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Ridgecrest, CA AM Bandscan-Daytime 10/27/12

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crainbebo

Thanks to GlobalTuners and their remote nodes, I compiled a bandscan from the Mohave Desert, CA node (AKA Ridgecrest, CA), from 1-1:45PM today 10/27.

530-trace of a TIS (but WHERE? Maybe pianoplayer88key can help me out here...)
540-XESURF Tijuana
550-KUZZ Bakersfield
560-KSFO San Francisco trace
570-KLAC Los Angeles
580-KMJ Fresno
590-KTIE San Bernardino
600-KOGO San Diego, barely
610-KAVL Lancaster
620-KIGS Hanford trace
630-IBOC
640-KFI Los Angeles
650-IBOC
660-KWVE Oildale
670-KIRN Los Angeles
680-KNBR San Francisco
690-XEWW Tijuana
700-weak carrier on CW mode
710-KSPN Los Angeles
720-KDWN Las Vegas
730-(too much IBOC for XEEBC)
740-KCBS San Francisco and KBRT Catalina Island
750-trace (KHWG?)
760-KFMB San Diego
770-trace, maybe KCBC
780-
790-KABC Los Angeles + XESU Mexicali
800-KBFP Bakersfield
810-trace of KGO
820-
830-KLAA Orange
840-KXNT North Las Vegas
850-XEZF Mexicali
860-XEMO Tijuana threshold
870-KRLA Glendale + KLSQ Whitney
880-trace (KKMC?)
890-trace (KDXU? TIS? Who?)
900-KALI West Covina + unid (KBIF?)
910-KRAK Hesperia
920-KPSI Palm Springs + unid (KVEC?)
930-KHJ Los Angeles
940-KYNO Fresno
950-XEKAM Tijuana
960-KIXW Apple Valley
970-KHTY Bakersfield
980-KFWB Los Angeles
990-XECL Mexicali
1000-trace of KCEO Vista
1010-KCHJ Delano
1020-KTNQ Los Angeles
1030-XESDD Tijuana trace
1040-
1050-KCAA Loma Linda + XED Mexicali
1060-
1070-KNX Los Angeles
1080-
1090-XEPRS Tijuana
1100-KAFY Bakersfield + another station, maybe KWWN
1110-KDIS Los Angeles
1120-
1130-KSDO San Diego + trace under (KRDU maybe)
1140-KNWQ Palm Springs + KYDZ Las Vegas
1150-KTLK Los Angeles trace
1160-
1170-
1180-KERN Bakersfield
1190-KXMX Anaheim trace
1200-
1210-two traces, likely KQEQ and KPRZ
1220-trace (either KWKU or KHTS)
1230-KSZL Barstow
1240-KLOA Ridgecrest (local)
1250-
1260-KMZT Los Angeles
1270-KJUG Tulare trace
1280-KFRN Los Angeles + another station, maybe KDOX trace
1290-KKDD San Bernardino
1300-
1310-KIQQ Barstow
1320-
1330-KWKW Los Angeles
1340-KTPI Mojave
1350-KTDD San Bernardino + KLHC Bakersfield
1360-mess
1370-KWRM Corona, CA + unid
1380-KOSS Lancaster
1390-KLTX Long Beach
1400-mess
1410-trace
1420-
1430-KMRB San Gabriel
1440-
1450-KTIP Porterville
1460-KTYM Inglewood
1470-KUTY Palmdale
1480-
1490-KWAC Bakersfield likely
1500-
1510-KSPA San Bernardino
1520-KVTA Port Hueneme
1530-
1540-KMPC Los Angeles
1550-KWRN Apple Valley
1560-KNZR Bakersfield
1570-KPRO Riverside
1580-KBLA Santa Monica
1590-KRSX Victorville
1600-KAHZ Pomona + CCI
1610-
1620-KSMH West Sacramento trace
1630-XEUT Tijuana threshold
1640-
1650-KFOX Torrance
1660-KTIQ Merced threshold
1670-KHPY Moreno Valley
1680-KGED Fresno
1690-threshold
1700-XEPE Tijuana

-crainbebo
 
Wow. KNBR, KCBS, and KGO.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was a groundwave with the good conductivity out there.

BTW, how do you set that particular kind of tuner so you can get on to the AM band?

I click 'AM' but the frequency in the window doesn't change.
 
Are you the only user? You have to dial up the frequency first. Type in (.540) for 540 AM, (1.100) for 1100 AM, etc. Are you on there right now? I can help you out!

-crainbebo
 
I messed around with that Ridgecrest tuner one night over the summer out of curiosity, and did manage to get KOMO 1000 in.
 
My comments on a few ...

"530-trace of a TIS (but WHERE? Maybe pianoplayer88key can help me out here...)" I'd have to listen in the middle of the day, and I'm not always on then. (I wonder if there's any possibility of the LAX airport breaking through? They play a some music bumpers, and run 100 watts. I can hear them in El Cajon, CA, with a setup that I'm guessing isn't quite as good as Token's, with some difficulty.)
"620-KIGS Hanford trace" Are you sure it's not XESS from between Rosarito and Ensenada? According to Radio-Locator, KIGS is off the air. I believe (contrary to what the FCC and R-L say) that XESS runs 5 kW omni fulltime.
"660-KWVE Oildale" A couple decades ago I used to be able to very faintly hear a trace of this in El Cajon when it was KGDP in Orcutt (near Santa Maria).
"670-KIRN Los Angeles" is actually licensed to Simi Valley.
"680-KNBR San Francisco" Nice. I've occasionally heard this in El Cajon around midday using one of my Tecsuns and the Select-A-Tenna, even though 77kW 690 XEWW is just 32 miles S/SW of me.
"700-weak carrier on CW mode" Could this possibly be KALL North Salt Lake City, UT? I've faintly heard them in El Cajon around midday, even with XEWW just 32 miles in the opposite direction. (Looking at the Radio-Locator maps, though, the more likely station appears to be KMBX in Soledad, CA.)
"730-(too much IBOC for XEEBC)" I'd be a bit surprised if XEEBC would make it up there anyway. They're quite weak here in El Cajon, and I'm located where I can null KBRT's IBOC and still get near-max signal from XEEBC.
"740-KCBS San Francisco and KBRT Catalina Island" KBRT is licensed to Avalon (which is on Catalina).
"790-KABC Los Angeles + XESU Mexicali" XESU makes it all the way up there? It's just barely audible under KABC here in El Cajon, requiring at least a Select-A-Tenna or GE Superadio 3 to manage anything more than a carrier. I wonder if it's the good ground conductivity in the Imperial Valley? (although the Coachella Valley just NW of Salton Sea, according to David Eduardo, is terrible. Speaking of which, in case David reads this thread - a hypothetical question... if a frequency below 600 kHz was available for K-News (or whatever news/talk station) to have 50 kW into an omni-directional antenna with an efficiency of 512 mV/m @ 1 km for 1 kW (which would work out to 3620 mV/m @ 1 km for 50 kW), would it cover the entire Coachella Valley area with a local-grade signal (10 or 15 mV/m or better)? Or is the conductivity really *that* bad so it wouldn't?)
"990-XECL Mexicali" Another Mexicali that gets out farther than I'd expect. It's definitely stronger here in El Cajon than XESU, though. KTMS Santa Barbara can be heard under it with the right setup, though.
"1050-KCAA Loma Linda + XED Mexicali" Interesting how XED is heard PAST where KCAA's local area is supposed to be.
"1110-KDIS Los Angeles" KDIS is actually licensed to Pasadena. I frequently listen to this station, and even have a preset on my Sony SRF-M37W, in spite of 10 kW 1130 KSDO being only 6.3 miles north of me.
"1140-KNWQ Palm Springs + KYDZ Las Vegas" KYDZ is actually licensed to North Las Vegas. I occasionally listen to this one at night, although splatter from KSDO is often a serious problem especially when the pest is playing music.
"1280-KFRN Los Angeles + another station, maybe KDOX trace" KFRN seems to get out to the desert quite well for being only 1 kW in Long Beach (south of L.A.)
"1390-KLTX Long Beach" Was it all KLTX? (Would be the same programming as 1130 KSDO.) Or was there any chance of 5 kW omnidirectional co-channel XEKT Tecate breaking through?
"1410-trace" I think the likely ones would be KERI Bakersfield (religious) or KCAL Redlands (spanish).
"1510-KSPA San Bernardino" This one's licensed to Chino. It can be faintly heard here with a good setup.
 
pianoplayer88key said:
My comments on a few ...

"530-trace of a TIS (but WHERE? Maybe pianoplayer88key can help me out here...)" I'd have to listen in the middle of the day, and I'm not always on then. (I wonder if there's any possibility of the LAX airport breaking through? They play a some music bumpers, and run 100 watts. I can hear them in El Cajon, CA, with a setup that I'm guessing isn't quite as good as Token's, with some difficulty.)

"700-weak carrier on CW mode" Could this possibly be KALL North Salt Lake City, UT? I've faintly heard them in El Cajon around midday, even with XEWW just 32 miles in the opposite direction. (Looking at the Radio-Locator maps, though, the more likely station appears to be KMBX in Soledad, CA.)

"790-KABC Los Angeles + XESU Mexicali" XESU makes it all the way up there? It's just barely audible under KABC here in El Cajon, requiring at least a Select-A-Tenna or GE Superadio 3 to manage anything more than a carrier. I wonder if it's the good ground conductivity in the Imperial Valley? (although the Coachella Valley just NW of Salton Sea, according to David Eduardo, is terrible. Speaking of which, in case David reads this thread - a hypothetical question... if a frequency below 600 kHz was available for K-News (or whatever news/talk station) to have 50 kW into an omni-directional antenna with an efficiency of 512 mV/m @ 1 km for 1 kW (which would work out to 3620 mV/m @ 1 km for 50 kW), would it cover the entire Coachella Valley area with a local-grade signal (10 or 15 mV/m or better)? Or is the conductivity really *that* bad so it wouldn't?)

"1390-KLTX Long Beach" Was it all KLTX? (Would be the same programming as 1130 KSDO.) Or was there any chance of 5 kW omnidirectional co-channel XEKT Tecate breaking through?
"1410-trace" I think the likely ones would be KERI Bakersfield (religious) or KCAL Redlands (spanish).
Click to expand...

530-could hear a voice but it was too weak in AM. Could only hear in USB, couldn't decipher any words.
700-carrier only, no voices. I could not decipher who it was.
790-I heard SS under KABC. I don't think anyone in CA has SS on 790, so it was Mexico.
1390-KLTX was the only one heard.
1410-I wanted KCAL, but only got a trace.

-crainbebo
 
swhyde1980 said:
I messed around with that Ridgecrest tuner one night over the summer out of curiosity, and did manage to get KOMO 1000 in.
Click to expand...

Tonight KOMO came in like a local around 5:30, about 30 min before sunset. Sounded like I was a couple of hundred miles from Seattle, actually...

-crainbebo
 
Crainbebo, I went to use the receiver today and the white box was blank, so I thought I was the only one there. Then I entered a frequency and then your name was there.

I guess you were already there first but I didn't see you until I started tuning so I left to let you use the receiver.

Sorry about that.
 
I was already there, monitoring the CQWW ham radio contest. 15 and 10 meters are open to South America, Europe and parts of Africa.

ALSO LOGGED TODAY (11:55-12:10PM PT)
700 music which is likely KMBX Soledad and not KALL SLC
750 KHWG Fallon, NV very poor. Received a full ID last night close to 1AM here in WA.
1220 was KHTS Canyon Country and not KWKU.
1410 ended up being KCAL Redlands.
1480 was new to the daytime log, KVNR Santa Ana with ethnic programs.

-crainbebo
 
Crainbebo....

On my drive up I-15 from Hesperia to Las Vegas in September, I had KCBQ on 1170 for about 20 minutes at the beginning of the journey before it faded. This was around 8:30 a.m. PDT, so I suppose it could've been skywave. Still, I would have expected you might hear it on a global tuners rig. Although, that said, I've noticed them seemingly on their night pattern during daylight hours on past So-Cal trips. My guess is their day pattern might be a little difficult to maintain.

I also think your 620 might have been XESS. 620 during the daytime used to be pretty empty on my travels to that area, but within the past few years, XESS has been easily audible daytime over a fairly wide area. Something of a pest to be blunt about it. So the assumption they're at 5kw makes sense to me.
 
Deciding to do another daytime scan, almost a year later. Antenna has changed, used to be a triple band dipole/80M loop - now a Wellbrook ALA1530S beaming NE/SW. Added at the request of several AM DXers.

530 - UNID TIS S0/1
540 - XESURF S4
550 - KUZZ S9+10
560 - KSFO? S5 but full of slop
570 - KLAC S9+15
580 - noise, but likely KMJ way under
590 - KTIE S9+20
600 - KOGO S8 slop
610 - KAVL S9+40
620 - KIGS S9
620 - unid under (XESS?)
630 - IBOC hash S9
640 - KFI S9+30
650 - IBOC hash S9
650 - UNID way under
660 - KWVE S9+20
670 - KIRN S9; KMZQ S9
680 - KNBR S9
690 - XEWW S9+20
700 - UNID in slop (could be KMBX)
710 - KSPN S9+25
720 - KDWN S9+15
730 - IBOC S9
740 - KBRT S9+20
740 - KCBS S2/3 way under
750 - UNID S1/2 under noise (Fallon NV?)
760 - KFMB S9
770 - KCBC? S4 noisy
780 - weak signal S0
790 - KABC S9+20
790 - XESU S6
800 - KBFP S9
810 - KGO S5
820 -
830 - KLAA S9+25
840 - KXNT S9
850 - XEZF S8
860 - XEMO S8
870 - KRLA S9+20
880 -
890 - KLFF S5
900 - KALI S8
900 - UNID under S2 (KBIF?)
910 - KRAK S9+20
920 - KPSI S9
920 - UNID either KVEC or KBAD S5
930 - KHJ S9+10
940 - KYNO S9+10
950 - XEKAM S9+5
960 - KIXW S9+20
970 - KNWQ/KHTY/KNIH? All S6-8 mix
980 - KFWB S9
990 - XECL S8
1000 - KCEO S5
1010 - KCHJ S8
1020 - KTNQ varying S7-9
1030 - XESDD S3
1040 - UNID S1
1050 - KCAA S9+20
1050 - XED S6 under
1060 - IBOC S6
1060 - UNID way under (KKVV?)
1070 - KNX S9+10
1080 - IBOC S6
1090 - XEPRS S7
1100 - KAFY S7
1100 - KWWN S5 under
1110 - KDIS S3/4
1120 -
1130 - KSDO S3
1140 - UNID (s) S6 noisy
1150 - interference from local 1240
1160 -
1170 - KCBQ S4
1180 - KERN S6
1190 - KXMX S4
1200 - KPSF? S1
1210 - KPRZ/KQEQ S2
1220 - KHTS S5
1220 - UNID under (KWKU?)
1230 - slop
1240 - KLOA S9+45
1250 - bits of UNID u/ slop S2
1260 - KMZT S8
1270 - KFUT S1
1280 - KFRN S3
1280 - KQLL under S2
1290 - KKDD S4
1300 -
1310 - KIQQ S9+5
1320 - IBOC S2
1330 - KWKW S5
1340 - KTPI S9+5
1350 - slop
1360 - KWDJ S9+50
1370 -
1380 - KOSS S9
1390 - KLTX S3
1400 - unids S1/2
1410 - KCAL? S1
1420 -
1430 - KMRB S9
1440 - UNID under slop
1450 - KQTE S9
1460 - KTYM S4 (or KENO)
1470 - KUTY S9
1480 - KVNR? S2
1490 - UNIDs S2/3 (likely San Bernardino and Bakersfield)
1500 -
1510 - KSPA S9
1520 - KUNX? S1
1530 -
1540 - KMPC S3
1550 - KWRN S9+10
1560 - KNZR S7
1570 - KPRO S6
1580 - KBLA S5
1580 - UNID under S1 (KMIK?)
1590 - KVTR S7
1600 - KAHZ S7
1600 - UNID under S1
1610 - UNID TIS S1/2
1620 - KSMH S2
1630 - XEUT S5
1640 -
1650 - KFOX S5
1660 - KTIQ? S1
1670 - KHPY S7
1680 - KGED S6
1690 - KFSG S1/2
1700 - XEPE S3

-crainbebo
 
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