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TALLRED
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« on: January 27, 2009, 09:43:40 AM »

About 4 Pm yesterday I was hearing some spanish programming on the FM Dial. Here's what I remember...

89.5;91.1;92.1(blasting over WKUL);94.7(2 spanish at the same time);95.3;95.5;97.1;98.5;100.5;102.3.
The only two English stations were on 99.3 (Classic rock) and 102.7(Rock 103.... not the one in memphis)

Anybody else have these strange encounters... Huh

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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2009, 10:30:53 AM »

About 4 Pm yesterday I was hearing some spanish programming on the FM Dial. Here's what I remember...

89.5;91.1;92.1(blasting over WKUL);94.7(2 spanish at the same time);95.3;95.5;97.1;98.5;100.5;102.3.
The only two English stations were on 99.3 (Classic rock) and 102.7(Rock 103.... not the one in memphis)

Anybody else have these strange encounters... Huh

Travis

Yes, I heard it, too. I was listening to WYDE around 3 pm yesterday, and the signal here was terrible. I don't really get that great a signal from WYDE here in south Shelby county, but it was worse than usual and barely audible at times. When I heard some spanish underneath WYDE's signal, I knew there must be a DX opening. Scanning the dial, I found mostly spanish stations. The English speaking stations I did receive were from Laredo, TX so I'm guessing those spanish stations I heard are from the same area as well, considering a query for Laredo, TX on radio-locator had mostly spanish stations on those same frequencies I pulled in. At one point, I went back to WYDE and their signal was completely obliterated with some other spanish programming. I thought maybe it might be KNVO in Port Isabel, TX since that was the only spanish programmed station I found on radio-locator in that area, but someone on the DX board said it might have been KLOL in Houston. I bet those folks who live far enough south of WYDE's signal as I do and who aren't aware of the DX world wound up tuning into 101.1 yesterday when that spanish programming was on, thinking WYDE went spanish and that Crawford had finally lost his mind.  Cheesy But like I always say...with Crawford...expect the unexpected. Case in point: "The Lee Davis show" is running on four stations now in the afternoon: WXJC-AM and FM, and now WYDE-AM and FM.

Here's a list via a thread I posted on the DX board of what I found yesterday. Not a whole lot, but most of the opening was gone by the time I found it:
DX- Jan 26


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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 08:30:57 PM »

There was an opening from the SE and up the east coast to the Caribbean from Puerto Rico to Aruba from approximately noon until 7 pm on the 6 meter ham band (50 mhz) I am sure it was related to that FM band opening.

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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2009, 11:05:25 PM »

Yes, indeed, yesterday had some strange radio in the area.  I looked on radio locator a couple hours ago, and the 97.1 and 102.3 spanish stations I picked up were out of Nuevo Laredo, MX.  Long story short, I'm excited.  Never had international dx on FM before.  Radio Locator says the distance from where I'm at to Laredo is 862 miles.  Nost as far as I thought it was.  last year, I heard a Classic Rock station on 102.9 KRMG, I believe.  They were out of Northern Minnesota, 957 miles from here according to R-L.

This dx has got me thinking... What's bigger in Laredo, the number of Spanish stations, or the number of Drug Cartels. Smiley Cheesy Grin

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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2009, 09:50:00 AM »

This dx has got me thinking... What's bigger in Laredo, the number of Spanish stations, or the number of Drug Cartels. Smiley Cheesy Grin

At least the drug cartels were smart enough to invest their money in and industry more profitable than radio.
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