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All times and dates strictly UT [5 hours ahead of `ELT` during EST; when
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-05 UT period
to the previous date by ELT].
Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S
inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; IC-R75
with E-W longwire; FRG-7 with NW-SE shortwire
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/page41
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. Hi Glenn, I couldn't help but note with interest your comments in
DXLD 15-46 regarding KOKC and KQCV. In the 1970s, I served as CE for both
stations, when the call signs were KOMA and KLEC. I am now in East Central
Minnesota, and I've been hearing KOKC again regularly about an hour before
local sunset. It's good to hear them again. I haven't heard them very often
since the tornado damage. I am not sure about KOLM's directional antenna
habits, since the Night pattern fires directly at me from about 140 miles away.
Even with that impairment, KOKC was generally solid here at night before the
loss of their tower system.
As for KQCV, I haven't heard them up here. However, when I worked there, the
station was a 250 Watt Daytimer. After signoff, XEROK would usually come
roaring in. It could usually be heard on the station's Air Monitor, in the
background, an hour or so before signoff and also for a time after signon.
There was also Pre Sunrise Authority of 38 Watts, and during that time XEROK
was quite audible along with KLEC at the studio on Broadway. The transmitter
was at Eastern and Reno. The interesting thing is that TWR in Bonaire would
knock out XEROK very solidly for several hours each night. I don't remember the
usual time pattern, but it would completely take 800, and then fade back out
after a few hours. Occasionally, all 3 stations could be heard in KLEC's Air
Monitor.
Thanks for the memory jogger. I've never seen sequential references to these
two stations anywhere before. Whenever I drove between the two, I used to
imagine that my car was the tuning indicator on a radio dial, moving between
800 and 1520 and back again. 73, (Mike Gorniak, Braham, MN, Nov 23, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Nov 23 at 0610 UT, KGYN Guymon again is nothing but a big
hum. Standard remarx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Sat Nov 21 at 1945 UT, OMG, it`s Rush Limbaugh on WBBZ Ponca
City, ranting against ``Barack Hussein O.`` The oldies/classic rock format is
gone, and now it`s NewsTalk 1230, i.e. far-right cretins occupying most of the
airtime.
http://www.poncapost.com/wbbz-schedule
shows Beck/Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin/Savage on weekdays, and nothing on weekends
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1330 & 1450, Nov 21 at 1946 UT, second-order spurs from KCRC 1390
Enid not exactly 60 kHz away as they are making hets with 1330 KNSS Wichita,
and the weak Okies on 1450. Much stronger first-order spurs, complete with KCRC
audio, are as usual on 1360 and 1420, not exactly 30 kHz away as when further
away than ~1 mile from transmitter site, via caradio at Hiram Champlin`s kite
field, they too make hets against 1420 and 1360 victims in OK and KS (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1390, Nov 26 at 0713 UT, still 0729 UT, and recheck 0906 UT, open
carrier/dead air with some hum, from KCRC Enid, supposedly nonstop ESPN Radio;
an improvement. A holiday will not be accepted as an excuse (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1560, Nov 21 at 1947 UT, W&W discussing chile recipes, so has KEBC
Del City flipped format from sportstalk to femtalk? No, a few minutes later
they are discussing Okie teams, and soon canned ID for ``The Franchise, 107.7
KRXO`` which I then check for // and it`s running the same ad but not
synchronized. NRC AM Log has KEBC as ``The Franchise 2`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Nov 21 at 1916 UT, dead air except for perpetual hum, from
KZLS Enid/Hennessey/OKC; remodulating at next check 1948 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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** U S A. 560, Nov 23 at 0235 UT, `NewsTalk 560, KLVI, broadcasting from the
Cornerstone Advertising studios`` or something like that. Don`t often hear
Beaumont TX here instead of KWTO Springfield MO, which soon fades back up. KLVI
night pattern is a big tight lobe to the west and some itty bitty others, one
sort of usward to the NNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 620, Nov 26 before and after 0630 UT, Bloomberg News, via KEXB
Plano/Dallas TX. Altho obviously from financial angle, it`s also good for
general world news coverage, partly with a British accent not to be confused
with BBCWS. Nice to be able to get this well, following the demise of that
format on 1660 Kansas City. KEXB is ``Experts in Business``, ex-KMKI Mickey
Disney. Web search leads to unchanged URL from 1160 station formerly with the
now 620 format,
http://www.kvceradio.com/
and program schedule is along right margin or via drop-down for each day.
Bloomberg is/was on sked M-F at 12-4 am & 3-4 pm CT = 06-10 & 21-22 UT (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Nov 20 at 1857 UT on Nissan caradio in western Enid, at quiet
spots between powerlines, traffic signals and plasma TV residences, WGN Chicago
is quite audible with IDs, program promos, altho seems to have faded out after
1900 UT. 670 also has CCI, no doubt WSCR Chicago vs usual daytime groundwave
remnant of KLTT Denver.
So we are into the low-noon midday MW DX season, scarcely a month from Solstice
Dec 22; local mean noon here is always 1832 UT. Strange thing is, this affects
the lo end of MW band more than hi end, as nothing on 1690 from WVON Chicago;
nor anything unusual on other (literally) clear channels in a quick bandscan.
However, on 1700 can be heard a JBA SAH, presumably Des Moines and Dallas
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Nov 21 at 1915 UT on the NRD-545 and ALA-300 E/W, but not on the
NVLW N-S, weak talk, presumably WGN again in the daytime. Soon I drive the car
surrounding the Nissan radio out to the kite field away from powerlines (but
not far enough away), owned by Hiram Champlin of KCRC, and do a MW bandscan,
finding no WGN audible other than a SAH, which is 3-way, tantalizing, so traces
of WGN, KSAH TX, and what else? Quite a stretch, but maybe KDWN NV, 50 kW
rather than smaller FL, GA stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. For the 3rd station on 720, how about XEJCC Ciudad Juárez? 73 (Tim,
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, Hall, ABDX via DXLD)
Tim, Yes, of course. I was glancing at the NRC Pattern Book for ideas, and
XEJCC is missing from it. I have now written it in, altho I have no idea what
its pattern may be. 73, (Glenn to Tim, ibid.)
** U S A. 750, Nov 19 at 1258 UT, ``Univisión América 750 AM, una estación
euforia[?]``, i.e. KAMA El Paso TX. Also in nightmiddle sometimes QRMs WSB when
it should not, but situation not as bad as it was earlier this year (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re the slogan heard on KAMA-750 and KLSQ 870: Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ,
replies Nov 19 on the WTFDA Forum, ``Uforia is the name of Univisión's radio
division`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re the unID Spanish on 930 other than WKY, clockwise from it, Raymie
Humbert, Phœnix AZ, replies Nov 19 on the WTFDA Forum, indicating that KAPR
Douglas AZ is indeed Spanish now:
``And for what it's worth, Alex Lucas's El Genio Lucas show is listed as airing
on KAPR 930 AM and I saw one reference to "Radio Cobre 930 AM". It's 71 watts
night, though. KAPR appears to be co-owned with KDAP-FM by Howard Henderson,
based on FCC applications. Henderson bought KAPR in 2012 from KVOI. Henderson
also appears to be battling leukemia based on the information on the KDAP
Facebook page — and he's not doing well at all, it seems`` (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
KAPR has been Spanish for years, and I heard them running the Alex Lucas show
on my recordings from the Border Inn beverage site in September. In their IDs
they pronounce their city of license as "DOOG-las" 73 (Tim Hall, CA, ABDX via
DXLD)
** U S A. 1050, Nov 24 at 0711 UT, with XEG easily nulled, sounds like `Red Eye
Radio`, and quickly confirmed as such by hearing the same anti-American rant
some 30 seconds later on flagship 820 WBAP. I bet it`s Albuquerque NM. Yes:
only 1050 affiliate listed at
http://www.redeyeradioshow.com/red-eye-radio-affiliates/
is KTBL, 1/1 kW, the substation to 770 50/50 kW KKOB & 230-watt KKOB Santa Fe,
which *also* carry RER overnight, altho the entire schedules are not
duplicated; why? Just can`t come up with anything better? Or to increase RER
ratings in the market? Or rather, not to *decrease* the ratings on KKOB by
self-competition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1300, Nov 21 at 1329 UT, program preview of several gospel huxters in
English coming up on WNQM Nashville TN, mixing with presumed KAKC Tulsa, as
skywave from east hasn`t yet faded out, and 50 kW ND helps (WLW 700 is also
louder and clearer). WNQM is on the growing roster of former WORLD OF RADIO
affiliates. So their evening relay of WMDB 880 La Ranchera in Spanish is over
by now, but does anyone know exactly what the hours for that are? Lotsa luck
finding any specific info on the WNQM or WMDB websites. It`s certainly unneeded
after sunrise, when 880 regains a decent daytime signal.
WNQM programming between 13 and 24 UT might also radiate on 9980 plus and minus
1300, like the #4 SW transmitter does from 7520 at 00-03 weeknites on 6220,
8820. That is, seek it on 8680 and 11280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1420, Nov 25 at 0730 UT, weather mentions Quad Cities, so it`s WOC
Davenport IA, briefly overcoming CCI including local KCRC 1390 spur. 5 kW day
and night patterns go NE and WSW, so good enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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