Chihuahua as well as Sonora, timecheck at 1311 as 6:10; 1312 quick canned ID by M in another language; 1313 start music program for the three ethnic groups, rustic tunes. Signal is fair but steady with hardly any CCI, more of a problem being ACI, perhaps KGGF 690 splatter. At 1324 runs a couple of federal PSAs, 1326 YL ID again. 

Now there is some CCI growing in English as XEETCH fades, making a SAH of 3 or 4 Hz which I can`t null, likely WLW resurging, which is close to collinear in the opposite direxion. It`s not unusual for eastward US stations to appear *after* the westward Mexicans around sunrise, when you`d think the east would have faded out for the day. 

XEETCH is a 5-kW daytimer in Etchojoa, Sonora, one of the federal government`s indigenous outlets. Here`s all about it :
http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=862&Itemid=44
including illustrations, linx to a map and audio streaming. Etchojoa is on the road between Navojoa and Huatabampo at the southern end of Sonora. Some listings put XEETCH in Navojoa.

870, Jan 30 at 1318 as soon as I intune, ID for Chihuahua`s XETAR, La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara, also with YL host, not as good as XEETCH today; XETAR starts at 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1300, Feb 3 at 1421 UT, news headlines in Spanish concerning Chihuahua, ``Radio Mexico Noticias``, i.e. XEP, Ciudad Juárez on day power of 50 kW, overcoming Oklahoma half a sesquihour after sunrise around here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 910, Jan 26 at 2008 UT on caradio, ``KVIS, your weather authority``, from Miamuh OK, making slight SAH with presumed TX station as usual, no AH, as someone speculated KVIS could have been source of a het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 560, Feb 12 at 0538-0541, did not really expect to hear the WFIL DX test way out here, but checked anyway, and heard only `When Radio Was` episode of Jack Benny, from about the same direxion, presumably my closest 560, KWTO Springfield MO. Tried BFO offset 5 kHz, but no sign of any MCW IDs either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, Jan 26 at 2006 UT on caradio, WGN traffic control, weather is steady and R5, scarcely a sesquihour after local mean noon. WGN can make it on groundwave over a megameter away, but I think this was skywave. Checked 670, where WSCR sometimes mixes with KFTT Denver in the daytime, but now covered by splatter from WWLS OK 640 IBOC. No chance for 780 WBBM or 890 WLS either with OK stations upon them (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1030, Feb 3 at 1426 UT, ``1030 The Light`` non-ID within the ``Gather Round Morning Show with Greg Harris`` presenting gospel music, i.e. per NRC AM Log, the slogan for KCWJ Blue Springs MO (address in Independence, axually Kansas City market) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, Feb 3 at 1415 UT, ``The Wayward Wind`` sung by Patsy Cline as soon outroed, dominating closer groundwave from easily nullable KNSS Wichita denying climate change, making SAH of about 4 Hz. From previous logs, I`m sure it`s KCKM in Monahans TX, which has a CP to raise day power from 5 to 12 kW, and gets out well on skywave, specially around sunrise skip enhancement time. Legal sunrise in February for them is now 1330 UT. Yes, then local ads for convenience store chain, Kent-Kwik? in Monahans and elsewhere in the Permian Basin; lottery numbers: winners in N TX expected to head for OK casinos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1340, Feb 12 at 0649, for the moment atop the graveyard jumble, Dave with financial advice, call-in from Fort Wayne. Peaks ENE/WSW, no telling what but not my daytime dominator OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1490, KRSN Los Álamos NM: QSL card serial #13, for DX test Jan 21 received by p-mail on Jan 28, full details, signed both by Michael Westfall, N6KUY, QSL Coordinator/Volunteer, and David Sutton, COO, Station Owner/Manager. It seems KRSN means ``Kommunity Radio Station Now``. Also enclosed two filing cabinet magnet cards, and business card from Sutton, all of which present a wavy musical staff logo, but only the business card appears to have an axual melody on it, representing their jingle? Accepted report by e-mail, no rp. Tnx again to Michael and David for the test as I previously reported, IDed by MCW tuning offset from 1490. See them at:
http://www.w4uvh.net/KRSN.jpg 
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1540, Feb 12 at 0644 UT, `El Paso` song with Spanish lyrix and norteña riffs, but too much QRM to understand. Then promos and ads in Spanish mentioning ``Southwest Military Drive` so I know it`s San Antonio, a street I traversed often while at Kelly & Lackland AFBs, Von Ormy, even before the ID in English as KEDA. This time did not hear their ``Radio Jalapeño`` slogan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1860-AM, UT Sunday Jan 22 at 0604, WA0RCR weekly broadcast of amateur news from Wentzville MO, concluding RAIN report obviously outdated as they said to listen for 500 kHz activity on November 3! After ID, onto current ARRL report dated Jan 19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1860, Sunday Jan 29 0642, WA0RCR is just barely modulated with presumed usual ham radio news broadcast; multiple CW QRM upon the carrier was much louder, due to a contest? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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