Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Over Mod on the increase?

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed..as an example, the slop from overmod SS rlg (usually rlg mx) near super local (due to pattern and 13 miles away) WAIT 850 is lots worse than it was a few years back. Even 830 and 870 are bothered but fortunately they are a daytimer. Some other stations playing mx seem quite wide and wider than a few years ago.

WSCR 670 has also been bad, quite surprising, since it is sports talk, but perhaps it is issues with analog and their IBOC as well. Their IBOC is off today (noted last eve off) and they aren't slopping past 690 and 650 now. When they were this bad, it was just IBOC that wide, it was analog artifacts as well.

Re: our FCC...LOL or should I say COL (Crying out loud). The ammount of stations running day power 24/7 is on the rise again, especially for stns in Spanish.

Sure...have a tower light burn out or leave a gate unlocked and get a big fine, but leave day power on too late or otherwise operate far outta spec and no worries.

Re: 1310 Prosser...ty for the tip on that. Are they still ESPN Deportes? Re: 1480 Gooding..I didn't note them last season, although that takes very good cx. Are they still usually running 5 kw all night?

We DXers need to even better communicate about very likely night power cheats in our areas once good trans-continental cx come back (late Aug at the earliest in general). It is quite possible with good antennas and a rather clear freq to get double hop across the country on regionals running 5 or higher kw ND at night.

However, we should probably keep these communications and lists of suspected cheats off the msg lists since we don't want to falsely accuse in public although we DXers as a collective can usually be 99% sure. The purpose is not to raise red flags and accuse, but to alert others of distant DX possibilities. As an example, it might be possible for me to get Prosser past WIBA as I've had KEIN before right thru them. ESPN Deportes will stick out.

73 KAZ Barrington IL


-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: May 7, 2011 12:39 PM
>To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [NRC-AM] Over Mod on the increase?
>
>I have noticed over the past year or two, stations with overmod more.
>Like around here, KKEE-1230-Astoria (ESPN) is horrible. Distortion. I
>don't see how anyone would listen to them. I have phoned New NW BCing
>and so far nothing has been done. They did not even sound all that
>interested. I got the idea, they knew it.  Then even KSWB-840 Seaside
>has cranked their mod up, right on the line where if it was any higher,
>there would be clipping, so the splatter is worse. In setting 820 KGNW
>on a null to get Waldport OR, which I can hear, the splatter from KSWB
>840 is terrible. Of course, I have to go right through Seaside to get to
>Waldport, so the signal on KSWB is peaked. There is no way around it, as
>if I don't phase out the North, KGNW is dominant. Then  I noticed today
>KGDD-1520-Portland to be over mod too, causing splatter on 1510 & 1530.
>They are S9+5 here, not that overly strong and never used to splatter on
>KGA 1510 or KFBK-1530 days. Calling the FCC would be a total waste of
>time in today's world. First, the local stations cannot be received at
>the FCC officials home in Portland and he isn't going to drive out here
>to check. He might do something about KGDD, but I kind of doubt it. I
>wish we had our "old" FCC back. I just have a feeling that the future of
>over mod is just going to get worse. Add to that IBOC and more stations
>not dropping power at night. 1310 Prosser WA as well as 1480 Gooding ID
>both go on for weeks running 5 KW ND 24/7. I did noticed 1310 Prosser to
>be back to their lp last night as I could hear Missoula MT. If the
>goverment had the FCC there to fine stations that broke the rules, there
>would be plenty of money to support the FCC.  Has anyone else noticed
>station running over mod the past few years? 
>
>Patrick 
>
>Patrick Martin
>Seaside OR 
>KGED QSL Manager
>
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