** OKLAHOMA [and non]. In every MW DX bulletin I vainly check reports on the X-band for anyone having heard my local station KFNY, 1640, Enid OK. So this is just a reminder that it still exists, going strong (well, if you are in a main lobe like I am), with All Comedy Radio. Virtually all the other North American X-banders make it to Scandinavia and New Zealand on a regular basis. As I pointed out before, the problem is that KFNY, unlike almost all the other US X-banders, is direxional, in this case roughly NNW/SSE to favor Oklahoma City and Enid, meaning little of the 1 kW nighttime signal goes toward Europe or the South Pacific. It does go toward the Caribbean and Latin America, but WTNI in Mississippi normally blocks it. So this is just a reminder to overseas (and domestic!) DXers to dig hard on 1640 to try to pull out something comedic, and be sure to report it. Owner Hiram Champlin has been issuing verification letters to the few who have heard it.
Not to be confused in Europe with a Dutch pirate also on 1640 inexplicably named ``Radio Oklahoma``! Reported at 2010 UT Jan 7 with schlagers, pop in Dutch and German, by Robert Petraitis, Klaipeda, Lithuania, in Alternative Airwaves, Feb BDXC-UK Communication (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Feb 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
