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Heard KFOO 1440 Riverside, CA with very clear BIN mentions a few nights ago.. 1kw ND at like 2800 miles. 2nd time ive logged KFOO in a few weeks
 
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I miss Radio Australia. I miss those weekend summer evenings (Pacific time) when they would boom in like gangbusters at 15240 and 13630 with the 'Grandstand' cricket play-by-play. Often they were in for several hours before and after sunset along with RNZI.
And time marches on.
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I miss Countdown/Soundabout. And the news reports. And yeah, the Grandstand show sometimes had Rugby games.

I bet the rural Australians miss it more than we do. Not sure which radio stations are picking up what's left. Theres a station in Emerald that apparently has a good signal to the Outback. Maybe a couple other AM stations, too.
 
My first exposure to Australian Rules football was on RA’s Sporting Service. Sounded like the craziest game imaginable. When I finally saw it on ESPN, I was right! And they’d cut away to the odd horse race along the way. Fun times very late on a Friday night in the Midwest.
 
I'm hearing oldies on 9395 kHz. I thought maybe it could be WRMI Legends, but the sound quality is kind of thin and tinny compared to the program on 9455 kHz.

i see that WRMI is usually on this frequency, and that Legends does air from 21:00-22:00 UTC M-F, but the current time is 3:45 UTC as of this post. The Overcomer Ministry is scheduled in this slot on this day, but I'm pretty sure that's not what I'm hearing.

Could it be a pirate? Some other overseas signal?

I like the music they're playing, and the signal is fading, but it's reasonably listenable, so I'll listen for awhile. Maybe they'll air an ID or something eventually?

Setup: Radioshack DX-398 with ~100' ungrounded random long wire antenna oriented in an L-shape, with one half oriented east-west and the other roughly north-south.

EDIT: Been listening for the better part of an hour now, and still no ID. It sounds like my Part 15 AM , in that it is just a stream of songs (the same songs as my station, even!). A couple times when it faded, I thought I heard something else briefly surface, probably the Overcomer, so that proves to me that whatever this is isn't normally supposed to be here.

Also, the signal is quite strong, so it must either be aimed right at me and is very strong or is relatively close by.

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I'll do that, thanks for the advice.

Meanwhile, I listened for almost two hours, and I finally got an ID. It was indeed WRMI, which was playing a bunch of oldies for some reason.

c
 
cc333 said:
I'll do that, thanks for the advice.

Meanwhile, I listened for almost two hours, and I finally got an ID. It was indeed WRMI, which was playing a bunch of oldies for some reason.

c
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I have heard WRMI playing oldies, old R&B, etc., with none of the Legends DJs, never listened to a 2 hour block, though... I think they sometimes run the oldies when there are empty slots in their programming, especially on weekends. Just a guess, though.
 
tvnut said:
My first exposure to Australian Rules football was on RA’s Sporting Service. Sounded like the craziest game imaginable. When I finally saw it on ESPN, I was right! And they’d cut away to the odd horse race along the way. Fun times very late on a Friday night in the Midwest.
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I remember seeing Australian Rules once, on TV, back in the late 80s. It reminded me of football with a lot of fast action, similar to what you see in basketball. I'm sort of surprised it didn't catch on the US, as it's made for TV. But it never did.

Rugby, of course, is a different game altogether. Listening to the matches on Radio Australia, I never could get the jist of what's going on. Following Canadian hockey broadcasts is much easier (I don't listen to the local ones, but hear the Canadian ones frequently when the hockey season's on.
 
Unexpected catch this morning (4/7) commencing at 6:30am CDT. Right after sunrise. WCCW 1310 from Traverse City, MI. BLASTING in alone and on top for a solid half hour. No trace of WIBA. Their pattern is supposed to be mostly straight north, so I'm guessing they're operating non directional. Either 15kw day power or 7.5 night power.

Assuming this is true and that it's not an isolated incident, you might want to check this out. Format is classic country branded as "WTCM Classic Country".
 
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cyberdad said:
Unexpected catch this m\\\orning (4/7) commencing at 6:30am CDT. Right after sunrise. WCCW 1310 from Traverse City, MI. BLASTING in alone and on top for a solid half hour. No trace of WIBA. Their pattern is supposed to be mostly straight north, so I'm guessing they're operating non directional. Either 15kw day power or 7.5 night power.

Assuming this is true and that it's not an isolated incident, you might want to check this out. Format is classic country branded as "WTCM Classic Country".
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They just relicensed as a Class D with 15000 watts nondirectional, from the original WCCW transmitter site. They sold the land on which the 4 tower DA was on near Chums Corners a few years ago. They had been on STA at 3250 watts Day from the original site in the mean time. They probably could be 50000 watts nondirectional Day from that site, given the very poor measured ground conductivity. Probably not likely. I've heard they want to hook up with an FM translator. That's more likely.


This is the station and transmitting site from which David Eduardo transmitted his presunrise Spanish Language show in the early 1960s, when the FCC allowed early sign on with full Day power, before 500 watt PSAs were the maximum. There were a lot of migrant Spanish speaking seasonal cherry orchard workers at the time.

WMBN 1340 sold their 75 year old SL and TL site to Meijers Thrifty Acres, and are now operating with an STA with an inverted V antenna with 1000 watts at the WLXT 96.3 site about 20 miles from me, atop a sandy hill. WCCW with 15000 watts is about 100 uV/m from about 75 miles away, whereas the WMBN signal is only 60 uV/m. I measure them quite often with the FIM-41. WCCW is on a sandy hill too, but crosses Lake Michigan for part of the path.
 
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This is the station and transmitting site from which David Eduardo transmitted his presunrise Spanish Language show in the early 1960s, when the FCC allowed early sign on with full Day power, before 500 watt PSAs were the maximum. There were a lot of migrant Spanish speaking seasonal cherry orchard workers at the time
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Reminds me of my first radio gig in Wisconsin. We were a 5kw daytimer on 1290 with a 500 watt PSA. I signed on the station and had to alternate between polkas and country music. The idea was to entertain the local farmers milking cows. No shortage of complaints when we were at 500 watts and getting routinely trashed by WIRL. Even more complaints when we went from the "milk cow half hour" to a half hour of Garner Ted Armstrong!
Me?...I enjoyed listening to WIRL on my way to work1

(Apologies for veering OT :))
 
Listening location: northeast suburbs Atlanta, GA

KBRH AM 1260 kHz, Baton Rouge, LA. 488 miles. Heard overnights this past week on a stock Radiowow R-108. Normally 5000 watts day, 127 watts night, non-directional pattern. However, I suspect, they were staying on daytime power overnight this week. Some really great and unique Blues music selections, but no DJ, just announcements on the overnight. The station is run by students of Baton Rouge Magnet High School! What great and unique niche programming on AM of all places! Give the students involved all an “A” and thanks to East Baton Rouge Parish School Board to keep this station and platform alive!
 
Nicely done. KBPS Portland OR (1450khz) is another AM station that is run by a local high school. Also KMHS Coos Bay OR on 1420, with country music, part of a high school operation.

Tomorrow is the day! For millions, the moment of a lifetime...and hopefully those in eclipse totality, from Dallas to Indy and up to the northeast, will have some great AM DX to report.
 
cyberdad said:
Reminds me of my first radio gig in Wisconsin. We were a 5kw daytimer on 1290 with a 500 watt PSA. I signed on the station and had to alternate between polkas and country music. The idea was to entertain the local farmers milking cows. No shortage of complaints when we were at 500 watts and getting routinely trashed by WIRL. Even more complaints when we went from the "milk cow half hour" to a half hour of Garner Ted Armstrong!
Me?...I enjoyed listening to WIRL on my way to work1

(Apologies for veering OT :))
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I always like to "reverse engineer" some of these posts to come up with some history. In the 1969 World Radio and Television Handbook, this was WCOW 1290 Sparta, WI 5 D1 I believe. But oddly enough, there was a typo for WCCW 1310 Traverse City, MI 5 D1, as "WCOW". So the post has gone full circle.

I also enjoyed WIRL in Genesee County, MI occasionally, usually in the Summer. Between WIRL and WHIO Dayton, the NIF of WHGR 1290 Houghton Lake was something like 25 mV/m. Because of the conductivity, I was surprised that the WHGR signal was quite weak at North Higgins Lake State Park when we stayed there in the Class A Plant Camper in the early 1970s. Did a lot of DXing there on the Sony AM FM Cassette portable, especially the Super Sensitive FM, before the FM band was all jammed up. You could get 3000 watt Class As a hundred miles away with just the telescoping whip. And Class Bs and Class Cs from hundreds of miles away.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
I always like to "reverse engineer" some of these posts to come up with some history. In the 1969 World Radio and Television Handbook, this was WCOW 1290 Sparta, WI 5 D1 I believe. But oddly enough, there was a typo for WCCW 1310 Traverse City, MI 5 D1, as "WCOW". So the post has gone full circle.
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Yep....WCOW was my first commercial gig. The owner was something of an eccemtric and rather difficcult to work for. He created something of a revolving door, with staff coming and going on a frequent basis. I stayed only 6 months, but it was a good learning experience for my 21-year old self.

The typo regarding WCCW must have been somehow Freudian. :)
 
cyberdad said:
Yep....WCOW was my first commercial gig. The owner was something of an eccemtric and rather difficcult to work for. He created something of a revolving door, with staff coming and going on a frequent basis. I stayed only 6 months, but it was a good learning experience for my 21-year old self.

The typo regarding WCCW must have been somehow Freudian. :)
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When people think of relatively rural areas, they usually think of cows. The Grand Traverse Area has many Cherry Orchards (and Vineyards, now many people think Ciccone Vineyards is the biggest, but the connection to Madge is the Tourist Trap, and it's just one of many in the area). WCCW is neither a reference to Counterclockise, nor "We Carry Concealed Weapons", but "Cherry Capital of the World". The original owner also served on a Maritime Vessel with the callsign WCCW.

I'll try to post an image of the typo.
 
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CME impact being felt right now. From the Stevensville MT SDR: 920 KVEC San Luis Obispo (500 watts) and KVIN Ceres CA (2.5KW) in and out, mixing, with no sign of Manitoba or KXLY. 630 KHOW Denver all alone. 610 Fox Sports, probably KNML Albuquerque, mixing with KEAR and no sign of northerly 610s.
 


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