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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Nite and Day at KGOW 1560 TX
This was LOCAL-like here in southern Missouri Friday night with
sports-talk around 10:30pm Central (0430 UTC Sat.7 Feb). Are you sure
there WAS anyone else on the channel, hi? Assuming KGOW, they had to
have been running on their 50kW blowtorch last night.
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
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Subject: [NRC-AM] Nite and Day at KGOW 1560 TX
** U S A. 1560 kHz with booming dominant loud & clear signal in sports
talk, discussing merits of Monday night football hosts, Feb 7 at 0649
UT, phone 1-800-878-PLAY. Missed hourtop ID if any but at 0706, got
program name ``Sports Overnight America``, and mentioned several
affiliates, including KTRB-860, but not 1560.
Would normally tune out this nonsense, but something is amiss. Strongly
suspect KGOW Bellaire/Houston TX, which has a 50 kW rig for daytime
only, but which got out very well a few months ago during a hurricane on
emergency usage. Searching on S.O.A., one gets to this which does show
KGOW as an affiliate: http://www.sportsbyline.com/affil.htm
And KGOW`s own program schedule, ``lineup`` calls it ``Midnight Sports
Byline`` starting at 9 pm most nights with no details of exactly what`s
on until 7 am local CT:
http://www.1560thegame.com/media/?page_id=150
This signal was huge, and by comparison, XERF-1570 was buried in QRM. So
was KGOW running day power and tower? Inspecting FCC info at
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&hpat=2&facid=17389 ---
Licensed nite power is 100 watts, but this was no 100 watts; no point in
even looking at the direxional pattern for that. But also has a CP for
15 kW at night, with peak at 145 degrees, nulls at 45, 100, 295 and 345
degrees --- we are about 345 degrees from Houston.
The 50 kW day pattern, however, has a broad peak from 340 to 50 degrees,
centered on 15 degrees, so it sure looks like this was in use --- and no
hurricanes anywhere near.
If I were one of the four other Texans on 1560, or KOCY Oklahoma City,
not a trace of which was audible here, I`d be blowing the whistle on
KGOW (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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