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. 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 ** MEXICO. 540, May 5 at 1115 UT I awaken briefly and turn on a radio here, to find a quickly echoing signal in Spanish, some kind of dramatic narration with music; furthermore there is a steady SAH of 200/minute = 3.33 Hz. I conclude it could only be the hi-power 150 kW XEWA in San Luís Potosí SLP with reverb/echo from the other lo-power 1 kW XEWA in Monterrey NL. The echo and the SAH must be very annoying in the equal-signal area somewhere between the two sites, i.e. not far outside Monterrey, and even in direxions other than SLP`s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 810, May 14 at 0520 UT, a Radio Mexicana is dominating the frequency, looping southwest. IRCA Mexican Log and WRTH show the only one called this on 810, and the direxion fits too, is XESB, in Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua, ``Radio Mexicana, La S-B``, but it`s a 1 kW daytimer, supposedly signing off at 0100. However, Cantú, http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/frec_am_0800-1090.htm shows it as full-time 1 kW, instead in a nearby town: 810 XESB Radio Mexicana, Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 1,000 1,000 All lists also show a similar station name not to confuse with it: 810 XEIM Fiesta Mexicana + FM 91.3 Saltillo, Coah. 1,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK< DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1650 kHz, hot tip from Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, and Héctor García Bojorge in the DF of a brand-new Mexico City station on the x-band, heard from 0230 UT April 27, XEAZR, Radio Zer, part of the group of that name, ID as ``"ZER Radio 16-50, XEAZR, una emisora de Grupo Radiofónico ZER". But Roberto Gómez citing apparently official info says the call is XEARZ, and the power is 5 kW day and night. They were playing instrumental music. So I start looking for it at 0523 April 27: I am mainly getting two stations, one with gospel music and one with talk, presumably US, but at 0526 the gospel music station makes a Spanish announcement, 0531 with a partial URL including 1650.com. Surely that is KBJD Denver, whose real website is http://www.1650radioluz.com and the other one most likely KCNZ in IA. (BTW, don`t forget the listed but rarely reported SS in El Paso TX on 1650, KSVE [as in ``suave``], 24h romántica in stereo, per NRC AM Log). Anyhow, no XE-whatever audible here yet. Not in WRTH 2012, but Cantú shows this: ``1650 XEARZ (en construcción) México, DF 5,000 ?``[=night power unknown] and in the DF list adds this: ``1650 XEARZ En construcción. 5,000 watts. Permisionada (sin fines de lucro) pero parte de Grupo ZER.`` i.e. its permit is non-profit, so no ads? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 640, May 12 at 1348 UT, ESPN Radio promo after promo, from what used to be WWLS: no IBOC noise on at the moment, whence seems like it is less and less imposed, fortunately. 1400 ID as ``KWPN AM, Moore-Norman, a Cumulus station``. I had been wanting to catch their new ID for the record, as another W-call far west of the Mississippi bites the dust. But this one was not really heritage; it was strangely granted on 12/7/81 according to FCC callsign history for facility 22190, when it replaced WNAD, which really was a heritage call at the University of Oklahoma, which got out of the radio business (only to resume it years later with KGOU, class-A FM non-commercial, yet on 106.3, with much inferior coverage, altho has now built up spotty relays at several other locations in the state). We can only assume having that the old W- call made it easier to get a new W-call. I thought 640 was a Clear Channel station operating out of 50 Penn Place in OKC. But application/ownership info shows it was previously owned by Citadel, WAPI in Birmingham AL, and before that by Citadel, KKOH in Reno NV! I assume that`s just for bookkeeping. Now they obviously want to brand it more clearly as an ESPN affiliate. While I was at FCC, took a look at their day and nite patterns: 5 kW day has major lobe to the SW, not much toward Enid tho not a full null. 1 kW nite has null west toward KFI, of course, and a lesser null to the east, protecting what? Memphis, I guess. Major lobes sort of kidney-shaped toward NNE and SSE (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, May 22 at 0125 UT, as I am checking out 770 KKOB, notice that KSPI Stillwater is already off the air, unlike yesterday. Official May sunset is 0130 UT (June and July: 0145). Conversely, this daytimer sometimes leaves its carrier on past sunset, or even all- night (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, UT May 23 at 0125, KSPI Stillwater is absent again before its mandatory sunset close at 0130. I had not been checking whether it was also missing during the day, but it was on as normal at 1245. I suppose daytimers don`t have to occupy all their legal airtime if they don`t want to (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1430, May 22 at 0553, good signal with a caller from Scottsdale on ``Extra Sports 910``. Soon faded to nothing, then back up. I was expecting something more exotic than KTBZ Tulsa, but slogan chex for KGME in Phoenix on 910, and both of them are on the Fox Sports Network. No other likely sportstalkers on 1430 around here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, April 30 at 1830, still at 1955 UT, KOKB Blackwell has once again crashed, carrier still on but no modulation, while sibling 1020, KOKB Perry is funxioning normally with stupid sports talk. 1580 still/again dead air at 1205 UT check May 1, but back on at 1728, both modulating musical break at the moment. It`s really incredible that this station group, Triple [sic] Play Sports Radio, lets it happen again and again for hours or days at a time, no one paying attention, and obviously no one at the 1580 plant to do anything about it. O, for the good old days of KLTR 1580, a genuine local station in Blackwell (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, May 21 around 0130 UT, KKOB Albuquerque NM is audible with fair and steady signal. This is just when the annular eclipse is about to occur there, but a local talk show says nothing about it! Sounds live but may not be; hostess breaks for ID and ads. I was listening on the portable as I went out into a field for our best view of the setting sun. Unfortunately there were too many clouds in the way, but I felt a certain qinship to the `Querquians nevertheless. I expect this reception was normal, nothing to do with the eclipse, with K`KOB still on day power and tower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, KKOB NM, was in with a steady signal at eclipse-time, UT May 21, so I check it again 24 hours later, UT May 22 at 0125-0130+ in exactly the same situation, out in the field with the portable DX- 398. This time the sky is cloudless and the moonless setting sun is unimpeded, but NO signal from KKOB. There could be other variables, but now I`m thinking maybe the partial eclipse did have something to do with its audibility yesterday, even here far off the track. KKOB official UT sunrise/sunset times: May 1200-0200, June 1145-0215, July 1200-0215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, UT May 23 at 0125, 48 hours after the eclipse, KKOB Albuquerque is again inaudible under the same circumstances when it was audible on May 21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, May 3 at 1157 UT, sorrowful breakup song suitable for teeny-boppers, from what else, Radio Disney, dominating frequency for a while, then Home Depot ad (whose customers are presumably adult), 1158 fading and losing out to a Fox Sports outlet, but enough signal at 1200 to hear a local ID for KPHN Kansas City [MO], meshing with the NE/SW DF on it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, May 11 at 1200 UT, KFXR Dallas ID, NBC News Radio, but lasted only two minutes with an optional cutaway at one minute! This is the extremely direxional multi-stick array, the original KLIF, and dominating the frequency for a bit here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1220, May 1 at 1222 UT, ID for ``Hometown Radio, AM 1220, KOMC, 24 hours a day``. Hmmm, is that a new call for Oklahoma, Midwest City? Makes sense, but no, it`s really Branson MO and soon faded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1450, May 1 at 1210 UT, end of news from the Missouri Network, then to local news and ads, but never could copy any clue before it faded from dominance over hundreds of other 1450s; well, maybe dozens audible here. I was hoping the affiliate list at http://www.missourinet.com/radio-stations/ updated 2/17/12, would have only one on 1450, but there are two: KIRX in Kirxville, and KOKO in Warrensburg --- Likely the latter which is closer (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST) ** U S A. 1510-, May 24 at 1146 UT, dominant signal still skywave with local ad for Olathe Kia, and still off-frequency to low side producing audible het (with Denver?), i.e. KCTE, Independence MO, 10 kW daytimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1650, May 3 at 1146 UT, ``16-50 The Fan`` with sports talk, i.e. KCNZ Cedar Falls IA. Already too late to get XEARZ, with my local sunrise now 1136 UT, one minute earlier every morning (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1140, April 28 at 0553 UT, gospel huxter in Spanish, good signal from N/S, surely XEMR 50/50 kW, Monterrey NL? Others have reported this as ``MR Deportes`` as listed in WRTH, IRCA and Cantú i.e. a sports format, but whenever I hear it, there`s religion. Maybe both, like KFXY 1640 Enid? The station website via http://www.gruporadioalegria.com/ mentions nothing but sports, and no program schedule. Could I really be getting a US station? I always thought it was XEMR. Prime suspect in the NRC AM Log is KHFX, Cleburne TX near The Metroplex, but with a Houston address, 24 hour Spanish religion as ``Radio Ato``, 5000/710 watts. Pattern book shows its main lobe is to the NW, which would audiblize it here, while XEMR`s is a circle tangent to Monterrey, ``everything`` going to its SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1340, May 1 at 1218 UT, Bill Bennett, `Morning in America`, with BB himself delivering commercial for C. Crane radios. This was looping E/W, so doubt it was OKC, but what? Show website makes you search by `your` zip code for affiliates. None in 741 = Tulsa, but 737 Enid leads to 731 = OKC, KEBC. Trouble is, there is no such station any more, having converted to KGHM, ``The Game`` months ago. BB sure is out of touch with his own network, just as he is with political reality in the XXI century (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1420, May 24 at 1144 UT, I am tuning the hi end of MW band while there is still some skywave (today`s Enid sunrise was 1118, and it will be earliest in a biweek at 1113), and hear an ID as ``Classic Country KCKM (or KCKN?)``. KCKM is 1330 in Monahans TX, and related KCKN is 1020 in Roswell NM. NRC-AM log says 1330 sometimes relays 1020, as ``Kickin` Country``, but that slogan is not on the 1020 entry. But 1420? Nothing remotely similar among the callsigns listed there, anywhere. DF seemed WSW/ENE, but the DX-398 has misled me before. In the NRC AM Log 2011-2012, there is an intriguing 1420 entry in NM: a CP for Rowe, 2.5/0.103 kW, both non-direxional. Rowe? Never heard of it. Can`t be near Roswell, which has a local 1430. Rand McNally atlas skips it in the index. Info from FCC AM Query shows coördinates, and I quickly find Rowe on the atlas map, just across I-25 from Pecos NM --- between Las Vegas and Santa Fe, so I have driven by it multiple times. Could this CP now be on, at least testing, somehow with programming from KCKN or KCKM? CP holder is Sangre de Cristo Broadcasting (named for a mountain range which can look blood-red at sunset, hardly the only one, not literally for the blood of Christ), which is licensee of 540 KNMX Las Vegas, and FCC AM Query shows it also has applications for 1290 and 1370 in `Vegas. Inquired of Jerry Kiefer at KCKN and he replied immediately: ``Hi Glenn, Strange one, I will pass this along to Bob Souza down in Monahans. Like Sgt. Schultz, "We know nothing about nothing". Can't believe a harmonic would do this; like you say, maybe somebody is playing games. At that time we have a decent signal into that area and we are playing music from Roswell. If I hear of anything unusual I'll let you know. We are "classic country" and Monahans IDs as "kickin country". Though mixing of frequencies in Roswell proper (1020 & 1230), we do have an image around 1410 but doesn't make it out of town. Know nothing about 1420, I doubt if they will have much signal south of I-40. 540 is a case, even though they are DA to the NW with a null to protect 550 in Midland, you can hear a fringe signal on a car radio in Roswell. Lot to be said about good conductivity: 710 out of Amarillo has a whole lot better signal in Roswell than 770 out of ABQ. On a side note, we're started building out 1480 in Dallas; by July I expect you'll have some critical hours RF up your way. She should have close to 300 kW ERP to the NNW. No target date yet but hopefully early July. We caught one stealing new rolls of cooper by way of fingerprints and the cops nabbed him. 21 year old from the area. With the activity in the area, not much action now. Thanks, Jerry`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com