1160 KSL from Feb. 2007

[fmdxer1]

The female voice heard in the static in this clip is KSL 1160 Salt Lake City. At around 0:07 to 0:08 you can hear..."brought to you by KSL newsradio...."

I have another clip of KSL somewhere with a little better signal. Only got them twice at this location. And I have spent many hours listening on 1160 just for KSL. I love Utah!

Tim

[bozey45]

I got them years ago from here in the Tampa area; very hard to get and I too tried and tried for a long time and finally one time in the wee hours of Sunday night/Monday morn when stations used to actually sign off here in the east I got their signal, very weak but there and i do have their QSL card somewhere amongst the hundreds of others. This was in the 60's by the way.

[Russ-PA]

I have heard KSL exactly twice in over 40 years of DX'ing - both times from Northern NJ when the channel was sometimes clear in the middle 1960's. No chance here now as there's too much on the channel in this part of the country, plus Chicago rarely goes off.

[Mike-CT]

Oh gosh. KSL. My best memories were as a teenager around 1964-66 in Connecticut. I heard them numerous times back then. Those days there were three powerhouses on 1160. There was WJJD in Chicago whicht was a daytimer signing off early in the winter. Once JJD signed off you'd hear Radio Swan (I am not going to explain Radio Swan but there are probably places on the net where you could find out about them) with their distinctive six note interval signal, and usually after 8pm EST you'd start hearing KSL. KSL usually had a hum under it. And Dxers speculated that R. Swan was transmitting in the hundreds of kilowatts. I heard KSL in Iceland a few times.

And now we have IBOC all over the dial...sigh.

[Russ-PA]

Radio Swan may have been several things. It alternately broadcast on 1160, 1165 and 1167. From my NJ location, it never did quite loop in the right direction for Swan Island. Some thought it was on Navassa Island, others elsewhere. I'm really not certain if it was ever possible to pinpoint that, nor with certainty who was really behind it, but it asure did bring out the conspiracy theorists at the time....

Much the same applied for the subsequent "Radio Americas", whose ID phrase was ( sic ) "Esta es Radio Americas, La Voz Libertad d'el Continente", roughly translated as "This is Radio Americas, the Voice of Liberty for the Continent.