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1190 Mystery Solved

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vo1001swl

For the past three evenings I have been hearing the "Star Spangled Banner" on 1190 @ 5 PM Eastern time. The first evening I missed anything before the anthem, the second it was covered up by splatter from Iran on 1188 .
Finally last night with Ads, PSA's , and clear Legal ID a new station was added to my logbook
WCRW - Leesburg, Virginia.
Apparently they reduce to only 1300 watts nighttime so that was why nothing was heard after the anthem each evening I guess.
 
I lol'd, at the fact that you weren't snagging the much more local American, because of "splatter from Iran". Now there's a problem which most of don't face. 8)

~BG
 
The luxury of living in Newfoundland! :)

-crainbebo
 
To the OP, wanna swap QTH's? It's much warmer here in FL....I just need a job up there.... ;)

cd
 
cd637299 said:
To the OP, wanna swap QTH's? It's much warmer here in FL....I just need a job up there.... ;)

cd
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How about paid professional DX'er? I've heard there are dozens of open positions waiting to be filled. :D
 
I'd DX in bad, aurora conditions to get one new log and $17/hour!

I have five years DX experience, from wet Western Washington. I have been on regional road trips with my Grundig G5. The farthest I can get most nights is 1500 KSTP Minneapolis, however I have gotten Japanese and Korean stations at sunrise. I also have experience with FM DX and E-skip. I am starting to build a box loop for my radio to improve reception. Please let me know if you have any questions. :D :D :D :D :D :D

-crainbebo
 
Good catch! I am about 75 miles Southwest of them, and can usually hear them daytime, but once they go to night power they are lost in the hash.

BTW, that used to be the old WAGE-1200 station for many, many years and I remember hearing them almost every morning, as my grandmother got her local news on her table radio in the kitchen as she made breakfast. That was when Northern Virginia still had working dairy farms.
 
I've caught WCRW 1190 at sunset occasionally. They are signing off with the National Anthem. FCC says they have a cp for a 4 tower night time array at a different site from their 50 kW day array. I don't think they are on aftet sunset at this time.
 
I am about 25 miles from WCRW's daytime transmitte site. I think the separate nighttime transmitter site a bit farther away. For some reason, I don't hear WCRW at night. I hear mostly WLIB NY and WOWO Ft. Wayne instead.
 
If there is anything on 1190 at night in VA it is usually WOWO as ddsparxx mentioned.

I have heard WCRW at night, but that was only for a few minutes and during really good conditions. They do or at least diddo some night broadcasting. I wasn't aware of the CP for them. Interesting.
 
I'm getting WIXE at night lately like a local station (at 242 miles and 70 watts) in Richmond. WOWO and WLIB show up occasionally.
 
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