I've heard CFAX as far south as Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County). Underneath an otherwise strong KNX. Only once, and I was a little surprised to hear it.
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Three new ones for me this morning. All between 4:00 and 5:00am cdt.... (local sunrise is a little after 5:30am).
1250: KCUE Red Wing, MN. Several positive IDs, plus "Bluff Country" branding between songs fed from the bird. Likely on 1kw ND day power. Strong, but with occasional fading. (See next entry). 269 miles
1250: KCFI Cedar Falls, IA. Oldies, Mostly mixing with or under KCUE, but rose to the top a few times, including once with a positive ID. 500 watts, probably on day pattern, which is favorable to my location. 500-watt night pattern has me in the null that protects Milwaukee. 220 miles.
1320: KOZY Grand Rapids, MN. Oldies, with weather and local ads. Several positive IDs with good signal. Probably on 5kw Non-directional day pattern, Night pattern is still 5kw, but pattern sends most of the signal north-northwest towards Canada. 427 miles.
Radio used is C Crane Skywave
1250: KCUE Red Wing, MN. Several positive IDs, plus "Bluff Country" branding between songs fed from the bird. Likely on 1kw ND day power. Strong, but with occasional fading. (See next entry). 269 miles
1250: KCFI Cedar Falls, IA. Oldies, Mostly mixing with or under KCUE, but rose to the top a few times, including once with a positive ID. 500 watts, probably on day pattern, which is favorable to my location. 500-watt night pattern has me in the null that protects Milwaukee. 220 miles.
1320: KOZY Grand Rapids, MN. Oldies, with weather and local ads. Several positive IDs with good signal. Probably on 5kw Non-directional day pattern, Night pattern is still 5kw, but pattern sends most of the signal north-northwest towards Canada. 427 miles.
Radio used is C Crane Skywave
Mr Mayor The Engineer Jim Offerdahl says that behavior of KOZY is normal.. since im friends with him, i asked.
He's the mayor of Fosston, MN too.
Speaking of "normal.... Normal on 1320 around here is usually WILS from Lansing, MI. But nulling it orients the radio north-south and opened the door for KOZY.
I presume Mr. Offerdahl has some sort of involvement for KKCQ in Fosston, That station has a nice signal. (5kw on 1480.) And Fosston is also a nice town. I've been through there several times making the run from Winnipeg and Northwest Minnesota to Duluth on some of my business trips. KOZY is a bit of a drive from Fosston, so His Honor must be a pretty busy guy also looking after his Grand Rapids gig!
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I've gotten KCUE and KCFI before, but not KOZY. There was a period I was hearing KCUE pretty frequently. On 1320 I've logged six stations now, but never KOZY.
I had a couple of new ones around 8PM yesterday. On 690 I heard WNZK in the Detroit area. Apparently they switch to 680 at some point, which is a new one for me... never heard of dual frequency stations. Also, on 1110 I took advantage of WMBI's absence and logged WGNZ in Fairborn, Ohio before KFAB showed up (and before WGNZ reduced power to 2 watts).
Split frequency stations began with CHYR/CHIR 710/730 in 1967. There was another in Canada on 710/1230 as I recall.
Speaking of "normal.... Normal on 1320 around here is usually WILS from Lansing, MI. But nulling it orients the radio north-south and opened the door for KOZY.
I presume Mr. Offerdahl has some sort of involvement for KKCQ in Fosston, That station has a nice signal. (5kw on 1480.) And Fosston is also a nice town. I've been through there several times making the run from Winnipeg and Northwest Minnesota to Duluth on some of my business trips. KOZY is a bit of a drive from Fosston, so His Honor must be a pretty busy guy also looking after his Grand Rapids gig!
Mr Mayor The Engineer as i call him (and a sooper dooper nice guy!) does handle the Fosston staitons too. He does work for all of the R & J stations in MN and ND. He also does some work for a station outside Bismarck, ND and the legendary KSJB 600 in Jamestown, ND.
Thanks. Yep, WNZK switches between 690 and 680. I think....but I'm not sure....that the reason is for WNZK to protect CFTR by day and the former CBF by night.
Not very far eastt of the Detroit metro, there used to be a similar arrangement in Leamington, Ontario. CHYR/CHIR used to flip from 710 (day) to 730 (night). Again, I'm not sure why, but my guess is that it was to protect a couple of (then) daytimers on 730 in Lansing, MI and Toledo, Ohio, and then protect WOR in NYC at night. That all ended when CHYR/CHIR migrated to FM.
CHYR moved from 710 to 96.7 in 1993, and moved from the Pelee Peninsula apex further East toward Windsor several years later. They were licensed just to 710, with 700 watts input or 1000 watts at minimum efficiency. They had to move back to 730 for a while due to a complaint about interference to WLW 700.
Thanks for the update. I knew it had been a while. I remember having heard both of them in Suburban Detroit on 710 and 730. And CHYR (710) a couple of times breaking through WGN slop at my home location around sunrise and sunset.. 710 used to be a solid signal, and a pretty good listen on the drive from Cleveland to Detroit.
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CJSP 92.7 still operates from the tower at the Pelee Peninsula base. CJSP was the original callsign on 710. The SP stands for Sun Parlour.
I was missing all the ES openings that everyone is reporting lately, but at least today I was rewarded with a strong tropo opening to the southwest with great reception of many St. Louis area FM stations, including 92.3 WIL, 97.1 KFTK (battling with local WDRV), 97.3 WRUL, 98.1 KYKY, 99.1 KLJY, 102.5 KEZK, 104.9 KMJM, 105.3 KZNN, 106.1 KWKZ, 106.5 WARH. The opening is still going strong as I write this.
Thanks CADXER, just caught a bit of it. I often get the tropo, but usually miss the ES. Oh well.
The tropo opening is still going on this morning. Still favoring St. Louis. Also stations from Springfield, Champaign, Bloomington heard well this morning.
Well its not deliberate ( as this is not DXing season yet ), but I'm picking up AM 580 KUBC out of Montrose Colorado, under KMJ. I'm not complaining about the tunes by any means(I love classic rock), but its hard to listen to "Red Eye radio" with classic tunes being heard in the background. Additionally, its messing up KMJ's overall signal. I wonder if they [KUBC] is stuck on day power(5Kw) and day pattern?
On a side note, I too am picking up 1070 CFAX out of Canada here in San Jose. KNX is not really as strong these days, as it use to be, or CFAX has more radiation directed ( intentional or unintentional ) down to these parts.
On a side note, I too am picking up 1070 CFAX out of Canada here in San Jose. KNX is not really as strong these days, as it use to be, or CFAX has more radiation directed ( intentional or unintentional ) down to these parts.
Whether intentional or otherwise, CFAX is obligated to protect KNX with a very directional night pattern.
That is what I have experienced as well during my travels up the California coast! CFAX is definitely not playing by the rules as they should not be heard anywhere near San Jose, California. If you can hear them in San Jose, you could probably hear them further south in KNX’s sky wave cancellation zone in Central California.
It sounds like the pattern is way out of whack, or they are running nondirectional. A lot of US and other countries' stations are having serious problems with their directional antennas, and many are running nondirectional, and they often don't have STAs to do so. The big companies obviously don't think AM will be around long enough to bother fixing them. Not to mention any names, but one company sold all their towers and land to one tower company, and the tower company is already doing a lot of things that don't make sense if they want to continue to lease to broadcasters. Translators are just making the whole situation worse. Translators are not stations, few serve the whole market the AM reaches, and they can be bumped off by other other services. If the AM facility is abandoned, the translators aren't allowed to continue.
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