** U S A. Hi, Glenn, Have you noticed the hole in the MW spectrum at 1000 kHz
in the wee hours? KOMO has been missing --- maybe something to do with the
economy. It is not for tests. Since I am usually asleep around 0700 UT, I do
not know when KOMO has been shitting down, but they were certainly off by 0800.
Yesterday they were still off at 1100, and I do not know when they have been
signing on in the morning. So here, now (0854 on 30 April) I have Winnipeg on
990 and Calgary on 1010 and on a very weak station in Spanish on 1000 kHz. WMVP
in Chicago is hardly audible, and I wondered why until I checked the latter's
nighttime antenna pattern:
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1170992-97761.pdf
I cannot think when I have ever seen a US AM channel open up like this for
DXing; there is a weak "graveyard" rumble but until propagation opens something
else up, only the Spanish station can be heard. 73 (Dave Walcutt, Eugene OR,
April 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
No, I certainly haven`t, as KTOK occupies 1000 here; you might hear them too. I
expect KOMO absence is very temporary for some maintenance work. Spanish is
probably XEOY in Mexico City. See if it`s // 6010. If you can get past that,
there is a 200 kW in Brasil and a 50 kW in Colombia on 1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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