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KNX Los Angeles received in Tampa!

gar fla said:
The one time I did get KFI here was just about a year ago and the signal was much stronger than that of KNX.
As relatively good as it was while it lasted, I'd think it would happen more often but I haven't heard it again since.
Wonder why that is.
I want to hear it again so I can get it on video this time. Looks like many nights ahead of waiting and waiting. :-\
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You're lucky! All you might have to deal with is WVLG and WGST. The Cuban on 640 is considerably weaker (and 590) now than in the 70's and 80's. The only ones I hear from Cuba, btw, are 530, 570, 600, 710, 870 and 1020. Here, WMFN (Grand Rapids), WOI (Ames) and WHLO (Akron) muck it up so much most of the time that it's nearly impossible to hear KFI here in No. Illinois. As for KNX, I have heard their signal here on a fairly consistent basis lately since the discussion has been brought up. It's just that if one hasn't logged KNX yet, it does demand quite a bit of patience to wait for its signal to rise out of the jumble of noise.
 
I didn't do a lot of DX ing the first 2 weeks of Jan while in Englewood FL (about 80-mi S of gar's loc. in the Tampa-St. Pete area but the local WKII on 1070 precluded reception of anything else on the band at 1070. The dxing conditions were quiet (maybe due to the unusually cool weather) but i did get KSL and a disney affilitate on 1600 which is usually dominated by Key West one nite while the band was "hotter."
 
vibe said:
I didn't do a lot of DX ing the first 2 weeks of Jan while in Englewood FL (about 80-mi S of gar's loc. in the Tampa-St. Pete area but the local WKII on 1070 precluded reception of anything else on the band at 1070. The dxing conditions were quiet (maybe due to the unusually cool weather) but i did get KSL and a disney affilitate on 1600 which is usually dominated by Key West one nite while the band was "hotter."
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I was in Sarasota around that time...try for CFZM 740 Toronto next time you're down there. I positively ID'd it on the rental car radio a couple hours after sunset. Roughly 1150 miles.
 
I did see the post-great catch: usually its 740 Orl or Hou.
Once in a great while the stations to the N boom in from Chi-Cle-Det-Bos etc but never Toronto on 740.
 
KNX comes here, in central Texas north of Austin, but only on occasion, and very weak. It's hard to listen to and one must listen closely on my Grundig Yachtboy.
I've caught it twice in the past week or so.
Most times I try to get it after 10 p.m., there's nothing on the frequency.
I know this is an old thread, but worth updating.
 
This is an old thread, but okay, I'll bite...

I DX'd from Tampa in the early 70's and was able to log the following California stations:
  • 570 KLAC Los Angeles
  • 640 KFI Los Angeles
  • 740 KCBS San Francisco
  • 980 KFWB Los Angeles
  • 1020 KGBS Los Angeles
  • 1070 KNX Los Angeles
  • 1530 KFBK Sacramento
  • 1560 KPMC Bakersfield
Most of these were on Monday mornings when many stations signed off the air. It was certainly a different band back then.

Here in DFW, I have been able to log these California stations:
  • 640 KFI Los Angeles
  • 1540 KMPC Los Angeles (with KZMP and KEDA both off)
KNX is not possible unless KRLD-1080 were to be off the air, as 1070 is all adjacent channel hash. KTFI Wichita is the only station I can get on 1070 in the narrow null of the hash.
 
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TXPH97 said:
I DX'd from Tampa
Most of these were on Monday mornings when many stations signed off the air. It was certainly a different band back then.
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It certainly was.
Living in Tampa 2006-2021, the AM band seemed mostly static with only 700, 750 and 1110 being the regular clears one would receive, if those could be heard through the static.
It seemed like the Fort Myers area, southwest Fla., was the worst. All the AM band was there was static.
This may have been my rental cars' lousy radios, but it seemed like it was difficult to receive even the locals back then.
 
TXPH97 said:
This is an old thread, but okay, I'll bite...

I DX'd from Tampa in the early 70's and was able to log the following California stations:
  • 570 KLAC Los Angeles
  • 640 KFI Los Angeles
  • 740 KCBS San Francisco
  • 980 KFWB Los Angeles
  • 1020 KGBS Los Angeles
  • 1070 KNX Los Angeles
  • 1530 KFBK Sacramento
  • 1560 KPMC Bakersfield
Most of these were on Monday mornings when many stations signed off the air. It was certainly a different band back then.
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That is an impressive list and it was not that long ago.
 
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