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AM Frequency of the Week - 1490 kHz
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N4GBK said:
WVEC-TV in Hampton, VA, actually moved back to VHF 13 in 2009 after silencing their analog signal there. The former WVEC 1490 kHz is now WXTG "The Game" and WVEC-FM is now WWDE 101.3 MHz (2WD).
On a different note, 1490 kHz in Durham, North Carolina is local WDUR, which signed on as WSSB on this frequency in 1948 the day after WDNC moved from there to 620 kHz.
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I've heard WYYZ Jasper,Georgia during the Day and nothing at Night
tanner said:
Actually, a lot of us. Although admittedly a graveyard channel isn't every DXer's cup of tea. I freely confess, I usually don't have the patience to spend a lot of time hanging out on a graveyard channel.
But DXing on a graveyard channel presents a lot of challenges for snagging some truly rare and rewarding catches.
cyberdad said:
I can give a few examples...
Several years ago one evening, I was tuning around on my Panasonic RQ-SW20 (or SW10 - same radio internally, the 20 was a bit more expensive and had a nonstandard(?) AC adapter port and a gimmick headphone shaker bass feature), using a Select-A-Tenna as an aid. I noticed that my local 1240 KSON (now KNSN and with a new tower cause their old one blew over in a wind storm Dec 2004 or so, don't recall if Fybush mentions it on his site but I wouldn't be surprised to find it there), 11 miles west of me, was broadcasting an unmodulated carrier.
Upon listening a little closer, I heard KALY, the then-Radio Disney outlet from Albuquerque, NM, about 616 miles east of me. Normally KNSN (as my local is now) pretty much drowns out everything on its frequency, unless I null them (pointing north/south, not east/west).
Sometime in the past year or so, I had been listening to something on my SRF-59 as I was laying in bed late one evening. (I forget exactly what, but a few candidates might be 640 KFI, 1070 KNX, 1090 XEPRS, 1110 KDIS, or 1580 KMIK.) Somehow I went to sleep with the radio on, then woke up at around 5am or so. The headphones had popped out of my ears, so I put them back on, turned the radio on (it had gotten switched off during the night) .... and not 10 seconds later heard a TOH ID in Spanish from XEEX. The signal was weak so I didn't quite catch the frequency and COL, but it was alone on the channel.
Apparently I had also bumped the radio's tuning in my sleep, because upon searching for XEEX online, I discovered it was on (graveyard channel) 1230 from Culiacan, Mexico, about 795 miles southeast of me. It was completely alone on the channel. Also I was probably tuned to more like 1227 or 1228 or so - the audio had a little bit more of a crisp edge to it, and there was no trace of splatter from my local on 1240.
Anyone else ever have a lucky catch like that? (Maybe someone should start a topic, or resurrect an old one if it already exists?)
As a couple more examples.... Who else besides me has heard GY stations ~ 180 miles away that were this strong/clear at midday, even on pocket / ultralight radios using only the built-in ferrite antennas?
1340 KCLU - http://www.mediafire.com/?8p3b6u2n7orznzz
1490 KSPE - http://www.mediafire.com/?e212j3jkcp3ght2
So who says we can't DX graveyard channels?
Here in Bremerton, WA, ESPN Deportes outlet (part of a trimulcast) 1490 KBRO dominates both day and night...and also sometimes dominates any sound-producing equipment that's not grounded properly, from where i'm typing at (about 5 blocks away from it's almost-hidden non-lighted transmitter tower atop Forest Ridge Park, amongst the trees).
I hope my friend Bill at the NRC who keeps the Graveyard DX records for the club doesn't mind me borrowing this but apparently the best catch on 1490 was by a Finnish DXer....
XEMS TA Matamoros received by Esa Hänninen in Lemmenjoki, Finland a distance of 5321.
I know it's cold up there but it would be a lot of fun to DX with a long antenna and one of those software defined receivers!
XEMS TA Matamoros received by Esa Hänninen in Lemmenjoki, Finland a distance of 5321.
I know it's cold up there but it would be a lot of fun to DX with a long antenna and one of those software defined receivers!
Where I'm at in Indiana local WAKE 1500, which recently went oldies after a short period of nostalgia and classic country before that, kills 1490 for me.
They are only .025 kW at night but where I'm at right now, I can see the lights on the tower from my yard however, so can't much on 1490.
I did get a break a little while back when they were off for a day. During the day I got a very weak WPNA Oak Park Il. At night I got what I believe was East Saint Louis, playing oldies/nostalgia. It was very good for about 2 songs, faded in to the trainwreck before I could get an ID.
I noticed the post about the two .05 kW stations, it made think, what is the lowest power used by a graveyard in The US/Canada or Mexico? Any 100 watters still churning anywhere?
They are only .025 kW at night but where I'm at right now, I can see the lights on the tower from my yard however, so can't much on 1490.
I did get a break a little while back when they were off for a day. During the day I got a very weak WPNA Oak Park Il. At night I got what I believe was East Saint Louis, playing oldies/nostalgia. It was very good for about 2 songs, faded in to the trainwreck before I could get an ID.
I noticed the post about the two .05 kW stations, it made think, what is the lowest power used by a graveyard in The US/Canada or Mexico? Any 100 watters still churning anywhere?
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