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I have yet to hear Radio Progreso on 690. Back in the good old days (80's, 90') Radio Liberacion was very common. These days the most common Spanish speaking station on 690 is XEN Mexico City.

On 760 XEABC is most likely, sometimes heard under WJR and during auroral conditions owning the frequency.
 
CADXER said:
I have yet to hear Radio Progreso on 690. Back in the good old days (80's, 90') Radio Liberacion was very common. These days the most common Spanish speaking station on 690 is XEN Mexico City.
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I've heard R. Progreso a few times at my location, but not lately. Yes, I remember R. LIberacion being fairly common back in the day. Especially when CBF from Montreal was off. At the beach near Pensacola, I can usully hear it under WQNO 24/7. But weaker than it was during the days when New Orleans 690 was WTIX.
CADXER said:
On 760 XEABC is most likely, sometimes heard under WJR and during auroral conditions owning the frequency.
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I heard XEABC for the first time here only recently, Not trashing WJR like it was a couple of mornings ago. Conditions seemed to be auroral when that was happening. KDKA and WGY were totally missing, but CJOB was in with a fair signal. Go figure,

On the beach this past February, XEABC was routinely getting the better of WJR most nights.
 
cyberdad said:
"Freaky" Pre-Halloween" conditions Monday morning (10/30) a little before 4am CDT....

690: New Orleans and Montreal both missing. Instead a strong signal with Spanish Ranchero music. Faded just before TOH. Definitely NOT R. Progreso (which is an occasional visitor around these parts.

760: Another Spanish Music signal. Even stronger than the one on 690, but the music sounded more Pop than Ranchero. Completely blowing out WJR. Then another vanishing act before I could get an ID.
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760 is probably XEABC, which booms into Houston at night. 690 is probably XEN, which plays mostly older Mexican music. XEMA 690 also plays similar music and is often heard here, but is usually off after midnight.
 
randalln said:
FM bandscan recorded near Kumimi Beach on the east side of Molokai.
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Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting and WELCOME to the board.

When I lived in Honolulu for my junior year of high school 1964-5, the FM band only had a handful of stations. And half of the band was set aside for potential Military and government use. As were TV channels 5 and 6, I've never been on Molokai. so this was of particular interest for me. The closest I ever came to Molokai was catching a distant view from a few vantage points on Oahu. In 1994 I was on Maui ,which had a slightly better view.
 
900 XEW appears to be on reduced power, or propagation is really crazy this evening. Right now (7:18 p.m. CT) in San Antonio I am hearing a mess of stations with XEW unusually weak and mixing with KPYN, KCLW, and a graveyard-like mess.

WKDA has been intermittently on top with adult standards music. Just heard a clear WKDA station ID a few minutes ago. New logging for me at 851 miles.
 
jim-satx said:
900 XEW appears to be on reduced power, or propagation is really crazy this evening. Right now (7:18 p.m. CT) in San Antonio I am hearing a mess of stations with XEW unusually weak and mixing with KPYN, KCLW, and a graveyard-like mess.

WKDA has been intermittently on top with adult standards music. Just heard a clear WKDA station ID a few minutes ago. New logging for me at 851 miles.
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You're running into the Texas version of what I've been running into here in the Chicago area. XEW has been missing for quite some time. They've never been regular, with CHML present most nights. But still, it also wasn't all that usual from time to time to hear XEW.

As with WKDA, I'm pretty comfortable in guessing that they're running 5kw non-directional day power at night.
 
jim-satx said:
900 XEW appears to be on reduced power, or propagation is really crazy this evening. Right now (7:18 p.m. CT) in San Antonio I am hearing a mess of stations with XEW unusually weak and mixing with KPYN, KCLW, and a graveyard-like mess.

WKDA has been intermittently on top with adult standards music. Just heard a clear WKDA station ID a few minutes ago. New logging for me at 851 miles.
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It's interesting - I checked 900 about 6:45 and XEW was strong and dominating the channel here (about 200 miles east of you!). I checked again after I read your post and it's still mostly XEW here.
 
I heard XEW once here in Alaska... it was so clear for a brief minute that i thought it could be 300 mile distant KZPA 900 Fort Yukon which simulcasts KSKO.. but im like "Were not playing that song!"
 
My first post on the following subject appears to have been lost due to the maintenance window, so I'll try again, hoping there's no duplication.

At sunset in Denver today - 1550 KUAZ Tucson, steady for the most part, starting around 5:30 pm and still coming in moderately well when I stopped listening at about 6:05 pm (all times Mountain DST). KUAZ's sound as an NPR member station is distinctive on the AM band.

On paper, there is a local, 1550 KKCL Golden, but it's currently operating under an STA with low power on a longwire antenna. At the other end of the metro area, I haven't heard it since I've moved here. (I have heard its FM translator, which has a fringe signal at best at my location.) There was no interference from it tonight.
 
cyberdad said:
You're running into the Texas version of what I've been running into here in the Chicago area. XEW has been missing for quite some time. They've never been regular, with CHML present most nights. But still, it also wasn't all that usual from time to time to hear XEW.

As with WKDA, I'm pretty comfortable in guessing that they're running 5kw non-directional day power at night.
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It was strange. For about 30 minutes, XEW was just barely there or gone altogether. I kept checking to see if I was actually tuned to 900. After that it came back with its usual strong signal.

In regard to WKDA, the clear station ID I heard last night included an ID for W252DU, which is on 98.3. Wikipedia and Radio Locator list WKDA as having a translator on 101.9, W270DM. The station must’ve changed translators in recent years.

The very weak ID I heard with the adult standards station last week included 98.3. WOZK is listed as having a translator on that frequency, W252DV, which is why I thought I’d heard WOZK. I’m now convinced that I’ve been hearing WKDA all along.
 
I would love to have a decent adult standards station here, but I can't even DX anything, as the nearest ones seem to be at least 1,000 miles away (WKDA is about 2,250 miles away, and WOZK is almost 2,500 miles away).

All SF is interested in these days, it seems, is new stuff, like pop, hard-ish rock, hip-hop/rap and alternative. The closest thing to "oldies" is KOSF, aka iHeart 80s+, and that's not terribly close to "my" definition of oldies (if oldies are in the ballpark of 30 to 40 years old, then I guess it technically fits, but it still feels too new for me to think of it as "old").

98.1 has a few decent songs every now and then, but their analog feed sounds like a low bitrate internet stream to me (ironically, the actual stream of 98.1 sounds somewhat better). I haven't had the chance to hear it in HD much because such things don't work reliably here in the east SFBA (I'm lucky to get the analog signal).

KOIT is nothing like it used to be. It has taken on a somewhat harder-edged sound than in the past (I wish I had appreciated it more when the old format was still on the air back in the late 90s and 2000s, but I was less into that kind of music back then).

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cc333 said:
I would love to have a decent adult standards station here, but I can't even DX anything, as the nearest ones seem to be at least 1,000 miles away (WKDA is about 2,250 miles away, and WOZK is almost 2,500 miles away).
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There used to be a streamed version of KABL. I'm not sure if it's still out there. There's also a streamed version of MOYL. Or you could "build your own" if you have Apple Music, Spotify, etc. In the case of Spotify, you could also listen to a public stream available for sharing. There are also some excellent streams of 50s-60s oldies.
 
cyberdad said:
There used to be a streamed version of KABL. I'm not sure if it's still out there.
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It's still there. I listen to it occasionally, but it's presentation isn't quite as smooth as I remember it when it was live. I'm not sure I like that it's an amalgamation of KABL's numerous variations. I'd prefer that they pick one and do it really well versus doing all of them marginally.

cyberdad said:
There's also a streamed version of MOYL.
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Ah, Music Of Your Life. I checked that out, and it's decent.

cyberdad said:
Or you could "build your own" if you have Apple Music, Spotify, etc.
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That's what I've been doing, but sometimes it's fun to just be able to tune in to a station on the radio and passively listen (laboriously creating my own playlists is fun and rewarding, but it's hard work).

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The KABL being streamed right now is actually quite different from the version that played in the 1980s. Growing up we'd call KABL the "elevator music" station, aka Easy Listening, and they had an FM station too I believe. The version streaming now seems to be hits from the 40s or 50s, and are often quite different from the KABL I knew back then. Much more energetic music.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
The KABL being streamed right now is actually quite different from the version that played in the 1980s. Growing up we'd call KABL the "elevator music" station, aka Easy Listening, and they had an FM station too I believe. The version streaming now seems to be hits from the 40s or 50s, and are often quite different from the KABL I knew back then. Much more energetic music.
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~Agree. It's more like MOYL than what I remember from my biz trips to the Bay area. Not saying that the current version is good or bad. Just different.
 
Auroral effects last night

730 XEX Mexico City loudest signal EVER at 2300 PT. W Deportes with overnight 'Musica' program. Easily S7 and all alone. Entertainment quality.
990 KTMS Santa Barbara CA huge with Coast to Coast and ID at 2330 PT.
Upper half of the band had more Oregon and Idaho slopping over.
550 was a mix of KFYI and KUZZ with Phoenix on top. 570 KLAC L.A. and weak KVI groundwave. 590 had a mix of signals, none of which I could identify, and I am still looking for KTIE San Bernardino. 620 KIGS Hanford all alone.
 


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