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DX'ing Mysteries

Back on Oct. 30, 2021, I heard a KWFO ID on 1260 while aimed NW/SE. The station was mixing with KTRC and XEL, and the ID was preceded (Darren Kozelsky) and followed (Blake Shelton w/Gwen Stefani) by hit country music. There's some "best" and "FM" verbiage around the ID, but I can't make it out.

I'm sure about the KWFO call (confirmed by SomeRadioGuy, who heard a clip), but there is no such station on 1260.

There is a KWFO on 102.1 in Driggs, ID, which plays hit country and matches the reception direction. Also, there is a 1260 KNBL in Idaho Falls (about 50 miles away). But it plays classic hits, and the stations don't appear to be associated in any way.
 
jim-satx said:
Back on Oct. 30, 2021, I heard a KWFO ID on 1260 while aimed NW/SE. The station was mixing with KTRC and XEL, and the ID was preceded (Darren Kozelsky) and followed (Blake Shelton w/Gwen Stefani) by hit country music. There's some "best" and "FM" verbiage around the ID, but I can't make it out.

I'm sure about the KWFO call (confirmed by SomeRadioGuy, who heard a clip), but there is no such station on 1260.

There is a KWFO on 102.1 in Driggs, ID, which plays hit country and matches the reception direction. Also, there is a 1260 KNBL in Idaho Falls (about 50 miles away). But it plays classic hits, and the stations don't appear to be associated in any way.
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Not a great match on the call letters, but KWSH in Wewoka OK IDs as "today's best country" and has a translator on 97.7 FM (co-owned KIRC 105.9 is country also). I hear them occasionally mixed in with WBRH, XEL, et al, both in the evening and around sunrise. What time of day was your reception?
 
Here's another mystery related to the WHAM one. Also in 1989 in Florida, I tried very hard to log 1280 WPXY also from Rochester, NY. Yes, I know the odds of receiving that 5,000-watt signal is nearly impossible at that distance, but it didn't stop me from trying, especially since a local 1280 had gone dark and the channel was quiet. WPXY was CHR then (simulcast of WPXY-FM). One night in late 1989, a signal started coming in. As it faded in, I could hear that the song was 2 Live Crew's "Me So H****y" which was on the Top 40 at that time. The signal faded before the song ended and I never got an ID. For years I thought this had to be WPXY. But later on, the thought occurred to me that this could have been WQUE New Orleans which was I believe was Urban (possibly simulcasting WQUE-FM). I guess there's no way to know now, unless we can confirm one station or the other played or didn't play the 2 Live Crew song, which was controversial and not played by many stations for obvious reasons.
 
wildthangjim said:
Not a great match on the call letters, but KWSH in Wewoka OK IDs as "today's best country" and has a translator on 97.7 FM (co-owned KIRC 105.9 is country also). I hear them occasionally mixed in with WBRH, XEL, et al, both in the evening and around sunrise. What time of day was your reception?
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Thanks, Jim. I heard the ID at 7:22 a.m. CT on Oct. 30, and had started listening just a few minutes before that. I've been relistening to the recording a lot, and I'm not 100% sure that the country music was coming from the same station. The music was down in the mud, but the ID popped up stronger, though briefly. I hear "Today's best" followed by what seems to be "sounds." I just wish I could make out the rest of the words there and after the KWFO ID.

I'm going to post the clip on the Unidentified AM DX thread of the WTFDA forums some time soon. It's possible that the station I was hearing was getting another station's feed at the time. It's quite a perplexing mystery!
 
KWFO Driggs ID won't ID with the call sign. It would be 96.1 and 102.1 The Wolf. Nothing to do with them even if the Idaho Falls station was accidentally relaying the 96.1 KWFI signal.
 
jim-satx said:
Thanks, Jim. I heard the ID at 7:22 a.m. CT on Oct. 30, and had started listening just a few minutes before that. I've been relistening to the recording a lot, and I'm not 100% sure that the country music was coming from the same station. The music was down in the mud, but the ID popped up stronger, though briefly. I hear "Today's best" followed by what seems to be "sounds." I just wish I could make out the rest of the words there and after the KWFO ID.
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For what it's worth, here's a clip of the KWSH ID I heard on 2/19 at 0659 CST.

 
Here's a clip of the mysterious KWFO ID. It's mixing with SS music from XEL and talk from KTRC.

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Can anyone make out the DJ talk surrounding the ID?
 
CTListener said:
Where die RMarino mention MOR?

"The End of the Innocence" was an AC staple in 1989, and if WHAM was running an AC format -- or full service with AC music -- that likely was the 1180 he heard.
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Broadcasting Yearbook at one time listed soft rock stations as MOR. While the term Hot AC wasn't used back then, if a station was listed as AC or "contemp." that's what it was.
 
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