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From NE NC 3 AM Monday. 1540 heard oldies under KXEL. Nulled KXEL and listened to The Shuffle. Googled and found it was on KGBC Galveston, TX. Listened for almost an hour with no ID or spots. Program all in English. Enjoyed the oldies. http://english.cri.cn/cribb/programs/pk.htm
If this was Galveston, they are supposed to be 500 watts at night.
 
And they're oldies again? KGBC had run that format for a while, then sold out to some all-China radio network that broadcast in English. I thought they did a great job with oldies when they had it. Good to hear it's back. I must have missed that over on the Houston board.
 
No. The oldies were part of the English language programming by the Chineese. Good music mix.
 
N4GBK said:
If this was Galveston, they are supposed to be 500 watts at night.
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Not that it probably makes much difference, but KGBC is licensed for 250 watts nighttime, from a two-tower array. The Pelican Island site is interesting, to say the least, having suffered a lot of wind and water damage over the years. I doubt that there many stations using just two towers that have anywhere near the number of augmentations to their pattern that KGBC has at night: a total of 15. Suffice it to say that it's not easy to keep the thing operating within limits.
 
I pick up CRI on shortwave, never knew they played music unless the AM affiliates run other programming than their shortwave signal.
 
I was able to hear KXEL tonight from Nashville...(heard two restaurant spots located in Cedar Falls)...
and underneath could hear Chinese language spoken word, which I assume was KGBC.
Stock Honda car radio...driving in and out of power line noise...
 
romer979fm said:
I was able to hear KXEL tonight from Nashville...(heard two restaurant spots located in Cedar Falls)...
and underneath could hear Chinese language spoken word, which I assume was KGBC.
Stock Honda car radio...driving in and out of power line noise...
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The Chinese language you heard might be from CHIN-1540 in Toronto. They carry many languages on their station and a lot of it is in Chinese. CHIN has been a REGULAR PEST here in Kentucky usually dominating the frequency after dark. KXEL can be heard but it's rarely "in the clear" anymore.
 
I actually heard a relay of CRI once under my local KVI on 570. Now if it's not a spur of CJVB, it counts a a weird log.

-crainbebo
 
I was hearing KXEL yesterday in SE Michigan an hour or more before sunset, with no interference. No Albany, no Toronto, no Bucyrus, no Cleveland. This surprised me because KXEL is west of here, not east. Usually I hear the east coast stations first before sunset. WQEW was there, but just barely.
 
KR4BD said:
The Chinese language you heard might be from CHIN-1540 in Toronto.
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You're probably right; I had my doubts about it being KGBC. A check of the CHIN website shows CRI programming from 7PM to 7AM Eastern (streaming available there as well).
 
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