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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/page42
All times and dates strictly UT. 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; ICR-75 with E-W longwire; FRG-7 with NW-SE shortwire
** MEXICO. 610 // 650, Dec 29 at 1314, the Sinaloa twins with their morning
agriculture show, mentioning Guasave meeting: XEGS 610 Guasave, XETNT 650 Los
Mochis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 660, Dec 29 at 1318, adstring by live announcer,
mentioning Mazatlán and Delicias, for a farmacia i.a., from WSW, presumably
XEACB in Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua (no 660 in Sinaloa); along with another SS
further counterclockwise, could be Durango or Aguascalientes. By 1330 UT, ``The
Answer`` KSKY The Metroplex captures 660, exactly its official Dec & Jan
sunrise time for jump from 700 to 20,000 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Dec 29 at 1322, rustic music by fiddle and guitar past 1330,
and at 1331 full ID in Spanish for XEETCH, Etchojoa, Sonora, and then same in
indigenous language, both mentioning sponsoring federal agency CNDPI - Comisión
Nacional para el Desarrollo de Pueblos Indígenas; no QRM at first, but 1334
something in English, probably WLW resurging almost at our sunrise; heard more
than once, including 1335, interjexion between tunes, ``¡Qué me toque un
baile!`` -- play me a dance. I love listening to this native music; hard to
pull away to keep bandscanning (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1806, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Dec 27 at 0121, romantic music, break and ``continuamos con el
fonógrafo de 720 AM`` atop WGN most of the time. Might have been KSAH TX, but
definitely Mexican at 0142, with PSAs from INE - Instituto Nacional Electoral,
SCT - Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transporte, CNDH - Comisión Nacional de
Derechos Humanos; another ``continuamos`` non-ID as above and back to music.
Presumed the usual irritant {yea, nemesis} to WGN, making a slow SAH with it,
XEDE, Saltillo, Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, Dec 25 at 0207 UT, on Nissan caradio, Spanish station is
dominant with several social media contacts mentioning Universo, and then ABC,
so it`s 70/10 kW XEABC in Los Reyes de la Paz, EdoMex, i.e. effectively the DF
while it still exist. I couldn`t hear WJR now if I wanted to (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 790, Dec 25 at 0209 on caradio as I tune by, without really trying,
hear time pip and RR, from Radio Reloj, which per WRTH 2016 is 25 kW from Pinar
del Rio, altho there`s another at the far other end of the island, 10 kW in
Holguín (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BONAIRE [and non]. Even when KQCV OKC is actively gospel-huxtering English
in the evenings, gospel-huxtering in Spanish can be heard along with it, no
doubt the super-powering TWR 800 BONAIRE.
XEROK 800 is still negligible but supposedly on the air at very low power. The
new 2015 IRCA Mexican Log still has it as 50/50 kW, no mention of any
degradation; likewise the new 2016 WRTH: despite numerous non-logs from myself
and others the last several months (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 830, Dec 24 at 0602 UT, last few strains of choral Mexican NA
among the mix as I am nulling signal already reduced from WCCO with CBS News
--- so Spanish here doesn`t have to be WFNO Norco LA. Ten XEs are listed (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 870, Dec 29 at 1328, YL Spanish talk about fiestas, then she
switches to Tarahumara, as it`s obviously XETAR, Guachochi, Chihuahua (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 890.7, Dec 27 at 0123, quite a het here not against WLS, but
against Cuba`s R. Progreso on 890.0. Can`t pull any audio from it, but is best
on E-W rather than N-S antenna. Surely Algeria would not be that far off 891
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 970, Dec 29 at 1339, ballads in Spanish pulled past local 960 KGWA,
1342 DJ maybe mentions Jota, 1347 fades for next announcement including phone
numbers. Probably XEJ in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, now known as Pancho as
listed in 2015 IRCA Log, while WRTH 2016 still has it as La J Mexicana (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I recently discovered that XEJ did not vacate the AM dial after all (they
merely added an FM and cut the power on AM 970 to 1 kW (Tim Hall, CA, ABDX via
DXLD)
** MEXICO. 1030, Dec 28 at 0635 and at many other times, dominant signal is
Spanish talk, which no doubt is XEYC, R. Fórmula, in Juárez, Chihuahua, 1/1 kW,
rather than 50/5 kW XEQR, R. Centro in the DF, almost twice the distance whence
signals are remarkably rare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINNG DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1030, Dec 29 at 1346, R. Fórmula, Grupo Fórmula ID in news/talk, so
XEYC, Ciudad Juárez, mostly on network feed out of XERFR DF 970 but occupied
here and there by XEJ, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1060+, Dec 26 at 0604, choral NA ending, as usual making LAH on the
hi side of 1060.0 stations, full ID for XERDO, ``La Raza`` also mentioning 93.7
FM, i.e. Reynosa. This is a new station first appearing in the WRTH 2016
edition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 1520 & 1540, CRI relay no longer on KYND & KGBC TX: see
Domestic Report
** CUBA. 1620, Dec 28 at 0317, as I tune in, ``Parada de Éxitos, Rebelde``, and
// 5025, so not relaying the FM network instead this time. WRTH 2016 has three
Rebeldes on 1620, two of which are in Ciudad de la Habana province, 5 kW in
Guanabacoa, and unknown power in El Sapo, surely one of those rather than the
third, 1 kW in far-off Guantánamo. One other Cuban 1620 is R. Bayamo, Granma
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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