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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, June 19-25, 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: 
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page35

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

** U S A. 1270, June 23 at 0137 UT, talk show in English, what`s this? Phone 800-522-1235, immediately cut to Univisión América ID in Spanish and PSAs in Spanish for US Army from Ad Council, et al. Good steady signal, loops SSE/NNW, so obviously 50/5 kW U4 KFLC Fort Worth TX. I didn`t realize UA axually had shows in English, which resumes at 0141 UT; callers from various states refer to host as Fernando but he has no accent and opines that racists naturally favor Republican candidates; calls out Ted Cruz. 

At 0144 UT signal suddenly drops, but still audible sufficiently; 0145 UT drops off completely, ceding 1270 to Spanish music no doubt from KTUZ Tulsa/Claremore OK. Not so much as an adiós. But I can still hear KFLC at peaks by nulling KTUZ at quite a different angle. 

0145 UT is indeed the official sunset for June and July, when KFLC decimates its power and adds two towers for a total of six to make the rather tight night pattern, east-west; while day pattern is broader with major lobe east, minor west (but plenty to the NNW, evidently). Community of license is Benbrook, which is on the southwest edge of Fort Worth at the junxion of I-20 and Loop 820; why? 

Facility 34298 I distinctly remember as originally KFJZ, but since at least 1986 it`s been other-called, starting with KESS, and since 2004y it`s been KFLC (but owned by Kess-AM License Corp.). KFJZ calls now apply to the Vietnamese [Radio-locator thinx it`s S Asian] on 870, different licensee. KFJZ was also an early independent TV station, channel 11. I used to see a ghostly Dr Gene Scott on it after midnite (long before he became a ghost). Radio-locator shows the 1270 transmitter site is really east of downtown FW, and the address is in Dallas. Truly a Metroplex station! 

As for this show in English, the UAR website
http://univisionamerica.univision.com/programacion/
shows at 18-22 UT weekdays: FERNANDO ESPUELAS SHOW: ``El presentador Fernando Espuelas, exitosa celebridad de vanguardia en medios de difusión, hace que los radioescuchas participen en este programa de dos horas con debates que hacen reflexionar y perspectivas culturales sobre asuntos pertinentes y sucesos de la actualidad, inspirando a sus oyentes a mejorar activamente su aporte a la sociedad``

So is this a playback, or does he have a separate show really in Spanish? Blurb says it`s two hours, but no next show listed until 4 hours later, `Locura Deportiva` starting at 22 UT! And nothing after that. Quite incomplete (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, June 18 at 1331 UT, no signal from KSOK Arkansas City KS, semi-local C&W station. Maybe I`ll finally hear Poteau OK? Not today. Still off at 1750 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, June 19 around 1830-1930 UT chex, KSOK Ark City KS remains off the air. BTW, I notice that some log editors don`t like to publish non-logs, but I think this info is just as significant if not more so than when a station *is* on and routinely loggable.

Of course nothing on their website
http://www.ksokradio.com/pages/12241070.php?
about an outage, where 1280 (since 1947y) appears to be a mere appendage to their FM 95.9, tho separately programmed. I hunt thru their Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/KSOKRadio
and find this after mostly commercial and event promotion:

``KSOK Radio Yesterday at 7:48am · [1248 UT June 18] Folks, we are working to get 1280AM back up and running! We'll Keep you posted! Like · Comment Booker T. Jennings III, Jenny Clark and Samantha McDonald like this``  (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, KSOK Arkansas City KS, is still off the air, afternoon of June 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, June 25 at 1248 UT, KSOK, Ark City KS is back on the air, ad for an arborist in its Cowley County, Davis Tree Service, 316 area code. Might have been back the day before when I was tied up with Mexican FMDX; had been off since at least June 18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. 1520, June 21 at 1209 UT, rock music making slow SAH with KOKC OKC during local talk show, which we know has to be CRI via KYND Cypress TX on 25 kW daytimer power (or only 18 kW Critical Hours, I suppose). Pattern is tangent eastward, to protect the other 1520 Texan at Stockdale (where KQQB has applied to dekuple power to 25 kW itself), but no such protexion for Juan, KFXZ, Lafayette LA; and there ought to be a notch toward OKC too. Soon announcement in English accent recognizable as CRI. It`s starting to fade down almost an hour after sunrise here, 1114 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1530, June 23 at 0555 UT, plugging a church event in Pine Bluff, i.e. perpetually cheating 2.5 kW daytimer KVDW, England AR, and dominating rather than BS from WCKY. No doubt God Told Them To Do It, for His Greater Glory; screw FCC regs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1600, June 25 at 1251 UT, some Vietnamese is about to fade out, i.e. skywave from KRVA The Metroplex TX, a sesquihour after sunrise; only other remnant is Spanish on 1440, KTNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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