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Interesting reception of KYW in Tampa

gar hi

gar hi

Since there was no electrical interference on the AM band late tonight, I was tuning around the band and thought I'd try 1060 which is most always the strong Cuban and no sign of KYW.

I was getting a steady weak but listenable signal of KYW but there was also some kind of weird sounding interference (sounded like IBOC hiss but there was no adjacent frequency for the sound to be coming from) as well and no trace of the Cuban station at all which I thought was strange.

So I was listening for about 10 minutes and it was good to hear the local traffic reports and talk from the area where I'm originally from.

All the sudden, the Cuban station bursts on the air, the strange noise interference is gone, and KYW conpletely vanished. :eek:

When I first moved down here in the mid 80s, there was no Cuban station on that frequency and KYW was a regular at night.
 
Sounds like the Cuban 1060's version of a test.

BTW the name of that station is Radio Veintiseis, or Radio 26, out of Matanzas. Was able to bag it in the day from Cape San Blas! At night it was heard in CT at least once.

1060 was the original frequency of ZNS 3 in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1974; but I am sure that being too close to the blowtorch in Titusville FL (even when they were only 10 kW), they had to move. 810 kHz has been their home since late 1974/early 1975.

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Although we were vacationing once a bit NNE of you, Gary (and we were inland), Pooch and I were staying with my Folks in The Villages, and I had my omnipresent GE SR II in tow.

And there I was, in a beach chair in the Folks's driveway, shortly after sunset, martini in one fist and the twirling GE SRII in the other, listening to KYW 1060.

Pooch comes outside to call me in because it's dinnertime .... hears the station ID .... and says '(Judas Priest!). You came a thousand miles to hear THEM?!?'

Sometimes, girls and DX do not mix well.
 
I wonder if the Cuban station was broadcasting dead air, allowing you to hear KYW so well and when they actually started modulating again, it wiped out any KYW reception? When an AM station is broadcasting dead air, is it a lot easier to hear another station(s) underneath it as compared to when an FM station broadcasts dead air?
 
It was not the normal dead air. It was a hissing snowy sound.

Now that I think of it, I often hear that same sound on other frequencies here like 720 when I try to null out WGN to see what else can be heard. Same with 780 when nulling out WBBM.



MarioMania said:
Did you get it on Video?
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No. It wasn't the first time I've heard KYW.
 
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