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- Thread starter MarioMania
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I think I'm not staying near the strip, My Brother is renting a house..for the 4th July week
Couple AM's I'm going to look out for
700 WLW Cincinnati, OH
870 WWL New Orleans, LA
Couple AM's I'm going to look out for
700 WLW Cincinnati, OH
870 WWL New Orleans, LA
MarioMania said:
You know there's a local on 870, right? KLSQ is licensed to Whitney, formerly East Las Vegas, and transmits from the south end of Henderson, not far from the KDWN site. It runs a Spanish variety format with 5 kW days, 430 watts at night, aimed north and west over Vegas.
If you're renting a house, it's likely you'll be either in the Henderson area, which sprawls out to the southeast of Las Vegas, or in the suburbs to the north and west. If you're in Henderson, you'll have nearby KDWN to cope with; if you're in North Las Vegas, you'll be right in the path of KXNT 840 and KYDZ 1140. Your best bet, if you had any say in the matter, would probably to be in the Summerlin area, on the west side of the valley. That's not especially near any AM sites.
Wherever you are, the strong skywave from KALL will probably make WLW impossible if the sideband splatter from KDWN doesn't do it in.
I just looked up KALL 700
Yeah that going to be a problem getting WLW
WOIA 1200 is easy doen there, I wonder if KYAA could get down here also
Yeah that going to be a problem getting WLW
WOIA 1200 is easy doen there, I wonder if KYAA could get down here also
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Hey Mario, if it helps I have some bandscan forms on http://mistman.pdp10.org/pub/radio/scans/forms . You might consider downloading these before you leave, then stick them on a laptop and fill them in with your scan data to repost when you get back.
I try to fill it out..
I don't know if Skips going to be active while I'm there
I don't know if Skips going to be active while I'm there
radioman148 said:
They used to be weak but audible in Phoenix as well, along with WBBM. Nowadays, only WBBM is doable west of the Rockies, and then only during the winter. KLTT Denver or KIRN Los Angeles will probably obliterate WSCR if you can null out KMZQ. WGN and WLS will not be possible.
KeithE4 said:
I Southern Cal I used to hear WLS well into the mid 80s. KDXU signed off at midnight MST and WLS would come in well many nights even on a car radio.
Now of course that's not possible.
Is WBBM the only Chicago station you can ever hear in Phoenix?
radioman148 said:
Yes. 670 is either Denver or a Mexican station, 720 is KDWN Las Vegas, and 890 is KDXU St. George. KKOH 780 Reno is unusal but not rare, but during the winter, WBBM is still a semi-regular - weak but audible. Forget it in the summer.
The strangest one I've picked up here was KSTP 1500 from the Twin Cities. They came in almost every night during the sunspot lows a few years ago, but WCCO 830 was nowhere to be found. Can't get either of them now.
KeithE4 said:
KSTP sends a great deal of their signal west at night so it doesn't surprise me that it can be heard out there pretty well at times.
W7PAT said:
Were you on the strip?
radioman148 said:
I would like to know also
MarioMania said:
If this was still the 1970s, you'd be able to hear both stations at night from where you live in California.
I heard WWL and WLW at night from Vacaville in 1977 and that was in the summer too.
The signals were easily audible as well.
Not any chance of that today with the other stations on those frequencies.
gar fla said:
I picked up WWL in Hawaii in the late 70s. Unfortunately this can't be done now.
I listened for a bit KOMP 92.3 online..
There's a translator on 98.1
http://radio-locator.com/info/K251BS-FX
There's a translator on 98.1
http://radio-locator.com/info/K251BS-FX
radioman148 said:
I thought KAIM went to FM, a new 2kW station on 880 was set up near Honolulu. I don't believe any AM station is on 870 in Hawaii now. So unless you're geographically near 880, it shouldn't be too hard to null out 880 in order to hear 870 in HI...unless the upgraded KRLA (one of the reasons KAIM left 870, in order to allow for the power increases of KRLA, that, and the hugely expensive power bill, as I recall reading) in the Los Angeles area is wreaking havoc on hearing WWL in HI (?) But KRLA is "only" 3kW at night, but that could be plenty of power over the Pacific - as relatively low powers travel quite well over the huge conductivity of seawater, as many of us know. Does anyone have an idea what the "ERP" of KRLA's night signal in the main lobe is? Their signal is aimed mostly SW out over the Pacific beyond covering the LA area from Glendale, CA.
stormy01 said:
I should've been more specific. I was near Honolulu and the 880 splattered all over 870 as well as 890.
The ironic part is that when I did hear both WWL & WLS on Oahu in the late 70s, KAIM was on 870, but signed off early in the evening making it possible to hear both WWL and WLS which I did in November of 1978.
I seem to get quite a few stations from Las Vegas during E-skip openings here. First LV heard was KNPR 88.9, and now have heard KPLV 93.1, KVBE 94.5 [before KXLI and Jelli], KWNR 95.5, KVKL 91.1 [K-LOVE], and KLUC 98.5, and I have gotten tentative catches [no ID but music format match] to KCEP 88.1 and KUNV 91.5.
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