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DFW Texas -- Sangean ATS-909X portable

Added 2 new stations last night, 10/19/2023, #542 and #543.

1140 CHRB High River, AB: Christian praise music // web stream 10:15 pm CDT, weak to fair with long fades, in KHFX null. New province.

1440 KTUV Little Rock, AR: Soul oldies, ID "The Cat". Fair on top with radio aimed northeast. Matched web stream of KCAT 1340. Thanks to @jim-satx for the tip.
 
Nice work on CHRB! That's a toughie down there. Easy at night in WA, they are usually on top of Boise/Sacramento, and when they are not in teaching/preaching programming, their CCM mix is like a throwback to the '90s, with Avalon/Kathy Troccoli/early Newsboys/early Chris Tomlin/Point of Grace often represented...also a lot of Canadian acts and occasional Maranatha. Like when K-LOVE was just starting out on a bunch of translators.
There's also occasional country music, but not as much as they used to do. CHRB used to be a country station years ago. They now have an FM country station in High River.
 
CHRB sometimes shows up here, under nightly needle pegger KSLD 1140, 10kw from about 350 miles away.

KHTK Sacramento often shows up under KSLD enough to be audible and tell what theyre talking about.
 
Forgot a log from last night, Thu. Oct 19th

right at 9pm AK Time, had an ID that included KIFM, pretty crystal clear too. (Id have to go back to my recording, i say included because I recall it mentioned an HD side channel, I think)
 
Re: CKFH

....It became CJCL in 1981.

Aha! that explains why I don't remember the CKFH call letters. I first began my regular travels to Canada in late 1981.

Update: CJCL (the 590 version, of course)was in again this morning at my location. Not quite as strong as the past two nights, but steady a little after 4am CDT. I was hearing music in Spanish from time to time underneath. Definitely not R. Nacional. Rather,it soundedounded more like Ranchero. Any ideas? XEFD?
 
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I just discovered that KYOS comes in form Merced relatively well in the daytime. There's some fading, so daytime skywave perhaps?

I'm liking its oldies format, too (too bad it's only on the weekends; conservative talk isn't really my thing).

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TXPH97 said:
DFW Texas -- Sangean ATS-909X portable

Added 2 new stations last night, 10/19/2023, #542 and #543.

1140 CHRB High River, AB: Christian praise music // web stream 10:15 pm CDT, weak to fair with long fades, in KHFX null. New province.

1440 KTUV Little Rock, AR: Soul oldies, ID "The Cat". Fair on top with radio aimed northeast. Matched web stream of KCAT 1340. Thanks to @jim-satx for the tip.
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1140 here in Houston is usually all KHFX and XEMR. I saw this post and decided to try for CHRB last night just before midnight. Tuned over to 1140 and there it was on top of the channel w/countryish Christian music //stream. It faded before TOH but pretty good at peaks. I think they send most of their signal NW at night, so maybe on day pattern? Anyway, a new province for me and station #423 in the logbook. @TXPH97 thanks for the tip!
 
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Mixed bag for me this past week or so. Both at home and four nights on the road. I'll elaborate more later if I get the chance. But what jumps out for me is that a few one-time "clear" channels have been sounding more like grqveyard channels. 640, 800, 1070, and 1130 come to mind. A little strange given the trend of an increasing number of AMs are becoming silent.

Then there's the matter of local WIND now with something underneath it...NIGHTLY. This used to happen only occasionalloy. Still haven't been able to ID the intruder, But KWTO is "most likely suspect".
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Interesting. WIND is usually a nighttime regular at my location. But for the last several months, 560 has been a hodgepodge of WIND and something else. I suspect KWTO, but it's such a mess I haven't been able to ID it. I can't really even tell if I'm hearing WIND, although it's likely still in the mix.

Agree also about former clears sounding more like graveyards. I can't comment on 640 or 800, due to nearby signals on those frequencies, but 690, 810, 1070 and 1080 come to my mind. I thought the likely reason was all the low-powered nightime signals on frequencies that were once daytime only (and translators). And a lot of regional frequencies sound more like graveyards, too. For this exact reason, DXing isn't nearly as fun for me as it used to be. On the plus side, it seems like l get more signals from Mexico than I used to, which is fun. It could be that my memory is poor or I've just developed more of an ear for Mexican stations, even though I still can't speak Spanish. :(
 
DFW Texas -- Sangean ATS-909X portable

Added new station #545 last night, 10/21/2023, at 9:30pm CDT.

600 KSJB Jamestown ND: Classic Country mixing with a stronger WMT with radio aimed N/S. KTBB to the east of my location was nulled. Programming matched the web stream, although the stream was ~30 secs behind.
 
icybluelake said:
the plus side, it seems like l get more signals from Mexico than I used to, which is fun. It could be that my memory is poor or I've just developed more of an ear for Mexican stations, even though I still can't speak Spanish. :(
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It's certainly been my longtime experience that Mexican stations are more doable in Iowa than Illinois. Case in point during my college days was XERF with Wolfman Jack. XERF was present here in the Chicago area. Certainly listenable despite occasional intrusions from the Canadians on 1570. But in Iowa XERF was alone with a good signal. No intruders,
 
530 CHLO Brampton, Ontario, Canada heard in early mornings (6 am local) in Myrtle Beach, SC. 6070 khz shortwave outlet of CFRB- Newstalk 1010 from Toronto also very easy to hear before sunrise here, but looking for 1010 signal always brings no joy.
 
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530 CHLO Brampton, Ontario, Canada heard in early mornings (6 am local) in Myrtle Beach, SC. 6070 khz shortwave outlet of CFRB- Newstalk 1010 from Toronto also very easy to hear before sunrise here, but looking for 1010 signal always brings no joy.
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CHLO is fairly common here in the Chicago area. It used to be under or mixing with R. Enciclopedia from Cuba.. Lately, however, It has been missing more often than not. Word is that the Cubans have been running some of their transmitters at reduced power due to electricity grid issues,

As for CFRB, it turns up from time to time. More about CFRB next month when 1010 is our freqency of the week.
 
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Sunrise DX this morning:
910 KPOF Denver, soft Christian music and ID "AM91"
1510 KFNN Mesa AZ with Financial programs, commercials for gold/IRA companies.

Heard a "1460 and 101.1" but not sure whether that was KZNT in CO (needed) or KION in CA (relog). Not really hearing stations from straight east this morning, it has a SE slant, and few TP carriers.
 
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Sunrise DX this morning:
910 KPOF Denver, soft Christian music and ID "AM91"
1510 KFNN Mesa AZ with Financial programs, commercials for gold/IRA companies.

Heard a "1460 and 101.1" but not sure whether that was KZNT in CO (needed) or KION in CA (relog). Not really hearing stations from straight east this morning, it has a SE slant, and few TP carriers.
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The key with the 1460/101.1 signals is the voice over guy... the guy used KZNT is the same guy used by the Salem Answer stations, which isnt the same guy used by KION
 
crainbebo said:
Sunrise DX this morning:
910 KPOF Denver, soft Christian music and ID "AM91"
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Also note that KPOF (Pillar of Fire) broadcasts in HD which might present an interesting DX opportunity.

The HD sidebands make me think of it as Pillar of Noise...though, as Christian stations go, it's fairly mellow.
 
WJOX 690 Birmingham, AL. (ex WVOK) Fair-good signal and alone at my home location for about 10-15 minutes at my home location with Fox Sports and ads for Birmginham businesses. Presumably 50kw day power. Not new, but probably 15-20 years since I last heard it at my home location. Used to be a semi'regular here around sunset during it's top-40 days as WVOK.
 
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I don't think I heard "The Answer"...I think it was KION.
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I heard KZNT Regularly when i was in Wyoming and I can hear KION here semi regularly.. so i can confidentally say they are hard to tell apart unless you pay close attention to particulars.
 
I just had an interesting experience tonight while driving home through the Central Valley (on I-505).

I was trying to listen to KCBS, whose transmitter should be only about 50 miles from where I was, but it sounded like junk, with lots of static and fading.

KNX 1070, however, came in loud and clear like a local despite being over 300 miles farther away than KCBS.

My guess is that this is because KCBS' nighttime pattern favors the southeast to protect CFZM, and we were in that null (KNX is nondirectional 24/7).

c
 


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