From north suburban Chicago: Yesterday (Jan. 2) I tuned to 850 near local sunset (4:30 PM) expecting to hear KFUO in Missouri. Instead, heard WXJC from Birmingham, AL with a pretty good signal. Copied a few positive IDs for "FM100 The Truth" and talk of activities in northern Alabama. Interesting catch, and my first AL station.
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I'm kicking myself for not seeing this at the time. Tuesday night I was sitting at a stoplight and happened on some English talk mixing w/XECPAE. I typically only hear XECPAE and XERDO so was curious but didn't have time to listen further. What I heard sounds like TXPH97's description of KYW, a much-needed station here. Checked last night, only the Mexicans w/XERDO stronger than usual.
From north suburban Chicago: Listened in to 850 again today around local sunset, 4:30 PM. This time I heard WQRM from Duluth, MN. What a great callsign! 😄 Almost didn't believe my ears when I heard it. They were broadcasting an episode of "Unshackled", the long running radio drama. Signal was pretty good until 4:45 PM when the frequency became a jumble of signals, but then KFUO rose to the top by 5:00 PM. They often seem to play some nice music in this time slot... listening to some church organ music right now.
Several weeks ago, I got WERC 960 from Birmingham, AL coming in quite well in the early evening here in Chicago. The couple of times I've checked back for it, wasn't there. Looks like they are directional to the south at night, so rather surprising to me.
WQRM is supposed to drop to 14 kW at 2 hours before Sunset (Critical Hours to protect KOA). I hear it fairly often in Michigan during CH and Winter Daytime Skywave. I laughed when I heard the QRM. Also, due to all the controversy over mutual interference between WPVI 6 and noncommercial FMs over the years, I have referred to it as WTVI (TVI referred to Television Interference) a term which was common when HF (particularly 40, 20, 15, 10, and 6 meters) Amateur harmonics interfered with particularly Channels 2-6. Nobody understood or found it funny or ironic here though.
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KGYN used to be somewhat notorious for running day power occasionally at night. That said, I believe they have authorization to operate on day power after Philadelphia sunrise.
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KKMO 1360 Tacoma has been dead air For probably a couple hours. They normally mostly blast in here nearly 1600 miles away.. been with a dead carrier, ive heard 3 other stations.. one was KOHU ….. another was a station playing Freddie Jackson’s “Youre my lady”
Another new one the other night, 1070 KFTI from Wichita.
That kind of seems like something KKRK might play.
EDIT: @crainbebo beat me to it by mere seconds!
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KKRK usually comes in fairly reliably during CA critical hours (and after WY sunset), but lately it's been kind of absent, with a mix of static, indecipherable talk and Mexican music. KRKK has a fairly unusual playlist, with songs I don't usually hear elsewhere, and I enjoy listening when it fades in.
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An unidentified sine wave located around 1542 kHz has been present in random recent nights.
I have also checked with other fellow DXers in mainland China, and the wave was reportedly audible across most of the country, ranging from Guangdong/Canton to Liaoning (northeast, part of so-called "Manchuria") south to north.
Wild guess: technical mistake by NRTA Station 623*, Changzhou/Changchow, Jiangsu/Kiangsu Province.
QTH - Urban central Beijing; Equipment - Tecsun PL-310ET
*Transmitting site of the only CNR1 on 1593 plus CRI Japanese on 1044
I have also checked with other fellow DXers in mainland China, and the wave was reportedly audible across most of the country, ranging from Guangdong/Canton to Liaoning (northeast, part of so-called "Manchuria") south to north.
Wild guess: technical mistake by NRTA Station 623*, Changzhou/Changchow, Jiangsu/Kiangsu Province.
QTH - Urban central Beijing; Equipment - Tecsun PL-310ET
*Transmitting site of the only CNR1 on 1593 plus CRI Japanese on 1044
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Turns out, "youre my lady" was most likely Kenny rogers and KOHU again
KKMO is still dead air, 6 hours later
classic country
Finally got to looking at the KKMO facebook page, theyve had a problem with xfinity internet in a post they made saturday and said it should be fixed in a few hours.... well its 24 hours later and nada.
Cuba, Iowa, Wyoming, Idaho, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mexico, North Dakota, Texas & Louisiana all heard on AM in Alaska tonight. Will post a full report later in the week.
Oh, minnesota.. forgot minnesota too. lol
I’m going to guess Louisiana was WWL & Minnesota was WCCO