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An odd catch has me baffled.

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purpledevil

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5:10 am CDT, while playing around the dial, in Houston, I found a station at 1630 that I am unfamiliar with and because of the apparent format, really has me puzzled as to where it's coming from. The station is rather weak, and is battling a Spanish music format, but at just before 5 am I came across the English station playing "Cemetary Gates" by Pantera, followed by a harder rock song that I am unfamiliar with. At this point, I figured I had simply run across a Mexican based station along the lines of W Radio, which does play English pop and rock hits on Saturday nights. What came next is what threw me for the loop. A weather forecast "From the Fox 28 weather center" reporting a chance of light snow today with a high of 27. It continued on with the forecast for next week, at which point the Spanish music took over and apparently for good this morning.

Obviously from the North somewhere, considering the forecast of snow showers, but where? A quick search of 1630s gives me really no help. Within 1,000 miles of here, radio-locator offers a Spanish station from Wyoming, News/Talk WRDW out of Augusta, GA., Gospel KKGM-Fort Worth, a Mexican station, and a "Mighty 1630" KCJJ from Iowa City, IA. Looking over Mighty's website makes me think this may be what I ran across, but I am not sure. If it is KCJJ, that is one hell of a catch for a 1kW night time operation at just under 850 miles away.
 
KCJJ is the likely station. They have a unique format for an AM station that doess include rock, probably because they are in a college town. KCJJ has a reliable dark hours signal here in Cincinnati, particularly in the pre-sunrise hours.

Good catch for you.
 
The FOX 28 weather forecast you heard must have been from KFXA/Cedar Rapids which is close to Iowa City as neither Columbus, OH, South Bend, IN, nor Spokane, WA have AM stations on 1630 (according to radio-locator). I have heard KCJJ 1630 at night from Vermilion, OH.
 
I can hear KCJJ here sometimes at local sunset on car radio in NE North Carolina. It is still daylight in Iowa.
 
When KCJJ was alone in the US on 1630 (outside of Vallejo CA), in the late 90s, it made it down here to south FL no problem! 1630 has other stations and a TIS or two down here now.

cd
 
Sure sounds like KCJJ to me, and yes, KFXA "Fox 28" in Cedar Rapids is the local Fox affiliate there.

KCJJ is most known for its long association with the former Westwood One syndicated afternoon drive talk show "Don & Mike" (out of WJFK/Washington).

To this day, the station is one of two "radio affiliates" for co-host/successor
"Mike O'Meara Show" host Mike O'Meara's hour long podcast, and former D&M/MOMS producer Robb Spewak hosts a weekend music show on KCJJ - mostly shipped down from DC, but he even flies out there occasionally for a visit.
 
Had to be kCJJ. Iowa City is about 20 miles from Cedar Rapids (Home of Fox 28), and part of the same TV market.
 
Guys thank you all for the help. I am hoping that KCJJ comes this way again tonight. I'd sure like to get the ID recorded and logged.
 
Good nighttime signal. I get them pretty regularly in Greenville, PA.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Now, I'm going to be spending half the morning figuring out which non-X-band station KCJJ came out of.
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It came out of...KCJJ, which was on 1560, and which survived briefly as KCJK after spawning the X-bander.
 
Scott Fybush said:
It came out of...KCJJ, which was on 1560, and which survived briefly as KCJK after spawning the X-bander.
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Thank you, Scott!

I probably don't remember it because 1560, as you note, didn't stick around for long.
 
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