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Post by radiowyoming on Sept 8, 2019 23:57:22 GMT -6
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Post by amanuensis on Sept 9, 2019 10:10:34 GMT -6
I have fond memories of KEYY from back when it was still a commercial station. They played good music and it was VERY easy to win stuff on. There was not much of a herd to compete against. If they wanted caller 10, sometimes I was caller 2, 6, and 10. Being a poor BYU student, I liked getting free stuff. The only downside was that I had to personally go to the station to pick up the check or tickets, or whatever. And I did not have a car then and their station was in a part of Provo that was difficult to get to by UTA bus. Hum, you don't suppose that lack of listeners had something to do with them not being a commercial radio station anymore, do you?
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Post by David on Sept 9, 2019 18:47:55 GMT -6
Good catch! DX conditions on AM broadcast have been very good lately because we're currently at a low point in the sunspot cycle. Sometimes those 1 KW graveyard signals travel a lot farther than they're supposed to. Several years ago, I recall reading an unconfirmed report of a DX'er in Sweden hearing KVOG (now KOGN) 1490 in Ogden. However, the report was prior to 1960, when there was a lot less RFI and fewer stations on the AM band.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 9, 2019 19:55:12 GMT -6
Sunspot (solar) cycles actually occur over the span of around 11 years, so I'm not sure that's it. Perhaps you were thinking of solar flares? I think it's more likely that the collision of a warm front with a cold front near the Utah/Wyoming border Saturday night was responsible.
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Post by David on Sept 9, 2019 23:02:44 GMT -6
We're currently at the bottom of solar cycle 24, or the beginning of solar cycle 25 depending on what resource you use. I use the "Ham Solar" app on my smartphone, and I know that propagation on the high frequency (HF) bands above 5 MHz has been really crappy for the past two or three years. Generally when propagation on the HF bands is poor, the lower medium wave and long wave frequencies tend to "skip" further distances. Lately I've been reading some phenomenal AM broadcast DX reports from people all over the U.S. in the AM radio Facebook group I belong to.
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Post by radiowyoming on Sept 10, 2019 23:37:35 GMT -6
Good catch! DX conditions on AM broadcast have been very good lately because we're currently at a low point in the sunspot cycle. Sometimes those 1 KW graveyard signals travel a lot farther than they're supposed to. Several years ago, I recall reading an unconfirmed report of a DX'er in Sweden hearing KVOG (now KOGN) 1490 in Ogden. However, the report was prior to 1960, when there was a lot less RFI and fewer stations on the AM band. I had KVSI Montpelier, ID in and out fighting with KEYY for 10-20 minutes
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