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We now have a top 40 AM radio station!

gar hi

gar hi

On 1060 AM from Hilo.

It's a simulcast of 102.7 FM which has switched it's format and now plays songs from the 70's to today.

They are called 'The Beach'.

It's more fun to listen on AM.

Here's a little video I made....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJvGVhuwEWk


Topazdesigns AM station frequency guide still lists 1060 here as 'silent' but it's not.

One reason I wanted to share this is because it may be a great opportunity for those on the west coast to try pick this station up at night, as it would be so easy to identify now that they play this kind of music.
 
I will be real interesting to hear what you get.

Since there's nothing but ocean between California and Hawaii, a 5 kw non directional station should be a lot easier to hear than if it were the same distance away on the east coast.

That's assuming there aren't any closer stations on 1060 that may be too strong at night. I imagine you can hear the one from Calgary and possibly the weaker ones from Sparks, Nevada and Tempe, Arizona but maybe you can try when those stations are in a weaker cycle.

Remember to wait three hours after sunset where you are. Good luck.
 
hawaiigar said:
On 1060 AM from Hilo.
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Which brings me to the following question:
If an omni-directional station gets out many times farther in some directions than others because of varying ground conductivity,
how will that affect the station's skywave propagation?
If it goes many times as far over water as it does over land, will its skywave be equally stronger, the same, or somewhere between?
I have a theory that its skywave signal strength vs distance will vary only as much as its groundwave signal vs distance,
so if its 0.5mv/m groundwave goes 50km in one direction but 300km in another,
its skywave 0.5mv/m signals would also vary by approximately 250km...maybe?
 
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ai4i said:
Which brings me to the following question:
If an omni-directional station gets out many times farther in some directions than others because of varying ground conductivity,
how will that affect the station's skywave propagation?
If it goes ten times as far over water as it does over land, will its skywave be ten times stronger, the same, or somewhere between?
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While there are some issues with skywave at different latitudes, the simple answer is that non-directional skywave is non-directional. However, long distance AM may make many hops, so the signal may attenuate more in some directions based on terrain.
 
DavidEduardo said:
While there are some issues with skywave at different latitudes, the simple answer is that non-directional skywave is non-directional.
However, long distance AM may make many hops, so the signal may attenuate more in some directions based on terrain.
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Sorry, I edited my post before I saw your reply.
 
Thanks for giving it a try.

There is so much background noise in the place where I live.

Fortunately, there's only wilderness around here, so I've taken my radio outside and at only around 50 feet away from the house I can hear weak stations that I can't hear at all inside.

Or I can hear other stations in the background on some frequencies where I only get the strongest station on that particular frequency inside.
 
Problem with hearing any station on 1060 AM here in the Western US is IBOC hash spilling over from KNX 1070 AM Los Angeles. Here in Phoenix, AZ, I live only about 10 miles east of the KDUS AM 1060 transmitter located in Guadalupe, but the signal from KNX 1070 is so strong some nights that KDUS is unlistenable thanks to the IBOC hash. From my location, there would be no way to null it out toward Hawaii since that is the same general direction as LA. When KNX is fading and I can null out KDUS, I get a Spanish language station presumably from Mexico. No luck with pulling in the Calgary, Alberta station.

The aforementioned poster from Citrus Heights, California, though, can null out KNX and point his radio toward Hawaii so it is possible. I think if someone were right on the Pacific coast of central or Northern California, they might be able to capture it.

Thanks for the info, though. I'll be on the look-out for it!
 
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