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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/page33
All times and dates strictly UT. Rx: mostly DX-398 or PL-880 with internal
antenna only; Nissan stock caradio as specified; FRG-7 with E-W longwire as
specified
** CUBA. 950, April 10 at 0118 UT, as I have just logged XERN in Nuevo León
[see MEXICO], I hear the Radio Reloj ``RR`` Morse code sounder, so I know it
has to be Cuba, brought in a little better by rotating the DX-398, but still
all I can copy are the minutely time tone followed by RR for the next two
minutes, and compared to WWV, Reloj is 17 seconds slow!! Good enough for Commie
government work? WRTH 2015 shows two CMBDs on 950, each 10 kW: in Camagüey and
closer Arroyo Arenas, Habana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 950, April 10 at 0117 UT, Mexican-sounding PSA, then ``La Mera
Mera`` slogan (plus ``La Ranchera``? Not sure about that part), but I am sure
an 8:17 timecheck followed and temp in Montemorelos. So it`s XERN, 5/1 kW in
that Nuevo León city per Cantú, which however calls it ``La Jefa``. Even
further off is the IRCA Log listing as La Jefa in Monterrey. Where will WRTH
find it? Monterrey, but called ``Radio Naranjera`` --- at least that matched
the call letters. Could that be what I heard, rhyming with mera? No, ``La Mera
Mera`` was pretty clear and a slogan used by several Mexican stations, odd as
it sounds.
That ex-name obviously had something to do with oranges, but what, exactly? My
Random House LA SS dixionary spells it out: naranjera is orange-seller (if
feminine), but what`s that got to do with radio? Naranjal is orange grove;
naranjada is orangeade; naranja is orange, the fruit; while naranjo besides
meaning orange tree can also informally mean lout or blockhead. I guess the
color naranj@ can be either gender, depending.
Montemorelos is about 52 km SE of Monterrey on Carretera 85, so just about a
suburb easily linked to the metropolis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See also CUBA
Nice catch with XERN. Here's their website. http://radionaranjera.com.mx/ 73
KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ABDX via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 1030, April 14 at 1245 UT as I tune in, ``Radio Fórmula, Ciudad
Juárez`` ID, quickly losing out to gospel huxtering in English, KCTA TX or KCWJ
MO. It`s XEYC, 1/1 kW per IRCA, or 5/0.5 kW per Cantú and WRTH (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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