Re: [IRCA] WKSH 1640 WI has gone silent

[Stephen Airy <pianoplayer88key@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 8:49 AM PDT neilkaz wrote:

>Times EDT.
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>Milwaukee's Radio Disney pulled the plug sometime yesterday afternoon (I think). They should be silent while looking for a buyer. This means the Portland area stn is now the only Dosney on this channel and they should be widely heard. Hopefully Oregon just became easier for those further east. 
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I have yet to hear any Disney station on 1640 here in the San Diego, CA, area. Guess I can scratch Milwaukee off my target list.  Disney stations I have heard / do hear include:
-- 710 KDIS (swapped with 1110, now KSPN)
-- 910 KWDZ (in spite of Harold's local 5kW with DA pointed at me from 9 mi same direction, caught between songs when KECR was having automation/synchronization problems around Halloween or Thanksgiving 2011)
-- 1110 KDIS (current L.A. station heard daytime, needs good selectivity to evade local 1130 (10kW, 6 mi N) and good overload resistance to tame 1170 (50kW, 9 mi N). sometime I should go through my numerous C-Quam recordings from my SRF-42 and post them.)
-- 1240 KSON (local 11.2 mi W, owns channel at night, now Spanish Catholic KNSN)
-- 1240 KALY (local 1240 was running OC, now KDSK running oldies)
-- 1290 KKDD (best around SR/SS, also overnight, daytime is obliterated by co-channel to NW at 2x distance, 1/10th power. now contemporary Christian)
-- 1310 KMKY (through semi-local XEC's OC)
-- 1580 KMIK (blowtorch here at night (one of my strongest skywaves - only a few locals are stronger), but sometimes competing with pest KBLA, sometimes audible (and occasionally over KBLA) midday in winter)
-- 1680 KAVT (used to be nighttime regular, now KGED running Christian Talk)
-- 1690 KDDZ (now nearly impossible due to KFSG, which itself is obliterated by splatter from 1700 XEPE)

>Cx are very good for high latitudes these past couple of days and we still have two more evenings of potentially great end of Sept SSS to look forward to.
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>KDZR will switch from 10 kW day power to 1 kW night power at 2230 EDT for two more days. 
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Maybe I should try for them from here to the S/SE? Although, KDIA usually owns the channel, and there's a little splash from local 1630 XEUT.)

>Last night here in IL, Disney started showing up on 1640 at about 2217 and was often dominant atop KOAG/WTNI/KBJA until they reduced power, but as usual I couldn't get any local material or ID. KDIA was not noted but they switch pattern at 2215. Later on, Disney would occasionally surface and actually come atop, but I can't copy what should have been an ID during their breaks about 2 minutes before ToH, when other audible Disney's (1260,1690) IDed. 
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How close are you to the area just south of Bartlett, IL? (One of the NBT winners from a previous year is in that area, IIRC.) I'm wondering how well various Disney stations come in there, especially 1640 (before it silenced) and 1260 daytime? And what was KMIK reception like when they weren't switching patterns last fall? (This question is for anyone in the area, btw.)

>Does anyone know, when other than a couple mins prior to ToH, Disney's typically go into local breaks and have ads and possibly an ID?
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They usually have breaks approximately every 20 minutes or so. Also occasionally they'll layer a semi ID of sorts over the intro of a song, or tag it on the end before the DJ starts talking.

73, Stephen
east county San Diego, CA

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