I landed on 1330 this morning around 3:45 amCDT. As usual, that channel was relatively open, and then I heard a weak signal break through with a few fragments of "Reach Out I'll Be There" and then just a whiff of what sounded like the group Stealer's Wheel before whatever it was faded for good. There aren't many oldies stations on 1330, and the few of them that are there are a long distance from me, and/or operating with very low power during nighttime hours. My best guess....and only a guess...is CJYM from Rosetown, SK. 10kw with a nulls to the southeast and southwest. I might, however, be just a bit to the east of the southeast null. Or they might be leaking. Or on STA. Or who knows what. Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or a better guess, thanks in advance for sharing.
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Oldies on 1330?
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Could be WHGM Havre De Grace, MD on Day power early. One thing I notice in Michigan on 1330 lately is WEAW/WKTA blasting into Michigan at Night, and it's hard to believe it's running 110 watts, with a null toward the ENE.
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WHGM hasnt operated with licensed facilities in quite awhile. THe'yve used 10 watts from a roof top and dont beleive theyve moved back to full time full power facilities yet
CJYM, Rosetown, Saskatchewan plays a wide variety of Classic Hits. Although they're in Rosetown, western Sask., they make it out to Seattle frequently. I sometimes hear them nightly, and when I was DXing MW a lot more a few years ago I would hear them nearly every single night behind the now defunct station in Portland OR.
They play 60s stuff, 80s stuff, and a lot of Can-Con (naturally). I know I've heard Motown on them before.
So, they indeed get out. Right now I'm hearing them at S2-S4 signals (on 1330 khz) on my PR-D5, barefoot, playing the Eagles "Heartache Tonight".
FWIW, their sister station CFYM 1210 khz Kindersley SK is a rarity.
They play 60s stuff, 80s stuff, and a lot of Can-Con (naturally). I know I've heard Motown on them before.
So, they indeed get out. Right now I'm hearing them at S2-S4 signals (on 1330 khz) on my PR-D5, barefoot, playing the Eagles "Heartache Tonight".
FWIW, their sister station CFYM 1210 khz Kindersley SK is a rarity.
Thanks, guys for all the info and help. Both KVOL and WHGM absolutely crossed my mind and are definitely possibilities, One reason I guessed CJYM is because of the higher power. Also on Saturday morning, the path to the noirthwest was quite good (as it often is for some reason). CJOB was particularly strong. But in my mind, it's still a "tossup". Especially given the fragmented nature of what I heard. So now I'm intrigued enough to spend more time on 1330 until if and/or when I can poitively figure this one out.
FWIW, I gave 1330 a listen last night (Sat. night) on my PR-D5 and heard CJYM playing several oldies from the 1960s. Most of their tracks were all over the map, mostly 80's heavy, but they get out well. They averaged about S1-S3, strengthening a bit later in the A.M.
Right now they're weaker than last night, about S1, with fading, but alone on the channel out here right now. They just went from a Can-Con to the Doors "Light My Fire", and from that into a fadey Steppenwolf.
As for their signal, I don't know much about their pattern personally, but 10KW is 10KW, and even if you're in their null you could have gotten some of the signal off the back of their beam, which although nowhere near 10KW would probably get out somewhat, especially if you had great conditions to the NW.
If I was in your shoes, I probably wouldn't count them yet, but a tentative is possible, and definitely check that channel out whenever NW conditions are in. Besides, their music mix is pretty cool for listening to. Lots of great Can-con. And their weather reports ("Zero degrees tonight, a high of 3 to 4 degrees tomorrow" and the like) is also a giveaway -- and they do frequent weather reports for the area.
Right now they're weaker than last night, about S1, with fading, but alone on the channel out here right now. They just went from a Can-Con to the Doors "Light My Fire", and from that into a fadey Steppenwolf.
As for their signal, I don't know much about their pattern personally, but 10KW is 10KW, and even if you're in their null you could have gotten some of the signal off the back of their beam, which although nowhere near 10KW would probably get out somewhat, especially if you had great conditions to the NW.
If I was in your shoes, I probably wouldn't count them yet, but a tentative is possible, and definitely check that channel out whenever NW conditions are in. Besides, their music mix is pretty cool for listening to. Lots of great Can-con. And their weather reports ("Zero degrees tonight, a high of 3 to 4 degrees tomorrow" and the like) is also a giveaway -- and they do frequent weather reports for the area.
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Here's a list that might be helpful in IDing Canadian Oldies and Classic Hits stations.
Here's another link.
Here's one that will make you feel old, but it will be useful in the upcoming weeks of Sporadic E Skip of Canadian Contemporary stations.
musiccanada.wordpress.com
Although the recently passed R. Dean Taylor worked mainly at Motown in Detroit, he was from Toronto, and in addition to "Indiana Wants Me" also did a great one called "I Gotta See Jane", apparently written about his eventual wife. A US Ham (known far and wide on 80 an 40 meters), who passed away about the same time, named Ken Sands (Vincent Kenneth Shensky) worked closely with R. Dean Taylor at Motown, especially notable on the sound effects mixing on these songs. Ken worked at another 1330, the legendary Top 40 WTRX, as DJ "Spike Jones" (John Records Landecker was "Dow Jones" there around the same time, 1966, 6 years before WLS, and long before CFTR) before Ken joined Motown as a mixing engineer.
Here's another link.
Here's one that will make you feel old, but it will be useful in the upcoming weeks of Sporadic E Skip of Canadian Contemporary stations.
All-Time 40 Biggest Canadian Hits on the Hot 100 to Date
From its launch in mid-2007 to the present time, we have ranked the 40 biggest hits by domestic artists on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 using a points system. Total points were determined by subt…
musiccanada.wordpress.com
Although the recently passed R. Dean Taylor worked mainly at Motown in Detroit, he was from Toronto, and in addition to "Indiana Wants Me" also did a great one called "I Gotta See Jane", apparently written about his eventual wife. A US Ham (known far and wide on 80 an 40 meters), who passed away about the same time, named Ken Sands (Vincent Kenneth Shensky) worked closely with R. Dean Taylor at Motown, especially notable on the sound effects mixing on these songs. Ken worked at another 1330, the legendary Top 40 WTRX, as DJ "Spike Jones" (John Records Landecker was "Dow Jones" there around the same time, 1966, 6 years before WLS, and long before CFTR) before Ken joined Motown as a mixing engineer.
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Here's a list that might be helpful in IDing Canadian Oldies and Classic Hits stations.
Here's another link.
Here's one that will make you feel old, but it will be useful in the upcoming weeks of Sporadic E Skip of Canadian Contemporary stations.
All-Time 40 Biggest Canadian Hits on the Hot 100 to Date
From its launch in mid-2007 to the present time, we have ranked the 40 biggest hits by domestic artists on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 using a points system. Total points were determined by subt…
Although the recently passed R. Dean Taylor worked mainly at Motown in Detroit, he was from Toronto, and in addition to "Indiana Wants Me" also did a great one called "I Gotta See Jane", apparently written about his eventual wife. A US Ham (known far and wide on 80 an 40 meters), who passed away about the same time, named Ken Sands (Vincent Kenneth Shensky) worked closely with R. Dean Taylor at Motown, especially notable on the sound effects mixing on these songs. Ken worked at another 1330, the legendary Top 40 WTRX, as DJ "Spike Jones" (John Records Landecker was "Dow Jones" there around the same time, 1966, 6 years before WLS, and long before CFTR) before Ken joined Motown as a mixing engineer.
I recognize most of the RPM list. As far as "I gotta see Jane" and R. Dean Taaylor goes, I can't say I'm a fan. In fact when "Jane" came on CHUM, I'd usually hit the button for CKOC....or vice versa. LOL! Same goes for "Seasons in the Sun". But I did like Susan Jacks (of the Poppy Family, and Terry Jacks wife), solo Canadian Hits. As for R. Dean Taylor, his one hit that I did like was "Ain't it a Sad Thing" (which I actually heard for the first time on WJDX in Jackson, MS, of all places.). Favorite Can Con? Probably Albert Flasher, by the Guess Who....and written about a guy Burton Cummings met in Pennsylvania.
He was a work shop owner. If that was a real surname, they should have changed it.
Thanks for the info (to you as well as SC), I'm nowhere near ready to count CJYM as a catch. It's still in the "guess" category for me, and a vague guess at that. I was on 1330 about a half hour before sunrise this morning, and the channel was all but dead. There was faint pulsing....like the beat of a song. But nowhere near being identifiable.
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Speaking of "Seasons In The Sun", short time CFTR DJ John Lamdecker has said in at least one interview that it is his LEAST FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME!
I agree with John!
I don't know about absolute worst, but I might go so far as to put it in my top ten. BTW, I've listened to CFTR quite aa few times on ,y trips to Canada, but I never managed to catch JRL on CFTR.
Agreed--"Seasons in the Sun" although not the worst, would also be in my "Bottom Ten". Regarding JRL on CFTR, I've heard him on tape, but never live.
WJDX in the early 70's was a magnificent station, programed by Bill Tanner who went on to 13-Q in Pittsburgh and then to Y-100 in Miami... and then Power in Miami and then huge Spanish language successes with Heftel and SBS. It's no surprise that you were listening to that station.
I add in "You Light Up My Life" and "Feelings".
Hardly anybody says they like "You Light Up My Life" but it sold a ton of records. Another funny bit that Landecker did
was start playing that record and just as Debbie Boone started singing you'd hear a needle scraped across the record and that would be the end of it.
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