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Logged new station underneath a local on 1100

J

jim-satx

Yesterday morning I decided to try and null local KDRY as much as possible to see if anything would turn up. At 5:53 I heard some faint news talk in English, which was followed by Fox News and then a promo for a marathon near Circle Park. A search on that turned up the Rim Rock marathon in Grand Junction, CO, which would indicate KNZZ. At that point KDRY started playing some music, so the faint station got completely drowned out.

About 15 minutes later KDRY switched back to talk, and I was able to hear the weak station again. This time I heard the Bill Bennett show, followed by local ads for RE/MAX and Modern Classic Motors, and finally a "1100 KNZZ" ID.

Am real happy as this is only my second DX logging on 1100 (the other being XETGO).
 
I see that KDRY is 1kw night from northeast of the city. Are you in a place where nulling them would enable you to snag WTAM? They have one of the better nighttime signals from among the 50kw ND former 1-A clears.
 
Congrats on KNZZ. They are a regular here at night, and sometimes in the afternoons.

-crainbebo
 
Thanks, guys. I was actually trying for WTAM, which I've only ever heard from east Texas. KDRY is about 14 miles dead east of me. The partial null is strictly N/S, which threw me off at first when I was hearing KNZZ. I will definitely keep trying for WTAM.
 
Fine catch and fine wherewithal, Jim !

Dunno about the rest of you folks, but my DXing buddies and I have been taping as many catches as possible since 1963. A played-back reel, or a cassette, or an mP3 file of them sounds as much like a rhapsody to me as it horrifies the wife.

Do you 'tape' any of this largesse, jim-satx? Or anyone else here?
 
WTAM?
Oh, I had to look them up, the former KYW and WKYC.
(I also missed the WWWE years) :)
 
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Steve Green NEPA said:
Fine catch and fine wherewithal, Jim !

Dunno about the rest of you folks, but my DXing buddies and I have been taping as many catches as possible since 1963. A played-back reel, or a cassette, or an mP3 file of them sounds as much like a rhapsody to me as it horrifies the wife.

Do you 'tape' any of this largesse, jim-satx? Or anyone else here?
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The only tapes that I made and still possess are several stations signing off on Sunday night/Monday morning around 1963/64. Among them WABC, WNBC, WCBS, KDKA, WBZ & WLS.
All recorded from the Chicago area. Sure wish I had saved alot more of my DX tapes.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Fine catch and fine wherewithal, Jim !

Dunno about the rest of you folks, but my DXing buddies and I have been taping as many catches as possible since 1963. A played-back reel, or a cassette, or an mP3 file of them sounds as much like a rhapsody to me as it horrifies the wife.

Do you 'tape' any of this largesse, jim-satx? Or anyone else here?
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Thanks, Steve. I haven't been recording much of my AM DXing - except for a few big catches, like WGIT in Puerto Rico last fall - but I really need to start doing it. I made a lot of FM Sporadic E recordings this past summer, and going over them revealed a fair amount of stations I'd missed or couldn't ID at the time.

I, too, enjoy listening to recordings of my catches, even when they're smothered in static. On a related note, I actually find that listening to graveyard frequencies is relaxing. I've been trying to convince my girlfriend (unsuccessfully) that graveyard DXing is the aural equivalent of staring at stars until you see a meteor streak by.
 
cyberdad said:
I see that KDRY is 1kw night from northeast of the city. Are you in a place where nulling them would enable you to snag WTAM? They have one of the better nighttime signals from among the 50kw ND former 1-A clears.
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I finally snagged WTAM! A little after 6 CT this morning I thought I'd try again on 1100. In that partial null of KDRY I heard a very weak English-language station mixing with XETGO. It was hard to make out, but I heard references to Cleveland and I-271. Just to be sure, I listened to KNZZ's live stream, and it wasn't matching what I was hearing. Then a few minutes later there was a brief but clear "WTAM" ID. The station only hung in for a minute or so after that.
 
jim-satx said:
Yesterday morning I decided to try and null local KDRY as much as possible to see if anything would turn up. At 5:53 I heard some faint news talk in English, which was followed by Fox News and then a promo for a marathon near Circle Park. A search on that turned up the Rim Rock marathon in Grand Junction, CO, which would indicate KNZZ. At that point KDRY started playing some music, so the faint station got completely drowned out.

About 15 minutes later KDRY switched back to talk, and I was able to hear the weak station again. This time I heard the Bill Bennett show, followed by local ads for RE/MAX and Modern Classic Motors, and finally a "1100 KNZZ" ID.

Am real happy as this is only my second DX logging on 1100 (the other being XETGO).
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Nice!

When I was growing up near Philadelphia, I so often nulled out the locals WFIL, WIP, WIBG, and KYW at night and though I heard other stations in the background, I couldn't come close to getting any IDs.
 
hawaiigar said:
Nice!

When I was growing up near Philadelphia, I so often nulled out the locals WFIL, WIP, WIBG, and KYW at night and though I heard other stations in the background, I couldn't come close to getting any IDs.
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Sometimes conditions plus a loop can put a nice null on a big signal.

Appropriate to this conversation is my nulling of 1100 in Cleveland (Then WKYC) around 11 PM on an auroral Sunday night. Although the WKYC transmitter was only about 24 miles away, I got a 10 kw Venezuelan giving their election returns. The signal was good enough to identify with details and get a verification back!
 
DavidEduardo said:
I got a 10 kw Venezuelan giving their election returns.
The signal was good enough to identify with details and get a verification back!
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But, who won the election, or was Who still on first?
 
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