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Re: [IRCA] DX Tips for WDXR
--- On Tue, 5/31/11, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] DX Tips for WDXR
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 9:30 PM
> Don wrote:
>
>> Very interesting Pat. I was fortunate to hear Vista once,
>> as KMLO, from Sacramento way way back in 1967 on a sunday
>> morning in early december, around 7: 30 in the morning.
>> Like you I've tried many times after that for KCEO with
>> no luck at all.
I don't think I'm old enough to remember the KMLO calls. I do regularly hear Vista day and night, though (currently KCEO). Signal is fair - about an S4 (the way I judge the RST scale) on a typical portable - enough to light a tuning indicator or trip a seek/scan, in the daytime. At night it's weak and competes with KOMO Seattle, although usually KCEO comes out on top.
Also, I don't typically count call changes or format changes as new loggings, but I will count transmitter & antenna changes as new loggings.
For example, KDIS and KSPN in the Los Angeles area swapping frequencies a number of years ago isn't grounds for new loggings for me. However, local KCBQ moving to a different transmitter site with a different power & antenna configuration would for me technically be a new logging, even though they had the same callsign and format.
>> Back in 2003 I had only 7 stations in CA I had never heard
>> + 22 others not heard under current calls but logged on
>> previous calls. The 7 never heard were:
>>
>> 610-KAVL-Lancaster (thanks to local on 610..did hear KAVL
>> from Iowa in the early 50s when they were on 1340).
>
> The only time I ever heard KAVL was in Rancho Mirage. I
> QSL'd it there,
> but never heard it in OR. 610 SF and Medford are hard to
> get around.
>
KAVL can be heard here in the day with a VERY selective radio & a sensitive antenna, although IBOC from local 600 KOGO makes it extremely difficult. (It is possible to DX near local IBOC, though, as I've heard 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan, out from between 600 KOGO and its IBOC, whose 5kW is about 7.7 miles west of me.) At night, though, they're a regular, with KEAR San Francisco also making an occasional appearance.
> >>1040-KURS-San Diego..no sign here (yet).
>
> Logged KURS years ago, but never good enough for a report.
> I might have
> a shot of it now, but the IBOC is horrible from 1050.
>
KURS is a regular day and night here. At night there is signs of fading from co-channel / skywave interference, but KURS is always on top of the channel. (My next logging of WHO from here will be my first, although I've heard them from Redlands, CA.) Also KURS shares a tower with 1240 KNSN (formerly KSON) and that GY signal is good enough to own the frequency at night.
> >> 1050-KMAP-Frazier Park (my local here went up from
> >> 1000 watts daytime to 50 kw 24/7 in the last 20 years).
>
> KMAP I do have heard and QSL'd, but that also was from the
> 80s I believe
> when AU cx were excellent in the aftenoon in the Winter.
>
I don't remember if I've heard KMAP. My daytimer on 1050 is XED from Mexicali (although KCAA Loma Linda is also possible) and at night I often hear KTCT San Mateo.
> >> 1100-KAFY Bakersfield (again, I have a 50 kw local here).
>
> Heard unid SS u/KFAX a time or two, but nothing else.
>
Don't know if I've heard KAFY here. I do regularly hear KFAX San Francisco and the ESPN outlet (IIRC) from Las Vegas, NV.
> >> 1320-KSDT Hemet;
>
> Another lucky break back in the late 80s/early 90s when I
> nabbed KSDT
> one night. I was also looking for Oceanside which I did not
> hear. I got
> a QSL from KSDT, but it took a couple f/ups.
>
Don't remember KSDT, but I do hear KKSM Oceanside in the day here. At night it's usually the one from Sacramento, IIRC, although I haven't checked in a while.
> >> 1340-KWXY-Cathedral City (tried many, many, many times
> >> but no go).
>
> No GYer heard from the Coahcella Valley here. At my place
> in Rancho
> Mirage Cathedral City was my closest local at about 2
> miles.
I don't remember if I've heard KWXY at night in the jumble here. In the daytime, KCLU Santa Barbara dominates from 195 miles away, as heard in this recent clip recorded with the PL-606 and Select-A-Tenna:
http://tinyurl.com/PL606-1340-SAT-20110515
> My only Coahcella Valley loggings up here are 920, 1010,
> and 1140. 1140 & 920 were both DX Tests and I have logged
> 1010 several times under different call changes, but not
> for several years.
>
I got something on 920 one early afternoon when local 910 KECR was off the air. I'm not sure if it was Palm Springs or Ensenada, though. I don't think I've logged 1010 there, and splatter from 1130 KSDO is too much for even my Tecsun PL-606 to dig out much of anything on 1140. My best Coachella Valley signal, at least in the daytime, is 970 KNWZ.
> >> 1550-KWRN-Apple Valley (got nearly everyone but
> >> them thru my 10kw local)
>
> Never heard this one either, nor Victorville 1590.
>
I have a semi-local on 1550, although around SR/SS, KUAZ Tuscon also makes a regular appearance. I don't remember what I've had on 1590, although I suspect Ventura, Mexicali or Ensenada would be more likely possibilities for me.
> >>...Pardon me if some of the above have changed
> calls in the last 8
> years. I need to bring my log up to date.<<
>
> Don't worry about it, who can remember all of the call
> changes? I sure
> can't. I find myself referring to a station with old calls
> often. About
> the time you remember the new calls, they changed again.
> hi.
>
> 73,
>
> Patrick
>
> Patrick Martin
> Seaside OR
> KGED QSL Manager
>
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