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Rap Music on 1250 AM?

Maybe this can help some.

http://www.amlogbook.com/freq.htm#1250

The only station listed with that format is from Arkansas but this had been updated back at the beginning of the year so some formats may be different. Then again, if the conditions are right getting that one from Arkansas may not be totally out of the question.
 
Although it may be improbable, it could have been CJYE Oakville Ontario. It's a christian station that plays christian contemporary at night, and that would also include christian rap. Doubtful, but it's a slim possibility.
 
mimo said:
Although it may be improbable, it could have been CJYE Oakville Ontario. It's a christian station that plays christian contemporary at night, and that would also include christian rap. Doubtful, but it's a slim possibility.
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Christian rap--wow that's a new one on me.
 
MarcB said:
I live in downtown Bristol, Connecticut and around 9:45PM Eastern tonight I picked up a weak station on 1250 AM playing rap music. This station was coming in weak underneath ESPN 1250 from Pittsburgh and unfortuantely faded out before I can get an ID. Anyone have any idea as to what I was hearing?
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At 9:45PM EDT, it was probably still daytime in Little Rock, increasing the possibility that could have been it. If so, that was a good catch in the 1150 mile range.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
At 9:45PM EDT, it was probably still daytime in Little Rock, increasing the possibility that could have been it. If so, that was a good catch in the 1150 mile range.
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Good point and it's also possible they hadn't yet switched to nighttime mode. I notice some stations where I am still on daytime mode with their IBOC noise quite a while after sunset.




radioman148 said:
Christian rap--wow that's a new one on me.
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Yeah, really. Me too.

It's like the first time I heard about that thing called "Rock Against Drugs".
 
You should hear this christian Death metal stuff they play on Radio U "I'm a priveliged white boy, I'm mad at the world and I love Jesus"?
 
It most likely was the little Rock station,,, it pegs the needle during the day in Central Illinois and I heard it in indiana with no sign of Pittsburg last winter.... probably Grey Sky Wave DX........
 
Mid West Clubber said:
It most likely was the little Rock station,,, it pegs the needle during the day in Central Illinois
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Did I read that correctly? A 2000 watt directional AM Little Rock, Arkansas station at the high end of the dial pegs the meter 400 miles away in central Illinois during the daytime?
 
BobOnTheJob said:
Mid West Clubber said:
It most likely was the little Rock station,,, it pegs the needle during the day in Central Illinois
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Did I read that correctly? A 2000 watt directional AM Little Rock, Arkansas station at the high end of the dial pegs the meter 400 miles away in central Illinois during the daytime?
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500' Beverage Antenna aimed right at Little Rock? Critical Hours? Right before day/night antenna pattern change? The coverage map looks like there is a good null towards the direction of Illinois.
 
If your around Carbondale-Marion-Mount Vernon it comes in good during the day from about 5 Pm till shortly after dark... It doesnt exactly peg the dial,, however it is definately what AM listeners would call listenable,, Probably about 5-10 on a receiver's signal meter with a good Loop... Its been awhile since ive been able to get it in indiana though,,, usually just Philly mixed with noise.... 1250 isnt that bad a dial position... San Antonio has a 1200 that makes it into Indiana almost nightly in the winter.
 
Mid West Clubber said:
If your around Carbondale-Marion-Mount Vernon it comes in good during the day from about 5 Pm till shortly after dark... It doesnt exactly peg the dial,, however it is definately what AM listeners would call listenable,, Probably about 5-10 on a receiver's signal meter with a good Loop... Its been awhile since ive been able to get it in indiana though,,, usually just Philly mixed with noise.... 1250 isnt that bad a dial position... San Antonio has a 1200 that makes it into Indiana almost nightly in the winter.
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This shows the wonderful quirkiness of AM radio. I'm in St. Louis and have never been able to get the Little Rock station on 1250 - that freq. gets drowned out by the IBOC hash of WSDZ-1260 in Belleville, IL. When I am able to null the hash and get signals on 1250, it's almost always the Spanish-language station in Kansas City or the sports talker in Milwaukee, with WGL in Fort Wayne, IN popping through around sunrise.
 

Beverages are generally a full wave length or greater... even at the top of the band, 500 feet is not a beverage. The ones laid out on DXpeditions tend to be 1000 feet long and greater.
 
I live in Central indiana,, i havent heard the little rock station here ever,, but I also have never heard the Fort Wayne station, even though im just a bit over 100 miles away.

DX on AM is really give or take.

BTW,, on my last post,, I mean to say 5 outta 10 on a signal meter,, not 5 to 10... just to clarify..

Ive never heard the St louis area station here either.. 1260 in indianapolis dominates that freq during the day,, and weakly,, mixed with other stations I cant ID at night.
 
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