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1430 WION Ionia MI DX test 2-24-19
Several long test tones alternating with presumed open carrier 0035-0113 EST,
fair to occasionally good levels. As 0130 neared, much stronger with Elton
John's "I'm Still Standing", then promo: "Hearing AM Stereo 1430 at a local
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Looking at this list of all three Ottawa AMs reminds me of when they were a
seven-AM station town, before the deletions of CJSB-540, CBO-920, CJRC-1150 and
CBOF-1250.
Steve FrancisAlcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Rick Dau
To: Mailing list for the
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Went off 18 minutes ago (8:20 pm CST) during windstorm per Ernie Wesolowski in
Omaha.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Did anyone ever learn what became of his numerous shortwave and AM veries? No
will, no relatives, and no other DXer within reasonable "rescue" distance. I'm
thinking they ended up in a Puna recycling center.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original
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WUFF must enjoy being DXers' milestones! It was my 1,000th catch, on August
27th, 1972.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Robert Ross
Hi Guys:
Here is my report for the few weeks. Very little time for DX and even
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1120 WSME Camp Lejeune NC
11-17 3:15 to 3:35 a.m. EST
Thanks to several tips on the BCB DX Logger site, this daytimer heard fair to
poor way under KMOX
with mentions of 94.1 and 97.1; "This is the Beach Radio Network" at 3:35, then
1969 rocker "Honky
Tonk Women."
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On the clip of the satellite-fed audio, the first selection has a song saluting
the American worker and "a spirit you can't replace with no machine" - wow, I
guess this means WWSM will have a full local announcing staff on the payroll by
tomorrow.
Steve Francis
Alcoa,
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Is this it?
http://www.findradio.us/radio-CBJ
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Rick Dau
To: irca ; ABDX
Sent: Tue, Oct 3, 2017 9:27 pm
Subject: [IRCA] Transmitter
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At 2:57, the ad says "en Jeffersonville, Indiana". Is New Albany Spanish now?
Both towns are in the Louisville market.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Paul B. Walker, Jr.
To: RealDX
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Such a reasonable and wise and ego-free man. DX News was needing him and
needing him bad at the time he took over the publishing reins.
RIP
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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WBAF-1090 Barnesville GA, 1kw daytimer, on at 12:30 a.m. EDT relaying WBAF-FM
with frequent "Dixie 104.9" mentions and traditional country music.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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1520 KQQB TX Stockdale - 9/17 0154 EDT - Per Bill Block tip, poor but
readable under Buffalo with "This is AM 1520 KQQB Stockdale-San Antonio." A
2500 watt daytimer with primary lobe aimed west. Per the I Love AM Radio
Facebook site, it's a repeating loop
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From
Mark Connelly
To
a...@nrcdxas.org;
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99% totality here, I recorded 1590 only, WAIK Galesburg IL (497 miles) and WCGO
Evanston IL (475 miles} mixing, loud at 2:34 EDT totality peak, a few weak
unIDs under.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Last NRC mail received here was Paul Walker's posting on the Volleyball Net
Loop Antenna, Tuesday of last week.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Rick Dau
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
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Teuila Lotulelei is alive -ALIVE!
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Bruce Portzer
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Sent: Wed, May 17, 2017 3:09 pm
Subject: Re:
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Yes, they've been on as usual since at least last week. If that farewell
announcement was a bid for attention, it sure worked - scores of postings on
the DXing and I Love AM Radio Facebook sites by people weeping and crying and
pounding their breast about how it signals
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Mine by frequency:
1230 KFPW Fort Smith AR 587
1240 TGK Guatemala City1516
1340 KXXY Oklahoma City762
1400 KILE Galveston TX781
1450 WKAL Rome NY684
1490 WIGM Medford WI 726
Only KFPW and TGK were heard
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1700 WRCR NY Ramapo - 3/15 0310 EDT - Strong on peaks with 80's and 90's AC
and soft rock (Elton John, Steve Miller, Bruce Hornsby) and weather forecasts
mentioning possible blizzard conditions for Orange, Dutchess, Putnam and
Westchester counties. Probably on full 10
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940 WLQH FL Chiefland
2./27 1900 EST
Good and atop ending Motels' "Only the Lonely Can Play", then "Classic Hits is
WLQH AM 940 Chiefland, W227AV FM 93-three Chiefland and WZCC AM 1240 Cross
City." Been after this one for 46 years.
Steve Francis
Alcoa,
irca@hard-core-dx.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 1:33 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] New Cuban loggings
Way to go on the Cubana logging Steve!! ms
From: IRCA <irca-boun...@hard-core-dx.com> on behalf of Steve Francis via IRCA
<irca@hard-core-dx.com>
Sent: Sun
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770
Cuba
Artemisa province
2/15 EST - Fair with Radio Artemisa mention, then National anthem.
Dueling Cuban anthems as the stronger Radio Rebelde outlet began theirs 12
seconds later. 770 # 20 after 23 years at 19.
530
Cuba
Isla de la Juventud per Bruce
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1290 WNBN Meridian MS
1-31 0059 EST
Good with spots for Tax Time Check Cashing and Ted's Alternator and Starter,
including locations and phone numbers; into old school R tune by Candi
Staton. No ID heard - long live local ads!
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Meanwhile, here's what the MW band sounds like now:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aiaacvYES8s
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Rick Dau
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
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1170 WKFL Bushnell FL
January 4 1900 EST
Sundowner on a little late; mostly poor with bluegrass instrumental, then
"You're listening to Kickin' Country 1170 WK ... Florida ... 1360 AM WHNR
Cypress Gardens ... " Website confirms slogan and WHNR simulcast.
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810 WRSO FL Orlovista - 10/28 0315 EDT - Chasing this all night per tip
from Tim Tromp on BCB DX Log; Portuguese-language romantic vocals poor under
WGY (no sign of ZNS3); finally at 0315 woman with "You're listening to Brasil
Radio in Orlando." First new catch
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Yep, WJMP-1520 Kent was deleted August 1 per the licensee's request. Kent is
only 23 miles north of Canton, home of WINW on the same frequency, so even
before there were day pattern books, I knew that I could forget about hearing
WJMP down here. WINW, as you might
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eBay item number 191919523655
Seller betrays no knowledge of its legendary reputation
It's in really bad shape cosmetically - enlarge all ten pictures
He says USPS only to U.S. addresses only and no returns
Set sale of $22 plus shipping
He has 1,950 transactions and
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Weren't the 850 daytimers given that sunset plus two hours deal back in the
mid-80's?
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Mark Durenberger
To: DX @NRC ; DX-IRCA
Sent: Sat, Jul 9,
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A DX test that's "not a test for DXers", eh?
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Please note that this is a test specifically targeting listeners here
inKorea and not a test for DXers, so don't bother with any QSL requests
forhearing this station.-Chris Kadlec Seoul,
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I wouldn't take any equipment there - they saw Ron Schatz taking pictures of
xmtrs, incarcerated him and confiscated his radio. Wouldn't give it back,
either.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
Subject
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The stuff on frequencies ending in zero is covered by levels of interference
undreamed of in the 20th century. No more splits in this hemisphere. I don't
blame you guys with the fancy equipment for going after the Trans-oceanic stuff
as you do. It's about all that's
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The first was KXBT-1640 in Vallejo. Testing was first suspected on March 3,
1996 (20 years ago today!), the first test ID was March 9 and regular sked
began on March 19. They held a CP for 1620, but operated on this frequency
instead.
The second was KGXL in Costa
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Any longtime DXers remember receiving a cryptic California-postmarked Christmas
card in 1975 from "Grandma Greene and Little Mo Mi"? I seem to recall that
every member of IRCA got one. Both are probably gone, but I'd still like to
know who they were.
Steve Francis
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Well, WDEB can be eliminated. Has anyone considered the possibility that we
may be dealing with a DX poltergeist? I say it's the ghost of Battle Creek.
They did not vacate 1500 either promptly or willingly.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
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Eastern and Central time zoners who have yet to show up here:
Caribou ME
Baltimore
Escanaba and Flint MI
Jamestown ND
North Bay ON
Saskatoon
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Russ Edmunds
To: irca
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Boffo signal after going to high power at 12:01 EST during SRN news. 12:05
local program promos, then instrumental music and regular sked program. Not
hearing any test material.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Code and sweeps 12:08, loud and clear. Step tones 12:10. Busy signal 12:11.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Back to test material at 12:48: brief ID by Brit young woman, then code, sweep
tones, stairstep tones, phone off hook, Price is Right theme, whoop-whoop, etc.
Back to John Bachelor talk at 12:55. Male test ID at 12:57.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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ecoder;
Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Steve Francis via IRCA <
irca@hard-core-dx.com> wrote:
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WWHY-1470 was granted WHRD in the July 20, 1987 issue of Broadcasting.
WTAP-1230 was granted WKYG in the November 27, 1972 issue of Broadcasting.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Steve Francis via IRCA <irca@hard-core-dx.com>
To
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Wiki nailed this one! It's listed as a grant in the May 29th, 1978 issue of
Broadcasting.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Russ Edmunds
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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Yep, Tabor City NC and Loris SC are known locally as the Twin Cities.
Station frequently declines to power down at twilight.
Best domestic catch from the Mountain Time zone I've seen in ages - congrats!
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From:
, 2015 11:58 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] New logging
Way to go in the KYND logging! Aren't those old TRF portables great? 73 Mike
Sanburn
Sent from my iPod
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Steve Francis
via IRCA <irca@hard-core-dx.com> wrote:
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1520 KYND Cypress, Texas
October 8 8:00 pm EDT
Atop ending rock vocal, then "You've been listening to programming provided by
GNE studios ... send us
an email at tellmydj.com ... ", the same China Radio International spiel I've
heard dozens of times on CHIN
whilst
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1110 KVTT Mineral Wells, Texas - night of September 6 and 7 - 59:30 to
00:30 hourly
For the night's remote recording, I chose 1110 kHz for no particular reason.
Wonder of wonders,
daytimer KVTT in the DFW market stayed on all night with daytime 50kw. No talk
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1110 KVTT Mineral Wells, Texas - night of September 6 and 7 - 59:30 to
00:30 hourly
For the night's remote recording, I chose 1110 kHz for no particular reason.
Wonder of wonders,
daytimer KVTT in the DFW market stayed on all night with daytime 50kw. No talk
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captainkilohertz at yahoo dot com worked four years ago, maybe still does.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Dypete via IRCA
To: irca ; abdx ; am
Cc:
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It's just a bunch of chest pounding on the part of the FCC.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
irca@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Thu, Aug
---BeginMessage---
Paul B. Walker Jr. wrote:
... the owner can at
least
likely make the AM pay for itself here and leave some extra coin in
the
bank ...
I like your writing style!
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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It was actually a day earlier, on Friday, August 14 (Thursday night into Friday
morning), from 1 to 4 EDT.
Bruce Conti, on the DXing - sponsored by the National Radio Club Facebook
page, from his New Hampshire location, reported reception of Cuba's Radio
Progreso on 880 and
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Even this far east, we're hearing about the high temperatures Redding is being
slammed with - hope you're keeping cool ...
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com
To: NRC a...@nrcdxas.org; Mailing list
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I heard them at sunset October 1, 1973. Never was sure of the city's
pronunciation, since Webster's Geographical Dictionary didn't have an entry for
Calera. Thanks to various YouTube postings from Alabama, I now know it's Kuh
Leer Uh.
They're one of all too many 1370
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Daytimer WAGL-1560 Lancaster, South Carolina, once a continent-spanning best
bet for the Palmetto State, is no more. Longtime owner B. Len Phillips Jr.
died in September at 77, and the license has recently been turned in and the
station deleted.
DX test and sunrise
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Is that Report and Order really necessary? Stations already shake off those
regulatory burdens themselves, on a nightly basis.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Stewart, Joseph R randystew...@missouristate.edu
To: NRC-AM listserv
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The CP for 650 watts nights and Fairview Heights, Illinois has been around
since the fall of 2010. Far as I know, it's not on yet. Don't they spend most
of their time on 10,000 watts anyway?
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Nigel Pimblett
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Thanks to Robert Ross and KAZ for the tips on this one. I agree with those
saying it's a potent 1500 watts.
700 KHSE Wylie, Texas
3/7 2100 to 2300 EST
Under and sometimes equal to WLW with animated Spanish-language preaching, ToH
IDs for Wylie-Dallas-Fort Worth
in
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Thanks to Kilokat7 on bcbdxlogger for the tip
on this one! WASG is the old Atmore occupant
of 1140 and 550 kHz.
540 WASG Daphne, Alabama
3/3 2200 EST
Fair/good above the annoying het here
(Nicaragua on 539.86 per the experts)
with Black Gospel and Fourth of July!
[?]
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First newie since the 3/22 KCKM-1330 DX test.
It was a long eleven months! Thanks to everybody
for all the attention paid to 1560 the past ten days,
especially those who suspected this station was
using the full 250 watts for HS basketball.
1560 WBYS Canton, Illinois
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DXer Willis Monk of Old Fort, Tennessee, known for his frequent late-night logs
and tips to
these lists, as well as his love of Texas and lack of affinity for post-1960
popular music, died in October.
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Brings back memories of my first reception of a west coast station 45 years
ago.
I can still remember every word of that promo.
Morning, noon and night. Get it first, get it right.
KNX News Radio Los Angeles.
Now all night, too!
Now all night, too, I later learned,
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WKNR-850 Cleveland in like a rock at 8:40 pm EST 1/28 with local sports talk,
50,000 watts days, 4700 watts nights; day pattern is chiefly south, night
pattern north.
Looks as if they forgot to throw the switch at sunset.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Saul,
Go to the station's AM Query listing, click any facility on its long
horizontal
menu, and find approximate sunrise sunset times. The station's
time zone will be hyperlinked. After you click it, there'll be a table
of the station's sunrise/sunset zones for each
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A career low of four new ones here in 2014, all from the first quarter.
We've lost everything - frequency checks, equipment tests, DX tests, sign-ons,
sign-offs,
silent periods, verifications, auroras, Western Hemisphere splits, drifters -
and still I run
nightly
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Yes, they have pdfs on their e-dxn website of most seasons of DX News from the
past 80 years. The 1933-1934 issues and the first three of the 1934-1935
season are not known to exist, but the remaining 1934-1935s, 1935-1970 and
1986-now are all up. September 1970 through
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I've never owned a DVD reader, but this will make me buy one.
Any consumer suggestions?
Nothing fancy needed, just so it'll feed into a laptop and read these issues!
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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I bet those Johnny Dollars were first-run. I remember WATE-620 Knoxville
running the CBS feed of Johnny Dollar and Suspense back-to-back Sunday
evenings from 6 to 7 pm in 1961. Wiki says they lasted until September 30,
1962 and were the last of the network radio dramas
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Three Wyoming stations have visited here over the years, each for some reason
on a frequency ending in 30!
1030 KTWO Casper
1530 KNIE Cheyenne
1630 KKWY Fox Farm
1530 has a long history - it was on 1590 years ago, moving to 1530 in 1972.
In the 1980's, it
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Strong at midnight with opening announcement, code, sweep tones and step tones.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Saul, 580 is WYHM, Rockwood, with the Y in a fade. They're a semi-local
and I've heard that legal ID many a time.
1240 sounds like ... Timeless 1240, WJTN Jamestown, with town garbled and
sounding more like ville. Google confirms that's WJTN's slogan.
Steve Francis
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A few of the past several Mostly Mexican Medium Wave DX to Enid OK postings
from Glenn Hauser have mentioned that XEDP-710 in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua
is off-frequency and causing a het on 710.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Dennis
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KTHE turned in their license this month. Thermopolis used to be a two-AM
station town; KRTR-1490 was deleted 25 or 30 years ago.
Nighttime coverage is not always guaranteed due to the skywave propagation
effects of AM and thousands of other stations on the same frequency -
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WSEV 930 Sevierville TN at 9:30 EDT with continuous Smoky Mountain tourist
promos 5,000 watts non-directional Thanks to Dave Hascall in
Indianapolis for discovering this
WVLZ 1180 Knoxville TN at 9:30 EDT Sundowner still on, maybe with full 10,000
watt day power
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Most of the San Francisco acts gave Knoxville a wide berth, but we are getting
Johnny Mathis on September 12.
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
-Original Message-
From: Mike Hawkins michael.d.hawk...@gmail.com
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
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WHKY-1290 Hickory NC 50,000w Fox Sports Radio
WPBC-1310 Decatur GA 2,500w SpanishMostly talk between man and woman,
occasional music Radioinformacion 1310 AM mentions
10:20 pm EDT Tuesday June 10
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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WHKY-1290 Hickory NC 50,000w Sports talk
WPBC-1310 Decatur GA 2,500w Mostly talk between man and woman, occasional
music Radioinformacion 1310 mentions
12:15 am EDT Tuesday June 10
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
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Shoulda added WPBC is in Spanish
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From: 'Steve Francis' via MWDX m...@googlegroups.com
To: am a...@nrcdxas.org; amfmtvdx amfmt...@mailman.qth.net; irca
irca@hard-core-dx.com; mwdx m...@googlegroups.com
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