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KFBK is so loud 2300 miles away in their main lobe, with 125KW ERP.. that i can widen my radios audio to 6 or 8khz audio bandwith with no degradation, hiss or static... and i can easily tell Sacramento is a PPM Ratings market and KFBK has the watermarking Voltair equipment cranked up to elevenity gajillion

Here's my audio

KFBK 1530 Sacramento, CA 640pm Thu Oct 19, 2023.MP3

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MarioMania said:
How far does KFBK 1530 Sacramento go east before WCKY takes over at Night?
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I would say somewhere in eastern Colorado.

KFBK is strong on the northern Utah SDR.

It's weak but still sometimes listenable on the Fort Collins, Colorado SDR.

But on the closest SDR to the east which is in Omaha, Nebraska, it's all WCKY and strong.
 
gar hi said:
I would say somewhere in eastern Colorado.

KFBK is strong on the northern Utah SDR.

It's weak but still sometimes listenable on the Fort Collins, Colorado SDR.

But on the closest SDR to the east which is in Omaha, Nebraska, it's all WCKY and strong.
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That’s probably not far off; I have pulled in KFBK in Las Cruces, but that’s my farthest east point. I have never heard them in the Texas Hill Country. I hope Jimsatx can relay his 1530 DXing. WCKY makes it here, before their pattern change.
 
Gear up for auroral conditions later in the week. Am M9.6 solar flare in the center of the sun will be heading our way. Northern lights likely as well.
 
gar hi said:
I would say somewhere in eastern Colorado.

KFBK is strong on the northern Utah SDR.

It's weak but still sometimes listenable on the Fort Collins, Colorado SDR.

But on the closest SDR to the east which is in Omaha, Nebraska, it's all WCKY and strong.
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Id say western kansas at minimum before WCKY really over takes KFBK.. i dont remember hearing WCKY in Laramie, WY to any great extent
 
gar hi said:
I would say somewhere in eastern Colorado.

KFBK is strong on the northern Utah SDR.

It's weak but still sometimes listenable on the Fort Collins, Colorado SDR.

But on the closest SDR to the east which is in Omaha, Nebraska, it's all WCKY and strong.
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Keep in mind that WCKY doesn't switch to its nighttime pattern until Sacramento local sunset. I remember hearing it many a time near St. Louis in the 1970s for a couple of hours after sunset until <boop> it went away. It was notable then for syrupy "beautiful music" that really stood out on the AM dial. Usually in the early and mid 1970s, that was an FM thing.

There's a station on 1530 in Colorado Springs, ND: KQSC 15 kw days, 1 kw critical hours, 15 w nights. Definitely not going to have an effect at night up here (Denver) or Fort Collins unless someone "forgets" something. I'm getting it faintly as I write this (shortly after 1 pm) on daytime power. Slogan is "107.3 Mountain Country".

There is a class D AM on 1530 in Denison, Iowa with all of 13 watts at night, the only Midwestern class D that I see with any kind of nighttime power.
 
Mark Roberts said:
There's a station on 1530 in Colorado Springs, ND: KQSC 15 kw days, 1 kw critical hours, 15 w nights. Definitely not going to have an effect at night up here (Denver) or Fort Collins unless someone "forgets" something. I'm getting it faintly as I write this (shortly after 1 pm) on daytime power. Slogan is "107.3 Mountain Country".
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And, at 1:48 pm, KQSC went poof. That seems a little early to switch to critical hours power...unless something else altogether happened.

Also: the ND in my post referred to non-directional operation, not to North Dakota. Punctuation matters and I didn't catch that.
 
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Mark Roberts said:
Keep in mind that WCKY doesn't switch to its nighttime pattern until Sacramento local sunset. I remember hearing it many a time near St. Louis in the 1970s for a couple of hours after sunset until <boop> it went away. It was notable then for syrupy "beautiful music" that really stood out on the AM dial. Usually in the early and mid 1970s, that was an FM thing.

There's a station on 1530 in Colorado Springs, ND: KQSC 15 kw days, 1 kw critical hours, 15 w nights. Definitely not going to have an effect at night up here (Denver) or Fort Collins unless someone "forgets" something. I'm getting it faintly as I write this (shortly after 1 pm) on daytime power. Slogan is "107.3 Mountain Country".

There is a class D AM on 1530 in Denison, Iowa with all of 13 watts at night, the only Midwestern class D that I see with any kind of nighttime power.
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@Mark Roberts KQSC was a very frequent visitor in Laramie, WY just before power down at sunset or right after power up at sunrise... and when i say frequent i mean, daily and often very very good, 175 miles away.
 
Mark Roberts said:
There's a station on 1530 in Colorado Springs, ND: KQSC 15 kw days, 1 kw critical hours, 15 w nights. Definitely not going to have an effect at night up here (Denver) or Fort Collins unless someone "forgets" something. I'm getting it faintly as I write this (shortly after 1 pm) on daytime power. Slogan is "107.3 Mountain Country".

There is a class D AM on 1530 in Denison, Iowa with all of 13 watts at night, the only Midwestern class D that I see with any kind of nighttime power.
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Those two lower power assignments for night operation show where both stations are neither protected nor likely to have consistently strong signals. Those CO and IA stations show the zone in which either station may have the better signal as neither is expected to serve those zones.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Those two lower power assignments for night operation show where both stations are neither protected nor likely to have consistently strong signals. Those CO and IA stations show the zone in which either station may have the better signal as neither is expected to serve those zones.
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I like the mountain states station that is 49.5 watts at night. Not 49....not 50.. but 49.5!

49 doesnt cause overlap with the station they need to protect... 50 does.
 
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Just KDFD and a weak KGB San Diego here on 760.
Conditions aren't too great tonight.
 
First post, very new to DXing. Ccrane SWP indoors, built in antenna only.

From Springfield, OH, WCPC, Houston, MS. About 550 miles. Clear for 30 minutes. Nighttime power 7W. Thinking they must have not switched day power of 31kW off?

Been doing this a week now, up to 22 states.
 


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