UNKNOWN STATION - PLEASE HELP ME ID

[Rob]

I'm hearing 1700 oldies. ID's with a K. I think it's Idaho but I'm not sure. I also hear talk radio on that frequency.
Can anyone ID that station?

That comes in stronger then radio disney 1650 which is odd...

-Rob

 

[BRNout]

Probably KVNS Brownsville, TX. They have an oldies format and a signal that really travels. I've heard them in Costa Rica at night.

The talk could be KBGG from Des Moines, Iowa. They have a sports talk format.

 

[gar hi]

Where are you, robfwb?

Even with the south Florida station on 1700 near by (180 mi), KVNS often booms in real good here and rules the frequency at times.

 

[vibe]

to echo gar-AM 1700 Brownsville really gets out many nites and easily reaches SW Fla (about 900-1000 mi ) and overpowers the Miami 1700 from about 130 mi away.
I sometimes dx at the Beach and get x-banders 1000+ mi on many a late afternoon particularly at this time of year.
Brownsville (KVNS?) 1700 is more than likely your catch..

 

[gar hi]

I've wondered that if, with good enough equipment, KVNS could be heard at our Gulf beaches mid day via ground wave.

The times I was doing DXing out at the Gulf, 1700 wasn't empty but also had nothing I could hear good enough to identify.

There was something there and it was like a fluttering sound you'd hear sometimes when two distant stations are on the same frequency.

 

[BRNout]

I've wondered that if, with good enough equipment, KVNS could be heard at our Gulf beaches mid day via ground wave.

The times I was doing DXing out at the Gulf, 1700 wasn't empty but also had nothing I could hear good enough to identify.

There was something there and it was like a fluttering sound you'd hear sometimes when two distant stations are on the same frequency.

That would be interesting to know. A signal at a high frequency like 1700 wouldn't have a great groundwave signal, I wouldn't think.

 

[stonecold49]

Not sure of 1700 (actually do not venture that far up on the AM dial)however, I am in NW FLA and driving
to and from work today along Choctawhatchee Bay (Between Niceville and Freeport on SR 20) I picked up
a fairly strong AM signal at 1210KHZ playing legend country, i.e. Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, etc.
Wonder where the signal is coming from? First time ever heard music at that frequency since most are talkers
(except WDIZ 590AM Panama City,FL (5kw) and WSM (650 AM Nashville). Any ideas?

 

[gar hi]

I've wondered that if, with good enough equipment, KVNS could be heard at our Gulf beaches mid day via ground wave.

The times I was doing DXing out at the Gulf, 1700 wasn't empty but also had nothing I could hear good enough to identify.

There was something there and it was like a fluttering sound you'd hear sometimes when two distant stations are on the same frequency.

That would be interesting to know. A signal at a high frequency like 1700 wouldn't have a great groundwave signal, I wouldn't think.

That's what I would think but the frequency is also wide open too.

 

[crainbebo]

Your 1210 is probably WDGR Dahlonega, GA. 10,000 watts day, 2500 watts critical hours, known as "Pure Gold AM 1210".

-crainbebo

 

[boiseengineer]

No 1700 in Idaho. May have been an allocation in the beginning but never built. In fact no expanded band stations around this state since Blackfoot shut theirs down and kept 690 going.

 

[ALRocker]

KVNS is heard in the United Kingdom on a regular basis. I've heard it on a remotely controlled radio almost every time I've tried. Someone told me it's been heard in Germany, also.

 

[schmave]

1700 sounds like a local in Houston every night, so I would guess that's what you're hearing in Florida. I pointed out in my wish list that I am hoping to hear it here in Ohio sometime ... like the format. Up here, it's pretty much all Des Moines.
As far as the Gulf, its daytime signal gets into Galveston very well across the water. Can't speak for how much farther east it'd go, though.

 

[gar hi]

Here's video of someone getting it in Scotland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwRJc2fsauY