During afternoon critical hours this time of year I often hear WBAL before they change pattern in Northern Il.
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I can't figure out why I hear WINS but not CFRB much at Night in Michigan. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, WITL and CFRB were about the same field strength in Genesee County, and several Hertz apart.
When WITL moved a couple of miles further South, it was heard well when they were doing nondirectional proofs of performance with just 125 watts at my RL.
When WITL moved a couple of miles further South, it was heard well when they were doing nondirectional proofs of performance with just 125 watts at my RL.
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Interesting list there. I get KDAL all the time where I am, but I haven't ever heard WDSM. I've logged CFPL once on Lake Shore Drive a little before sunset, but never at my home location. CHUM is the regular 1050 where I am, at night. I've tried many times for WEPN on 1050 but due to their pattern (presumably to protect CHUM) I've never heard it. Oh well.
CFPL used to come in quite well in Genesee County, along with 1000 watt CHLO 680. CHLO had a four tower parallelogram, DA-1, and it was almost straight West, and it must have been pretty close to the 1 kW IDF in that direction. I never could figure out how it could put that much IDF toward KNBR San Francisco, the Class I-B/A with the international skywave model. Unless it was grandfathered for some reason.
David, would you by any chance have any pattern information about CHLO 680? I know that Bill Dulmage had a coverage map on his site a while back, but it has since disappeared. Of course, it moved to 1570 in a deal with CHFI/CFTR. Now, those call letters are on 530 kHz in the Toronto Area.
David, would you by any chance have any pattern information about CHLO 680? I know that Bill Dulmage had a coverage map on his site a while back, but it has since disappeared. Of course, it moved to 1570 in a deal with CHFI/CFTR. Now, those call letters are on 530 kHz in the Toronto Area.
I've heard WEPN several times in the Chicago area, but CHUM usually dominates.
I wonder if you Chicago Area DXers ever heard WITL 1010 when WCFL was off for some reason, as it went Straight West with a 3 tower 1 2 1 binomial cardioid pattern. Also, WVIC/WDFN 730 when WGN was down, but that pattern is not favorable. WSGW 790 radiates enough to hear on "LSD" with WBBM on the air. My hippie cousins called Lake Shore Drive "LSD". WSGW is a major obstacle to WBBM increasing back to 50 kW Day, as the 0.5 mV/m contours nearly overlap under old rules, and unless that changes back, it's 0.5 mV/m to 0.25 mV/m mutually.
I haven't been on Lake Shore drive in quite awhile, but I used to often hear WSGW during the daytime when driving on it.
I've never been aware of WMVP (the new name for WCFL) or WGN to be down, though I've only been doing this for 2 years and I also tend to act on the assumption (correct or not) that the heavy-hitters are always on.
790 has opened up since WBBM turned off their IBOC. It was the last frequency I had zero logs on, but since they've turned it off I've now had six... WSGW was #2 and it was in fact in the vicinity of "LSD."
NEW station this early morning...
1520 - KKZZ CA, Port Hueneme; with Spanish Walmart ad and TOH ID mentioning 96.3 translator in Oxnard. Mixed with KKXA and KQRR, likely on day pattern. NEW #801, likely 10KW day power at 889 miles. I caught KMPG, the other California 1520, last December...thank goodness I now have both CA 1520s!
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1520 - KKZZ CA, Port Hueneme; with Spanish Walmart ad and TOH ID mentioning 96.3 translator in Oxnard. Mixed with KKXA and KQRR, likely on day pattern. NEW #801, likely 10KW day power at 889 miles. I caught KMPG, the other California 1520, last December...thank goodness I now have both CA 1520s!
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I heard WSGW during mid-day once (including positive ID) at my hone location when WBBM was down for a few minutes. Being 30 miles inland from Lake Michigan, I was more than a little surprised.
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WDSM was a true surprise. I've driven by their towers a few times just south of the "Twin Ports" on U.S. 53, Very directional to the nortth at night.
Last two nights I did some DXing on some remote receivers. Haida Gwaii, Arctic, Iceland, and Key West.
Friday night the midwest was in on Key West, WLW, WGN, & WBBM briefly, nothing from the NE. Arctic a weak KTLK and KNOM was all I heard from North America. Iceland was not good Friday, but last night strong WBBR, WBZ, and WEGP from Maine. WBBM was in weak briefly. On Haida Gwaii, WGN was in and KNOM was very strong on 780. Amazing I hear KNOM regularly on this receiver, but never hear KOTZ. The Hawaii rcvr was offline both nights.
All this was between 0530 and 0630UTC. Too early to catch the good stuff from the far east that crainbebo heard a few nights ago.
Friday night the midwest was in on Key West, WLW, WGN, & WBBM briefly, nothing from the NE. Arctic a weak KTLK and KNOM was all I heard from North America. Iceland was not good Friday, but last night strong WBBR, WBZ, and WEGP from Maine. WBBM was in weak briefly. On Haida Gwaii, WGN was in and KNOM was very strong on 780. Amazing I hear KNOM regularly on this receiver, but never hear KOTZ. The Hawaii rcvr was offline both nights.
All this was between 0530 and 0630UTC. Too early to catch the good stuff from the far east that crainbebo heard a few nights ago.
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Speaking of SDR's...
Has anybody heard of problems with the Northern Utah SDR's in the last week or two? Or, is it just my phone?
Has anybody heard of problems with the Northern Utah SDR's in the last week or two? Or, is it just my phone?
It's been a very long time since I noticed WMVP being off. It was at the time they were replacing the sticks at their Downers Grove, IL site. They were actually using the WLS site at that time as well. Gone are the days when WMVP (WCFL in those days) would go off every Monday morning after midnight giving us a chance to listen to KOMO. As for WGN being off it's been a while. Last I remember was when both WGN and WBBM had a coordinated shutoff for maintenance work. That has been at least 5 years ago, if not more.
Yes, with IBOC off on WSCR and WBBM hearing stuff on nearby frequencies has dramatically improved. Just the other day I managed again to hear KTNN window Rock, AZ on 660 kHz. Also heard a new Mexican on 660, XECPR Radio Chan Santa Cruz.
As for latest DX. Saturday morning I woke up at 4 am and could not go back to sleep. I am not a morning person and rarely DX in the mornings these days. I took advantage of that and actually managed to hear 3 new ones:
880 WMEQ Menomonee, WI at 7:00 am CST
1100 WISS Berlin, WI at 7:35 am CST. Fist time heard since they left 1090 kHz where they used to be a common.
1180 WGUE Turell, AR with Spanish language format at 5:54 am CST
WQRM 850 Duluth, MN in the Mackinac Straits Area at 3:00 PM. At 50000 watts nondirectional Days, it probably does cause a lot of QRM during CH.
Anyone in PDX know if KUIK-1360 went back to air in Hillsboro OR? Last night before I heard KKZZ-1520, 1360 had KKMO, KRKK WY on day power, and a 1khz test tone (confirmed NOT a 1359 het). The tone got up to fair levels but mostly stayed behind KRKK and KKMO. I had KOHU this morning with the usual classic country, and they are the usual daytime suspect on 1360. But also this morning was an UNID with NFL playoffs. KRKK is not on the list and nor is KOHU, and obviously not KKMO because they are SS. No local ads, only national. As of 1PM it's just KOHU alone. KUIK-1360 Hillsboro OR has been silent for a couple years now but I wonder if they were testing just to prevent losing the license. It's either that or KFIV Modesto CA, which is on the list.
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I never was able to catch KOMO at my home location on those Monday mornings. It wasn't due to a lack of trying. All I ever heard was XEOY. Same story at my college location in Iowa, where XEOY was more common, and usually also under a weak WCFL just about every night. But on a couple of those Monday mornings, I did hear KTOK sneak in.
Same here in Northern Illinois I never heard KOMO. Only XEOY and KTOK were heard at my location.
I think XEOY is what I remember hearing when Super CFL signed off. I remember one Monday morning in 1973 when they signed on with the sign on cart mentioning how they broadcast from Downers Grove, Illinois. Then they segued right into a huge smash hit, biggest in Chicago and Canada, "Heartbeat, It's A Lovebeat" by the DeFranco Family. It was #1 for 5 weeks on WLS, #1 for 1 week on WCFL, and #2 for the year on both WLS and WCFL. "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon was #1 for 1973.
Yes, Radio Mil until it relatively recently changed to all talk was a CHR / Top 40 that played both English and Spanish songs. Mexico City had a number of such stations, including XEDF on 970 and XERC on 790 in that era. Each major group, Radiopolis, Radio Centro and Radio Mil had one.