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Florida DX (FWB AREA)

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Rob

102.1 is down (WWAV), so that leaves room for DX.

Heard what sounded like radio disney, talk radio and classic rock all very weak.
Can anyone tell me what this could be?

-Rob
 
robfwb said:
102.1 is down (WWAV), so that leaves room for DX.

Heard what sounded like radio disney, talk radio and classic rock all very weak.
Can anyone tell me what this could be?
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Radio Disney is WQUA Citronelle, Alabama, a bit north of Mobile.
 
w9wi said:
robfwb said:
102.1 is down (WWAV), so that leaves room for DX.

Heard what sounded like radio disney, talk radio and classic rock all very weak.
Can anyone tell me what this could be?
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Radio Disney is WQUA Citronelle, Alabama, a bit north of Mobile.
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I don't believe WQUA is still running Radio Disney, though. Didn't WQUA go to a christian format when it was sold to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries? Or did the sale fall through?


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passtheword said:
Radio Disney is WQUA Citronelle, Alabama, a bit north of Mobile.
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I don't believe WQUA is still running Radio Disney, though. Didn't WQUA go to a christian format when it was sold to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries? Or did the sale fall through?
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Well, that's interesting...

You're right, the FCC says WQUA has been transferred to Swaggart. Wikipedia's page on Radio Disney says WQUA is a "decommissioned" station. But it doesn' t list anything else on 102.1.

I wonder if:
- Swaggart hasn't yet arranged their programming for the station?
- The transfer has been approved by the FCC but not yet consummated?
- The Disney programming is tame enough that Swaggart is willing to continue to carry it?
- Rob's logging is old enough that it predates the transfer?
 
This was a few days ago.

Unless im hearing radio disney from another source, radio locator still has it as radio disney.

I think the classic rock may have been WWAV but on horse power. Don't know if there are any other classic rockers on 102.1 unless that was e-skip which is doubtful.

-rob
 
I have personally never had much success DX-ing while in Florida. A combination of the fact that there is a thunderstorm happening somewhere over the state 24x7/365, plus all the superpowered transmitters from Cuba.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
I have personally never had much success DX-ing while in Florida. A combination of the fact that there is a thunderstorm happening somewhere over the state 24x7/365, plus all the superpowered transmitters from Cuba.
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I remember living on a barrier island in Daytona Beach shores - I had every 50kW station on the Eastern seaboard daytime. New York - all day. A lot of inland stations like WLW. I moved inland a couple of miles - all that stuff was gone. I had WSB - that was about the most distant station I could get from the Daytona area. There is a 530 from the Bahamas - interesting listening during hurricane season. Florida is also an FM DX paradise, especially on the West Coast. Stuff from across the gulf almost all the time.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
FreddyE1977 said:
I have personally never had much success DX-ing while in Florida. A combination of the fact that there is a thunderstorm happening somewhere over the state 24x7/365, plus all the superpowered transmitters from Cuba.
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I remember living on a barrier island in Daytona Beach shores - I had every 50kW station on the Eastern seaboard daytime. New York - all day. A lot of inland stations like WLW. I moved inland a couple of miles - all that stuff was gone. I had WSB - that was about the most distant station I could get from the Daytona area. There is a 530 from the Bahamas - interesting listening during hurricane season. Florida is also an FM DX paradise, especially on the West Coast. Stuff from across the gulf almost all the time.
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Yes, with the salt water path, I have picked up stations from all along the E. Coast in coastal areas of VA-NC.
I was visiting relatives in Ocala in Central Florida, and the band was pretty much trashed.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Yes, with the salt water path, I have picked up stations from all along the E. Coast in coastal areas of VA-NC.
I was visiting relatives in Ocala in Central Florida, and the band was pretty much trashed.
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Ocala was pretty much full of deep fringe stuff from Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa St. Pete. Almost anywhere in that central Florida area you can get something on as many as 80 to 90 FM frequencies. A good antenna and rotor, and you would never be short of DX. I tried a ban scan in Kissimmee one time and was pretty sure I had stuff on 96 of the 100 frequencies. Amazing.
 
Regarding barrier islands, I was on Jekkyl Island GA a few weeks ago and did a quick DX while my better half was getting spruced up. it was about 2 hrs after local sunrise-the reception from the west was better WWL was like a semi local but I picked up the Bryan-College Station TX station on 1620 (i wrote down the calls somewhere) which is at least 1000 mi away.
 
Despite the thunderstorms and Cuban stations, Florida would be a good location for radio DXing. In addition, since the area is so flat, I would think a large number of TV stations could be received using a deep-fringe antenna and rotor.

I was particularly interested in the report of receiving of WLW from Cincinnati in the Daytona Beach area. Was that at night? I know there is a station in Jacksonville on 690-AM which I felt would effect receiving WLW (at 700-AM) in that area. I know WCKY-1530-AM comes in well in Florida and farther points south.
 
Living near Daytona Beach, 700 WLW does come in here at night, some nights better than others... Unless you are in Jacksonville right in 690's nighttime directional lobe you should be able to receive it most locations here in FL.

As for 1530, it comes in down here too, sometimes over the 1530 in Jax during critical hours at my location....
 
KE4KLS_Radio said:
Living near Daytona Beach, 700 WLW does come in here at night, some nights better than others... Unless you are in Jacksonville right in 690's nighttime directional lobe you should be able to receive it most locations here in FL.

As for 1530, it comes in down here too, sometimes over the 1530 in Jax during critical hours at my location....
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I have pulled in Cincinnati's 1360-WSAI all over Florida over the decades at night! Other catches of note in south Florida include 810-WGY, 1030-WBZ AND 1520-WKBW( early 70s).
 
Cinci Kid-I made an interesting "catch" of WCKY 1530 which came in clearly (but not real strong) last week (at night of course) when the local 1530 in Englewood FL went off the air briefly.
 
While much has been written and said about the power of WLW (like when it was 500,000 watts from 1934-1939), WCKY has done well in the "power department" as well over the years. For example, in the post World War II years into April, 1964, the station featured a country music show at night (a DJ playing records) which received various contacts from all parts of the southern half of the U.S.A. and even into the Caribbean. During the Cuban missle crisis in 1962, WCKY was one of the stations chosen by the government to broadcast in Spanish after dark in programs aimed at the Cuban population. I think it was the farthest north station to take part in those broadcasts (WLAC in Nashville and WWL in New Orleans were among others). In 1964, as a part of the promotion of WCKY becoming the flagship station of the Reds' broadcasts, the station held a contest for the farthest listener. The winner was a serviceman in Japan. The runner-up was a listener in West Berlin.

I am also aware of the receiving of WSAI-1360 in distant points at times. At night, the station can not usually be heard beyond the I-275 loop around the Tri-State area of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Yet I have seen people in Harlan, Kentucky set it on their car radios in 1964 when it featured a Top 40 format and that is close to 200 miles away in the Cumberland Gap. I have also heard it fade in and out in south-central Kentucky. This is the first I've heard of it being received in Florida.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
I was particularly interested in the report of receiving of WLW from Cincinnati in the Daytona Beach area. Was that at night? I know there is a station in Jacksonville on 690-AM which I felt would effect receiving WLW (at 700-AM) in that area. I know WCKY-1530-AM comes in well in Florida and farther points south.
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Yes, that is correct. If you think about it, it is not really that far. Atlanta was about 450, so Cincy would have been about 750. I've done KOA 850 from Dallas regularly, before a useless local 850 signed on. And I used to get stations like WNOE 1060 decades ago from Abilene. Many people report a bottom loaded AM whip on their cars can do 600 to 700 mile reception. So the barrier island sand, boosting the ground conductivity through the roof, doesn't really surprise me that much. I will try again from Galveston in a few days.

I have what may be a first hand report of WLW reception in Lubbock, TX, in the 1930's during the 500kW era. The receiver was a five tube tuned RF design, and the antenna was a two foot loop. I have confirmed that daytime WLW reception is possible in Lubbock even of their 50 kW signal, using a five foot loop and a GE Superadio 3. I had the signal for well over an hour. Surprisingly, I also got WSB - in spite of complaints by Atlanta residents of bad coverage there. Daytime reception of that distance is characterized by deep fades, so there is a very small skywave component that enters in - but that would not affect high ground conductivity regions like barrier islands where the predominant reception would be groundwave.
 
robfwb said:
102.1 is down (WWAV), so that leaves room for DX.

Heard what sounded like radio disney, talk radio and classic rock all very weak.
Can anyone tell me what this could be?

-Rob
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Probably a Sirius or Xm radio transmitting nearby on that frequency!Sirius has radio disney ,I know that for a Fact!When I turn my sirius off on 87.9 ,I get 3 other radios transmitting Howard Stern and he isnt on the air anymore on FM......
 
102.1 WQUA Citronelle, AL is a Sonlife Radio Ministries station now. It's been for at least a year now. The free radio databases do not update very often and are unreliable. It's odd that someone local with a XM microtransmitter would be transmitting Radio Disney or anything there since locally here where Rob and I are is 50kw WWAV. They were temporarily off the air at the time, but anything is possible withpeople and their toys. I often pick up microtransmitters from passing cars and one of my neighbors but they choose clear freqs for their XM to car radio links.
 
I also find Florida's west coast to be an FX dx'ers paradise. At least once every three months, it is possible to DX Houston, New Orleans, and Mobile from the Tampa area...
 
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