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Here's a new one I got a few nights ago: 1700 KKLF from Northeast Dallas, TX, at 717 miles. It was definitely unique in that it played Tejano music, and then it would have ads in English, by people who had a distinct Mexican tongue. Actually some ads were in Spanish whilst others in English. Also, there was a Car ad, or something, and it had a whole bunch of sound effects 🤣 So I definitely had fun listening to this one.

Normally, I get the Des Moines sports station on 1700, but this time around, there was a bunch of stations with KKLF on top, and then I could null out the others for KKLF.
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At 22 seconds in, the commercial mentions "serving DFW and Texas".
 
New one for me this morning (3/20). After hearing it almost nightly during my recent six weeks in Florida and adjacent parts of the southeast,. WHKY/1290 turned up a little after 5am CDT at my home location. "Carolina news" roundup. Fair-good signal and alone. No trace of WIRL or WHIO, the usual suspects at that time of day..
 
Interesting new log on shortwave: Radio New Zealand International (R. NZ. I) on 11.725 Mhz around 2:45 am MDT last night. They had two people chatting in English about random, casual topics, so that was actually quite fun to listen to. Their accents definitely gave it away that I listening to RNZI, but I also checked short-wave.info as well. Anyways, it was surprising to even receive them this good since I was working with my backup antenna at the time. Anyways, RNZI was about 7,500 miles away from my Cheyenne, Wyoming location, it was broadcasting 50,000 watts (how tiny for shortwave!) and at 35 degrees azimuth (North-East). The volume is quiet, so you might have to turn it up. So, did I identify the station correctly?
 
Hi, could anyone from the West Virginia/Eastern Tennessee/Southern Ohio regions confirm if they received Northern Colorado FM stations around 2:06pm MDT (4:06 EDT)?
I noticed on dxmaps.com that the MUF peaked to 93 along that pathway, but I couldn't get to my radios at that time, so I have to wonder if I missed out on some E-skip!
 
1180---Spanish under WHAM, NOT Radio Rebelde or Radio Marti, often covering WHAM. Mexican style music and commercials, including Spanish language Spongebob Squarepants them in a song.
 
gr8oldies said:
1180---Spanish under WHAM, NOT Radio Rebelde or Radio Marti, often covering WHAM. Mexican style music and commercials, including Spanish language Spongebob Squarepants them in a song.
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WGUE in the Memphis market is the only US station in the US in Spanish on 1180. "La Jefa" is the station name, and format is Regional Mexican. They have two FM translators, so it is possible they left the AM on by mistake.
 
DavidEduardo said:
WGUE in the Memphis market is the only US station in the US in Spanish on 1180.
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Should point out that what had been a second Spanish language U.S. station on 1180, KGOL in the Houston market, went silent a few months ago after losing its transmitter site to urban sprawl. The station has been sold and will switch to a South Asian format if/when a new transmitter facility is built.
 
WGUE has been noted here in the Chicago area on several occasions in the past year or so.
 
gr8oldies said:
1180---Spanish under WHAM, NOT Radio Rebelde or Radio Marti, often covering WHAM. Mexican style music and commercials, including Spanish language Spongebob Squarepants them in a song.
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Is XEFR a possibility? Not regional Mexican, more AC/oldies to my ear (but not an expert on SS music).
 
Update: I wasn't quite sure how, where, or whether to post this. But since 1290 is one of the more commonly discussed AM frequencies as of late, so I'd like to pass along this quick note. WIRL from Peoria, IL (5kw, DA-night) has flipped to a conservative talk format. Mostly satellite delivered. The reason I thought this might be worth noting for DXers is because WIRL was easy to ID because of its now-defunct oldies format. So now, IDing it just became more like trying to ID myriad other AM talkers out there.

For anyone curious, the WIRL oldies format is still out there. On WPBG-FM HD2 (93.3). as well as its own dedicated translator on 102.7. Also streaming. Branding is "Super Hits 102.7." I found out about the format flip listening to the stream and noticing that there was no mention of WIRL and that the WIRL sonovox jingles were missing. Then I noticed that the WIRL app on my phone had changed to the new branding (same logo as previous).
 
cyberdad said:
Update: I wasn't quite sure how, where, or whether to post this. But since 1290 is one of the more commonly discussed AM frequencies as of late, so I'd like to pass along this quick note. WIRL from Peoria, IL (5kw, DA-night) has flipped to a conservative talk format. Mostly satellite delivered. The reason I thought this might be worth noting for DXers is because WIRL was easy to ID because of its now-defunct oldies format. So now, IDing it just became more like trying to ID myriad other AM talkers out there.

For anyone curious, the WIRL oldies format is still out there. On WPBG-FM HD2 (93.3). as well as its own dedicated translator on 102.7. Also streaming. Branding is "Super Hits 102.7." I found out about the format flip listening to the stream and noticing that there was no mention of WIRL and that the WIRL sonovox jingles were missing. Then I noticed that the WIRL app on my phone had changed to the new branding (same logo as previous).
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Too bad. Oldies music stations have pretty much disappeared from radio.
 
gr8oldies said:
1180---Spanish under WHAM, NOT Radio Rebelde or Radio Marti, often covering WHAM. Mexican style music and commercials, including Spanish language Spongebob Squarepants them in a song.
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DavidEduardo said:
WGUE in the Memphis market is the only US station in the US in Spanish on 1180. "La Jefa" is the station name, and format is Regional Mexican. They have two FM translators, so it is possible they left the AM on by mistake.
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WGUE is 5,000 watts day, So they must of forgot to go to there Night Pattern of 24 Watts
 
radioman148 said:
Too bad. Oldies music stations have pretty much disappeared from radio.
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I don't disagree, but at least they're driving a translator from an HD2 signal. (I didn't know you could do that). And they're streaming. But that said, The number of music signals on big signals is down to nearly nothing. WSM and CFZM are the only really big signals that I can think of. WSM, of course, is a legacy station with the Grand Ole Opry connection. CFZM's format is somewhat protected by the CRTC, ). They got to take over the 50kw 740 signal when CBL migrated from there to FM. Then what was then-CHWO was picked from 23 applicants because the CRTC determined that the over 50 population was the biggest underserved demo in the Toronto radio market. Serving that demo is effectively a condition of their license.
 
dlf1 said:
They had been off the air for the last few days. I was in Corpus on business and thought it would be interesting to hear their sign on and any signal just get overwhelmed. It never did happen.
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KCTA is back on this morning and is a daytime regular here in San Antonio. A number of times I’ve noticed that the station was on at night or not on at all for a few days.
 
New Catch for me between 5 and 6 am CDT yesterday morning (3/26). WLWI 1440 from Montgomery, AL. (ex WHHY). Fair but alone and solid with minimal fading for most of that hour. "Newsradio", I-heart, and ads for local businesses. Probably powered up on 5kw non-directional day pattern. 695 miles. Radio was C. Crane Skywave.

The previous hour produced a second-time catch. KRIB 1490 from Mason City, Iowa. Broke through the slop a couple of times with oldies. Distance 255 miles. 1kw. KRIB is famous for Hosting the "Day the Music Died" concert at nearby Clear Lake, Iowa featuring Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and "The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson. Emcee Bob Hale went on to become one of the "Original 7" top 40 jocks at WLS.
 


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