Perhaps the entity considering leasing the station wants to hear how well the coverage is at night.
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Perhaps the entity considering leasing the station wants to hear how well the coverage is at night.
KYND had been off the air since its last appearance in late January. Checking around noon today I found them transmitting dead air. Two and a half years since their last paying client quit on them; I guess the owners still have a delusion they can make this work.
Memo to the KYND owners: One of the ways rich people stay rich is by dumping nonproductive or money losing assets. Time to unload KYND at a fire sale price, or turn in the license, and move on to other ways of making money.
Memo to the KYND owners: One of the ways rich people stay rich is by dumping nonproductive or money losing assets. Time to unload KYND at a fire sale price, or turn in the license, and move on to other ways of making money.
Audio is a bit iffy... and iffy isnt the right word.. its doesnt sound very loud and maybe ever so slightly muffled
But how does it sound at night? After all, there’s 24 hours of programming that the potential clients want to ensure can be heard.
Thgats how it sounds at night, im in wyoming and heard it the other night when it was left on after sunset
So with sky wave they can go great distances at night. But can they cover the Houston metro?
Properly optimized, KYND has a very good signal over Houston and the metro. I would say it is one of the better signals. Not only do I know you can hear KYND on the ol' car radio clearly in Brenham, Conroe and Navasota (if not Bryan/College Station), I had clients saying we sounded fine in Beaumont to about the state line. I had an engineer tell me he was sitting under KGBC 1540's towers near Galveston listening to KYND without being wiped out by the KGBC signal. So, yes, a good signal when transmitter and audio chain are properly tuned and optimized.
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Good luck to them... Unless they got the phone number back online......
I saw on the IRCA DX message board that KYND's sales announcement loop was being heard in Europe around 12-1am on 15 March.
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If the stated "12-1am" is the time KYND was heard in central Europe, that time zone would have a difference of +7 clock hours, so midnight to 1am there would be 5 to 6pm here. In March, KYND's sign-off time is 630pm. The hour or two prior to sign-off is a typical time for long distance AM signals to travel much farther than usual, especially when headed from west to east where darkness already prevails.
KYND being heard in Europe is a huge leap in believability, but that period of time might have been an atmospheric event for the ages. KYND is forced to cut power from 25KW to 18KW at the time New York's AM 1560 WFME (formerly WQEW) reaches its night-time hours, about one hour before KYND signs off, so that makes it an even bigger leap to accept that an 18 KW Houston radio station could be heard in Europe, but stranger things have happened. Who knows, maybe a European investor will decide to buy time on KYND thanks to Bill Turner being heard "across the pond."
Remember that outside the Western Hemisphere that the AM band is allocated on 9 kHz increments, so 1560 is a clear channel in Europe (and Asia and Africa, too).
For skywave reception, there is essentially no difference between 18 kw and 25 kw. A bit over 5,000 miles is not hard for a station in that power range.
From NE Ohio, I heard a 10 kw station in New Zealand, a 250 watter from Honolulu and several 5 kw stations from Australia as well as a 1 kw and a 10 kw from Uruguay and a 1 kw from Chile. All were on otherwise unoccupied channels at the time.
Europeans, Australians and the like frequently hear 1 kw "graveyard channel" stations from the US.
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If KYND is still giving a disconnected phone number out over the air, maybe not...
When I posted this I mentally corrected the times in the IRCA post to CDT, so the reception was 5-6am UTC, just before sunrise in western Europe. Apologies for the confusion.
At that time most of Europe, the middle east, and Asia would have been in daylight, so little interference from 1521, the nearest 9khz frequency. As David said, given a clear frequency, it's not that surprising that 25 kw can make it to Europe.
On the hunt for KOKC last night I ended up with KYND @ 2145 (0245 CST). Since they're supposed to be off at night I went in search of more info about them and ended up here. They were running that message from GM Bill Turner soliciting programming and giving a phone number that apparently doesn't work, not a recipe for success I would suggest. Any new theories about this? Forget to turn xmtr off? Even if someone kicking the tires why run it all night when the license won't allow it anyway. FWIW though, they made it here (O'ahu - about 4k mi.) trading places with KQRR (another curious format; for PDX anyway).
I can't imagine anyone kicking tires on KYND in this economy. If it was a tough sell two years ago, forget it now.
AlhoaJoe, this is the second time it's happened. No one is watching the ship, they have no employees, no studio. Bill hasn't worked there in almsot a year
Actually I had lots of inquiries because the signal was better than so many AMs in the market that broker time. The daytime only was certainly a negative. I just couldn't get anybody to agree to what my owners wanted for a monthly rate. These days I doubt they could get half the amount they wanted a couple of years back.
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