Here’s a DX opportunity for you guys: KDRI AM 830 Tucson, Arizona appears to be running on it’s daytime power of 50,000 watts non-directional instead of their 1,000 watts directional pattern the last few nights. They air a soft oldies format with songs mainly from the 1960’s and 1970’s. Tonight, I am driving back to Phoenix from Los Angeles and KDRI has been battling it out with KLAA (Angels Radio) from time to time, starting as far west as Riverside / Moreno Valley to now Indio, California where I stopped. If anyone has wanted to log this station, tonight might be a good night for it!
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KDRI AM 830 Tucson Running on Daytime Power?
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Sorry I missed the chance. I'll check again tonight.
So is that what I heard earlier this afternoon under KLAA which was airing the Yankees / Twins ALDS game. I recognized "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder, but last I knew the Tucson 830 was a religious / contemporary Christian station as KFLT. (I've been out of the loop for a couple years or so, not listening / DXing much due to other priorities getting in the way.)
Most likely! 830 AM Tucson has not been religious since August when it flipped. It’s a soft oldies format now and Stevie Wonder fits the bill. Where did you hear KDRI under KLAA? In California?
I wonder if their running higher power at night so more people can sample their format? It seems more and more stations are ignoring their power restrictions.
Ah that makes sense. Yeah, it was in Cali, on the east side of La Mesa, east of San Diego, I think around 5:30pm or thereabouts.
Oh and since both stations are 50kW ND daytime and only a few hundred miles apart or so, I wonder if there might be a zone, maybe in eastern CA or western AZ like near Desert Center or Blythe or Quartzsite, where you would have both stations audible, battling it out on groundwave in the middle of the day...
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When I heard it near Riverside and then Indio a couple nights ago, it was 11:00 PM, way after local sunset. Interesting to see that on their website it says, “Automobile listeners can hear the AM signal from the Mexican border to Phoenix and the new management is enhancing the AM broadcast to improve the sound.“ By “enhancing” the AM broadcast, does that mean not powering down at night? ?
I checked yesterday after sunset and just had noise on 830. The Angels' station never makes it here at night, and the urban noise around here is awful.
Funny David, ive had KLAA here in seoutheast Wyoming several times.. including once totally wiping the floro with WCCO
Yeah, I have been listening tonight too in Phoenix and I have not heard a peep from KDRI so I think whatever shenanigans they were up to this past week are over. I heard a weak KLAA tonight with, surprisingly, WCCO from Minneapolis rising to the top with Minnesota Twins playoff baseball post-game coverage and talk about the Minnesota Vikings game tomorrow. Never picked up WCCO in Phoenix before, but they were coming in pretty well tonight!
I am probably too close for skywave, an definitely too far for groundwave at night. Plus there is a 5000 foot to 10,000 foot mountain range on the foothills of which I am located, blocking skywave front the west in any case.
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