[IRCA] WBAL 1090 testing tonight

[Scott Fybush]

Apologies for the late notice... but DXers for whom WBAL is a pest might
want to hang out on 1090 after midnight tonight.  While I was visiting
there today, their engineer said they were planning some maintenance work
tonight that might have them off the air at least briefly.

Go get 'em!

73 de SF
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Re: [IRCA] SS Religion on 920?

[Scott Fybush]

They're semi-local to me. I have never heard them in anything but 
English. There's barely any Hispanic population in that part of central 
NY, and they're a little too far from Syracuse to reach the Hispanic 
community there.


On 2/3/2019 2:39 PM, n...@lightlink.com wrote:

WYBY on 920 in Cortland NY is a religious station, but I am not sure if they 
broadcast in Spanish.


Art-N2AU






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I don't see any obvious possibilities for domestics and am not aware of any 
recent changes



Russ


From: IRCA  on behalf of David Hochfelder 

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Subject: [IRCA] SS Religion on 920?

Hi Everyone,

Trying to track down a mystery. I was on 920 last night hearing what
sounded like Pentecostal male preaching in Spanish. My usual two on 920
here are CKNX and WHJJ, so this would be new.

Thanks,

Dave
Albany, NY


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Re: [IRCA] 693, BBC?

[Scott Fybush]

I've never had any geoblocking issues with BBC radio streaming. Just
checked and could get 5 Live on the BBC Iplayer Radio app on my phone and
on my laptop from the US.

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 7:37 PM Nick Hall-Patch  693 was logged in Victoria, BC during our recent TA opening, Bob,
> identified with its parallel of 909kHz, if that is available to you.
>
> 909 might be your best bet for identification.  I have tried to check
> their stream, and I think it might be limited to people in the UK, or
> to computers that appear to be in the UK, and in addition, it seems
> that BBC wants you to register as a user.   It might be more trouble
> than it is worth.
>
> Have you tried a nearby SDR from KiwiSDR (https://sdr.hu/ )?
>
> Nick
>
>
>
>
>
> At 23:20 2018-11-10, Bob Young wrote:
> >For the past month I have been getting a strong carrier on 693 but
> >usually no audio or very little. Tonight I heard a soccer game and
> >the cadence sounded like English, in fact I'm almost positive but no
> >intelligible language, anyone know of anywhere to listen to live
> >online?Or anyone logged the BBC on this frequency lately?
> >
> >
> >Bob Young
> >
> >Millbury, Ma
> >
> >National NC-183D, 500' dipole.
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Re: [IRCA] [nrc-am] 1170 WFPB MA silent

[Scott Fybush]

It was in my column this morning at fybush.com. They lost the transmitter
site they've used for the station's entire existence and are seeking an
alternate site. (I know some details about their plans for a new antenna
that I'm not yet at liberty to share.)

They filed a few months ago to go from DA-D to ND-D (made possible by the
deletion of the old WDIS 1170 Norfolk MA) in preparation for having to
relocate.

I expect they'll be back within a few months.

S

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 2:42 PM 'Mark Connelly' via NRC-AM <
nrc...@googlegroups.com wrote:

> For at least a week now 1170 WFPB Orleans, MA has been off the air.
>
> I don't think this had been reported on any DX forums yet though I may
> have missed it.
>
> Perhaps not widely noted as the signal feeds more fish than people.
>
> In early October it was noted with very bad audio:  sub-pirate-quality I'd
> say. Likely a precursor to something blowing up.
>
> While WFPB stays dark, late afternoon 1170 TA and Brazil DX will be easier
> here in eastern New England.
>
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> South Yarmouth, MA
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Re: [IRCA] 530 CIAO TORONTO

[Scott Fybush]

Early 1991.

http://broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cflz-fm

s

On 11/5/2018 11:14 AM, Neil Kazaross wrote:

What year did CJFT go silent?  73 KAZ


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Re: [IRCA] 530 CIAO TORONTO

[Scott Fybush]

CJFT was 250 watts. Totally different sites.  CJFT used one tower of the
old CJRN 710 site, on the west side of Fort Erie. CIAO is at the old CKMW
790 site near the spot where the 401, 403 and 407 highways all come
together northwest of Toronto. It's actually a pretty close neighbo(u)r of
CFZM 740/CJBC 860.

CIAO can be seen at the bottom of this page:
https://www.fybush.com/site-20171124/

s



On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 8:06 AM Rick Dau  Speaking of 530, does anyone remember what the power output was for CJFT
> 530 in Fort Erie?  And does CIAO use the old CJFT transmitter site, or are
> they different facilities completely?  I do know there's a 68-mile (as the
> crow flies) distance from Fort Erie to Brampton.
>
> 73,
> Rick Dau
> South Omaha, Nebraska
>
> 
> From: IRCA  on behalf of Nigel Pimblett <
> nige2...@telus.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 12:12 PM
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] 530 CIAO TORONTO
>
> Let me add my congratulations.   CIAO is rare even in Alberta in recent
> years, with Cuba dominating the frequency.
>
> 73,
>
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, AB
>
>
>
> On 04/11/2018 11:09 AM, Neil Kazaross wrote:
> > I don't think CAIO is very common on the west coast! Nice catch!  73 KAZ
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 8:48 AM Mike Keval Brooker 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Your awesome DX catch. My local pest 😀
> >>
> >> 73
> >>
> >> Mike Brooker
> >> Toronto, ON
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:25 AM R. Colin Newell 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 0624 UTC // on the live stream with Punjabi S. Asian folk music.
> >>>
> >>> Drake R8 - N Flag.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
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Re: [IRCA] all-digital-am-grabs-automakers-interest

[Scott Fybush]

http://www.insideradio.com/free/all-digital-am-grabs-automakers-interest/article_2dba8e0a-c552-11e8-b880-cb0bfa667809.html

On 10/4/2018 2:13 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

This still isn't working. You should be able to put a link to this article
in the body of the email.

Russ Edmunds






On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:39 PM Dennis Vroom via IRCA 
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Can't send the link to irca? Google subject line.
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Re: [IRCA] West Coast TPs Sept 19

[Scott Fybush]

On 9/19/2018 4:26 PM, Chris Kadlec wrote:


Henan often interfered with it at night and I’d often hear 972 Pyongyang from atop the 
>skyscrapers downtown (like with many stations, I could only hear them atop the 
towers >*shrugs* - even though people say things like height make no difference with 
AM,  >something must explain that; perhaps steel conducts signals).


I don't think you're crazy here.

Here's what I think might have been happening: if you're in a crowded 
downtown of a big city like Seoul, at ground level you're probably in a 
somewhat effective Faraday cage. A 300-meter-wavelength signal is going 
to have a hard time penetrating a downtown street grid where the 
buildings are only 20 or 30 meters apart from each other and hundreds of 
meters tall.


Get on top of those buildings and you're out of the Faraday cage. The 
signals are still being conducted along ground (and perhaps up the steel 
of the buildings to your radio) rather than through skywave - but up on 
the roof you're not within the giant steel city grid that attenuates the 
long wavelengths of MW radio.


And we've known for 90+ years that steel building frames can have 
effects on MW signals - go all the way back to 1922, when AT&T started 
its station WBAY at one of its buildings in Lower Manhattan, only to 
discover the building frame itself was resonant at WBAY's 360 meter 
wavelength, causing it to absorb much of the transmitted signal. They 
had another station, WEAF, at a different location that worked better 
and they moved their programming over there.


(We had a similar situation in 1922 here in Rochester - the Times-Union 
newspaper put WHQ radio on the air in March and found its building 
absorbed too much of the signal from the rooftop antenna, so they shut 
it down and sold the license to George Eastman of Kodak fame, who 
restarted it later that same year as WHAM.)


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[IRCA] FCC comment deadline approaching for FM translator interference rules

[Scott Fybush]

Several people on the lists have asked for updates on how and when to 
file comments with the FCC about proposed rule changes - and there's a 
deadline coming Monday for anyone interested in commenting on how the 
FCC handles complaints about FM translators (including new ones for AM 
stations) interfering with reception of full-power FM signals.


Comments in the proceeding, docket 18-119, are due at the end of the day 
Monday (August 6). The proposal is to get rid of the current rule, which 
allows any "regularly-used reception" of an FM signal to be protected 
from a new translator no matter what the actual signal level is. 
Instead, full-power signals would be protected from translator 
interference only to a certain signal level (54 dBu is what's being 
proposed).


The process is actually very very simple if you want to file a comment - 
use the link below, and you'll see a box marked "filters" on the left 
side of the page. At the bottom of that box is a link that says 
"+Express" to add an express comment. That opens up a form that you can 
fill in with your name, address and comment - and you're done.


https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=18-119&sort=date_disseminated,DESC

I'm happy to help if anyone has issues with the system.

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Re: [IRCA] WWFD 820 Becomes First All-Digital AM Station

[Scott Fybush]

Some of this I can answer even before interviewing Dave - the format is 
called "The Gamut," which is a true "we play everything" variety mix 
that goes back as far as the 1940s. It's been running on WWFD for the 
last few years, as well as on HD2 subs of co-owned WTOP in Washington 
and its FM relay out in Virginia.


It's important to note here that the format isn't especially important 
to what's essentially a technical test. The whole reason they're using 
the WWFD AM signal for this is because it's not doing anything, 
business-wise, for them. Most Gamut listeners are tuned into the HD2s or 
the analog FM translators that relay them, or are on the stream.


The idea here is to get a real-world sense of how the AM all-digital 
mode works, and I expect a lot of engineers will be out this summer 
driving the signal, taking measurements and learning how well their 
theoretical predictions match reality. (I hope to join them at some 
point!) I doubt there will be much promotion to general audiences, 
though I'm sure they'll welcome any feedback they get.




On 7/17/2018 3:12 PM, Les Rayburn wrote:

Scott,

Thank you for this opportunity. I’m interested in knowing what format WWFD 
currently runs, and if they plan to change or modify the format to fit the “All 
Digital” operation.

Also, do they plan to promote the “All Digital” format within the market? How 
are they going to promote it?

Any chance we’ll see the “All Digital” experiment expanded to FM within the DC 
market?


73,

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On Jul 17, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Scott Fybush  wrote:

On 7/17/2018 2:03 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:


But I'm unaware as to whether all digital IBOC has FCC approval.


As a regular licensed mode of operation, no...which is exactly why Hubbard and 
the HD Radio folks are conducting this test under experimental authority.

I'm going to be interviewing WWFD's Dave Kolesar this evening for a new episode of my 
"Top of the Tower" podcast, to be released tomorrow. If anyone on the list has 
questions about the purpose of the test or the technology behind it, hit me up and I'll 
ask him!

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Re: [IRCA] WWFD 820 Becomes First All-Digital AM Station

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On 7/17/2018 2:03 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:


But I'm unaware as to whether all digital IBOC has FCC approval.


As a regular licensed mode of operation, no...which is exactly why 
Hubbard and the HD Radio folks are conducting this test under 
experimental authority.


I'm going to be interviewing WWFD's Dave Kolesar this evening for a new 
episode of my "Top of the Tower" podcast, to be released tomorrow. If 
anyone on the list has questions about the purpose of the test or the 
technology behind it, hit me up and I'll ask him!


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Re: [IRCA] WALK-FM on AM

[Scott Fybush]

Clarifying here... this is the religious network that brands itself as 
"Walk-FM," not the radio station at 97.5 on Long Island that's licensed 
as "WALK-FM." Right?


On 3/29/2018 10:00 PM, David Faulkner via IRCA wrote:

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Re: [IRCA] Fwd: KKOL-1300 off the air

[Scott Fybush]

I'm going to be very interested to find out what happened. I wrote 
several articles for Radio World about KKOL's move to that Port of 
Tacoma site. They'd operated from West Seattle for decades but had to 
move out of the port there in 2002, and they had a temporary site for a 
year or so that used a Valcom whip antenna mounted on a boat moored in 
Puget Sound. When they finally set up shop in Tacoma in 2007, they had a 
bunch of issues with arcing on cranes in the port that took some time to 
be resolved, but my understanding is that they did get resolved after a 
while.


For them to be bumped from the Tacoma site *that* abruptly is unusual. 
Site leases are usually fairly long-term deals (for obvious reasons) 
that don't just end abruptly like this.


There's a picture of the 2002-2007 temporary site on the "Coast Angel" 
here: https://www.fybush.com/sites/2007/site-070914.html


And the 2007-era Port of Tacoma site here: 
https://www.fybush.com/sites/2007/site-070209.html


s


On 3/12/2018 7:36 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

When a station goes off air, it disappears from the search function when
you type in a zip code or a city.. because radio locators purpsoe is to
show you whats listenable in a certain area

But here's their main link:
https://radio-locator.com/info/KKOL-AM

Coverage maps are disabled but if you know a "Trick" you can get them to
display
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KKOL-AM&h=D  day
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KKOL-AM&h=N night

The application to mvoe KKOL is just an application right now, filed
December 7th.. so theyre hoping it gets granted soon



On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 7:27 PM, Forrester S  wrote:


Radio Locator took their entire data off the list. Just the KKOL in Hawaii
is what comes up.

Todd Skaine
ICOM 7300 wth a Superloop
2 Modified 2010s barefoot
Toyota car radio

On Mar 12, 2018 6:01 PM, "Bruce Portzer"  wrote:


Here's why KKOL is off the air:

Bruce,

We have shut down both our KKOL transmitter site and our webpage so we
could move the radio station transmitter and towers to Bainbridge Island,
from the Port of Tacoma.

We should be off-air for 3 - 4 months, then the station should be back
on-air.

Andrew Adams
Salem Media Group – Seattle


Subject: KKOL-1300 off the air


Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 21:04:09 -0700
From: Bruce Portzer 
To: irca >> Mailing list for the International Radio Club of

America <

irca@hard-core-dx.com>



KKOL-1300 in Seattle is silent at the moment.  From what I've been told,
it's been that way for 3-4 days.

Interestingly, their website kkol.com says "Are you missing your
favorite business talk hosts? Tune in to AM1590 THE ANSWER to hear…"
followed by a hastily assembled program schedule.  Checking 1590 just
now, KKOL's sister station KLFE is indeed carrying KKOL's business news
programming instead of the usual conservative talk.

KCMY Carson City is currently dominating 1300 with KKOL off.

Bruce


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Re: [IRCA] electronics travel advice

[Scott Fybush]

I fly several times a year with a bag full of radios (usually two Tecsun
PL380s, five C. Crane Witnesses, etc.), recorders, a DSLR and a laptop.

I've never been asked to turn any of them on. Often they don't even open
the bag.

Having said that - I have TSA PreCheck status tied to my NEXUS border card.
I understand there are some new procedures going into place in the
non-PreCheck lanes.

On Feb 22, 2018 8:25 PM, "Stephen Hawkins"  wrote:

> IRCA,
>
> I have not traveled with a laptop in some time.  I usually take a tablet.
> I have to fly soon with my laptop.  Do you carry on and if so do they want
> you to fire it up at the security desk?  Or do you check it in you suitcase?
>
> Any and all advice will be appreciated.  I check the radios well packed
> and padded in my suitcase.
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Re: [IRCA] kdka / radio reloj

[Scott Fybush]

The answer, in this case, is probably the extremely auroral conditions 
that many DXers have been reporting the last few nights. That can create 
considerable enhancement to the south while completely wiping out 
anything coming in from the north.


And KDKA's groundwave is notoriously bad, so to have it disappear at 50 
miles isn't terribly surprising at all.


On 12/6/2017 9:27 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Yes, someone smarter then us, please explain. i'm just a dx'er who happens
to be a radio DJ that modulates a half a dozen or so FM transmitters and
one am transmitter a day

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Forrester S  wrote:


There was a conversation several years back regarding WCCO. I was at that
time 35 miles from their transmitter and at times I would hear that fade,
signifying that I was in the zone of skywave interfering with groundwave.
When and where that starts I guess would entirely depend on conditions.
Mark Durenberger,  maybe you could explain the technical side of this
better than I could?

Todd

On Dec 6, 2017 8:07 AM, "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <
walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com>
wrote:


one would think for a 50kw am on a decent dial position, groundwave would
be more then 53 miles. at least one would hope.

Up in NW PA, the 50kw stations around 1000 to 1080 clobber each other...
WBZ clobbers WYSL, WBZ kinda nips at KDKA... I'm to ofar at night for
groundwave but too close for skywave from KDKA



On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Forrester S 

wrote:



There is a zone to where groundwave ends and skywave begins, in which

the

signal is compromised enough to hear other stations underneath. This is
most likely where are, in this zone.

Todd Skaine
Bloomington MN

On Dec 6, 2017 7:04 AM, "billy brooks" 

wrote:



Is radio reloj @ 1020 operating at a much higher power?  Early Monday
morning I lost kdka @ 1020 completely and thought they went off the

air.

I

could copy reloj's familiar id in morse over kdka until after local

sr.

finally

Kdka regained strength.  Admittedly, kdka is not the clear channel

they

once
were. I'm south of Pittsburgh 53miles.



Bill brooksdrake r8awellbrook  ala1530lnp

Waynesburg,pa



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Re: [IRCA] 1220 La Mega

[Scott Fybush]

This is WSTL Providence, which just came back on the air feeding a new 94.9
translator.

On Nov 24, 2017 9:06 AM, "Jim B"  wrote:

I am hearing Spanish music and La Mega ID on 1220 at 0900 EST. Does anyone
know who this is? I am guessing a station within 100 miles of Springfield
MA. has changed formats.   Jim
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Re: [IRCA] WBZ rollbacks

[Scott Fybush]

Paul seems to have a burr up his behind about "cranky old DXers," and a 
reflexive desire to create enemies where none really exist, which makes 
me wonder why he's even still on this list. I've defended him over the 
years, for some reason, but I'm pretty much done. This community is too 
small to not try to get along with people whenever possible.


s



On 11/19/2017 4:09 PM, Eric Floden wrote:

Your comments mirror my experience.  I enjoy listening to WBZ over the air
when I am in eastern Ontario*, but for a couple of years now I have been
unable to listen on-line.  (Their overnight show week days is very good I
think.)

If I learn a way to listen via streaming, I'll be happy.

And if snide comments are reduced, I will also be happy.

EricF
Vancouver

* Ottawa, Golden Lake



On 19 November 2017 at 12:33, Saul Chernos  wrote:


Actually, a US station online via iHeart means NOT available online - from
Canada. Just a few scant miles north of Warren Pa, WBZ would appear to not
be
available online. Now, I would happily be proven wrong - can anyone point
me to
a way where, for free, my Canadian computer could mimic a US-based
computer to
effectively produce a US-based IP address?

Saul

Burnt River ON



 -- Original Message --
 From: "R. Colin Newell" 
 Date: November 18, 2017 at 8:49 PM


 Whoa. A little more polite and subtle next time - radio can be an

inexact

science.

 Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

 > On Nov 18, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
 >
 > Wrong.
 >
 > They haven’t stopped streaming. It’s avaioable on iHeartRadio.com

and

 > the
 > iheart radio
 >
 > Check your facts first before posting
 >
 > Paul
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Re: [IRCA] 1120 AM The Outlaw

[Scott Fybush]

WKAJ. They flipped over the summer from classic hits.

On Nov 11, 2017 8:04 AM, "Karl Zuk via IRCA"  wrote:

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> During sunrise skip on grayline this morning - 0615 EST to fade out at
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> themselves "The Outlaw" and "1120 AM."Classic country format - all national
> commercials - I think I heard them mention Real Country onceinferring that
> they might be a Westwood One affiliate.I was using a little Sony ultralight
> as a receiver in a very casual listening environment -sitting in bed using
> earbuds. I searched high and low on the Internet looking for who this might
> be.No soap radio. Not a word to be found. They were strong enough to have
> no problem fighting off adjacent channel bombshell WBBR 1130  with
> Bloomberg business. Does anyone recognize this?
> Thanks for your help... Karl Zuk  N2KZ  Katonah, NY - 45 miles north of
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Re: [IRCA] WMFN 640Khz - Peotone, IL

[Scott Fybush]

They won't be CBS-owned much longer.  And Entercom has shown zero interest
in AM HD.

On Oct 16, 2017 3:30 PM, "Neil Kazaross"  wrote:

> CBS owned stations not using IBOC? We can hope but I doubt very seriously
> that they will shut it off. I had never heard AM IBOC til I bought my new
> car. After hearing it, I can state that I can't find it to be an audible
> improvement at all.
>
> 73 KAZ
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Forrester S 
> wrote:
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> > Maybe they will not use IBOC after the move. What a waste of technology,
> > for AM anyway.
> >
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > On Oct 16, 2017 12:51 PM, "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <
> > walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > WBBM is lowering power BUT the WSCR antenna is taller aka more efficent
> > > then the current WBBM tower, so they have to lower power. Quite a few
> > > experts have already said elsewhere this won't change anything.  Sell
> off
> > > the WBBM land, make a chunk of change, move your antenna and lose
> nothing
> > > signal wise in the process
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Chris Rigas 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Noticed their OC here in Wood Dale, IL as well the last few days.
> This
> > > > will make DXing the 640 frequency tougher for us in the Chicago area.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Of other interesting developments in local broadcasting is the
> > > application
> > > > by WBBM AM 780 to move their transmitter from the current location in
> > > > Itasca, IL to the WSCR Bloomingdale, IL  site:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/
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> > > > 101768529&qnum=5120©num=1&exhcnum=1
> > > >
> > > > Christos Rigas,,
> > > > Wood Dale, IL
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > From: IRCA  on behalf of
> > amd...@core.com
> > > <
> > > > amd...@core.com>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 4:59 PM
> > > > To: irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@nrcdxas.org
> > > > Subject: [IRCA] WMFN 640Khz - Peotone, IL
> > > >
> > > > WMFN 640 is running an OC.  I missed their testing with
> > > > audio a few weeks ago.  This afternoon I drove out to the
> > > > XMTR site.  It's too close for comfort, about 20 miles to
> > > > my southeast.  Their site is exactly where radio locator
> > > > has it, SW of Peotone, west of I-57.  Their nighttime
> > > > pattern shows a null in my direction.  We will see how
> > > > well it knocks down their signal when they commence
> > > > broadcasting.
> > > >
> > > > Within a mile of the site there is an odd "pulse-sweep"
> > > > type noise noted on 630 and 650, roughly once per second.
> > > > You don't hear any of this in the OC on 640.  At first
> > > > thought it might be radiating from the rural power lines
> > > > but it is heard on stretches of the rural roads in this
> > > > area that have no power lines.  Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > I snapped a few photos of the 4 towers for those who
> > > > collect these.  Let me know if anyone wants one.  The site
> > > > is in the middle of a corn field which is only partly
> > > > harvested, about a half mile from the nearest road.
> > > >
> > > > Tom Jasinski
> > > > Joliet, IL
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Re: [IRCA] WKBM 930 Sandwich, IL - Splatter

[Scott Fybush]

Blame the processing, not the transmitter itself. There are plenty of 
transmitters out there that are 30 or 40 years old and still going, and 
still plenty clean with the right processing. At WXXI, we replaced our 
Harris MW5 (circa 1979) with a new Nautel XR6 in 2015. Our backup 
transmitter is an RCA BTA-5G from 1954. It's the nicest-sounding rig in 
town on the rare occasions it still runs. (The Nautel is effectively its 
own backup, with a redundant pallet of power amplification.)




On 9/21/2017 9:14 PM, amd...@core.com wrote:

One of my semi-local stations, WKBM 930, is splattering on
audio peaks. Clearly heard here 20 miles from their site.
  A few days ago I drove out there to prove it is them.  Up
close on car radio the splatter is clearly heard 150khz
above and below 930khz.

I sent them an e-mail this evening.

This brings up another topic of discussion.  It concerns
the quality of the transmitters in use today.  This
WKBM/WBYG/WAUR 930 site has had similar problems in the
past.  This may be the third time it has had problems
since going on the air in 1986.

What is the typical life cycle between overhauls?  10 years?

I frequently drive within 1/4 mile of the 50kw WLS site
and have never detected any splatter.  Better quality
gear?  Or bigger budget?

Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL



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Re: [IRCA] Eclipse

[Scott Fybush]

I didn't DX while watching totality in Marion, Kentucky... but I was
wearing KRVN eclipse glasses,  so that's something, right?  :)

On Aug 21, 2017 3:00 PM, "Forrester S"  wrote:

> Major eclipse moments for Grand Marais.
> KMOX and KRVN were the winners here. Other interesting note was 1560 WGLB
> with a good signal
>
> Todd Skaine
> Grand Marais MN
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> On Aug 21, 2017 2:37 PM, "Eric Floden"  wrote:
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> > Peak here was around 1430 EDT.  Nothing long distance noted here but
> > Belleville 800 and Toronto 640 among others went from muddy to easily
> > listenable.  Sony 7600.
> >
> > Winds got quite highjust prior to peak which drove bugs away yay
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> > An hour later no change on Subaru radio.
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Re: [IRCA] 1510 unid

[Scott Fybush]

No. The people who'd been running it couldn't come to terms on a renewal of
the transmittrr site lease.  The license is for sale and it's likely
they'll find a new sucker to lose another six-figure sum trying to make
this dog hunt.

On Jul 22, 2017 6:03 PM, "Forrester S"  wrote:

> Is WMEX off for good?
>
> Todd.Skaine
>
> On Jul 22, 2017 4:20 PM, "Scott Fybush"  wrote:
>
> > I checked in with a friend who does engineering for WRNJ. They are still
> > dropping to 230 watts at night.  It's just a much cleaner channel without
> > WMEX on it.
> >
> > On Jul 22, 2017 1:58 PM, "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <
> > walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I head WRNJ at night a few weeks ago and two of their staff didnt
> bother
> > to
> > > respond.
> > >
> > > Here's the clip:
> > > https://soundcloud.com/onairdjpaulwalker/wrnj-1510-july-5th-2017-806pm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Mike Sanburn  >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > WRNJ was kind enough to send us some bumper stickers for the upcoming
> > > Reno
> > > > convention!  ms
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPod
> > > >
> > > > > On Jul 22, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Stan Horzepa 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > "the greatest hits of yesterday" is WRNJ. WRNJ has been heard here
> > > every
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Re: [IRCA] 1510 unid

[Scott Fybush]

I checked in with a friend who does engineering for WRNJ. They are still
dropping to 230 watts at night.  It's just a much cleaner channel without
WMEX on it.

On Jul 22, 2017 1:58 PM, "Paul B. Walker, Jr." 
wrote:

> I head WRNJ at night a few weeks ago and two of their staff didnt bother to
> respond.
>
> Here's the clip:
> https://soundcloud.com/onairdjpaulwalker/wrnj-1510-july-5th-2017-806pm
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Mike Sanburn 
> wrote:
>
> > WRNJ was kind enough to send us some bumper stickers for the upcoming
> Reno
> > convention!  ms
> >
> > Sent from my iPod
> >
> > > On Jul 22, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Stan Horzepa 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > "the greatest hits of yesterday" is WRNJ. WRNJ has been heard here
> every
> > night since WMEX off the air.
> > >
> > > Stan, WA1LOU (Wolcott, CT)
> > >
> > >
> > >> On 7/22/17 8:45 AM, Jim B wrote:
> > >> Does anyone know what station on 1510 ID's as "the greatest hits of
> > >> yesterday". I am guessing it's either WLGN or WLKR which are both in
> > Ohio,
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[IRCA] Format changing at KDIS/KRDC 1110 Pasadena/LA

[Scott Fybush]

There's a flip happening at noon PDT, from Radio Disney KDIS to Radio
Disney Country PREC.

If anyone's in a position to record the flip, I'd be grateful for an
aircheck...

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Re: [IRCA] ECLIPSE DX-ING

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We will be heading from Rochester to Indiana on the 20th, then assessing
conditions early the morning of the 21st and driving to somewhere along the
path between Marion IL and mid-Kentucky.

I'm thinking of getting an inexpensive SDR between now and then.

On May 28, 2017 2:29 PM, "Ira Elbert New III"  wrote:

> I'll be teaching 6th graders social studies on that Monday. I hope it's a
> clear day because I'd love to take them outside to see the eclipse. We're
> just south of the path of totality too.
>
> Bert
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 28, 2017, at 1:16 PM, Volodya S  wrote:
> >
> > |'m going to be outside, and not at the dials.  I agree with Sudipta.
> With
> > the advent of SDRs, and with the very short window, the SDR recording the
> > MW spectrum makes all the difference, and should be a lot of fun to
> monitor
> > each frequency!   73,  Walt
> >
> > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 9:59 AM, R. Colin Newell  >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I've Dx'd during a 99% total eclipse --
> >>
> >> It's amazing - the hair will stand up on the back of your neck as a
> >> moribund daytime MW band convulses and thrashes to life in the space of
> >> minutes.
> >>
> >> In decades of radio listening, there's nothing like it.
> >>
> >> Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
> >>
> >>> On May 28, 2017, at 9:48 AM, Mark Mobile 
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I’m curious as to what DX-ers will be doing during the
> >> once-in-a-lifetime August eclipse.  How about sharing your plans?
> >>>
> >>> I will have a D-Kaz oriented at 340 degrees from North-Central
> >> Minnesota, with an SDR recording 100 kHz to 1700 kHz.
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[IRCA] Happy 100th birthday to Betty Stein!

[Scott Fybush]

If you were here in Fort Wayne for the clubs' 2015 joint convention,  you
might recall Lisa's grandmother's keynote speech.

Today she turns 100 and we're celebrating this remarkable woman.

Here's an article from the local paper...

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Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-30

[Scott Fybush]

On 11/30/2016 10:46 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Why does no one understand about the fact I've got 3 FM transmitters above
me?
It gets into things 500 feet away... It'll sure as heck get into things 50
feet away acting as a big antenna.



Unless there's cabinet radiation from the transmitters themselves (and 
they're newish transmitters that shouldn't have that problem), shielded 
coax is a wonderful thing. It keeps the RF output from the transmitters 
going up to the antennas, and it can keep the RF from your remote 
antenna going straight into your radio without picking up much of 
anything from those FM transmitters.


If you were at an AM transmitter site, it might be a different story. 
But I agree with Walt - it's worth the attempt!


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Re: [IRCA] New Station 1340

[Scott Fybush]

On 11/28/2016 11:04 PM, James Renfrew wrote:

Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY

2258 EST   1340   WYCK   PA   Plains   "105 The River", music it appears
instead of the sports format shown in my 2010 NRC Log.  NEW, #2556


Yup. They flipped a year or so ago so they could "originate" a 
translator in Wilkes-Barre. The sports continues on WICK 1300 Scranton.


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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Anomaly on 680 KHz

[Scott Fybush]

That "CBS Radio Network, Channel 41" is a placeholder on the satellite
system that CBS abs Westwood One use to send content to affiliates.

Based on when you heard it,  I'd bet it's someone who was carrying football
and their automation didn't switch away when the game ended.

Beyond that... who knows?

(Back in my WBZ days,  I heard a lot of that CBS placeholder audio while
waiting for feeds to come down the line!)

On Nov 6, 2016 8:55 PM, "David Potter"  wrote:

Had basically the same here, Les.  Noted from 2008EST with same loop.  I
DFed it and it nulled roughly NNE from here in the Gainesville, FL area.
Good signal, but with fades.  I heard WPTF on the channel at 2025 when I
tuned out, thinking it might have been them.

David Potter
C Crane Skywave barefoot

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Les Rayburn  wrote:

> While walking the dogs tonight, at around 7:18 PM Central Time I heard a
> strong tone on 680 Khz followed by a male announcer, “CBS Radio
> Network-Channel 41”. This repeated over and over for about 20 minutes then
> ended abruptly at about 7:40 PM. After that, I heard only a dead carrier
> under other stations.
>
> This on my Sony portable. Anyone else here this? Any ideas?
>
> 73,
>
> Les N1LF
>
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Re: [IRCA] Bruce Portzer/Facebook

[Scott Fybush]

That would explain the friend request "Bruce" sent me,  too. Thanks for the
heads up.

On Oct 29, 2016 9:57 AM, "Marc DeLorenzo via IRCA" 
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> Would someone who is a Facebook friend of Bruce, please inform him that
> his FB account has been hacked?  Someone, under his name and photo, is
> sending out bogus chat messages.  I had to Unfriend Bruce in order to stop
> the messages which deal with the "CEO of Facebook helping disabled people
> with cash."  Definitely fraudulent.  Also, major grammatical errors which I
> would not expect from the real Bruce.
>
> Thanks.
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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] KANSAS CITY DX CONVENTION

[Scott Fybush]

I had family commitments this year that kept me from attending... but I'm
glad it went off well and I look forward to joining everyone again next
year in...???

On Sep 11, 2016 2:35 PM, "AMANDX"  wrote:

> Mark
>
> This was my first NRC convention and I had a WONDERFUL  time.
> The tours talks etc were all interesting but the best part was meeting all
> the great people. There. we're four I had met before so most folks were new
> to me. Just super to meet folks so I could put a name to a face
> Also thanks to Nick Hall-Patch for taking time to show and explain SDR to
> me
> I have one on my have to have list now
>
> Shawn Axelrod
> - Original Message -
> From: ma...@durenberger.com
> To: DX-IRCA , DX @NRC , WTFDA-AM <
> wtfda...@topica.com>, MNDXC , Shafer Mike <
> mikeg...@gmail.com>, Baumgartner Fred 
> Sent: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 09:40:32 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [NRC-AM] KANSAS CITY DX CONVENTION
>
> Good crowd!  It was nice to meet new folks and to swap lies.  Great to see
> familiar faces and renew ongoing discussions.  From comments heard around
> the room, the car tours and station visits were ‘okay.’  The tech talk
> sessions had lots of good pics and video and some new understandings...and
> the audio was a disaster. (Murphy had been sleeping in the meeting room
> when we checked out the A-V Friday but was wide-awake Saturday morning.)
>
> Dinner was excellent; the post-munching remarks by Kansas City’s premier
> newsman Dan Verbeck were impactful and heartfelt and gave those of us jaded
> with radio some reasons to be more optimistic (at least about radio news)..
>
> It was moving to me to see how we as a group helped our Blind friends
> navigate and interpret.
>
> The “D-KAZ-wiki group” from IRCA (Hall-Patch, Kazaross, Whitacre,
> Durenberger) erected and operated a full-blown D-KAZ antenna in the back
> yard (a thanks to the hotel for their tolerance of our temporary
> playground).  We were even able to attract veteran DX-er Glenn Hauser...who
> was kind enough to avoid shaking his head over our layout.
>
> (Clean) audio and pics/videos from the activities will be posted shortly.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark Durenberger
>
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Re: [IRCA] WAAF on 1420 AM

[Scott Fybush]

On 7/25/2016 3:48 PM, Stan Horzepa wrote:

Does anyone know the call sign of the station that is simulcasting WAAF
FM ("Boston's Rock Station") on 1420 kHz?

FWIW, the simulcast was an S-7 here in Downtown Wolcott, CT this morning
at 4 AM EDST. I have searched high and low and cannot find who is the
simulcaster on 1420.


Sounds like someone's pirating. WAAF has no co-owned station on 1420; 
the nearest is WVEI Worcester on 1440, and it's a simulcast of sports 
WEEI-FM from Boston.


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Re: [IRCA] Anybody want to go to Cuba?

[Scott Fybush]

That wasn't Rick's experience last month. He went (and came back) with a 
Sony 2010 and a camera, and he reported having no issues taking pictures 
of tower sites from the bus as it toured the island.


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[IRCA] Anybody want to go to Cuba?

[Scott Fybush]

Yes, this is DX related - let me explain!

I had lunch today with Rick Lucas, who's just back from a two-week tour 
of Cuba. At least for now, US regulations require that US citizens 
visiting Cuba have an educational purpose for their trip, which 
typically means a lot of "person-to-person" activities like meeting 
farmers and watching dance troupes and such. (Canadians and others can 
go to Cuban resorts and lounge on the beach if they so desire...)


But it occurred to us that if we could get enough DXers and other radio 
folk together, it might be possible to organize a trip that would focus 
on Cuban radio - visiting studios and transmitter sites, interacting 
with Cuban radio people and DXers, meeting with Arnie Coro, and so on.


I'm not going quite so far (yet!) as to bid for a Havana convention in 
2017 or 2018...but I'm curious to find out whether anyone else would be 
interested in a hypothetical week-long trip next winter. If there's 
interest, I'd be willing to reach out to the tour companies that have 
licenses to organize Cuba trips to see what the next steps might be.


So...any interest?



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[IRCA] CBS Radio article

[Scott Fybush]

At the request of several members of these lists, I've unlocked this 
article from behind my paywall. I hope it provides a more balanced look 
at what I think CBS is really likely to do (and perhaps not so likely to 
do) as it explores a spinoff or sale of its radio assets:


http://www.fybush.com/nerw-member-extra-about-the-cbs-radio-sale/

Please enjoy, weigh in in the comments, and feel free to share. There's 
a lot of wild speculation out there, and I don't think the facts support 
much of it.


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Re: [IRCA] CBS RADIO FOR SALE?

[Scott Fybush]

On 3/16/2016 2:32 PM, Pete Taylor wrote:

I got this off Facebook. Hard to believe if it is true.

This is historic and very, very sad. CBS is dumping radio. The radio
news network and CBS O&O radio stations are for sale.



There is a LOT of misinformation and wild speculation floating around 
out there right now. Most of what I've been reading on FB and elsewhere 
has been way off the mark.


Here's what's happening: the CEO of CBS Corp., Les Moonves, said on an 
investor call yesterday that the company is *exploring* the sale of its 
CBS Radio division.


This division includes the O&O radio stations, 126 of them (IIRC) in 22 
markets.


It does *not* include CBS Radio News, which is staffed by employees of 
the CBS News Division and distributed by Westwood One (which is owned by 
Cumulus.)


For a whole bunch of reasons, most of them having to do with taxes, it 
would make very little sense for CBS to start selling off individual 
radio stations to separate buyers, or even to sell entire clusters to 
buyers.


What's much more likely is that they'll spin the CBS Radio division off 
as a separately-traded public company (as they did with CBS' outdoor ad 
division), or that they might engage in a tax-preferred swap with 
another large company. (One possibility that's being rumored is that CBS 
Radio might go to Liberty Media, which has a controlling interest in 
SiriusXM, in exchange for Liberty's Starz cable networks.)


It's also entirely possible that CBS management will conclude that 
there's no benefit right now to a sale and they'll leave well enough alone.


In any event, what we now know as CBS Radio is connected only in name 
and a handful of big-market stations (WCBS AM-FM, WPHT/WOGL, WBBM AM-FM, 
KNX-KCBS-FM, KCBS/KLLC, KMOX, WCCO) to the "CBS Radio" division of years 
gone by. Most of today's "CBS Radio" traces its heritage back either to 
Westinghouse/Group W or later acquisitions from Infinity and American 
Radio Systems.


I wrote more extensively about what's going on at CBS in a column for my 
subscribers at fybush.com yesterday. I may post it to these lists if 
there's interest and if it can help quell some of the hysteria that 
seems to be surrounding yesterday's news.


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Re: [IRCA] Canada station question

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On 3/17/2016 11:30 AM, Kraig wrote:

Is "News from the national newsroom of the Canadian National Press" only
carried on CBC radio stations?

Or, is it also carried on other stations such as CFRB?


CBC carries only CBC news.

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Re: [IRCA] Canada station question

[Scott Fybush]

Correct. And the answer is that the newscast to which Kraig was 
referring is a commercial product of Canadian Press, which runs *only* 
on private stations and not on CBC stations:


http://www.thecanadianpress.com/news_and_information.aspx?id=150

So it's much more likely he was hearing CFRB than CBR.

s

On 3/17/2016 11:45 AM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

But wasn't the question whether or not Canadian National Press ran on CBC
and/or non-CBC stations ?

Russ Edmunds
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Scott Fybush  wrote:


On 3/17/2016 11:42 AM, R. Colin Newell wrote:


Not really true -- CBC Overnight features the BBC, Radio Australia,
formerly DW and others.



OK, point taken. But in terms of domestic news product, CBC doesn't run
anything with any brand other than CBC News. True?

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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Canada station question

[Scott Fybush]

99% sure CBR *wasn't* what Kraig heard.

"News from the national newsroom of the Canadian Press" is the standard 
open of the hourly national newscast from Canadian Press, which is a 
commercial product that airs on private stations.


CBR would have opened its hourly newscast with "CBC News, I'm..." - and 
it would have started right on the hour, not at 00:57 as CP's newscast does.


s

On 3/17/2016 12:05 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote:

99% sure that this is what you heard -

You can easily lock into  the lifestream off of CBC.ca

There are not a lot of Calgary or Alberta stations on 1010 that can carry
that far.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Kraig  wrote:


OK. Thanks. Rats. Was hoping I heard CBR in Calgary. March 11, 2016 1010
kHz 0101 UTC (2001 ET) female with "News from the national newsroom of the
Canadian Press". Began with item on hospitals in Calgary and then item on
employment situation in Alberta.

  Based on the 2 Alberta items I was hoping I heard CBR.

73,

Kraig




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Re: [IRCA] Canada station question

[Scott Fybush]

On 3/17/2016 11:42 AM, R. Colin Newell wrote:

Not really true -- CBC Overnight features the BBC, Radio Australia,
formerly DW and others.



OK, point taken. But in terms of domestic news product, CBC doesn't run 
anything with any brand other than CBC News. True?


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[IRCA] WDND South Bend

[Scott Fybush]

I can't find which of these lists had a thread about it in the last day 
or two, so just to make sure it reaches everyone who might have been 
wondering:


WDND 1620 has *not* changed formats. I asked Blaine Thompson of Indiana 
RadioWatch to check with the station's owner, and the word came back 
that 1620 is still "U93" top-40, simulcasting with WNDV 92.9 in South Bend.


So whatever's being heard with oldies on 1620, it's not WDND.

(And thanks for checking, Blaine!)

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Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition

[Scott Fybush]

On 2/26/2016 12:34 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Here's my response:

I’m all for the changes… And I’m a DXer and broadcaster!!

Who cares about WGY in Boston or Pittsburgh? Who cares about KDKA in
Cincinatti or NYC?



That's not the real issue. The issue is who cares about WGY in Albany or 
about KDKA in Pittsburgh. These 50 kW stations are the *only* AMs at 
this point that reach even a significant majority of their markets after 
dark or during critical hours. Reduce the protection they now enjoy from 
incoming interference (or worse yet, reduce their power) and now those 
stations, too, fall beneath the noise floor for listeners *within* their 
own markets. You can't magically add new RF to clean AM channels 
somewhere *outside* a market without causing new interference *within* 
that market. Every attempt to cram new signals into the MW spectrum over 
the last 70 years has been testament to that truth.


As it stands, there are already entire markets - DC, for instance, 
Houston, Miami, among others - in which there is not even one AM station 
that can be clearly heard across the entire market. Eliminating more 
protection would only make that situation worse. It's a recipe for 
killing off the last remaining big-market AMs that actually draw 
listeners and make money.


I wrote about this at great length in my original comments on the FCC 
rulemaking from which this current proposal derives:


http://www.fybush.com/nerw-extra-our-am-improvement-filing/

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Re: [IRCA] US station history questions

[Scott Fybush]

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/am-query is the new URL for AM query. 
Bet you can't guess what the one for FM query is :)


Merry Christmas to those who celebrate...73 and good DX to all from 
snowless, strangely warm upstate NY...


s

On 12/25/2015 12:51 PM, Dennis Gibson wrote:

The URL for AM query didn't change. The URL for FM query did.

Sent from my iPad


On Dec 25, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Russ Edmunds  wrote:

And IF you can get into AMQ anymore. I had thought it was phased out &
disabled - perhaps they just changed the urls again.

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On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Scott Fybush  wrote:

On 12/24/2015 8:28 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

620  NJ   When did this move from Newark to Jersey City ?

860  MD  When did this move from Dundalk to Baltimore ?
1230  WV  When did this change from WTAP to WKYG ?
1240  TN  When did this change from WBIR to  WEZK ?
1300  NJ  When did this move from Trenton to Ewing ?
1340  PA  When did this move from Wilkes Barre to Plains ?
1340  NY  When did this change from  WUSJ to WLVL ?
1340  DC  When did this change from WOOK to WYCB ?
1460  NY  When did this change from WHEC to WWWG ?
1470  WV  When did this change to WHRD ?  ( now deleted )
1540  NY  When did this change from WPAW to WYRD  ?
1540  PA  I have conflicting listings for Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd.
FCC
currently shows Philadelphia, the old WJMJ was also Philadelphia ? Was it
ever really in Bala Cynwyd ?


WHEC became WAXC January 5, 1972. WAXC became WWWG in 1978, if memory
serves. Might have been early 1979.

For many of these questions, the answers reside in the FCC's history
cards, which can be accessed through the AM Query. *IF* the station existed
before 1978, and *IF* its history cards have been scanned, a PDF link will
appear in the detailed search results from AM Query. The scanning is taking
place as resources permit, in alphabetical order based on the station's
callsign as of the end of the history card system in 1978. They are up to
about WK-- now, maybe WL--.

The 1540 Philly question is complicated. In order to get night power, 1540
had to be relicensed from Philadelphia to Bala. (There was never a site
change.) There was a CP grant in the early 1990s, and the CP was actually
built out. But the story goes that the station never paid the consulting
engineer who did the work to put in the new night phasor (at the day
location along Ridge Pike in Roxborough), and after waiting for his bills
to get paid, said engineer went back one night, removed the night equipment
and walked away. The night facility was never rebuilt, no license to cover
the CP was ever filed, and 1540 reverted to daytime-only with Philadelphia
as COL. (It's safe to tell this story now; the engineer in question died
some years back and it's become local broadcast legend, with the added
fillip that it's actually true!)

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Re: [IRCA] Trans World Radio PJB 800

[Scott Fybush]

On 12/24/2015 9:56 PM, Dave Marthouse wrote:

Scott,

What kind of antenna system was TWR using when you visited?  Were they
directional at that time?  I assume that their pattern by the time you
were there was directed more to South America.


It was a five-tower directional, but an unusual one in that only the 
center tower was driven. The other four in a parallelogram around the 
center tower were passive and could be detuned as needed to create 
different DA patterns. They had one south-pointing pattern to serve 
South America at night, then went ND for the morning hours to serve the 
Caribbean, and could also steer the array to point north for a few hours 
a day. It was more like a SW antenna setup than the typical MW array.



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Re: [IRCA] Trans World Radio PJB 800

[Scott Fybush]

On 12/24/2015 8:38 PM, Bob Young wrote:

In clear and loud at times with some heavy fading but is dominant on
the frequency, SS religious programming, Radio transmundial ID at
8:30 ET. This is the first time I've logged this station in more than
30 years,  Kralendijk, Island Of Bonaire,


I remember driving from Waltham to Lawrence one night in the mid-1990s 
(let's say 1993 or maybe 1994) to visit a friend who was working at WCCM 
800 there. Their night power was so anemic that I was hearing PJB on the 
car radio even as I was parking my car in front of the WCCM studios.


A few years later, I had the opportunity to tour TWR while on my 
honeymoon on Bonaire. The facility has gone through several 
modifications since then, including a complete rebuild of the antenna 
array and the replacement of the Brown-Boveri 500 kW transmitter it was 
then using.


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Re: [IRCA] US station history questions

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On 12/24/2015 8:28 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:


620  NJ   When did this move from Newark to Jersey City ?
860  MD  When did this move from Dundalk to Baltimore ?
1230  WV  When did this change from WTAP to WKYG ?
1240  TN  When did this change from WBIR to  WEZK ?
1300  NJ  When did this move from Trenton to Ewing ?
1340  PA  When did this move from Wilkes Barre to Plains ?
1340  NY  When did this change from  WUSJ to WLVL ?
1340  DC  When did this change from WOOK to WYCB ?
1460  NY  When did this change from WHEC to WWWG ?
1470  WV  When did this change to WHRD ?  ( now deleted )
1540  NY  When did this change from WPAW to WYRD  ?
1540  PA  I have conflicting listings for Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd. FCC
currently shows Philadelphia, the old WJMJ was also Philadelphia ? Was it
ever really in Bala Cynwyd ?


WHEC became WAXC January 5, 1972. WAXC became WWWG in 1978, if memory 
serves. Might have been early 1979.


For many of these questions, the answers reside in the FCC's history 
cards, which can be accessed through the AM Query. *IF* the station 
existed before 1978, and *IF* its history cards have been scanned, a PDF 
link will appear in the detailed search results from AM Query. The 
scanning is taking place as resources permit, in alphabetical order 
based on the station's callsign as of the end of the history card system 
in 1978. They are up to about WK-- now, maybe WL--.


The 1540 Philly question is complicated. In order to get night power, 
1540 had to be relicensed from Philadelphia to Bala. (There was never a 
site change.) There was a CP grant in the early 1990s, and the CP was 
actually built out. But the story goes that the station never paid the 
consulting engineer who did the work to put in the new night phasor (at 
the day location along Ridge Pike in Roxborough), and after waiting for 
his bills to get paid, said engineer went back one night, removed the 
night equipment and walked away. The night facility was never rebuilt, 
no license to cover the CP was ever filed, and 1540 reverted to 
daytime-only with Philadelphia as COL. (It's safe to tell this story 
now; the engineer in question died some years back and it's become local 
broadcast legend, with the added fillip that it's actually true!)


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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Canadian AM Call Changes Questions

[Scott Fybush]

On 12/24/2015 4:54 PM, James Niven wrote:


The only place I can recommend is 
http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index2.html - General Directory - Radio 
Stations – Station Listings and Histories – Select your Province


Of COURSE I should have thought of this one! Thanks for the reminder. 
These guys do great work.


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Re: [IRCA] Canadian AM Call Changes Questions

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On 12/24/2015 4:07 PM, Russ Edmunds wrote:

I'm trying to overcome the gaps created by being inactive from 1983-1989,
and I'm looking for the call sign histories of a number of Canadian
stations -- or, better yet - a source where I can look them up like I can
for most US stations on FCC's CDBS.


There's no overall source of which I'm aware, unfortunately.


Here are the ones I'm looking to obtain, and I'd likely want all changes
since 1983:

590 Toronto


CKEY, CKYC (1991), CJCL (1995)


600 North Bay


CFCH, CKAT (1996)


600 Montreal


CFCF, CIQC (1991), then that license moved to CINW 940 in 2001. New 
calls haven't been chosen yet for the new 600 permit; many doubt it will 
ever make it to air.



690 Montreal


CBF, silent 1999, CINF (2001 - license moved from CKVL 850), silent, 
CKGM (2011 - license moved from CKGM 990)



730 Leamington


CHYR-7 as nighttime-only, then moved to FM in 1994. CHYR operated 
fulltime on 730 for a brief time leading to the FM transition, so one 
could argue that the "CHYR" call applied to both day and night operation 
on 730 for that period.



790 Sudbury


CKSO, CIGM (1990), silent 2009 (moved to 93.5 FM)


960 Kingston


CKWS, CFFX (1987), silent 2007 (moved to 104.3 FM)


1250 Oakville


CHWO, CJYE (2001 after the CHWO calls and format moved to 740)


1310 Ottawa


CFGM, CIWW (1985)


1350 Oshawa


CKAR, CKDO (1992), moved to 1580 (2006)


1430 Toronto


CJCL, CKYC (1995), CHKT (1997)


1540 Toronto


CHIN



I realize that not all of these are considered officially as call changes,
but from my point of view, the fact that a station went dark for a while,
and then someone else resurrected the facility ( with or without new
equipment, site etc ) doesn't change anything - to me it's still a call
change.

Thanks in advance for any help !


Hope this is useful!!

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Re: [IRCA] Meet the 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380

[Scott Fybush]

I've remained immune to the FSL obsession until now...but this might just
have to happen to one of my 380s this year.  Very tempting! Nice work, Gary!
On Dec 23, 2015 6:45 PM,  wrote:

> David, Ira, and Walt,
>
> Thanks for your comments on the 3" FSL PL-380!
>
> Walt, I think that this radio has a better chance of getting through
> airport TSA checkpoints than a stand-alone FSL (which looks like a ring of
> dynamite). The FSL size is small, and they might actually believe you when
> you say that it is a radio antenna.
>
> DXing performance does seem to be all that I could have hoped for.
> Sensitivity and nulling ability seem to be in a new league for portables,
> and I wish that you could try one of these out there in Hawaii.
> Fortunately, I have a huge stock of the 100mm x 20mm x 3mm ferrite bars
> (from Ukraine's Donbass region) already here in Puyallup, so there are no
> supply bottlenecks due to Putin's shenanigans.
>
> 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
>
> From: "Walter Salmaniw" 
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <
> irca@hard-core-dx.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 9:25:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Meet the 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380
>
> Congratulations, Gary!  I'm very interested in seeing the results.  Perhaps
> one will be able to fly with this, something I haven't been able to do with
> the larger loops!  Very pertinent, as I sit enjoying the band in Kauai,
> wishing that I had a better antenna!  73,  Walt Salmaniw
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Ira Elbert New III 
> wrote:
>
> > Very nice. I'll take one, in red please.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Bert
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:57 AM, "David McCormick" 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Wow! Gary you've really stooped to your lowest level this time! Nice
> > work, as usual.
> > >
> > > Dave M.
> > >
> > >> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:27 AM, d1028g...@comcast.net wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hello All,
> > >>
> > >> Portable antenna fanaticism hit a new high (or low, depending upon
> your
> > perspective) this early morning. The photo posted at
> > https://app.box.com/s/lxy3b5srx5f66qg4hj6nabxt5gchee3f
> > >> shows the 3" FSL Tecsun PL-380, with a directly connected 3" bar FSL
> > composed of 8 lightweight Russian surplus 100mm x 20mm x 3mm ferrite
> bars.
> > The radio's internal Si4734 DSP chip tunes the 300 uH FSL antenna coil
> > throughout the MW band, so that the DXer simply needs to tune the radio
> > (and get the huge sensitivity boost). Initial indications are that the
> > modified portable is the most sensitive one ever tested, with a
> > science-fiction-like ability to null even local pest stations.
> Construction
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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 930 -- "Today's Best Mix" and Adele

[Scott Fybush]

Almost certainly WIZR. They haven't been standards in a while. They're 
doing hot AC/top-40 with an FM translator as "Z102.9."


s

On 12/22/2015 5:59 AM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

It's not WHON... The person there says they are playing wall to wall
Christmas music now.

Paul

On Monday, December 21, 2015, Saul Chernos mailto:sau...@sympatico.ca>> wrote:


Paul Walker wrote:
We can rule out WGAD an d KOGA WGAd is classic hits, KOGA is
older standards and may be playing holiday music. WHON's webstream
is playing music right now. They ID as 101.7 The Point. KTKN is
playing hot ac music right now, which would be a format Adele would
fit on


I've also ruled out WBEN NY and WRVC WV doing any kind of stunting
because this is mixing with them. Likeliest suspects are Battle
Creek MI, WHON IN, WHLM PA and WIZR NY. If it's KTKN I have nothing
left to accomplish and can quit the hobby on a high note. ;-)
Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Saul Chernos > wrote:

930 -- "Today's Best Mix" -- and song by Adele. No idea who.
Aimed wsw. Saul ON
At 2146 EST, Checked WHON IN web site and it's supposedly
carrying an NBA game.

Format change? New slogan?

Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON


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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Fun on 1300 aimed south with WRDZ gone.

[Scott Fybush]

On 11/4/2015 7:15 PM, neilkaz neil...@earthlink.net [ABDX] wrote:

New tonight to me south are WMTN TN and WOAD MS.

Last night mixing with unneeded WLXG in semi-AU cx was a Spanish
station with La Ranchera ID's. Nothing I can find fits that and all
my sources say that WBZQ (which didn't use that slogan) is still off
the air. Ideas anyone?


WBZQ is dead and quite unlikely ever to return, from what I hear.

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Re: [IRCA] KMIK-1580

[Scott Fybush]

KMIK has requested new calls KHEP, which is an old call for 1280 in
Phoenix. I believe the former operators of KHEP 1280 will be running the
new 1580 KHEP.
On Oct 9, 2015 2:44 PM, "Bill Block"  wrote:

> Thanks for the info on KMIK-1580 and yes they are still Radio Disney.
>
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> Prescott Valley, AZ
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Re: [IRCA] CFCW 790 Camrose, Alberta, Canada Moving on August 1st

[Scott Fybush]

On 8/1/2015 11:12 PM, Chris Dorn wrote:

The frequency flip was interesting to listen to, and had some hiccups.
Took them about 15 minutes to get everything sorted out. The new signal
is very strong here.

Chris VE6IY near Edmonton, AB


I was listening on the stream, which appears to be fed from an off-air 
receiver. The 790 signal sounded a little anemic before the flip, and 
then the stream was a mess until just before 9 PM MT, when it cleared up.


I'd love to hear an off-air recording of the flip from Chris or anyone 
else who might have been listening in the area!


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[IRCA] The 2015 Convention program

[Scott Fybush]

It's finally on its way to the printer to be inserted in convention bags 
later today...but if you're on your way to Fort Wayne (or want to follow 
along with us from a distance!), here's what we're up to:


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[IRCA] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized

[Scott Fybush]

Hello from Fort Wayne, where your hosts are settling in and getting 
everything ready for a great convention experience starting in just a 
few days!


Here's an updated schedule of events, with some new tours and details.

If you STILL haven't made plans yet and want to come, there may be a 
limited number of hotel rooms still available in the additional block we 
reserved after the initial block sold out. We have ONE ticket remaining 
for the baseball game Friday night (we had to purchase a minimum 25 
tickets to get the group rate.)


If you are expecting a pickup or dropoff at the airport, train station 
or bus terminal and have not yet CONFIRMED it with me or Lisa 
(l...@fybush.com), please do so ASAP!


If you will have a vehicle in Fort Wayne and will be able to make some 
seats available for tours, please let me know. I have a minivan that 
seats six (plus driver), but we'll need more than that for some of these 
events.


Here's what we have so far as a schedule, with some changes still 
possible as we get closer.


FRIDAY JULY 10

10:30 AM - Optional tour for early arrivals: Sweetwater (sweetwater.com) 
is a Fort Wayne-based music and electronics behemoth that started in the 
1970s as a mobile recording studio in a van. It's now one of Fort 
Wayne's biggest employers, and we've arranged a special tour of its 
state-of-the-art recording studios, warehouse and retail location on US 
30 just a few minutes from the hotel. Please meet in front of the hotel 
at 10:15 if you're interested in going to Sweetwater!


12:00 PM - Convention room opens, registration opens

12:30 PM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, PART I
(Pizza and drinks will be provided during the sessions)
Mark Durenberger: Desert DXPeditions 2014-2015/Neil Kazaross on antennas

"NUTS" and volts":   
Brian May TV data, David Yocis request:  Manipulating the SDR,  
Mike Lantz on Miami Pirates, TBA:  RDS and I-D signalling

3 PM - STATION TOURS:

We will tentatively be visiting the brand new tower of WLDE 101.7 on the 
east side of Fort Wayne. We will also at least drive out to the WOWO 
1190 site in Roanoke, Indiana, and I am still hoping to arrange an 
inside tour, pending the availability of station staff.


5:45 PM - Depart the hotel for Parkview Field, for those attending the 
Fort Wayne TinCaps game. The convention room will remain open for 
conversation and hangout time for those not going to the game


The game starts at 7, but our suite will be open starting at 5:30 and 
the buffet dinner will be served starting at 6. If you ordered a ticket, 
you should have received an email from Lisa with details today. Your 
ticket and wristband will be in your registration packet when you arrive.


~10 PM (after the game) - LATE NIGHT RADIO CHAT

SATURDAY JULY 11

9 AM - IRCA business meeting

9:30 AM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, PART II

Nick Hall-Patch/Bill Whitacre-Parallel DXPeditions
Carl Luetzelschwab Solar impact on Propagation  

NHP, CL, MD  Noise reduction---Optional "panel"   

12:30 PM - Depart the hotel for lunch somewhere nearby

-or -

12:30 PM - FUN TOUR - DeBrand Chocolate factory
Contact Lisa (l...@fybush.com) if you're interested in joining her for a 
visit to Fort Wayne's delicious DeBrand Chocolate, which has grown into 
one of the nation's premiere specialty chocolatiers.


2:30 PM - STATION TOUR - Adams Radio Group
The Adams Radio Group recently purchased and reconfigured two Fort Wayne 
radio clusters, combining its stations in the facility on Lower 
Huntington Road that has been the WGL 1250 transmitter site since the 
1940s and has been the WGL studios since 1972. The facility is now home 
to one AM transmitter and studios for two AM stations (WGL 1250 and WLYV 
1450) along with six FM stations (WBTU 93.3, WXKE 96.3, W245BL "B96.9", 
W277AK "Great Country 103.3," WWFW 103.9, WJFX 107.9).


4 PM - STATION TOUR - WOWO/Federated Media
The facility at 2915 Maples Road was originally constructed in 1947 as 
the transmitter site of WKJG 1380. It is still the WKJG transmitter 
site, and now also houses studios for all of Federated Media's stations 
in the market, including the legendary WOWO 1190.


6 PM - Cocktail hour begins
6:30 PM - BANQUET AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS

As radio approaches its centennial, our keynote speaker this year will 
take us back to the earliest days of radio listening in Fort Wayne. 
Betty Stein is a prominent local resident and columnist for the Fort 
Wayne News-Sentinel. Born nine years before WOWO even signed on the air, 
she'll share her memories of radio and television, including some of her 
own early appearances on WOWO. Mrs. Stein received an honorary Ph.D. 
last year, at age 97, from St. Francis University in Fort Wayne, where 
she earned her master's degree. She still works one day a week at 
Memorial Park Middle School. (In addition to her other accomplishments, 
she also just happen

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized

[Scott Fybush]

On 7/1/2015 6:11 PM, Duane Whittingham wrote:

For those of us who can not attend will there be any streaming or
recordings?
or at least maybe copies of presentations?



Good question!

I don't think we'll have the ability to do live streaming (though Mark 
might have some better ideas than I do), but the sessions will certainly 
be recorded. In the past, they've often been made available via the 
NRC's DXAS, but with that now gone, I'm not sure what avenues exist to 
get the audio and/or video out there after the fact. Stay tuned!


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[IRCA] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized

[Scott Fybush]

Hard to believe it's barely more than a week before the 
IRCA/NRC/WTFDA/DecalcoMania joint DX Convention kicks off in Fort Wayne, 
Indiana!


Thanks for your patience as we've worked to finalize a schedule of 
events. Your all-volunteer convention planners are at the mercy of many 
factors, including some devastating flooding last weekend that knocked 
out power to a big chunk of Fort Wayne for several days and kept the 
local engineers especially busy repairing damage and getting their 
stations back on the air.


If you haven't made plans yet and still want to come, there may be a 
limited number of hotel rooms still available in the additional block we 
reserved after the initial block sold out. We can accommodate additional 
banquet guests and baseball attendees, but I need to hear from you by 
FRIDAY, JULY 3 if you're interested.


If you are expecting a pickup or dropoff at the airport, train station 
or bus terminal and have not yet confirmed it with me, please do so ASAP!


Here's what we have so far as a schedule, with some changes still 
possible as we get closer.


FRIDAY JULY 10

12:00 PM - Convention room opens, registration opens

12:30 PM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, PART I
(Pizza and drinks will be provided during the sessions)
Mark Durenberger: Desert DXPeditions 2014-2015/Neil Kazaross on antennas

"NUTS" and volts":   
Brian May TV data, David Yocis request:  Manipulating the SDR,  
Mike Lantz on Miami Pirates, TBA:  RDS and I-D signalling

3 PM - STATION TOURS, TBA (We will at least drive out to the WOWO 1190 
site in Roanoke, Indiana, and I am still hoping to arrange an inside 
tour, pending the availability of station staff.)


6 PM - Depart the hotel for Parkview Field, for those attending the Fort 
Wayne TinCaps game. The convention room will remain open for 
conversation and hangout time for those not going to the game


~10 PM (after the game) - LATE NIGHT RADIO CHAT

SATURDAY JULY 11

9:30 AM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, PART II

Nick Hall-Patch/Bill Whitacre-Parallel DXPeditions
Carl Luetzelschwab Solar impact on Propagation  

NHP, CL, MD  Noise reduction---Optional "panel"   

12:30 PM - Depart the hotel for lunch somewhere nearby

2:30 PM - STATION TOUR - Adams Radio Group
The Adams Radio Group recently purchased and reconfigured two Fort Wayne 
radio clusters, combining its stations in the facility on Lower 
Huntington Road that has been the WGL 1250 transmitter site since the 
1940s and has been the WGL studios since 1972. The facility is now home 
to one AM transmitter and studios for two AM stations (WGL 1250 and WLYV 
1450) along with six FM stations (WBTU 93.3, WXKE 96.3, W245BL "B96.9", 
W277AK "Great Country 103.3," WWFW 103.9, WJFX 107.9).


4 PM - STATION TOUR - WOWO/Federated Media
The facility at 2915 Maples Road was originally constructed in 1947 as 
the transmitter site of WKJG 1380. It is still the WKJG transmitter 
site, and now also houses studios for all of Federated Media's stations 
in the market, including the legendary WOWO 1190.


6 PM - Cocktail hour begins
6:30 PM - BANQUET AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9 PM - AUCTION

SUNDAY JULY 12

9:30 AM - Club business meetings
10:30 AM - The Great DX Quiz
12:00 PM - Convention room closes

(Depending on interest, there *may* be an additional station tour or two 
in the early afternoon, or at least a drive by the TV tower farm just up 
the road from the hotel. We could also do this Friday morning if enough 
people are already in town who are interested.)


Any questions? Drop me a line and I'll do my best to answer. I am in 
Rochester until July 4 and will then be on the road to Fort Wayne July 5.


See you in WOWO-land!!







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[IRCA] Fort Wayne Convention UPDATE!

[Scott Fybush]

(Please distribute to other DXers who might not be on these mailing lists!)

We're now less than a month away from the kickoff of the 2015 DX 
Convention in Fort Wayne, Indiana, co-sponsored by DecalcoMania, IRCA, 
NRC and WTFDA - and YOU (yes, YOU!) can still join us.


We'd originally announced a June 10 cutoff for hotel registrations, and 
we actually ran out of our original block of rooms a day or two before 
that. But fear not: the good folks at Hall's Guesthouse opened a new 
block of rooms for us at the same $85 rate, and those rooms will be 
available for as long as they last.


Registration for the convention itself and the ballgame has been 
extended to June 26 to account for club bulletin deadlines.


All the details are on the front page of nrcdxas.org, where you can also 
sign up online.


See you in WOWO-land!
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[IRCA] Fort Wayne DX Convention July 11-13 - deadlines are approaching!

[Scott Fybush]

We're just under a month to the Fort Wayne DX convention, and the 
deadlines for hotel registration (June 10) and convention and ballgame 
registration (June 20) are approaching quickly! Please get your 
registration in soon if you're planning to join us! More information at 
the NRC website, or just ask!


www.nrcdxas.org

--

IT'S TIME TO REGISTER FOR THE 2015 FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION!
Joint NRC/IRCA/WTFDA Convention: July 10-12 Fort Wayne, Indiana. 
Register for $56.00 US using PayPal. 	
We're close to our big joint gathering hosted by IRCA, NRC, WTFDA and 
DecalcoMania, July 10-12 in fabulous Fort Wayne, Indiana - and 
registration is now open.


Your $55 registration fee includes

-Tours of area radio and TV facilities
-Educational sessions with top DXers
-Snacks and beverages (liquid, not wire!) in our meeting room
-Saturday night banquet catered by Hall's, one of Fort Wayne's top 
restaurateurs


-Convention program you can register by check/money order (made payable 
to "National Radio Club" and sent c/o Scott Fybush, 92 Bonnie Brae Ave, 
Rochester NY 14618) or PayPal on the front page of www.nrcdxas.org. (A 
small additional convenience fee may apply for PayPal registration.)


PLUS...

On Friday night, July 10, we've arranged a special group rate to see the 
Fort Wayne Tincaps, the class A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, take 
on the Great Lakes Loons at Fort Wayne's new downtown ballpark, Parkview 
Field! Your $30 ticket includes a buffet dinner - there's no better 
bargain in baseball.


If you'd like to purchase a ticket, please contact Lisa Fybush at 
l...@fybush.com or send a $30 check/money order (made payable to "Lisa 
Fybush") to 92 Bonnie Brae Ave, Rochester NY 14618.


***REGISTRATION FOR THE CONVENTION AND FOR THE BALLGAME IS DUE BY JUNE 
20th!***


HOTEL:

Our hotel will be Don Hall's Guesthouse, 1313 W. Washington Center Road, 
Fort Wayne IN 46825 and our specially negotiated rate is $85 per room 
per night. That includes comfortable lodgings and a very tasty breakfast 
buffet each morning. The hotel is conveniently located right off I-69, 
the main drag through Fort Wayne.


Reservations for the hotel are due by ***JUNE 10, 2015*** and must be 
made directly with the hotel by calling 260-489-2524 or 1-800-348-1999.


The Group Number is 7110. PLEASE BE SURE TO GIVE THE GROUP NUMBER TO 
MAKE SURE WE ARE PROPERLY CREDITED FOR ALL THE ROOMS THE CLUBS ARE USING!


Once you've made your reservation, please drop me a line at 
sc...@fybush.com so I can keep track of who's staying with us.


EVENTS:

Our convention will get under way on Friday, July 10, with afternoon 
station tours and educational sessions. We'll leave the hotel at 6 to go 
downtown for the baseball game, if you're going. (If not, the meeting 
room and hotel restaurant will be open, and there are numerous other 
restaurants close to the hotel as well.)


On Saturday, July 11, we'll have additional station tours and 
educational sessions during the day, followed by our banquet, auction 
and club business meetings in the evening. The meeting room will be open 
afterward for informal DX bull sessions!


On Sunday, July 12, we'll have our famous DX Quiz in the morning, before 
heading our separate ways. (There may be another tour or two as well, if 
anyone's interested.)


If you are planning to come to the convention with your family (or are 
trying to figure out your summer vacation plans), summer is the peak 
time to visit the Fort Wayne area. The annual Three Rivers Festival 
kicks off July 11 with a parade and continues for nine days with a 
variety of activities.


Fort Wayne also has a nationally renowned Children's Zoo, a historical 
society, an art museum and a botanical garden. If you are interested in 
any nonradio activities for yourself or your companions, please get in 
touch with Lisa at 585-442-5411 or l...@fybush.com and tell her what 
sounds fun. If there's something else that sounds fun, tell her that, 
too. This is not a comprehensive list. Lisa will coordinate any 
extraconventional activities.


AUCTION: Please send donations for the auction to Blaine Thompson, 6523 
Emmons Drive, Fort Wayne IN 46835 - or bring them to the convention with 
you!


TRANSPORTATION:

In addition to easy road access from much of the country, Fort Wayne is 
accessible by most major airlines and Greyhound bus. Amtrak serves 
Waterloo, Indiana, about half an hour away from the convention hotel. 
Please let us know as soon as possible if you'll need to be picked up at 
the airport, bus station or train stop. The hotel is just off I-69 and 
has plenty of free parking.


ANY QUESTIONS?

Registration, convention schedule, hotel or transportation: Drop me a 
line at sc...@fybush.com


Ballgame or family activities: Drop Lisa a line at l...@fybush.com

Educational program:

[IRCA] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION! Registration now open!

[Scott Fybush]

IT'S TIME TO REGISTER FOR THE 2015 FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION!

We're now less than two months away from our big joint gathering hosted 
by IRCA, NRC, WTFDA and DecalcoMania, July 10-12 in fabulous Fort Wayne, 
Indiana - and registration is now open.


Your $55 registration fee includes

-Tours of area radio and TV facilities
-Educational sessions with top DXers
-Snacks and beverages (liquid, not wire!) in our meeting room
-Saturday night banquet catered by Hall's, one of Fort Wayne's top 
restaurateurs

-Convention program

You can register by check/money order (made payable to "National Radio 
Club" and sent c/o Scott Fybush, 92 Bonnie Brae Ave, Rochester NY 14618) 
or PayPal on the front page of www.nrcdxas.org. (A small additional 
convenience fee may apply for PayPal registration.)


PLUS...

On Friday night, July 10, we've arranged a special group rate to see the 
Fort Wayne Tincaps, the class A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, take 
on the Great Lakes Loons at Fort Wayne's new downtown ballpark, Parkview 
Field! Your $30 ticket includes a buffet dinner - there's no better 
bargain in baseball.


If you'd like to purchase a ticket, please contact Lisa Fybush at 
l...@fybush.com or send a $30 check/money order (made payable to "Lisa 
Fybush") to 92 Bonnie Brae Ave, Rochester NY 14618.


***REGISTRATION FOR THE CONVENTION AND FOR THE BALLGAME IS DUE BY JUNE 
20!***


HOTEL:

Our hotel will be Don Hall's Guesthouse, 1313 W. Washington Center Road, 
Fort Wayne IN 46825 and our specially negotiated rate is $85 per room 
per night. That includes comfortable lodgings and a very tasty breakfast 
buffet each morning. The hotel is conveniently located right off I-69, 
the main drag through Fort Wayne.


Reservations for the hotel are due by ***JUNE 10, 2015*** and must be 
made directly with the hotel by calling 260-489-2524 or 1-800-348-1999.


The Group Number is 7110. PLEASE BE SURE TO GIVE THE GROUP NUMBER TO 
MAKE SURE WE ARE PROPERLY CREDITED FOR ALL THE ROOMS THE CLUBS ARE USING!


Once you've made your reservation, please drop me a line at 
sc...@fybush.com so I can keep track of who's staying with us.


EVENTS:

Our convention will get under way on Friday, July 10, with afternoon 
station tours and educational sessions. We'll leave the hotel at 6 to go 
downtown for the baseball game, if you're going. (If not, the meeting 
room and hotel restaurant will be open, and there are numerous other 
restaurants close to the hotel as well.)


On Saturday, July 11, we'll have additional station tours and 
educational sessions during the day, followed by our banquet, auction 
and club business meetings in the evening. The meeting room will be open 
afterward for informal DX bull sessions!


On Sunday, July 12, we'll have our famous DX Quiz in the morning, before 
heading our separate ways. (There may be another tour or two as well, if 
anyone's interested.)


If you are planning to come to the convention with your family (or are 
trying to figure out your summer vacation plans), summer is the peak 
time to visit the Fort Wayne area. The annual Three Rivers Festival 
kicks off July 11 with a parade and continues for nine days with a 
variety of activities.


Fort Wayne also has a nationally renowned Children's Zoo, a historical 
society, an art museum and a botanical garden. If you are interested in 
any nonradio activities for yourself or your companions, please get in 
touch with Lisa at 585-442-5411 or l...@fybush.com and tell her what 
sounds fun. If there's something else that sounds fun, tell her that, 
too. This is not a comprehensive list. Lisa will coordinate any 
extraconventional activities.


AUCTION:

Please send donations for the auction to Blaine Thompson, 6523 Emmons 
Drive, Fort Wayne IN 46835 - or bring them to the convention with you!


TRANSPORTATION:

In addition to easy road access from much of the country, Fort Wayne is 
accessible by most major airlines and Greyhound bus. Amtrak serves 
Waterloo, Indiana, about half an hour away from the convention hotel. 
Please let us know as soon as possible if you'll need to be picked up at 
the airport, bus station or train stop. The hotel is just off I-69 and 
has plenty of free parking.


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Registration, convention schedule, hotel or transportation: Drop me a 
line at sc...@fybush.com


Ballgame or family activities: Drop Lisa a line at l...@fybush.com

Educational program: If you'd like to speak or have an idea for a talk, 
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Re: [IRCA] IBOC Hash AM vs FM OT question

[Scott Fybush]

On 5/20/2015 1:14 AM, Patrick Martin wrote:


I guess nulling FM or AM hash is the same. I have tried to get "any"
hash at this location. To date I have still never detected any. Now,
it could be that the hash is so weak not the detect.


Something else to consider about "hash": you won't generally hear it 
from the audio output of an HD radio. "Hash" is digital data being 
received on an analog receiver, right? You hear it as static because the 
analog receiver doesn't know what else to do with it. But an HD radio's 
DSP *knows* what to do with it and knows not to pass it out as analog 
noise, so it will either mute on the adjacent channel or even use the 
DSP to do some really advanced filtering to pull out analog 
adjacent-channel audio from right under the digital data.



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Re: [IRCA] IBOC Hash AM vs FM OT question

[Scott Fybush]

On 5/20/2015 12:49 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

I have to ask a stupid question.. you say you get the analog station, but
the RDS from the HD station.. do you know for sure you've locked into the
HD signal of a station?

Because some analog stations have RDS and it has nothing to do with HD.. I
worked for a station that had RDS and was not operating in HD.


There are no stupid questions, so long as you're willing to pay 
attention for a complex answer.


"RDS" is both a specific and a generic term. As DXers, we use it 
generically to describe any text info that appears on the display of a 
radio. Specifically, though, "RDS" (or "RBDS" in the rest of the world) 
is one distinct way of transmitting that text: as low-speed digital data 
over a 57 kHz subcarrier that's part of an FM station's analog 
transmission.


HD Radio (and other digital transmission schemes such as DAB) have their 
own data systems that operate completely independently of the 57 kHz RDS 
signal. For HD Radio on FM, that's called "PAD" (program associated data).


Where it gets confusing is that most (but not all) HD receivers can also 
decode RDS as well as PAD, and often display both sets of data in 
similar ways. Let's go back to Patrick's 88.1 situation and see what's 
happening:


If you put a spectrum analyzer on the low end of the FM dial at 
Patrick's QTH, you'd see this, roughly:


87.8 ---

KQOC lower HD sideband

88.0 ---

KQOC's analog, overridden by stronger KWAO analog

88.2 ---

KQOC upper HD sideband

88.4 ---

So what does a radio do when confronted with this mix of RF?

Typically, an HD receiver locks in on analog first, so KWAO's analog 
audio will be the first thing you hear. If KWAO had RDS, you'd probably 
see its RDS data decoding fairly quickly, too. While you're hearing 
analog KWAO (and maybe seeing the associated RDS), the radio tuned to 
"88.1" is also looking at those upper and lower sidebands (87.8-88.0 and 
88.2-88.4 MHz, roughly) to see if there's something digital to decode.


If it finds data there, the radio then starts decoding it, but that 
takes a few seconds, in part because HD includes a time delay. (On the 
Sony receivers, it will say "Linking" if it's found HD but hasn't 
started decoding it yet.)


Once the radio locks into those digital sidebands, you'll hear the HD 
audio and the data that it displays will come from the HD PAD stream, 
not the analog signal's RDS subcarrier. In effect, while the radio may 
say it's tuned to "88.1," it's actually *ignoring* that analog stuff 
between 88.0-88.2 and tuning into the sidebands above and below. That's 
why KWAO appears to "turn into" KQOC. If KWAO ever turned on HD, its HD 
would be much stronger at Patrick's QTH than KQOC's, and KQOC would go 
away completely.


This also explains what happens on 96.5 - the PAD data is designed to be 
more robust and to decode faster than the more processing-intensive 
digital audio. Most HD radios will always try to default to whatever 
they can get from the digital signal, even if it doesn't match the 
analog. So if it can pull just enough KJAQ signal to decode the PAD 
data, it will display that instead of KCYS' RDS...even if there's not 
enough KJAQ signal to decode digital audio and so the KCYS analog audio 
stays on.


If I were designing an HD receiver specifically for DX'er use, I'd 
probably set it up with two sets of displays and maybe even two sets of 
audio outputs, one showing the RDS from the analog signal, one the PAD 
from digital. Because really, what's happening here is that you have two 
completely separate transmission systems going on at once on the same FM 
band.


Oh, and KNHC? It is indeed on Cougar and has been since 2002. But it 
uses a directional antenna with a deep null to the south, which helps to 
explain why it's not getting down to Seaside.


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Re: [IRCA] IBOC Hash AM vs FM OT question

[Scott Fybush]

For those who are interested in the technical reasons why Patrick 
doesn't get the same kind of adjacent-channel hash that those of us in 
urban areas do, read on. For those who don't...another thread will be 
along shortly with convention news ;)


--

As far as propagation is concerned, there is nothing at all magical 
about the digital signals that flank the analog FM signal to create HD 
radio on FM. The ionosphere doesn't care whether it's analog or digital 
modulation. If a signal is (a) strong enough to be received and (b) 
doesn't have something stronger sitting over it, you'll get it. If 
either of those factors doesn't exist, you won't.


So: it helps to think of the digital signal as something separate from 
the analog. If you're getting KUOW in HD, for instance, you're really 
getting:


--94.6 ---

KUOW lower digital carriers (on the same piece of spectrum used by an 
analog 94.7 signal)


--94.8 ---

KUOW analog signal (centered at 94.9)

--95.0 ---

KUOW upper digital carriers (on the same spectrum used by an analog 95.1 
signal)


--95.2 ---

Depending on the station's technical setup, the digital signal may 
literally be completely separate from the analog. At WXXI-FM, for 
instance, our digital signal uses a separate transmitter, separate 
transmission line and separate antenna bays interleaved with our analog. 
It is possible (albeit not currently legal) for us to completely turn 
off our analog transmission chain and run only the digital carriers. If 
you were listening on an analog radio, you'd hear nothing on 91.5 (or 
maybe even be able to DX something else on that frequency), but an HD 
radio would detect the digital carriers and still give you WXXI-FM when 
tuned to "91.5."


The digital carriers operate at much lower power levels than the analog. 
Initially, digital operated at just 1% of analog, or 20 dB below carrier 
(-20 dBc). More recently, the FCC has started allowing stations to use 
higher power levels of 4% (-14 dBc) or even 10% (-20 dBc) of analog.


So using KUOW as an example, let's say it's still -20 dBc. That's 100kW 
in analog and 1 kW in digital. If you're in metro Seattle, that 1 kW 
digital is plenty to still ride right over anything else that might be 
coming on the adjacent channels of 94.7 and 95.1. If you're way down in 
Seaside, though, those 1 kW digital signals are DX: point a good antenna 
right at Seattle and you might get them strongly enough to decode, IF 
there's nothing else in the way on those frequencies. Point the antenna 
away from Seattle or disconnect it and you won't hear much of anything, 
as would be the case with ANY signal of 1000 watts from 100+ miles away.


This leads to a bunch of interesting DX scenarios when you start to 
break it all down:


For instance - let's say that you were a little closer to your 
semi-local on 94.9, enough so for it to be an un-nullable pest. But 
let's also say that your local 94.9 is analog-only. So you might have a 
spectrum that looks like this:


94.6 ---

KUOW lower digital sideband, weak but with nothing else in the way

94.8 ---

Your local analog 94.9, loud enough to overwhelm KUOW's analog

95.0 ---

KUOW upper digital sideband, weak but with nothing else in the way

95.2 ---

On an analog radio, all you'd hear is the local when you tune to 94.9. 
But when you tune an HD radio to "94.9," if it can hear those upper and 
lower sidebands, it will ignore the analog in-between...and so you might 
hear your local 94.9 in analog for a few seconds and then, when the HD 
decodes, you'll hear KUOW instead, because while your radio says "94.9," 
it's really looking for signals above and below 94.9 to decode.


There are all sorts of permutations on this that can happen when the 
dial is more crowded. It's easy, for instance, to think of scenarios 
where the spectrum is clear for a distant analog signal but its HD 
sidebands are overwhelmed by locals. For instance, I can easily hear 105 
kW WTSS 102.5 Buffalo in analog from about 70 miles away - but its 
1050-watt digital carriers are completely obscured by locals WVOR 102.3 
and WLGZ on 102.7. If either of those locals goes off, there's WTSS in 
digital, because that bit of spectrum is suddenly open.


Does that help make some sense of all of this?

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Re: [IRCA] KRPA-1110 on the air

[Scott Fybush]

On 5/13/2015 12:39 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Odd? This is an existing daytimer that had been silent, it's not a new one.

That being said, one  could move a full time license from a small town to a
big city and take it from full time to daytime and be legal/get the new
license granted.


One could, except for the policy change the FCC made a few years ago. In 
addition to all the usual requirements for a change in COL (the new 
community has to have a larger population/less local service than the 
old one, etc.), you now have to demonstrate that you're not moving a 
station from a non-urbanized area to an urbanized area.


Of course, the FCC didn't make that change until a ton of stations 
(mostly FM but a few AMs, too) had already made those moves.

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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] DKAZ array aiming east now and lots of TIS fun and WTBQ 1110

[Scott Fybush]

On 4/26/2015 10:25 PM, neilkaz neil...@earthlink.net [ABDX] wrote:

The shambles that is our FCC doesn't have track of all the stns on 1710.


Is the FCC understaffed? Yup. Could its database be cleaner? Of course.

However: the FCC does not have any regulatory authority over signals 
that belong to federal agencies. That's the domain of NTIA and other 
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Re: [IRCA] IRCA Convention West

[Scott Fybush]

On 4/24/2015 4:01 PM, Mike Sanburn wrote:

I want to take an informal poll and ask of the people on this list,
who is planning on attending the IRCA West Convention in Torrance
this September? I know it is still early but so far we have received
no registrations or reservations which makes a host very nervous. 73
Ms


And while we're at it, it would be helpful to me to have some heads-up 
on who from IRCA is planning to be at the joint Fort Wayne convention, 
July 10-12...


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[IRCA] DX CONVENTION 2015 FORT WAYNE! Hotel Registration is now open

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With big thanks for your patience as we've been busy negotiating for a 
good rate...I'm pleased to announce that hotel registration is now open 
for the NRC/IRCA/WTFDA/Decalcomania DX Convention, July 10-12, 2015 in 
Fort Wayne, Indiana!


Our hotel will be Don Hall's Guesthouse Hotel, 1313 W. Washington Center 
Road, Fort Wayne IN 46825, and our specially-negotiated rate is $85 per 
room per night. That includes comfortable lodgings and a very tasty 
breakfast buffet each morning. The hotel is conveniently located right 
off I-69, the main drag through Fort Wayne.


Reservations for the hotel are due by JUNE 10, 2015 and must be made 
directly with the hotel by calling 260-489-2524 or 1-800-348-1999.
The Group Number is 7110. *PLEASE BE SURE TO GIVE THE GROUP # TO MAKE 
SURE WE ARE PROPERLY CREDITED FOR ALL THE ROOMS THE CLUBS ARE USING!*


Once you've made your reservation, please drop me a line at 
sc...@fybush.com so I can keep track of who's staying with us.


Stay tuned in the next few days for additional registration information. 
I expect the registration fee to be about $55/person, which will include 
a Hall's-catered banquet at the hotel Saturday night, a convention 
program and meeting room snacks. We'll also be making tickets available 
separately for a Fort Wayne TinCaps baseball game on Friday night, July 
10 at Fort Wayne's beautiful Parkview Field downtown.


Please share this notice widely through the DX community - all are 
welcome to join us at this exciting joint convention this summer! And 
please reach out to me with any questions - I'll try to answer them as 
quickly as I can.


See you in WOWO-land!!

Your Convention Host,

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Re: [IRCA] WEW-770'S format

[Scott Fybush]

On 9/20/2014 5:01 PM, Forrest Skaine todftscytj7...@gmail.com [ABDX] wrote:


So I went to Wewradio.com and found they are now owned by ©  2013 Birach
Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved. Programming change coming
or happening or not? My guess is that it is or already has begun.


WEW has been owned by Birach for quite a few years now.

Birach is a leased time operator. Their stations don't have "formats." 
They have whatever programming anyone's willing to pay money to 
broadcast. That varies dramatically from market to market. What they 
broadcast on WNWI or WNZK doesn't mean much about what airs on WEW.


In the particular case of WEW, they either fill unsold timeslots with 
standards, or someone's actually buying time to play standards. I'm not 
sure which.


Does that make sense?

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Re: [IRCA] [mwdx] 1450 unID sounds like WKVR

[Scott Fybush]

"Downtown Utica" and WKAL Rome, newly back on the air with talk?
On Mar 31, 2014 11:34 PM, "Chernos Saul"  wrote:

> Curious if anyone can set me straight on calls which surface twice - once
> in each clip - and a few local references.
>
> 1450 - Clip A has a mention of a town right of the bat, and at 0:15 what
> sounds like "downtown Newtonville", and then a set of calls at 0:30. Clip B
> has an ID sounding like WKVR at 0:39.
>
> Online at:
>
> http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?8759
>
> Thank you to anyone with good ears out there...
>
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> Burnt River, Ontario
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[IRCA] (no subject)

[Scott]

Gentlemen,

Carrier on 684 producing audio at times (0324Z).

Scott
Michigan
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[IRCA] Wobbler on 740

[Scott]

Wobbler audible on 740 Khz right now (0150Z).

Scott
Michigan
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[IRCA] LWBC

[Scott]

R. France on 162 khz is already nicely audible here in northern Michigan, still 
about 20 minutes from Sunset (2245 Z).  183 is also quite copiable.   171 and 
216 are weak.  No other longwave broadcasters noted. Maybe this fortells good 
conditions in the MW BCB, at least at the low end. 

Also thanks to all who messaged me regarding 855 being Spain. 

Scott 
Michigan
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[IRCA] R. France

[Scott]

R. France on 162 Kc is coming in nicely (0218Z), with some Jimi Hendrix song I 
don't recognize.   Carrier from Algeria on 153 is evident, but as usual, no 
recoverable audio.  Nothing on 171 from Morroco, and save for a faint trace on 
1089, there are no TA carriers in the MW BCB.  I did record the Alpha on 14.88 
Khz earlier.  

When I see a carrier on 855, what am I likely getting?

Thanks,

Scott
Michigan

I pre-apologize if this message comes through randomly peppered with ? marks.  
I have no idea why my email client seems to do that.


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[IRCA] Subject: Re: 189?? Iceland it is...

[Scott]

Nick,

Congrats on Iceland.  They show up occasionally here in northern Michigan, and 
it's always a treat, because sometimes they play 60's and 70's rock music. Last 
night Radio France on 162 was coming in nicely, and of course the carrier for 
Algeria on 153 (but no recoverable audio, per usual), but nothing else on any 
other longwave channels.

Scott
Michigan


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[IRCA] old Radio World article

[Scott]

Patrick,

I'm a reader of the IRCA list.  I was going through some old files, purging 
stuff, and I came across a November 29th, 1995 Radio World article regarding 
KBOI AM, from Boise Idaho.  You were quoted in it.  The article was generally 
about KBOI's signal being enhanced by a railroad track.  Do you have a copy for 
your scrapbook?

Scott
Michigan



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Re: [IRCA] Disney 1460 Albany, NY

[Scott Fybush]

On 9/29/2013 10:25 PM, David Hochfelder wrote:



I can definitely report that this station is dark. Thank Dog.  This
opens up three channels for me.


Could last for a while, too. I've heard no buzz at all about potential 
buyers for the station.


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Re: [IRCA] REMINDER - DX TEST TONIGHT

[Scott Fybush]

On 3/31/2013 10:36 PM, Bill Nollman wrote:

Does anyone know who did beep tones leading up to the top of the hour at
03:59:57, 03:59:58 and 03:59:59 followed by a long beep tone at 04:00:00?
That was audible here in central Connecticut.
Otherwise 1400 was most definitely a GY with only Fox Sports (probably
Scranton, PA) and Spanish/Mexican (probably Lowell, MA) heard, barely.



Sounds like the time pips leading up to the top of the hour on BBC World 
Service, which would have been running at 0400 on both WSTC-CT and WAMC-NY.


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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2

[Scott Fybush]

On 3/31/2013 6:32 PM, David Hochfelder wrote:


I'm particularly interested in these: Victory Radio Club, Newark News
Radio Club, Universal Radio DX Club, and National Radio Club. I used to
belong to the NRC but let my subscription lapse.


NRC has been slowly scanning a complete set of DX News and making it 
available at e-DXN.com. I'm not sure if they've gotten into the 1940s 
yet or not.


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Re: [IRCA] [Amdx] Radio station changes call letters to WRG3 in support of Redskins quarterback

[Scott Fybush]

On 1/11/2013 6:29 PM, Steve Francis wrote:


Fox5 speak with forked tongue!




March 1956:  WBUZ to WRNC

March 1958:  WRNC to WPGC



Those were the call changes for the AM. I don't believe the FM was even 
on the air that far back - but it, too, has had a call change, having 
gone from WPGC-FM to WCLY to WPGC-FM in the 1980s...


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Re: [IRCA] IRCA Digest, Vol 101, Issue 64

[Scott]

The off-frequncy station is neither WNAM 1280 out of WISC, nor WFYC.     They 
are both daytimers here and both nicely on frequency.   

Scott
NM8R
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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: [NRC-AM] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

[Scott Fybush]

On 7/14/2012 6:07 PM, sc...@fybush.com wrote:

Looking for anyone living in Central or Eastern Time Zones who might've
had a tape recorder rolling during the DX test of KNAK-540 in Utah in
January 1993 (sorry, can't remember the exact date).  I never got the test
from KNAK, but I heard two unIDs on 540 that morning that have bedeviled
me for years.  One was playing classical music (Note: AFTER CBK's s/off!)
and the other had a rock (or oldies) format with "Brother Louie" by the
Stories, "Whipping Post" by The Allman Brothers, and "Wild Thing" by the
Troggs.


The 540 was almost certainly one of Saul Levine's southern
California/Tijuana pair. It appears the Tijuana 540 didn't become
classical XEBACH until 1998 or thereabouts, so we can probably narrow this
down to the now-defunct KKGO 540 Costa Mesa (which wasn't really in Costa
Mesa, but 90 miles away in Hesperia.)


I've had the chance to do some more digging, and I now agree with Rick 
that the 540 with classical wasn't California or Tijuana. In 1993, the M 
Street directory lists 540 as KOJY, doing standards // KJQI 1260. That 
makes WWCS-PA the far more likely option.


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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

[scott]

> Looking for anyone living in Central or Eastern Time Zones who might've
> had a tape recorder rolling during the DX test of KNAK-540 in Utah in
> January 1993 (sorry, can't remember the exact date).  I never got the test
> from KNAK, but I heard two unIDs on 540 that morning that have bedeviled
> me for years.  One was playing classical music (Note: AFTER CBK's s/off!)
> and the other had a rock (or oldies) format with "Brother Louie" by the
> Stories, "Whipping Post" by The Allman Brothers, and "Wild Thing" by the
> Troggs. 

The 540 was almost certainly one of Saul Levine's southern
California/Tijuana pair. It appears the Tijuana 540 didn't become
classical XEBACH until 1998 or thereabouts, so we can probably narrow this
down to the now-defunct KKGO 540 Costa Mesa (which wasn't really in Costa
Mesa, but 90 miles away in Hesperia.)
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Re: [IRCA] Does KLIB 1110 CA really broadcast Russian Commie Youth programs?

[Scott Fybush]

On 5/4/2012 8:26 PM, Steve Francis wrote:

The "requirement" that an expanded band station licensee, in order to
"reduce the congestion on the AM band", must surrender the license of
one of its two stations at the end of five years, was a joke. Most
stations ignored it with impunity. The ones who complied and turned in a
valuable license must feel like suckers.


In the end, I don't think there were more than a tiny handful of 
stations that surrendered their original license and were unable to get 
it back.


What happened, at least behind the scenes, was that both broadcasters 
and the FCC itself quietly realized that the expanded AM band wasn't 
going to accomplish anything useful as far as reducing congestion on the 
existing band.


The FCC essentially stopped doing ANYTHING with the X-band early in the 
21st century. The filing window for new AMs and major modifications to 
existing AMs that opened in 2004 explicitly excluded the X-band. By 
then, broadcasters had effectively stopped the clock by filing a 
rulemaking petition to revoke the five-year shutdown rule. The petition 
argued (quite correctly) that any improvement to the overall AM band 
from the five-year shutdowns was more than made up for by all the new AM 
noise that was created by the new filing window (and by AM IBOC!)


The FCC has never acted on that petition, and that's not by accident. By 
failing to act on the petition, the FCC doesn't have to do anything at 
all about the proceeding. A few of the stations that had gone silent 
(like KLIB) were quietly allowed to return to the air under Special 
Temporary Authority. The others that had remained on the air were 
allowed to stay on.


I can think of only a few stations that went silent and stayed silent. A 
few couldn't come back because they couldn't coexist with their X-band 
counterparts (1590/1610 Atmore, Alabama), and a few just couldn't 
justify keeping a big directional array in place (570 Biloxi, Mississippi).


One could argue that the bigger losers were the stations that never 
built their X-band assignments because they thought the X-band facility 
would be worse than their existing signal. WTRY 980 in Troy never built 
on 1640, WGIN 930 in Rochester NH never built on 1700 - but would they 
have done so if they'd known they could have kept 980 and 930, too?


So, yes, the X-band has not worked out the way the FCC intended...but 
one can argue that the Commission has at least figured out that the best 
way to avoid making even more of a mess was to just stop doing anything 
with it at all.

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[IRCA] 1050 NYC now an FM simulcast (for now)

[Scott Fybush]

Just in case anyone hasn't heard the big news out of New York City yet, 
at midnight ESPN began leasing WRKS (98.7) from Emmis. From now until 
September, 98.7 is simulcasting ESPN Radio with WEPN 1050, and at least 
based on the first half-hour, ALL the on-air mentions are "98.7."


In September, ESPN will flip WEPN 1050 to ESPN Deportes Spanish-language 
sports talk...but from now until then, if you hear "98.7" amidst the 
sports talk on 1050, it's WEPN, which should make it a little easier to 
distinguish from the "TSN Radio" sports talk also on 1050 via Toronto's 
CHUM.


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Re: [IRCA] Chicago update - QSL info for KBOI

[Scott Fybush]

KBOI's Bill Frahm will QSL by paper or e-mail:

bill.fr...@cumulus.com

P.O. Box 1280
Boise, ID. 83701-1280

"SASE is OK but not necessary," he says.

Go get 'em!

s

On 3/9/2012 1:32 PM, Chernos Saul wrote:


Further news... 1) Greg Davis at CBS Radio Engineering in Chicago tells me it's 
2-4 am CST. Note the earlier-than-expected ending.  2) various people have 
checked: Kotzebue is UTC -9.  So the test should be 0400-0430 EASTERN. +
  PLEASE CORRECT ANY ERRORS ... AND CONSIDER THIS THE ***ALMOST FINAL WORD*** 
ON TONIGHT'S SCHEDULED BIG CHICAGO OFF-AIR EVENT

670 WSCR, 720 WGN and 780 WBBM, all in Chicago, are scheduled to go off-air 
this coming Saturday morning (late tonight), from 2-4am CST. The astute DXer 
will hope the outage lasts the extra hour, till 5 am, because that might offer 
a shot at Maine on 780 after Maine sign-on.

A few additional DX opportunities have been scheduled or will be otherwise 
available in light of this:

Scott Fybush reports he has confirmed with 670 KBOI in Boise ID that it will do 
some limited testing during the Chicago silent period. KBOI will maintain 
regular programming but will drop in Morse code IDs at about 1:08 MST (3:08 
EST) and 1:38 MST (3:38 EST), using 50 kW ND ***ONLY*** during the code IDs. I 
strongly recommend monitoring 670 a few minutes before and after each of these 
times. No QSL info as of yet.

Paul Walker reports KOTZ 720 Kotzebue Alaska will test for 30 minutes during 
the off-air period. The test will consist of sweep tones, Morse code, sound 
effects and other announcements and is scheduled for -0030 LOCAL TIME. 
Kotzebue is UTC -9.  So the test should be 0400-0430 EASTERN.
QSL info for KOTZ: Please include location, receiver, antennae as well as a log 
of what you heard and when, and comments on signal quality. Chief Engineer 
Pierre Lonewolf is particularly interested in the results from this skywave 
skip as KOTZ is evaluating its signal, and a favor deserves a favour in return. 
Send a SASE with your report to:
Chief Engineer Pierre Lonewolf
KOTZ-AM 720
PO Box 78
396 Lagoon St
Kotzebue , Alaska 99752

Saul Chernos
For the IRCA-NRC DX Test Committee

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[IRCA] Tentative KBOI test, March 10

[Scott Fybush]

If WSCR is actually off the air Friday night/Saturday morning March 10, 
KBOI has graciously agreed to do some testing for the DX community. 
Because they have regular programming (and regular listeners) at that 
hour, it will be somewhat limited - a code ID over normal programming 
around 1:07 AM MST (3:07 AM EST) and probably again around 1:37 AM MST 
(3:37 AM EST). During the code transmissions ONLY, KBOI may switch to 
its 50 kW ND day signal.


There's no absolute guarantee that this will happen yet - it depends on 
WSCR actually being off and the engineer's ability to make this happen 
around his other responsibilities, but it should be a great opportunity 
to log Idaho if it comes to pass.


I'll follow up with QSL information and such as needed. Stay tuned, and 
happy DXing!


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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] KMBZ Kansas City Adds "Coast to Coast AM"

[Scott Fybush]

On 2/28/2012 1:16 PM, Tim Kridel wrote:



www.bottomlinecom.com/kmbz-lands-coast-to-coast-am

Began yesterday and runs midnight to 4 a.m.



It should be noted that this is part of a whole series of affiliate 
changes for Coast to Coast AM. Now that Cumulus has swallowed the old 
Citadel stations, it has pulled C2C from most of its talkers, replacing 
it with the in-house Red Eye Radio (which is itself a merger of the 
former Midnight Trucker Network out of WBAP and "Red Eye Radio" from KABC.)


In addition to KCMO in Kansas City, other former C2C affiliates that 
have switched to Red Eye include WPRO 630/WEAN 99.7 in Providence, WMAL 
630/105.9 in Washington and WNBF 1290 in Binghamton. I know C2C has 
landed on WHJJ 920 in Providence. Not sure about the other markets, and 
that's not a comprehensive list in any case.


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Re: [IRCA] On the nature of DX Alerts

[Scott Fybush]

I'm just catching up with the list here - Lisa's on her third 
hospitalization in three months, so I haven't had much time for DXing or 
for broadcasting lately.


A few thoughts from this end:

I think everyone in this very productive and civil conversation has a 
good point to make. As DXers, we want to have a way to notify each other 
of unusual conditions without having a "Heisenberg effect," if you will, 
causing that observation to change what we're observing. Saul is quite 
correct that some DXers will hesitate to post to a DX tip list if they 
know that the result will be an immediate notification to the station 
being observed that it's operating outside parameters. And as DXers, we 
have no particular obligation - certainly not a legal one, and only very 
questionably a moral one - to let stations know they're out of tolerance.


At the same time, Paul's quite right, too, that we can be a little 
irrational sometimes in our attitude toward out-of-normal operation: 
it's fun to log a station like KHMO, normally a law-abiding signal, if a 
rare glitch causes it to be running day pattern at night...once. But 
it's no fun at all to have a KRHW or a KRXR blasting away night after 
night on day facilities.


And of course as a broadcaster, I'm in general agreement with Paul and 
Gary Glaenzer (who's a friend of mine, too) that we strive to operate 
legally at all times. If I'm out driving at night and I hear WXXI on the 
west side of town when I shouldn't, yeah, of course the first call I'm 
going to make is to master control to make sure we're on night pattern.


But having said that, I think that even as a broadcaster, I'm not sure I 
personally would have reacted to the DX-tip post as hastily as Paul did. 
It's not as though it's 1937 and the FCC is actively monitoring the AM 
band at night for out-of-tolerance stations. The Commission itself has 
made it abundantly clear through its enforcement actions, or lack 
thereof, that nighttime operation on the AM band is now largely up to AM 
stations themselves to police. I can't recall the last time I saw a 
citation issued for one-time night operation with day facilities. The 
only stations that get busted these days, and only inconsistently, are 
those that abuse the rules on an ongoing basis and, in the process, 
cause interference to another station that's sufficiently motivated to 
complain about it.


Even then, it can be hard to get the FCC's attention. There's a daytimer 
on 1370 in Pennsylvania that tends to leave its day power running all 
night on a routine basis, nibbling away at our night coverage here in 
Rochester, but years of complaints have done little to get it to stop.


So if the FCC manifestly doesn't care about the pollution of the AM band 
(and Canada cares even less; it was CHOK's former sister station CKTY 
1110 that was notorious for day-pattern operation at night all through 
the 1990s!), do I as a little cog in the broadcasting wheel feel so 
personally motivated to protect the sanctity and purity of the sacred 
medium-wave spectrum that I'm going to go out of my way to let an 
engineer know within minutes of a DX-tip list posting that his station 
is being heard where it shouldn't?


Unless it's especially egregious - say, it's the 1080 in Buffalo 
blasting away during a Red Sox playoff game on WTIC  - I think my 
instinct in a case like that would probably be to see what beers are 
cold in my fridge, pop a cold one, check out the last period of the 
Sabres game on TV, and then maybe a couple of hours later I might drop a 
"hey, did you know your pattern didn't switch" line to the engineer in 
question...if you get my drift.


The good guys like Gary will be certain to make sure it doesn't happen 
again the next night, and they're not going to face any FCC consequences 
as a result. The bad actors...well, we know as DXers who they are, and 
if they're causing real harm to other stations, karma will catch up to 
them sooner or later, with or without our assistance.


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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] WWDX, was Re: KQNK-1530 on late with K-State basketball

[Scott Fybush]

On 11/14/2011 4:33 PM, Earl Higgins wrote:

What's even stranger; if you go to
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Facility_id=54829
and click on the first record (the only one dated 2011), they applied
for, and apparently were granted, Special Temporary Authority to be
silent earlier this year due to technical problems. I don't see any
further correspondence indicating they have returned to the air. So
apparently, not only are they a daytime station with no nighttime
authority, they aren't even currently supposed to be on the air AT
ALL.


A "silent STA" allows a station to be off the air, but does not mandate 
that it remain off the air.


It's possible (and not uncommon) for a station to request silent STA and 
then notify the FCC verbally that it has returned to the air. It may not 
be reflected in CDBS, and it may be annoying to us as DXers trying to 
figure out who's on and who's off, but it's kosher nonetheless in the 
eyes of the FCC.


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Re: [IRCA] Help please from Salem and Vancouver tower historians

[Scott Fybush]

Says Earl Higgins:


Of course, as you correctly point out, BY doesn't seem to have started including
transmitter coordinates until 1991. KSLM's location is given in that issue as 44
56 32 N 123 04 17 W (what you would type into Google maps:  44.9422,  
-123.0714);
this is several miles south of the current FCC listing of  44°59' 43.00" N  
123°
04' 15.00" W  (what you would type into Google maps:  44.9953,  -123.0708).

If you look on Google maps, the "old" (1991) coordinates map to an address on a
street curiously named "Tower Drive NW" but clearly now a residential
subdivision. In fact, it is within 2/10 of a mile of the address you have for
the tower site in the 1950s. It's likely the 1950s site you have, and the 1991
site Broadcasting Yearbook has, are in fact the same site. So there you have
reasonably definitive evidence that it was probably there in 1976. Incidentally,
you can see their now single tower located in the corner of some kind of orchard
or farm by typing in the current coordinates.


Here's one more resource you can bring to bear on the issue, just to be 
even more certain:


Go to FCCInfo.com. Type in "KSLM" into the "Historic Call Sign" box 
(second from top). A list will pop up of all the stations that have used 
the KSLM calls, and the one we want is the last one, now KWOD 1390.


Click on the call letters in blue, then click on them again on the next 
page that pops up - and then click on "Other KWOD Applications." This 
brings us to the FCC's Application Search Results page (it's quicker to 
get there from FCCInfo.com than from the actual FCC page!)


This brings up all the apps that have been filed with the FCC since 
about 1978 for this station. We can disregard most of them - any of the 
ones that start with "BR" are license renewals, "BTC" and "BAL" 
represent station sales or transfers of control, "BZ" are requests for 
direct measurement and "SMOV" is a dummy record for an X-band allocation 
that never happened.


That leaves just a few files of interest that start with "BP," "BLSTA" 
and "BL."


"BP" is an application for a construction permit to modify KSLM's 
facilities, and we can see that the only BP- record since 1978 is dated 
5/30/1996. "BLSTA" is the Special Temporary Authority that was 
apparently granted while KSLM was moving facilities, and the lone BL- 
record, dated 1/21/1997, represents KSLM's license to cover its new 
facilities at its new site.


While a handful of FCC records have been lost from the electronic 
database over the years, we can now say with near 100% certainty that 
KSLM did not move between at least 1978 and the coordinates in the 1991 
Broadcasting Yearbook, and that it did not move between then and 1997, 
when it arrived at its current coordinates. Combined with Earl's "Tower 
Road" find, this gets us to at least 99% certainty that KSLM in 1976 was 
at the same location as in 1991.



Now, on to CKWX. The 2002-2003 Edition of Broadcasting Yearbook, the most recent
one available on the site, lists CKWX 49 09 22 N 123 04 00 W (what you would
type into Google maps:  49.1561, -123.0667). Looking at Google maps satellite
view, you can see there are indeed 2 towers at this site, and both
http://www.radio-locator.com/  and  http://topazdesigns.com/ambc/  agree that 
this
is the current site of CKWX. So we can assume that it was there in 2005 as well.

So one could say, with a pretty high degree of confidence, that KSLM, at
-123.0714 degrees west, being further west than CKWX's -123.0667 degrees west,
is your furthest west catch.


And having visited CKWX in 1999, I can confirm that it was at the same 
location in 1999 as in 2002-03 and now...and thus in 2005 as well. Of 
the Vancouver AMs, only 1040 and 1410 (and of course the new 1200) have 
built new sites in the last decade or so.


s
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Re: [IRCA] WGBW 1590

[Scott Fybush]

On 10/24/2011 7:24 PM, GEORGE SANTULLI wrote:


Bill, I think there has been a city of license change. Here in
Virginia I did hear an ID of WGBW Denmark-Greenleaf. I checked my
Rand McNally because in listening to the audio recording it was clear
it was WGBW, but was not so sure of Denmark-Greenleaf until I checked
to see that these two towns, not contiguous, were northwest of Two
Rivers George in Northern VA


I'm pretty sure what they're saying is actually "Denmark-Green Bay." The 
relocation from Two Rivers up to Denmark was designed to give WGBW a 
city-grade daytime signal over Green Bay, which is by far the largest 
community in that corner of northeast Wisconsin.


WGBW owner Mark Heller can be reached at w...@lsol.net.

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Re: [IRCA] DX Tip for WDXR

[Scott Fybush]

On 10/23/2011 12:58 PM, Patrick Martin wrote:

I did not know they moved the city of license. Thanks for the update.
  >>  WGBW is listenced to Denmark WI<<


Hence the DX test: what WGBW's owner Mark Heller was doing was testing 
out a brand-new AM directional array. His old one-tower site was just 
north of Two Rivers, within spitting distance of the Lake Michigan 
shoreline. The new four-tower, 10 kW site is just off I-43 near 
Cooperstown, a few miles southeast of Denmark, and it's designed to 
blast into Green Bay, a few miles to the northwest.


Mark just bought a second station in the area, WMBE 1530 New Holstein 
(ex-Chilton, but with no change in facilities)...maybe we can get him to 
test that one soon, too, though it will get clobbered at night by WCKY.


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Re: [IRCA] 1550 CBE

[Scott Fybush]

On 10/1/2011 12:20 AM, Chernos Saul wrote:


That regular CBC national programming, still in after midnight news. I wonder 
what's going on.Geneva WI played Whiter Shade of Pale in case anyone heard 
that, also the Spanish station in OH. Saul
  >  Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:54:15 -0400

From: dhochfel...@albany.edu
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Subject: [IRCA] 1550 CBE

Sounds like they're having fun tonight. Great program with great sixties
oldies and commentary.  Way to go out...


That's the regular CBC national programming, hosted by Randy Bachmann 
(of Bachmann Turner Overdrive fame) - and it just went dead at 0025 EDT. 
Still a carrier up.


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[IRCA] CBE lives!

[Scott Fybush]

Midnight has come and gone, and CBE is still on the air with the hourly 
CBC news. Curious...


It's fighting it out on 1550 here in Rochester with something unID 
playing what sounds like 70s country rock.


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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] CBE 1550 Windsor ON

[Scott Fybush]

On 9/30/2011 10:41 PM, Steve Francis wrote:


For those of us with scant chance of a voice ID through the 1550
interference, remember that CBE might play "O Canada" after tonight's
final sign-off.


Based on my experience with previous CBC AM signoffs (I was in the 
transmitter building when they flipped the switch on CBL), that doesn't 
seem to be part of their SOP.


CBL and CBM both went straight into repeating loops announcing the new 
FM frequencies, which continued to run for 24 hours or so after the 
official sign-off. No "O Canada" at either, and I don't believe CBA did 
one, for that matter...


(But there is reason to believe there may be a repeating loop still up 
on 1550 for the next day or so, which might give some DXers a shot at 
hearing CBE without HSFB in the way.)


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Re: [IRCA] Oldies on 1220.

[Scott Fybush]

On 9/26/2011 1:50 AM, bill kral wrote:

Could the elusive and mysterious 1220 with oldies ( the list of songs
tells me that it's 70s hits) be a relatively low powered station(
1Kw) in Cornwall On with call letters CJUL?The only other Oldies
station would be even further east and is really LP at night ( 180w)
in Newburgh NY.If the format can be AC with not a not so new music
format then it might be CJRB in Boissevain MB which might be powerful
enough (10Kw) to be the one you heard. Bill in BC


CJUL is long gone, so you can scratch them...

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Re: [IRCA] WPAY apparently doesn't

[Scott Fybush]

On 9/23/2011 10:08 PM, David Faulkner wrote:

Hi All:

I was tuning around the FM dial today and stopped by the old area
powerhouse, WPAY, which gets out extremely well.  Lo and behold, no
more WPAY-FM on 104.1.  Though playing cw, they ID'ed as WNKU, and
were doing Cincy traffic reports.  Their TOH ID listed not only FMs
at 89.7, 104.1 and 105.9 (Middletown) but also WPFB AM-910.  I used
to be able to hear WPFB here when the Marietta 910 was silent during
the middle 1990s, then under them when they came back on.  But WLTP
so dominates the channel now that there's nothing under it.


The Braden family sold WPAY-FM and WPFB-FM/WPFB(AM) to Northern Kentucky 
University within the past year. WPAY-FM's new calls are WNKE and 
WPFB-FM's are WNKN, and both are full-time simulcasts of WNKU 89.7 
Highland Heights KY. WPFB(AM) is also simulcasting WNKU, but it's for sale.


WPAY(AM) is apparently dead. It was not part of the sale to NKU, and 
I've heard of no plans to put it back on the air.


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[IRCA] Radio history on the radio this weekend at WBZ

[Scott Fybush]

Those of you in the fabled "38 states and half of Canada" served by WBZ 
might want to spend some time on 1030 in the next few days. It's WBZ's 
90th anniversary on Monday, and they'll be celebrating the occasion with 
a number of special guests on their talk shows.


Some guy named Fybush who apparently worked there for a while will be 
Steve LeVeille's guest starting at midnight ET Sunday-into-Monday; the 
following night at midnight, it will be the legendary Dr. Donna Halper's 
turn to share her much more extensive research on broadcast history.


(The show goes until 5 AM both nights; I don't know yet how long Donna 
or I will be invited to stay on the air.)


There's also a special hour-long anniversary broadcast Monday night at 8 
on Dan Rea's "Nightside" show.


It should be a good time for all involved! The last time I did Steve's 
show, it was during the 2002 NRC convention in Lima, and it was fun to 
hear from a bunch of the DXers in Ohio, since I couldn't make it to that 
one. If you're inclined to call in, WBZ finally has a toll-free number. 
I believe it's 888-WBZ-1030/888-929-1030.


Maybe I can even persuade my friends in the engineering department to 
whip up some special anniversary QSLs...


s
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Re: [IRCA] Nearest locals

[Scott Fybush]

I'm within a couple of miles of three directional AMs: my own WXXI 1370, 
WHTK 1280 (both 5 kW) and WROC 950 (1 kW). A fourth, WHIC 1460, moved to 
a different (and more distant) site a few years ago.


It could be worse - I grew up right between the 1460 and 1370 sites, 
within a few hundred yards of each!


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[IRCA] Help for Carol Elving and family

[Scott Fybush]

My wife Lisa just got off the phone with Carol Elving, and as she sorts 
through Bruce's stuff and makes plans to move out of "Publishing Estate" 
(it's too big for her to live there by herself), she has one specific 
request for the DX community: she's seeking a copy of the 6th edition of 
the FM Atlas so she can make a complete set to give to one of their 
daughters.


Anyone have a 6th edition Atlas around to help Carol? It would mean a 
lot to her and the family in this difficult time for them...


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