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What's at 1700 AM

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Lisa_Wheeler

Friend just called me to ask if I have heard the station at 1700 AM. Apparently the station can be heard in Austin, but honestly, I can't hear a thing. He says it sounds like an old fashioned 70's Top 40 AM station. Of course, he can't tell me anything about call letters, etc...

I don't want to assume that my friend has started drinking again (joking!), but has anyone heard this station?
 
He may have been pickuping up KVNS a ''Classic Hits'' station out the Valley. It runs 8,800 watts in the daytime and may have been bouncing in for awhile after sunrise or right before sunset.
 
Yes, it's KVNS. I've heard them here in Austin before. It came on as news-talk, but buried by KURV (Edinburg), then a couple of years ago went Spanish pop 70s-90s. I don't know WHAT it's doing now. In the RGV you can barely hear it in McAllen.
 
mmnassour said:
Yes, it's KVNS. I've heard them here in Austin before.
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Interestingly I was literally on one of the international bridges in Browsville one night and heard a Spanish station on 1600 which turned out to be KOKE Pflugerville/Austin. 1600 has opened up in South Texas now that KBOR Brownsville, KQRO in Cuero annd XEAE in Cd Acuna/Del Rio have signed off.

Someone has a CP for 250 watt fulltime DA-2 just east of Laredo beaming to the west. That leaves the rest of South Texas open should KOKE come up with the money to build a new site NW of Austin and beam to the Southeast at its daytime power of 5kw, maybe even more at night.
 
KKLF in DFW also gets out quite well on 1700. It can often be heard mixing with KVNS in many parts of Central and Southeast Texas, even during the daytime.

The two stations have been heard at extremely far distances. Both have been reported by DXers in and around Perth, Australia, over 10,500 miles away.
 
mmnassour said:
Yes, it's KVNS. I've heard them here in Austin before. It came on as news-talk, but buried by KURV (Edinburg), then a couple of years ago went Spanish pop 70s-90s. I don't know WHAT it's doing now. In the RGV you can barely hear it in McAllen.
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It's on it's second round as an oldies station. The first time around it was a simulcast with KQXX-FM (105.5). Now, it's satellite oldies, although both stations are both owned by CC. The FM serves the McAllen-Mission area, while the AM serves Brownsville-Harlingen-SPI. I've heard KVNS almost like a local at night in the Houston area in the past.
 
mmnassour said:
Well, it's got one listener in Scotland........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfov68a6JOY

Maybe they should open a Glasgow sales office!
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I hope for the city of Glasgow's sake there aren't a whole community of people there who have 10 x 30 x 10 foot directional antennas with 10 foot ground rods? ;)

That video brought back memories from my youth of late nights spent in front of the receiver trying to make out call letters or the mention of a city between signal fade and static. I'm not sure that they were good memories, but it seemed like fun at the time.
 
Re: What's at 1700 AM WHAT A SIGNAL!

I live in central Mexico and am able to hear "Classic Hits 1700" almost like a local station near sunset. It has an incredible reach here in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
 
I'm telling you, it's something about that part of the country. Those little AMs down there have surprising reach, as long as they're not stepped on.
 
I picked up this station a few weeks ago here in the D/FW area right after sunset. It was coming in like a local. Had to do some internet searching to find out where it was from.
I thought at first it was just one of those fluke receptions that happen on AM occasionally where you get a lower power AM many miles away. But after reading this thread it apparantly is not a one-off reception.
 
Speaking of little AMs reaching out, I noticed that the ''little'' AM in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas is growing again. It already bumped up power from 1kw to 5kw on 1450 to provide local service to Matamoros and Brownsville. Now the FCC database says they have a CP to move to 1060 with 7kw day and 2.5kw night. They'll have a two-tower directional with one deep null to the north-northeast. I guess XEG 1050 in Monterrey isn't too worried about them.
 
I received 1700 KVNS yesterday between 1215 PM and 135 PM with a pretty strong signal on the chariot's musicbox. There was some interference, but what can one expect at high noon? Its one of the few AMers that I can receive 24/7, 365. It must be due its high frequency, since its near the beginning of the shortwave bands. I can also get 1640 sportsradio from OKC and 1630 (some religious station that I have been unable to ID yet) as well.
 
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I received 1700 KVNS yesterday between 1215 PM and 135 PM with a pretty strong signal on the chariot's musicbox. There was some interference, but what can one expect at high noon? Its one of the few AMers that I can receive 24/7, 365. It must be due its high frequency, since its near the beginning of the shortwave bands. I can also get 1640 sportsradio from OKC and 1630 (some religious station that I have been unable to ID yet) as well.
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The 1630 you make reference to may be KKGM out of Fort Worth.
 
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