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cyberdad said:
Major surprise at a little before 4pm CDT this afternoon (2100 GMT). 3 hours before sunset. Fair signal from WRRD Waukesha, WI. 23kw from 53 miles north of me. But I'm directly in a very deep null, and I've never heard it here before. Not ever. Signal was fair, but all alone. No trace of the Joliet, IL 1510....or for that matter WLAC.

My guess is an STA....perhaps 5.75kw ND, which would be about right for the strength of signal I was hearing. Maybe you guys who think you might be within range would want to check this out. Format is progressive talk. WRRD is a daytimer that's supposed to also drop to 20kw (same pattern) during critical hours.

Happy hunting!
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Nice catch there. It's funny, that's one of the stations I've been trying to catch, and I happened to be listening on that frequency around that time in my usual Chicago commute. Usually it'll be WWHN cranking out the gospel tunes, but a right-wing talk show came in briefly before fading out and I didn't get an ID. Every other time that's happened and I got a station ID it was WLAC. I remember thinking it was pretty early to be picking up Nashville in mid-March, so maybe it was WRRD this time. I'll try again tomorrow and also be aware of what program will be on to help ID it.

Interestingly in Madison on 1580 AM they have a sister station WTTN and that too is on the edge of my listening range. During the daytime if I'm away from the lakeshore I can barely make out similar talk show programming, but haven't gotten an ID yet for that one either.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
Interestingly in Madison on 1580 AM they have a sister station WTTN and that too is on the edge of my listening range. During the daytime if I'm away from the lakeshore I can barely make out similar talk show programming, but haven't gotten an ID yet for that one either.
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WTTN is actually now licensed to Columbus, WI after originally being licensed to Watertown, WI for many years. The current transmitter site is just west of Columbus...

Bob
 
MichaelTheZ said:
Nice catch there. It's funny, that's one of the stations I've been trying to catch, and I happened to be listening on that frequency around that time in my usual Chicago commute. Usually it'll be WWHN cranking out the gospel tunes, but a right-wing talk show came in briefly before fading out and I didn't get an ID. Every other time that's happened and I got a station ID it was WLAC. I remember thinking it was pretty early to be picking up Nashville in mid-March, so maybe it was WRRD this time. I'll try again tomorrow and also be aware of what program will be on to help ID it.

Interestingly in Madison on 1580 AM they have a sister station WTTN and that too is on the edge of my listening range. During the daytime if I'm away from the lakeshore I can barely make out similar talk show programming, but haven't gotten an ID yet for that one either.
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No STA on file for WRRD
 
DXBob said:
WTTN is actually now licensed to Columbus, WI after originally being licensed to Watertown, WI for many years. The current transmitter site is just west of Columbus...

Bob
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WRRD was in again today at my location, same as yesterday. Apparently all day long. Progressive talk, so if anyone was hearing conservative talk on 1510, it was WLAC or something else.

I'm familiar with WTTN. IIRC, the move to Columbus was made several years ago from Watertown, WI along with a daytime power boost on 1580 to 5kw. Evidently the plan was to launch a rimshot signal in the Madison market. The problem with that idea is that the 5kw comes with a DA that's not exactly favorable to Madison. Anyway, the WRRD and WTTN tandem are cogs in the expanding Wisconsin radio empire owned by Good Karma Broadcasting.

Good Karma's CEO is Mel Karmazin's son, Craig. The company's highest profile deal to date was their purchase last year of Milwaukee's WTMJ and sister full-signal FM, WKTI (which was flipped to ESPN sports and simulcasts co-owned WAUK-540).
 
Just a little followup.. I tried for WRRD and WTTN again today around 4 PM. Suprisingly this time WTTN was the stronger signal and I got an ID finally. On 1510 I was hearing politically oriented programming but the signal alternated between clear and being obscured behind WWHN and I didn't get an ID. But they frequently mentioned Wisconsin locations when I could hear it, and it was very likely WRRD. But I will try again the next time I'm driving around just to be sure. (There's too much interference at my home location to make an ID there).
 
WRRD still in at my location as of mid afternoon today (3/14). Signal subject to some minor "fluttering", perhaps from WWHN. But whatever the cause was, it wasn't identifiable. As for WTTN, I'm out of range...at least for a groundwave signal.
 
cyberdad said:
WRRD still in at my location as of mid afternoon today (3/14). Signal subject to some minor "fluttering", perhaps from WWHN. But whatever the cause was, it wasn't identifiable. As for WTTN, I'm out of range...at least for a groundwave signal.
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I did finally get an ID for the station today and as expected it was WRRD. It was actually somewhat weaker today than before but I was listening for a longer period (thanks to Friday afternoon/semi-holiday weekend traffic) and heard the station ID during one of the periods that it was audible. I was aided by being on the east side of an overpass which tends to block signals from the western direction such as WWHN.
 
Update....

Today, Saturday March 16: I checked 1510 a couple of times during the day. No trace of WRRD. Instead I heard a weak unidentifiable signal with what sounded like music. Presumably WWHN. Radio was the Sangean ATS 505.
 
While checking out 880 this week for the first time in quite a while, I've been surprised to hear WIJR "La Tremenda" in Highland, IL, pretty regularly. Its signal is somewhat steady under KRVN, and it even takes over on occasion.

WIJR's main lobe is pointed directly at me, but I'm surprised that I'm getting such a decent signal at 816 miles with their supposed 0.16 kW nighttime power. I suppose they could be on daytime 1.7 kW.
 
jim-satx said:
While checking out 880 this week for the first time in quite a while, I've been surprised to hear WIJR "La Tremenda" in Highland, IL, pretty regularly. Its signal is somewhat steady under KRVN, and it even takes over on occasion.

WIJR's main lobe is pointed directly at me, but I'm surprised that I'm getting such a decent signal at 816 miles with their supposed 0.16 kW nighttime power. I suppose they could be on daytime 1.7 kW.
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That's pretty amazing. Do you ever hear KJOZ in Conroe (Houston area)? It's running a Spanish Tropical music format as La Calle. Radio-locator says it's 1kw at night, but it's barely audible at my house, only 40 miles south of their transmitter. I can hear a mix of things under KRVN, but have assumed the SS I hear is one of the Mexicans, XEV maybe. Never considered WIJR.
 
wildthangjim said:
That's pretty amazing. Do you ever hear KJOZ in Conroe (Houston area)? It's running a Spanish Tropical music format as La Calle. Radio-locator says it's 1kw at night, but it's barely audible at my house, only 40 miles south of their transmitter. I can hear a mix of things under KRVN, but have assumed the SS I hear is one of the Mexicans, XEV maybe. Never considered WIJR.
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I can hear KJOZ intermittently at sunset, but it's weak and mostly buried by KRVN and others. At sunrise it's still mixing with KRVN but stronger and much more listenable.

I hope you're able to catch WIJR under KRVN one of these nights.
 
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Nice little sunset here, March 31 -- four newies.
I was cleaning up papers and files and arranging things in the guest bedroom, decided to give the table Zenith's knobs The Big Bath, and turned it on.

WVLY 1370 Wheeling. They IDed as 1370 and 1600.
WLLI 1390 Jackson TN. Country, of course, with calls like that. Pretty loud at times. They also gave their FM first, on 94.1.

In that room I also found my older GE SR II. That's the one I have to stick a matchbook in the on-off switch to keep it turned on. Well, over dinner at the kitchen table, with my non-DXing wife rolling her eyes:
CFMB 1410 Montreal, with a talk show in French.
And (blush) CKDO 1580 from Ontario..... Songs like Blondie 'One Way Or Another' and Neil Diamond 'I Am I Said'. They also gave an FM frequency I don't remember. I've been listening for them off the G-8 sometimes at night to no csuccess while reading, but they either don't top the frequency or I start listening at :10 after the hour.

None of these got taped. Too preoccupied. But it was still four newies in maybe a half an hour. I may start to like this sunset stuff. There were even a few copyable unIDs on the normally GY-ish 1570.
 
On Monday morning I caught a new station on 1310 - KYUL in Scott City, KS at 633 miles. It was a little over an hour before sunrise here.

My local KAHL went off air for unknown reasons this weekend - before we had any bad weather. (Its translators on 100.7, 103.7 ,and 105.9 were still on, though.)

On Monday morning it was still off air, and at 5:56 a.m. I heard English-language talk mixing with KTCK in Dallas. (I've only heard Spanish-language stations on the frequency besides KTCK and KAHL.) The station was only in for a couple of minutes before it dropped out of site. I heard a list of celebrity birthdays and a Morning in America program ID with host John Trout.

The program matches the schedule on KYUL's website. The Morning in America site doesn't list any stations on 1310, but it does list KIUL in Garden City, KS, as an affiliate, and KYUL simulcasts most of KIULs shows.

As of yesterday afternoon, KAHL is back, but its signal is weak. Must be transmitter problems.
 
As I write this, CHHA Toronto which usually dominates 1610 kHz here in Chicago is running open carrier, which allows CHRN Montreal to make it through the open carrier with the Radio Humsafar programming.
 
Barlow said:
This morning at 8:00 a.m. CST KTNN Window Rock AZ 660 came booming in for five minutes with news and ID.
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I know this is not the point of this thread, but KTNN is a really neat station to listen to. They have lots of native Navajo-language stuff on there. I often can't hear it until after sunset here in southern AZ, but I like to listen sometimes.
 
bulwnkl said:
I know this is not the point of this thread, but KTNN is a really neat station to listen to. They have lots of native Navajo-language stuff on there. I often can't hear it until after sunset here in southern AZ, but I like to listen sometimes.
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Actually, your point does fit in with the theme of this forum. The Navajo language content (and the tempo/cadence of the Navajo music) helps DXers ID it.
 
bulwnkl said:
I know this is not the point of this thread, but KTNN is a really neat station to listen to. They have lots of native Navajo-language stuff on there. I often can't hear it until after sunset here in southern AZ, but I like to listen sometimes.
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KTNN comes i nightly here in southeastern Wyoming, some nights better then others and sometimes KLTT 670 Denver HD hash wallops it hard
 
Well .... the newer pattern for W234BH on 94.7 was there yesterday. It showed a new, pronounced lobe south, at my parked car. Only the map had no towns or names on it. Just terrain and contours.

The former/old/previous pattern I first linked exhibits a wicked null vis-a-vis my direction. I'm between Shenandoah and St. Clair on that old map. It's probably terrain blockage plus line-of-sight benefits though valleys. Many of the lower-powered translators and LPFMs in these parts show the same SW-NE directionality because of the arc of the mountains through here.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Well .... the newer pattern for W234BH on 94.7 was there yesterday. It showed a new, pronounced lobe south, at my parked car. Only the map had no towns or names on it. Just terrain and contours.

The former/old/previous pattern I first linked exhibits a wicked null vis-a-vis my direction. I'm between Shenandoah and St. Clair on that old map. It's probably terrain blockage plus line-of-sight benefits though valleys. Many of the lower-powered translators and LPFMs in these parts show the same SW-NE directionality because of the arc of the mountains through here.
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"that might be" pattern CP was granted its license to cover yesterday(5/1/19), meaning it's built out and operating. Really easy to look these things up and check whats been filed for, built, granted, etc by using fccinfo.com typing in call letters, clicking call letters and other applications
 


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