[IRCA] MW DX from Enid OK, January 3-9, 2011

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

All times and dates strictly UT. MW log editors are welcome to excerpt items, reformat and change to favorite timezone if necessary. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only; some caradio as specified; above 2 MHz on FRG-7 with 110-foot east-west longwire.

** MEXICO [and non]. 1300, XEP, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Jan 9 at 1451 UT, romantic music in Spanish, 1452 TC for 7:52, government vivienda PSA asserting that ``en México somos 102 millones de habitantes``, ID ``Radio Trece, tradicionalmente original``, more romx. 50 kW station easily dominating frequency this late, but lower half of MW band had no Mexicans or other skywave to speak of. 1330 from west Texas was also still in, but not 770 from NM; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, Jan 9 as I tune in at 1441 UT, ``At KCKM, we`re proud of our large music library``, into Johnny Cash. Loops ENE/WSW over nearest groundwave station KNSS (ex-KFH) Wichita KS. 1450 ad for a doctor in Monahans TX with a 943- phone number.

XEP 1300 in Juárez was also in [see MEXICO], but skywave gone from lower half of band by now. For example, checked 770 for KKOB Albuquerque NM at 1500, but no signal; presumably would have clicked on at 1415 UT, the January official sunrise time for non-direxional operation lasting until 2415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1520, KOKC, Sunday Jan 9 at 1447, ad for OCI, and back to ``The Native American Speaks``, host Michael Dotson interviewing someone from the Citizen Potawatomi tribe. TNAS is scheduled at 1430-1500 UT, among other worthwhile specialty programs on Saturday and Sunday mornings, departing from weekday talk format primarily of farrightwingnuts: http://www.kokcradio.com/programming.aspx
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1600, Jan 9 at 1445 UT, strong open carrier looping NNW/SSE, presumably KRVA in The Metroplex TX, the Vietnamese station often heard here as long as skywave is in. Is no one paying attention at KRVA? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3160, looking for WPJK, SC harmonic from 1580, which in Dec was barely audible here going off around 2217 UT, legal sunset being 2215. In January it may operate until 2245, so does it? Jan 3 tune-in at 2219 and cannot detect a signal, so either off a bit before, or not propagating. If really on until 2245, it should have been detectable by 2240-2243, but was not. Sunsets grow later and later. Needs further chex, as well as whether January sign-on is still circa 1230. Did not manage to check that early Jan 4, but at 1303 it was inaudible, already outfaded? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3160, so far I have not been able to hear the WPJK Orangeburg SC 2 x 1580 harmonic in 2011y. Finally on Jan 7 I am up in time to check for the 1230v sign-on which had been in effect in Nov-Dec 2010, and 1130v during Oct+ DST since first heard Oct 12 as in DXLD 10-41 and most subsequent issues. Monitored Jan 7 from 1228 continuously until 1246, no sign of any carrier, and still not at final check 1305, while 3185 WWRB was still VG. Nor as of Jan 7 have I been able to detect it in evening before nominal 2245* in Jan or even 2215v* as in Dec. So has the harmonic finally been fixed? Is anyone else hearing it now morning or evening? Or midday as Terry Krueger in FL succeeded in doing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Confirming why we are no longer hearing WPJK on 3160: ``The harmonic has been taken care of. Myself and FCC Atlanta intervened. Sorry it`s a disappointment, I know. But, legalities are legalities (Gary E. Davis, W1IT, Inman, SC, UT Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` 

** U S A. 4050, Jan 6 at 0614 check, nothing audible from KWMO x 3 --- so back to night power on 1350 of 84 watts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4050-, Jan 7 at 0624, very poor but can detect the usual YL DJ from KWMO, Washington MO on 3 x 1350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Sunday Jan 9 at 1438 UT I can get a nice sharp null from groundwave KLIO Wichita, which instead of oldies has a preacher on, and in that null I am hearing a country hymn. Surely not KNX, which ordinarily occupies this spot earlier. Looks like WDIA Memphis is most likely from distance and direxion, 50 kW daytime, but both day and night patterns have major lobes to the south, little toward OK. NRC AM Log says its format is UC:AC = urban/American contemporary. But like KLIO, prime format goes out the window when gospel huxters ramp up on Sundays. Slightly unnulled, the two make a SAH of 3.5 Hz; we have already determined that KLIO is sub-audibly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 1560, on caradio, Jan 6 around 1710 UT, KEBC Disney Radio in OKC has fast heavy SAH and QRM from some other station. This is less than a sesquihour from low noon at 1832, and by 1730 no longer there. I suspect it is residual skywave from 50 kW KGOW Houston TX, altho its lobe aims 15 degrees, quite a lot less toward 345 degrees, but I seem to recall a similar SAH from it before. But could also be Harold Camping`s KKAA in Aberdeen SD, which is often heard here earlier, has a latitudinal advantage and a lobe right toward us. Cannot either rule out 10 kW KLNG Council Bluffs IA, non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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