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formerjock

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Longtime DXer from east tennessee. recent catches in the car using stock am/fm radio:

610-WIOD Miami
850-KOA Denver. Got this one about 8 or 9 minutes before local signed-on 850.
1550-Huntsville, obviously on daytime power about 5am
1050-CHUM, great to hear music on AM

will ad more to the list.
 
Good job on getting KOA and CHUM!

-crainbebo
 
KOA is a regular at night here in Tampa. It comes in about as good as WFAN or WABC from New York. And if it weren't for the local station on 860, it would sound even better.

WIOD is strange. I can't seem to get it here, however I've heard it in the northeast.
 
Here's some more recent finds. Most coming between 5am and 6am east coast time:

580--wgac, augusta, ga.
630--wmal, washington, dc
740--krmg, tulsa, ok
1150--ckoc, hamilton, ont.
1080--wtic, hartford, ct.
1430--wxnt, indianapolis, in.

once again, east tennessee area.
 
WTIC is a great catch! With all the fighting going on with KRLD, that was a good catch, same with CKOC!

-crainbebo
 
KOA is a nice catch and a station I have picked up here in Cincinnati from time to time. I assume its antenna is east of the higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains. If so, I wonder how that effects its signal to the west coast?
 
I was driving through the Toledo area at night this week and heard KOA -- not strong, but definitely audible. I realize WKNR's nighttime signal does not even reach far beyond Cleveland's nearby suburbs, but I thought this was an interesting catch anyway.
 
KOA wasn't the steadiest regular nighttimes on 850 in Southern Queens NYC in the 60's, during the truly gluttonous DX days, but they were there often enough after 10 PM or so. We'd get fitful mixes of WHDH Boston, WJW Cleveland, CKVL Montreal, WEEU Reading and WEAT West Palm Beach more often, though. And for a stretch, with all those off overnights into wee-hour Monday mornings, 850 was a faint but steady WKIX Raleigh and their Top 40 delirium.

Does KOA still ID as 'This is the voice of the West' ?

Which for some reason reminds me of KSL's oblique time tone. It sounded as though they struck the side of a fluctuant but rusty oil tank with a small oar. It was billboarded as 'The sound of the Novel Bell ....'

KSL by far was the more faithful of the two, though. In fact, they were a downright pain in the biscuit.

Most recent DX 'catch' here in NE PA was WTRU 830 from Kernersville NC. There was a recent post on the NYRMB about WNYC blasting too far into the west well after sunset and so I immediately flipped to 830 to hear them.

Ooops. WNYC isn't *on* 830 anymore. So I got WTRU instead.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
KOA is a nice catch and a station I have picked up here in Cincinnati from time to time. I assume its antenna is east of the higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains. If so, I wonder how that effects its signal to the west coast?
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KOA's tower is SE of Denver (Go to KOA on radio-locator and click the lat/long.).
 
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