FM Stations Picked up WAY out of their Fringe

[Robert Bass]

88.3 KCJR

That's KJCR - Keene Just Can't Rock


Ask me how I know!

Well?

R

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Ask me how I know!

OK - I'm asking! Actually - it fades somewhere around Preston Road in Plano, but occasionally goes farther. Yet another boring Christian station that can't get more edgy than praise and worship music. The vast majority of Christian radio is a waste of electricity. 88.3 is not something I'd bother to DX, that is for sure.

 

[radi0chik]

That's where I graduated college. Also worked as their Chief Operator while I was there, after their 93 year old engineer retired. The one and only station in the metroplex I've ever been on air at The station is on campus of a Christian university there (SWAU), and has been playing that genre of music (give or take) since they signed on.

 

[muzzled]

Yes. She also did the "club updates" as to who was playing at the local VFW and "earl's barbque" Her and"Capacitor" were quite a morning team. Farmers would stop milking in order to tune in.

 

[Robert Bass]

Yes. She also did the "club updates" as to who was playing at the local VFW and "earl's barbque" Her and"Capacitor" were quite a morning team. Farmers would stop milking in order to tune in.

Hmmm.... This form of humour sounds familiar to me. ;D

R

 

[LibertyNT]

Tonight I Got AN EXTREME SKIP From An FM STation So far away its almost impossible
I got....
104.3 WAXQ Out OF NewYork, NewYork...
Is that amazing or what.
it was crystal Clear for about 30 Mins

 

[Robert Bass]

Tonight I Got AN EXTREME SKIP From An FM STation So far away its almost impossible
I got....
104.3 WAXQ Out OF NewYork, NewYork...
Is that amazing or what.
it was crystal Clear for about 30 Mins

Sounds like the usual E-skip patterns normally present in the spring and summer, got postponed by all that rain we had. ;D

R

 

[OKCRadioGuy]

Here's a damn good way to know what's happening real-time:

http://www.mountainlake.k12.mn.us/ham/aprs/path.cgi?map=na

Just for the record I effectively grew up listening to Dallas radio. Funny thing is I have lived in OKC ever since gradeschool. FM class C's are good for about 250-300 miles barring any jamming from co-channel or adjacents that are in close. Some days were pretty unlistenable, however, the majority of the time it was almost like I was in-market but listening in mono with some fades, etc. Most people don't realize with a good beam and selective radio it's not that big of a deal.

Damn I'm glad the Eagle is back. It's still only a shell of itself, but at least it's rock, even if it's crappy CC style.

 

[w9wi]

Sounds like the usual E-skip patterns normally present in the spring and summer, got postponed by all that rain we had. ;D

There is a secondary skip season, right about now! Usually not nearly as good as the summer season though.

 

[LibertyNT]

Well then.... i know what ill be doing
Although WACO isnt coming in as often.....

 

[muzzled]

Robert: yup :

 

[RobDal]

I can sometimes pick up KODA 99.1 (Houston) in the Mesquite/SE Dallas area early mornings.

 

[317C50KW]

FWIW we are at a very low sun spot levels currently, making sunrise and sunset AM DX really interesting especially on colder mornings. Yeah, I know I-Buzz takes the fun out but those who are somewhat farther away from the main offenders transmitter sites might be pleasantly surprised.

My best FM catches? An array of FM stations from Idaho and Montana just after a late afternoon rain shower while laying in a hospital bed at Presbyterian Hospital in 2004.

 

[CW]

I picked up Kiss FM out of Dallas in Eureka Springs Arkansas once.

Ehh,
KEGL was picked up in 2000 for over an hour by a listener in a car......





driving to Quebec...Yes, Canada!!!

When the conditions are right (sunspots, weather, etc), FM and TV go a LONG way like AM does at night....
I remember driving around in Port Arthur in the 70s when in college and listening to a 94. something out of Pittsburg! I walked in the local Radio Shack, flipped one of their radios to it and the store manager (who was a friend of mine) could not believe his ears but used that to sell two systems while I was there

During the summer months, with ducting thanks to the Trinity river, Houston's 102.9 which is Regional Mexican, overrides KDMX in Fort Worth and did in Garland back in 99-01 during the summer at times...It happens...aint nothing new

 

[buttonpuncher]

I’ve done a lot of DX-ing since my pre-teenage years (50+ now) and a the strangest reception event I’ve ever witnessed was one night while I was driving through the Florida Panhandle and all the substantial DFW FM stations were coming in really well.

This was not E-Skip because it was constant, and it was not typical ducting because nothing out of the ordinary between where I was and DFW was coming in, just DFW loud and clear.

I guess it was a variation of ducting?... but 'tunneling' might better describe this.

 

[CW]

I’ve done a lot of DX-ing since my pre-teenage years (50+ now) and a the strangest reception event I’ve ever witnessed was one night while I was driving through the Florida Panhandle and all the substantial DFW FM stations were coming in really well.

This was not E-Skip because it was constant, and it was not typical ducting because nothing out of the ordinary between where I was and DFW was coming in, just DFW loud and clear.

I guess it was a variation of ducting?... but 'tunneling' might better describe this.

I'd call it ducting...think of Air Conditioning ductwork...I have been in places where I could see a local FM stick on the horizon but could not hear it because a DX station was booming in..Also remember being north of Conroe once after the Cleveland 97.1 was built and on...and the Eagle was totally covering it up with Howard Stern booming into the area (must have thown all the hicks listening to the Cleveland station into a tizzy THAT was a duct!

 

[ArcherSports]

re: 106.9 The Ranch out of Kerens (Corsicana). I used to be able to pick them up in Richardson, and even was able to use a small monitor when we did a game at Hanby Stadium in Mesquite. That went away when someone at the FCC allowed a translator to come on in Royse City rebroadcasting an LPFM out of Greenville. The Royse City translator is supposedly only 1kW, but it blows KRVF (The Ranch) away, almost to Palmer. In fact, when KRVF moved to 106.9, you could hear the station loud and clear in Royse City. Definite ball drop there.

When I was engineering in Brownwood (KXYL-FM... then it was 104.1), I had to go to San Angelo, and lost the station about 20 miles down the road. It was immediately replaced by a station out of Canada. I think Manitoba, but can't remember, or find the call letters anywhere.

J

 

[radi0chik]

That went away when someone at the FCC allowed a translator to come on in Royse City rebroadcasting an LPFM out of Greenville. The Royse City translator is supposedly only 1kW, but it blows KRVF (The Ranch) away, almost to Palmer. In fact, when KRVF moved to 106.9, you could hear the station loud and clear in Royse City. Definite ball drop there.

If that's the same outfit I think it is, I'd wager they're NOT running only 1kw. Religious something, right? That guy put his RC translator in Garland - basically a "pirate" for all practical purposes.... and tried to argue with the FCC that he was legal to transmit from there because he was just testing it out. I believe this was PRIOR to him actually getting the license for the translator. I should drive out there and measure it for the heck of it, but I'm not sure I want to waste the gas on them

 

[LibertyNT]

I have notice that the airwaves have been kind of screwy lately, FM is acting terrible...
WACO no longer comes in as much although 95.7 COmes in Daily Day and Night.
and thats about all ive noticed. AM has been real funky too. I was getting WOAI Crystal in the Afternoon along with KKYX. Must be that time of year...

 

[DXER1]

95.7 KKAJ Ardmore, OK
99.9 WACO Waco, TX
99.9 KLUR Texoma [fights with WACO]
92.9 Simply Id as Kick-FM Out of Sherman
93.5 T-93 Near Sulphur Springs [im at the line of their fringe]
93.3 KBDN Dallas/FtWorth [I should be on their Fringe. Even in Wylie they Sound like crap]
91.5 [Cant get ID Doesnt COme in good enough but its there. Sounds like a Church Chan.]
104.1 The Ranch out Of Tyler [Very Rare]
93.3 Q93 Out OF Louisiana [low clouds that day. Oddly enough Overpowered KDBN]

A lot of these are regulars. Down the road in Plano - some of the regular fringes are:

88.3 KCJR
88.7 KTCU (or a K-LOVE affiliate from Tyler when they are off the air
88.9 KETR
92.9 KNIN or one from Waco or one from Texarkana
93.1 KNKT
93.3 is a local
93.5 country from somewhere
93.7 local spanish
93.9 country from somewhere
95.5 country from somewhere
95.7 country - I thought it was Greenville not Ardmore
95.9 country from somewhere
99.1 Spanish
99.9 WACO
101.7 Spanish
106.5 KOOI
106.9 translator from Greenville.

These are just some of them that show up regularly on my car radio. I got three of them on my presets they are so dependable (KTCU, KNIN, KOOI)

There's a lot of other stuff I can get on the noncomm band I haven't explored much, a lot more if I am at home hooked up to an antenna.
106.9

I'm in Central Carrollton with a stereo and using a directional antenna

95.9 is KFWR out of Mineral Wells Texas I'm on the near fringe of that signal
93.9 is KOYN out of Paris Texas I receive that onece in a blue moon
95.5 is either KITX out of Paris Texas, Hugo Oklahoma