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wildthangjim said:
That's a great catch. 600 is a busy frequency around here.

Curious, are you using Shazam to identify the music (or are you an expert in SS soft pop)?
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I use Shazam - or SoundHound when Shazam fails to ID a song. I’m familiar with some of the Spanish-language soft pop artists, but I don’t know their songs very well.

When I was hearing the station, I wasn’t clear on the “Radio Ya” ID, but when I heard the ad for the concert in Nicaragua, I figured it out via mwlist.org.
 
Mike in Destin said:
In late August I went to a resort town in Wildwood, NJ I'm fond of. What's amazing is how good the dx is, even from my hotel room! WWL 870 comes in surprisingly well, so well I thought they were WCBS 880, till I heard the usual talk about LSU football.
930 CKNS country Ottawa, Ontario heard with good copy, power level unknown. Couldn't find any information on them using Wikipedia, only the former station that existed. Interesting thing about the radio used. It's a Panasonic R-1027, very sensitive for a pocket portable. When I found how well it performs, I bought a few more. Unfortunately none were as sensitive as the first one I bought. I have recapped and aligned all of them. I chalk it up to transistors with more gain, or I.F. coils in better shape, well probably both. They were made in about 1975.
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@Mike in Destin if you heard CKNS then you traveled back in time.. it appears it hasnt been on air in 28 years.

I think what you likely heard was WIZR Johnstown, NY.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
@Mike in Destin if you heard CKNS then you traveled back in time.. it appears it hasnt been on air in 28 years.

I think what you likely heard was WIZR Johnstown, NY.
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Think I figured it out. On 920 there's CKNX in Wingham, Ontario. They are listed as being country format. Now what are the odds of that? However I can't explain hearing "Ottawa" unless that was an ad on 930 Kc. We still don't know what's now on 930. But I swore I heard 930. Maybe I heard two stations since the selectivity is close on a pocket radio. Thanks for clarifying that. Much appreciated!
 
KNRY 1240 Monterey, CA easily audible and listenable 2300 miles away in decent spurts wednesday around 820pm AK
 
I've been hearing KSWB, Seaside, 840, lately, playing Classic Hits. It's the first time I've heard them since around 2014 or so. They used to come in nightly from 2011 to 2014 or so. Then disappeared. The channel here was mostly KMAX, Colfax WA, with CFCW Camrose, and the odd appearance of KXNT Las Vegas.

It's cool hearing them again. Perhaps its a sign that the solar cycle is actually working on MW like it used to. Maybe this DX season will be better than the last few of them.

As an aside, their mono/AM signal is out of phase. The vocals are ghosty on every track I've heard. But the station is partly dominating the channel over the past 3-4 nights.
 
secondchoice said:
The amazing part of that is with literally 100's of stations on 1240 how did that single single cut thru the RF crap that Class C AM channels are at night.
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propagation: the signal of a certain station transmitted reaching the ionosphere that has strong ionization hitting it at the right angle(s) to bounce that signal back to earth to the listeners location for a period of time, …whether that’s seconds or a few minutes (or possibly a somewhat longer duration…)
with more signal strength than other co-channel stations
 
Scanning the KPH LF KiwiSDR, I heard Christopher Cross' Sailing on 1030 underneath some Conservative jabber, and thought maybe it was Coast To Coast bumper music.

I looked, and it wasn't. It was KDUN out of Reedsport, OR. I may have heard it before, but it doesn't sound familiar.

At any rate, I'll note it as a new catch.

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secondchoice said:
The amazing part of that is with literally 100's of stations on 1240 how did that single single cut thru the RF crap that Class C AM channels are at night.
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the tower for KMBY (not knry, sorry) is right IN the water and there are no 1240s in alaska.. only 2 1230s.... and theyre 500 miles away

theyre also not limited to 1kw up here, but both only run 1kw
 
KLLK 1250 Willits, CA IDing as 'the Greatest Hits on earth, 1400 am and 96.3 FM, KUKI" atop the channel for a minute or two at 903pm AK

Also, KMKY 1310 san Francisco and 1570 kCVR Lodi/Sacramento

and 1400 KVTO Berkley, Ca
 
sasha23 said:
propagation: the signal of a certain station transmitted reaching the ionosphere that has strong ionization hitting it at the right angle(s) to bounce that signal back to earth to the listeners location for a period of time, …whether that’s seconds or a few minutes (or possibly a somewhat longer duration…)
with more signal strength than other co-channel stations
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It's be my experience in the eastern part of the lower 48 more than 50 miles from a station on the old local class 4 channels that Class Cs operate on you either a roar or multiple voices and music garbled together. Almost impossible to catch an ID.
 
That's Delilah's station. She bought it out! KDUN is where she started.

And KLVZ from the FL panhandle is a fantastic catch! Especially at the 430-watt power! My favorite thing about the panhandle by far...is The Seabreeze on 106.3. My dream is to go to one of those Seabreeze Jazz Festivals!
 
crainbebo said:
That's Delilah's station. She bought it out! KDUN is where she started.

And KLVZ from the FL panhandle is a fantastic catch! Especially at the 430-watt power! My favorite thing about the panhandle by far...is The Seabreeze on 106.3. My dream is to go to one of those Seabreeze Jazz Festivals!
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It's a nice area. I just wish they had an oldies station here. On either band. The only stations with an oldies format are all weak dx. It's either that or stream music. At least I can use my old radios to listen, which is better than "displays well " lol!
 
KD4YQR said:
Sometimes the AM band can be full of surprises.

Central Kentucky: 9 PM EDT: KTLR 890 Oklahoma City with Christian music, on top of a surprisingly weak WLS Chicago. (Calls used to be KBYE)
I was moving vehicles around in my driveway so I dialed up 890 expecting to hear Mark Levin, but was surprised at getting OKC.
Other than KRMG, Tulsa, the only other Oklahoma station I've logged is KOKC OKC during the eclipse.
Radio: GM Bose factory radio 2005 Silverado.
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WLS has been incredibly weak. Very unimpressive (like its nighttime programming). It's not much of a "clear channel" anymore.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Did a lot of DXing there on the Sony AM FM Cassette portable, especially the Super Sensitive FM, before the FM band was all jammed up. You could get 3000 watt Class As a hundred miles away with just the telescoping whip. And Class Bs and Class Cs from hundreds of miles away.
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In the late 70s, as my dad and I drove from Great Bend, KS, to Scott City, KS, I vividly remember hearing KEYN 103.7 from Wichita almost all the way west to Scott City, KS, And this was on an FM converter radio in my dad's small pickup.

180 miles
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My own city, where I went to high school, was 79 miles from the transmitter, on the northwest part of the map, right at the station's distant contour.

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My best friend's dad told me he regularly heard the station on his business drives between Dodge City and Garden City, KS, (left side of the top map), 170 miles.

The transmitter is on a 1,000' antenna.

There are 2 TV stations in that same area, 3 & 10, neither are received via antenna in Great Bend, so the purple line is likely the limit (then) for TV signals. I do know those stations are receivable in Pratt (west side of map), which is similar distance from the transmitter.
 
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Dondd said:
In the late 70s, as my dad and I drove from Great Bend, KS, to Scott City, KS, I vividly remember hearing KEYN 103.7 from Wichita almost all the way west to Scott City, KS, And this was on an FM converter radio in my dad's small pickup.

180 miles
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My own city, where I went to high school, was 79 miles from the transmitter, on the northwest part of the map, right at the station's distant contour.

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My best friend's dad told me he regularly heard the station on his business drives between Dodge City and Garden City, KS, (left side of the top map), 170 miles.

The transmitter is on a 1,000' antenna.

There are 2 TV stations in that same area, 3 & 10, neither are received in Great Bend, so the purple line is likely the limit (then) for TV signals.
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That's an impressively uniform and symmetrical contour!

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