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Hawaii & Alaska DX

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radioman148

Anybody in Alaska or Hawaii receive any mainland DX or vice versa?

In Nov 1978 I was in Hawaii on Oahu near Honolulu and was able to receive the following with just a ferrite antenna:

570: KLAC LA
640: KFI LA
710: KMPC LA & KIRO Seattle
780: WBBM Chicago
870: WWL New Orleans (after local KAIM signoff)
890: WLS Chicago
1000: KOMO Seattle
1020: KTNQ LA
1070: KNX LA
1100: KFAX SF
1110: KRLA Pasadena
1160: KSL Salt Lake City

Fast forward to Feb 2008 and here is what I picked up also on Oahu--keep in mind lots more clutter on all frequencies:

1020: LA
1100: KFAX SF
1120: Eugene, Or
1130: ?? Very faint--not sure maybe San Diego?
1150: LA
1160: KSL Salt Lake City

Anyone else?
 
A friend of mine in 1985 was able to pick up what was then CKLG 730 from Vancouver in Hawaii every night while he was on vacation there, on just a simple boom box.
 
I September 2003, the rental car radio heard KNX 1070 in Honolulu...it was weak, but the total lack of anything else on the channel made it an easy ID.
 
KML-224 said:
How in the hell did you get Chicago all the way over in Hawaii? Amazing!!
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I also got WLS in a car radio. Oahu North Shore, February, 1965. ('62 Impala). As a previous poster indicated, a lot less noise to contend with in those days.

KNX, KTNQ, KGO and a few others were still pretty easy catches for me in Maui back in the mid 90s.
 
I thought KGO's pattern was an east/west null with a strong north/south lobe.
Maybe they skip to Hawaii on the southern lobe. I know I couldn't hear them there, but that could've been due to local interference.
 
schmave said:
West-southwest is in a null? I thought they only nulled to the east to protect WGY.
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To achieve the NNW / SSE pattern with three towers, the nulls are approximately equal to the ENE and SSW, and the pattern is symetrical. That means that Hawai'i is in a null.
 
cyberdad said:
KNX, KTNQ, KGO and a few others were still pretty easy catches for me in Maui back in the mid 90s.
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You reminded me of an amusing story from about 1997 when I was PD of KTNQ and our format was talk. Miss Hawai'i had just been elected Miss America or somesuch... and our overnight guy commented that there were "a bunch of girls who were prettier." The entire rest of his show was taken up with callers from Hawai'i saying how wrong he was! Turned out that KTNQ was about the only Spanish radio folks could hear in those pre-streaming days, and KTNQ had lots of regular listeners there.
 
On the night in question in Maui, KNX and KTNQ were definitely the strongest mainland signals.

As for KGO, now the more I think about it, it could have been KNBR. It was fourteen years ago, after all. (May 1994). What I remember most clearly is that I was picking up San Francisco, (and I don't believe it was KCBS).
 
I visited Alaska in 2007. The best I did on FM was carry a couple of Fairbanks stations close to Glenallen. It was summer, so "night" didn't exist. ;D I imagine one could hear most of the west coast AM clear channels during the winter.
 
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