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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, August 29-September 4, 2014

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All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `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/page25

These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of USA, unidentified, separated by ======= Within each, they are in frequency order

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, August 30 circa 15-16 UT on caradio, notice that KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is missing and it may have been for some days. However, it`s on with música de alabanza, Sept 1 at 1641 check.

1120, Sept 1 circa 1825 UT check on caradio, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is AWOL again tho it was on a couple of hours earlier. Let`s call it extremely unreliable, which can`t be good for business.

1120, Sept 4 circa 1830 UT check, KEOR is on again with praise music in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, Sept 4 at 1214 UT, on KOKC I am astounded to hear as guest on `Mitchell in the Morning`, Matt Silverstein, the Democratic opponent to diminutive elderly pilot and Senator James Inhofe, making the point that Inhofe has been on the government payroll for 50 years, plenty long, but wants to stay on it. Inhofe has refused to debate Matt at five proposed town hall locations around the state. But nothing about him on today`s podcast info, instead some other guest amid the 3-hour show. See http://www.mattforoklahoma.com/

At 1215 UT the signal breaks briefly, and weakens a bit. This is official September sunrise for KOKC, when it goes from circle tangent toward the WNW to non-direxional day pattern. Then I am also hearing some CCI with a slow SAH, likely remnant of the CRI relay for Houston. But is KOKC still on reduced power STA? Latest letter in KOKC`s Correspondence Folder, 
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=49393
dated May 20, 2014 includes:

``This is in reference to the request filed May 14, 2014, on behalf of Tyler Media L.L.C.. ("TML"). TML requests special temporary authority ("STA") to operate station KOKC(AM) with reduced power.' In support of the request, TML states that since late January of this year, the KOKC(AM) Nautel NX5O transmitter has blown 41 RF modules. Changes were made, however RF modules continued to fail and after a series of SWR trips, both Nautel and Jack Sellmeyer, P.E. advised KOKC(AM) to run 20 kW until the source of the SWR trips could be determined.

Eventually the station discovered that that SWR trips were being caused by a failing capacitor in tower 2. It has now been determined that both the tower 1 and tower 3 antenna tuning units, as well as tower 2, will require modification prior to conversion to the MoM pattern, therefore KOKC(AM) requests an STA to operate at a reduced power of 20 kilowatts. The station proposes to still operate nondirectionally during the daytime hours and directional at night.``

This was granted but expires on November 16, 2014 [Oklahoma statehood day in 1907y]. (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
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** U S A. 630, Sept 4 at 1901 UT, Fox ``News`` of Joan Rivers; 1905 UT traffic report about Boulder Turnpike; 1906 UT temp now 68 degrees; 620, Denver`s Talk Station. So KHOW 5 kW, at 450 miles/725 km city-to-city, very edge of its daytime groundwave reach, only a semihour after local mean noon. On caradio parked at a restaurant in central Enid, not a really quiet location but quiet enough to copy very weak signal. Listed as IBOC but could not hear that noise from KHOW, and fortunately IBOC no longer on from OK`s 640, nor apparently from doomed Disney KMIK 620 The Metroplex. 670 KLTT 50 kW also audible at only slightly better level. I also find a fast SAH on 560, where KWTO Springfield MO dominates with its own weak groundwave over a much closer but less favorable ground conductivity path, so the other one is likely KLZ Denver, also 5 kW, but with a tight N-S pattern not nearly so favorable usward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 850, Aug 31 at 0130 UT choral music, and 0146 UT, with KOA nulled; own DF now fits for KFUO Clayton MO, tho no ID heard. Tnx to Todd Skaine for reminding me of that: KFUO has special dispensation to stay on until 9 pm = 0200 UT, so withdraw my earlier assumption that KJON was on late past 0130 UT cheating. These two are making slow 0.5 Hz SAH with each other, i.e. 30 fades per minute.

850, Sept 1 at 0134 UT, organ music ENE/WSW, better than KOA at the moment; no doubt LCMS` KFUO, Clayton MO, my ex-local station while at Washington University a semicentury ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 900, Sept 4 at 1909 UT on caradio bandscan I notice that KSGL Wichita KS is missing. 250 watter is normally audible on daytime groundwave, and sometimes even its IBOC upper sideband circa 913 if in a quiet location. Hybrid outlet with religion and nostalgia, as explained on their compact website http://www.ksgl.com but nothing found about being off the air. I`ve e-mailed an inquiry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1010-, UT Sat Aug 30 at 0144 UT, het on the lo side, no doubt like one week ago, WHIN, Gallatin TN, measured by Brandon Jordan then on 1009.772. Surely it`s always off-frequency, but noticeable once skywave sets in, aided by anomalous operation. Official sunset in August is an hour earlier, 0045 UT (September: 0000 UT). Licensed for 5000 watts day, 47 watts night, both non-direxional. They do have a PSSA of 23 watts every month of the year (so what`s the point? Less than night power!), in August until 0230 UT, September until 0200 UT. But it`s a safe bet that WHIN ``forgets`` to cut full 5 kW day power on Friday nights when there is supremely important high school football to broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1060, Aug 28 at 0507 UT, open carrier/dead air from KIJN Farwell TX on the NM border, making usual fast SAH with on-frequency stations. Same at 1052 UT recheck. So KIJN thinx it`s more compliant with its daytime-only license, no longer modulating all-night? Not good enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1530, Aug 30 at 0138 UT, ``here on Fox Sports 1360``, huh??? Coverage of HS football, pair discussing Seahawks (isn`t that Seattle?), Forest Hill, Lakota West, Kettering Otter(?). VG signal ENE/WSW, so surely it`s only WCKY Cincinnati, which is ESPN, unblocked by cheaters and WCKY doesn`t have to on Friday nights! The announcers confused about which of the sibling stations they are on, 1360 Fox Sports being WSAI. They talk a lot about various players by name, but hardly mention the teams in this silly ballgame, which apparently resumes or starts at 0140 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Aug 31 at 0503 UT during local KGWA Fox-hole, thought I heard callsign like ``KOAB`` mentioned in passing. Checking last year`s NRC AM Log 960 listings, closest fuzzy match would be KLAD 5 kW in Klamath Falls OR --- remotely possible only if on ND day pattern instead of night into the Pacific (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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