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Re: [IRCA] KXXA-1520 WA
I do hear 1520 in Port Hueneme in the day (their call is KVTA), but it's just barely above the noise floor (as are 500-watt 1290-KZSB, 650-watt 1340-KCLU and 1000-watt 1490 KSPE, all sharing the same non-directional stick 195 miles northwest of me and licensed to Santa Barbara) just using a ULR's built-in ferrite. They drop power and change their pattern at night, though, so I don't hear them after sunset.
I am just 7.3 miles from 760 KFMB (whose 2nd harmonic happens to be 1520), currently (unless KXXA signed on by the time I click "send") the only station in the USA that runs 50kW at night and less (5kW) in the day. I don't typically hear them on 1520, though, under normal conditions (for example with the built-in ferrite loopstick). If I tune the loop antenna to 760 and listen on 1520, I will hear them fairly prominently at night, but when I recorded the clip of KOKC linked in the earlier message, the loop was tuned to 1520 and aimed east/northeast (KFMB is northwest).
--- On Sat, 4/2/11, Rick Lewis <ricklew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Rick Lewis <ricklew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXXA-1520 WA
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 6:06 AM
Stephen,
I'm wondering if you're hearing the 1520 in Port Hueneme, CA, near Ventura,
which also has a news-talk format.
Incidentally, _unless they changed back and I missed it), a few years ago
KOMA changed calls to KOKC.
--
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Airy" <pianoplayer88key@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXXA-1520 WA
That's interesting, Patrick.
I'm near the west coast, too - well actually something like 15-18 miles
inland (not sure how to exactly calculate it due in part to curvature of the
coastline and especially a bay (San Diego) west of me with a peninsula just
beyond it. I tuned to, and recorded 1520 earlier this morning, and I
definitely heard a station pretty much owning the channel, but I never heard
them ID as "KOMA".
Is it reasonably possible our distance separation on the west coast (me
being just east of San Diego, you being some distance west of Portland)
could have something to do with you and me hearing different stations on
1520? (I can detect another station under the one i'm hearing, but only by a
sub-audible heterodyne, or occasional hints of modulation.)
What format does this "KOMA" you're referring to carry? The station I hear
seems to be a news/talk station. Also I get a not found error when I try to
visit the KOMA-AM page on radio-locator (the FCC AM Query site is down right
now).
I generally aim my antenna east (maybe slightly north to get a better null
from 1530 KFBK's IBOC) to hear 1520. Do I need to aim maybe northeast to
hear KOMA, or maybe west and listen in the early morning for a station from
Korea bearing those calls? ;)
73,
Stephen
--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] KXXA-1520 WA
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:29 PM
Hi Nick,
Not excited about another 50 KW powerhouse in the NW. I think that will
be about number ten in the 50 KW Dept for the Puget Sound with 710, 770,
820, 880, 950, 1000, 1090, 1300, 1380, and now 1520. Then add in the
10KW or more (850, 1150, 1210, 1620, and 1680). That is a lot of
powerhouse stations in one market. I guess KKXA will be directional
North and co-located with KRKO. It looks like about 30% of their signal
will head to the SW. I wonder what it will do to KGDD here? KOMA
dominates here at night generally anyway. But it may create a real
jumble here. I hope they don't adopt IBOC. That is a possibility with
KRKO running it.
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager
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