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Can't hear a radio station 20 miles away from me, but I sure can hear a station 1,000+ miles away

SomeRadioGuy said:
in Alaska it was both CFAX and KNX mixing.. KNX might lead or win or be mostly alone, but nto often and it was often mixing with CFAX, but CFAX never won/lead/was alone. 125 miles NE of McGrath back in 2016, it was all KNX.

HEre in WY? It's all KNX, in the winter, sometimes yu can detect KNX all day. it may be a carrier and not muich more from about 1030am to 3pm in the dead of winter, but its there.. and its audible every night.
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That’s interesting! I’m sure you hearing CFAX over KNX had something to do with CFAX throwing all of their power towards Alaska.

One thing I find particularly interesting is the transmitter location for CFAX. They operate from a rocky island just south of Victoria, and have a pattern that directs all of the power north and northwest. I’ve never really seen a transmitter location like that before.
 
fordranger797 said:
That’s interesting! I’m sure you hearing CFAX over KNX had something to do with CFAX throwing all of their power towards Alaska.

One thing I find particularly interesting is the transmitter location for CFAX. They operate from a rocky island just south of Victoria, and have a pattern that directs all of the power north and northwest. I’ve never really seen a transmitter location like that before.
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most of the time it was literally a mix of both.... 2 different program feeds at oncve
 
kevtronics said:
Somewhere on the web there's a recording of NYC's 570 WMCA going off the air for maintenance, and on their own air monitor at the transmitter site they were able to pick up Radio Reloj from Cuba, about 1300 miles away.
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I was living in New Jersey, maybe ten miles from the WMCA transmitter in the Meadowlands. Late one night during WMCA transmitter maintenance, 570 WSYR Syracuse came in somewhat loud and fairly clear.
 
BTW, KFI had been a Class I-A and KNX was a Class I-B. But they are both non-directional 50,000 watt stations. The reason KNX was a Class I-B was due to CBA Moncton, also a 50,000 watt non-directional Class I-B. Neither had to use a directional antenna since California and New Brunswick are so far apart. But because they both occupied 1070, they were Class I-B. You couldn't have two I-As on the same channel, except for 540.

Of course today, the I-As and I-Bs are lumped together as Class A. And CBA is no more, having moved to FM a decade or more ago.
 
Gregg. said:
BTW, KFI had been a Class I-A and KNX was a Class I-B. But they are both non-directional 50,000 watt stations. The reason KNX was a Class I-B was due to CBA Moncton, also a 50,000 watt non-directional Class I-B. Neither had to use a directional antenna since California and New Brunswick are so far apart. But because they both occupied 1070, they were Class I-B. You couldn't have two I-As on the same channel, except for 540.

Of course today, the I-As and I-Bs are lumped together as Class A. And CBA is no more, having moved to FM a decade or more ago.
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Does that make much of a difference for how KNX performs? It sounds like their classification doesn’t make much of a difference at all, and there’s no other major station on 1070 to worry about these days.
 
The New Chico said:
Better fighting it out with KNX now vs. being a 1000 watt daytimer on 810. Which is where CFAX started. Not a prayer on the west coast against KGO!
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I have KGO (or the most recent incarnation of what was KGO) loud and clear every night. It sounds like it’s right down the street from me.

I head out to the Washington state coastline every fall for a family reunion. Last time I was out there in October, I had KNX, KFI, KGO*, KCBS, and others loud and clear. What a great spot for nighttime dx. My goal is to hear something from the other side of the world out there, and that’s yet to happen.
 
fordranger797 said:
I have KGO (or the most recent incarnation of what was KGO) loud and clear every night. It sounds like it’s right down the street from me.

I head out to the Washington state coastline every fall for a family reunion. Last time I was out there in October, I had KNX, KFI, KGO*, KCBS, and others loud and clear. What a great spot for nighttime dx. My goal is to hear something from the other side of the world out there, and that’s yet to happen.
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I did Alaska

Look up 7ZR 936
 
fordranger797 said:
I’ve heard it. I’d still like to catch it on my own, but it’s difficult if the conditions aren’t just right.
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Most are more likely to hear 4pb 936 brisbane which is a news radio formatted signal... i nailed what I had as 7zr with a weather forecast

7ZR 936khz Hobart, Tas, Aus Wed Mar 24, 2021 1406UTC 606AM AK Time.mp3

drive.google.com drive.google.com

4 seconds.. "flood warnings.... river"
8 seconds "high winds.... wind warning"
21 seconds, "........low of 15, top of 21, abc radio hobart"

The 7ZR signal is directional away from brisbane, and its brisbane i was more lined up to hear but not what happened.

I never heard 7ZR again despite trying for 4 years
 


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