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DXBob said:
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Between 7:30 and 7:50pm CDT tonight in my car, a surprisingly strong KYW on 1060 kHz. Not a new log but it has been quite some time since I have received KYW this well.

Bob
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I wonder if maybe they were running non-directional for whatever reason.

It's hard for me to get a handle on KYW at the moment, because WHFB across Lake Michigan from the Chicago area has been operating on day power at night. But, I will say earlier this morning, KYW seemed to be getting the better of it....for a change. So maybe there is something going on.
 
cyberdad said:
I wonder if maybe they were running non-directional for whatever reason.

It's hard for me to get a handle on KYW at the moment, because WHFB across Lake Michigan from the Chicago area has been operating on day power at night. But, I will say earlier this morning, KYW seemed to be getting the better of it....for a change. So maybe there is something going on.
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Call Larry Langford, Jr., the CE, at the Chicago Fire Department, where he's their PR Spokesperson, and ask him if he can remotely turn the WHFB power down. At one time, his email was [email protected]. He was one of the last people on 670 as WMAQ, along with Greg King, who oddly enough graduated from HS in the same class as my Wife, in Metro Detroit. We found her graduation program the other day, and Greg was on it, with one star for being in NHS. There was a big to do because people like Greg, with a lot of extracurriculars (he did all the PA announcements), got in in their Junior year, and people like my Wife, with a very high GPA, didn't get in until Senior Year. The other one with a really high GPA, who now has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, told them _You for not letting him in during Junior year, and walked away from the NHS induction ceremony. Ah. High School!
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
Call Larry Langford, Jr., the CE, at the Chicago Fire Department, where he's their PR Spokesperson, and ask him if he can remotely turn the WHFB power down.
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I remember Larry from WIND and WMAQ. I aso knew about his involvement with CFD, and that he's the son of Longtime Chicago alderwoman, Anna Langford,. I also knew he was a Michigan radio station owner, but I didn't know he was associated with WHFB. I thougt he was a very good reporter and broadcaster.

Just my opinion, but to be brutally frank, I doubt that KYW (or almost anyone else) cares about what might be going on with WHFB. They've stayed on day power at night in the past, then stopped doing it, and now evidently they've started up again. I've pretty much come to the opinion that some operators.....a minority, to be sure....take the approach of "as long as we can get away with it, why not do it?". We're living in an age where the owners of big signal flamethrowers, who theoretically are affected by the "cheaters", are more concerned about promoting their brands with the frequency of their FM full signal, translater, HD subchannel or whatever.
 
First time I heard Langford on the radio he was doing news on WFYR in the 70s before he went to WMAQ.
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My Uncle listened to 103.5 all the time in the NWC suburbs, when it was WKFM, on the original FM only and turntable KLH classic aficionado model, in the mid 1960s. I can still hear them saying the call letters. Model 20.

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The dial and other features inspired the Henry Kloss Tivoli Audio radios much later. Model 1. FM, sensitivity and selectivity, is very good, better than the good AM, which lacks sensitivity but might be improved with an inductively coupled AM antenna. WMUK 102.1 IDed. Also heard the ubiquitous Traffic report, near 780, mentioned CTA, so more than likely WBBM. Likely RL somewhere near Lake Michigan, between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Cool demo. See what else you can ID. The dial is likely a little off.

 
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I think I heard WMBI-FM and WCSG so far.

I thought some female voice referred to "Reese", which could have been WJJD Reese Richards' son, when passing presumably WOOD-FM/WSRW 105.7. His LinkedIn profile says he is News Director for iHeart there, after being a DJ at coowned WBCT. It kind of annoys me that he doesn't stay on each frequency longer.
 
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I think I heard WOOD 1300 and WGVU 1480. But AMs across the Lake too. It's difficult to know how much the dial is off though. Also 1640 from Sussex, WI. I also think WGN and WSCR. Think what I thought was WMBI 90.1 was actually WNHG 89.7. Looks like the vast majority of far away signals was the AMs across the Lake.
 
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AM DXing tonight for the first time since logging WBOB's DX test last Friday. WGN-720 pretty decent under KDWN with IDs into Jim Bohannon, also getting WBBM under KKOH. I'm pretty sure I have an echo of French stations on 860, and I really need CJBC Toronto. Does Ici Premiere simulcast nationwide no matter the time zone?
680 CJOB Winnipeg under KNBR and nearly equal to KNBR, with old-time radio. 1220 CJRB Boissevain MB also in with country gospel music. 580 KUBC Montrose CO w/ 'KUBC Gold' in pileup.
But the more unusual log was 1570 KTGE Salinas CA, rare, with Radio Tigre. Most power going straight into the Pacific...and get this, NO XERF!
 
crainbebo said:
AM DXing tonight for the first time since logging WBOB's DX test last Friday. WGN-720 pretty decent under KDWN with IDs into Jim Bohannon, also getting WBBM under KKOH. I'm pretty sure I have an echo of French stations on 860, and I really need CJBC Toronto. Does Ici Premiere simulcast nationwide no matter the time zone?
680 CJOB Winnipeg under KNBR and nearly equal to KNBR, with old-time radio. 1220 CJRB Boissevain MB also in with country gospel music. 580 KUBC Montrose CO w/ 'KUBC Gold' in pileup.
But the more unusual log was 1570 KTGE Salinas CA, rare, with Radio Tigre. Most power going straight into the Pacific...and get this, NO XERF!
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Just heard WGN on the Prince George, BC SDR. MWDX season is moving in.
 
Continuing the Tivoli Audio Model 1 Bandscan, it appears to be basically Grand Rapids and some Kalamazoo on FM, Grand Rapids on AM. The station playing "Whatcha See is Whatcha Get" with strong oscillator interference is WGVU 1480 Kentwood, MI, a large playlist Great Lakes centered Oldies format, operated by GVSU, and also found online. The low dial position AMs are the usual Chicago suspects. He didn't go low enough to hear "The Muffin" (my name for 640) and WTMJ 620. Not sure if "The Muffin" was still in Zeeland or moved to Peotone when this bandscan was done.
 
On Thur 9/9 about 1230AM, 860 was CJBC as a local here. Lots of clouds and storms but I had never heard it before. Don't understand much French but it is a very distinct broadcast. Most nights 860 is just a bunch of unintelligible mush.
 
Mitch Brewer said:
On Thur 9/9 about 1230AM, 860 was CJBC as a local here. Lots of clouds and storms but I had never heard it before. Don't understand much French but it is a very distinct broadcast. Most nights 860 is just a bunch of unintelligible mush.
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Congratulations on your catch. For whatever reason, CJBC has been a tough catch whenever I've been in the deep south. I have heard it from time to time. As far south as central Florida. CFZM, 740, which is diplexed on the same tower as CJBC, has been even tougher. But that can be at least partly explained by a few rather robust signals on 740....such as KRMG and KTRH. At my locattion northwest of Chicago, both CJBC and CFZM have good signals on most nights.
 
DXBob said:
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

A new log this morning at 6:45am CDT during critical hours on 950 kHz, KKSE in Parker, Colorado. A 5 kW 2-tower directional station with a Sports format. Years ago, this signal was a great Top 40 station, KIMN:

KKSE-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

Bob
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And for a while, wasn't it "Crusin' Oldies 950"? Nice catch, by the way!
 
KIMN 950 Surveys are numerous on ARSA. 944 Surveys from the 1950s to the 1980s. One of the biggest collections on the site. Eleventh largest station collection, just after CKLW at #10, and heavy competition from stations such as WABC, WLS, and CHUM above it.
 
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radioman148 said:
KIMN was an excellent station. Alot of good talent came out of there.
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Yes, it was a great Top 40 station with excellent on-air talent and audio sound quality. I listened to this station locally when on family summer vacations in the Denver area in the late 60s. Going east on I-70, you could listen to them just into western Kansas.

Bob
 
radioman148 said:
KIMN was an excellent station. Alot of good talent came out of there.
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It was one of Cecil Heftel's first stations, after the ones he owned in Boise and Provo, UT.
 
Congrats Bob. I have been looking for that 950 in Denver for YEARS now. They just never show up. Do I even have a chance with KJR, XEKAM, et. al. in the way? Sunrise?
 


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