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- Subject: Re: Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, October 3-9, 2014
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:33:35 -0700
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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
All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access:
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page26
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E-W longwire as specified
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 5 at 1210-1213: JBA from the NW on 774, 693 [not typo 694 as in original report], 828, all extremely likely to be NHK JAPAN; and 1053, S/N Korean radio war. Today`s Enid sunrise is 1230 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 610 // 650, Oct 8 at 1201, news sounders, Spanish, `Panorama Agropecuario` as XEGS Guasave and XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloans are combined as usual for this program, and synchronized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 610, Oct 8 at 0533, Spanish roughly from SW, atop KCSP Omaha, ID(?) as Radio Viva, plugging a noticiero. XEBX Sabinas, Coahuila, and XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa are the two XEs I normally get on 610, but there is no R. Viva slogan listed for them or anything in Cantú`s AM list except XEF 1420 Juárez, Chihuahua (and there is no CiJz on 610 in case it`s cross-promotion of a sibling station; Viva slogan used to be on 1560 Juárez). Possibly the word was Vida instead, but that leads nowhere at all. Rather than a name/slogan, ``radio viva`` could just mean ``live radio`` generically, altho the normal term would be ``en vivo`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 740, Oct 8 at 1203 UT, with KRMG Tulsa nulled still on night pattern, Spanish making low audible heterodyne. Tim Tromp in Michigan has also been getting this on 739.95, at 1120 UT Oct 4, with a Radio Fórmula slogan, of which there are two listed: XECAQ in Cancún QR, and XEQN in Torreón, Coahuila. KAZ wonder if I could tell which by DF? Afraid not, too much KRMG here, but QR is a lot further than Coahuila which would be more likely, and also better null angle from KRMG. However XECAQ is the strongest 740 Mexican by far per Cantú with 20/20 kW, while XEQN is 10/1 kW. Sunrise in Cancún was 1140 UT, also making the other more likely here. KRMG`s night hours in Oct are 2345-1230 UT (Nov: 2315-1300 UT). Beyond that, no chance for anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 810, Oct 5 at 1208, slightly above QRM level, promo or ad exclaiming ``¡Chihuahua!``. Then ``La Gitana`` and ``Mexicana``. Only Chih station on 810 is XESB in Santa Bárbara, 1 kW daytimer per last year`s IRCA Log, as R. Mexicana. Cantú and WRTH say 1 kW fulltime. Cantú locates it in Hidalgo del Parral rather than S.B. Among the 13 XE stations on 810 (14 in Cantú), none include a Gitana slogan. Nor does Google find any. May have been mention of some music or commercial, department store? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 880, Oct 8 at 1204, YL DJ ID as ``La Rancherita``, and she does live ads including Molinos Siglo XX, then government PSA combines federal SEP with Sinaloa mention, so it must be per Cantú:
880 XEPNK Planeta + FM 103.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 2,000
but with a new name. This handy listing by format of Grupo Radio México stations,
http://www.gradiomex.com/estaciones-por-formato/
confirms 880 XEPNK is indeed La Rancherita now; apparently moved from their 1450 station, XECU which is now La Zeta. Did this change make it into the new IRCA Mexican Log? Haven`t seen it yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 900, Oct 5 at 1219 UT, noise level being transmitted from NE/SW; again suspect open STL feed to/from the only Mexican in that direxion, XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Oct 8 at 1208 UT with WKY OKC nulled while it is speaking in Spanish, another SS is audible playing a corrida, making fast SAH with WKY or something; 1211 UT announcement but unreadable, just too much QRM. As last year, I am wondering if it`s KHJ Los Ángeles CA, 5/5 kW U2 with ranchera format. No other SS are known in the western USA on 930. There are no Mexicans further northwest than XESHT in Saltillo, Coahuila, and its balada format would also fit, altho it`s low-powered and pretty far from the WKY null azimuth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 1060+, Oct 7 at 0234, XEEP, R. Educación slightly hi in frequency, music // 6185. Terry Krueger had it on 1060.1, but not that hi for me, maybe one click on the DX-398 = 1060.04 or so. {Terry hypothesizes that XEEP has two different transmitters, the 20-kW night one on-frequency, the 100-kW day one more off-frequency.} Not much of an audible het, since main competition is perpetually off-frequency KIJN Farwell TX which must be nulled, and it is also on the hi side making a fast SAH; however, in dead air at the moment. See also USA for log of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1742, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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