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New #500 - a milestone!! 10/17/13

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crainbebo

Finally got my 500th log in my DXing career, with a station from a rare state for me!

1270 - KIML Gillette, WY; ID "News Talk 1270 KIML" at 0629 PDT 10/17; weather forecast for Gillette calling for a slight chance of snow showers, followed by two MORE IDs for KIML after the forecast and into a talk program. NEW #500!!!! :) :) Station is 5KW at 834 miles, so a good catch!

Also 1260 KPOW Powell, WY; rare catch with Jim Bohannon last night, and Wyoming Road Report this morning just after the KIML log. 500 logs is no easy feat in Western WA!

-crainbebo
 
Congratulations on your 500th catch....and a nice one at that!

I've never heard KIML here in this part of the midwest....but I once worked at a 5kw station that protected it at night....and vice versa!
 
Thanks for the replies - I love AM DX. I always look forward to winter time, not for 4:30 sunsets (yuck), but for the awesome AM DX. Been getting some great sunrise stuff lately, about 60 to 90 min before sunrise I can get some interesting stuff from ID, MT, WY, UT (like KIML this morning). Would never hear late at night.

500 is no easy feat and I'm glad to make it to that number. 1000 would be even better (and is probably in my dreams unfortunately).

Once again - tnx for the compliments! :)

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Thanks for the replies - I love AM DX. I always look forward to winter time, not for 4:30 sunsets (yuck), but for the awesome AM DX. Been getting some great sunrise stuff lately, about 60 to 90 min before sunrise I can get some interesting stuff from ID, MT, WY, UT (like KIML this morning). Would never hear late at night.

500 is no easy feat and I'm glad to make it to that number. 1000 would be even better (and is probably in my dreams unfortunately).

Once again - tnx for the compliments! :)

-crainbebo
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4:30pm winter sunsets aren't my thing either...which is why we should just leave the clocks alone instead of turning them back in Nov to 'let's have it get dark insanely early' time which can be as early as 3:45pm if you're located in eastern Maine. It does allow for more 'nighttime' (late afternoon/evening) winter MW Dxing though and congratulations on #500. Here's to the next 500 catches! You're on the verge of #250 with FM I see.
 
500 stations is a good feat here in the NW, where we're a bit isolated from the rest of the country thanks to geography (and sometimes topography as well). Congratulations!

I like the 4:30 winter sunsets, and late morning sunrises -- doesn't bother me at all. It gets made up for by summer, anyway. More DX time, not only on MW but also on the lower shortwaves. This season I might try to make a longwave loop, take advantage of the beacons while they're still in existence.
 
Congrats. Just being this far west makes 500 difficult. Nothing but fish to the left of us, and nowdays a mishmash of signals on every frequency all seemingly running George Noory and trampling each other at break time. It's become a bit boring and so difficult to ID stations that I haven't spent as much time at the dials as I did even a year or two ago. However, after visiting some of the other threads about aurora activity and now crainbebo's inspiring #500, maybe I'll turn the Tecsun on this evening and see what happens....
 
Small Market Guy said:
Seriously, though, I had no idea we'd get out that far. Very well done on the DX.
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In the mid 70s, I was at WHBF, 1270, in Rock Island, IL. We were 5kw class III-A under the old designation. At night we had to protect WXYZ, KFJZ, and KIML. One result of all that was that we threw a major lobe to the southeast. Consequently we put a pretty good signal into Atlanta on a fairly regular basis....about 700 miles away.

(More impressive to our engineers was the morning I took a call in the newsroom from a guy watching our TV station in Utah....WHBF-TV, Channel 4.)
 
Now it's WKBF with a less-"pleasing" format - Regional Mexican.

The KIML log was when I was in Marysville, WA (about 4 mi N of Everett, 30 mi N of Seattle). I still hear you guys on occasion especially sunrise/sunset. Even heard KIML one time with 1KW night power over my PEST Twin Falls, KXQZ "Comedy 1270". I started hearing them when they were "News/Talk 1270, KTFI", and then it was Regional Mexican KPDA, now it's Comedy! Another 1270 I hear often is KBZZ Reno NV with CBS Sports.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Now it's WKBF with a less-"pleasing" format - Regional Mexican.
-crainbebo
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It was a cash cow as WHBF...first as full service contemporary "MOR," then later as full service country. The call letters changed when the family that owned it spun it off from the TV station...which was an even bigger cash cow. Both were longtime CBS affiliates. Somewhere in David Eduardo's archives there's a Broadcasting Magazine ad with a photo of me delivering a newscast. Radio newscast. If it was TV I'd be wearing either jeans or cutoffs below my blazer and tie...LOL! (I sometimes had to cover the 5-minute breaks in "CBS Morning News" on TV if the regular guy was out on a breaking local story).
 
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