KLO 1430 Salt Lake City, UT

[MarioMania]

From Citrus Heights, CA on my GE 7-1150A

I thought I would get KJAY at night

Hearing Soft Oldies on AM

5,000 watts at night

 

[radioman148]

Nice catch

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

From Citrus Heights, CA on my GE 7-1150A

I thought I would get KJAY at night

Hearing Soft Oldies on AM

5,000 watts at night

I hear it at night too when i oriented my massive loop antenna the right way from my yard in Laramie, WY.. and im much closer to KEZW 1430 Denver

 

[Gregg.]

When you get a 5,000 watt night signal from hundreds of miles away, it makes you wonder. Did someone forget to switch from the 25,000 watt daytime signal? Or the automation did not switch to the night signal and nobody caught it? Of course, if you can get the station fairly regularly, then it isn't an operating mistake.

 

[davideduardo]

When you get a 5,000 watt night signal from hundreds of miles away, it makes you wonder. Did someone forget to switch from the 25,000 watt daytime signal? Or the automation did not switch to the night signal and nobody caught it? Of course, if you can get the station fairly regularly, then it isn't an operating mistake.

Before the channels on AM became so congested, 5 kw stations had service areas at night that went out many hundreds of miles.

Now, it's unusual to hear a 10 kw station from New Zealand in Cleveland, but that happened to me on a number of occasions when channels were clear 60 years ago. Or a 250 watt station from Honolulu.

So for KLO to be heard a few hundred miles away is not particularly unusual. While KLO is moderately directional, hearing it in WY or CA is not really notable DX, even.

 

[asugeorge1]

Before the channels on AM became so congested, 5 kw stations had service areas at night that went out many hundreds of miles.

Now, it's unusual to hear a 10 kw station from New Zealand in Cleveland, but that happened to me on a number of occasions when channels were clear 60 years ago. Or a 250 watt station from Honolulu.

So for KLO to be heard a few hundred miles away is not particularly unusual. While KLO is moderately directional, hearing it in WY or CA is not really notable DX, even.

Agreed David. I hear 1430 AM KLO on a nightly basis down here in Phoenix and it is just their 5,000 watt night-time signal. No cheating going on there as far as I can tell. Good station playing some good music. A couple years ago, they were playing almost non-stop old-time radio programs.

 

[cyberdad]

Before the channels on AM became so congested, 5 kw stations had service areas at night that went out many hundreds of miles.

Also agree.

Just off the top of my head, here are a few channels where stations running 5kw (or less) from 200 miles or more frome me are present nightly or almost nightly: 530 (250 watts), 550, 590, 610, 640 (1kw), 980, 1260, 1430, 1610 (1kw).

 

[The New Chico]

When I worked at 1420 KUJ Walla Walla WA in the 80s it was 5K day and night. Omni day and NW-SE skewing at night. We COULDN'T cheat if we wanted to! And we still received reception reports from AK, Finland, British Columbia, and Western WA (230 miles away, my mom listening on the Oldsmobile radio in her driveway...) I know that wouldn't happen today with the dial congestion and the noise floor being what it is, but it certainly used to.