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This past Saturday, I spotted an unknown 6090khz.. but after 3 days of listening, Im pretty sure i determined thats Amhara State Radio. Something I've NEVER heard, EVER.

Well, tonight, I spotted someone on 6110. I think ive heard them before a few times, but zero modulation.

Tonight, I have a good signal AND audio.. and it's Radio Fana ...very african continent sounding music and speech that seems to be the same language as i heard on 6090.. different programming, but the same language as both are in east africa. amharic.
 
So what exactly do I have here? BTW: Clock on radio is off, this was taken around 03:50 UTC.
 
MarioMania said:
What does that mean?
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Let's see if I can clarify.

The KFBK tower is really two towers, one on top of the other. The top one is insulated from the bottom one, and is, to simplify, the radiating tower. The bottom half is used instead of those buried ground radials most towers have.

Each half is a half wavelength. That is a big tower even at 1530.

There are some "techie" reasons why a station would do this, mostly because it's a very efficient system and produces a great signal. But to do that on lower frequencies that have longer wavelengths would mean towers over a thousand feet, and just not viable due to cost and, to some extent, logistics.

You may have seen ham or shortwave antennas that have a horizontal wire divided with insulators half way across. Think of one side as positive and one as negative. The KFBK tower is sorta' like that, but vertical and made of steel!
 
KVRI runs 10kw into 6 towers beamed right at me from 1565 miles away. According to famed Seattle super engineer Stephen Lockwood whos done work on the site, its about 50KW ERP in my direction. KVRI is the strongest signal for me every night.. edging out KFBK only bit a little bit

Here's a picture of my radio tonight showing the signal level... TEF6686 radio, with a DXengineering preamp and 15 ft wellbrook loop

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ZantennaG1 said:
So what exactly do I have here? BTW: Clock on radio is off, this was taken around 03:50 UTC.
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Radio Tamazuj in sudanese to south sudan from a Madagascar transmitter site

11650 0330-0430 HOL Radio Tamazuj SUD SSD /MDG

frequency time country the broadcast is produced in stration name language target area transmitter site


 
A personally superb catch for daytime MW skywave at a location in Bengbu/Pangfou, Anhui Province:

702 News and Full-service Programme, Jiangsu People's Radio (Jiangsu RGD, Xinwen Zonghe Guangbo)
Encountering time-lag based echoing between a relay from Xuzhou/Süchow (149.5 km from TX to receiving point) and the main station in Nanjing/Nanking (173.7 km). Generally a grade B signal sans time-lag echoing.

The program is relayed via an array of stations over Jiangsu Province at 702/1314/1413.

For years, I always feel like that JSBC is technically inferior compared to the Anhui provincial station on 936/1395 since the latter relays are synchronized in a way better manner with virtually no time-lag echoing over the air. Often listen to both OTA when in vacation at my ancestral hometown!
 
From west Houston TX this evening, a couple of interesting new ones. Both from Texas, but ~600 miles from each other!

900 KFLP TX Floydada 2/28 1825 w/ag news //stream. Fair signal at times in jumble, XEW nulled. 250w at 450 miles from me
1240 KSOX TX Raymondville 2/28 1856 Tejano-style mx, R Vision ID strong for a minute
 
They used to be my arch nemesis.. I was so close to KHAT 1210 that they'd mix with KOWB 1290 and spew junk all over the dial.

Now, 2500 miles away from Laramie, WY.. I cant escape them, but their effect is lessened on me up here . The audio at the link below is from about 3 weeks ago at 8pm AK time, with a KHAT legal id.

So much for KHAT operating daytime only.

Audio:
KHAT 1210 Laramie, WY 801pm AK 1001pm MTN Mon Feb 5, 2024.mp3
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
They used to be my arch nemesis.. I was so close to KHAT 1210 that they'd mix with KOWB 1290 and spew junk all over the dial.

Now, 2500 miles away from Laramie, WY.. I cant escape them, but their effect is lessened on me up here . The audio at the link below is from about 3 weeks ago at 8pm AK time, with a KHAT legal id.

So much for KHAT operating daytime only.

Audio:
KHAT 1210 Laramie, WY 801pm AK 1001pm MTN Mon Feb 5, 2024.mp3
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I got KHAT 1210 February 17 after 12:30am in Vallejo
 
KHAT is a *pest* in Yakima. Usually on top, every night.
They are even worse in Montana. I regularly use the SDR in Stevensville MT on the Kiwi and KHAT booms in nightly on 1210, sometimes with CFYM. If they go to flea power, I won't miss them. I'll be satisfied with KOKK and (especially) WPHT making their way west. KGYN Guymon is very rare here.
 
crainbebo said:
KHAT is a *pest* in Yakima. Usually on top, every night.
They are even worse in Montana. I regularly use the SDR in Stevensville MT on the Kiwi and KHAT booms in nightly on 1210, sometimes with CFYM. If they go to flea power, I won't miss them. I'll be satisfied with KOKK and (especially) WPHT making their way west. KGYN Guymon is very rare here.
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Theyre supposed to go daytime only, no night time power, @crainbebo

KGYN is very common here and pretty decent too
 
That's what I was mistaken about. They want to go daytime-only. That would free up this channel quite well. As I said, KOKK Huron SD and WPHT Philly are well-wanted stations.
 
It might be because of KRSV Afton? But that's maybe 250 miles away.
 
ftballfan said:
Are they short-spaced to another 1210 that they can't retain one watt of night power non-directional?
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crainbebo said:
It might be because of KRSV Afton? But that's maybe 250 miles away.
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@crainbebo
@ftballfan

You're missing something, they dont want to from the educated guess I can make based on the information at hand.

They never ever mention "1210 AM" on air, ever.. its not in the logo. The only time theres any reference to the AM is in the legal id, "KHAT Laramie, K244FN Laramie.. New Country 96.7". If they had the frequency shfit keying feature they could inaudibly ID the translator and just say KHAT Laramie at the top of the hour and listeners would never hear the meaningless word salad that is K244FN.

All they care about is that translator. It shows as 250 watts at 130 feet but thats a misnomer, its up on a very very tall hill.

sister station KRQU is on a nearby till and is 110 Watts at nearly 1100 feet on a tower just yards away from KLWV, KUWR, KTDX and a translator.

K244FN runs twice as much power as Class A KRQU 98.7!

I've been inside the KRQU/KLWV transmitter shack and also been inside the shack that holds K244FN

An older Nautel FM transmitter originally powered KIMX 96.7 Laramie, WY. That station moved and became KYAP 96.9 Nunn, CO and the transmitter is now being used for K244FN 96.7, relaying KHAT 1210 Laramie.


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KABC 790 Los Angeles In Alaska!

Feb 10, 2024 932pm AK/1032pm Pacific
With "KABC Socal WEather", quick weather forecast and current temps.
Fair-ish, alone but not too strong... mush under it, but nothing identifiable.
2560 mile distance between me and KABC

Here's my KABC audio:KABC 790 Los angeles, CA 932pm AK 1032pm Pacific Sat feb 10, 2024.mp3

TEF6686 radio, 15 ft wellbrook loop and DXEngineering preamp
 


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