[IRCA] Domestic MW DX to Enid OK, November 9-15, 2012

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified
   
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
   
These logs are in four sexions, Canada [if any], Oklahoma, rest of USA, unidentified, separated by ======= 
Within each, they are in frequency order

** CANADA. 990, Nov 9 at 0710 UT, CBW with CBC Overnight, correspondent reports on banning porn in Egypt, severe Hurricane Sandy damage to Santiago de Cuba (both stories we have heard little about on mainstream US media). Kept me awake longer than I wished, 0719 Public Radio International ID, music break, 0720 `The World` is the program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 2748.7-USB, Nov 10 at 0054, weak signal with weather, sort of British accent, then some different voices, traffic contacts? 0057 it`s French Canadian with an English accent, mentions Îles de la Madelaine. I know I`ve heard something like this before: see DXLD 11-12, and also 10-48.

One schedule at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm#O%20ATL
shows three Coast Guard stations in NS in rotation with Grindstone, Quebec, i.e. Magdalen Islands, but the latest one starting before 0054 as VCO Sydney from 0040. The CCG schedule at
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/RAMN2012/Atlantic/Part2
agrees: ``MCTS Sydney / VCO - Broadcasts Time UTC 0040 Frequency 2749-J3E RADIOTELEPHONY`` J3E means single sideband, suppressed carrier. And there is no listing now for VCN or Grindstone, which apparently has been decommissioned (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1643, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
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** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Fri Nov 9 at 0600-0605, KGWA Fox-hole silence audiblizes mainly ABC News, presumably KMA Iowa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 9 at 1302, KEOR on again with open carrier, and little KMOX until it fades back in with slow SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 13 at 1320 UT, Mexican music from KEOR Sperry, usual SAH with KMOX of 72/minute = 1.2 Hz. Was not hearing it on caradio during several daytime chex yesterday, altho could have been an inaudible carrier only. 

Bruce Winkelman, dentro-Tulsa, says ``1120 KEOR on abruptly 1300:50Z 13NOV12 in the middle of Spanish vocal mx, no ID. KEOR watch continues`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Nov 14 around 2130 UT, KEOR Sperry/Catoosa/Tulsa is on again with Mexican music. Still no IDs ever heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 1310, Nov 13 at 1308 UT, ``Newstalk KZRG`` about sports, i.e. Joplin MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 10 at 0033 UT, open carrier from the direxion of Dallas is dominating, i.e. KBXD testing (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Jerry Kiefer tells me that KBXD began regular programming today Nov 12. I was getting it on 1480 Monday evening, UT Tue Nov 13 at 0015 on the caradio, more or less dominating frequency after sunset, with ``Gospel Express`` mentioning that they were new to Dallas, thanks to Jerry. Still hearing fast SAH which I suspect is due to KBXD being off-frequency compared to average 1480 signals. Estimate 12-15 Hz. 

There is also some Mexican music on 1480 I haven`t yet traced to one North American country or another. KQAM Wichita had some competition at 0135 during their BKB game, from gospel music on KBXD. Altho 50 kW daytime, I was not hearing it on groundwave earlier vs KQAM. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

1480, Nov 13 at 0651 UT, Brother Scare is now here, tnx to KBXD, spending the rest of the hour giving contact info. Usual SAH, and dominates frequency from N/S, with 1.9 kW night power, but just rebuilt so should be at max efficiency now. Listened until 0702, when Alex Scourby started Bible reading, and there was no hourtop legal ID. I have yet to catch a KBXD ID at all, and The Overcomer doesn`t prompt any such interruptions.

1480, Nov 13 at 1630 UT when skywave should be out, 3.5 hours after LSR and 2 hours before local mean noon, by nulling KQAM I am getting a SAH from a very weak carrier, no doubt KBXD, and seems closer to 10 Hz than 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, Nov 14 at 0558 UT, Brother Scare is already on with contact info, no doubt new KBXD Dallas, altho Jerry Kiefer told me Nov 13, ``No refined program schedule yet. The southern gospel periods will be filled in with programs as we move forward and Bro Stair will be midnight till 5.`` So maybe he just started a bit early, or is filling in more than that for the time being.

As for the Mexican music I have also been hearing on 1480, Jerry Kiefer also says, ``The Spanish could be from the suburban Houston or the 10 kW in Mexico best that I can figure.`` That would be KLVL Pasadena TX, which I did not consider since NRC AM Log lists it as Asian; or XETKR Monterrey, but night power is supposedly only 500 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1510, Nov 13 at 0139 on caradio, immediately on tune-in heard ``WQQW, Madison County`s hometown radio station``. NRC AM Log shows: 

``WQQW Highland IL, D3 1000, CP D3 5000, AP TO 1530 D4 3300 CH 3300 CoL = University City [MO, in the St Louis market]``

This is long after sunset, so presumably on critical hours facilities, but still not QSY to 1530. FCC AM Query for 
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=90598
makes clear that on the present 1510 facility there is NO CH authorization; however there is a PSRA and a PSSA: 
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=3663

No, there isn`t ---- this letter says PSSA is NOT POSSIBLE in the case of then-WXOZ as of 2007. Therefore it now has no business being on the air at all between SS and SR, in November 2245-1245 UT. Day power is 1 kW and major lobe throws most of it southwest toward me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1580, Nov 9 at 0723 UT, Radio Disney teeny-bopper music from E/W, obviously KMIK in Tempe, Arizona is again/still out of whack with day facilities at night, 50 kW dominating frequency; // same music on 1690 Denver. Awake too early at 1255, more Disney music, and also with IBOC noise peaking 1567 and 1593, bothering XERF 1570. 1580 has heavier CCI and SAHs than in the nightmiddle, and 1690 to compare is barely audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1620, Nov 9 at 2035 UT, sports talk, which means that KOZN in Nebraska is already skywaving, barely one bihour after local mean noon, but the sun is steadily sinking to lower and lower zeniths. These on the caradio; an hour later at 2134 I am hearing ``Newstalk 16-20, WTAW``, College Station TX from the south where the sun is of course still higher than here or Nebraska, but low enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1680, Nov 9 at 0725 UT, correspondent report about China vs Japan, outro as ``Bloomberg, Tokyo``. It`s KRJO, Monroe LA, now with BBN, // weaker 1660, KUDL Kansas City KS (``KMBZ Business Channel``), as the two often match (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Nov 12 at 0700 UT, slogan ``la mejor compañía, emisoras ---``. Hoped this slogan would lead to something feasible, like Mexico, but searching keeps heading toward Argentina on this frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Nov 13 at 0637, Mexican music, seems NE/SW, fast SAH caused by KLIO Wichita always off-frequency, and KNX must be in a fade. The only XE in western Mexico is XEOBS in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, certainly possible, but lately there have been reports of WCSZ in Sans Souci, South Carolina:

Jo Fela in NJ had it Nov 9 at 0300 (EST?) with legal ID in Spanish, Mexican music, ``Cannot be  running its true night time facilities``

Robert Ross, Ont., and Rick Dau, Nebraska, also IDed WCSZ by comparing it to their webstream. WCSZ is 50 kW day/1.5 kW night, supposedly. 

FCC AM Query shows night pattern:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/150128-6837.pdf
with major 1.5 kW lobe to SSE, null toward the west. 
50 kW day pattern:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/150128-6835.pdf
is similar with an even tighter null toward the west
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1240, Nov 9 at 1259 UT, pizza ad mentioning Harrison County, so that should be a good clue, but then an ID for Sportsradio KFH, 98.7, ESPN, i.e. Wichita KS, ex-1330 swap with KNSS. It sure seemed like the same station, but MW signals, especially graveyards can be extremely volatile, more so around sunrise.

This convenient index of US counties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_U.S._counties
shows there is no Harrison county in Kansas, just:
Harrison County: IN; IA; KY; MS; MO; OH; TX; WV
I check only the closest for matches: not Missouri, but Harrison County TX is close to Kilgore altho in another county, where 1240 is inhabited by KDOK. Too tenuous.

BTW, KFH runs only 630 watts, presumably because its antenna is too efficient, and on daytime groundwave for a long time, we`ve found it to be weaker than its predecessor (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, Nov 13 at 0015 UT, weak Mex mx mix with KBXD Dallas. There are several SS in the US, mostly peripheral states, but most likely and closest here as in NRC AM Log is KCZZ, Radio Activo, Mission KS, = Kansas City market, beyond KQAM Wichita (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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