Anecdotal Observations - Corpus Christi, TX

[clouseau]

I had cause today to be in Corpus Christi, TX with a business associate. We both had to make a couple of stops and thusly I had several minutes in the car with nothing to do but play with the radio.

For Background...There is no HD AM in Corpus Christi. Closest HD station is 50 KW Clear Channel (Both ways) WOAI San Antonio. Comes in "usable but not strong." Freq is 1200.

1150 - Local KCCT
1160 - Continous splatter KCCT
1170 - Occasional Splatter KCCT
1180 - DX Station Un id'd
1190 - HD White Noise
1200 - WOAI San Antonio
1210 - KUBR from Rio Grande Valley DX but easily readable. No white noise.
1220 - Some other station. DX barely readable with KSIX peaks splattering a little
1230 - Local KSIX
1240 - DX KSOX detectable with KSIX peaks splattering a little over top

I also noticed 50KW 1030 KCCT causing occasionalpeak splatter as high as over 1070 KOPY Alice. 1070 claims to be local but is rimshot at best. 1030 DOES actually impact 9 freqs with their analog. (At least on the radio I was listening on.)

Radio was a stock AM/FM/CD in a Ford Freestyle. Nightime brings on a whole other menagerie. While I heaard no HD sidebands, overall AM at night is a mess. The clears were basically gone. Tons of noise and every alost every freq with multiple stations. Very little usable. I Did get WLW and 1st adjacent 710 Amafillo. Easily ID'd but neither really usable.

These type results are similar to what I find elsewhere here in good ole Texas.

Now I don't claim this was scientific, but it is what is happening at that location.

Clouseau

 

[Savage]

1030 impacting 9 channels? I would venture to opine: KCCT is NOT NRSC-compliant.

Clouseau, your cover is blown forever. Just like me, fellow radio addict....hmm, what to do for a few minutes to kill in the car? I know!! Let's tune around on the radio!!

 

[Tom Wells]

I spent 2 or 3 days in Corpus Christi this spring and spent about an hour each day doing the same.
Isn't checking the radio the first thing everyone does when they visit a new place?

 

[Mike Walker]

It's certainly the first thing I do when visiting a new town, Tom (checking the radio). And being "of a certain age", I always check the AM band first.

 

[mimo]

As do I...I start with the AM band and then go to the FM. I also do this on the way into a city, and then once I'm there, I do it more in depth....turn off the engine (car noise can sometimes affect FM to0 let's not forget) in a place far away from any power lines (which can also affect both bands) and just listen. I'd love to hear how much comes in from Mexico in the day there in Corpus. Maybe a faint XEG but based on what was posted above, I doubt it now.

 

[clouseau]

As do I...I start with the AM band and then go to the FM. I also do this on the way into a city, and then once I'm there, I do it more in depth....turn off the engine (car noise can sometimes affect FM to0 let's not forget) in a place far away from any power lines (which can also affect both bands) and just listen. I'd love to hear how much comes in from Mexico in the day there in Corpus. Maybe a faint XEG but based on what was posted above, I doubt it now.

Just crashing out at night. 1050 = ok But DX on the Kitchenette "Soundesign".

But there's no "Huggy Bear".

Just accordians...

There have been better days.

Clouseau

 

[hipporadio]

...Just like me, fellow radio addict....hmm, what to do for a few minutes to kill in the car? I know!! Let's tune around on the radio!!

Hey, I DO THE SAME! ...’Guess I can’t get it out of my system ;D

Mr. Inspector... You’ve just described the AM band [especially at night] in ChasTowne, SC... ‘Different calls—different freqs!

 

[Chuck]

...Just like me, fellow radio addict....hmm, what to do for a few minutes to kill in the car? I know!! Let's tune around on the radio!!

Hey, I DO THE SAME! ...’Guess I can’t get it out of my system ;D

Mr. Inspector... You’ve just described the AM band [especially at night] in ChasTowne, SC... ‘Different calls—different freqs!

It sounds about the same in East Texas after dark. Basically, a real mess....

 

[hipporadio]

I’m at the “childhood homestead” in east-central Indiana right now – about 40-miles northwest of Cincinnati. In my youth, 550-WKRC had a listenable nighttime signal here... I tuned tonight—and NOT... Interference from KTRS [St. Louis] and WDUN [Georgia]. WHAT are these stations doing in their obvious propagation toward a “protected’ station at the Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky junction? Are they NOT following “nighttime parameters”? I CAN’T hear an AM station that has served my childhood hometown for DECADES! FCC...

 

[clouseau]

I’m at the “childhood homestead” in east-central Indiana right now – about 40-miles northwest of Cincinnati. In my youth, 550-WKRC had a listenable nighttime signal here... I tuned tonight—and NOT... Interference from KTRS [St. Louis] and WDUN [Georgia]. WHAT are these stations doing in their obvious propagation toward a “protected’ station at the Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky junction? Are they NOT following “nighttime parameters”? I CAN’T hear an AM station that has served my childhood hometown for DECADES! FCC...

Yo Hippo Dude,

The landscape constantly changes. WOWO is gone from Philly. 1520 WSLT is gone from the Jersey Shore. The list goes on...

Regrettably, It's not about what WAS. It's about what "IS".

I feel your pain.

Clouseau