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You all should remember to email Les a quick thank you after the DX season is over and say thanks for what he does. He has a 16-18-20 hour a day 6 to 7 day a week job and often has less than zero time to give to the hobby but does anyways. If he doesnt, no one else would.. when we put out the call for volunteers, especially to help with handling qsl requests or listening to audio sent in. almost no one volunteered. We got one or two later on, but not as a direct result of our requests for volunteers. Without Les, we wouldnt have anything close to what we have... I have more time than Les, but wouldn't want to deal with all the stuff Les has to deal with, especially complaints from stations about pain in the ass annoying DXers and Dxers who complain to les about not getting QSLs quick. send in the same reprot every week or used to wait months to send in a report.
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Got out the little cheapy radio I got from Wally World. Checking the AM band tonight. KNX 1070 is booming in like a local. Up just the dial a bit KRLD from Dallas is listenable. KSL from Salt Lake City is always around here after Sunset.
Oddly enough, I've never picked up KOA from Denver here. Used to get it all the time when I lived in Texas.
Oddly enough, I've never picked up KOA from Denver here. Used to get it all the time when I lived in Texas.
Is there another station interfering with KOA, or some type of electrical interference on 850? The 0.5 mV/m 50% skywave contour of KOA takes in all of New Mexico.
Big night...actually pre-dawn...for me as well. Lots of rare signals were in between 4 and 5 am at my current location near Pensacola. A few examples....
620: XENK? (Mexico City), On top with a signal ranging from weak to fair. Pop standards in Spanish & Eng;ish. Tentative
670: WSCR blowing out Cuba's R. Rebelde. Usually, it's the other way around.
740: CFZM Very tough catch here. Mixing with KTRH and KRMG. Occasionally getting the better of both of them.
850: KOA Alone and on top. First time I've ever heard them here
860: CJBC Roaring in on top of R. Reloj
880: WCBS Fair and alone. R. Progresso absent
1030: WBZ Weak. Usually here it's Mexico City
I also tried for KNX on 1070. Might have had it in the mix. But I couldn't come even remotely close to being able to ID it.
620: XENK? (Mexico City), On top with a signal ranging from weak to fair. Pop standards in Spanish & Eng;ish. Tentative
670: WSCR blowing out Cuba's R. Rebelde. Usually, it's the other way around.
740: CFZM Very tough catch here. Mixing with KTRH and KRMG. Occasionally getting the better of both of them.
850: KOA Alone and on top. First time I've ever heard them here
860: CJBC Roaring in on top of R. Reloj
880: WCBS Fair and alone. R. Progresso absent
1030: WBZ Weak. Usually here it's Mexico City
I also tried for KNX on 1070. Might have had it in the mix. But I couldn't come even remotely close to being able to ID it.
Only Los Angeles station ever logged was KNX. Tried for KFI but nothing on 640. Wondering if KOA is using a directional antenna. When I lived in Dallas got them most every night after the local daytime 850 went off the air. But here in Albuquerque now, never gotten anything on 850.
That’s strange because I’ve been able to get both KFI and KOA in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the past and both sounded like locals. Both are coming in strong tonight here in Mesa, Arizona, which is closer to KFI in LA than you, but further away from KOA in Denver. Maybe it’s an issue with the radio you are using? Or are you close to the KJFA AM 840 transmitter? Both KFI and KOA are 50,000 watts non-directional 24/7 so no directional antenna is being used for those two stations!
Has anyone ever figured out how they came up with the big nondirectional Class As serving 38 states? Why was it always 38 states? You would think the coastal ones would be less. And each one a little different.
I think a few stations started using that "38 states" and I think they pulled it outt' dere hatz.
Back in the 30's, many clear channel stations put mail pull maps in their ads. Some had all 48 states, others huge segments of the nation. Back then, much of America depended on the high power stations, and since most radio listening was at home at night, those signals covered huge areas.
WREO Lansing, MI, owned by Ransom E. Olds, founder of. REO Motor Company, forerunner of Oldsmobile, operated from 1924 to 1927 on 1050 and 1300 kHz, with 500 watts, and was reportedly heard in much of the world. I wonder if some stations were heard on harmonics before that was worked out with filters.
"Thirty-eight states and Canada" was the saying here in Chicago. With four clear-channel 1As (five before KYW was sent to Philadelphia in 1934) it might have started here. Maybe it was just DXers who listened to WMAQ, et al, in the far west, but it really was 48 in that era. There were even radio guides that focused on the clear-channel stations, much like Satellite TV Week told you what was on what bird in the 1980s. David has many on his amazing website.
WKBW had a map that showed responses from much of Europe and Northwest Africa. Of course, nothing much to the West, and very few in Michigan. There were engineers there who claimed that if you heard it to the West, the signal had to have come completely around the World. When I have heard WKBW/WWKB in Michigan, it was during the earliest recovery after Auroral events, meaning it probably reflected off of receding Auroral ion clouds to the North.
To the best of my knowledge, KOA is non directional and always has been.. It;s usually relatively most nights in the Chicago area. But both KNX, and especially KFI. have become very elusive. Some DXers in the area still snag them occasionally. But not me. It's been at least ten years for me since catching KNX. Probably twice that at minimum for KFI. Surprisingly, at least for me, the most common West Coast catch is CKWX, which pops up once or twice a year. Usually in winter.
Cyberdad's on the button with his analysis. KOA's a snap nightly unless conditions are bizarre. Chicagoans have next to no shot at KFI with 4.4 kW WMFN Peotone aimed at the Loop. KNX is a longshot, the odds only slightly better with WIBC/WFNI Indianapolis gone. But 1070 at night has always been a dog's dinner. You never know what you'll get.
I had CINA last winter on m,y car radio via daytime skywave. Haven't heard them since. But given that CFZM and CJBC have been semi-regulars for me during my current stay in the Pensacola area, CINA might be worth a try.
From Albuquerque, NM
Had some free time tonight so turned on the desk radio to see what I could find.
This is a new one. KSTP 1500 from St. Paul, Minnesota. Very weak but was able to ID with top of the hour station identification.
WOAI 1200 from San Antonio is around with a bit of fading in and out.
KRVN 880 from Nebraska is booming in like a local, as it does most nights.
Nothing from the west coast. Might be a bit too early.
Had some free time tonight so turned on the desk radio to see what I could find.
This is a new one. KSTP 1500 from St. Paul, Minnesota. Very weak but was able to ID with top of the hour station identification.
WOAI 1200 from San Antonio is around with a bit of fading in and out.
KRVN 880 from Nebraska is booming in like a local, as it does most nights.
Nothing from the west coast. Might be a bit too early.