Thank you for the warm welcome! Yes, I have but they are irregular and quite weak: WFAN, WABC and WCBS
Bob
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AM Frequency of the week: 640
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Thank you for the warm welcome! Yes, I have but they are irregular and quite weak: WFAN, WABC and WCBS
Bob
Daytime in NW S.A. is nothing but heavy splatter from 5 kW local 630 KSLR. At night there are a number of stations to be heard, but there's still splatter because KSLR only reduces to 4.3 kW.
Aiming N-NE, the most common nighttime stations are KWPN and XENQ "NQ Radio" in Tulacingo, with XETAM "La Ke Buena" in Cd. Victoria sometimes underneath. Aiming more eastward, I've heard WCRV briefly on occasion around sunrise and sunset. KWPN dominates when it goes to day power.
To the NW/SE, Radio Progreso can often be heard, and KFI periodically mixes in. Also, I've occasionally heard XEJUA "La Caliente" in Cd. Juarez from that direction. KFI is sometimes fairly steady with a weak to moderate signal around sunrise.
I've heard WGST only once; it was around 3 a.m. three years ago.
Aiming N-NE, the most common nighttime stations are KWPN and XENQ "NQ Radio" in Tulacingo, with XETAM "La Ke Buena" in Cd. Victoria sometimes underneath. Aiming more eastward, I've heard WCRV briefly on occasion around sunrise and sunset. KWPN dominates when it goes to day power.
To the NW/SE, Radio Progreso can often be heard, and KFI periodically mixes in. Also, I've occasionally heard XEJUA "La Caliente" in Cd. Juarez from that direction. KFI is sometimes fairly steady with a weak to moderate signal around sunrise.
I've heard WGST only once; it was around 3 a.m. three years ago.
This is a continuation of my last post....
Its beginning to annoy me, hearing this Latin music underneath KFI. It seems no one knows were its coming from. I mean, this music can be heard under KFI all the way out in Hawaii. Is it coming from Cuba or deep in Mexico?
KFI is the only station I listen too, during the evening hours. This music creeps in enough to be annoying when trying to listen to a program. Don't get me wrong, I love Latin music, but whatever station this is, needs to be located and Identified.
Lastly, I'm impressed such a ghost station can squeeze in under a powerful station such as KFI.
Its beginning to annoy me, hearing this Latin music underneath KFI. It seems no one knows were its coming from. I mean, this music can be heard under KFI all the way out in Hawaii. Is it coming from Cuba or deep in Mexico?
KFI is the only station I listen too, during the evening hours. This music creeps in enough to be annoying when trying to listen to a program. Don't get me wrong, I love Latin music, but whatever station this is, needs to be located and Identified.
Lastly, I'm impressed such a ghost station can squeeze in under a powerful station such as KFI.
I hear XENQ, down in Tulancingo de Bravo. You can verify through their stream: http://nqradio.com/radio.htm
Jim
I live just 31 miles from the 50kW daytime, non-directional stick of WHB in Kansas City on 810 kHz. Well into evening critical hours, I have clearly ID'd WGY in Schenectady, NY underneath WHB before they switch to 5kW, directional [north-south] at night.
Bob
The issue is that there are several stations on 640 that can be heard in parts of the US.
The Cuban is supposedly still 300 kw, explaining its reception in HI and WA. The Mexican stations have adequate power to come in at times in much of the midwest as well as in NM, AZ, etc.
It's about identifying which of the several stations each DXer is hearing.
You know, I never put in my initial post!
640 day - nothing
Nighttime - KFI and sometimes Radio Progreso in Cuba. I heard KGVW Belgrade MT many years ago but did not mark it into the regular logs. I was living north of Seattle at the time and only heard KGVW visiting family in the lower Yakima valley. Now defunct.
When we had spectacular Asian DX a few weeks ago, I could easily hear NPR Morning Edition under KFI around 0715 PT each day, but that's when CNR-1 639 (Beijing) wasn't putting a nasty het on top of it! 95% sure it's KYUK, Bethel AK. Still wanted, ID chances always got away. That's my #1 MOST-WANTED on this channel!
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Everything! Well, anything that would be remotely possible. One spectacular night I heard faint sports under Cuba in the KFI null, early 2015 I think. That would point to KWPN (ex-WWLS) Moore, OK. Still needed and worth a shot.
WOI Ames, IA with NPR. Maybe possible at 4 or 5AM when Des Moines sunrise happens.
XEJUA Ciudad Juarez - isn't this the XE most-oftenly heard on 640 in the southwestern U.S.?
640 day - nothing
Nighttime - KFI and sometimes Radio Progreso in Cuba. I heard KGVW Belgrade MT many years ago but did not mark it into the regular logs. I was living north of Seattle at the time and only heard KGVW visiting family in the lower Yakima valley. Now defunct.
When we had spectacular Asian DX a few weeks ago, I could easily hear NPR Morning Edition under KFI around 0715 PT each day, but that's when CNR-1 639 (Beijing) wasn't putting a nasty het on top of it! 95% sure it's KYUK, Bethel AK. Still wanted, ID chances always got away. That's my #1 MOST-WANTED on this channel!
Others that are most-wanted
Everything! Well, anything that would be remotely possible. One spectacular night I heard faint sports under Cuba in the KFI null, early 2015 I think. That would point to KWPN (ex-WWLS) Moore, OK. Still needed and worth a shot.
WOI Ames, IA with NPR. Maybe possible at 4 or 5AM when Des Moines sunrise happens.
XEJUA Ciudad Juarez - isn't this the XE most-oftenly heard on 640 in the southwestern U.S.?
I have to null KFI and that must null them. I've logged other Juarez stations (XEROK, XEJ), but not XEJUA. I'll give them another try tomorrow night.
Jim
From the west side of Houston, daytime nothing, sunset WCRV from the Memphis area and KWPN from Oklahoma, night usually Radio Progreso mixing with KWPN. There is usually a mix underneath, but I have not yet ID'ed KFI, KTIB, or any of the Mexicans from this location.
Central Baldwin County, Alabama:
Days: Nothing, although I've heard KTIB a few times close to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sunset/Sunrise: KTIB and WCRV have both been hear here before.
Nights: A mix of two Spanish stations. One is Progreso (matches the shortwave relay and what I heard on 650 kHz) but the other appears to be Mexican and I have no idea who it could be, but it was quite commercial-sounding.
Days: Nothing, although I've heard KTIB a few times close to the Gulf of Mexico.
Sunset/Sunrise: KTIB and WCRV have both been hear here before.
Nights: A mix of two Spanish stations. One is Progreso (matches the shortwave relay and what I heard on 650 kHz) but the other appears to be Mexican and I have no idea who it could be, but it was quite commercial-sounding.
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