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AM stations from Mexico
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Considering that they have little or no respect for agreements that Mexico signed with the US, and often operate with daytime power at night with seeming impunity - listeners all over North America are plagued with them. I have heard them in Michigan. Add our buddy Castro into the mix, and you often have a cacophony of Spanish at night on some frequencies. But we are going to get them back - as soon as IBOC is authorized at night!
Oh, geez, you want to talk about Mexican and Cuban DX in Michigan? Let me, let me! On bad nights, when WHAM doesn't feel like coming in, 1180 is constantly jammed with Castro's crap (and no, it's not Radio Marti... they're in the background). WHAS is always fighting it out with Mexico on 840. The proximity of WCCO doesn't help, either, but it's mostly Mexico that gives me problems. I'm constantly hearing Spanish music under WRVA on 1140. Occasionally I'll hear Spanish talk trying to overcome WLS on 890.I could keep going, but my blood pressure needs to come down 
Well if Radio Marti is in the background on 1180, that directional pattern must be EXTREMELY out of whack. And 1180 must sound even more beautiful throughout the South than it does up here in the Midwest. I'm south of you in the Columbus, Ohio area and I hear the jammer fighting it out with WHAM quite a bit.Same with WLS on 890 and even WSB on 750 from time to time.I don't know how often you've been to Texas or the Gulf Coast, but when I visit family in Houston the Spanish interference makes it tough to DX stations we in the Midwest take for granted. Cuba and Mexico are ridiculously dominant. My experience is that the radio landscape is dramatically different in southern Texas/along the Gulf Coast than in Dallas or other places inland.I have to disagree with Bruce about IBOC, though. I hate it now and fear the day it's authorized at night, if that ever happens.PS Like the quote. Always good to see other Hendrie fans!
It's rare, but it happens. I don't know if I'm just in a severe directional lobe or what, but I've heard it. I actually used to live in Miami, and my grandparents live in Clearwater, so I've experienced tons of Mexican and Cuban DX. There were times that the Tampa/St. Pete AM dial was practically unlistenable at night! It gets nasty down there, and I sure don't miss that part of living in the region Glad to see another Hendrie fan, too! I'm not looking forward to his retirement, though. I'm going to be verrrry bored at 10 Eastern after June 23rd. It's not good when I'm bored. No sir, no sir, no sir!
Glad to see another Hendrie fan, too! I'm not looking forward to his retirement, though. I'm going to be verrrry bored at 10 Eastern after June 23rd. It's not good when I'm bored. No sir, no sir, no sir!I know the pattern points directly south, but I lived in Miami for 15 years... I know what Radio Marti sounds like, and I've definitely heard it here in Michigan. Why or how, I don't know. I just know I've heard it here.
Hi there Josh - I was rather intrigued to hear you say there were Mexican signals fighting it out with WHAS at your location in Michigan. I'm over here in Minnesota and split my time between St. Paul and the far southern suburb of Prior Lake... and when I'm in PL (i.e. away from WCCO), I get a completely dominant WHAS on 840 almost every night. Mighty interesting, this unpredictable science of DXing (Now, as to WRVA... I get NO signal whatsoever, even in St. Paul... owing to 1130 KFAN's nine-tower array in Prior Lake and its northward night pattern. As a matter of fact, there are nights when I can't even get WTAM, KFAB, or KSL in Prior Lake on account of KFAN's bleedover! Must have left their IBOC exciter on or something...)As for the Mexican signals, I haven't been able to ID very many. There was one on 1460 billing itself as "El Grande", and claiming to run five megawatts ERP -- though the rapid fading at my location certainly put a lie to THAT claim. (I'm pretty sure I didn't mishear the ERP, since SI prefixes are left almost completely unaffected by Spanish translation... perhaps they're southward directional, and I missed the ID saying "Acapulco - Quito - Asuncion - Montevideo"? ) 800 seems to have a real powerhouse on it from time to time -- a fellow DXer on one of the other MN boards says this one's a rather infamous signal that has been making appearances since before HIS day, meaning at least since 1970, but I can't remember the calls off-hand. I've also heard a Spanish talker on 560, but the fading has always been extreme, and I've been unable to ID it as yet.In Ames, IA, I once pulled in a show on 1090 that sounded like a Spanish version of Art Bell -- so strongly that there was not even a hint of KAAY underneath! And during an extreme period of tropo, my then-roommate got a 90.9 FM out of Acapulco on a portable Grundig!P.S. - to the San Antonio guy who started this thread - St. Paul *regularly* gets WOAI, almost every night. Earlier this week, I was driving my current roommate (who knows little about radio) to work at 5 AM... and he just about crapped himself when he heard the ID.
(Now, as to WRVA... I get NO signal whatsoever, even in St. Paul... owing to 1130 KFAN's nine-tower array in Prior Lake and its northward night pattern. As a matter of fact, there are nights when I can't even get WTAM, KFAB, or KSL in Prior Lake on account of KFAN's bleedover! Must have left their IBOC exciter on or something...)As for the Mexican signals, I haven't been able to ID very many. There was one on 1460 billing itself as "El Grande", and claiming to run five megawatts ERP -- though the rapid fading at my location certainly put a lie to THAT claim. (I'm pretty sure I didn't mishear the ERP, since SI prefixes are left almost completely unaffected by Spanish translation... perhaps they're southward directional, and I missed the ID saying "Acapulco - Quito - Asuncion - Montevideo"? ) 800 seems to have a real powerhouse on it from time to time -- a fellow DXer on one of the other MN boards says this one's a rather infamous signal that has been making appearances since before HIS day, meaning at least since 1970, but I can't remember the calls off-hand. I've also heard a Spanish talker on 560, but the fading has always been extreme, and I've been unable to ID it as yet.In Ames, IA, I once pulled in a show on 1090 that sounded like a Spanish version of Art Bell -- so strongly that there was not even a hint of KAAY underneath! And during an extreme period of tropo, my then-roommate got a 90.9 FM out of Acapulco on a portable Grundig!P.S. - to the San Antonio guy who started this thread - St. Paul *regularly* gets WOAI, almost every night. Earlier this week, I was driving my current roommate (who knows little about radio) to work at 5 AM... and he just about crapped himself when he heard the ID.The 800 you're hearing in Minnesota might - MIGHT - be PJB from Bonaire. It had 500K at its peak several years ago and commonly could be heard up and down the Eastern seaboard. It also broadcast in several languages, depending on the program.Another 800 could be the old XEROK from Juarez/El Paso. It ran at 150K back in the 70s and if it's at even 50K, I think you would hear it easily in Minnesota. At 150K, I read it blasted from California to the Mississippi. But I read here back when I first posted on this board - in fact, my first post was about its signal - that XEROK was below licensed power for a long time because of an electrical issue.
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