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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, July 17-25, 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/page36
 
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. 1120, July 22 at 2150 UT on caradio, KETU/KEOR is on with regional Mexican music, but check after 2200 it`s either off or dead air; hard to tell. 2355 recheck, music modulation again. I have yet to hear *any* announcements, let alone ads or IDs at many random chex (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, July 23 at 1517 UT, approaching Tulsa from Enid on US 412/Cimarrón Túrnpike, KEOR/KETU is on with regional Mexican music, so I decide to stick with it as long as possible for any announcement. But it dumps off the air at 1531* and never comes back until afternoon of July 24, (as far as I notice from several rechex), circa 1800 UT; but around 2200 UT it`s gone again. What a sorry excuse for a radio station. 

In advance I had searched the FCC website on Facility 3651 (as KETU, but low number may show how old it really is from the Atoka KEOR days, call which was still being uttered a few months ago, despite alleged change to KETU), for any sign of a local address, but only find references to licensee off in Springdale AR, La Zeta 95.7 Inc. 

Even so, aren`t stations required to maintain a Public File somewhere in the Community of License (Catoosa OK)??? Also unfound in local phone directories under either call. I had better things to do in Tulsa than spend time trying to track it down; had already located, visited and photographed the transmitter site in February 2009, which is really in Sperry, not Catoosa, or Tulsa; when it was newly moved in from Atoka OK 1110 in order to open that frequency for KVTT in The Metroplex TX. 
http://www.w4uvh.net/KEOR1.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/KEOR2.jpg
http://www.w4uvh.net/KEOR3.jpg

Quite possibly there is no local office and certainly no studio beyond what automation equipment may reside at the transmitter site.

At one time, this station was connected to KJMU 1340 Sand Springs, but that remains off the air completely (at least while I was there, and Bruce Winkelman is never hearing it, I think.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** U S A. 570, July 22 at 0537 UT, PSAs for something in Nebraska, and the South Dakota National Guard; youth carnival August 1 in Yankton, 0538 UT discussion of baseball stats. Surprised to be getting 5/5 kW WNAX at this time of night, yet nothing from KLIF, XEBJB, Radio Reloj, Las Cruces or anything else! WNAX is audible all day on groundwave, but always way below KLIF Dallas, which is twice as close, but with unfavorable E-W patterns day and night for us. WNAX night pattern is supposed to throw most signal slightly east of north, minor lobes to SW and SE, while day pattern is ND. As of a year ago, WNAX format was news/talk, not sports talk per se: hypothesis, maybe they had carried a late/west coast silly baseball game, and forgot to go off day pattern; but how did they get rid of the other 570s? I don`t think there was an ionospheric disturbance wiping all normal signals out leaving this by groundwave even at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
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WNAX is still primarily news/talk/farm but often carries games in the
evenings but as far as I know even when covering the State tournaments they still switch to night pattern. They did get a lot of rain in Yankton and to the SW recently, maybe enhanced the SW lobe? (Tim Hills, Sioux Falls, SD, ABDX via DXLD)

** U S A. 1060, July 17 at 0156 UT, I`m deliberately checking for KIJN Farwell TX, 10 kW daytimer which if on the air should be about to sign off at legal sunset --- but no trace of it. No het against anything from its perpetually off-frequency transmitter --- but if I aim N/S, I do get a het, obviously from XERDO Matamoros etc. 

1060, July 17 at 0158 UT, EWTN fades in, i.e. KRCN Colorado, which has another half hour to legally run 50 kW day power (August: until 0200 UT); it has also sometimes run day power into the night instead of 111 watts, but not noticed lately. And still no sign of KIJN; see previous report about its difficulties with the FCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1110, July 18 at 1857 UT on caradio in eastern Enid, South Asian music on very weak signal. Has to be 50 kW KVTT in The Metroplex TX (COL: Mineral Wells). Normally on 1110 in daytime I get a trace of 50 kW KFAB Omaha instead. KFAB is ND and Radio-Locator shows fringe contour only to between Salina and Great Bend; NRC Pattern Book shows its contour extending right to Enid (tho that`s not what it really means, rather strength relative to others), while KVTT has three lobes: major to the SE, medium to the SW, and minor to the NW, but Enid closer to a null. This is slightly after local mean noon at 1832 UT when skywave should be minimal if any. I suspect KVTT got a slight boost from sporadic E, as this was amid an opening into VHF TV and maybe FM from Mexico, same direxion; see previous report. Es affecting MF could explain these anomalies especially in the summer season. I wish other DXers would be alert for such correlations, but I sense a
 certain disinterest in daytime DXing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1190, July 17 at 0200 UT, singing ID for ``All American Radio, KQQZ``, then ``Jimmy Brown``. Oh2, official July sunset is 0130 UT (August: 0100 UT). FCC shows 10 kW daytime, 22 watts night from Desoto MO; but has CP to change COL to Fairview Heights IL, where it can run 650 watts at night (or hey, why not just keep on 10 kW??). (St Louis MO market). Multiple slogans from website
http://www.kqqz1190am.com/ 
Hot Talk / Kool Killer Kountry / ``The 1st Amendment and All American Station`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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