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1110 New Format

Might as well run the Premiere "test channel" with smooth jazz every hour with a "WBT-AM Charlotte" quick ID at the TOH...at least there wouldn't be constant 107.9 promotion. Once heard a North Dakota AM station running it all night until someone could switch over at sunrise the next day.
Perhaps we could page Dave Koz to do the TOH ID?
 
crainbebo said:
Might as well run the Premiere "test channel" with smooth jazz every hour with a "WBT-AM Charlotte" quick ID at the TOH...at least there wouldn't be constant 107.9 promotion. Once heard a North Dakota AM station running it all night until someone could switch over at sunrise the next day.
Perhaps we could page Dave Koz to do the TOH ID?
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being the pedantic guy i am, cuse.... why not, there is no WBT-AM... just WBT. the -AM suffix doesnt exist

Ok, let me take my geritol, metamucil, tea and go to bed now at 8pm
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
being the pedantic guy i am, cuse.... why not, there is no WBT-AM... just WBT. the -AM suffix doesnt exist
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Careful, Paul. I did that in another thread not long ago and someone tried to jump down my throat over it.
 
IM42A said:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
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This is borderline thread drift, but I've been playing around with this site tonight, and it's a lot of fun. I've been using it in tandem with the site Shortwave Radio Schedule Database | Shortwave.Live to ID stations (at least tentatively). Highlights of what I've found so far:
  • Remember that European radio stations are 9 kHz apart, not 10 kHz as in North America.
  • There is an absolute blowtorch on 540, Radio Kossuth from Hungary, 2000 kw. It didn't sound like any other European language I'd ever heard, and when I found out what it was, I flashed back to when I heard some men speaking Hungarian one time when I lived in the DC area, it has kind of a staccato sound to it. What I heard tonight sounded the same. It is one European language I can't even guess at.
  • Romania seems to have quite a bit of AM activity.
  • I'm guessing that, all in all, AM isn't as big of a "thing" as it is in the US, perhaps seen as more of a novelty along the lines of longwave.
  • Saudi Arabia has another 2000 kw station on 1521 and that has to be what I heard. It came blasting in.
  • Talksport must be the UK's equivalent of ESPN Radio. It's everywhere.
  • Polskie Radio, which I did recognize, has a pretty powerful transmitter, I forget the frequency.
 
IM42A said:
  • There is an absolute blowtorch on 540, Radio Kossuth from Hungary, 2000 kw. It didn't sound like any other European language I'd ever heard, and when I found out what it was, I flashed back to when I heard some men speaking Hungarian one time when I lived in the DC area, it has kind of a staccato sound to it. What I heard tonight sounded the same. It is one European language I can't even guess at.
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Hungarian is not an Indo-European language. That's why it sounds so different.

IM42A said:
  • Talksport must be the UK's equivalent of ESPN Radio. It's everywhere.
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At one time, it was available on most apps in the US, too. Might still be. If it made any push to get on the US airwaves, it didn't get very far. I think it's mostly soccer-focused. So, it would probably be hard to sell here.
 
Kent said:
Hungarian is not an Indo-European language. That's why it sounds so different.
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I know. I can pretty much recognize at least certain words in any Germanic, Romance, or Slavic language, but when it comes to Hungarian, I'm totally lost. Ditto Finnish, Albanian, and Basque.

My languages, in order of comprehension (not fluent in any except English) are French, Spanish, liturgical Latin and Polish (roughly tied), and German. I can kind of figure out Italian and Russian at a very basic level, moreso if it's written down. This is all very helpful (aside from the Latin) for international DXing.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Polish Radio is on 225 kHz longwave. Easy to receive on the UTwente SDR.
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What I heard last night was an MW station (i.e., standard AM), not LW. I even had Polskie Radio's Belarus service on another frequency, it is similar to Polish but just a little different, it was as though "something's not quite right here".
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
being the pedantic guy i am, cuse.... why not, there is no WBT-AM... just WBT. the -AM suffix doesnt exist

Ok, let me take my geritol, metamucil, tea and go to bed now at 8pm
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Valid point, the ID, that is. Can't speak for the meds/bedtime, I ain't quite got there yet, although I'm not a nightowl LOL.
 


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