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What do you think you could get if you were...

1110 kHz in Manistee, MI:

Being right on the shores of Lake Michigan, I would think WMBI would come in there along with WJML/Petosky and WUNN/Mason, MI depending on antenna loop orientation and with a big enough loop and good receiver. Going inland 5 or 10 miles may cause WMBI to disappear. Critical hours you'd probably also have WBT near Charlotte's sunset and KFAB around local sunrise with KFAB likely dominating at night but with varying amounts of IBOC hash from KMOX 1120. WTAM doesn't use IBOC anymore but you could get some slight non-IBOC slop from them at night.
 
For 1110 kHz in Manistee, MI …

Daytime I guess WJML is audible, but weak. A more sensitive radio may bring in an ultra-faint WMBI way underneath, but I doubt it'd be more than a pulsating-hiss-effect carrier.

Nighttime looks kinda like no-mans-land, but while both KFAB & WBT may be heard sometimes, I'm guessing WBT would be more likely to rise above the muck.

Early evening I'd expect KFAB with a fair signal, & early morning should bring in WBT, while they're on respective day patterns.
I'm wondering if there's any possibility that between KFAB sunset and L.A. sunset, OR for a few min after L.A. sunrise, KDIS may occasionally be audible in the mix?
 
KLTX Long Beach, CA is possible out there at Pacific Beach (no-not the one in WA, the one near San Diego). Thinking KLOC would also make it at nighttime there.

-crainbebo
 
Agree. In fact, I think I've heard the Long Beach 1390 in that area....but it would've been years ago.
 
1390 kHz in Pacific Beach, CA:

During the day, KLTX should be the dominant signal especially right along the immediate shore. Nighttime, I'd expect a mix of KLTX, XEQC, and maybe KLOC (when the others are nulled). - with KLTX usually on top. KLOC may be more likely to appear under KLTX perhaps along with XEQC at critical hours since their nighttime pattern doesn't appear to favor Pacific Beach.
 
Well ... seems that you DXers are forgetting something, or are unaware. ;)

Here's 1390 on the Sony SRF-59 at Pacific Beach at about 1:52pm a couple days before Christmas 2011. (It's pretty much the same in June - it just happened to be December when I had an opportunity to record that.)

And ... this is 1390's near-TOH ID on the Coby CX-83 a couple miles south of El Cajon at my house at about 3:50pm one day in July 2011.

Seems that the FCC and Radio-Locator mention this other station as being on the wrong frequency - 1380. Could that be why you guys missed it? It is correctly listed as on 1390 on mwlist.org though.


Speaking of mid-day co-channel interference ... I wonder if it's possible with a good radio & antenna, at noon in June, to have XEROK Ciudad Juárez, CH, and CKLW Windsor, ON, battling each other (like in my 1390 at Pacific Beach recording) on 800 at Fairfield Park just SE of US-135 and I-435 in Kansas City, MO, with no trace of splatter at all from any adjacent-channel stations that may be present on the dial there?

(No, I'm not doing 800 in Kansas City as the next round. I got an idea of what my next round contribution will be, but I'll give someone else a chance, hopefully after a couple more 1390 Pacific Beach posts. :) )
 
The 1380 in Tecate moved a number of years ago to 1390 but the move was never approved by the FCC so the FCC data base will continue to list it as 1380. Moves in the "border zone" by either side must be cleared by both contries but Mexico has OK'd a number of them in the past on it's own. A San Diego area chief engineer mentioned on post a couple of years ago the Tecate 1380 was suffering a beating from the 1380 in Parker, Az. so decided to move to 1390. A report also indicated it is now similcasting on an FM so maybe the AM will be vacated soon (?)
 
Daytime probably nothing, but maybe a weak KRVN Lexington, NE. Nighttime I'd say WCBS most of the time. WCBS would probably boom in there relatively often. You could hear CKLQ Brandon, Manitoba sometimes too. I doubt that you'd hear KRVN as most of its night signal seems to be nulled in that direction to protect WCBS.
 
I should add that I'm kind of cheating since I live about 110 miles ENE of there. But that distance could make a significant difference.
 
WCBS would certainly get in at night and I imagine KRVN would make it during critical hours. Don't know if WIJR would get in during critical hours.
WMEQ should creep in during the day--I think.
 
Good call on WMEQ -- I think it might be there during critical hours. I've heard it during critical hours in eastern Iowa, which is about due south from it, but I haven't heard it in the daytime. In central Iowa, maybe.
 
Daytime, I'd guess KRVN would be weak but audible on a fairly good radio like a Tecsun. (A Sony SRF-59 or Sangean DT-400W or similar *MAY* also be able to very faintly hear KRVN.) A GE Superradio II/III or Sangean PR-D5 (or the smaller radios with a Select-A-Tenna) may also bring in WMEQ behind KRVN.

Critical Hours, I'd expect KRVN to own the frequency.

Nighttime, KRVN would disappear, and I'd expect WCBS to be most likely on top, but not particularly strong. WMEQ may waft in now and then, as well.

I didn't look at Canadian or Mexican station data.

Now ... Buckeyes2001, is this, per chance, one of those similar to the ones I've done previously, where reality is different than what we'd think from looking at the online data? ;) Examples -- Round 4, 910, Cameron Corners, CA - XEAO is way on top of KECR daytime but most guessed KECR on top. Round 5, 1290, Jamul, CA - KZSB on top daytime instead of KKDD, in spite of 2x distance and 1/13th-1/14th power, due to saltwater path for KZSB. Round 8, 1390, Pacific Beach, CA - XEKT and KLTX are about equal strength, each practically strong enough to stop a scan on a radio equipped with that. (the SRF-59 I recorded the audio clip on doesn't have that function though.) XEKT is incorrectly listed on 1380 on FCC & Radio-Locator.
 
pianoplayer88key said:
Now ... Buckeyes2001, is this, per chance, one of those similar to the ones I've done previously, where reality is different than what we'd think from looking at the online data? ;)
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Yes, to some extent, I was getting something I wasn't expecting but it could have just been the conditions on that particular day :)
 
For 880 in Iowa? Probably a weak Nebraska in the day, and WCBS at night. Like radioman148 said, WIJR might make it in before they go off at sunset. I'm also interested if CKLQ makes it in.

-crainbebo
 
So am I the only one ready to see the next round posted? :)

I'd post one myself, but I'm waiting on Buckeyes2001 to 'fess up to his catch of a part 15-equivalent station from the southern tip of Chile, or maybe hearing a cell conversation due to being next to their antenna ... or what was it? :) Maybe Alaska or Hawaii?
 
Time for me to fess up with my results for 880 kHz in Altoona, IA :p

During the day on my car radio it was nothing but a faint KRVN...just enough to be able to ID it. Closer to local sunset, within an hour or so, KRVN is in much stronger, almost local sounding. At night once KRVN switches patterns, they do indeed disappear and a listenable signal from WCBS is there but there was also a weak signal underneath WCBS. I couldn't ID it or even get enough of it to discern what their program content included but maybe it was a drifty CKLQ and CKLQ did show up in the morning critical hours along with KRVN once they switched back to their 50 kW day pattern. KRVN and CKLQ gradually got fainter as it got lighter out until it was just a faint KRVN :) I was surprised how strong KRVN was coming in even an hour before Altoona sunset or about 90 minutes before Lexington, NE sunset. So, most of you guessed it pretty much right on...just have to add the mystery signal at night under WCBS.
 
710 kHz in Charleston, SC:

During the day, there's WPOG/St. Matthews, SC with 1kW days only that I'm guessing would be the dominant signal if you were inland a few miles from the coast. I would think WAQI from Miami could make it in over that all-saltwater path between Miami and Charleston on the coast and cover up WPOG with the antenna positioned right. Cuba possibly in there too especially on winter days. A good winter daytime skywave might allow WUFF and WEGG both of which may also show up at critical hours. Nights, I would expect Miami and the Cuban stations to fight it out and dominate over WOR being that far south. Seems that from Charleston, nulling WAQI would also null WOR.

charlestondxman can tell us after some posts how close or far off the mark we are here with this one :)
 
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