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Thanks. October is always that sweet spot for pre-sunrise DX. I have heard ND, SD, and NE stations at the 6-6:30AM timeperiod in late October when the sunrise is at its latest for DST. North Dakota doesn't see the sun until 8am in some areas. A few October's ago, I had my strongest and greatest Asian propagation ever, many new stations logged including Taiwan - and also bagged KFQD and KICY in Alaska. Around the same time, I heard 680 in Barranquilla, Colombia, Radio Nacional de Colombia, underneath KNBR around 2 in the morning. That propagation is incredibly rare in this day and age!
What's interesting is I have heard KPOF 'AM91' 910 Denver more than once...but never 950. I also need 990, 710, 810, 1150, 1390, and 1550 from Denver.
What's interesting is I have heard KPOF 'AM91' 910 Denver more than once...but never 950. I also need 990, 710, 810, 1150, 1390, and 1550 from Denver.
I also caught KIMN in the Chicago area back in the day. Hope you get it crainbebo.
I was a little surprised to hear a weak Spanish signal this morning on 1050. Music with frequent fades, but basically on top for about fifteen minutes shortly after 5am CDT, My first thought was XEG, but I haven't heard that one in quite a few years (and I suspect that they days of XEG at 150kw are long over). So my next guess was WBQH, from Silver Springs, MD, which is 10kw ND day power.
I was checking out 1050 in advance of my next FOTW post. If any of you guys have ideas, thoughts. or other feedback on this, I;ll include it when I do my 1050khz post for the series later this weekend.
I was checking out 1050 in advance of my next FOTW post. If any of you guys have ideas, thoughts. or other feedback on this, I;ll include it when I do my 1050khz post for the series later this weekend.
XEG is the most common Mexican signal at my location in Overland Park, Kansas and they can be especially listenable during early morning critical hours on a frequent basis. I believe they are now 100 kW.
Bob
Houston's a lot closer to Monterrey, but I was actually checking the radio around 5 yesterday morning and XEG was coming in well. They're usually pretty strong here, albeit not as strong as they were back in the day.
I've gotten one Spanish-language station on 1050, WVXX in Norfolk, VA, when they have forgotten to power down for the night. Since it was only a little before sunrise in Norfolk when you heard the signal, it could have just been their daytime signal.
Norfolk definitely crossed my mind. And given that XEG is apparently "alive and well", I guess what I heard this morning will remain a mystery. At least for the time being.
A surprise new one for me this moor rning. A little after 4:30am CDT local time (about two hours before local sunrise). WDLR on 1270. I never got a positive ID, but kept hearing their branding as "96.7 FM". So I went to the Canada/US lookup page, and the branding, format (classic rock), and translator on 96.7 all fit.
Those on this board familiar with what's going on with Ohio stations can maybe help me out with what's going on here. This one was a surprise to me on a couple of points, First of all, I thought WDLR was from Delaware, Ohio....near Columbus. The COL for this one was Maryville, OH. Not exactly a Columbus suburb, but still in the general area (I've been there). Secondly I thought WDLR was higher up on the dial. So I'm guessing that they either moved down the dial, or another station picked up their call letters. But the biggest surprise was that this station is listed as 500 watts fulltime....with both a day and night pattern unfavorable in my direction. As I recall, the former version of WDLR was known for running day power/pattern day and night. In the case of the 1270 incarnation of WDLR, the day pattern has an even deeper null towards me than the night patterrn. So it all seems very strange, and maybe one or more of you guys can shed some light on what's up.
Whatever....distance is 287 miles, and the radio was the "still going strong" SRF-37 Walkman.
Those on this board familiar with what's going on with Ohio stations can maybe help me out with what's going on here. This one was a surprise to me on a couple of points, First of all, I thought WDLR was from Delaware, Ohio....near Columbus. The COL for this one was Maryville, OH. Not exactly a Columbus suburb, but still in the general area (I've been there). Secondly I thought WDLR was higher up on the dial. So I'm guessing that they either moved down the dial, or another station picked up their call letters. But the biggest surprise was that this station is listed as 500 watts fulltime....with both a day and night pattern unfavorable in my direction. As I recall, the former version of WDLR was known for running day power/pattern day and night. In the case of the 1270 incarnation of WDLR, the day pattern has an even deeper null towards me than the night patterrn. So it all seems very strange, and maybe one or more of you guys can shed some light on what's up.
Whatever....distance is 287 miles, and the radio was the "still going strong" SRF-37 Walkman.
According to An Important Message from CD102.5 | CD102.5 - The Alternative Radio Station - Columbus, OH from late last year:
"The 92.9 FM frequency has two antennas -- one in downtown Columbus on the Huntington building and one in Delaware. They are 1580 WMYC-AM and 1550 WDLR-AM and have FM translators, so the stations can air on both dials. The WMYC call letters will be changed to WWCD. The call letters for the Delaware signal will be announced at a later date, and we will begin broadcasting on 1550 AM and 92.9 FM in Delaware on January 1, 2021. WDLR will be moving to 1270 AM and 96.7 FM and maintaining its current format."
In practice, I have heard 1550 and 1580 on multiple occasions in Chicago. They are the same station i.e. their broadcasts are identical. I went to a Columbus area websdr and 1270 was running something quite different, despite officially having a similar format.
"The 92.9 FM frequency has two antennas -- one in downtown Columbus on the Huntington building and one in Delaware. They are 1580 WMYC-AM and 1550 WDLR-AM and have FM translators, so the stations can air on both dials. The WMYC call letters will be changed to WWCD. The call letters for the Delaware signal will be announced at a later date, and we will begin broadcasting on 1550 AM and 92.9 FM in Delaware on January 1, 2021. WDLR will be moving to 1270 AM and 96.7 FM and maintaining its current format."
In practice, I have heard 1550 and 1580 on multiple occasions in Chicago. They are the same station i.e. their broadcasts are identical. I went to a Columbus area websdr and 1270 was running something quite different, despite officially having a similar format.
The 1550 version of WDLR was a nightly regular in East Tennessee for quite awhile. I've heard 1580 well before sunset in the winter as well.
you'll never hear 1550.. its running on an STA with peanut power from a longwire
Never say "no" to a longwire or low power. One of my first DX catches from Puerto Rico in Ohio was the AFRTS station at Ramey AFB... 50 watts into a sloped antenna on a short mast. Another was 1245 kHz Radio Metropolitana from Quito; I visited them several years later when I moved to that city and they were running about 400 watts into a flat-top antenna hung between two eucalyptus trees... nearly 3,000 miles.
The FCC has "TREE" as a multiple choice option for antenna support, for translator and LPFM applications, and I know of a person who has a translator antenna in a tree, because other tower lease companies were ridiculously expensive, or had ridiculous requirements, like making a doghouse or small transmitter building match the Art Deco transmitter building of a 1920s vintage radio station. Say it's for a radio facility and the tower lease companies see $$$$$. As they say, any port in a storm.
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1550 at my location is another channel that used to be relatively open at night and now sounds almost like a graveyard channel. CBE from Windsor, ON (Detroit area), used to be semi-reliable even with a weak signal (due to an unfavorable pattern).
I can remember WBSC in Bennetsville SC being pretty dominant on 1550 in Ohio and Indiana.
From south Overland Park, Kansas:
This morning between 6:35-6:55am, I successfully logged a new station on 940 kHz, KIXZ in Amarillo, Texas. They had to be on their 5 kW, 2-tower daytime pattern at that time. Their 4-tower directional night time pattern has a null aimed right at my location. The extensive weather forecast was impressive in detail. I learned that 9% of the cotton crop in Texas has been harvested.
KIXZ-AM Radio Station Coverage Map
Bob
This morning between 6:35-6:55am, I successfully logged a new station on 940 kHz, KIXZ in Amarillo, Texas. They had to be on their 5 kW, 2-tower daytime pattern at that time. Their 4-tower directional night time pattern has a null aimed right at my location. The extensive weather forecast was impressive in detail. I learned that 9% of the cotton crop in Texas has been harvested.
KIXZ-AM Radio Station Coverage Map
Bob
I'll have to keep that in mind. October is right around the corner!
