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KSL received in Tampa!

gar fla said:
Steve Green NEPA said:
When we lived in NE Philly, they were often louder than KYW in broad afternoon daylight along 'the boulevard' -- Route 1 -- which is physically and georgraphically within the Philadelphia city limits.
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You got WBZ there during the DAY?

When I lived across the river in New Jersey, the only way to hear WBZ during the day was down to the shore where they had a pretty good signal on the barrier island.


As soon as we crossed the causeway to go home and reached the main land side of Barnegat Bay, WBZ was completely gone.
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I have to echo gar fla on this one - I've had exactly the same experience with WBZ. No way to get it anywhere around Philadelphia during the day, unless you go out to one of the barrier islands on the Jersey Shore. And, even there, it's not loud. Cross the causeway and it's gone.
 
Hi BRN and Gar ....

Well, if I'd carried a casette deck back then in the car, I'd have some proof. The car radio was a stock AM-FM from a Volare, incidentally.

I don't remember if the reception was Winter, Summer, whenever. But I heard WBZ a few times up the Boulevard. In daylight. Louder than KYW.

KYW pulls it in as you go northeast of them.

It very well could've been -- probably was -- late afternoon. It's impossible to remember now, plus my work schedule varied greatly then. If I gave the impression that 'broad afternoon daylight' meant the exact midday, my mistake. All I know was that the sun was quite out, and WBZ was louder than KYW. I listened almost exclusively to AM radio on commutes, and tuned around a lot.

Another late afternoon catch, sun still out here, was recently, when I punched up WCBS 880, while driving through Shamokin PA -- about 150 miles west of WCBS. And I got my news and weather and time there. But not from WCBS. It was from WRFD in Ohio. No sign of WCBS. It was daylight all the way to Ohio.
That reception may have been unusual, some sort of ducting, perhaps. But the WBZ reception within the city limits of Philadelphia with the sun out was a regular.

Maybe the Volare's radio inadvertently was tuned to 1030? :- )
 
Not saying I don't believe you, just wondering how long ago this was. Because there's no way for WBZ to put that kind of a groundwave signal into Philadelphia under normal circumstances. Is it possible that you picked it up during December and a little skip was involved? Because WBZ isn't even that loud by the time you get to Hartford, let alone all the way down to Philly. Generally you lose it before the New York area, unless you're somewhere like Long Island or the Jersey Shore.
 
Lawppy said:
I actually tried for KSL last night (around 11:00 ET) and heard not much more than WYLL. Cincinnati came through when WYLL faded and I could barely hear what sounded like a third signal in the background. Judging by everyone else's luck with KSL last night, it's probably what I was hearing too, but I just didn't have enough to positively ID it as such.

I haven't had a good start for my Winter '09-'10 AM DX season. Only three new ones in the logbook so far. None from beyond 300 miles. KSL is definitely at the top of my 'wish list' right now.
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My Winter Resolution this year is to get back into broadcast & Shortwave DXing. Even with an apartment-friendly HF antenna & my ICOM IC-706 MKII-G, there's no reason it can't be done. All I need is the antenna (And I can get that from either Ham Radio Outlet or Amateur Electronic Supply rather inexpensively). If I can get one that covers HF thru 440 Mhz., I ought to have at least *some* luck with FM broadcast DXing too. :D

For portable DXing, even my cheapo barry-operated Radio Shack AM/FM/SW receiver with the attached whip antenna will do the job quite nicely as long as I'm outside.

Cheers & 73 to all the Hams amongst us :D
 
I tried again for KSL last night and I THINK I had it. With my GE Superadio pointed west, a station faded up over WYLL Chicago with The Clark Howard Show. This station was actually strong at times, but of course it dropped back under WYLL before any ID's could be heard.

A look at KSL's website shows they do air Clark Howard and they do air it at the time I heard it. Clark Howard's website shows only one other station (in Pennsylvania) on 1160 airs his program, but at a different time. I'm about 95 percent positive that I was indeed hearing KSL from Coldwater, MI late last night. I like to be 100 percent positive beyond any doubt that I heard a station before I log it. What's the point of DX'ing and logging your catches if you're not sure you actually heard it.

I will definitely try for KSL again tonight. I know they have a local show before Clark Howard, so if I tune in a couple hours earlier than I did last night and I hear this program then i'll know I got it and I can go ahead, log KSL and *finally* knock the station off of my wish list! Two stations off of the wish list in one week. Not bad at all! (Finally confirmed Calgary's CFAC early Tuesday morning.)

KSL would be a very nice catch, but they wouldn't be my first Utah on AM. I heard KMTI-Manti during a DX test in 2007. I've also managed KOAS (97.5 Coalville, UT) during an Es opening that same year.
 
Lawppy, that local show is called "the Nightside Project" and features two male talk hosts + callers. The bumpers really accent the word "Nightside" with a strong bass tone. The show runs from 7 to 10 pm MT (9 pm to midnight Eastern time).

If you heard Clark Howard on KSL, you sure were up late!!
 
I confirmed KSL and 'The Nightside Project' on Thursday evening around 11:40 my time, but it was VERY difficult.

There were THREE other stations on the frequency. WYLL the strongest, Cincinnati underneath that and an oldies station underneath both of those. Occasionally, KSL would rise up long enough for me to catch a couple of words that the hosts were saying. I would then match these up with the webstream. The thing that did it for me was the music clip they used for a particular segment about torturing Gitmo detainees with bad music. They were playing clips of select songs from the list, which made it very easy to ID on the webstream.

KSL is 1,403 miles from my location.

So I knocked CFAC and KSL off of my list in just one week. Now to try for CHRB on 1140. They've been heard in Jersey and Pennsylvania this week!
 
Lawppy said:
I confirmed KSL and 'The Nightside Project' on Thursday evening around 11:40 my time, but it was VERY difficult.

There were THREE other stations on the frequency. WYLL the strongest, Cincinnati underneath that and an oldies station underneath both of those.

So I knocked CFAC and KSL off of my list in just one week. Now to try for CHRB on 1140. They've been heard in Jersey and Pennsylvania this week!
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Where I live in Eastern PA, that is what I usually get on 1160. WYLL being the most powerful. WQRT Cincinnati is under WYLL, and WOBM is sometimes faintly heard under the other two stations.

I received CHRB a few times in Pennsylvania in the fall and winter, a couple times CHRB came in over WRVA.
 
I got ksl here in Indiana once, and never heard it again, this was on a factory ford taurus radio back in the 80s....
 
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