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Shocking new log tonight. 3/3/19

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crainbebo

Apparently the conditions are red-hot tonight! Unexpected Illinois log tonight, low-power!

1570 - WFRL IL, Freeport; partial weather forecast mentioned '14 degrees' and 'overcast' at 2312 PT, faded out before ID, song played afterwards was Gretchen Wilson's 'Redneck Woman.' Came across WFRL's stream and it matched!! Then heard a Collin Raye song and 'Yellow Roses' by Dolly Parton // stream, in and out with sermon (KBCV MO?, relog if so) Unexpected new log. NEW #782, 500W at 1,547 miles!! Do not have much audio pulled off as it was weak in the noise, but I can definitely pick out country music that was matching the internet stream. IL #6.
 
Before going to bed, 1700 KBGG IA, 1590 KVGB KS and 1670 WOZN WI were also in with varying strength. The same mix of KBCV and WFRL continued through to midnight PT. At times, a third English station had mixed, but it made brief appearances before falling down below listenable strength. Don't know if that was WSCO or someone else that I need, but wish I would have gotten an ID on the 3rd stn.
XERF was either off for maintenance or on really low power as I really didn't hear any Spanish music...
 
Nicely done!

WFRL is about 55 miles west of my home location, but I never hear it.

Back in the 1960s, however, I used to hear them all the time. IIRC, they were a 1kw non-directional daytimer, and used to mix with the old WBEE in Harvey, IL (south suburb of Chicago). For a 1kw daytimer on the high end of the dial, WFRL used to get out really well. At 5kw, they do even better in most directions...but not mine.

As for XERF, they were pretty solid during our stay at the beach in Pensacola. Even more so last Thursday night at our one-night stop on the other side of Lake Ponchartrain north of New Orleans. ....Yet another station that I used to hear all the time at home, but now almost never do.
 
crainbebo said:
Before going to bed, 1700 KBGG IA, 1590 KVGB KS and 1670 WOZN WI were also in with varying strength. The same mix of KBCV and WFRL continued through to midnight PT. At times, a third English station had mixed, but it made brief appearances before falling down below listenable strength. Don't know if that was WSCO or someone else that I need, but wish I would have gotten an ID on the 3rd stn.
XERF was either off for maintenance or on really low power as I really didn't hear any Spanish music...
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Nice pipeline to the midwest!
 
As we can tell with this fluke log, XERF even at 1,600 miles, puts a big dent on that channel. They run 100KW. There was a time some 15 years ago where XERF was only running about 18,000 watts. If only they went FM for good, 1570 would be a dream channel, full of flea power and low power towards the east (once KCVR is nulled).
 
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