1220 on the Gulf Coast

[cyberdad]

This week, I'm at our usual getaway spot directly on the gulf at the Alabama-Florida state line. Before we checked in here, we spent a couple of nights at Pensacola Beach....about 30 miles to the east. Gulf front hotel.

On one of those Pensacola nights, randomly tuning, I came across a strong signal on 1220. Strong enough to smash right through whatever splatter there was from the local 1230. It was Spanish with lousy audio. Not distorted, just limited frequency response. Talk with a little music interspersed. I never was able to ID it, but my first guess would normally be XEB. I've heard XEB fairly often here before, but never with an audio issue, and I also thought that XEB was now dark. Either moved to FM or off entirely. Mexico would make sense, especially since XEOY and XEEP were both blasting. So apparently there was a good path in that west-southwest direction. I also don't think it was Cuba, since it didn't match any of the Cuban networks which were also present.

Any ideas? David?

 

[davideduardo]

This week, I'm at our usual getaway spot directly on the gulf at the Alabama-Florida state line. Before we checked in here, we spent a couple of nights at Pensacola Beach....about 30 miles to the east. Gulf front hotel.

On one of those Pensacola nights, randomly tuning, I came across a strong signal on 1220. Strong enough to smash right through whatever splatter there was from the local 1230. It was Spanish with lousy audio. Not distorted, just limited frequency response. Talk with a little music interspersed. I never was able to ID it, but my first guess would normally be XEB. I've heard XEB fairly often here before, but never with an audio issue, and I also thought that XEB was now dark. Either moved to FM or off entirely. Mexico would make sense, especially since XEOY and XEEP were both blasting. So apparently there was a good path in that west-southwest direction. I also don't think it was Cuba, since it didn't match any of the Cuban networks which were also present.

Any ideas? David?

No Mexico City AM is off as none were able to move to FM since the dial is already fully allocated.

So XEB with a technical issue is a real possibility.

 

[cyberdad]

No Mexico City AM is off as none were able to move to FM since the dial is already fully allocated.

So XEB with a technical issue is a real possibility.

Thanks, David....My main question lacking an ID was whether XEB was still on. Everything else....including having heard them here with a good signal in the past...pointed toward XEB. However, at my current location 30 miles west of where I had been, there's a noise source blocking 1220, so I haven't been able to revisit the channel.