[IRCA] 1290 - KOWB, Laramie WY

[Brian Rachford <azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx>]

(6-foot-diagonal wood frame tuned loop, RTL-SDR dongle, Ham It Up
upconverter)

I plan on being more organized about posting brief domestic logs here in
coordination with more detailed postings and recordings at my blog, but I
had to share this one.  Instead of sleeping right now, I'm listening to a
recording on 1290 from about 9:10-10:30pm that I made while I was doing
other things, and got my first catch of a station in a town where I
previously lived:

1290 KOWB, Laramie WY, weak at 10:05pm (0505UT), 1000W, call (new), 599
miles

The loop was aligned SSW-NNE intentionally to try to somewhat null
semi-local KCUB and point towards Laramie.  Thye were going out of the TOH
news into the Bill Cunningham Show and they were advertising their phone
app.  The signal was battling KCUB, a Mexican station that I'm sure is XEAP
but haven't been able to truly confirm, and at least one other station.
Anyway, I lived in Laramie for most of the 90s and have real nostalgia for
the place and that time of life.  Clever call letters, too.

(Coincidentally, I went back to 1290 in real time little later to check
KAZA per a secondary topic in the 1520 KKXA thread.)

Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ
azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx
http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/
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