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Early morning DX bandscan from N Central Mississippi 04-06-10

tomservo

tomservo

Got some good DX very early this morning from Grenada County, Mississippi. I'm about 100 mi south of Memphis and 100 mi north of Jackson. The most intense activity was around 3:30 am this time.

Here's stuff I was able to confirm or have 99% suspicions on:


88.1 - WMAW - MPB - Meridian, MS - RDS: MPB 88.1
88.3 - WQPR - APR - Florence, AL
89.1 - KUAR - NPR, UALR - Little Rock, AR
91.1 - WKNO - NPR - Memphis, TN - RDS: WKNO-FM
92.9 - WTUG - R&B - Tuscaloosa, AL
93.1 - KZLE - Classic Rock, JB&B - Batesville, AR
93.1 - KQID - CHR "Q 93" - Alexandria, LA
93.3 - KGSR - AAA - Cedar Park/Austin, TX - mixed w/ Sunny 93 Tupelo
93.5 - WMLV - Hot AC "V 93.5" - Butler, AL/Meridian - mixed w/ unkcountry
93.9 - WRXW - Rock "Rock 93.9" - Pearl/Jackson, MS
94.1 - WZBQ - Hot AC, Rick & Bubba - Carrollton/Tuscasloosa, AL - RDS: zbq.com
94.1 - KKPT - Variety Hits "The Point" - Little Rock, AR - RDS: song/title
94.3 - WXRZ - "Supertalk MS" - Corinth, MS
94.5 - WJOX - Sports "Jox FM" - Birmingham, AL
94.7 - KSHE - Rock - Crestwood/St Louis, MO - mentioned 314 area code, STL-named company
94.9 - KHKN - Variety Hits "Tom FM" - Little Rock, AR
95.3 - WFFN - Country "The Bear" - Coaling/Tuscasloosa, AL
95.7 - KSSN - Country "KSSN Country" - Little Rock, AR
96.1 - KMRX - Hot AC "Mix 96" - El Dorado, AR - RDS: "Mix 96!"
96.5 - KVKI - AC - Shreveport, LA
97.1 - WOKK - Country "97 OKK" - Meridian, MS - RDS: " 97OKK "
97.7 - KNBB - Sports "ESPN Radio" - Ruston, LA
97.7 - KJSM - Religious, preaching - Augusta/Batesville, AR
98.1 - WXMX - Rock "98-1 The Max" - Memphis, TN
98.1 - KTAL - Rock "98 Rocks" - Shreveport, LA - 98rocks.fm
99.3 - WBVV - Gospel - Guntown/Tupelo, MS
100.5- WAPI - Talk "WAPI 100" - Birmingham, AL
100.9- WJXN - Christian Contemp. "K-Love" - Utica/Jackson, MS
101.3- WMSO - Country - Meridian, MS
101.9- KNOE - CHR "Star 101.9" - Monroe, LA
101.9- KIYS - CHR - Jonesboro, AR
102.1- WDGE - Rock "The Edge" - Fort Worth-Dallas, TX?
103.3- KWOZ - Country "Arkansas 103.3" - Mountain View, AR
103.7- KABZ - Sports "Buzz" - Little Rock, AR
104.1- KJLO - Country "K 104" - Monroe, LA
104.7- WZZK - Country, Rick and Bubba - Birmingham, AL
104.9- KTXX - Sports "ESPN Radio/The Horn" - Dripping Springs/Austin, TX
104.9- WKZU - Country "Kudzu Country" - Iuka, MS
105.1- KMJX - Country, News - Conway/Little Rock, AR
105.3- KRLD - Sports "The Fan" - Dallas, TX
105.7- KRND - R&B "Smooth 105.7" - Decatur/Dallas, TX
105.7- WJXM - Hip Hop "The Beat" - Meridian, MS
105.9- KLAZ - Hot AC - Hot Springs, AR
106.1- KXRR - Rock "Rock 106" - Monroe, LA
106.9- WBPT - Classic Hits "The Eagle" - Birmingham, AL
106.9- KXFE - Country "Country 97.3" - Dumas, AR // KDEW De Witt, AR
107.1- WBYP - Country - Belzoni, MS
107.1- KDXX - Spanish AC "Recuerdo" - Dallas, TX
107.3- WQLT - AC "Q-107" - Florence, AL
107.3- WRGV - R&B "The Groove" - Pensacola, FL
107.5- WKXI - R&B, Tom Joyner - Jackson, MS - RDS: commercial titles


We have a "dead air" translator on 103.1 that had an off-air pickup for a defunct religious outlet east of me on 94.5. This morning it was booming 5x5 WJOX-FM from Birmingham for the first time in ages.

I also have 4-5 mystery stations, and I hope some of you can help me figure these out:

The first was on 90.7, playing classic music and seemed to be a direct simulcast of the feed from WKNO Memphis, including the NPR news break at 5 am. It was a good 5x5 here between about 3:30 and 4:30 am, but I didn't catch any IDs because of the long classical pieces.

The second was the Rick and Bubba morning show on 94.5. They only list one affiliate on that frequency that carries the show live, WHOD Jackson, AL. Can anyone confirm if this station is still carrying their show, or if the 94.5 in Panama City is playing it live now? I also got some country on this frequency before the morning shows cranked up at 5 am, which added to the mystery.

Third is a station on 99.3 that only ever ID'd itself as "99.3, Arkansas' home for R&B" or a variation thereof. Could it be KAPW Cotton Plant (Forrest City), AR?

102.5 was my next mystery, where I got two different outlets at the same time playing very similar music. One was oldies, and a commercial featured the 870 eastern Arkansas area code. But it ID'd as "Oldies 105.5". ??? A second station was also fairly weakly audible, playing oldies type music but ID'ing as "Classic Hits 102.5 The Tiger". Can't find anything on that one.
 
KAPW goes by Power 99 and they do The Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Oldies 105.5 would be KWAK-FM STUTTGART.

Both are owned by Bobby Caldwell (E Ark Broadcasters in Wynne)

102.5 could be KAFN Gould also owned by E Ark Broadcasters. Last time I heard the station they were on very low power and simulcasting KDEW just at 106.9 KXFE Dummas does.

I will check with a source in the area and see what I confirm on the last 2 for you.
 
I'd appreciate that Michael, thanks. Those small town simulcasts can sometimes go on for ages before the net picks them up.

I can add a few more stations to my list, too. But these are on TV. I've lost all my "local" digital television this morning except for one station. Instead I got brief snippets of WHDF-DT 14 Florence, AL "The Valley's CW" and WBBJ-DT 43 Jackson, TN "ABC 7".
 
Excellent catch, Zach, KGSR all the way from central Texas. I almost never get this kind of DX on the mid Atlantic coast. I once got WFCC "Classical 107.5" from MA's Cape Cod once in northern VA. That was about a decade ago.
 
ddsparxx said:
Excellent catch, Zach, KGSR all the way from central Texas. I almost never get this kind of DX on the mid Atlantic coast. I once got WFCC "Classical 107.5" from MA's Cape Cod once in northern VA. That was about a decade ago.
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Thanks. What made that KGSR really special (besides hearing the callsign for a 100% confirmation) was that I'm in the 60 dBu contour of a local station on the same frequency. For them to get blasted out by a station in Austin as long as it did was pretty sweet.
 
Not as strong today but had the chance to check things out on a slightly better radio, up on top of the tallest hill in the area.

I can add to this list:

88.5 - WRAS - Atlanta, GA (College)
95.5 - WTVY - Dothan, AL (Country, Wendy & Jerry Show)
96.7 - WMXA - Opelika, AL (unknown advert '...in Auburn', Dillards at Village Mall)
98.9 - WBAM - Montgomery, AL (Country, "Bama 98")
100.7 - WJLQ - Pensacola, FL (Hot AC, "i100")
101.1 - WYDE - Cullman, AL (Talk, Laura Ingraham)
101.7 - WBEI - Reform/Tuscaloosa, AL (Kidd Kraddick, RDS: B101.7)
102.7 - WXBM - Milton, FL (unknown advert '...in Frisco City', RDS no decode)
104.9 - WSLY - York, AL (Fox Sports Radio)

Also got good RDS decodes on WZZK in Birmingham ("WZZK"), WJXM Meridian ("105.7 THE BEAT") and WMSO Meridian ("Miss 101").

WSLY had me fooled, thinking it was the Austin catch again. Then I realized it was ESPN, this was Fox Sports. Yet another "two stations, similar formats" like yesterday. ;D
 
90.7 is WKNP in Jackson, TN. You're right. It's a simulcast of WKNO.
 
On April 6, WMAW was coming in on a translator, 98.1, here in Cullman, Al. that is set up to rebroadcast WAYH 88.1 in Huntsville (45 miles NE of me). They were also blasting in on 88.1 on my home receiver.
 
Zach - the station you heard Rick and Bubba on 94.5 FM was almost certainly WHOD in Jackson, AL - they do carry their show weekday mornings.
 
WKNP is 90.1.

WKNA and WKNQ used simulcast as a secondary service of WKNO. With BBC World and NPR. WKNO sold both stations and they are now AFA and K-Love.
 
Michael said:
WKNP is 90.1.

WKNA and WKNQ used simulcast as a secondary service of WKNO. With BBC World and NPR. WKNO sold both stations and they are now AFA and K-Love.
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Yeah, I was miffed when they spun off those to AFA, because I could pick up the Senatobia station pretty regularly and it was nice listening to the Beeb. Their feed was much clearer than that off XM. Now MPB carries it overnights and on HD-2 so it's no big deal.

The best I can tell, the station on 90.7 was KLSA, Alexandria, Louisiana. They're a repeater for Red River Radio and carry NPR through the night, which would match the classical programming. They're also heard on a translator in Grambling, LA also on 90.7. So I figure it had to be one of those two.
 
Nice DX, Zach.

I believe other people have answered most of your unids, except the Classic Hits on 102.5. While I cannot find a match to "The Tiger", a likely candidate would be 102.5 WESP Dothan, AL "The Eagle" (http://1025theeagle.com). I don't see any other good possibilities with that type of format in your tropo area, and perhaps "Tiger" and "Eagle" could sound alike under weak signal conditions.

I also found your KSHE/St. Louis log interesting. I'm in the Nashville, TN area (Murfreesboro) and had very strong tropo almost exclusively to Texas and Arkansas, with the exception of oddball strong signals from KARH and KFOU in St. Louis (and nothing else in that direction).

April 6th was a great day - a summary of my better DX here: http://www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?t=4211. Hopefully we will see more of this as Spring continues :)
 
KG6VSW said:
Nice DX, Zach.

I believe other people have answered most of your unids, except the Classic Hits on 102.5. While I cannot find a match to "The Tiger", a likely candidate would be 102.5 WESP Dothan, AL "The Eagle" (http://1025theeagle.com). I don't see any other good possibilities with that type of format in your tropo area, and perhaps "Tiger" and "Eagle" could sound alike under weak signal conditions.

I also found your KSHE/St. Louis log interesting. I'm in the Nashville, TN area (Murfreesboro) and had very strong tropo almost exclusively to Texas and Arkansas, with the exception of oddball strong signals from KARH and KFOU in St. Louis (and nothing else in that direction).

April 6th was a great day - a summary of my better DX here: http://www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?t=4211. Hopefully we will see more of this as Spring continues :)
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Thank you, and I'm glad to see that someone else is getting the St Louis phenomenon too. That had me puzzled but also kinda thrilled. Your Dilley, TX record is quite the catch! It more or less is equal to some of my westerly records I got in Birmingham, to Browsville and Odessa.

It just dawned on me that 102.5 could actually be a semi-local. WAGR Lexington is a real weak catch on the best of days. It's listed in Radio-Locator as country but it's actually more classic rock these days, with Rick & Bubba in the morning. Last time I heard it, though, they had no slogans (or jocks, and few commercials) but that was before the owner up and died. So maybe it's "Tiger" now.
 
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