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1110AM reception in Houston 12/3 Monday

ChuckTiller

ChuckTiller

From the Department of Weird, 0415 CST (Monday 12/3) I am on the 12th Floor of my office building in SW Houston. I have two radios on my credenza, which is right next to a window which faces southwest. One radio is on AM1070, so I can monitor KNTH. The other is on AM1110, so I can monitor KTEK, which signs on at 0715 CST. This is really the only way you can hear AM radio in a building; put it next to a window.

For the heck of it, I turned on AM1110; there is an Asian music broadcast. After listening a few minutes, one commercial appears and it is in English for a Bon Jovi tour and then back to music again. I have no idea where this signal is coming from. It fades slowly from bad to good and back to bad again and repeats. The more I listen, I think this could be Indian or Pakistani music. It's 0447 and I have to give it up, because it's time to get into the KNTH controlroom and go to work. Any ideas what this could be, please post. Thanks.
 
Bon Jovi will be in Uncasville, CT on Feb 9. WPMZ, near Providence (daytimer) (close to the casino at Uncasville) is listed as Spanish. My best guess.
 
The programming was definitely not Spanish. I feel doubtful that it was WPMZ. It could be KVTT, Mineral Wells, Texas, which has 50KW. However, it too, is a daytimer.
 
My first thought was that it's KVTT from the D/FW area, operating outside their licensed daytime hours with either their 50kW day or 39kW critical hours power. That's happened a few times in the past, mainly this past summer.

The South Asian part of it makes sense, of course; that's what they do (details at www.funasia.net/index.php). I guess it's possible that their audience would like Bollywood...and Bon Jovi.
 
JD, I'll bet you're right. The website seems to indicate that they are on 104.9 and 1110AM in the Dallas area. If that is the case, if the transmitter was left on and it was up on the board, then somebody or a computer failed to sign it off.
That is the most plausible explanation that I can think of. When I came back to my office around 0615 CST, it was no longer there. My speculation is that somebody got to the studio, discovered it was 'on' and shut it off.

 
jd said:
My first thought was that it's KVTT from the D/FW area, operating outside their licensed daytime hours with either their 50kW day or 39kW critical hours power. That's happened a few times in the past, mainly this past summer.

The South Asian part of it makes sense, of course; that's what they do (details at www.funasia.net/index.php). I guess it's possible that their audience would like Bollywood...and Bon Jovi.
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They sure have a peculiar coverage pattern. They have a null towards Lubbock that is so good, you can actually get KFAB in a canyon near Crosbyton - pretty much any time of day or time of the year.
 
I remember one night back in July 2009, I was outside the VFW on Highway 3 in Dickinson and KVTT was beating up KTEK something fierce. This was around 8 or so one evening, not long before KTEK left the air. Where I lived right along the League City/Friendswood border, I was right beside the heart of KTEK's main lobe and never heard anything else until after it signed off.
 
There seems to be a pattern (pardon the pun) of some of the "plug it in, turn on the carrier, collect the check" brokered stations to run outside their authorize parameters.

Current examples in DFW include 890 KTXV Maybank. I've caught them numerous times hammering WLS late in the evening through the overnight hours.

Seems odd that KTXV's 250 watt night-time authorization would do that at my location near McKinney...
However I'm certain KTXV's authorized 20kw day-time power would have "some" effect on WLS in McKinney in the night hours.

Years ago you never seemed to hear the amount of day-timers and day/night operators running outside of their authorized parameters...

Ah yes, the "good old days"... Now you kids get off my lawn ;D

Jay Walker
 
Since I posted essentially the same thread on the Dallas/Ft. Worth board, I have not heard it. Perhaps somebody told them. It must have been KVTT. I was able to hear KFAB really good for the past two mornings.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
Since I posted essentially the same thread on the Dallas/Ft. Worth board, I have not heard it. Perhaps somebody told them. It must have been KVTT. I was able to hear KFAB really good for the past two mornings.
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Well that's good, but here near Miami I won't get that opportunity again, like 3 days ago....not that they ever ID'd anyway, but I had their website to check for parallel.

cd
 
This wasn't the first time something like this has happened with them, and it probably won't be the last. I remember hearing KVTT several evenings in a row back in the summer here in Texas and I imagine they'd be fairly easy to hear in Florida.
 
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