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New one...and interesting one....this morning at around 4:30am CST at the beach location. KARN good and alone on 920, 5kw from Little Rock AR, 412 miles to my northwest. The kicker is that it was definitely stronger here than KAAY, which has a favorable pattern in this direction. (Unless they've started to dial things down already).
Worth noting as others have mentioned, there were auroral conditions last night and this morning. Nothing north of KMOX and WHAS was in, with the exception of a very weak WTAM. The Chicago blowtorches all were absent, but the Cuba and Mexico signals were kickin' butt.
Worth noting as others have mentioned, there were auroral conditions last night and this morning. Nothing north of KMOX and WHAS was in, with the exception of a very weak WTAM. The Chicago blowtorches all were absent, but the Cuba and Mexico signals were kickin' butt.
Last few nights I've found auroral conditions increasing which I actually think started last weekend.
Last night was the first night that stuff from the north was largely absent here. Although, that said, the big signals from the Midwest and points immediately to the east had been noticeably weaker during the preceding couple of nights.
Here in Houston, KARN is typically very strong in the null of my semi-local KYST.
Caught a car transmitter rebroadcasting KEXP from their phone. I was tricked into thinking it was E-skip, but then I could tell it wasn't because KEXP is on 90.3, and the car x-mitter was on 89.5. A good lol moment for me.
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Had an interesting new logging last night on 1520 - WEXY in Wilton Manors, FL, at 1,149 miles.
Around 9:45 p.m. CT I had the radio aimed E/W to get a partial null of KOKC and was hearing weak urban gospel music in and out. At first I thought it might be WTLM in Alabama, even though it's a daytimer, but the music and bits of talk weren't matching its stream.
Around 11:30 p.m. the station finally faded up stronger with an urban-styled host talking about prostate cancer. He eventually gave out a phone number with a 954 prefix, which maps to the Ft. Lauderdale, FL, area. Wilton Manors is in that area and the format matched, so it had to be WEXY, presumably on 5 kW day power/pattern. A little later I heard an ad with a woman who also gave out a 954 phone number. That was followed by more urban gospel music.
I never was able to find a stream for WEXY
Around 9:45 p.m. CT I had the radio aimed E/W to get a partial null of KOKC and was hearing weak urban gospel music in and out. At first I thought it might be WTLM in Alabama, even though it's a daytimer, but the music and bits of talk weren't matching its stream.
Around 11:30 p.m. the station finally faded up stronger with an urban-styled host talking about prostate cancer. He eventually gave out a phone number with a 954 prefix, which maps to the Ft. Lauderdale, FL, area. Wilton Manors is in that area and the format matched, so it had to be WEXY, presumably on 5 kW day power/pattern. A little later I heard an ad with a woman who also gave out a 954 phone number. That was followed by more urban gospel music.
I never was able to find a stream for WEXY
DFW, Texas
A couple of new stations logged during Sunset DX today 2/18/2022:
1550 KUAZ Tucson, AZ NPR "The Buzz" technology program. Local break at 1912 CST with "65 degrees in Tucson". Fair mixing with WPFC (Port Allen, LA) urban gospel and KYAL (Sapulpa, OK) ESPN sports.
1580 KOKB Blackwell, OK Ponca City wrestling and ads at 1852 CST. Fair to good, mixing with KWED (Seguin, TX).
A couple of new stations logged during Sunset DX today 2/18/2022:
1550 KUAZ Tucson, AZ NPR "The Buzz" technology program. Local break at 1912 CST with "65 degrees in Tucson". Fair mixing with WPFC (Port Allen, LA) urban gospel and KYAL (Sapulpa, OK) ESPN sports.
1580 KOKB Blackwell, OK Ponca City wrestling and ads at 1852 CST. Fair to good, mixing with KWED (Seguin, TX).
Looks like their "marble shooter" night pattern definitely favors Texas. And explains why I've never heard them in the Chicago area.
Good propagation on the Kaneohe, Hawaii SDR tonight. KSL strong, WGN weak, but alone, and WBBM behind KKOH on 780.
The Arctic receiver has been dead, nothing not even sports UK on 1089. All this around 0100 CST.
The Arctic receiver has been dead, nothing not even sports UK on 1089. All this around 0100 CST.
I haven't been able to DX much these past two nights (Thurs-Fri, 2/18-19), so perhaps the auroral conditions are gone. Maybe the arctic SDR has had another antenna adjustment.
You may be right. All I know is the Arctic SDR has been dead for weeks now. The Westfjords Iceland one has been offline for awhile.
For me the Hawaii one has been better although it was pretty quiet last week.
DFW, Texas
Two new stations logged 2/19/2022:
1530 KQSC Colorado Springs, CO. Country music fair to good at 7:10am CST matching web stream.
830 KDRI Tucson, AZ. Rupert Holmes “Do You Like Pina Coladas” song at 7:13pm CST matched web stream, playing weakly under WBAP adjacent channel slop. Thanks to @wildthangjim for the prior tip.
Two new stations logged 2/19/2022:
1530 KQSC Colorado Springs, CO. Country music fair to good at 7:10am CST matching web stream.
830 KDRI Tucson, AZ. Rupert Holmes “Do You Like Pina Coladas” song at 7:13pm CST matched web stream, playing weakly under WBAP adjacent channel slop. Thanks to @wildthangjim for the prior tip.
1530 KQSC just rip roared liek a ton of led bricks into Laramie, WY right after sunrise or just before sunset.
Just CHIN and an oldies station on the Edinburgh IN SDR
So tonight, there was a sports station overriding KESJ on 1550. There was two possible options for the sports station, one an ESPN out of Nebraska, and a CBS Sports out of Kansas. Luckily, I have a local CBS sports affiliate (1240 KFBC), and 1500 KSTP was just booming in the whole time, so I could conpare and contrast. Unfortunately, the 1550 station was in and out. However, the voices more closely aligned CBS, so I suspect KDCC Dodge City is running day power here.
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By the way, @cyberdad, KESJ calls themselves "Joe-town 107.5" nowadays, and they had some nice Variety going on. "Total Eclipse of the Heart", followed by "I wanna Rock and roll all night" by KISS, and then a little while later, "More than a feeling" by Boston. I was able to confirm KESJ via their internet stream. But now I can say I have heard whoever this sports station is, I guess?
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Also, 1520 KOKC loud and clear with a legal ID, which has me metaphorically banging my head because I should've recorded it! Gotta love the "reaching over a million Oklahomans" remark.
KXEL did return to air, and they had something about a KXEL newsletter, than a forecast, followed by Bill Cunningham. In fact, it seemed like everyone was playing his show. WLW did, so does KGAB, and so did WGN. Interestingly though, KOA decided to air reruns of C to C.
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Finally, that Canadian on 1610 came for a slight visit.
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By the way, @cyberdad, KESJ calls themselves "Joe-town 107.5" nowadays, and they had some nice Variety going on. "Total Eclipse of the Heart", followed by "I wanna Rock and roll all night" by KISS, and then a little while later, "More than a feeling" by Boston. I was able to confirm KESJ via their internet stream. But now I can say I have heard whoever this sports station is, I guess?
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Also, 1520 KOKC loud and clear with a legal ID, which has me metaphorically banging my head because I should've recorded it! Gotta love the "reaching over a million Oklahomans" remark.
KXEL did return to air, and they had something about a KXEL newsletter, than a forecast, followed by Bill Cunningham. In fact, it seemed like everyone was playing his show. WLW did, so does KGAB, and so did WGN. Interestingly though, KOA decided to air reruns of C to C.
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Finally, that Canadian on 1610 came for a slight visit.
WGN carries Cunningham? Yikes. Cunningham originates at WLW. Randy Michaels wanted to bring Cunningham to WGN at the same time he brought Mike McConnell from WLW. WGN's audience rejected McConnell, they'd have run Cunningham out on a rail