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Dxing Opportunities with Disney Stations going dark at least temporarily

Speaking of SW and FM on radios, did anyone notice the anachronistic radio on "The Roosevelts" series on PBS? It was a table radio in a cabinet, not unlike those used until recently for huge CRT televisions called "Entertainment Centers". It was supposed to be during the Roosevelt Presidency, which ended in April, 1945. It had both FM and SW, but the FM was shown as 88-108 MHz. It was a very handsome table radio, and probably from very soon after the switch from 42-50 MHz to 88-108 MHz, but obviously not during the Roosevelt Presidency. I was just looking at pictures of radios, and there were some of this type but had the 42-50 MHz band on them during that time. One would gladly own a handsome AM-FM-SW radio with the 88-108 MHz band, but they just didn't exist during that time.

The real FM radios during the Roosevelt Presidency would like those shown in the link below.

http://userpages.bright.net/~geary/fm/fm.html
 
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If New York's 1560 does go dark, I am hoping to finally snag KGOW in Ohio during that time before they go to night pattern.
 
TheBigA said:
Good luck. Even during the day, the signal is extremely directional, with most of it going into the Caribbean.
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KGOW's 46kw daytime signal (from a site SSW south of Houston) is sharply directional to the NNE and has been heard with strong signals into the Midwestern states during critical hours. Their 15kw night signal (from a different site west of Houston) is the one that goes SE towards the Caribbean.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
KGOW's 46kw daytime signal (from a site SSW south of Houston) is sharply directional to the NNE and has been heard with strong signals into the Midwestern states during critical hours. Their 15kw night signal (from a different site west of Houston) is the one that goes SE towards the Caribbean.
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That may be, but with all the small stations along the thousand mile route from Houston to Ohio, it's still going to be tough.
 
Tough maybe, BIg A, but I think schmave has a good chance at it. KGOW makes it to Texarkana with little issue, and that's with a co-channel (that's basically been rendered useless by KGOW) in Daingerfield Texas. Without WQEW coming at him from the other direction, a log of KGOW seems entirely possible up in Ohio. It'd be a certainty if KGOW "forgets" to change from the 46kW day array a night or two. Not trying to give David Gow any ideas or anything, lol.

Edit to add: I'm not sure what to expect here in Houston. 1590 KMIC has been on the air consistently since I can remember. Maybe KLRK from Mexia, but I doubt it. Highly east-west directional towards Waco and back towards Mexia. Maybe the co-channel from Sinton. Most likely a whole lot of nothing until KMIC finds a new operator.
 
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MarioMania said:
Well it's only 6 days left

Is anyone going record it?
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Based on industry chatter, I suspect that the stations may not go silent but simple take the pure network feed just like we hear on satellite. No local sales, no local staff except and engineer and an office with the public file.
 
schmave said:
If New York's 1560 does go dark, I am hoping to finally snag KGOW in Ohio during that time before they go to night pattern.
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Count me as among those who think you have a shot. I've heard KGOW a few times here in the Chicago area. Mostly around sunrise.
 
gar fla said:
I can often hear them here in Florida at night.

And when I turn the radio 90 degrees to the left, it's KGOW from Houston.
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Wow, you can get KGOW's night signal in Florida?? Not bad considering they are pointing SSE from their 9 tower site out on the rim of the county at the NW side at 15KW. The DAY side is 6towers, 50KW and is SOUTH of Houston and points right up US-59/I-69...
 
purpledevil said:
Tough maybe, BIg A, but I think schmave has a good chance at it. KGOW makes it to Texarkana with little issue, and that's with a co-channel (that's basically been rendered useless by KGOW) in Daingerfield Texas. Without WQEW coming at him from the other direction, a log of KGOW seems entirely possible up in Ohio. It'd be a certainty if KGOW "forgets" to change from the 46kW day array a night or two. Not trying to give David Gow any ideas or anything, lol.

Edit to add: I'm not sure what to expect here in Houston. 1590 KMIC has been on the air consistently since I can remember. Maybe KLRK from Mexia, but I doubt it. Highly east-west directional towards Waco and back towards Mexia. Maybe the co-channel from Sinton. Most likely a whole lot of nothing until KMIC finds a new operator.
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The Daingerfield 1560 has been dark for some time now....we talked about it on FB in a broadcast group..
 
ContinuousWave said:
Wow, you can get KGOW's night signal in Florida?? Not bad considering they are pointing SSE from their 9 tower site out on the rim of the county at the NW side at 15KW. The DAY side is 6towers, 50KW and is SOUTH of Houston and points right up US-59/I-69...
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I just wish they were worth listening to. The only time they were mildly interesting is when they left daytime power on at night to cover hurricane Ike aftermath in 2008. Real snoozefest. All they do is use electricity and make it hard to DX 1550 and 1570 during the day.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Based on industry chatter, I suspect that the stations may not go silent but simple take the pure network feed just like we hear on satellite. No local sales, no local staff except and engineer and an office with the public file.
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That would be cool if that happens.
 
boombox4 said:
That would be cool if that happens.
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Why? The stations would sound like every other syndication-dependent AM station out there pumping out right-wing talk or sports, just with One Direction or Miley Cyrus where Rush Limbaugh or Jim Rome would be heard, and no local ads. How is that "cool"?
 
MarioMania said:
How would that be cool?

What satellite feed are they going to air on the RD station at 12am?
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The same one that's fed to Sirius XM 24/7, I would assume. I've never listened to an AM Disney station in the wee hours of the morning myself. Do they continue airing children's programming at an hour that finds very few children awake, let alone listening to the radio, or do they run infomercials and such?
 
CTListener said:
The same one that's fed to Sirius XM 24/7, I would assume. I've never listened to an AM Disney station in the wee hours of the morning myself. Do they continue airing children's programming at an hour that finds very few children awake, let alone listening to the radio, or do they run infomercials and such?
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WQEW plays music...and sounds the same as it does in the early evening. There's even dj chatter.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Based on industry chatter, I suspect that the stations may not go silent but simple take the pure network feed just like we hear on satellite. No local sales, no local staff except and engineer and an office with the public file.
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Most of RD stations broadcast the network feed 99% of the time anyway.....what local production/promotions done is trivial....All DJ/music has been from the RD feed...I know of no local DJs on any RD stations...(it was not allowed when RD was started..THAT I know...)

However, the word I heard was RD will take the stations silent if no sale is pending as of the 26th.....its not like they have to prove the stations run ok...Disney can always fire one up for a potential buyer if requested....but I doubt the signals will remain on with full feed from the RD/KDIS location..hell,they are really doing that already anyway except when local promotions are done on air.
 
CTListener said:
Why? The stations would sound like every other syndication-dependent AM station out there pumping out right-wing talk or sports, just with One Direction or Miley Cyrus where Rush Limbaugh or Jim Rome would be heard, and no local ads. How is that "cool"?
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How is any of the same cookie cutter, homogenised, mindless programming you hear across the FM band cool? It's all relative.
 
CTListener said:
The same one that's fed to Sirius XM 24/7, I would assume. I've never listened to an AM Disney station in the wee hours of the morning myself. Do they continue airing children's programming at an hour that finds very few children awake, let alone listening to the radio, or do they run infomercials and such?
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The only children's programming is an hour or so around noon. The rest of the time, to the casual listeners, they are another top-40 station - just one with a few extra artists and a lot of insider Disney information. Its really quite listenable. It sure beats slob sports talk (topics I don't know anything whatsoever about), mindless liberal / conservative propaganda, really bad preachers, or whatever foreign language that happens to be on a station.
 
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