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chinese on 1100 AM?

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ALRocker

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Yesterday a heard chinese, or what I thought was chinese, on 1100. It was 4:15 and I'm in north Alabama. It didn't last but 5 or 10 minutes and WTAM took over. I looked at a Canadian AM database and only 1 station is listed on 1100 at 40 watts, so that can't be it. Any ideas from anyone? Thanks.
 
At present, there are no ethnic radio stations in Canada or the United States on 1100 AM. 1100 definitely belongs to WTAM for most of North America at night, so I have no idea who you heard. It had to be from somewhere else.
 
mimo said:
At present, there are no ethnic radio stations in Canada or the United States on 1100 AM. 1100 definitely belongs to WTAM for most of North America at night, so I have no idea who you heard. It had to be from somewhere else.
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On 1100 KAFY in Bakersfield and WWWE in the Atlanta market are both Spanish Christian; Spanish does not sound like Chinese but under DX conditions, it might. Several of the religious stations, like KDRY and KFAX, might sell program time for religious shows in another langauge, too, particularly at this time of economic stress. And KFNX in AZ sells/brokers time, so they might have sold a show in an Asian language, too.
 
oh no, Chariman Mao's forces have landed in Cleveland?? :D
 
mimo said:
At present, there are no ethnic radio stations in Canada or the United States on 1100 AM. 1100 definitely belongs to WTAM for most of North America at night, so I have no idea who you heard. It had to be from somewhere else.
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I would have heard it on 1100 AM here in Fargo.. we hear bleed-over from WTAM-AM while we are in night power. (440 watts - Class B daytime 50kw)

Unless.. It was the bad feed we had of Dr. Laura that has happened 2 times in the last month (including last night) where 1 segment (2 am hour didn't record right from the XDS) It definately sounds foreign, if not korean.

That was 2 am central which lasted 18 seconds.
 
ALRocker said:
Yesterday a heard chinese, or what I thought was chinese, on 1100. It was 4:15 and I'm in north Alabama. It didn't last but 5 or 10 minutes and WTAM took over. I looked at a Canadian AM database and only 1 station is listed on 1100 at 40 watts, so that can't be it. Any ideas from anyone? Thanks.
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My gut feeling is it was the Spanish religious station in metro Atlanta, having sold a timeslot to an Asian Christian broadcaster. But I really don't have any evidence for that. (the station doesn't appear to have a website...)

Alternatively...

Some AM radios have spuriously received 49-meter shortwave stations. I don't know for sure whether any of the U.S. or Canadian-based transmitters are carrying any Oriental-language programs but that's a possibility. Receivers that have shortwave bands (even if you're tuned to regular AM at the time) seem to be most susceptible to this.
 
Thanks for the replies. w9wi is probably right since I was using a Realistic DX-440 hooked up to a chain link fence that is at least 60 feet around the back yard. Sounds crazy, but it works well. I wanted to listen for it again last night, but was not able to be at home. Will try tonight.
 
I've got a cheap radio that picks up shortwave on the AM band all the time. Once had a Walkman that stopped picking up AM and just picked up shortwave.
 
w9wi said:
ALRocker said:
Yesterday a heard chinese, or what I thought was chinese, on 1100. It was 4:15 and I'm in north Alabama. It didn't last but 5 or 10 minutes and WTAM took over. I looked at a Canadian AM database and only 1 station is listed on 1100 at 40 watts, so that can't be it. Any ideas from anyone? Thanks.
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My gut feeling is it was the Spanish religious station in metro Atlanta, having sold a timeslot to an Asian Christian broadcaster. But I really don't have any evidence for that. (the station doesn't appear to have a website...)

Alternatively...

Some AM radios have spuriously received 49-meter shortwave stations. I don't know for sure whether any of the U.S. or Canadian-based transmitters are carrying any Oriental-language programs but that's a possibility. Receivers that have shortwave bands (even if you're tuned to regular AM at the time) seem to be most susceptible to this.
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It had to be 3WE in Atlanta, the old Cleveland calls, and ironically on 1100 as well. They have a variety of languages, not just spanish. It is a 5000 watter, so have to believe it was this one, Very strong signal in Atlanta.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WWWE&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
 
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