Re: [IRCA] 1700 kHz. Mystery Disney Station
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Re: [IRCA] 1700 kHz. Mystery Disney Station



I checked the Radio DIsney affiliate list at
http://radio.disney.go.com/music/yourstation/ and found nothing on 1700Khz.

Paul

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:56 AM, John H. Bryant <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
> Thanks for all of the checks on my mystery 1700 Disney station. If I
> hadn't been so careful, I'd think at this point that I was dreaming.
> However, I was in the middle of intense logging for the Ultralight DX
> Sprint. Unfortunately, I did not have my recorder on-line. I had just
> logged new (for the Sprint) stations on 1510, 1540, 1670, 1680 and
> there I sat on 1700, with bubble gum music coming in my ears. It was
> especially odd because I'm used to hearing Brownsville and Richardson
> Texas to my due south  and Des Moines to my NNE. I hadn't logged any
> of them (just hadn't gotten this far up the dial before) during the
> Sprint, so I was expecting to be able to snag at least one, maybe
> more. Instead, there, BY ITSELF, was Disney at moderate strength...
> including a Radio Disney ID at 0043 on March 2. I nulled it carefully
> and got due East/West. I was using a tuned 12" x 1" ferrite "booster
> bar" inductively coupled to the DT-200VX, which has a digital dial.
> The nulling is probably accurate within plus/minus 10 degrees. 0043
> was just 20 minutes past local sunset, so central and northern New
> Mexico MIGHT be in play.... Amarillo would be a suspect, as would
> Tulsa (wasn't that strong) Ft. Smith, Springfield (maybe), Little
> Rock and Memphis. A real mystery to me (and you folks, too, apparently :>)
>
>
>
> John B.
> Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
>
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