I guess they're deal is if it's a list of what you can hear, you can't hear it if its off the air. Even with FCCdata.org, I often have to something like DWGVS to find a deleted station
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On 1630 there were three separate stations competing. Eventually I identified them as KCJJ Iowa City, KVAM Fox Farm WY, and KKGM Fort Worth. The latter two were both new to me. And KVAM is my first Wyoming. Maybe now I should go for KATL to try for my first Montana...
They haven't been deleted. They have silent STAs. According to the APPs for STA, "GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY HAS DECIDED TO TAKE WGVU SILENT FOR FINANCIAL REASONS WHILE IT CONSIDERS A SALE OF THE STATION."
They apparently have offers to buy the land the towers are on. If there is a way to return them to the air each with a single tower, and perhaps pair them with translators, they could potentially come back. Ideally, there would be a diplex with an existing array for Night like WOOD, which has a similar array to WGVU, but a few degrees different in azimuth. By adding a dogleg tower, they might be able to have substantial power, and maybe WOOD could fill in some of the null areas they lost when they moved somewhat.
All of this is speculation at this point.
Other AMs plan to use their new site STAs to air local High School and College sports PBP.
They apparently have offers to buy the land the towers are on. If there is a way to return them to the air each with a single tower, and perhaps pair them with translators, they could potentially come back. Ideally, there would be a diplex with an existing array for Night like WOOD, which has a similar array to WGVU, but a few degrees different in azimuth. By adding a dogleg tower, they might be able to have substantial power, and maybe WOOD could fill in some of the null areas they lost when they moved somewhat.
All of this is speculation at this point.
Other AMs plan to use their new site STAs to air local High School and College sports PBP.
New log: 1200 KFNW Fargo in station running a preacher in WOAI null. About 600+ miles from Cheyenne, WY, using the ferrite on my Radiwow R-108. In addition, my KATL catch from earlier was also on the R-108 with no outside antennas.
DFW, Texas -- Sangean ATS-909X
The normal adjacent channel hash from KRLD-1080 was gone from 1070 and 1090 overnight 1/6 - 1/7/2022.
Overnight, on 1070, tried for KNX, but could not hear anything that I could confirm. KTFI Wichita was in as usual with very weak signal(s) under. This morning on 1070, I did log 2 new stations - WDIA Memphis at 0645 CST and KNTH Houston at 0710 CST, each after their daytime power kicked in.
WDIA was a refreshing listen, with a real local announcer enthusiastically shouting out Good Morning to local workers by trade - bus drivers, hotel workers, teachers, FedEx employees, etc., too many to list
Nothing new on 1090, just KAAY, although they had an open carrier for a while in pre-dawn time. Underneath, I heard very weak Spanish and another station in English, but too weak to identify any words or subject.
The normal adjacent channel hash from KRLD-1080 was gone from 1070 and 1090 overnight 1/6 - 1/7/2022.
Overnight, on 1070, tried for KNX, but could not hear anything that I could confirm. KTFI Wichita was in as usual with very weak signal(s) under. This morning on 1070, I did log 2 new stations - WDIA Memphis at 0645 CST and KNTH Houston at 0710 CST, each after their daytime power kicked in.
WDIA was a refreshing listen, with a real local announcer enthusiastically shouting out Good Morning to local workers by trade - bus drivers, hotel workers, teachers, FedEx employees, etc., too many to list
Nothing new on 1090, just KAAY, although they had an open carrier for a while in pre-dawn time. Underneath, I heard very weak Spanish and another station in English, but too weak to identify any words or subject.
Regarding WGVU-1480, they will go off today (Jan. 7) at 2 p.m. EST. I've enjoyed listening to their oldies stream this week. I could get WGVU-1480 with a weak to fair signal in the afternoons. WGVS-850 was harder to hear in NW Chicago but could be heard close to our local sunrise.
The station is shutting down permanently?
I couldn’t hear 850 or 1480 this time of day, but I checked the online stream. They were playing the WLS 1968 Year End Montage of the hits of the year. It cut out suddenly just before 2:00 PM. I tried to get the stream again and got a 404 message.
Yeah noticed them too. They must be running on day power or non-directional. Last time heard here was in 1986.
let's see if we can add another Montana station to the log later tonight during the KJJR 880 DX test.
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Koolmotor, I actually heard WGVU two days ago on the Arctic SDR with a very good signal. Both WGVU and WGVS were fairly common catch here in Wood Dale, IL.
DFW, Texas — Sangean ATS-909X
3 more new stations logged on 1070 / 1090 kHz with adjacent channel 1080-KRLD noise gone:
1070 KNX Los Angeles, CA. Fair with long fades. CBS News at 2200 CST 1/7/2022, then into local news with story about LA County schools. “KNX News” ID.
1070 KHMO Hannibal, MO. Good but with complete fade outs. Lars Lawson talk show at 2150 CST 1/7/2022.
1090 KEXS Excelsior Springs, MO. Good over KAAY with Catholic Radio Network 1705 CST 1/7/2022.
3 more new stations logged on 1070 / 1090 kHz with adjacent channel 1080-KRLD noise gone:
1070 KNX Los Angeles, CA. Fair with long fades. CBS News at 2200 CST 1/7/2022, then into local news with story about LA County schools. “KNX News” ID.
1070 KHMO Hannibal, MO. Good but with complete fade outs. Lars Lawson talk show at 2150 CST 1/7/2022.
1090 KEXS Excelsior Springs, MO. Good over KAAY with Catholic Radio Network 1705 CST 1/7/2022.
I've been out to the KHMO site and my.. is that pattern right on spec. You can see the towers blinking at night.. be a mile or so away.. drive into a null and back out in about 15-20 seconds
So I just turned on my Armband Radio on 880
I got KJJR with some fading in Carmichael, So it's a Good Signal here in California
I got KJJR with some fading in Carmichael, So it's a Good Signal here in California
I listened to WGVU's stream as well, with the WLS year-end sweep, the ABC Contemporary sounder, dead air then the start of NPR News and that was it. I had heard both 850 and 1480 on the Edinburgh IN SDR and a couple of others; that included the Tustin MI SDR which apparently no longer picks up medium wave.
No KJJR down here in San Diego tonight, but I am picking up News Radio 780 WBBM from Chicago on my portable CCrane 2e radio. WBBM, for whatever reason, seems to break through more often than not these days out West, even more so than WGN and WSCR, despite the reduced power they are now operating on from their new transmitter site.
Great catch! Actually the engineering maps show virtually the same pattern for WBBM (a great deal of math was involved in making sure first- and second-adjacent stations weren’t impacted), so I’m not surprised it’s getting out.
Yes, the signal should be comparable with lower power on an electrically taller tower, so for DX the facility is the same.
The increase from 194.1 to 211.7 electrical degrees for WBBM only accounts for a reduction to about 44 kW. The Night reduction to 42 kW was due to moving closer to other stations on 780 (and possibly 790 and 770). Yes, a small move has that effect. Even coordinate correction often results in slight calculated differences, de minimus as the lawyers would say. Most likely increases would be toward closer and well protected Class Bs like KKOH 780. The 35 kW Day is due to first adjacent stations on 770 and 790. WSGW is an interesting case. It was set up to not overlap 0.5 to 0.5 mV/m. When they changed to 0.5 to 0.25 mV/m overlap, the FCC created overlap, which can't be increased, only decreased, as it did when WBBM moved further away.
They might be able to do conductivity studies to reduce the actual overlap. Years ago, I called the engineer at WMAQ 670, asking about their AUX, which was weaker than WAIT 820 in Genesee County when WMAQ was operating on AUX, so I assumed it was 5 kW to be weaker than WAIT 820 in my direction from Elmhurst. The engineer was very brusk with me, telling me that no way was the AUX 5 kW, it was 10 kW. I asked if there might be lower conductivity near the WMAQ site to explain it, and he said they actually measured 20 mS/m around there. He said they were trying to challenge the grant for WMIC 660 Sandusky, MI and forced it to be more directional, since WNNNNNNBC 660 was unhappy about the cochannel grant, but there was nothing more they could do about it.
They might be able to do conductivity studies to reduce the actual overlap. Years ago, I called the engineer at WMAQ 670, asking about their AUX, which was weaker than WAIT 820 in Genesee County when WMAQ was operating on AUX, so I assumed it was 5 kW to be weaker than WAIT 820 in my direction from Elmhurst. The engineer was very brusk with me, telling me that no way was the AUX 5 kW, it was 10 kW. I asked if there might be lower conductivity near the WMAQ site to explain it, and he said they actually measured 20 mS/m around there. He said they were trying to challenge the grant for WMIC 660 Sandusky, MI and forced it to be more directional, since WNNNNNNBC 660 was unhappy about the cochannel grant, but there was nothing more they could do about it.
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Good catch.
At last! The return this morning of CKWX to my location! Between roughly 4:15 and 4:35am CST. Very weak, In and out. but mostly in. Multiple references to "City News 1130", Vancouver weather and traffic, websites ending in ",ca", etc. with female newscaster (I recognized her voice). Distance: 1724 miles. Radio: C Crane skywave.
This is the third or fourth time I've heard CKWX with certainty at my location. The last being about five years ago. (Although I've heard brief snatches of a female news announcer voice since then, and suspected CKWX). This time, however "fer sure", and the top of my wish list is now down to just KNX! Yess!
It really helps matters that 1130 is one of the emptiest channels around here at night. No shortage of big sticks on the channel in the general neighborhood, but I'm in the null of all of them.
This is the third or fourth time I've heard CKWX with certainty at my location. The last being about five years ago. (Although I've heard brief snatches of a female news announcer voice since then, and suspected CKWX). This time, however "fer sure", and the top of my wish list is now down to just KNX! Yess!
It really helps matters that 1130 is one of the emptiest channels around here at night. No shortage of big sticks on the channel in the general neighborhood, but I'm in the null of all of them.