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610 AM on the Fort Collins, Colorado SDR receiver last night

gar hi

gar hi

I've always wanted to know how far east KFRC (Now KEAR) could be heard at night because it was my favorite station when I would visit the Bay Area in the 70's and early 80's.

I could easily hear KEAR on the Utah and Maui SDRs because of the music they were playing and matching it up to their online stream.

So I found two receivers in Fort Collins and one was more sensitive than the other.

On 610, I heard KONA from Kennewick, Washington, KNML from Albuquerque, and the same music from KEAR as on the other two receivers and the online stream.

But there were many other stations in the background too that made it sound like a graveyard frequency!

And I also heard WBBM on 780 with a steady good signal and no trace of KKOH.

This was the one of the two Fort Collins receivers I was using.

http://n0emp.ddns.net:8073/

The Kansas receiver was offline last night but I'm wondering if KEAR could make it that far under the right conditions.

It would be so great if they happened to change their format back to oldies again.
 
hawaiigar said:
I've always wanted to know how far east KFRC (Now KEAR) could be heard at night because it was my favorite station when I would visit the Bay Area in the 70's and early 80's.

I could easily hear KEAR on the Utah and Maui SDRs because of the music they were playing and matching it up to their online stream.

So I found two receivers in Fort Collins and one was more sensitive than the other.

On 610, I heard KONA from Kennewick, Washington, KNML from Albuquerque, and the same music from KEAR as on the other two receivers and the online stream.

But there were many other stations in the background too that made it sound like a graveyard frequency!

And I also heard WBBM on 780 with a steady good signal and no trace of KKOH.

This was the one of the two Fort Collins receivers I was using.

http://n0emp.ddns.net:8073/

The Kansas receiver was offline last night but I'm wondering if KEAR could make it that far under the right conditions.

It would be so great if they happened to change their format back to oldies again.
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I've heard KONA quite often here, and well In Laramie, WY.. ive heard KNML too.. heard KEAr once or twice
 
When the Kansas receiver is working, on 610 kHz you should hear KCSP here in Kansas City with a 24/7, non-directional 5 kW signal. In south Overland Park, I am just 5.2 miles from their transmitter site.

Bob
 
Speaking of 610, over the past 18 months, have any of you DXers heard Columbus' WTVN in any places you previously couldn't? One of the towers in its six-tower array was taken down by a storm in April 2018 and has yet to be replaced. While that means the directional night signal that made WTVN unlistenable in some parts of the metro is gone, that also means the formerly 5K north signal that basically shot toward Toledo and Detroit has been replaced by 1,250 omnidirectional watts. Not all that powerful, but still. I'm sure it's snuck into some places where it'd be a first-time catch for someone.
 
I could hear WTVN on the Edinburgh, Indiana SDR even at night which I didn't expect based on their nighttime pattern.
 
DXBob said:
When the Kansas receiver is working, on 610 kHz you should hear KCSP here in Kansas City with a 24/7, non-directional 5 kW signal. In south Overland Park, I am just 5.2 miles from their transmitter site.

Bob
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KCSP is a nighttime regular here in the Chicago area. Has been since its days as WDAF.
 
hawaiigar said:
I could hear WTVN on the Edinburgh, Indiana SDR even at night which I didn't expect based on their nighttime pattern.
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WTVN has been on non-directional STA for a long time now. There's been some speculation they are trying to figure out a way to make this the permanent facility although I don't think there have been any filings to that effect.
 
gr8oldies said:
The Fort Collins SDR is how you hear WWV like a local.
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I went to one of the N6GN, Fort Collins receivers to hear WWV but it sounds like they are very close to some religious station that was messing them up on some of their freqs, especially 20 MHz.
 
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