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Very Rare DX Catches in Lubbock tonight (caught on video)!

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EggsOverEasy87

Thought you guys might enjoy this. Id'd last night in my car. KZII was silent last night for unknown reasons. This really opened up some rare catches!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbvuLX9JcNg

97.5 KWTX Waco
102.9 KDMX Fort Worth - Dallas
96.7 WBAP Flower Mound - Fort Worth - Dallas
UNKNOWN Spanish station on 93.3. I got a scrambled RDS readout and googled what I could but came up empty handed. Might possibly be 93.3 in Houston! If anyone can help me out, let me know.
102.3 KWFS Wichita Falls
102.5 KBRQ Hillsboro - Waco
103.7 KHJK La Porte - Houston
102.5 XHRR - Reynosa, Mexico (McAllen, TX) (I caught an ID of La Ley 102.5...ID is not captured on camera but I went ahead and recorded a 10 second clip. Better than nothing.)

ENJOY! More videos will come as the DX season continues!
 
If you listen to the guy on 93.3 taking the phone call from the female listener, he ends the conversation with her by saying and now back to the music here on "Que Buena 93.3". That would be KQBU in Port Arthur, Texas. Nice catches. You'd love radio in Corpus Christi right now. I'm picking up just about every 100KW station in San Antonio, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley right now. Plus all the other towns in between and even some from Mexico like XHAAA La Caliente 93.1 in Reynosa, TA, Mexico. Most of those broadcasting in HD will lock a solid HD signal in my car. Only problem is that all this tropo plays havoc on the lower power station around here. It's really bad.
 
Infamous said:
If you listen to the guy on 93.3 taking the phone call from the female listener, he ends the conversation with her by saying and now back to the music here on "Que Buena 93.3". That would be KQBU in Port Arthur, Texas. Nice catches. You'd love radio in Corpus Christi right now. I'm picking up just about every 100KW station in San Antonio, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley right now. Plus all the other towns in between and even some from Mexico like XHAAA La Caliente 93.1 in Reynosa, TA, Mexico. Most of those broadcasting in HD will lock a solid HD signal in my car. Only problem is that all this tropo plays havoc on the lower power station around here. It's really bad.
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I figured it was 93.3 out of Houston. The thing that confused me was the RDS saying "Fresco."

I'd love to be DXing down at the gulf. However, there is an advantage up here. There are no HD signals, so IBOC hiss doesn't exist. I have been up here for awhile. Catching Houston and 102.5 out of Reynosa/McAllen is a first for me...very rare
 
I noticed on one trip to Houston that 104.9 had sold its RDS to Lowes Home Improvement stores. No station ID or program info, just a scroll about Lowes. Anything for a buck I guess.
 
I never understood why I could pull in KKHA over KYKM out in southern lavaca county all the time. I'm only about 13 miles southeastern of the tower of KYKM also. strange.
 
The RDS display you got from 93.3 actually should read out "Come Fresca". It is an advertisement for Subway, I believe. This has become standard practice on all the Univision stations serving Houston. If you ever log Spanish music on 106.5, 102.9, or 104.9 with an advertisement like this, you've got KOVE/Galveston, KLTN/Houston and KPTY/Deer Park respectively. You've actually logged a bit more distance than you think. KQBU is not a Houston station, it is an eastern rimshot from the Devers stick licensed to Port Arthur. Add another 50 miles onto the signal's journey up to Lubbock. Nice catch.

Fred, I've seen the RDS for 104.9 and it does have a station ID of "Tu Musica - 104.9FM" in the scroll, but you are right. It's easy money.
 
purpledevil said:
KQBU is not a Houston station, it is an eastern rimshot from the Devers stick licensed to Port Arthur. Add another 50 miles onto the signal's journey up to Lubbock. Nice catch.
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I've been up here for awhile now. I have never caught a Houston station. 103.7 was the biggest surprise. There is a 103.7 nearby in Eastern New Mexico that I hear all the time. There's another rimshot 103.7 in Abilene that I also hear quite a bit. And there is Lite 103.7 in Dallas, that I have only heard once or twice up here. Hearing the Houston area was a first.

But, I suppose anything is possible. Last year, tropo brought arkansas into town. Another time, it brought in Missouri. And of course we can't forget the lucky catches on 102.5 because Kiss FM was silent!
 
Great stuff eggs!!

That puts my catching KMJQ 102.1 (Houston) in Hillsboro (even though KDGE 102.1 [Dallas] is 40 miles away) to shame.

The 103.7 is the biggest surprise, because their tower is closer to Beaumont than Houston, but yet you were still able to bring it in! Kudos!
 
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