I had to smile when I saw these calls, if you substitute the letter O for the zero, you have the legendary radio and TV broadcaster in southern West Virginia WOAY. They've had an interesting history.
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It's ironic, isn't it.
530 has a very weak Cuba (Enciclopedia), but underneath is the familiar looped weather TIS station from the Hanford Nuclear Base! That's over 250 miles away at just 10 watts.
edit: add 1610 "You're listening to WPUL479, broadcasting on 1610 AM" - Maryhill WA, in the Columbia River Gorge. 10 watts, 327 miles
Strangely, no sign of the flamethrower Union Gap/Yakima TIS (WQBV569) that I've heard time and time again on skywave from western WA and other sites.
530 has a very weak Cuba (Enciclopedia), but underneath is the familiar looped weather TIS station from the Hanford Nuclear Base! That's over 250 miles away at just 10 watts.
edit: add 1610 "You're listening to WPUL479, broadcasting on 1610 AM" - Maryhill WA, in the Columbia River Gorge. 10 watts, 327 miles
Strangely, no sign of the flamethrower Union Gap/Yakima TIS (WQBV569) that I've heard time and time again on skywave from western WA and other sites.
I hear Radio Enciclopedia on 530 AM regularly at night here in Columbia SC. It is basically "elevator music", covers of popular music from the past few decades. Kind of cheesy and elegant at the same time.
I can receive R. Enciclopedia here in Northern California once in awhile late at night, especially in the winter months.
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10/5 7:00 AM CDT 1270 KC WIWA Eatonville, FL religious format. Not sure but it sounded like they were still on nighttime power of 5kw. Daytime would be 25kw. Initially I thought they were WIJD. That now makes six(count em) stations heard on one frequency!
On the W0AY SDR again tonight. Sitting on 1610 listening to the jumble of TIS stations, including the constant bird and wolf howls from the Yellowstone TIS... heard what I think was WPWZ971 Roslyn WA with a WSDOT message and tentative calls. Would be 329 miles.
Meanwhile, I had the Makah emergency TIS (Neah Bay WA, WQPW217) and WPFK508 Chilcoot CA (Caltrans) into the Haida Gwaii SDR way up in northern BC. Makah is about 500 mi from Masset, but Chilcoot CA is well over 1,100 miles!!!
Also finding KULE-730 Ephrata WA on full 1KW day power tonight. La Estacion de La Familia with Spanish religious programming.
Meanwhile, I had the Makah emergency TIS (Neah Bay WA, WQPW217) and WPFK508 Chilcoot CA (Caltrans) into the Haida Gwaii SDR way up in northern BC. Makah is about 500 mi from Masset, but Chilcoot CA is well over 1,100 miles!!!
Also finding KULE-730 Ephrata WA on full 1KW day power tonight. La Estacion de La Familia with Spanish religious programming.
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BBC World Service on 9410khz via Ascension Island to Africa at 0655UTC Thu Oct 9 in Alaska. 104dbuv peak signal which is like S9+80 or so.
orlando isnt south florida
Port st lucie area. It only comes in at night, station ID is usually louder than the music "We're your number one hit music station the valley's new hits one o four point five". Then signal fades into just barely above the noise floor.
As radiofan2023 mentions above, this is apparently WIOL
My graveyard record up here is about 2100 (KVTO) miles on 1400 and 2140 miles on 1340 (KPYV). Though, KIHH is is my most common and regularly heard on 1400. 1340 is usually a soupy mush, but KATA shows up now and then
10/18 2:00 AM CDT 1360 WHNR Cypress Gardens,FL Boss Hog Radio. Wolfman Jack Show. 2.5kw overnight. It was nice to hear "Little Latin Lupe Lu" The Righteous Brothers rare song. Can't remember the last time I heard it. Good copy here.
Three tower directional array.
Three tower directional array.
So, this is a very exciting (for me) tale of being in the right place at the right time.
10/21 Kenosha, WI, 10:00 PM Central Time. I was doing my typical before-bed band scan. As I landed on 990 CBW Winnipeg (the typical strong signal here) at the top of the hour, they had a few seconds of dead air. Through their dead carrier, I heard "KTMS 990 & 97.9 Santa Barbara" (CA). I was pretty shocked, to say the least! They are 5KW Days / .5KW Nights. I can probably assume they were still on day power. Tecsun PL-380 with just the internal ferrite.
I haven't heard anything from the West Coast here in forever!
10/21 Kenosha, WI, 10:00 PM Central Time. I was doing my typical before-bed band scan. As I landed on 990 CBW Winnipeg (the typical strong signal here) at the top of the hour, they had a few seconds of dead air. Through their dead carrier, I heard "KTMS 990 & 97.9 Santa Barbara" (CA). I was pretty shocked, to say the least! They are 5KW Days / .5KW Nights. I can probably assume they were still on day power. Tecsun PL-380 with just the internal ferrite.
I haven't heard anything from the West Coast here in forever!
Likely a nondirectional STA. Still amazing. Even if it was 5 kW. Maybe David may not think it's amazing. As I recall, I heard KNX 1070 when I was DXing on New Years Eve in 1969. Heard the Traffic and Weather a few times. It was on a Sony 6R-11. Quoted Sensitivity is 40 uV/m.
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That’s excellent! The CBW dead carrier probably helped quiet the background for the KTMS call to be heard clearly.
Only 5kw Cali station in my log is KMJ 580 Fresno, once way back before their change to 50 kw and a western pattern. ID, NBC News on the hour, the works on a Sunday night.
KMJ was 5000 watts nondirectional with a 138 degree tower before they were 50000 watts.
There are still only a handful of stations that have been able go to 50000 watts fulltime on Regional Channels. Those are either beamed into the Oceans or remote areas of Canada.
KKOL 1300, which was shortly licensed for 50/47 DA-2, has lost its site a couple of times. Now on an Island with 35/3.2 DA-2. For five years in the early 2000s, it operated with an STA on a barge with 1000 watts nondirectional.
There are still only a handful of stations that have been able go to 50000 watts fulltime on Regional Channels. Those are either beamed into the Oceans or remote areas of Canada.
KKOL 1300, which was shortly licensed for 50/47 DA-2, has lost its site a couple of times. Now on an Island with 35/3.2 DA-2. For five years in the early 2000s, it operated with an STA on a barge with 1000 watts nondirectional.
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