OKLAHOMA
Spooky MW tests from Oklahoma have started!
Noted something this morning (16.6.08) you might want to check out. Sometime between 0800-0900 CDT [1300-1400 UT], I noticed a loud 2000 Hz wide test tone on 540 kHz. The S-meter on my G313e indicated S9+10db. It suddenly stopped allowing me to again hear the usual KWMT (S7) daytime tug of war with KDFT. Then at 10:03 a.m. CDT, it resumed at S9+20dB. At 10:25 CDT the test tone stopped and the carrier signal dropped to S9+10dB.
My guess is it must be located within a 60-mile [radius] from my location. A check of all the stations in the area find them operating at full power on their assigned frequencies. I find no indication of a new station at the FCC website. I hope it's an anomaly for the world doesn't need another station on 540 kHz, and especially NOT in Oklahoma!
If you tune to 540 kHz now (1055 CDT), you find a carrier signal blocking KWMT from being received. At this moment it's the strongest signal being received between 530 and 680 kHz.
Best wishes, Richard Allen, S of Billings OK, DXLD
Thanks for a great tip. This is very likely the long-awaited testing of a hush-hush project by the OSU Multispectral Laboratories in Ponca City, from Chilocco (N of there at the KS border). There is a lot about in some issues of DXLD last year. Other possible frequencies: 830, 1680, 92.3, 99.1, 107.5. Shortwave and TV too. Call: WE2XFZ.
See under OKLAHOMA:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7082.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7084.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7085.txt
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7134.txt
Yes, I am getting the 540 carrier at 1611 UT check. Not `local` strength here, but certainly nothing ordinary. Loops 45/225 degrees or slightly less, which checks with Chilocco. Soon resumed continuous tone test, by 1635 until cut off abruptly just before 1707, without any ID on the hour or any announcements at all.
Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD
I was aware of OSU's transmitter at Chilocco (just west of US 177, across the river from Arkansas City) but didn't put it and the test signals together in my mind until now. It's a healthy S9+20 here at the moment. Its test signal is only 2 kHz wide so it isn't interfering with KFRM, yet. I hope it goes away as suddenly as it came.
I'll have to get my old Space Magnet in action and see what direction it is coming from. The G313e is connected to 21-meter wire running NE-SW which seems to favor stations to the northeast like KWMT-540 or WTDY-1670. I'm in the process of constructing an EWE or two for medium wave.
Oh well, I can forget it for the moment. They ceased transmission at 12:06 CDT (lunch break?) and KWMT is back over KDFT. From the amount of lightning static, it sounds like it might be a stormy afternoon.
Richard Allen
Hi Kirk, Tnx to a tip from Richard Allen, the hush-hush OSU test from Chilocco I mentioned to you some time ago seems to be on the air now, 11:30 am CDT, carrier on 540, sometimes with tones. You might want to check this out, and other possible frequencies, 830, 1680, 92.3, 99.1, 107.5, not to mention some TV and SW as in several items about this last year in DXLD.
73, Glenn to Kirk Allen
Hi Glenn, You happened to catch me with a little time to spare, so I checked out all the AM/FM frequencies you mentioned. (I'll read all the links you sent asap). At 1710 UT, I heard a very clear 1 kHz tone (or near that) on 540. Nothing on any of the other frequencies. I heard the "station" on an Eton E-100. Very loud clear signal here.
Kirk Allen, Ponca City, June 16.
Hi Kirk, Both Richard and I heard the tone test on 540 cut off at 1707 UT. If you were still hearing a tone after that, perhaps they cut back to much lower power. Still not back on as of 2015 UT. Nor anything on the other frequencies. But they could be back, tomorrow morning if not sooner. Please let me know if you hear anything further from this.
Glenn to Kirk, via DXLD
Glenn: With the use of the G313e receiver's spectrum analyzer, I found the unidentified station sending a 2 kHz wide test tone on 830 kHz at 1320 CDT [1820 UT] with S9+30db signal strength. It was the strongest signal in the entire AM band at that time. The transmitter powered down just before 1330 CDT due most likely to a thunderstorm moving through the Arkansas City area at the time. I did some quick direction finding my old YB400 and it appears to be on a NE-SW bearing. So you're probably correct about it being at Chilocco.
Richard Allen
Richard, I checked all 3 frequencies on and off, but did not catch 830. By 2 kHz wide, do you mean a 1 kHz tone, as to its pitch? I think that`s what it was on 540, but didn`t try to measure it. Should be closer to NNE from your angle
Glenn to Richard
The tone extended to 1000 Hz (or 1 kHz) to either side of the frequency. It was possible to adjust the IF bandwidth under 2 kHz and not hear the tone. I'm not an expert on these things, just happy to figure out there isn't a new b/c station on 540 kHz.
The distance between here and the Chilocco transmitting aerial mounted on the old Indian school water tower is 45 miles with a bearing of 28°. That corresponds somewhat to my quick direction check with the YB400.
Richard Allen, OK
Will check that frequency as often as I'm able. I just now checked it and heard nada at 0110 UT June 17.
Kirk Allen, OK
Nothing further heard here either, tho I have not been able to check them all very often.
People at a distance may want to look for OCs or TTs on these frequencies at night. As in last year`s info, the same organization is also licensed to test experimentally from Flying H, SW of Roswell NM, different frequencies.
Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD yg (17(6-2008)
OKLAHOMA
While bandscanning for IBOCh, Sept 16 at 0558, I noticed on 1020 kHz ``CBS Radio Networks, channel 45`` loop announcement with tones. Went right thru 0600 with no local ID break, and still going at 0611. From strength and direxion, this was obviously my semi-local KOKP Perry OK, an all-too-common example of AM stations running with no human oversight whatsoever. Automation mistuned to wrong satellite channel. Chances are good, especially late at night, that if you tune thru the entire MW band, you will hear the same loop running somewhere.
Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD 7-114 (20/9-2007)
OKLAHOMA
Just a note for DX'ers... In the Oklahoma City AM scene, WKY 930 which is owned by Clear Channel is on the block (again.) It is the oldest station in the state and west of the Mississippi with a W call. Several years ago when CC acquired it, it went from English news-talker into a Spanish language music format (which has basement numbers.) Anyway, it is being sold so if you want to QSL it as a Spanish station, better get it fast. Rumor here has it that it will go back to English with an as yet [un]known format. Of course, the actual buyer is still up in the air as well.
By the way, I work for KOKC 1520AM (formerly KOMA) 50k in OKC. Tune us in and report on our signal --- we appreciate DX reports and we gladly QSL (our studios by the way, are actually located right next to the old WKY transmitter building and towers.)
Good DX John Carson, OK, kd5srw, April 24, O[ntario]DXA yg via DXLD 7-049 (25/4-2007)
OKLAHOMA
A display ad in El Latino American, the OKC freebie weeklie, for Iglesia Cristiana Rey de Gloria caught my eye, since it mentions broadcasts on ``KTLV 890 AM``! KTLV is supposed to be the call of the doomed 1220 station licensed to MWC, whilst 890 is KTLR. AM Query at the Media Bureau site of the FCC confirms 1220 is still KTLV and 890 KTLR. Could it be the two are under the same roof and the KTLV calls are going to move to 890, despite their obvious correlation with the 1220 frequency? Were the KTLR calls chosen to be companions to KTLV?
Glenn Hauser, OK, DX Listening Digest 6-090 (22/6-2006)
OKLAHOMA
1340, KTFX now La Grande, My local KTFX-1340 recently changed hands and has switched from gospel "Love 1340" to Spanish programming. First noted yesterday with Mexican-style music. Heard a "La Grande KTFX (kah-tay-eh-feh-ek-kees)" ID this evening at 1800 CST on the drive home.
Bruce Winkelman, AA5CO, Tulsa, OK, Nov 8, ABDX via DX Listening Digest 5-195 (11/11-2005)
OKLAHOMA
The below e-mail QSL was received from KFNY on February 9, 2005 after a hint from Bjarne Melde:
"Congratulations on your reception of KFNY. This email confirms that you did copy KFNY (AM), 1640 kHz, licensed to Enid, OK USA. Thanks again for your efforts! Best Regards, Bill."
Jan-Erik Österholm, May 4, dxing.info via DX Listening Digest 5-074 (5/5-2005)
OKLAHOMA
Re 5-058, KFXY-1640: I note facilities are shown as 10000/1000 ND B. Does ND stand for non directional? I understood that the signal was directional and away from Europe. Has this changed?
Barry Davies, UK, MWC via DX Listening Digest
I doubt very much it has changed; probably error in listing. Could be that KFXY is licensed as ND, but voluntarily runs direxional tho not required to?
(gh, Enid, DX Listening Digest 5-060 (6/4-2005)
OKLAHOMA
Reports that KFNY-1640 Enid would flip to Fox Sports on April 1 were slightly exaggerated. I checked it briefly on that date, but hit a commercial block and could not stand to listen long enough to confirm (O, how spoilt I am by SW and public radio). Then UT Sunday April 3 at 0545 I notice it is still All Comedy Radio!
100000watts.com explains that the flip will not actually happen until Monday April 4, which makes a bit more business sense, start-the-week and all that, but the call change to KFXY already happened March 30; at 0549 they plugged KFXY Coming Monday
Glenn Hauser, DX Listening Digest
KFXY
1640 kHZ Format: Sports
Network: Fox Sports Radio
Shows: Jim Rome
Slogan: Fox Sports 1640
Licensed: Enid, OK
Owner: Chisholm Trail Broadcasting Co.
Co-owned: KCRC, KNID, KQOB, KXLS
Began Operation: 2003
Facilities: 10000w/1000w ND B
Transmitter: 36 25' 14" N 97 52' 28" W
History:
Format Change
Sports from Talk on 4/4/2005
Talk from N/A on 12/23/2003
N/A from cp-new on 11/1/2003
Slogan Change
Fox Sports 1640 from All Comedy Radio on 4/4/2005
Station Change
KFXYAM from KFNYAM on 3/30/2005
100000watts.com via Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX Listening Digest 5-058 (3/4-2005)
OKLAHOMA
Top 40 hits with a liberal sprinkling of Disney magic, that's Radio Disney, 24 hours a day on AM 1380. News on 6 reporter Rick Wells says its programming aimed directly at families and their kids.
Radio Disney has been on the air in Tulsa just over six months and general manager Stevie Fernández says they`re beginning to have some success. "About 70 percent of our programming is geared to kids 6-14." Kids of course and their parents, particularly their moms. "The average time a mom will spend in the car with the kids is 66 minutes. They'll take em to school, to soccer practice, to baseball practice to a friend's house.``
There are Radio Disney billboards all over town. The potential audience is huge. "54 percent of the households in Tulsa have children 14 and under." They bring in some of the stars the young audience likes and gives the kids access to them. They not only program for a younger audience they involve them, like the Radio Disney party patrol. It involves kids and their parents in the fun.
Their kid casters interview local news makers like the mayor and our own Terry Hood. We learned in school she was mostly an "A" student". "When I was in high school I got a B in typing and in college I got a B in bowling." None of us knew that. Radio Disney is again on the AM dial at 1380.
Source: The News on 6 http://www.KOTV.com via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DX Listening Digest 5-037 (27/2-2005)
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