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1040 WHO Des Moines, Iowa

When I was a kid back in the late 1960's early 70's KMOX was a semi regular catch here in WA, on just a decent transistor radio. In the mid and late 80's I was doing a lot of DXing the AM band, and I'm pretty sure I logged it on my boombox.

Over this past year I still haven't heard KMOX, unless it's the UNID buried behind KANN-UT in KPNW's null area.

DXing the Midwest and Plains from here is more of a challenge now, even with better equipment, because of all the additional stations. But it also presents more stations to hear, so I guess it's a trade off.

Lawwpy: KOMO is basically un-nullable at my location in W WA.

I only have one tentative logging on that frequency in 1984, and KOMO had to have been off the air; the station was HJAQ, Cartagena, Colombia.
 
Are you sure it was Colombia? There's a 1000 in Mexico City-XEOY Radio Mil. A couple of local DXers stayed up a couple of times when KOMO had technical maintenance, and logged Mexico City on 1000. WMVP nulls to the West hard, so even if KOMO was off, WMVP would be very hard. Chances are, without a good radio, all you'd hear is CBR or CBW slop.

-crainbebo
 
It was so long ago (1984) I'm not certain. If memory serves, I had heard a Caracol ID, but because I wasn't 100% sure of what I heard (and my knowledge of Spanish was less than it is now) I logged it as tentative.

I also was a member of IRCA at the time, and the guys there seemed to think it could have been Colombia for some reason.

But even if it were Mexico City, it would have been fine by me!
 
XEOY has a very distinctive four-note sounder that not only makes it easy to identify, but also cuts through whatever other noise might be on the channel.
 
In West Sacramento, CA

I heard WHO again, said WHO like 5 times that was last night...

I never in my life heard KMOX 1120, I'm going to try tonight
 
Mario, I'm guessing that you will have a problem with KPNW from Oregon getting in the way.

According to Radio Locator, they send their signal mostly north/south.

The days are gone when hearing stations from the eastern half of the country out there was common.
 
He'd possibly have more problems with KANN than KPNW. I'm north of KPNW, and closer as the crow flies, and sometimes KANN interferes with them substantially (although rarely strong enough to ID easily), and I've also heard KMOX, although I haven't heard them yet this year, because overall conditions haven't been terrific on most nights.

My suggestion for Mario is to put on the headphones and listen underneath the other stations for the target station, esp. if he wants to hear Chicago or New Orleans, stations that far east. And be persistent -- this DX season so far hasn't been as good as last year or the year before, for some reason.
 
I use headphones is hear stuff what in the background

Last night around 1am I took out my Grundig to try to catch WHO again, nothing

Went to 1030, Of cource KTWO, Right under that Spanish station, But right under that I heard a very faint talk, So much can't tell,

When 1030 was a clear channel, How common was WBZ in California like around the Bay Area & Sacramento...I'm not saying it was under the spanish station I just don't know
 
When 1030 was clear for WBZ I heard it many times on the west coast from California on up to Seattle. The problem today besides KTWO is we don't know what else is on 1030.
 
boombox4 said:
The other talk station on 1030 could have been KMAS, Shelton WA.
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Prior to 1980, I could listen to the living room console, in the wee hours and pick up WBZ, WCBS or any number of other east coast clear channel stations. You just had to wait for closer high power stations to sign off for the night. If you put up a longwire antenna, you could get some of these stations bombing in! This was from Portland OR. The funny thing is that when I was a kid, I heard older people talking about how far signals used to go, even in the daytime. I later heard one report that an experiment was attempted in the 1920s to see if 500 watt KGW 610(moved to 620 in 1928 because of the first national frequency shift)was receivable inside the Oregon Caves. They actually thought it would be. The Oregon Caves, for lack of a better description, are fairly close to Medford, about 300 miles away. It reportedly made it TO the caves, just not inside them!
 
Those were the days.

In the 70's on my visits to northern California, I would stay up late to hear WCBS and WCAU after stations on the same frequency half way across the country signed off.

And years ago, someone here in this forum said that back in the early days of radio, the 20's and 30's when there were few stations, that 250 watt stations from the west coast could be heard at night on the east coast.

Can anyone verify that?
 
gar fla said:
Those were the days.

In the 70's on my visits to northern California, I would stay up late to hear WCBS and WCAU after stations on the same frequency half way across the country signed off.

And years ago, someone here in this forum said that back in the early days of radio, the 20's and 30's when there were few stations, that 250 watt stations from the west coast could be heard at night on the east coast.

Can anyone verify that?
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My grandfather reported some amazing DX catches during the mid 1930's from Lubbock, TX. New York and other East Coast stations were easy to get. He may have been getting WLW daytime - he had a two foot loop in the cabinet of a 5 stage tuned RF radio. Even in the 1960's, it was a hot DX unit, easily pulling Dallas stations in the daytime - after the radio had sat unused for years after his death in 1939.
 
Last night I was tired so I didn't try

1120 is out of the question, I get IBOC from KTLK 1140, WHO 1040 is my 2nd W on the west coat..My 1st one was in Las Vegas I got WOAI 1200
 
gar fla said:
And years ago, someone here in this forum said that back in the early days of radio, the 20's and 30's when there were few stations, that 250 watt stations from the west coast could be heard at night on the east coast.

Can anyone verify that?
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With no co channel and only 250w, sure.....hams on 160m do that all the time...but once the channels started filling up, DXing the lower power signals became impossible.
 
MarioMania said:
Last night I was tired so I didn't try

1120 is out of the question, I get IBOC from KTLK 1140, WHO 1040 is my 2nd W on the west coat..My 1st one was in Las Vegas I got WOAI 1200
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Have you tried for WWL? They come in here in the Seattle Metro area 2-3 times a year, underneath KFLD Pasco.
 
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