Your 1530 Most-Wanted ?

[Steve Green NEPA]

(Sorry for missing the weekly edition here. Domestic issues ....)

My most-wanted would be neighbouring Maryland's WCTR Chestertown. That would be a good start in helping clear the closest-unheard leaves out of the gutters.

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1530 has been real good to me here ever since local WMBT Shenandoah signed off for good some ten years ago. One day on a barefoot GE SR II (during a basement paint job) WVBF from near Cape Cod came in via the daytime-skip. For 45 solid minutes, running a joyous infomercial for Vitamin B.
WRTP from North Carolina was a sunset catch. WCKY is brix at night. In fact, well before sunset one day in my car, WCKY had been cleaning WMBT's clock near the Ashland Mountain, with omni WMBT only about five air miles away.

WMBT was a fine station. But in their absence now I can hear downstate WWSM and its C&W music on 1510 a lot better.

 

[crainbebo]

KQSP Shakopee MN, which occasionally leaves their day power on all night. I think they are still 8.6KW daytime. Current format is mostly USA Radio Network programming...ala religious/conservative talk type stuff.

 

[cyberdad]

Since my high school days, I've been wanting to snag KGBT. Let's just say I'm still waiting.

 

[radioman148]

Since my high school days, I've been wanting to snag KGBT. Let's just say I'm still waiting.

Same here--I've never heard KGBT in the midwest, but I've tried.

 

[gr8oldies]

The easiest answer, and pretty hard catch from the midwest or southeast, is KFBK, which I've easily heard on the western SDRs, but not from any home. Let's add for good measure tiny WLIQ, Quincy, IL, which since I lived in that area briefly in 1985-86, has tower danced in from Louisiana, MO. Usually in East Tennessee it's WCKY, and when it's in all day it's a good time to check out other winter daytime skip. As oldies WSAI, it would be reported from Atlanta pretty early in the afternoon.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Same here--I've never heard KGBT in the midwest, but I've tried.

I've heard it in wyoming somewhat regularly.. but not always very well.

Want it? take it lol

 

[radioman148]

I've heard it in wyoming somewhat regularly.. but not always very well.

Want it? take it lol

Did you get it during critical hours or during the evening? They put a good signal into Mexico at night, but I've never heard in the midwest.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Did you get it during critical hours or during the evening? They put a good signal into Mexico at night, but I've never heard in the midwest.

After dark.... before sunset, 1530 here is KQSC Colorado Springs.

 

[CADXER]

My most wanted station on 1530 is Voice of America from Pinheira, Sao Tome. They use 600 kW and sign on daily at 0300 UTC with the distinctive Yankee Doodle signature tune. Many on the East Coast and beyond manage to hear it under WCKY. Often I tune to 1530 kHz at round 0257 UTC with the hope that I might hear Yankee Doodle, but so far no luck.

 

[WCJ]

Same here--I've never heard KGBT in the midwest, but I've tried.

Not to accuse anybody of forgetting to power down/change pattern, but KGBT is hearable here in SETX starting a little before local sunset to a little after sunrise. Their pattern does not favor this part of the state, except on their day pattern, overtaking WCKY most of the time. Other stations can be heard under them, but I've not been able to positively identify them. During the day it's KGBC Galveston splatter.

 

[wildthangjim]

Not to accuse anybody of forgetting to power down/change pattern, but KGBT is hearable here in SETX starting a little before local sunset to a little after sunrise. Their pattern does not favor this part of the state, except on their day pattern, overtaking WCKY most of the time. Other stations can be heard under them, but I've not been able to positively identify them. During the day it's KGBC Galveston splatter.

Interesting you mention this. In my car in west Houston at 8:45 this morning (over an hour after sunrise), KGBT was blasting in. They are almost always on top of the frequency here at night despite their night pattern beamed almost all southward, but usually weak in the daytime except in at mid-winter.

Regarding the thread topic, I suppose VOA Sao Tome would be my #1. When I lived in Perth, I could hear them sign off at 0600 Perth time most mornings, with virtually nothing else on the frequency. The distance is actually a bit shorter to Houston from Sao Tome, but a lot more interference on the frequency here! A more realistic answer would be KFBK.

 

[gar hi]

For years when I was in Florida, I so much wanted to get KFBK but all I ever heard was WCKY and some other station sometimes in the background I never got an ID from but was definitely not KFBK.

So now that I'm in Hawaii, KFBK is a strong nighttime regular.

Same is true with many other most wanted stations when I was in Florida that I never heard such as KNBR, KGO, KKOB, KTNN.

Interesting how my former most wanted stations are now my nighttime regulars!

 

[davideduardo]

Interesting you mention this. In my car in west Houston at 8:45 this morning (over an hour after sunrise), KGBT was blasting in. They are almost always on top of the frequency here at night despite their night pattern beamed almost all southward, but usually weak in the daytime except in at mid-winter.

While KGBT has less power towards Houston, it still has some. The KGBT pattern actually has a shallow null towards the south, with most of the power going east and west along the LRGV. The pattern is actually peanut shaped, and has enough power to the northerly directions to cover their market, particularly since both KFBK and Cincinatti have nulls towards each other and, thus, don't interfere much with KGBT.

 

[radioman148]

While KGBT has less power towards Houston, it still has some. The KGBT pattern actually has a shallow null towards the south, with most of the power going east and west along the LRGV. The pattern is actually peanut shaped, and has enough power to the northerly directions to cover their market, particularly since both KFBK and Cincinatti have nulls towards each other and, thus, don't interfere much with KGBT.

I haven't been in Southern Mexico in over 40 years, but back then KGBT had the best signal at night from the US.

 

[KR4BD]

I was on a cruise to Belize a few years ago and found KGBT was quite strong around 10 pm off the coast of Belize. WWL’s null to the south was working quite well as they were extremely weak in the same region.