Help identifying some Spanish language FM DX

[tomservo]

A friend in Florence, Alabama recorded a few short video clips of some reception he experienced on Tuesday of what appears to be DX of Mexican FM stations. Can anyone help point us towards what stations these may be? My Spanish is very rudimentary, and they speak way too fast for me to understand much of anything.

This clip is of a station on 90.1 MHz:

https://youtu.be/55YupsDBm2s

It sounds like there might be a station ID in there (I do recognize "punto uno" at one point).

Another clip is here:

https://youtu.be/F0uo0KOWjcM

This is 90.7 MHz. It sounds like a news break or a news station because I hear "noticias" but beyond that… I'm hoping someone can help. These clips are short and it appears the reception for my friend didn't last very long.

Thanks! I know there are a few lurking Spanish speakers here, maybe we can get this mystery solved. As far as I know it's my friend's first time hearing Spanish FM DX like this.

 

[Sammi Brie]

90.1: Everything in here is a clue! I ID'ed it based on "Centro de Estudios Superiores del Sureste". It's located in Mérida. XHQW. Immediately after is a La Mejor promo and a station ID that's a bit snowy but you can hear "QW", "mil watts", "Mérida, Yucatán" and "MVS Radio, Empresa Certificada ISO 9001:2008".

As for your 90.7, there is no ID material in the promo or the commercial but a news/talk station is a near total certainty. Given the PTA of your 90.1, might I suggest XHQOO Cancún (Imagen Radio)?

NB: I do not have reliable coords for XHQOO-FM, but XHQW is at 20°58'55.6" N, 89°41'07.8" W.

 

[tomservo]

Wow, thanks Raymie. That's quite a catch for my friend! I don't know of any good resources for station listings in Mexico so beyond what Radio-Locator could tell me along the Texas border, I was kind of stumped.

He posted all of the videos on the TN Valley Talks website. Maybe one of the other ones he recorded of 90.7 contains an ID.

 

[Sammi Brie]

Wow, thanks Raymie. That's quite a catch for my friend! I don't know of any good resources for station listings in Mexico so beyond what Radio-Locator could tell me along the Texas border, I was kind of stumped.

He posted all of the videos on the TN Valley Talks website. Maybe one of the other ones he recorded of 90.7 contains an ID.

Well, Mexico is difficult. The best resource I can point you to is the WTFDA FM database which is a powerful way to search for stations and one of the two databases where I contribute technical info on Mexican stations. In the future, there are several people (myself included) on the WTFDA forums who are equipped to analyze Spanish unIDs.

Also, I can confirm the 90.7 is XHQOO. The fifth and final video posted there has most of the Imagen Radio slogan, "Poniendo a México en la misma sintonía" ("Putting Mexico on the Same Wavelength").

The distance to XHQW is 960 miles or so and about 940 to XHQOO.

 

[Huff]

Wow, thanks Raymie. That's quite a catch for my friend! I don't know of any good resources for station listings in Mexico so beyond what Radio-Locator could tell me along the Texas border, I was kind of stumped.

This is a good government website with FM coverage maps (but no xmtr coordinates)

http://www.ine.mx/archivos3/portal/...-id-4616afe38e332210VgnVCM1000000c68000aRCRD/

 

[tomservo]

Thanks everyone for your help! I've bookmarked both the INE and WTFDA FX pages, those are some handy dandy resources.

I gotta admit, I'm a bit jealous of my friend's catches. Ever since I moved to the Gulf Coast (between Mobile & Pensacola) I have not heard any good far-flung DX like that. Certainly nothing from Mexico or Cuba like I was hoping I'd get upon occasion.

 

[Sammi Brie]

This is a good government website with FM coverage maps (but no xmtr coordinates)

http://www.ine.mx/archivos3/portal/...-id-4616afe38e332210VgnVCM1000000c68000aRCRD/

They used to have a little icon where the transmitter was, but the most recent INE maps don't.

The INE runs elections in Mexico and controls the allotment of media time to political parties year-round and during elections; that's why it has coverage maps of all broadcast stations, in order to determine the ads they can and can't run.