What do you get on the X-Band around sunset?

[Buckeyes2001]

Was checking out the X-Band channels today (1-8-12) around 4PM in Vermilion, OH and heard:
1610 - 1630 Weak unid station(s)
1640 - Sports station with the Steelers vs. Broncos game
1650 - WHKT/Portsmouth, VA with Progressive Talk.
1660 - Mix of unid stations
1670 - WPLA/Dry Branch, GA with Fox Sports Radio for middle Georgia
1680 - Mix of stations with a sports station on top
1690 - Heard a mix of stations with one of them playing what sounded like an 80s Spanish song.
1700 - Heard a weak religious station with a gospel preacher
1710 - Nothing

 

[crainbebo]

Usually at sunset it's like this

1610-weak TIS muck
1620-KYIZ Renton, WA (local)
1630-
1640-KDZR Lake Oswego, OR; however KDIA Vallejo also skips in
1650-
1660-KXOL Brigham City, UT (did hear it once around 1pm in the afternoon)
1670-KNRO Redding usually weak
1680-KNTS Seattle
1690-KFSG Roseville, CA
1700-usually not much, at twilight I get XEPE Tijuana, BCN

-crainbebo

 

[gar hi]

1610 - Tampa Airport TIS
1620 - Cuba with WNRP Gulf Breeze, Fl in the background
1630 - WRDW Augusta, Ga weak fluttering
1640 - WTNI Biloxi, Miss weak but audible
1650 - weak slop
1660 - WCNZ Marco Island strong
1670 - WPLA Dry Branch, Ga fair
1680 - WOKB Winter Garden fair / Another station in the background too
1690 - Traffic TIS weak
1700 - WJCC Miami Springs pretty good signal WEUP HUntsville, Al in the background No sign at all yet of KVNS which is a regular at night

 

[Icangelp]

SW Ohio
These are my usuals, and some are more usual than others, this time of year...
1610 - CHHA Toronto
1620 - WDND South Bend
1630 - WRDW Augusta GA then,
1630 - KCJJ Iowa City, IA
1640 - Usually a mix of stations battling it out.
1650 - A mix, with WCNZ Cedar Falls IA often on top.
1660 - WQLR Kalamazoo MI
1670 - WPLA Dry Branch (Macon) GA
1680 - WPRR ADA (Grand Rapids) MI
1690 - WVON Berwyn (Chicago) IL
1700 - WEUP Huntsville AL

I'll do a little drive-time DX from my car tonight.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

These are very strong between 5:00 PM and 5:45 PM EST when they are still on 10000 watts day power in SE Michigan. East Coast and other stations to the east are lost with 1000 watts night power, so the Desired/Undesired Interference Ratio is quite high during this period.

1620 WDND South Bend, IN (Simucasts 92.9, U-93, WNDV)
1640 WKSH Sussex, WI (Radio Disney)
1660 WQLR Kalamazoo MI
1670 WTDY Madison, WI
1680 WPRR Ada-Grand Rapids, MI
1690 WVON Berwyn-Chicago, IL

 

[borderblaster]

From Knoxville TN this evening, the X band was pretty active between 4:45 and 5:30pm in the car

1610 CHHA Toronto more than likely, Heard what I thought was a muddy audioed French announcer, then Spanish on a retune
1620 TN Dept of Transportation TIS
1630 KCJJ
1640 Spanish`
1650 nothing identified
1660 America's Talk 1660 Charlotte NC w/ Hannity
1670 WTDY Madison WI, Smercomish show
1680 WOKB Orlando
1690 WVON Chicago area among others, have heard the Atlanta area station at other times here.
1700 image/spur/harmonic from 850 WKVL Knoxville

 

[Icangelp]

Anybody know which station of 1690 would carry Mark Levin? I was hearing him around maybe around 8:00 PM.

 

[borderblaster]

If you're in the east it might be WPTX in Leonard Park MD

 

[Icangelp]

If you're in the east it might be WPTX in Leonard Park MD

I'm in sw Ohio, but the Levin site doesn't show WPTX as an affiliate, though it does seem to be the logical station.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

I was listening to 1690 this morning around local sunrise and heard WVON/Chicago mixing with a Spanish station. Searching radio-locator only shows a Spanish 1690 station in Roseville, CA. Anyone know of any other Spanish stations on 1690? I have been hearing it consistently around sunrise and sunset.

 

[mimo]

From Ottawa Canada.

1610 Both CHHA and CJWI
1620 empty
1630 sometimes KCJJ but usually the local airport info station or nothing.
1640 WKSH sometimes but usually empty
1650 CINA, CJRS and KCNZ (from strongest to weekest.)
1660 WWRU
1670 CJEU *local*
1680 WTTM
1690 CJLO and CHTO
1700 empty.

 

[LibertyNT]

From McKinney, TX just north of Dallas
1610 Nothing
1620 Surprisingly nothing but Jumble. Likely WTAW
1630 Dallas, TX
1640 Oklahoma
1650 El Paso/Arkansas
1660 Waco/Kansas City
1670 NOAA Weather
1680 Louisiana
1690 Chicago
1700 KKLF with KVNS solidly underneath.
(KKLF can be nulled and comfortably listen to KVNS)

 

[jd]

You might want to check 1650 again. The Fort Smith station (KYHN) went silent a few years ago due to flooding issues. CC applied for a silent STA at the time, then filed replacement STA requests due to "financial" reasons. They subsequently attempted to sell it to a minority buyer, but at last report the deal was not consummated and the station remains silent ("licensed and silent" in FCC records). KWHN continues to operate on 1320.

 

[LibertyNT]

You might want to check 1650 again. The Fort Smith station (KYHN) went silent a few years ago due to flooding issues. CC applied for a silent STA at the time, then filed replacement STA requests due to "financial" reasons. They subsequently attempted to sell it to a minority buyer, but at last report the deal was not consummated and the station remains silent ("licensed and silent" in FCC records). KWHN continues to operate on 1320.

There was a brief time when they were back on. Unless theres another Talker on 1650

 

[crainbebo]

There's WHKT in Portsmouth, VA which is talk, but it's nearly 1200 miles away from you.

-crainbebo

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

1610 nothing
1620 nothing
1630 TIS from Northern VA Comm. College Manassas Campus
1640 Usually nothing
1650 WHKT
1660 WWRU
1670 TIS from an air and space museum
1680 WTTM in NJ
1690 nothing until Toronto/Montreal appears
1700 nothing

 

[Icangelp]

I was listening to 1690 this morning around local sunrise and heard WVON/Chicago mixing with a Spanish station. Searching radio-locator only shows a Spanish 1690 station in Roseville, CA. Anyone know of any other Spanish stations on 1690? I have been hearing it consistently around sunrise and sunset.

I don't, other than perhaps Toronto has brokered some of its morning time.

There is/was a station in Argentina on 1692, and as you are no doubt aware, an application for a new station on St. Thomas VI.

 

[ddsparxx]

A correction is needed--the TIS from the museum is on 1660 (along with WWRU), not 1670.