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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 27-April 2, 2015

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All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during DST; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 UT period to the previous date by ELT]. 
 
Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E/W longwire 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
 
All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open access:Â
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page33
  
These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA, unidentified [if any], separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order

** OKLAHOMA. 1520, March 27 at 0055 UT, I`m surprised to find a VG signal from KOKC, already back on the air within 24 hours of its towers being destroyed by tornado. Item from CBS News about a procedure the FDA has approved to turn brown eyes blue by messing with melanin levels. Then PSA from Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotix, 0056 UT ``News-Talk 1520, K-OKC``. 

How did they do it? Somehow load the single tower which was not downed but merely broken in two? Or swift change to some other site? Sounds like full power, in fact better than it had been before the disaster! There is less CCI from Rochester, but at 0112 UT, a tell-tale het on the hi side, no doubt Saudi Arabia, 1521, which I had not heard since sometime last fall. Presumably KEBC gets to resume its normal programming on 1560, but just after sunset it`s already lost in the QRM.

Paul B Walker forwards the answer: ``From KOMA Engineer Mike Fields via the I Take pictures of transmitter sites facebook group:

"we are on the air at 1520 kHz with new folded vertical radiator and a slightly modified simple L network. Makes 10 kW with 1.07 VSWR"

They are using a portion of the only remaining tower from 1520, the only one that didn`t collapse because of the tornado``

Call letters KOMA, not KOKC are still on the transmitter building. Tower doesn`t look Blaw-Knox, to me, i.e. with the wider middle sexion (gh)

Engineers rig tornado-damaged radio tower to send out signal
    Published  8:02 PM CDT Mar 27, 2015
http://www.koco.com/news/engineers-rig-tornadodamaged-radio-tower-to-send-out-signal/32059270?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_campaign=KOCO+5+News+-+koco5&Content+Type=Story&linkId=13187451

   / Local News  By Kim Passoth

[...] Next week, a new temporary tower will go up at the same location on SW 4th Street. Then the damaged transmitting tower will be brought down (via Art Delibert, MD, DXLD)

** OKLAHOMA. 1560, March 27 at 1834 UT, CBS News Update, ``1520 KOKC`` ID and back to talk show. This is really KEBC Del City, which was switched to KOKC programming when 1520 went down by tornado; but once KOKC was back already 18 hours before now, I expected 1560 would resume its own sports talk programming. Not. Compared on a portable radio to 1520, they are slightly apart by a reverb. As yet unchecked 1520 at ToH, whether that also dually ID with KEBC 1560 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1560, afternoon of March 28, KEBC OKC is still duplicating 1520 KOKC --- did they break contract with NBC Sports and can`t go back? There is certainly no need for // 1560 as long as 1520 is funxioning. Ben Dawson provides more:

``1520 back on the air! With our new folded vertical radiator and a slightly modified simple L network. Makes 10 kW with 1.07 VSWR. Jack calls it a "Slant-loaded Network". 

The Jack he refers to is Jack Sellmeyer, distinguished Texas consulting engineer who cobbled together the temporary lash up.`` 

I assume a ``folded vertical`` is a bit of a joke, considering that`s what the tornado left them with (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. From the FCC: Exhibit 15 
Description: RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION CALCULATION

THE ANTENNA SYSTEM OF KOKC WAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED BY THE MOORE, OK TORNADO OF MARCH 25, 2015. THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED FOR A 50 KW RADIO STATION. THE CURRENT STA REQUESTS 10 KW OPERATION. THE LICENSEE WILL KEEP PERSONS A MINIMUM OF 2 METERS FROM THE TOWER BASE BY USING FENCES. 

THE PROPOSED RADIATOR IS 57.9 METERS OR 105.7 ELECTRICAL DEGREES AT 1520 KHZ. THIS RELATES MOST CLOSELY TO A 90 DEGREE TOWER WHICH REQUIRES PERSONS TO BE LIMITED TO A DISTANCE OF 2 METERS FROM THE TOWER BASE FOR 10 KW STATIONS.

Attachment 15 Exhibit 16 
Description: EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES

ON MARCH 25, 2015 A TORNADO HIT MOORE, OK THE LOCATION OF THE KOKC TRANSMITTER. KOKC WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REBUILDING THE DIRECTIONAL SYSTEM WHEN THIS LATEST DISASTER STRUCK. OF THE THREE TOWERS, ONLY ONE WAS LEFT PARTIALLY STANDING WITH THE TOP SECTION PRECARIOUSLY DANGLING. THIS DANGLING SECTION COULD FALL AT ANY MOMENT. THEREFORE THE LICENSEE IS PROPOSING TO CONSTRUCT A NEW 57.9 METER (190 FOOT) TOWER AND REMOVE THE PRECARIOUS STRUCTURE. 

DURING THE REBUILDING OF THE DIRECTIONAL ARRAY, KOKC WAS AUTHORIZED TO OPERATE NON-DIRECTIONALLY WITH 12.5 KW. THIS REQUEST SEEKS TO FURTHER REDUCE THE TEMPORARY POWER TO 10 KW. NO INTERFERENCE COMPLAINTS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE 12.5 KW OPERATION. 

NO SITE CHANGE IS BEING PROPOSED. THE TRADITIONAL TOWER #1 PEDESTAL WILL SUPPORT THE NEW RADIATOR.
(via Artie Bigley, OH, April 1, DXLD)

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** U S A. 650, March 28 at 1855 UT on caradio, finding that IBOC from 640 KWPN Moore OK is off, is anything making it on 650? Yes, JBA country music! Can it be WSM Nashville, a megameter away, just a few minutes after our local mean noon? What else could it be? I stop and get out the PL-880 which fortunately I have along to check out something on SW. With BFO and rotating it, I can barely DF this 650 signal to east-west, which chex for WSM. But there is also a second even weaker carrier. That would most likely be talker KGAB in SE Wyoming, which has been known barely to make it here on groundwave (if KLTT 670 Denver can, why not?). But is WSM by skywave or groundwave? D-layer absorption should be taking it out, but ground conductivity between there and here is nothing special, and I don`t even get Memphis on 560 or 600 in daytime. BTW, NRC AM Log shows there are only 7 stations on 650 in the entire conterminous US, which is about as close as we can get
 to a `clear` channel any more.

Mandatory check of 720 as well: at 1906 UT March 28, I do have a SAH, presumably KSAH TX and WGN IL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 970, March 27 at 0134 UT, as I am concentrating on XESW, see MEXICO, some NW/SE CCI IDs in passing like KXYL. Must really have been KSYL in Alexandria LA, 1/1 kW U2. Probably the same one as at 0130 UT with ABC News, per affiliation info in NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1150, March 28 at 0031 UT, VG signal with Yahoo Sports Radio --- surely it`s the typical night coverage of KSAL Salina KS, but not primarily a sports station. Yes, their schedule for 7-10 pm CDT weekdays just says ``Yahoo Radio Sports`` --- close. YSR is not among the numerous affiliations listed for KSAL in the 2014-2015 NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1370, March 28 at 0043 UT, good signal with talk show in English, mentions Houston, loops N/S, gone by 0047 UT. Fits for KJCE Rollingwood (Austin) TX, official sunset 0045 UT in March (0100 in April), and power decimated from 5000 to 500 watts while pattern reduced from broadly northward to a bit to the northwest. (Still no sign of my nearest 1370, KGNO Dodge City KS) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1500, March 28 at 0035 UT, Spanish sermon from N/S, poor signal, attenuated KSTP no problem, but other QRM until KSTP fades up at 0041. Monolog sermon from TX points to KMXO in Merkel as in my March 24 morning log. But where is the nostalgic 1 kW and closer daytimer KJIM Sherman TX? Its March sunset was 0030 UT (April: 0100 UT). KMXO, 250 watt daytimer March sunset: 0045 UT (April: 0115 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1520, March 28 at 0027 UT, the quickly-revived KOKC OKC has heavy SAH and CCI in English from an inseparable station, presumed KYND Cypress (Houston) TX with CRI relay, 25 kW daytimer. By 0034 UT when I am still getting CRI via KGBC on 1540, the 1520 is gone leaving KOKC in the clear, so must have signed off at proper time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1540, March 28 at 0034 UT, discussion in English about university studies abroad for Chinese, and with that familiar Chinese accent we hear from many CRI speakers; so it`s obviously KGBC Galveston TX, likely still on 2.5 kW day power despite official sunset of 0030 UT (April: 0045 UT). It`s mostly separable from Tejano KEDA San Antonio which still dominates 1540 here at night contrary to its legal DA pattern. By 0047 UT I am ready to check for // 9570 via ALBANIA, but no more 1540 CRI, I guess finally on 250 watt night power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1590, March 28 at 0024 UT, ranchera music from NNW/SSE, or rather gospel since 0027 UT lyric includes `salvaciÃn`. Good signal overcomes birdie around here impeding daytime reception of KVGB. This points to KMIC Houston, which as in DXLD 15-04 had converted from Disney to Radio Aleluya. The hymn is cut off at 0030* UT sharp, which must have been official FCC sunset; no sign-off, not even a semi-sign-off! Yes, 0030 UT is the March SS; April: 0045 UT. At least, here`s one station which takes its responsibilities seriously, from ND day to totally direxional SE into the Gulf at night, both 5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1590, March 29 at 0128 UT, general newscast, 0130 ``ESPN Radio`` and ``KGAS Carthage`` ID inserted, thank you very much, and into sports talk. Can we depend on all ESPN affils to ID like this on the semihour? Initially dominating from SE/NW, soon fades down as if power cut. But its official March sunset was an hour earlier at 0030 UT (April: 0045 UT). KGAS is 2500/128 watts U1. Carthage is in E Texas, just SW of Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, March 27 at 1834 UT on caradio at local mean noon, I`m getting a very weak SAH, indicating two carriers interfering. I count it at 30 per 5 seconds = 360/minute = 6 Hz apart. No DFing possible, but there are really only two possibilities anywhere near: KMOX St Louis and KTXW Manor/Austin TX. (Remember I was definitely getting WOAI 1200 in the daytime recently.) Unless KETU Tulsa carrier is still running, but much attenuated from 10 kW. KLIM LimÃn CO, 250 W daytimer is still listed but ``silent since 10/2002``! A bit further out there is also a 10 kW daytimer in Clinton MS, WTWZ, which would be a fantastic daytime catch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``1240+, March 20 at 0410 UT I am
still detecting a low audio het from some off-frequency
graveyarder, looping WNW/ESE, a prime suspect being KCRT
Trinidad CO. First noticed this in early January, and no one
has replied to my inquiries. At this time 1240 caught my
attention since somestation had momentarily peaked covering
some sillyballgame in English, maybe only Wichita (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

KCRT has been reported off-frequency by John Wilkins, CO for years, most recently on 1240.19 kHz in Vol. 81 Issue 30 â DY. (David Yocis, NRC DX News via DXLD)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, March 29 at 0125 UT tune-by, ID as ``The Outlaw, non-stop country music``, loops about SSE/NNW. Can`t find that slogan for any 1460 in the NRC AM Log. The only country station around here is KCWM in Hondo TX, but I also can`t find any `Outlaw` branding on http://www.kcwm.net website. So I bring up their stream at 0415 UT. At 0423 they do utter ``The World`s Best Country Music`` as on website. So where is The Outlaw?? Outlaw County is a SiriusXM channel (60), any relation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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