New AM 1380

[ThatVoice22]

Not that anyone will care, but there's more than dead air on AM 1380 these days. After many moons of hardly-great-expectation, it's KRCM, formerly of Beaumont, now resonating from Shenandoah on the north side with No-Torch Power of 250 watts (69 watts at night, solid radius of a couple of football fields and a parking lot). Licensee is DAIJ Media.

Knowing about the transfer from Beaumont, my memory cue for KRCM was "Curse-em 1380" - - now totally ironic as Spanish Christian music was airing at 615 pm Saturday October 29th. Found another link billing the station as "The Truth," so maybe Christian music will be the opening format. Could be divine intervention for the frequently off-air KYOK AM 1140 in Conroe, unless it's the over-night carrier signal, as in the "Best of Broadcasting Silence."

Officially, the FCC notes that the station is "Licensed and Silent" (Click on 'Station Info' at link below) so this must be initial testing mode.

Question is - - does anyone care? (The only reason I care is due to a mental condition known as Radio Schizophrenia, a defect with no known cure that may be diagnosed post-mortem)

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[TexasTuner]

No way, no how. Whatever you heard, it wasn't from the Shenandoah site. No power yet. Waiting on Entergy to make that happen.

 

[jd]

Also, 250 watts was the first power level they had proposed. The current CP is for 2.8kW.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Spanish Christian music was airing at 615 pm Saturday October 29th.

Sure you weren't hearing some distant station? Critical hours skip would be coming in around that time.

Nothing heard on 1380 when driving through Montgomery County Sunday afternoon.

 

[TexasTuner]

Spanish Christian music was airing at 615 pm Saturday October 29th.

Sure you weren't hearing some distant station? Critical hours skip would be coming in around that time.

Nothing heard on 1380 when driving through Montgomery County Sunday afternoon.

And you won't for a few more days, but it's coming along.

 

[stan]

KRCM should have never been allowed to move from Beaumont.

 

[Mediafrog+]

KRCM should have never been allowed to move from Beaumont.

Why? So it could continue to be a basket case station there?

It will probably be an irrelevance in the Houston market as well, but I can't blame ownership for trying to improve things.

AM radio is in the gasp and wheeze stage, and the FCC has yet to approve euthanasia. Surprising there isn't more of this sort of thing, as with the rejected move of 1140.

 

[stan]

1380 was viable with a live staff in Beaumont until the moronic owner decided to move to the middle of nowhere, with a signal that covers almost nothing. I sometimes wonder if this is related to the fraud he was charged with otherwise...

 

[jd]

So is KRCM on or not? Around 5:30 this afternoon about 100 miles southeast of Dallas I heard Spanish religious music, but the signal was subject to frequent fading. The distance from my location at the time to the transmitter site is roughly 135 miles, and I'd suspect that daytime skywave was in play. Although I can't confirm it was KRCM that I heard, I really can't think of anything else it might have been.

 

[jd]

Alright, never mind. Upon further review, the station I heard wasn't KRCM. It was the former Radio Disney KMUS Sperry OK (Tulsa), now "Radio Las Americas," with 7,000 watts day and guinea pig power at night. Their pattern is basically in a SSE direction.