Your 2009 Want List

[icybluelake]

Good point, I forgot about Washington. I don't think I've ever heard a WA station from my state, but have heard Washington stations while traveling all over the west.

[StveGreenPA]

In the late Seventies,   Craine and Icy,  some DXers from Ohio were getting a Washington station on 1590 for a few nights.    Tore the whole fabric of the DX joint apart.    Might be worth a try.   The calls from a Sixties National Radio Club Pattern Book show a 'KZOK' from Seattle sending a juicy chunk of their 5000 watts southeast.

And in the wee-wee hours of the morning,  pun intended,   two of the DXers near JFK International managed to nab KRKO 1380 Everett Washington.

It took a few minor things to achieve and complete,   but there they were.  KRKO with their 'Jetline News!'

The minor things in the way were such matters as WBNX,  WAWZ,   WAMS,  WTVR,  WAOK,  WLCY,   CKPC,   KWK,  and 13-80 KUDL Kansas City,  et all,   having signed off for the night at the same time.

Keep spinning loop.   Bon chance!     These grandparented full-power regionals can whoop ya when you least expect it.

[dx1ng]

And in the wee-wee hours of the morning,  pun intended,   two of the DXers near JFK International managed to nab KRKO 1380 Everett Washington.

Wow!  KRKO.  Those are familiar calls from the past.  I thought I might have heard them from Connecticut in the 60's, but I can't find all my logs.  Maybe they were just a target, but I know KRKO was being heard on the East Coast.  I note KRKO is now getting a power increase, night power going from 5kw to 50kw.  The effective power toward me in Poughkeepsie is increasing from roughly 2kw to 5kw, a deeper null farther to the south.  I remember KWK and KUDL, both were fairly regular in Connecticut in the 60's on Monday mornings.

I never was aware of 1590-Seattle.  They exist now as KLFE, and have close to an effective 10kw toward the entire east coast.  But there's probably just too many other signals on 1590 for KLFE to get through.

By the way, in 1965 my first (and possibly only) Washington State stations to be heard on the Connecticut coast near Bridgeport were KHOK-1560 Hoquiam and KGA-1510 Spokane.  KHOK was probably heard on a DX test, and doesn't exist any more.  KGA with 50kw was probably the easiest Washington target in the mid 60's.

[cyberdad]

**2009 WANT LIST**
AM: I really would like to get WSCR (with KBOI nulled), WGN (with KIRO slop/KDWN nulled), WLS (with KIXI slop nulled), WMVP

-crainbebo

I think if you're patient you'll eventually snag one of the Chicago stations.  I've heard all of them in California.  Not in Washington or Oregon, but I haven't really tried.   WSCR has a monster daytime signal.  At night, they get chewed up by Cuba once you get more than a couple hundred miles from Chicago.  WGN isn't quite as formidable, but still pretty good.  You didn't list WBBM (780), but they arguably have the best nighttime signal.  WLS is higher on the dial, so theoretically you should get a better nighttime hop.  Unfortunately, their signal seems to have degraded during the past several years do to commercial and residential development near their stick, as well as possible lack of maintenance to their ground system.  As for WMVP, they really throw a null at KOMO at night. By the time you get to Iowa, XEOY and KTOK rip 'em to shreds.  Even their daytime pattern (which isn't very severe) throws more juice east than west.

[crainbebo]

 You didn't list WBBM (780), but they arguably have the best nighttime signal.

I didn't list 780 because I've already got them in the logs.

-crainbebo

[radioman148]

Crainbebo--

Have you tried nulling KDXU and aiming your antenna or radio in a more easterly direction for WLS?
Being that you're in Washington you should be able to null KDXU some without degrading the midwest too much.
Try on an evening when you can tell that stations from the east are more open than usual.

[mimo]

My want list is quite simple:

1. An end to IBOC on AM
2. A reversal of the AM to FM trend here in Canada.

I doubt either will happen this year, and no. 2 will never happen but I can dream right?

[crainbebo]

Crainbebo--

Have you tried nulling KDXU and aiming your antenna or radio in a more easterly direction for WLS?
Being that you're in Washington you should be able to null KDXU some without degrading the midwest too much.
Try on an evening when you can tell that stations from the east are more open than usual.

I really can't null it out, CJDC Dawson Creek and sometimes KDXU St. George, also the slop from local 880 is really hard to get WLS here.

-crainbebo

[radioman148]

That does create major problems unless you can run a very directional wire antenna with a very sophisticated tuner. Even then your odds may get better, but still tough.

[Icangelp]

From Southwestern Ohio

660 KTNN Widow Rock AZ   I'm going to try this year.
1030 KCTA Corpus Christi TX   Haven't tried all that hard, but will try to catch them on the sunset skip.
910 KVIS Miami OK   Many years ago it (KGLC) was a regular in Indianapolis, my home town.

Just fixed my Worcester SM-2 ferrite antenna, so who knows?

Back in the early 60s, I tried so hard to log 1110 KRLA. I had seen them listed in the World Radio & TV Handbook at 50KW days and 10KW nights. Not knowing a thing about directional signals, I didn't realize my dream was almost impossible. I also had no idea what I was missing, at least until I visited my cousins in LA during the summer of 1962.