As i said above, i heard it in SE WY one night years ago and verified it was on one watt
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As i said above, i heard it in SE WY one night years ago and verified it was on one watt
As I said in a previous post:
Normal Night Time Coverage Range of 1170 KYET was reliable about 5 miles away (and up to 10 miles away, weak DX). Groundwave signal that is.
(Coverage to the West almost Halfway to Bullhead City, or Reaches East, the Western Half of Kingman AZ).
As far as DX skywave, at least Not in Las Vegas 100 Miles away (some bleedover from KSL on 1160).
KLEY 1130 is another Example of 1 watt nighttime, also 5 miles average nighttime coverage, and 250 watts daytime easily reaches into and beyond Wichita 30-40 miles away.
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Your reception may differ from others...
What type of radio/receiver are you using? Is it highly sensitive like a C.Crane radio with a specialized attached antenna, a vehicle radio, a clock radio on your nightstand?
Let's be honest...a DX'ers listening experience is different from the average listener.
The problem with all of these DX claims is that no one explains what equipment is used to catch these signals.
My top 3 are the TEF86 Desktop SDR, Sangean HDR-19 (and it's non HD Version model PR-D5) and a Grundig Eton S350DL .. all of which are similarly great for DXing on AM and FM, sensitive to weak signals and used all for E-Skip and Tropo, but my favorite is the TEF86 (TEF6686) with RDS and Shows FM Station PI Code data and signal strength RSSI.
I Also have an Outdoor Ground Plane (GP) Antenna that is Roof-Mounted and connected to a Signal Amplifier for even better FM DX reception potential.
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I would have thought ZNS, being the only Bahamian clear channel, would be an absolute powerhouse in every direction.
My humble listening post. Fully portable. Everything fits in a shoulder bag if needed.
The blind members of this forum can't see this picture, so why don't you tell us what brands/model numbers/types of radios these are?
ZNS-1 1540 AM can just barely be picked up along the South Florida beaches. Even at night, they don't put a good signal into Florida.
ZNS-3 810 AM has a much better signal 24/7 over South(east) Florida. They are from Grand Bahama so they are closer - plus being lower on the dial helps a lot.
Of course! For SW/MW/FM monitoring I use a 1990's Emerson AT803 which is a clone of the Sangean ATS803a and a newer Tecsun PL-310e. For scanning and monitoring the VHF/UHF bands I have a Realistic Pro-26 200 channel handheld scanner. I also hold a valid amateur radio license and have a Baofeng UV-P15 VHF/UHF handheld transceiver. I hope this helps!
Getting back to the subject of this thread, I see that the CBC now has 24-hour-a-day flea powered AM radio stations in both Ontario and British Columbia. I'm wondering how effective those stations are at covering the areas they are located in.
I'm in Ontario. I wasn't aware of this. Do you know where they transmit from? Not that I'm a huge CBC listener.
I'm going to answer your question with a couple of different links to radiostationworld.com. This is a U.S.-based site that is manually updated so there may be legitimate questions about its accuracy. First, here is the markets list the site has for Ontario.
Now here is the site's listings for the Kenora district in northwestern Ontario. Note that within that district, the markets are broken down further.
In the Dryden/southeast submarket, I count at least three flea-powered AMs: one on 690 kHz, one on 1240 kHz, and one on 1340 kHz. I didn't go through the rest of the submarkets or the other districts, but I believe there are more in the submarkets for this district. The ones that interest me most are the 40-watt stations on 1240 and 1340 kHz--I'm assuming that these frequencies could be overrun by 1kW stations south of the border between sunset and sunrise.
Curiously, there are still frequency assignments for stations that ceased broadcasting due to the migration from AM to FM. For example, the former 1370 kHz frequency in Nogales, which had belonged to Radio Fórmula in the city of Nogales, was later reassigned by Mexico's new telecommunications regulator to the municipal government of Nogales, Sonora. The new authorization retained the same technical characteristics, the same station class, and the same authorized power level.
I thought those either moved to FM or just shut down years ago.
As a person who lives one mountain range over (and listen to them on daylight hours occasionally), the only reason this 1 watt reaches all of Golden Valley (a sloping relatively flat valley between Kingman and Bullhead/Laughlin) is because the tower is virtually line of site to the entire town.
Their translator on 92.3 (from their tower site) was a no-go last time I drove by too. Was picking up KOMP out of Vegas.
Given that, why bother running even 1 watt?
I should also point out KYET is probably one of a half-dozen or so stations left in the US (as of a couple years ago) still running AM stereo…daytime only.
Regardless, a radio geek like myself talked to the engineer of KYET and let him take a look at the C-QUAM gear and record it onto YouTube. Awesome 80’s vintage Motorola gear combined with a nice analog Optimod…even though they sound like they’re 24/7 satellite, they play a lot of old country a lot of classic stations won’t touch and sound excellent for an AM music station in the bandwidth-limited US.
I do believe they’re sister station to a new country FM in Kingman (KGMN 100.1) which sounds quite flat sonically-speaking in comparison to the classic stuff on 1170.
Regardless, a radio geek like myself talked to the engineer of KYET and let him take a look at the C-QUAM gear and record it onto YouTube. Awesome 80’s vintage Motorola gear combined with a nice analog Optimod…even though they sound like they’re 24/7 satellite, they play a lot of old country a lot of classic stations won’t touch and sound excellent for an AM music station in the bandwidth-limited US.
I do believe they’re sister station to a new country FM in Kingman (KGMN 100.1) which sounds quite flat sonically-speaking in comparison to the classic stuff on 1170.
1540 is not a clear channel in Venezuela, Colombia and Central America. So there is lots of other “stuff” there in that part of the world.
I think that FM Translator station, 92.3 K222CZ,
has a coverage pattern & lobe that completely misses the COL, with barely a few watts. Surely thats an error, or maybe they can fix that...
Not sure about local signal reception, which K222CZ is atop those huge mountains just SE of Kingman, with clear Line of Sight to GV. Probably A-LOT of interference from KOMP. I haven't been able to listen locally since their FM went live a few years ago.
KYET actually reminds me of the old Stirling Country station WKMB 1070 in Northern New Jersey, which disappeared in the early 2000s. However, KYET's online stream on Tunein still doesn't work, or redirects to KGMN 100.1 - I wonder if it'll ever get fixed.
I used to listen to 1170 KYET online often even from the East Coast, and would enjoy fringe coverage while visiting family 🏠 in NW Las Vegas. Discovered it from my ex GF who used to live in Golden Valley.
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