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1060 Kilgore-Tyler-Gladewater

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Chuck

Last night I woke up about 4:00 AM and had trouble going back to sleep. I decided to turn on my radio and give a listen to the AM band, just to see what was happening at that hour. To my surprise, there was a fairly strong carrier and an AC hum on 1060. The hum sounded like an unterminated audio line.

I thought KOFY had finally gone away last August. Is it back with dead air and a carrier 24/7? Or is this something else?
 
nuzguy said:
The hum may well be the best sound that's been on that frequency for........oh, eternity?
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If I recall, it sounded good when it was a CNN Radio affiliate. Of course, that was a long time ago and under different ownership.

I drove to Kilgore today, but I didn't hear anything on 1060. Just static. I wonder what is going on? I'm very sure there was a carrier very early this morning. I suppose it might be from another station on the same frequency, but the dead air part sounds suspiciously familiar.
 
Chuck said:
nuzguy said:
The hum may well be the best sound that's been on that frequency for........oh, eternity?
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If I recall, it sounded good when it was a CNN Radio affiliate. Of course, that was a long time ago and under different ownership.

I drove to Kilgore today, but I didn't hear anything on 1060. Just static. I wonder what is going on? I'm very sure there was a carrier very early this morning. I suppose it might be from another station on the same frequency, but the dead air part sounds suspiciously familiar.
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I flipped over this evening on my way home from work. Didn't hear anything except what sounded like a co-channel from somewhere in DX-land.

LOL on the dead air sounding suspiciously familiar.
 
Perhaps it is a new classification that the FCC has come up with: Nightime only operation

The hum part sounds familiar too...I think someone posted something several months ago to the effect they had heard a carrier with hum on it...and I believe that person also made a reference to it sounding like an unterminated phone line. Could have been a power suppy problem, too.
 
Around 4:30 or so, after toddling back from my nocturnal visit to the john, I flipped it on to see if anything was happening. There was some religious programming on the frequency (in English). It did not sound local, but then the station never has at my house. I live quite some distance away. I assumed it was simply a distant station taking advantage of the night time. I couldn't stay awake long enough to wait for an ID. When I woke up abut 7:30, it was gone. The mystery continues.
 
You proably caught WLNO 1060 from New Orleans.. which runs a lot of syndicated religious programming and has a strong 5K night pattern with a big lobe going NW. Proably the biggest reason why KOFY was a daytimer.
 
billyg said:
You proably caught WLNO 1060 from New Orleans.. which runs a lot of syndicated religious programming and has a strong 5K night pattern with a big lobe going NW. Proably the biggest reason why KOFY was a daytimer.
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Right on the money, billy. I got a QSL card many years ago from their forerunner, WNOE. The engineer explained that their daytime pattern, with 50,000 watts, was oriented due north. At night most of their 5,000 watts was pointed northwesterly (305 degrees) from a site south of New Orleans. The pattern hasn't changed since then, and it puts Gilmer right in the line of fire. Where I grew up around Dallas, 'NOE came in most nights like a local.
 
I think you are right gentlemen. I just did a search, and WLNO seems the most logical choice. I'd be inerested to know what the carrier with the hum was all about. Probably just some kind of overnight automation failure. It happens...
 
jd said:
Right on the money, billy. I got a QSL card many years ago from their forerunner, WNOE. The engineer explained that their daytime pattern, with 50,000 watts, was oriented due north. At night most of their 5,000 watts was pointed northwesterly (305 degrees) from a site south of New Orleans. The pattern hasn't changed since then, and it puts Gilmer right in the line of fire. Where I grew up around Dallas, 'NOE came in most nights like a local.
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I remember listening to WNOE during its Top 40 days growing up in NE Oklahoma in the seventies, I used to think it was a 50K station just by its strong signal.

When I worked for KHYM when the studios and transmitter were in Gilmer (a great location - 3 miles west of town high on a hill - had a great signal when our ancient BTA-10 RCA transmitter was working), we used to have calls now and then from listeners in Tyler or Longview saying another station was "cutting into" our signal in the afternoons.
 
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