KOFI's transmitter site burnt to the ground early this morning and is a total loss. No idea how long they'll be off but I suspect at least a few days. As far as I know, towers still stand but the shack of equipment is just crispy shards of nothing now.
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KOFI 1180 Off Air
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Cuba's radio infrsatructure has been trashed ..SW is gone, AM is hit or miss
And i might have heard KERN before....i heard KOFI just a few nights ago
They'll be back on sometime today with 30 watts.
KERN's really strong into Boise lately, again.
Defiantly not on their DA.
Defiantly not on their DA.
This is what the insides of the shack look like now.
They will be on the 30 watt transmitter for about the next 6 to 8 weeks until a brand new 1KW transmitter comes in.
It'll be Summer 2025 before they're back up to 50kw.
It'll be Summer 2025 before they're back up to 50kw.
Back east here in PA (and back in Queens NYC) I've had some pretty good luck on 1180 even with our Eastern roadhog WHAM. They're usually a ton of beer barrels at night, but being a little up there in latitude they are often rendered feeble at SRS and SSS; a little sluggish establishing their presence at times.
There's a spray of omnis up and down the Mississippi -- 'W's -- that may be of interest to you folks in MDT. And we all know about those how those high school winter sports broadcasts (no doubt the provincialism in the air) tend to reach a bit further than the local arenas.
Best of DX to yiz!
There's a spray of omnis up and down the Mississippi -- 'W's -- that may be of interest to you folks in MDT. And we all know about those how those high school winter sports broadcasts (no doubt the provincialism in the air) tend to reach a bit further than the local arenas.
Best of DX to yiz!
KOFI has ramped it up to 1kw full time as of Friday night Dec 20th. They had been running 30 watts since a fire destroyed their entire transmitter shack, but the tower and antenna tuning unit survived.
It'll be late spring/early fall before they're back up to 50kw. The 30 watt signal was heard in the Seattle area and I think somewhere in southern Alberta.
It'll be late spring/early fall before they're back up to 50kw. The 30 watt signal was heard in the Seattle area and I think somewhere in southern Alberta.
Nothing in Boise Idaho except KERN.
Not supposed to hear them at all.
No STA on record.
Not supposed to hear them at all.
No STA on record.
Talking about KERN not KOFI.
Didn't mention KOFI.
I haven't done much AM DXing since I moved to ID, but KERN makes it like a ton of bricks at night to Cascade/McCall as well. If I hadn't have taken down my homemade 3-ft. loop, perhaps I could have pulled WHAM Rochester out with KOFI on very low power. Or even the Omaha station at sunrise.
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