1030 the light

[Pat2]

Picked up a station calling itself "The Light" on 1030 the other night coming in strong here in Jackson, MS. I did a search and found a station in Kansas City matching the discription, but the thing is its only listed at 1000 watts day and 500 at night. Picking up anything from KC down here is hard. WHB 810 comes in occasionally but is usually drowned out by the background noise. The same for KCMO 710. On a few occasions I've picked up classical 1660. But how could I have picked up a flea power 500 watter this far south. Its rare. Could there be another 1030 "the light"? I think I've got the right one.

 

[foreverchanges]

> Picked up a station calling itself "The Light" on 1030 the
> other night coming in strong here in Jackson, MS. I did a
> search and found a station in Kansas City matching the
> discription, but the thing is its only listed at 1000 watts
> day and 500 at night. Picking up anything from KC down here
> is hard. WHB 810 comes in occasionally but is usually
> drowned out by the background noise. The same for KCMO 710.
> On a few occasions I've picked up classical 1660. But how
> could I have picked up a flea power 500 watter this far
> south. Its rare. Could there be another 1030 "the light"?
> I think I've got the right one.
>

If they got stuck on their day pattern, maybe you'd have a chance of picking it up. Most 1030's in this part of the country beam SW at night to protect WBZ in Boston. Very strange. I'm in Memphis, and can only get WHB 810 on occasion, and it's pretty noisy. Nothing else from KC comes in.

 

[Mark_Roberts]

> If they got stuck on their day pattern, maybe you'd have a
> chance of picking it up. Most 1030's in this part of the
> country beam SW at night to protect WBZ in Boston. Very
> strange. I'm in Memphis, and can only get WHB 810 on
> occasion, and it's pretty noisy. Nothing else from KC comes
> in.
>
The 1030 daytime pattern is sharply nulled to the northeast to protect WHO.

The only KC stations that are ND at night is KCSP at 610 and KXTR at 1660. KXTR might be worth trying for. The graveyarder at 1340 doesn't really count for DX purposes. KCMO and WHB have north-south figure-8 patterns; KMBZ is very mildly directional to the west (not much of a null; I've heard it often in Columbia, Mo. at night); if 1190 has its newer nighttime pattern in place, that one's directed to the northeast.

 

[foreverchanges]

> > If they got stuck on their day pattern, maybe you'd have a
>
> > chance of picking it up. Most 1030's in this part of the
> > country beam SW at night to protect WBZ in Boston. Very
> > strange. I'm in Memphis, and can only get WHB 810 on
> > occasion, and it's pretty noisy. Nothing else from KC
> comes
> > in.
> >
> The 1030 daytime pattern is sharply nulled to the northeast
> to protect WHO.
>
> The only KC stations that are ND at night is KCSP at 610 and
> KXTR at 1660. KXTR might be worth trying for. The
> graveyarder at 1340 doesn't really count for DX purposes.
> KCMO and WHB have north-south figure-8 patterns; KMBZ is
> very mildly directional to the west (not much of a null;
> I've heard it often in Columbia, Mo. at night); if 1190 has
> its newer nighttime pattern in place, that one's directed to
> the northeast.
>


I've heard KXTR in Memphis maybe once. 1660, like most of the expanded band is mush in these parts...That makes sense about the 1030....If it wasn't there you'd be able to get WHO in KC day/night, wouldn't you?

 

[Pat2]

I mostly hear spanish on 1030 at night in Mississippi. Mostly just rumble from several stations. I think may have picked up WDAF years ago but it would have been back in the 80's. I've picked up 710 once or twice. Mostly drowned out by spanish and 810 on some nights. 1660 came in clear as a bell several months ago for short time. Great audio. I wish all AM stations sounded like that. (FM too for that matter) All out local FM stations are either too loud, boxy and boomy, too much compression or reeking of distortion during the peaks) They sound like that everywhere now, especially the CHR stations.