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[Louis_009]

I know there alot of spanish AM stations on the am dail. This is so new here in Tallahassee Florida Big Bend on AM 530 is a Florida State Information Radio with low power. There is a new spanish AM radio station on AM 530 and I have no clue where is this station come from but it kind of overlap the low power of AM 530 Florida State Information Radio. Does anyone has any idea where this new AM 530 playing spanish in florida??

 

[PaulBWalkerJr]

That spanish station on 530 you're hearing is Radio Vision Cristian International broadcasting with a 485 foot tall tower with a Nuatel 50KW transmitter from South Caicos, Turks & Caicos Island in the British West Indes.

http://www.radiovision.net

 

[Louis_009]

Wow how can that goes so far out like a shortwave radio singal like that.

 

[PaulBWalkerJr]

530 AM is the lowest AM broadcast frequency.. with such high power, on a low frequnecy.. over water.. ity covers most of the eastern US at nite

 

[DeadElvis]

Actually, skywave (what one thinks of when they think of "shortwave") works better higher on the band. As you go increasingly lower D-layer Absorption gets even more critical, and take-off angles get increasing more steep, making long-paths more difficult. BUT...

Groundwave effect is significantly better lower down, which is why the FCC is allowing an experimental amateur radio project on 500 kc for the next couple of years -- check around 500, and you might hear some slow Morse Code. But, the key to 530's signal is more an issue of 530 simply being a much clearer frequency. One would be amazed if one knew how far even the most diminutive signal carries via skywave, absent interference. That's why the noise floor is so high (often exceeding 20dB/S9) on those "local" channels -- 1230, 1240, et. al. All those signals are flying around; it's just the competition that drowns them out.

And, the water path does help. Turks & Caicos was chosen for a reason. And, BTW, there is also a 530 in Costa Rica.

Oh, and if you really want to see what super-power will do over salt water, check 800 AM, TransWorld Radio. Big power in Bonaire, just north of the South American Coast. You should hear it nightly on your car radio.

DE