If you guys want to try this some more
that's cool with me.
Does somebody want to chose a frequency for
Round 3?
Either way, I'll be back.
With some computer questions in another thread.
And I'll be back on this thread too.
Very Best Wishes,
Brooce
1700
A very interesting channel.
Sounds good to me.
Brooce
So - 1700 kHz
We have a 24 hour a day pirate on
1700 that has been there for about
10 years. I think it is a "talking relestate"
(sp) kind of operation not too far away.
Probably up on a big pole - or maybe it's
something more powerful.
It's malfunctioning - a mixture of AM/FM/splatter
and weird modulation products from being overdriven.
Sounds awful. Foreign language - not english. Maybe
a church.
I was able to just barely null it out this morning around
6:AM local (Connecticut) to receive WRCR Ramapo, NY 112
miles from me - just as they went to their 10 kW daytime
transmit power.
WRCR faded out as the sun came up.
More notes on 1700 follow.
Best Wishes to all!
Brooce
I had totally forgotten WRCR was on 1700 now! I'll have to see if I can null out KKLF and KVNS.
According to Radio Locator.Com, there
are only 6 licensed 1700s in the U.S.
I didn't know it was that few.
And one in Mexico. I didn't know that
either.
And a real lot of Part 15 stations on 1700,
of course.
More notes to follow.
Brooce
Honestly I didn't think 1700 had so many stations, I figured there were maybe 3 stations on 1700.
Our Florida station is booming in.
1710 tomorrow!
There was a huge pirate in Boston, MA a
few years ago. It was on 1710. I am
almost certain I heard it here in Hartford, CT -
although I never was able to stick around to
ID the station. In those days, it was very hard
to do that. Somewhere around then, there were
2 other signals that came and went. So there
were a total of 3 (probably pirate stations) on
1710 at that point. I wish I could pinpoint the
year. It wasn't too long ago.
Also, in the state of New Jersey, there is a TIS
system for an airport. In other words - there
is more than one transmitter in that airport.
(They are all linked and phased together, I suppose.)
(I have heard the Kennedy Airport TIS (NY)
in CT a few times in the past, but that is on
1700. But back to 1710 - I beleive the airport
TIS there is an exception to the FCC rules. It
is the only licensed radio transmitter(s) in the
country that camps out on 1710.
Back to 1700 kHz - as you know - I have an
obnoxious pirate with messed up modulation
and sputtering, etc., that seizes the channel
most of the time. However, WRCR in Ramapo,
NY, a little more than 100 miles from me, was
blasting in at about 7:45 PM my local time EDT
last night.
It apparently was on 10 kW day power. I came
back on 8:15 and it was gone. It would have only
gone down to 1 kW - it amazes me that 10 dB could
make all that difference. Of course the pirate station
had the frequency...
Over the years - I have heard the Florida 1700 many
many times up here in Connecticut. (Much harder
to get now, but not impossible I'm sure.) The FL
station (WJCC?) has been through several callsign
and ownership changes as I have been monitoring
it through the many years.
My Part 15 station was on 1700 khz until I started
to notice the pirate. In respect to them - because
their signal was a lot weaker then, and they might
have been Part 15 - I moved MY Part 15 station
down to 1690. That was a great move in frequency -
but that's another story.
Brooce
P.S. I'm still having hardware problems here,
but things are somewhat better.
FROM THE ALPB NEWS BUREAU: 1700 kHz
Mr. Carl Blare from the ALPBNB reports
about 1700 from the KDX radio listening post:
05:58 LOCAL CDT St Louis, MO
Heard probably 2 weak carriers beating together
on channel at several cycles per second then:
ID for KBGG 1700 in Iowa at approx 0600 CDT
KGBB AM 1700 Des Moines, IA
Omni 10 kW Day 1 kW Night
We will have to calculate the distance involved.
Every day in Carl's location a nearby 850 kHz station
signs on at 0715 local CDT and signs off at
local sunset:
KFUO 850 kHz 5 kW day only (yikes) St. Louis
Format Religious
And of Course
the 2nd harmonic on 1700 kHz hits
Carl's receiving station so hard he
and the radio receiver fly out the back
of the internet building. (Well not really)
but 1700 is obliterated at Carl's location
as long as KBGG 850 kHz is operational.
Brooce
Brooce
In the last sentence of my last post
the station mentioned should be
KFUO, not KBGG.
Brooce, More Goofy Radio Stuff
Hartford, CT
P.S. Oh yeah, Carl - KBGG is
270 miles from your location.
I just wanted to say that all the people
who have been in whatever you want
to call it - "Rounds One, Two, and Three"
- I appreciate EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU
being there.
I'm saying this because this is not Part 15.
It's radio, but of a different kind.
So thank you for that!
Brooce
Here in Toronto a local station on 1690 spills over a bit and just noise on 1700
Mark
1710 quiet except for a pesky Part 15 Station!
I'll be back
Brooce