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new catches tonight

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formerjock

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new AM catches tonight from East TN.

1170---WQVA lexington,sc. severe weather bulletin followed by spanish music
1560---WPAD paducah, ky espn radio, wqew nowhere to be found
1430---WDIC clincho, va classic country
830----KOTC, kennett, mo (or memphis according to new cp) simulcast with fm
104.3 the quake. covering up wcco

have been hearing unid station on 660, playing religous music. drowning out wfan, can't get an id.
 
formerjock said:
new AM catches tonight from East TN.

1170---WQVA lexington,sc. severe weather bulletin followed by spanish music
1560---WPAD paducah, ky espn radio, wqew nowhere to be found
1430---WDIC clincho, va classic country
830----KOTC, kennett, mo (or memphis according to new cp) simulcast with fm
104.3 the quake. covering up wcco

have been hearing unid station on 660, playing religous music. drowning out wfan, can't get an id.
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I've occasionally heard WPAD in northern Illinois.
 
radioman148 said:
formerjock said:
new AM catches tonight from East TN.

830----KOTC, kennett, mo (or memphis according to new cp) simulcast with fm
104.3 the quake. covering up wcco

have been hearing unid station on 660, playing religous music. drowning out wfan, can't get an id.
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I've occasionally heard WPAD in northern Illinois.
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KOTC has a CP to move to Memphis, Tennessee - perhaps they are already testing from there? First heard the frequency as KBOA in the 70's at 1kW.
Heard KOTC last night 6/17 around 3:00 a.m. mentioning "The Quake 104.3" Have heard KOTC recently before sign-off in the evenings.

The 660 probably was KCRO Omaha - what time of day was this? Their night power is listed as 54 watts, so booming in at night is unlikely at that frequency/power to drown out WFAN.

WPAD is a shadow of its former self into Northern Illinois - used to be a strong signal at night - somewhere I recall reading online that WPAD had to modify their tower array (and that modified signal pattern does not favor Northern Illinois)
 
KOTC is still in Kennett. I'm in Memphis and the signal isn't super strong here. Guess they forgot to turn the transmitter off that night!
 
formerjock said:
new AM catches tonight from East TN.


have been hearing unid station on 660, playing religous music. drowning out wfan, can't get an id.
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There is a daytime only religious station, WXIC, at 660 Khz in Waverly, Ohio.
 
Len14043 said:
formerjock said:
new AM catches tonight from East TN.

have been hearing unid station on 660, playing religous music. drowning out wfan, can't get an id.
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There is a daytime only religious station, WXIC, at 660 Khz in Waverly, Ohio.
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There is one more religious station WLOY 660 AM, Rural Retreat, VA - I forgot to check radio-locator this time before responding, or I would have mentioned it.
In the days before WSCR's iBOC, I was getting a decent signal at times from KCRO, but never was it drowning out WFAN, more like colliding with WFAN.
I suspect WXIC or WLOY was on the air late, or WFAN was coming in well before your local sunset, and WXIC or WLOY had not signed off yet.
 
660 is perhaps WPYT, a relatively new 250-watt daytimer near Pittsburgh. I have noticed their engineering getting quite sloppy lately. Frequently they are on with dead open carrier for hours at a time. It is possible they forgot to pull the plug at local sundown. To my knowledge they are non-directional.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
660 is perhaps WPYT, a relatively new 250-watt daytimer near Pittsburgh. I have noticed their engineering getting quite sloppy lately. Frequently they are on with dead open carrier for hours at a time. It is possible they forgot to pull the plug at local sundown. To my knowledge they are non-directional.
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Yes WPYT could be a possibility - funny how WPYT's night TX site is east of Johnstown, probably not audible in Pgh. at night... formerjock or others nearby to East TN let us know what you hear!
 
Len14043 said:
formerjock said:
new AM catches tonight from East TN.


have been hearing unid station on 660, playing religous music. drowning out wfan, can't get an id.
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There is a daytime only religious station, WXIC, at 660 Khz in Waverly, Ohio.
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They always put a pretty good signal into Columbus whenever they were on the air, so it's possible that if you did catch them before their signoff they were loud in Tennessee. That's not too far a cry from Waverly.
 
WQVA was on the air with their full power, as they are not licensed to have any power at night, but they were strong in Charleston last night, with their 10,000 watt daytime signal.

It interfered with WWVA a lot.
 
This thread has an AM flavor, but around 3PM EDT, WAXM 93.5's 2.45KW made the trip from Big Stone Gap,VA to south central Indiana...245 miles. I had the TX 9500 II tuner on the bench at the time with a 30" wire for an antenna. Before that I noted that Somerset,KY on 93.9 (175 miles) had the meter slammed on the same 30" wire...the semi-local Indy area 93.9 was totally gone. By the time I scanned TV, all I got out of the ordinary was Lexington,KY's WLEX DT & WTVQ DT. As a side note, when the storm passed through this morning, WTTV 4 went back to regular programming briefly before returning to nightlight service.
 
I pulled the Big Stone Gap station in the car on a heat wave warning August night north of Dayton' along with Corbin and Somerset
 
What time in the evening did you hear the 660 KHZ station?

Here in Southwest Ohio I log WLFJ in Greenville SC on sunset skip and during summer evenings until signoff.

Maybe they "forgot" to sign off one evening.
 
have heard the gospel on 660 during "legitimate" night time hours. 11pm to around 6am. also, i keep hearing wsdq dunlap, tn on overnights on 1190. fcc website or radio locator does not list any cp's for night time service, so are they operating outside thier liscense or are the webistes not current? i have personally heard them over 150 miles away, have seen other posts from much further. i've also heard some kind of unid gospel music on 1190, not sure if its another station or wdsq
 
formerjock said:
have heard the gospel on 660 during "legitimate" night time hours. 11pm to around 6am. also, i keep hearing wsdq dunlap, tn on overnights on 1190. fcc website or radio locator does not list any cp's for night time service, so are they operating outside thier liscense or are the webistes not current? i have personally heard them over 150 miles away, have seen other posts from much further. i've also heard some kind of unid gospel music on 1190, not sure if its another station or wdsq
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The gospel music might have been WLIB/New York, the station that led to WOWO's fall from 50K glory.
 
I just got one catch around 12:30 AM EST-- WIGN AM 1550 in Bristol, TN (at the TN/VA border). I just heard this station with a nighttime 6 watts signal about 270 miles away here at my home. I heard a rather weak, fairly listenable signal for a couple of minutes until it slowly fades away, and I heard the WIGN calls.
 
ddsparxx said:
I just got one catch around 12:30 AM EST-- WIGN AM 1550 in Bristol, TN (at the TN/VA border). I just heard this station with a nighttime 6 watts signal about 270 miles away here at my home. I heard a rather weak, fairly listenable signal for a couple of minutes until it slowly fades away, and I heard the WIGN calls.
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Great catch!
 
schmave said:
formerjock said:
have heard the gospel on 660 during "legitimate" night time hours. 11pm to around 6am. also, i keep hearing wsdq dunlap, tn on overnights on 1190. fcc website or radio locator does not list any cp's for night time service, so are they operating outside thier liscense or are the webistes not current? i have personally heard them over 150 miles away, have seen other posts from much further. i've also heard some kind of unid gospel music on 1190, not sure if its another station or wdsq
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The gospel music might have been WLIB/New York, the station that led to WOWO's fall from 50K glory.
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WOWO asked the FCC to change from Class A to B in 2003: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld3080.txt see "FCC NIXES POWER UPGRADE PLANS FOR WLIB, WGKA" WLIB has since then been allowed to upgrade night power to 30kW. 1190 (now WAFS) is still a daytimer.
 
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