Well, the last two early mornings (October 10 and 11), we have had power knocked out to our residence from 2:30am-6am (10) and 3:45am-6am (11). Again, I pulled out my trusty little Panasonic Walkman-type receiver and did some scanning, particularly on the AM bands.
Since I already mentioned an FM change in another thread, I'll focus on the AMs here. As before, KSAZ 580 in Tucson was coming in nice and pretty much clear--it's still using its daytime power at night, presumably. Over on 830 kHz, I did manage to pick up the skywave from Tucson's KDRI which was alternating in and out with (I think) Los Angeles' KLAA. Facing my receiver to the northeast/southwest, I was receiving a strong traditional Mexican music station on that frequency though I never did get its callsign. During some of its breaks, it talked about "Arisona" but I can find no mention of the station on radiostationworld.com, the most accessible (for the blind) site I have for Mexican stations. (I most certainly do not believe the station was emanating from Arizona--that would have definitely interfered with KDRI), and, beyond the programming issue, WCCO was too far away to be considered as the source of this programming.
Over on 800 kHz, Juarez is gone (it's been gone for quite a while, actually) and I could only hear (very faintly) some (what I thought was) Spanish pop with the radio facing northwest/southeast. I have my doubts that what I was hearing was from Bakersfield, CA, Portland, OR, or Soda Springs, ID.
On 790, the first morning KABC was dominating but not this morning. It was being drowned out by what appeared to be a Spanish AC outlet whose signal was strongest when I faced the radio straight north/south. I don't believe this was Tucson's KNST as I've never received that outlet after sundown in Phoenix going all the way back to the 1970s (when it was known as KCEE), and anyway, the programming didn't fit. Both the programming and the direction from which I heard the signal best ruled out (for me, at least) the licensed Mexicali station on that frequency as well.
On 710 kHz, I was getting a cross between Los Angeles' KSPN and Denver's KNUS. I was also hearing some Spanish programming weakly which I presumed could be the licensed Mexican outlet in Acapulco?
Back to my home turf. KNUV was running an open carrier yesterday morning but was back fully on the air this morning. On 1130 kHz, I managed to snag the IHeart religious outlet licensed to Dinuba, CA, a first for me. I also believe that I managed to catch Fresno's KXEX on 1550 kHz with news/talk and quite a bit of interference from other 1550 stations underneath it.
Anyway, that's some of what I heard both yesterday and this mornings while our power was out.
Since I already mentioned an FM change in another thread, I'll focus on the AMs here. As before, KSAZ 580 in Tucson was coming in nice and pretty much clear--it's still using its daytime power at night, presumably. Over on 830 kHz, I did manage to pick up the skywave from Tucson's KDRI which was alternating in and out with (I think) Los Angeles' KLAA. Facing my receiver to the northeast/southwest, I was receiving a strong traditional Mexican music station on that frequency though I never did get its callsign. During some of its breaks, it talked about "Arisona" but I can find no mention of the station on radiostationworld.com, the most accessible (for the blind) site I have for Mexican stations. (I most certainly do not believe the station was emanating from Arizona--that would have definitely interfered with KDRI), and, beyond the programming issue, WCCO was too far away to be considered as the source of this programming.
Over on 800 kHz, Juarez is gone (it's been gone for quite a while, actually) and I could only hear (very faintly) some (what I thought was) Spanish pop with the radio facing northwest/southeast. I have my doubts that what I was hearing was from Bakersfield, CA, Portland, OR, or Soda Springs, ID.
On 790, the first morning KABC was dominating but not this morning. It was being drowned out by what appeared to be a Spanish AC outlet whose signal was strongest when I faced the radio straight north/south. I don't believe this was Tucson's KNST as I've never received that outlet after sundown in Phoenix going all the way back to the 1970s (when it was known as KCEE), and anyway, the programming didn't fit. Both the programming and the direction from which I heard the signal best ruled out (for me, at least) the licensed Mexicali station on that frequency as well.
On 710 kHz, I was getting a cross between Los Angeles' KSPN and Denver's KNUS. I was also hearing some Spanish programming weakly which I presumed could be the licensed Mexican outlet in Acapulco?
Back to my home turf. KNUV was running an open carrier yesterday morning but was back fully on the air this morning. On 1130 kHz, I managed to snag the IHeart religious outlet licensed to Dinuba, CA, a first for me. I also believe that I managed to catch Fresno's KXEX on 1550 kHz with news/talk and quite a bit of interference from other 1550 stations underneath it.
Anyway, that's some of what I heard both yesterday and this mornings while our power was out.
