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Orange County TX between 4:45 AM & 5:07 AM KRVN Making it into SE Texas
12.5kw non directional at night while repairs are made to something, i dont remember what
 
12.5kw non directional at night while repairs are made to something, i dont remember what
You could look it up.

Nebraska Rural Radio Association requests Special Temporary Authority to operate AM Station KRVN
nondirectionally at one-fourth power during nighttime hours. This is necessary in order to allow the
station to continue to operate while repairs and/or replacements are made to the directional pattern
controller.

The STA request was filed in November. Draft Copy « Licensing and Management System « FCC

KRVN normally blasts into Denver at night; it's still audible here at night but not at nearly its usual strength, for obvious reasons.
 
You could look it up.



The STA request was filed in November. Draft Copy « Licensing and Management System « FCC

KRVN normally blasts into Denver at night; it's still audible here at night but not at nearly its usual strength, for obvious reasons.
i did look it up right after i posted, figuring i should look it up!

they've been heard well on the east coast!

when i used to live in Laramie, WY .. talk about peeling the paint. only once ever logged something else ... in the 4 seconds it took them to do pattern change at sunrise... heard the Oregon station on 880 ID
 
You could look it up.



The STA request was filed in November. Draft Copy « Licensing and Management System « FCC

KRVN normally blasts into Denver at night; it's still audible here at night but not at nearly its usual strength, for obvious reasons.
KRVN's nighttime signal is focused on the Rockies and West Coast, it doesn't even cover the eastern part of its home state (to protect New York's 880).

It generally comes in well here, in Austin, Texas, area, at night, and hasn't been absent that much. Still comes in even with the half power.

There's a Spanish-language station, which I believe is KJOZ from Houston, that often comes in at night and has been heard here lately.
 
KRVN's nighttime signal is focused on the Rockies and West Coast, it doesn't even cover the eastern part of its home state (to protect New York's 880).
I have a recording from 1980, made in Columbia, Missouri, where, just before the pattern switch, the station explained why it was making the pattern switch! Local sunset for FCC purposes in October in Lexington was half an hour later than Columbia, so there was a window of opportunity there.

Local sunset for FCC purposes at Lexington is 5:15 pm Central time this month; I listened for the power drop this afternoon. It was pretty subtle, but something else that I couldn't identify started chewing into KRVN about 5 minutes after the power reduction. It was coming in well in Denver 15 minutes before it had to cut power.
 
KRVN's nighttime expected coverage.
View attachment 8253
Those are not "usable coverage" maps.

Example: WYKO in Puerto RIco is barely listenable in Ponce, about 40 miles away and not at all in San Juan, about 80 miles away. It is not listenable in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, at all. In fact, there are stations in San Juan on 870 and Ceiba on 890 making listing in the eastern 2/3 of the island impossible.
 
Those are not "usable coverage" maps.

Example: WYKO in Puerto RIco is barely listenable in Ponce, about 40 miles away and not at all in San Juan, about 80 miles away. It is not listenable in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, at all. In fact, there are stations in San Juan on 870 and Ceiba on 890 making listing in the eastern 2/3 of the island impossible.
That's true.
WIBW 580 Topeka KS is shown to have a gigantic nighttime range that extends to Corpus Christi and almost New Orleans.
I do receive the station at night here in Austin, Texas, but not always.
Sometimes it's strong, other times nonexistent.

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I heard Wolfman Jack on XEPRS 1090 this evening on the Ukiah SDR, playing what sounded like 70s and 80s classic hits.

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Wow. They resurrected him from the dead. To go on radio. :)
The magic of radio at work.
 
I have a recording from 1980, made in Columbia, Missouri, where, just before the pattern switch, the station explained why it was making the pattern switch! Local sunset for FCC purposes in October in Lexington was half an hour later than Columbia, so there was a window of opportunity there.

Local sunset for FCC purposes at Lexington is 5:15 pm Central time this month; I listened for the power drop this afternoon. It was pretty subtle, but something else that I couldn't identify started chewing into KRVN about 5 minutes after the power reduction. It was coming in well in Denver 15 minutes before it had to cut power.
I got my 1st log for KRVN 2 weeks ago. About 11pm. From Springfield, OH.
 
12/22 22:00 CST 760 KC while listening to the NFL game on WJR, hearing Hispanic music Screenshot_20241222-220300_Maps.jpgand announcing. There's not much foreign dx on this frequency, but did find a possible station. There are a couple possibilities in Mexico, but the most likely due to a mostly direct path is XERA in Chiapas. The other station is in Guadalajara, but it's unlikely due to the distance.
 
12/22 22:00 CST 760 KC while listening to the NFL game on WJR, hearing Hispanic music View attachment 8285and announcing. There's not much foreign dx on this frequency, but did find a possible station. There are a couple possibilities in Mexico, but the most likely due to a mostly direct path is XERA in Chiapas. The other station is in Guadalajara, but it's unlikely due to the distance.


KMTL 760 in Sherwood/Little Rock, Arkansas is a 10kw daytimer with spanish language music and has been heard on after dark a few times

listening to XERA right now, im hearing a speech and talk..... they could play music at night
 
Last night, picked up WJXL 1010 sports from Jacksonville Beach, FL, here in the Austin, Texas, area.

Thought it was a first catch for me, but looking at my spreadsheet, I've gotten it before.

Odd because KBBW, a Christian teaching station from Waco, usually comes in at an average level at night, but hasn't been so great lately.
 
WJR has been pretty much nonexistent here in central TX lately. The Spanish language stations have been coming in.
Over here in Houston, XEABC in the Mexico City area (Radio Canon) is usually the dominant station on 760, with WJR underneath. The other common Mexican station I hear is XEDGO in Durango, which I can sometimes hear in XEABC's null. I've never ID'd XERA here. I believe @jim-satx is more fluent in Spanish than I am and may have ID'd other Mexicans on this frequency or have some other ideas about what's possible in your area.

I have also heard KMTL in Arkansas with Spanish language programming around sunrise and sunset.
 


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