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For DXers targetting 1700-XEPE ....

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I recorded a few minutes around 4:00am TOH a few days ago. This includes, at the beginning, a few ads that target Mexico, read by a couple voices that frequently do those ads. Their legal ID (in Spanish) is at 2:03 in the clip, after a brief ESPN current/next program announcement.

http://www.mediafire.com/?uytdnncefx78z71

I did edit out a couple other ads & sponsor messages, as well as a portion of the SportsCenter update that was talking about coach firings, etc. An unedited clip is available.
This was recorded on the barefoot GE Superradio III.

Hopefully the clip can give you clues as to the identity of sports stations you may hear on 1700, if in fact XEPE is receivable there.

I'm about 15.6 miles (25 km) north of XEPE's transmitter. I'd like to know ... who, of you DXers that don't receive XEPE at all in the daytime in summer, have received them at night at least as strong as I hear them? (The clip was recorded at 4am, but it's a fairly solid signal 24/7 with a little nighttime skywave/groundwave fading here and there.) Also what equipment do you use? (I'm especially interested to find out how far it's received at night on pocket radios, using only the built-in ferrite bar antenna, as strong as I hear them in the daytime.)
 
I have never received XEPE here in Illinois, but when I was in Hawaii several years ago it was the strongest X Band station I heard out there.
 
I can't even null my local 1700 WJCC Miami Springs! I think that only once in the last 10 years did I notice them off the air....and I heard what should have been the ubiquitous KVNS, but I never recall hearing an ID. I may have heard the 1700 in Des Moines a long time ago, at a time when Miami & Des Moines were the only ones on 1700.

XEPE forget it!! :(

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Last year I finally bagged this one (Sorry, PP88 - it wasn't with a pocket radio). Here's XEPE as heard from Michigan:

1700 Khz XEPE 03AP11 1100 UTC.mp3

The key is listening for that young lady with the Spanish ID directly followed by Colin Cowherd "Your listening to ESPN Radio Seventeen Hundred.." KBGG Iowa (also ESPN) uses a different top of hour ID making the two easily distinguishable at TOH.
 
I'm pretty certain I heard XEPE here in Tampa early last October when the MLB playoffs were going on.

Behind WJCC and KVNS was the broadcast that sounded like the Phillies and Cardinals game.

And at 30 seconds in the video, they say 'National League Edition'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNI4JnB3vE

I emailed the Iowa station KBGG to see what game they had that night and they said it was the Tigers and Yankees game.
 
Now I know I'm SURE I can hear XEPE from here!

So I was on the Global Tuners site listening from the Grand Junction, Colorado receiver and I tuned to 1700.

The signal is loud and fading and it's a soccer game between the San Diego Sockers and the Anaheim Bolts.

I decided to get out the Sangean PR-D5 and listen to 1700 because the announcer of the soccer game had a distinctive voice I might be able to hear.

Sure enough, I heard rise out of the slop a brief signal of exact word for word, play by play of a goal scored on my radio with a delay coming from my computer with Global Tuners tuned to 1700 from Colorado!
 
I was in Southern California a couple weeks ago staying down in Orange County and was surprised by the weakness of XEPE at times. Walking around with just a little Sony Walkman SRF-M37W, I was actually able to pick-up the little station that could, KVNS at 880 watts. That's a distance of around 1,334 miles as the crow flies. Pretty impressive for being right in XEPE's backyard!
 
I was roaming around the MW band this morning and caught the Mexican National Anthem on 1700 at 8am EST. I assume this was probably XEPE again and I only mention it because it really stood out on the channel and was easily heard. I wasn't able to confirm since the signal faded somewhat right at the top of the hour. So, if you're trying for XEPE, consider this another clue. Maybe the next time PP88 is up at 5am PST he could verify this.
 
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