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WELCOME TO IRCA's AM-DX NEWSFLASH - April 29 1999
Vol 5 No 4
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CONVENTION - MEETING INFO (corrections/additions welcome)
IRCA '99/DecalcoMania '99: The 1999 IRCA/DecalcoMania Convention will
be held at the Holiday Inn-Boardwalk Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on June
25-27 1999. Reservations 1-800-635-4581 (mention code I-R-C).
Convention registration - $35. SW Airlines is offering a 10% discount
1-800-433-5368 (mention code LO199). Host is Mike Sanburn, PO Box
1256, Bellflower CA 90707-1256, 310-614-1444.
WTFDA '99: The 1999 WTFDA convention will be hosted in NW Jersey, July
16-18, 1999. Rick Shaftan will welcome you to his well equipped DX
outpost located less than an hour from the Newark airport. For
accommodations Rick recommends the Days Inn/Ledgewood, 1691 Route 46
West, Ledgewood, NJ 07852. Rates start at $69. There is no special
club discount. Make reservations by calling the hotel at 973-448-1100
or by credit card via their secure web site. Convention registration,
which includes food and beverages, will be $25. For more information
e-mail Rick Shaftan at <shaftan@xxxxxxx>.
NRC '99: The 1999 NRC convention will be held at the Holiday Inn,
Bridgeport WV on Sept 3-6, 1999. Reservations 1-304-842-5411, $70.95
for two double bed room, no limit on how many in a room. Convention
Registratio - $35. Host is William Swiger, One Casey Ln, Bridgeport WV
26330, 304-842-4635.
RADIO FEST 1999 - Celebrating 25 Years of Radio Fun
The Ontario DX Association invites radio enthusiasts of all interests
and all levels to join us for Radio Fest 99. Following on the success of
our first Radio Fest event in 1998, this will be one of the major radio
listeners event of the year. Radio Fest 99 will also celebrate the 25th
anniversary of the Ontario DX Association, Canada's largest radio
listeners' club.
Dates: Friday, September 24 to Sunday, September 26
Location: Ramada Inn & Convention Centre, Oakville, Ontario (located
at Queen Elizabeth Way and Trafalgar Road)
Theme: "Celebrating 25 Years of Radio Fun"
Topics : Radio Fest 99 will look at "Where we have come from in
radio's past", "Where we are today", and "Where are we going in the
future".
Special Guests : There will be many and we'll introduce them to you
in future releases.
Exhibits: Equipment suppliers; clubs; technology from yesterday,
today and tomorrow; plus tables of used equipment for sale.
Friday
Wine & Cheese Reception at 7:00 pm. Join us for this opportunity to meet
other attendees in a very relaxed atmosphere.
Saturday
Registration will begin at 8:00 am and the program will begin at 8:45 am
concluding at approximately 4:00 pm. Besides the usual seminars and
special speakers we will have the always fun Game Show and raffle draws.
Everything will wrap up will a wonderful banquet on Saturday evening.
Sunday
Before saying goodbye, join your fellow conventioneers for breakfast
(your choice and you pay) in the hotel restaurant. We expect to offer a
tour of a nearby radio site. More details later.
Accomodations : You may contact the Ramada Inn by telephone
(905)849-5950, toll free 1-800-357-0880, Web www.ramada-oakville.com. A
special rate of Cdn$82 per night for Radio Fest 99 is available.
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CPC DX tests
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CPC Chairperson (IRCA) - Lynn Hollerman - gmhollerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Right now Lynn is looking for target station lists and stamps or money
to help get the lists worked on.
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HOT STUFF
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Sheldon Harvey - ve2shw@xxxxxxxxx
The new CJMS- 1040 kHz. in St. Constant, Quebec has been heard
testing their transmitter off and on this week.
They are scheduled to have their inaugural broadcast this coming
Sunday, April 25, 1999, at 3 PM Eastern Time.
The station will be a French language station, playing country music.
It is reported that they may be leasing out time during the evenings, or
overnight, to other groups. More details on this will follow.
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Eric Bueneman - N0UIHEric@xxxxxxx
WCBW-1510 Highland, IL is not yet on the air...it will be Contemporary
Christian music when it signs on. Not known is whether or not they will
also use "The Bridge" as their slogan, as they had on 104.9 MHz. Other
AM stations now running New Life Contemporary Christian programming,
besides WINU-880 Highland, IL (which does it overnight, but still
carries Cubs and White Sox baseball) are WDID-1560 Shelbyville, IL,
KMRF-1510 Marshfield, MO (//KNLM-91.9) and KWAS-1230 Joplin, MO. This is
run by the New Life Evangelistic Center, based in St. Louis, MO. It's
President is Reverend Larry Rice, an advocate for the poor and homeless.
NLEC only owns WDID and KMRF.
KZJZ-1380 St. Louis, MO has switched news networks...dropping Mutual for
CNN Radio.
The closest Mutual affiliate to St. Louis is WMIX-940 Mount Vernon, IL,
which now carries News/Talk weekdays, C&W //FM during the day on
Saturdays, and Westwood One Adult Standards on Saturday nights, Sundays
and as filler.
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**ragnar danneskjold - Mesa AZ - lwdxer@xxxxxxxx
The situation as it is now on the Phoenix radio dial...
550 is announcing KGME running sports.
1230 is announcing KOY running American standards.
1360 is announcing as KGME running Howard Stern in a rebroadcast from
"The Edge" 106.3.
April 23, 1999
HOWARD STERN and the "Edge" programming is being simulcast on 1360
until SALEM takes over the frequency. KGME has officially moved to 550
AM with sportstalk.
Let me take a moment to mention that JOHN GIBSON took time out his
busy news announcing schedule to drop us a note. GIBSON is now the only
"original" member left of the KOOL morning show. He has been there for
over six years and lasted through five versions of KOOL mornings. In
updating the RADIO DIAL page, I inadvertently left out a few notable
members of the broadcast community and I hope someone will let me know
when an error has been made.
FROM THE MAILBAG:
Sorry to hear from Jason Remington who keeps us informed about
Arizona radio that KOY will be moving from 550 to 1230...to make way for
the market's third sports station to get a better signal. It's amazing
that in a market that has a large retirement community there's no room
for a strong radio signal to serve that audience. Up till 10 years ago,
Phoenix had two easy listening stations, KQYT and KMEO on FM, as well as
several adult standards stations and KOY which was a sort of full
service MOR station...very light AC music, DJ chatter, full news
department, Bruce Williams and Sally Jesse Rafael talk shows at night
from TalkNet.
Both KQYT and KMEO's easy listening formats were killed while still
getting great 12+ numbers. KQYT just changed format one day (it was
KOY's FM sister). Meanwhile KMEO went through a gradual change of adding
more AC vocals till it was an AC station. Even that AC station (in a
market which has more commercial FM signals than NYC) was still getting
great (if older) 12+ ratings. Since then it's gone through multiple call
letter and format changes, never coming close to the ratings it got as
an easy listening station. (And I assume never making the profit KMEO
made.)
Still no one wants a station that pulls great, if older, numbers. The
latest insult is to trash KOY which was consistantly in the top 5 with
almost no overhead. I believe it has a local morning show and runs ABC
Stardust format the rest of the day. ..... it's moving from the best AM
signal in Arizona to a spot on the dial that will be difficult to hear
at night in many of the retirement communities that are more than 12
miles outside downtown Phoenix. All to make way for the market's third
sports station.
Meanwhile, no one will try an older adult format on FM, even with 17
FM signals, many doing almost nothing in the ratings. Phoenix has more
country stations than Houston, more rock stations than Detroit, more AC
stations than LA. It has a black population that barely supplied enough
listeners for one AM station...now it has two black-leaning FM's. But no
one wants to put an older adult format on the radio...in one of the
biggest retirement communities in the West.
Why does radio have this phobia against older audiences? I've heard
theories. The sales staff of most radio stations is in their 20's & 30's
and either can't or doesn't want to sell an older station to older
clients. GM's and SM's don't want to meet their counterparts from
younger stations on the golf course or at the charity dinner and be
known as the staff from "my dad's radio station." Time buyers in NYC or
LA are all 28 and have built in prejudices against older stations...even
if they're buying time for clients who are not especially youth-leaning.
The ratings service skews to younger audiences. The ratings break
outs are for 18-34, 18-49, 25-49, 25-54, etc. God forbid your ratings
strength is outside those demos...even though we all know that the 18-34
audience has nowhere near the buying power of the 35-64 audience
(especially when most of the strongest 18-34 stations target communities
that are still struggling for economic equality). In Las Vegas, an FM
station was in some sort of court battle. Rather than take it silent, a
court - appointed manager put Westwood One's "AM Only" format on the
full power FM station...KJUL, The Jewel. It was 24 hours of satellite
adult standards...although this format really is more Kenny Rogers and
Carpenters than Bing Crosby or Andrew Sisters. What happened? The
station went to #1 and remains at #1, 2 or 3. With no contests, staff,
givaways, etc.
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Eric Bueneman - N0UIHEric@xxxxxxx
The same thing happened to KEZK-102.5 here in St. Louis. While still
drawing excellent numbers, they pulled the plug on their Easy Listening
format in 1990, and switched to a Soft Adult Contemporary format (that
format has since fine-tuned to Adult Contemporary). In an unusual move,
the Easy Listening format was moved to 590 kHz in Wood River, IL
(bumping WCEO from the dial, and adopting the KEZK calls on AM). The
format didn't draw the numbers that it had on FM, and the station
temporarily simulcast the FM before adopting the all-sports format (as
KFNS) in 1993. There had been two Easy Listening stations on FM in St.
Louis and one on AM as late as 1979. KCFM-93.7 became KSD-FM when their
owners, Gannett Radio, purchased KSD-550 (now KTRS) in 1979. The format
was changed to Adult Contemporary (calling themselves "KS-94"). KSD-FM
went to Hot AC in 1984 (dropping the "KS-94" slogan in the spring of
1987), Classic Rock in late 1987, fine-tuning to current rock in 1993,
and returning to Classic Rock in 1996. They're now AC/Oldies ('70s, '80s
and '90s) as "Mix 93.7". 590 had been an Easy Listening station once
before, as WRTH. The station had a small-town flavor to it, even
announcing the Illinois Lottery numbers on a daily basis. The station
fine-tuned to "Music of Your Life" in 1981. Their only competition was
KCFM-97.1 (now KXOK), which had the "Hit Parade" format from 1982 to
1984. The format was fine-tuned to Adult Standards in 1985. The WRTH
calls and Adult Standards format were dropped in 1988, converting to
all-oldies ('50s and '60s) WKLL. After only 11 months with the format,
they became all-business WCEO. While this was going on, WEW-770
augmented it's longstanding Big Band format with a satellite-fed version
of "Music of Your Life". In 1990, WIL-1430 dropped it's longstanding C&W
format for Adult Standards (from Westwood One, with the exception of
Johnny Rabbitt in the morning), and changed calls to WRTH at the
beginning of 1991. KMOX-1120 ran Easy Listening music overnights on a
daily basis (first with John McCormick on weekdays and Tony Oren on
weekends, then Oren alone, then Ralph Graczak, Jr.) until 1993, then
went to Sunday mornings only until dropping Easy Listening altogether at
the beginning of 1999. The only music left on KMOX is traditional Jazz
on Saturday nights. The closest Easy Listening station to St. Louis now,
believe it or not, is WRSA-96.9 Decatur/Huntsville, AL (which I heard
last summer).
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Eric Bueneman - N0UIHEric@xxxxxxx
Just a note to let you know that effective April 25, 1999, the
all-sports format that's currently on KFNS-590 Wood River, IL is now
simulcast on KZMM-100.7 Troy, MO. Both stations use the AM slogan, "Fans
590". A call change on 100.7 to KFNS-FM is pending. The AM and FM are on
opposite ends of town (590 is 1 kW day and night, two directional
patterns, 100.7 has an ERP of 6 kW at 328 feet above average terrain).
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THE "X" BAND
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INDIVIDUAL LOGGINGS
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ragnar danneskjold - Mesa AZ - lwdxer@xxxxxxxx
Heard on a Realistic DX 440 barefoot, Kenwood R-1000 with a modified
zepp antenna:
560 KSFO San Francisco, CA 4/28 0731 with Michael Reagan.
610 KFRC San Francisco, CA 4/28 0745 playing oldies.
710 KDIS Los Angeles, CA 0102 4/25 playing Hakuna Metata from "The
Lion King". [I heard this a bazillion times, just somehow never
logged it.]
870 WWL New Orleans, LA 4/27 2306 with news of a big drug bust.
930 KKHJ Los Angeles, CA 0930 4/25 with SS programming and EE ID. [I
heard this one often but never logged it]
970 KCLB Coachella, CA 4/28 0822 with Bloomberg News.
1130 KRDU Dinuba, CA 2256 4/28 with pastor McGee with Through the
Bible. Wx report. 2300 shutdown mid sentence and was gone.
1470 KHTK Sacramento, CA 4/27 2252 with Sacramento Kings basketball.
1470t KKTY Douglas, WY 4/27 0054 I got a solid ID but not sure which
one in the pile was playing "I Second That Emotion".
1510 KIRV Fresno, CA 2029 4/28 at s/o under KFNN.
1510 KDKO Littleton, CO 4/27 0008 playing R&B ID at 0031. Ad for Cinco
de Mayo celebration at the Civic Center, Denver area ads.
1610 WXK790 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport 4/27 0002, it's where to park at
the airport.
770 XEFTA Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico 1233 ID "Siete-Setenta, Los
Mochis"
820 XEUDO Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico 1251 playing old romantic music
from the 40s with lots of harmony. Very pleasant and easy to
listen to. ID at 1258 "Ocho-Veinte, Musica Romantica".
830 XEVQ Culiacan/Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico 4/29 0309 with woman
announcer playing romantic music. Fade out 0318.
940 XENV Mexicali, BN, Mexico 4/29 0307 with slogan "Fiesta Mexicana"
playing nice music.
950 XEPB Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico 1338 ID "Radio Amor" with
romantic music. Antenna Switch at 1359, signal lost.
950 XEPB Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico with legal ID 4/29 0305 "Radio
Amor, XEPB. Transmitiendo con diez mil watts de potencia." VERY
overmodulated.
970 XEJ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, MX with full legal TOH ID 0400
4/28 "XEJ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. La Jota Mexicana con
diez mil watts de potencia".
1470t XERCN Tijuana, BN, MX 0437 4/27 "Catorce Setenta, La Caliente"
playing Mexican dance music.
1560 XEJPV Zaragosa, Chihuahua, MX [Ciudad Juarez] 0408 4/27 Man
talking under KNZR.
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Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
860 KBEE UT, SALT LAKE CITY, good on top of jumble w/Radio Disney, ID
at 0355 EDT 4/29 with "Radio Disney, 860 AM". Then at 0359.50
EDT through OC of KPAM "KBEE-Salt Lake City" Back into Radio
Disney. Ex KCNR. (PM-OR) Runs 196 w at night.
920 KAYO OLYMPIA WA, hrd with C&W music with //99.3. ID'd at 1459.50
EDT 4/27 as "We are KAYO Aberdeen and KAYO Olympia, Hot New
Country 99.3" Into C&W mx. Ex KGHO. (PM-OR)
1490 KGHO HOQUIAM, WA good with Oldies Rock ID as
"KGHO-Hoquiam-Aberdeen" at 1559.50 EDT 4/27. Ex KJTT. (PM-OR)
1700 WPMG956 CA, NORWALK operated by Cerritos College, with student
info, many IDs at 0800 EDT 4/29. Presume it is a 10 watt TIS type
of operation. Fair. (PM-OR)
Drake R8, 1500' Eastern Beverage, EWE Antenna
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Zacharias Liangas - zliangas@xxxxxxxxxxxx
1600.7 Greece. Serres relay(?) 1730 /24 Mar relay of ERA 1 with sport
program 32442 Best in LSB only due to strong QRM on 1602
1646 Eudokimos 1733 testing and CQ ing Later netting with Kronos
/Serres and Alpha
1656 Alpha Achaia , Magic Patra and Komitis Viotia 1735
1675 (1722) Christos 809, toxotis Livadia, Tasos taper, devil, Skai,
811 and veteranos stavros There was too much confusion betw
then that some of them cannot follow a sequence of
transmissions !
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HELP WITH
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Paul Ormandy - paulorm@xxxxxxxx
I wonder if some one could provide me (and others interested) the
break-out times from Radio Disney for locals ids and ads etc?
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**Tim Kridel - tim.kridel@xxxxxxxx
I have a Drake R8 that's run without a problem since I bought it new
several years ago. This past week, we had a couple of severe
thunderstorms with lightning. This morning, I turned on the rig, and the
display looked weird: Only parts of the digits were displayed, and most
of the badges (e.g., ANT, AGC) weren't displayed at all. Everything else
worked normally. I could tune in stations, turn off the backlight, etc.
I pulled the AC and DC fuses, but neither appeared burnt. So, I just
stuck them back in, turned on the power and the display was back to
normal. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm suspect that it had
something to do with the lightning.
**ragnar danneskjold - lwdxer@xxxxxxxx
This is a common thing with microprocessor controlled radios. They are
very succeptible to having their memory scrambled for very small
reasons. I would suspect that you had a near strike with lightning and
the EMP [electro magnetic pulse] from a near strike gave a spike to the
microprocessor and got it confused. You do not have to be connected to
an antenna or the AC mains to get this to happen. Just the size of the
pulse from the lightning could do it if it is within a quarter mile.
The US military has this planned as a tactic if there is a nuclear war,
to knock out an enemys electronics. A weapon would be detonated far
above the atmosphere where no persons would be injured and the EMP from
that weapon would destroy the microprocessors in the enemys equipment.
You got a small scale taste of it with the lightning.
However, if there is a rapid spike or dip from the power company who
supplies your electricity, then you could get the same result.
When you pulled the fuses and replaced them and plugged your rig into
the wall socket, the microprocessor memory reset and read the CMOS chip
program for controlling your rig and it once again ran fine. I have seen
it with televisions, radios, microwaves, even the control panel on my
dishwasher. It's pretty common. In the summer we get some magnificent
and long lasting electrical storms here in Arizona. Every bit as
spectacular as the ones in Florida. The lucky Floridians get them all
year long. Heh, heh, heh. We don't.
I would bet more on the lightning than the power co. delivering a spike
or dip.
As always, when you see lightning, disconnect the power, antenna AND
ground from your rig to ensure it is not damaged. I found out about
damage from lightning the hard way. It was pretty expensive.
**LFreshwate@xxxxxxx - LFreshwate@xxxxxxx
Tim, Without looking at a diagram, I would only hazzard a guess....
More than likely a "glitch" in the power line did something to the
"memory" As you know, even when the rig is off, it needs a voltage to
sustain certain memory functions.... Pulling the plug (ie: fuses)
"re-set" everything. I have not had that happen to my R-8, even here in
"lightning alley"
**Charles A. Taylor - calltaylor@xxxxxxxx
You would probably be well advised to acquire one of these surge-
protecting outlet strips, the kind with the on/off rockers switch Then,
turn off the switch when you're finished operating your R8B. ALWAYS
disconnect your longwire antenna from your R8B when not using it. I do
the same out here in NC where the isokerauic rate (lightning) approaches
that of Florida.
**Pat Martin - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
Yes, my R8 had the same problem a couple years ago after a surge. I
unpluged it and a few seconds later plugged it back in and it has been
fine ever since. Apparently the micro proccessor got confused.
I might mention when the same thing happened to my R8 as mentioned
earlier, it was plugged into a $100 surge protector too.
**Charles Taylor - Charles_Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I fired off my observations too soon on the R8B. I was supposing that
the set has a volatile memory that is kept alive from the set's power
supply. The power supply is "live" whether or not the set is "on" or
"off."
If it has a volatile memory, then maybe youse guys would an UPS to power
the set while its disconnected from the mains.
I got an APC 500VA UPS for my computer, as it wants continuous electric
power for "rapid resume". I don't want it connected to the mains because
of glitches riding in caused by switching in the neighborhood.
I think APC makes a 200 VA UPS, more than enough for an R8B.
**LFreshwate@xxxxxxx - LFreshwate@xxxxxxx
Everything "should" be on a UPS. Todays UPS's offer some "surge"
protection as well as battery back-up..... Helps keep the "glitshes" out
of your system.
I run my R-8 on the same UPS as my computer system. Here in lightning
alley, I "ground" the long wire when not in use.
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**Charles C Boehnke - kale@xxxxxxxx
Anyone know who the "Radio Romantica" on 700 kHz Is that I heard around
1200 UTC last night? (Sat nite-Sun morn) Good signal , nice ballades, no
comercials, no TC, no location, just the Radio Romantica ID w/OM is all
I heard.
**Richard Toebe - richtoebe@xxxxxxx
KVRG-700 in Soledad, CA runs "Radio Romantica", // KBRG-100.3 in San
Jose (Soledad is a little south of Salinas.) They're a semi-local to
me, I hear them day and night.
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Paul Ormandy - paulorm@xxxxxxxx
Can someone please tell me if the Aussie with AA programming on 1620 is
2AM "The Edge" or someone else... according to a note from 2ME, both the
Melbourne and Sydney transmitters are on 1638...
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**ragnar danneskjold - lwdxer@xxxxxxxx
I have a weak fluttery station on 1500 that I believe to be in Japanese.
Is there a Californian near SF that has this programming?
**Dennis Gibson - dcgibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ragnar - KSJX in San Jose is Asian.
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William C. Demmery - wdemmery@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Heard this morning (April 29), between 06:30 and 07:05, on a DX-440,
barefoot, in English, on approx. two-minute loop:
"Construction is underway on a brand new radio station, exclusively for
(Hunterton? -- something phonetically similar) County. Find out what
everyone will be talking about, May 1st, 3pm."
Signal is bearing roughly southeast from my location in Ottawa and is
subject to fading, growing weaker as the morning progresses, so it's
probably semi-local and couldn't be a groundwave catch.
Heard at 07:00 just before the tape-loop announcement on 1040:
something sounding like "WKAR."
Doing some research on the Internet, I conclude that the station in
question must be an existing one: WJHR-1040, Flemington, NJ -- which
happens to be located in Hunterdon County. Obviously, they are
preparing for a format change.
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QSLs
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Robert Ross - radiorob@xxxxxxxxx
1080 KNDK Langdon. North Dakota Full Data personal letter and Station
info sheet rec'd from Jen Taylor, Program director, in 3 1/2
months for Mint Stamps. This was for a DX Test they held back in
late December/98, Route 5, Box 9, Langdon, ND 58249
1650 WHKT Chesapeake, VA. Full Data letter from Susan Ervin, Asst.
Mgr. in 3 Months for Mint stamps. This was for a Test before they
were officially on the air, 2202 Jolliff Road, Chesapeake, VA.
23321
1680 WJNZ Ada, MICH. Full Data station Sheet/QSL and Sticker from Jeff
Shelp, Dir. of Eng., in 5 Months for Mint Stamps. This was the
2nd QSL I rec'd from them for the same report!!, 2610 Horizon Dr.
SE, Suite F, Grand Rapids, MICHIGAN 49546
1700 KBGG Des Moines, IOWA Full Data Station letter from Tony Conrad,
Prod. Dir. in 5 Months for Mint Stamps. 5161 Maple Drive, Des
Moines, IOWA 50317
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Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
1700 WRUN FL, MIAMI SPRINGS-rec. pd letter with T-shirt, and info on
network, including list of their stations in 21d. V/S: Adriana
Grillet-VP aff. relations. address: Radio Unica, 8400 NW 52nd St.
Ste #101 - Miami Fl 33166. Note the call letters. Apparently the
"UN" stands for Unica. (PM-OR)
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MISC ITEMS
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Glenn Hauser - wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx
WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL MASTER SCHEDULE of
Glenn Hauser's Broadcasts, as of April 22, 1999
NOTE: View or print this page in non-proportional font so the columns
line up!! For correct day of week, look upward within the column in
question. Local means time at the station.
For updates see http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio
UT CDT LOCAL PROGRAM STATION FREQUENCY
WED WED WED
2100 4:00p 5:00p WOR WBCQ 7415
THU THU THU
1530 10:30a 9:30a MR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
FRI FRI FRI
1100 6:00a 12:00n WOR WRN-Internet On-demand may start
1400 9:00a 8:00a MR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
1745 12:45p 7:45p MR/REL RN Astra-RNW2
1900 2:00p 1:00p COM RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
1930 2:30p 1:30p WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
2115 4:15p 4:15p MR WWCR 15685
SAT
2255 5:55p 12:55a MR/REL RN 15315 11715 9895
Astra-RNW2
SAT
0055 7:55p 2:55a MR/REL RN 15315 9895 Astra-RNW2
0255 9:55p 4:55a MR/REL RN 9590 6165 Astra-RNW1
FRI
0300 10:00p 9:00p COM RFPI 6975 15049 101.3
0330 10:30p 9:30p WOR RFPI 6975 15049 101.3
SAT
0330 10:30p 4:30a WOR WRN Astra 1B
SAT
0755 2:55a 2:55a WOR WNQM-TN 1300
0800 3:00a 9:00a WOR WRN Astra 1B
0955 4:55a 4:55a WOR WNQM-TN 1300
[above reported at 1030/5:30 am instead July 11]
1100 6:00a 5:00a COM RFPI 6975 101.3
1130 6:30a 5:30a WOR RFPI 6975 101.3
1130 6:30a 6:30a WOR WWCR 12160 [NEW]
1600 11:00a 5:00p WOR WRN Galaxy V, Astra 1B,
C-SPAN, KRVM-1280 OR,
WLIO-35 SAP OH
WGHR-100.7 GA
1730 12:30p 11:30a COM RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
1800 1:00p 12:00n WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
1830 1:30p 2:30p WOR WPKN-CT 89.5 [week delay]
SUN
0130 8:30p 7:30p COM RFPI 6975 15049 21460-USB
101.3
0200 9:00p 8:00p WOR RFPI 6975 15049 21460-USB
101.3
0229 9:29p 9:29p WOR WWCR 5070
SUN SUN
0530 12:30a 6:30a WOR WRN Galaxy V, C-SPAN,
KRVM-1280 OR,
WLIO-35 SAP OH,
WGHR-100.7 GA
0630 1:30a 1:30a WOR WWCR 5070
0740 2:40a 2:40a MR WNQM-TN 1300
0930 4:30a 4:30a WOR WWCR 5070 [to be deleted]
0930 4:30a 3:30a COM RFPI 6975 101.3
1000 5:00a 4:00a WOR RFPI 6975 101.3
1030 5:30a 11:30a WOR WRN Af/As/Pac satellites
1835 1:35p 8:35p MR/REL RN Astra-RNW2
2300 6:00p 5:00p WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
MON
2355 6:55p 12:55a MR/REL RN 15315 11715 9895
Astra-RNW2
MON SUN
0330 10:30p 10:30p WOR WSUI-IA 910 [week delay]
MON
0355 10:55p 5:55a MR/REL RN 9590 6165 Astra-RNW1
MON
0500 12:00m 12:00m WOR WWCR 3210
0700 1:00a 1:00a WOR RFPI 6975 15049 101.3
0740 2:40a 2:40a MR WNQM-TN 1300
1400 9:00a 8:00a MR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
1500 10:00a 9:00a WOR RFPI 21460-USB 101.3 [irr.]
TUE TUE TUE
1230 7:30a 7:30a WOR WWCR 15685
1900 2:00p 1:00p WOR RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
2000 3:00p 2:00p COM RFPI 15049 21460-USB 101.3
2030 3:30p 3:30p WOR WWCR 15685
WED
0300 10:00p 9:00p WOR RFPI 6975 15049 101.3
0400 11:00p 10:00p COM RFPI 6975 15049 101.3
[irr. repeat default]
WED WED
1200 7:00a 6:00a COM RFPI 21460-USB 101.3 [ditto]
NOTE: WOR is weekly; COM and MR approximately monthly but aired weekly.
MR serialized almost every week on RN Radio-Enlace. MR times on RFPI
extremely variable; WNQM times unconfirmed lately. WRN times also
relayed by many other FM stations and cable systems.
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phil bytheway - Seattle WA - philip_bytheway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tabulated from WWV at ~0518 GMT nightly
Geomagnetic Summary April 8 1999 through April 27 1999
4/ 8 139 10 2 moderate quiet-active -
9 136 7 3 low quiet-unsettled -
10 136 10 2 low quiet-unsettled -
11 z z z z z -
12 130 8 1 low quiet-unsettled -
13 130 3 1 low quiet -
14 z z z z z -
15 122 4 1 low quiet -
16 123 12 6 very low quiet-mas -
17 116 35 2 very low quiet-mas -
18 113 7 1 very low quiet-unsettled -
19 110 9 4 very low quiet-active -
20 105 24 2 very low quiet-mis -
21 103 13 2 low quiet-active -
22 100 4 2 low quiet -
23 z z z z z -
24 101 5 0 very low quiet spe 1814
25 103 3 1 very low quiet -
26 105 6 1 very low quiet-unsettled -
4/27 109 12 3 low quiet-unsettled -
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If you note any AM changes (call, format, slogan, etc), please send
them to the NRC Log coordinator (Wayne Heinen) @ nrclog@xxxxxxx
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END of 4/29/99 IRCA's "AM DX NewsFlash"
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