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Schroedingers Cat said:
The License to Cover Application for WISN 1130 was filed in February, 1965. It was not granted until 1967. I think it was around August, 1965, that I heard it at Crystal Lake near Frankfort, MI during Morning Critical Hours. It was on a 1960 vintage Magnavox transistor radio. They said they were now Wisconsin's first 50000 watt station, which confused me because I thought they were still on 1150, because it was difficult to tell the exact frequency in that range on the slide rule dial.
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I first heard WISN in late spring when I got home from my junior year of High School in Honolulu. At first I was a little surprised, because I didn't know the move was coming. But I knew that it made sense for WISN because 1130 was pretty much empty day and night. (WDGY from Minneapolis was an occasional visitor on day power/pattern around sunset).

Speaking of Honolulu... The usual occupant of 1130 there in those days was KLEI. 1kw ND from Kailua. about 20 miles away. Signal was weak because the Koolau (Ko-o-lau) mountains blocked the land path across Oahu. KLEI, unfortunately, is now long gone.
 
TENTATIVE New one for me this morning just after 4am CDT. Gospel music on 1110 with a very weak signal, but not much on 1110 at my location before dawn to block it. I never did catch an ID, but WGNZ from Fairborn, OH (Dayron) seems to be the only fit. Probably 1kw PSA power (I seriously doubt 2 watts would be audible barefoot around here!) Anyway, I'll try to keep checking for the next two or three days to see if turns up again in identifiable form.
 
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cyberdad said:
TENTATIVE New one for me this morning just after 4am CDT. Gospel music on 1110 with a very weak signal, but not much on 1110 at my location before dawn to block it I never did catch an ID, but WGNZ from Fairborn, OH (Dayron) seems to be the only fit. Probably 1kw PSA power (I seriously doubt 2 watts would be audible barefoot around here!) Anyway, I'll try to keep checking for the next two or three days to see if turns up again in identifiable form.
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Nice catch.
 
Massive Es opening on Milford PA Global Tuners to Florida (and a hint of Louisiana) this morning/early afternoon. MUF 107.9+.

From 11:15-11:45AM
93.1 WKRO Edgewater FL 'Coast Country'
93.1 WFEZ Miami
95.7 WHNJ Florida Keys area with a religious drama
95.9 WROK Sebastian FL 'The Rock'
95.5 WLDI Juno Beach 'Wild 95.5'
95.3 WOLZ-FM Fort Myers 'The Beach'
94.7 WPHR Gifford FL B94.7 Country
94.5 KRUF Shreveport LA 'K94.5'
96.5 WPOW-FM Miami
98.7 WCNK Key West 'The Conch'
100.3 WCTH Plantation Key
101.1 WAVV Naples Park
101.5 WLYF Miami , local ads hiring transit drivers for Miami Dade County transit
104.3 WSFS Miramar 'The Shar'
94.9 WZTU Miami Beach 'Tu'
93.9 WMIA Miami
92.7 WAVW Stuart 'Wave 92.7' over semi-local
93.7 WGYL Vero Beach knocking pest WSTW DE to shreds
94.3 WRLX Riviera Beach

11:45-12:15PM
94.5 WARO Naples
98.3 WRTO Goulds mixed with a Caribbean-sounding station, suspected Bahamas
98.7 WKGR Wellington FL
98.9 WGUF Naples FL extremely strong with RDS and Mike Gallagher Show
107.5 WAMR Miami local ads in SS
105.1 WHQT Miami local ads
107.9 WEAT West Palm Beach, 'rockin' you like a hurricane', wait a minute that's the song that was playing. Sunny 107.9, strong!
Cuba TV on 2, 3, 5, possibly 4 as well. 2 and 5 were Tele Rebelde.
89.5 WFIT Melbourne
89.7 WMLV Miami K-LOVE
100.5 W263BT Clewiston FL WAFC-590 classic country, 250 watts!! This would later fade up to local strength with RDS!! A Creole station was also mixing with them and very likely an LP/translator station in Naples that repeats a Haitian station.
90.7 WFLV West Palm Beach K-LOVE TOH
90.9 WLFE Cutler Bay FL wiping away local WAMC translator (!!) RDS, Spanish version of 'Love God, Love People' by Danny Gokey.
92.9 WIKX Charlotte Harbor 'Kix Country'
97.7 WAVK Cudjoe Key RDS, sports
97.9 WRMF Palm Beach
99.3 WLRQ Cocoa
99.7 WJKD Vero Beach

12:15-1pm
101.3 unid with RDS PI 6848, Christian music?
101.7 WKYZ Key Colony Beach, local ads for Florida Keys
101.9 WWGR Fort Myers local ads
105.5 WBTT Naples Park FL local ads
103.1 WFKZ Plantation Key, FL Keys refs, classic rock
90.3 WEJF Palm Bay FL RDS 'wejf-fm'
91.7 WJFH Sebring FL // stream Joy FM
104.5 WFLM Palm Beach Shores FL
pretty sure I had ZFM-102.1 Freeport Bahamas, have to check recording once I get back from MT. I believe the Caribbean-accented woman said Mix 102.
88.1 WAYF West Palm Beach FL through semi-local!! WAY FM
87.7 WEYS-LP Miami
94.1 WLLD Lakeland FL
96.5 WOEX Orlando
97.1 WOSN Indian River Shores, with a Poco song, this station is a treat and does not stream
100.3 WRUM Orlando
90.3 WJLH Flagler Beach

It sure was terrific!
 
How strange. Having it happen more than once tends to imply that perhaps it's not a fluke. Perhaps comparing it to your other radio will settle this mystery.

I'd check it out myself, but KOIT is pretty strong here, so if KZAP did show up on 96.5, it's virtually certain to be thoroughly drowned out by KOIT.

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cyberdad said:
TENTATIVE New one for me this morning just after 4am CDT. Gospel music on 1110 with a very weak signal, but not much on 1110 at my location before dawn to block it. I never did catch an ID, but WGNZ from Fairborn, OH (Dayron) seems to be the only fit. Probably 1kw PSA power (I seriously doubt 2 watts would be audible barefoot around here!) Anyway, I'll try to keep checking for the next two or three days to see if turns up again in identifiable form.
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2 watts would cover a few ears of corn in Xenia. WGNZ is a frequent cheater
 
gr8oldies said:
2 watts would cover a few ears of corn in Xenia. WGNZ is a frequent cheater
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LOL!

Update: I was on 1110 again before local sunrise this morning. The religious music was fading in and out. Mostly out. I did catch an ID with a female voice, but it faded before the call letters completely made it through. Audio was weak and "fuzzy", so I can't say for sure, but I'm still leaning toward WGNZ. Conditions were not as good as the previous couple of mornings. No trace of KFAB or WBT. Or anything else.
 
Little tropo DX yesterday. Nothing spectacular, but at least it's something since E-skip has been absent around here.

89.3 WGNJ IL St. Joseph, 6/28 0741 religious talk
91.7 WBGL IL Champaign, 6/28 1044, gospel music
92.5 WREE IL Urbana, 6/28 0817 "Rewind 92.5"
94.5 WLRW IL Champaign, 6/28 0826 "Mix 94.5"
94.9 WYNG IL Mt. Carmel, 6/28 1052, K-Love
96.1 WQQB IL Rantoul, 6/28 0832, "Q96"
97.5 WHMS IL Champaign, 6/28 0835, soft rock
100.9 WHPO IL Hoopestown, 6/28 0907, talk
104.9 WAXI IN Rockville, 6/28 0945, "Super Hits 104.9"
105.3 WJLT IN Evansville, 6/28 1000

QTH: Wood Dale, IL
Sangean HDT-20
Radio Shack FM outdoor antenna
 
CADXER said:
Little tropo DX yesterday. Nothing spectacular, but at least it's something since E-skip has been absent around here.
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I'm back on the Gulf Coast this week. I haven't had much time to DX, but my initial impression is that tropo here isn't as strong it was during my February stay. Which...if in fact true...strikes me as very odd. Case in point is WTIX-FM, which is very weak, if even there at all. During our last visit this past February, WTIX was in with a hiss-free signal more often than not, That also had been the rule in previous summers, when the FM band frequently lit up with New Orleans area signals from a distance of about 130-150 miles to my west.
 
More Sporadic-E to El Paso, TX here yesterday. Pretty much mostly relogs but picked up some new low band stuff to El Paso.

I think there was a earlier Es opening that i missed yesterday that probably would have given me Amarillo, TX.
 
MarioMania said:
Just a report on KZAP

on my Eton Mini I'm getting it on 96.7 not 96.5

I can't even get it on my Sangean DT-110

I'm going to get the XHDATA D-109 from eBay
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The radio's local oscillator might be way off.

Do you get other stations way off frequency as well and not on the proper frequency?
 
Update from the Gulf Coast (Perdido Key on the AL-FL Border).

Interesting DX about two hours before dawn this morning. WTAN 1340 from Clearwater, FL. 312 miles. WTAN totally on top for the better part of a half hour. Oldies and "Tan Network" branding along with positive ID.

As I've posted before, WTAN makes the daytime hop to here via saltwater path. Very weak, but listenable despite splatter from semi-local WEBY on 1330. The signal this morning was obviously skywave across the gulf and definitely stronger than daytime. The gy mess was present underneath, but didn't rise to the top.

Also...We haven't talked much lately about the "wobbler" on 870. I actually thought it might be gone, but at night, it's apparently alive and well, The signal was strong and trashing WWL, which is also strong here 24/7. But the wobbler vanishes by day, leaving WWL in the clear. I could think of no reason why what I've been hearing isn't in line with the prevailing theory of this noisemaker being of Cuban origin.
 
CADXER, I noticed your FM haul included a bunch of first adjacents to Chicago stations with IBOC, and normally blocked out. Is it more the RS antenna (directional?) you'e using or the Sangean? That's a unit I'm not familiar with. Thanks in advance.
 
You have to have antennas with really deep nulls and really small side lobes to null out first adjacent IBOC sidebands usually. Most have been discontinued. The k6sti site has some home brew designs that do this. The 5 element Yagi is where you might start. I wish he would also show relative field polar patterns, as the dB scale makes the antennas look less impressive. The Stellar Labs 30-2460 with the fifth element modification looks fairly straightforward, but the front to worst side lobe ratio is modest.

88–108 MHz

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