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Near Pellston, MI. Around 5:30 PM EST. Near and at PLN Airport. In the Buick, heard with car radio.

WCGO 1590 Evanston, IL. Foreign language, verified by internet feed.
CJOB 680 Winnipeg, MB. Talk format and Spots heard for Winnipeg businesses. Day pattern, in a shallow null equivalent to about 24 kW, based in 282 mVm @ 1 kW @ 1 km efficiency.
 
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I'm hearing something in english under KNX right now (about 6:25 PM Pacific). I'm guessing it might be KNTH out of Houston, TX.

Can anyone confirm?

c
 
It's very likely CFAX Victoria from where you are in the Bay Area. CFAX and KNX battle nightly here and rarely does anything else make it on 1070. I've heard KATQ Plentywood MT a few times at sunrise.
 
The normally relatively quiet 1440 seems To have suddenly become the gift that keeps on giving. Twofer Tuesday yesterday with two new 5kw catches mixing with one another at sunrise 12/26. WHKZ Warrenville. OH and WZYX Manchester, TN. About 400 and 500 miles respectively. with positive IDs from both. C Crane Skywave.
 
crainbebo said:
It's very likely CFAX Victoria from where you are in the Bay Area. CFAX and KNX battle nightly here and rarely does anything else make it on 1070. I've heard KATQ Plentywood MT a few times at sunrise.
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I like KATQ's night power. .

49.5 Watts

No 49, not 50.

49 didnt overlap with KNX, 50 watts did
 
KBSN 1470 Moses Lake, WA
Heard with country song about 756pm ak time 12/27, rising up and over CJVB Vancouver, which took over but murphys law didnt work against me and I got a very clear, loud, steady KBSN Legal ID.

Usually CJVB peels the paint here. Neither day or night pattern favors me, so I'm more than willing to say this was 1 kw night
 
About 802-805pm AK Wed Dec 27, I had some spanish language music on 1410khz and couldn't for the life of me tell you what flavor/format it was but I did hear a female voiceover say a bunch of things, of which I understood a word, "Sabrosita"

I thought surely this was a west coast station. Well, I went to Google and only got ONE hit for "Sabrosita" on 1410, being XEBS.

So, I tuned in to the webstream and im more than 90 percent positive, the female voiceover talent I'm hearing doing the station liners on the stream is the same one I heard on 1410khz.

25kw Day 10kw night at 4000 miles
 
cc333 said:
I'm hearing music with an announcer speaking either English or Spanish. I can't tell. Cuba maybe?

c
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on what frequency? 1410.....

XEBS doesnt speak one stitch of english

And how can you not tell if its english or spanish?
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
on what frequency?
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Sorry. It was 530, on the bottom of the dial.

SomeRadioGuy said:
And how can you not tell if its english or spanish?
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Because there's lots of fading. Almost a vibrato effect.

SomeRadioGuy said:
XEBS doesnt speak one stitch of english
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I'm sure it doesn't, being that it's in Mexico!

crainbebo said:
XEBS is a great catch!! Congrats! I have never heard them.
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Hold on a minute! While I appreciate the sentiment, I have yet to hear XEBS myself! Unless you meant that for SomeRadioGuy, in which case I, too will congratulate him :)

c
 
Yes, 530 sounds like Radio Enciclopedia to me. Only heard once or twice here in WA due to local WSDOT highway advisory stations that occupy 530 day and night. But I believe they have a stream somewhere.
 
cc333 said:
Sorry. It was 530, on the bottom of the dial.


Because there's lots of fading. Almost a vibrato effect.


I'm sure it doesn't, being that it's in Mexico!


Hold on a minute! While I appreciate the sentiment, I have yet to hear XEBS myself! Unless you meant that for SomeRadioGuy, in which case I, too will congratulate him :)

c
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You can also tell it’s Cuba… the audio on every single Cuban station I’ve heard is muddy, lifeless, Wimpy and just sounds odd … nowhere near as crisp and clear as even the worst sounding us AM
 
Neat!

I had actually heard Radio Enciclopedia on a kiwisdr from Knoxville, TN, so I thought maybe what little I heard on the car radio tonight sounded like it could be similar, but I wanted to check here for confirmation.

SomeRadioGuy said:
You can also tell it’s Cuba… the audio on every single Cuban station I’ve heard is muddy, lifeless, Wimpy and just sounds odd … nowhere near as crisp and clear as even the worst sounding us AM
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I noticed that. It's kind of tinny with some weird wow, sort of like everything's being played from a cheap turntable.

That said, I found Radio Enciclopedia's presentation to seem kind of old timey, sort of like I'd imagine a US commercial music station might've sounded back in the 30s and 40s, except worse because of the sound quality problems.

c
 
cc333 said:
That said, I found Radio Enciclopedia's presentation to seem kind of old timey, sort of like I'd imagine a US commercial music station might've sounded back in the 30s and 40s, except worse because of the sound quality problems.

c
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It's really unlike anything else, and a welcome refresher from screeching US syndicated talk radio. Sounds quaint and out of another era altogether.
 
CFZM-740 Toronto is another refreshing listen. A great mix of oldies programming. I do like the fact that so many AMs are now feeding FM translators, because there's a lot more music to listen to on the AM band at night. But of course, we DXers are probably the only listeners to those AM stations at times!
 
crainbebo said:
CFZM-740 Toronto is another refreshing listen. A great mix of oldies programming.
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I wish I could hear it, but local powerhouse KCBS with their 50kW blowtorch completely blocks everything else.

crainbebo said:
I do like the fact that so many AMs are now feeding FM translators, because there's a lot more music to listen to on the AM band at night.
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Me too. It has, perhaps unintentionally, led to a sort of renaissance of music on AM, which, while nice, probably won't last forever, sadly.

c
 
cyberdad said:
Cuba is my guess, But I wouldn't entirely rule out XEG.
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I think it was probably Cuba, since what little of it I heard sounded totally unlike anything else and the music I heard through the vibrato fading was distinctly instrumental. I couldn't make it out more than that.

c
 


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