HIRATV ARCHIVED MESSAGES - DXING

Doctah
Out of town signals
Mon Dec 10 15:34:11 2001

I've always wondered whether, on a clear night, you could pick up any 
mainland stations in Hawaii. Any Los Angeles clear channels ever make it 
out there to the islands? 


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Ninja
Out of town signals
Mon Dec 10 18:51:59 2001

With a very good AM Radio and external antenna, many of the 50,000 watt 
AM stations in the Western US can be heard in varying levels of quality.
Some of the better ones:

KFI Los Angeles
KNBR San Francisco
KPNW Eugene, OR
KXTA Los Angeles
KEX Portland
KGA Spokane, WA
KFBK Sacramento 


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DXer
Re: Out of town signals
Mon Dec 10 19:11:53 2001
I just want to add:

KNX Los Angeles
Of all the station listed, I get the clearest reception with KNX. 

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LikaNui
Re: Out of town signals
Mon Dec 10 18:10:30 2001

About 6 years ago I heard about a guy who sailed a small sailboat from 
Los Angeles to Hawai`i using only a portable AM radio to navigate... 
slowly moving the antenna back and forth looking for the null, he used 
KABC's signal from Los Angeles out to a point over halfway to Hawai`i... 
went without a signal for a couple of days... and then used the null 
from a station in Honolulu to navigate on in here!

Sorry that doesn't answer your question, but it's still a good (and 
true) story! 



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maximumradio
Re: Out of town signals
Tue Dec 11 04:32:09 2001

Parking out at almost any beach parking lot it is possible to hear a lot 
of mainland radio if you do it after midnight. I have listened to 
KNBR-680/SF; KCBS-740/SF KKOH-780/Reno; KGO-810/SF; KFRE-940/ 
Fresno(when KJPN is down);KOMO-1000/ Seattle; KSL-1160/SLC; KLOK-1170/ 
San Jose;WOAI-1200/ San Antonio(the first Clear Channel station ever); 
and at times 890 from St George,UT; 800, 1050,and 1090 from Mexico in 
addition to the stations mentioned in the above posts. What I have 
noticed on the Mainland is that there is so much noise on AM compounded 
by a large number of former daytime stations running power from 6-249 
watts at night that unless one is on the coast good long distance "hits" 
are almost impossible. I am curiuous to know if anyone posting here has 
an AM radio that does 9khz spacing and if so what international 
reception is possible? 

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