[HCDX] Re: 1680 kHz unIDs: unID "... ABC Radio, 10000 watts of power" and unID urban mx

[Sheldon Harvey <ve2shw@xxxxxxxxx>]

What you are hearing is WTTM in Princeton, New Jersey.
 It is an ethnic station, featuring lots of Hindi
programming.

Sheldon

--- Aurel Chiochiu <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> Can anyone help here: unID stn on 1680 kHz, in the
> expanded part of the dial, with Indian music and IDs
> as ABC Radio and sixty-eighty AM and mention 10000
> watts of power (probably day power, since it was
> pretty fadey for a 10000 watts signal, I guess they
> are running 1000 watts instead - they faded from
> weak to nearly excellent). Played a lenghty Indian
> movie song at about 1924 EsT (Jean Burnell in NF has
> heard the same type of Indian Movie mx on All India
> Radio Nagpur 1566), then talked in accented english.
> Ads mentioning New Jersey wich is odd since the last
> time I listened to WTTM, the only NJ stn on this
> channel, they were sports. Ads were mostly in EE,
> though I did hear some in Hindi too. One
> announcement had a woman in Hindi (or maybe in very
> badly articulated english) and the man was in
> english.
> 
> Usually alone, though exceptionnally (one or twice)
> way under, I could hear an urban mx station too.
> 
> Any ideas for this weak unID urban music station as
> well as for the above strong "Indian" stn ? I don't
> listen too much on the extended dial, so don't know
> the station as well as I know those in the 530-1610
> kHz area.
> 
> It's not the first time I hear Indian near the top
> of the dial (didn't know until a few minutes ago it
> was actually 1680, since my great Sanyo rx is
> analog); I even heard this once in the middle of the
> night in November, if this can be of any help.
> 
> Thank you very much !,
> 73 and good DX and hopes everyone who can get this,
> keep listening !,
> Not much in the way of LA DX finally, though -
> except for weak reception of 1 or 2 regulars like
> Caicos-530 or Venezuela-640;
> Bogdan Chiochiu.
> 
> 
> 


=====
Sheldon Harvey
Owner-Radio H.F.
Canada's specialist in radio communications
http://www.total.net/~radiohf
President-Canadian International DX Club
Canada's national radio monitoring club since 1962
http://www.anarc.org/cidx/

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