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KDIS (1110) Radio Disney L.A. in AM Stereo??

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pianoplayer88key

One mid-afternoon sometime last week, I was working on some things around home (I forget what now), and decided I wanted to listen to some music while I was working. So, I went and got a radio and put on the headphones. (For some reason I chose the SRF-42.)

I tuned around, and found the Radio Disney station out of L.A. on 1110, and started listening. I noticed the signal was somewhat stronger than usual - it was actually quite listenable inside the house, and was doing a pretty decent job keeping the splatter from my local 1130 KSDO in check.

As I was listening & getting ready to continue with my chores & things, I happened to notice I was actually hearing stereo separation in the music! "What?!" I thought, "I thought Disney's 1110 was HD daytime and mono nighttime??" Sure enough, it was in AM Stereo! I knew it wasn't HD, cause my SRF-42 wouldn't have miraculously turned itself into an HD receiver, and I could hear the slight/moderate background noise typical of medium-strength analog AM stations (at the time, it was similar in strength to what KNX or KFI normally are here) and it had the slight spits/chatter from the 2nd-adjacent local.

I thought about going to get my Zoom H2n recorder and airchecking it, but decided that I really needed to get my yardwork done before it got dark. I planned to record/aircheck it after my work was done. So, I just kept listening, and got ready to head outside.



Then I woke up. :p
 
Second-ing GarFla's reaction -- thanks for the chuckle there, 88 !

Funny how dreams (which I consider as meaningless, random redistribution of synapses so you can get into 'awake' mode) can warp actual perspective a bit.

A quite recurring dream here is going though the endless rooms of some disreputable used-furniture shop and finding these swell radios -- mostly Zenith-motif ones -- that don't work well.

The most vivid 'radio station' dream I ever had turned out to be emerging from the depths of sloth into reality. I was driving in a beautiful valley/residential section of central Connecticut and actually tuned in 'WNWN' -- and found their studio and towers in some idyllic cul-de-sac. No WONDER I could hear them and their nice music. Their towers were right there. Thirty feet away.

Then I woke up, too. The real-life clock radio, which I'd slept through without incident, was tuned to WNEW and William B. Williams.
Gene KLAVAN of WNEW was supposed to wake me up, not Willie B at WNWN, lol !

The seemingly once-a-week nightmares about working at a radio station where I'm the only one working -- nothing else works -- is another topic, I'm sure, for some of us.

Thanks for the post and Happy New Year, 88 !
 
I've had a couple DXing dreams about getting the old analog TV E Skip that I spent so much time watching, especially back in the 70's.

Then I wake up sad to discover it was only a dream.
 
I had a Sony Dream Machine... still have it. The Dream Machine was the early 1990's version of Sony clock radios -- AC only. They had several versions, I got the stereo one. Actually, it's a decent DXer if you use a loop (main deficiency is its small loopstick inside). I use it sometimes for AM listening, and sometimes use its AUX IN for my tablet.

Anyway, it was the mid 90's, and I had just started using the radio. The first time I was going to use the alarm, I set it for 7 in the morning. I'm sleeping away and then I hear the alarm. Beep Beep Beep Beep.

I reach over and hit the snooze button. Beep Beep Beep Beep.

I look over at the radio, and turn the selector to 'alarm OFF'. Beep Beep Beep Beep.

I grab the radio, and hit the snooze button again. Beep Beep Beep Beep.

I unplug the radio from the wall. Beep Beep Beep Beep.

Furious, I grabbed the radio, and started slamming it against the bed, trying to break it -- anything to stop the infernal Beep Beep Beep Beep.

Then I woke up. Of course, the radio was going Beep Beep Beep Beep.
 
Haha I like reading your stories. :)

I just remembered another one, not exactly a dream, but I was just emerging from the depths of sleep. I'd had my SRF-59 on when I went to bed, listening to either Disney or sports or Family Radio, I forget which.
When I woke up, the headphones were in a pile on the bed. I put them on, and not 5 seconds later heard a faint callsign in Spanish as part of a TOH ID (at around 5am local time in February a year or few ago.) I missed the COL due to the weak signal (although it was alone on frequency), so went in the other room to look it up on the computer. (The smartphone I had then was a bit slow for the amount of patience I had.)
Turns out I had heard 1230 XEEX from Culiacan, Mexico, 795 miles southeast of me! :)
(Hey maybe that's an idea for another topic - blind-luck DX loggings without even trying.)

And, relating to alarm clocks, here's a more recent one that happened a few days ago. I woke up hearing my alarm going. So, I grabbed my CC pocket and was trying to silence the alarm. I tried several things, various buttons, etc, until I realized that it was my PL-398BT sitting in a bag halfway across the room. :p I had forgotten to cancel the alarm from the previous day. (I think the CCP may have an alarm function, but I haven't yet learned how to use it.)
 
For a few years I was both doing fill-ins for a radio station plus some general restaurant work (chef, kitchen, sometimes deliveries).

Twenty years after leaving both vocations, I still get the 'radio' nightmares, plus the food dreams at the same time.
I have been called to fill-in. The studio is a mess. The clock is hidden behind an equipment rack. It's time to do news, but there's no copy. The weather is in the next room. When I try to find some music to play, it is in some drawer containing files and other clutter. I play a PSA and it's :05 seconds long. The dead-air is unconscionable. A cart machine is across the room, and naturally, there are no carts anyway.
And yet, this station keeps asking me back to fill in!
I never had a show like that in my entire career.

Meanwhile, a cardboard box of subs, cups of soup, plates of pasta and bottles of soda needs to be taken soon to the customer who, I presume, found the lone working phone in the building and has to be wondering where the meal is.
 
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