Re: DX Detective.....

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 10:44 AM 5/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Can anyone help with these DX identifiers?
>
>1220AM overnight.....  Sports talk?
I think this would be the 50 kW AM 1220 in Cleveland. It's directional north
and south (more or less) and doesn't have the tall tower or the relatively
interference-free channel that WTAM has, so it doesn't deliver the signal
here that WTAM does. But it's still usually audible at night.
>
>1580AM...Slow melodic french music
CBJ Chicoutimi PQ. A former Class IA, it runs 50 kW-U, with a very loose
east-west pattern.
>
>1120AM overnight.  Sounded like a syndicated show....host greeted a
>caller from WPCS(?) in Washington, DC.  Was this WADN?  Or could I have
>been picking up KMOX?  (Has *anyone ever picked up KMOX here in Boston?)
Could have been WADN. The 1120 in DC, WUST, is a 10 kW daytimer. Yes you can
get KMOX here on a lot of nights. Depending on where you live, KMOX can
completely overwhelm WADN, though probably not SS WPMZ from Bristol CT,
which has a better nighttime signal in much of the Boston area than WADN
does:-( In hockey season, you know it's KMOX if you hear them calling a
Blues game. Tune in at (I think) 6:25 AM Eastern and hear the National
Anthem. KMOX has been playing the Star Spangled Banner at 5:25 Central time
for years and years. I'm told it's a St Louis tradition. This time of year,
you probably can't pick up KMOX at that hour, though. For one thing, WADN is
on day power--unless, of course, they forget to switch.

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