[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, November 30-December 6, 2012

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only. Or Sony SRF-59 when 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
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** MEXICO. 630, Dec 6 at 0602 UT, full ID for XEFB, including ``FB Romántica, 6-30 AM, 10,000 watts, 24 horas, 365 días, noche y día, centro de la ciudad de Monterrey, grupo Radio México`` --- so this is a very recent and drastic format change I was suspecting as soon as I tuned in on the SRF-59 and heard romantic music instead of talk. Current Cantú still shows the old slogan and format, ``FB La Estación Que Da Las Noticias`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1646, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 870, Dec 1 at 1308 UT, talk in Indian language with Spanish terms including ``seguro popular`` several times, a PSA? Then into Spanish mentioning XETAR in passing, i.e. La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara, in Chihuahua. Not much WWL but it`s too early for it to have faded out completely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 960, Nov 30 from 0600 UT during local KGWA deadair, mostly Mexican in QRM with romantic, almost operatic music, 0604 ``la estación grande``. Suspect XEFAMA again from Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua. 

At 0605 sharp, KGWA blasts back on with commercial for Land & Lawn which starts with bangs on a countertop bell. I always have to watch the seconds tick away and get the volume turned down before this extremely jarring resumption of modulation. This ad plays frequently, but not every night at 0605 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** MEXICO. 960, Dec 1 at 0600-0605 UT, local KGWA Enid again stops modulating, and this time dominant undersignal is dramatic narration about Pancho Villa, and at 0604 another(?) station weakly audible with Mexican NA. Pancho tribute probably from XEFAMA in Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 960, Dec 4 at 0601 UT atop the QRM briefly in the KGWA dead-air carrier null is a full ID mentioning Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua, again, so XEFAMA. Then a couple of minutes of big band music, maybe WABG Mississippi if not an XE; by 0604 ABC news is gaining, with closing commercial, and just before 0605 KGWA blasts back on, the ABC stations starts to say ``partly cloudy skies ---`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 660, Dec 1 at 1314 UT, mentions ``el maestro de Mazatlán`` and several parroquias; based on that I would have presumed a Maz. station except there aren`t any Sinaloans or even Sonorans on 660. And XETNT Los Mochis, formerly dominant around sunrise, was not to be heard on 650, just a SAH. At 1316, 660 overtaken by KSKY, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 960, 0600-0605 UT Sunday Dec 2, KGWA dead air audiblizes mostly Spanish music and talk, probably XEK or XEFAMA as previously IDed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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