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AM Flea power.

WPGR, an AM here in Pittsburgh that airs Catholic programming, has a post-sundown licensed power of one watt.
WZUM, an AM owned by a public broadcasting organization playing jazz, runs a post-sundown four watts.
 
KYET apparently puts out 1 watt at night, but I have heard them in the past during auroral conditions. They may have been on day power at night, however.
KNEU-1250 Roosevelt, UT has the strongest 129 watts I have ever heard on the radio dial. I can count on them most nights, with classic country.

BTW, the poster that mentioned WQFG689 on 1710. During COVID, it was running 100 watts with vaccination information for Hudson County, NJ. DXers in BC and OR heard this station. And not Vancouver...but MASSET, way up by the Alaskan panhandle on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands). 2700 miles or so.
 
crainbebo said:
KYET apparently puts out 1 watt at night, but I have heard them in the past during auroral conditions. They may have been on day power at night, however.
KNEU-1250 Roosevelt, UT has the strongest 129 watts I have ever heard on the radio dial. I can count on them most nights, with classic country.

BTW, the poster that mentioned WQFG689 on 1710. During COVID, it was running 100 watts with vaccination information for Hudson County, NJ. DXers in BC and OR heard this station. And not Vancouver...but MASSET, way up by the Alaskan panhandle on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands). 2700 miles or so.
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I logged KYET from SE WY in between KSL and Tulsa on 1170,.. and verified they were on 1 watt .....
 
crainbebo said:
BTW, the poster that mentioned WQFG689 on 1710. During COVID, it was running 100 watts with vaccination information for Hudson County, NJ. DXers in BC and OR heard this station. And not Vancouver...but MASSET, way up by the Alaskan panhandle on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands). 2700 miles or so.
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That's impressive!

Equally impressive is the Travis AFB station, also on 1710. Sometimes I'd swear it's broadcasting at 50,000 watts, because at night I can hear it everywhere I go, and I can receive it on almost every SDR in the northern half of CA.

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KilowattKat said:
What is being broadcast on this Travis AFB station?
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Basically a repeating loop telling listeners to tune to the station for information, natural disasters, and other such emergencies.

KilowattKat said:
What SDR online do you recommend to listen to it?
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KC8UOK said:
I'm seeing a signal on the KFS Omni SDR
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KFS is a good one. Most of the Bay Area ones are good, too (except ones which filter out the AMBC).

KC8UOK said:
it's too weak to pick out words at this hour. I'm assuming it will vastly improve come nightfall
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You assume correctly.

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Travis AFB is a generic loop, if I recall. "Tune in for emergency info" and such. I have picked up the "KHMB" Half Moon Bay part 15 from here, along w/ Travis AFB. I have heard the Jackson, WY 1710 TIS from the Bridgeport WA SDR and from western Montana's W0AY SDR receiver.
 
KC8UOK said:
Actually no. I can see something there but still too weak to make out. Which I'm surprised about. Point Reyes SDR gets it though.
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Hmm, OK.

How strong it gets does vary some depending on conditions, which are somewhat poor tonight, apparently.

crainbebo said:
I have picked up the "KHMB" Half Moon Bay part 15 from here, along w/ Travis AFB.
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You heard a 100mW signal from Half Moon Bay all the way up in Idaho?!?!

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nitroengine said:
810 ZNS3 is the easiest to hear station from the Bahamas here in the Minneapolis area. I've heard 1540 ZNS1 a number of times but they are uncommon. The few times I have heard them, they were coming in decent under KXEL. Possibly running non-directional.
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1540 ZNS-1 is in under KXEL as I type this. Uncommon here.
 
The UK used to have a lot of 1 watt AMs, intended for reception inside a certain specific location like a university campus or large hospital. In richer times, even some high schools had them. In the daytime, they used to get 2-3 miles on a reasonable car radio, at night they'd just get obliterated by incoming skywave interference and I don't know if you'd even want to listen to them on campus. I don't really follow hospital radio, but I think the last university AM (in York) moved to DAB and FM a couple of years ago.

There used to be a silly rule that you couldn't acknowledge any listener outside the location the station was licensed to - so a university station with a student listening in off-campus housing a mile away couldn't (officially) play a request for that listener!
 


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