Attention all AM DX-ing fans!

[Bob DeMattia]

WWGB is Spanish religious
WNVR is Polish
WBGS is oldies

So my money is on you hearing WBGS.

I've found that if you type 'radio 1030' (or any other frequency) into
Wikipedia you
get something like the following.  Since the summary lines mostly show the
location and format of each station, it's very helpful for DX'ing when you
want to
figure out what you're hearing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=radio+1030&go=Go


-Bob


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Martin Waters <martinjwaters@yahoo.com>wrote:

> >--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > WGSF, according to Flinn Broadcasting's
> > own website is broadcasting in spanish as Radio Ambiente.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:02 PM,
> > Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> > wrote:
> > WGSF Memphis TN on 1030 runs 50
> > kW-D, 10 kW-CH, 1 kW-N DA-N (three
> > towers in-line protecting WBZ). The D and CH operations are
> > ND. The format is Black Gospel, I believe. The distance between
> > WGSF and WBZ is 1135 miles.
>
>    WGSF may be the Spanish signal I get here every day at around sunset --
> not cutting back to the critical hours power, perhaps? But I'm thinking that
> wasn't my Neil Diamond station on Thursday.
>
>    With the now-explained unusual propagation conditions, the possible
> stations are several -- especially a few 50 kW daytime-only stations. Like,
> WWGB, Indian Head, Md., 50 kW, DA. That's a regular visitor at my home on
> winter mornings -- as late as 8 or 9 a.m. That station should have a
> critical hours license.
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>    A couple additional stations on 1030 kHz are required to reduce power
> during critical hours -- including daytimer WBGS, Point Pleasant, W.V., 50
> kW day, directional; 2.9 kW critical hours, non-DA.
>
>    Maryland and West Virginia are the closest to Boston of the stations on
> 1030.
>
>    The earliest time I could find that any station would be switching to
> critical hours power was 3:30 p.m., EST, awhile later than when I thought I
> heard the audible signal go away. Maybe what I heard was just a fluctuation.
>
>    The other with critical hours operation is WNVR, Vernon Hills, Ill.
> (just outside Chicago). The license is 10 kW day, 3.2 kW critical hours,
> 0.12 kW night, DA-3. It has an application pending for 27 kW day, 8 kW
> critical hours, 0.21 kW night, DA-3.
>
>    And in the micro-trivia department: A very old daytime-only station on
> 1030, KCTA, Corpus Christi, Texas, 50 kW, is licensed to operate from
> sunrise at Boston to its local sunset. Somewhere in the mist of radio
> history there's a story that goes with that, I'm sure.
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