In Mississippi early this morning I heard a fairly powerful signal on 1110 AM playing what sounded like chants and middle Eastern-style singing. all accapella by mainly the same person. And tons of echo and reverb. It sounded similar to the type of stuff you'd hear blasting out of a loud speaker from a mosque in the middle east. Listen for nearly an hour with little fading until sunrise. Never heard any legal ID even at the top of the hour. Anyone know what this was? 1110 is usually a weak WBT but it sounded too loud to be them, unless it was some station on daytime power by mistake
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Mystery on 1110 AM
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Funny you should mention this. The #mwdx IRC chat was buzzing about this last night so I checked several remote receivers in an effort to track down the geographical location. It was strongest in Texas and it's believed the source is daytimer KVTT. I had them fair here in Michigan under the IBOC and they were dominant on the Georgia and Texas remote receivers that I checked. Continuous chanting, no IDs, breaks, or talk for the hour that I listened. At one point the chanting sounded Asian, and another time Middle Eastern.
Radio-Locator.com has them at 50,000 watts day, 39,000 watts critical hours with 5 towers. The signal at my location in Mississippi was strong. Actually bleeding onto KMOX on 1120. Your right, some of the chanting and singing did indeed sound Asian. But still sounded like Muslim. I picked it up on a very poor clock radio that only picks up the strongest stations, and it was coming in like a local between 4:30 until sunrise.
I wonder if there is any chance it was a pirate? I know that the FM band in many big markets is crowded with them, many if not most broadcasting to various "ethnic" communities, but I've heard of none on AM.
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