Hi all,
Hope I'm posting this in the right place. I don't see a San Bernardino / Riverside / Inland Empire board, so I picked L.A. (over San Diego), as I think L.A. stations are more likely to be heard in the I.E. and vice versa than San Diego stations. (although from San Diego, L.A. is much more common than I.E.)
I've often visited the San Bernardino & Loma Linda area, and over the past few years or so I've noticed a Spanish-language religious station in the area on 1630 kHz. Per my limited observations, they are fairly weak but readable at the Greyhound bus station, and a little stronger a few blocks to the east on 5th Street. To the south, I could also hear them quite weak near Inland Center mall (or outside El Pollo Loco a block or two up E Street). At a few places on Hospitality Lane, like Souplantation or Guitar Center, IIRC, 1630 was faint, but audible. At Loma Linda Dental School / Medical Center, there was a carrier on 1630, but too weak for audio.
I was there again this past Wednesday and Thursday, and recorded a TOH ID on 1630 on my PL-398mp while across the street from the Greyhound terminal. This was done at 7pm, so there's skywave interference from Tijuana's XEUT (mostly from the offset heterodyne - the local Español religion is on top). Provided you have good headphones, a very good "DXer's ear" and are somewhat fluent in Spanish, anyone have any idea what this station is? Partway through the clip they give a website (and later maybe a church name), but I'm having a tough time makIng it out.
I'll be in the area again this Wednesday, and if the opportunity presents itself I may try to record the TOH ID in the middle of the day when the signal is relatively clean. If someone could help ID it from the clip, though, I'd like to, time and local public transit routes and schedules permitting, visit the transmitter site. Otherwise, besides my Loma Linda appointment, I anticipate possibly visiting a piano store in Loma Linda where an acquaintance is the owner, and/or visiting a field just east of Bessant St (north of Baseline St) in San Bernardino to experiment & test a few of my AM radios. I already have this gut feeling that receiving 1280-KFRN, 1300-KAZN or 1300-KROP would be a bit difficult from the middle of the field, even with my DSP-selective Tecsun PL-398mp.
I wonder if I might hear that 1630 from somewhere else in the field, though…
73, Stephen
Hope I'm posting this in the right place. I don't see a San Bernardino / Riverside / Inland Empire board, so I picked L.A. (over San Diego), as I think L.A. stations are more likely to be heard in the I.E. and vice versa than San Diego stations. (although from San Diego, L.A. is much more common than I.E.)
I've often visited the San Bernardino & Loma Linda area, and over the past few years or so I've noticed a Spanish-language religious station in the area on 1630 kHz. Per my limited observations, they are fairly weak but readable at the Greyhound bus station, and a little stronger a few blocks to the east on 5th Street. To the south, I could also hear them quite weak near Inland Center mall (or outside El Pollo Loco a block or two up E Street). At a few places on Hospitality Lane, like Souplantation or Guitar Center, IIRC, 1630 was faint, but audible. At Loma Linda Dental School / Medical Center, there was a carrier on 1630, but too weak for audio.
I was there again this past Wednesday and Thursday, and recorded a TOH ID on 1630 on my PL-398mp while across the street from the Greyhound terminal. This was done at 7pm, so there's skywave interference from Tijuana's XEUT (mostly from the offset heterodyne - the local Español religion is on top). Provided you have good headphones, a very good "DXer's ear" and are somewhat fluent in Spanish, anyone have any idea what this station is? Partway through the clip they give a website (and later maybe a church name), but I'm having a tough time makIng it out.
I'll be in the area again this Wednesday, and if the opportunity presents itself I may try to record the TOH ID in the middle of the day when the signal is relatively clean. If someone could help ID it from the clip, though, I'd like to, time and local public transit routes and schedules permitting, visit the transmitter site. Otherwise, besides my Loma Linda appointment, I anticipate possibly visiting a piano store in Loma Linda where an acquaintance is the owner, and/or visiting a field just east of Bessant St (north of Baseline St) in San Bernardino to experiment & test a few of my AM radios. I already have this gut feeling that receiving 1280-KFRN, 1300-KAZN or 1300-KROP would be a bit difficult from the middle of the field, even with my DSP-selective Tecsun PL-398mp.
I wonder if I might hear that 1630 from somewhere else in the field, though…73, Stephen
