Re: [IRCA] Re Spanish music on 1130
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Re: [IRCA] Re Spanish music on 1130

It's more a case of KPWX sending lots of power to the north, rather than not powering down
I checked the car radio at 5:45 tonight when I left work. KPWX was already loud, and overpowered CKWX about 90 percent of the time. Much of the time, KPWX was near local strength with little or no trace of CKWX. Occasionally it faded down allowing CKWX to fade up for a few sentences. This was no small feat, since CKWX has (had?) a very listenable signal during the day here in Seattle. For the record, I'm 120 miles south of CKWX and 160 miles north of KPWX.
I rechecked 1130 at 7:25 PDT tonight and the two stations were fighting it out. At 7:30 CKWX was suddenly alone, and has been ever since (it's now 8:15), so KPWX definitely dropped power tonight.
Frome what I heard in the car, KPWX will give CKWX fits during mornings and afternoons, which can only intensify as the days get shorter. I can understand why listeners in the Fraser Valley are complaining. 

Bruce

On 9/29/2010 1:34 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:

Do we have evidence to suggest they aren't powering down?


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Russ Edmunds<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:


But whether they're actually powering down is another issue....


Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80&  Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot


--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Paul B. Walker, Jr.<walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


From: Paul B. Walker, Jr.<walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Re Spanish music on 1130
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"<

irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 2:49 PM
A check of the FCC database real
quickly tells anyone who looks that 1130 is
25KW day and 400 some odd watts at night

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:47 PM, bill kral<jwkral@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:


I wonder what  time and day Spanish  music

was noticed on 1130 in the

Fraser
Valley and was it called in by a listener or was CKWX

doing their own

reception
test? If it was last night then I wasn't tuning

in but I didn't notice any

spanish under or over Vancouver on Monday night when I

happemed to be

catching
some news on News 1130. Does Mt.Angel power down at

night or are they power

steady? Bill in BC


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