• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

CKWX on top of 1130.

cyberdad

cyberdad

It's been a few years, but there it was a couple of hours before sunrise this morning.

'Newsradio 1130" and "Richmond Automall". Signal was fair and steady for about five minutes. Unfortunately it disappeared the mud just as TOH apprached. Then resurfaced for a couple of minutes afterward. "Richmond Automall" is what confirmed CKWX for me. It's a big complex of at least a half dozen dealers. I've driven by the place multiple times. Radio used was "the little guy"....Sony SRF-37 Walkman.
 
cyberdad said:
It's been a few years, but there it was a couple of hours before sunrise this morning.

'Newsradio 1130" and "Richmond Automall". Signal was fair and steady for about five minutes. Unfortunately it disappeared the mud just as TOH apprached. Then resurfaced for a couple of minutes afterward. "Richmond Automall" is what confirmed CKWX for me. It's a big complex of at least a half dozen dealers. I've driven by the place multiple times. Radio used was "the little guy"....Sony SRF-37 Walkman.
Click to expand...

Are you sure its Newsradio 1130 and not News 1130?
 
News 1130, CKWX-AM Vancouver, is one of the most consistent Canadian DX catches here in Phoenix, Arizona with no co-channel interference. The other 1130 in Arizona is in Prescott and is strictly a daytimer. Also, it is easy to null away the other 1130 that comes in, KWKH, all the way from Shreveport, Louisiana. Sometimes there is a Spanish language station that dominates and that station I presume is from Mexico because it can not be nulled away when trying to pick up CKWX.

The only other Canadian station I have been able to pick-up here in Phoenix is CBW from Winnipeg. That station blasts like gangbusters throughout the northern United States and can sometimes dominate 990 here in Phoenix.

On a side note, CBW probably has one of the best daytime groundwaves of any AM radio station in North America thanks to the amazing ground conductivity up there in North Dakota and Manitoba.
 
itsRoly4266 said:
Are you sure its Newsradio 1130 and not News 1130?
Click to expand...

You're right...."News 1130". I guess I'm used to our local "Newsradio WBBM" here in the Chicago area. "Richmond Automall" is another matter. I'm familar with it from being in the same part of the Vancouver area where I used to stay and call on customers on my business trips to the region.

It may be worth noting that this experience was quite a bit different from the last couple of times I snagged CKWX here. The signal on each occasion was stronger and stayed in longer than the few minutes it was audible here this time, Actually, the very most recent time I heard it was on the car radio just after local sunrise. Strong enough to trip the scan button just before (semi-local) WISN powered up.
 
asugeorge1 said:
....The only other Canadian station I have been able to pick-up here in Phoenix is CBW from Winnipeg. That station blasts like gangbusters throughout the northern United States and can sometimes dominate 990 here in Phoenix.

On a side note, CBW probably has one of the best daytime groundwaves of any AM radio station in North America thanks to the amazing ground conducti'svity up there in North Dakota and Manitoba.
Click to expand...

You're right, asugeorge1, CBW is a monster. It's 700 miles away from me and it still splatters nightly onto WMVP (1000), which is about 30 miles away. CBW's day signal covers at least half of Minnesota and almost all of North Dakota. And it's only the second-biggest Winnipeg signal. CJOB has an even bigger daytime footpring. Despite being directional!

The only "fly in the ointment" for the big Winnipeg signals is that about 100 miles east of Winnipeg, the prairie gives way to the Canadian Shield. A vast area of rocky, boulder-strewn land with very poor ground conductivity. Result being that the Winnipeg groundwave signals don't to nearly as well to the east as they do in other directions.
 
Last edited:
You know, I've had all three of the 1130s you've mentioned, asugeorge1. KQNA was a one-time log during 2015 aurora, KWKH has been heard 1 or 2 times only.
 
crainbebo said:
KWKH has been heard 1 or 2 times only.
Click to expand...

KWKH has gone back to being relatively tough duty around here. During the year or so (or whatever it was), when they were on 10kw non-directional STA they became something of a regular. Generally even getting the better of WBBR, which is sort of the usual top dog on 1130 here....even if basically by default. Semi-local WISN, which I mentioned previously, is 10kw at night from a site 35 miles northeast of me. But that puts me in WISN's very severe null towards Shreveport, so they're even more rare for me at night than KWKH!
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom