1120 AM: Is this KMOX?

[crainbebo]

Under the blowtorch of KPNW Eugene, OR, I heard one or two stations. I think I IDed one (with Google), KZSJ San Jose, CA with a Chinese/Asian format. Also heard English talk with no IDs. Could this be KMOX? I think it's a little too far for summer AM DXing, 1700+ miles. Is this KMOX, or another talk channel somewhere. Remember, I picked it up and KZSJ Under KPNW Eugene, OR.

[cd637299]

Why not? KMOX is non directional. Before (1) deregulation and (2) AM stations in Cuba & other countries pounding on it, KMOX was common in south FL.

I've hear KSL in SLC as recently as maybe 6 years ago, even after all the 1160's went nighttime.

(Funny....I left work last week, and noticed that the Cardinals were playing a game & wanted to try for KMOX to hear them on the car rx, b4 I realized that the Cardinals changed stations in St. Lou.......IMO once was the time when baseball teams wanted the strongest signal for teams' flagships. Ex-Braves fan I was, I was thankful for WSB back then.)

cd

[pjdyer]

From another life 45+ years ago
http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/mwamlist.htm
Some pretty good long-haul stuff that summer of 1962 (when many stations were celebrating their 40 years of being on the air). I was so "into" it back then that I cut a 2-page stencil so that I could send my fill-in-the-blank reception reports out. I never used up all of the first 100-run made though.

A decade+ later the Cards/KMOX wouldn't reveal their radio station network when I wrote to them for it (for FM-DXing by then).

73, Pat - WA5IYX

[spunker88]

From another life 45+ years ago
http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/mwamlist.htm
Some pretty good long-haul stuff that summer of 1962 (when many stations were celebrating their 40 years of being on the air). I was so "into" it back then that I cut a 2-page stencil so that I could send my fill-in-the-blank reception reports out. I never used up all of the first 100-run made though.

A decade+ later the Cards/KMOX wouldn't reveal their radio station network when I wrote to them for it (for FM-DXing by then).

73, Pat - WA5IYX

Was DXing that popular that at one point stations had premade cards to send out to people. I noticed many of them had blank spots that were either typed or hand written in.

[cd637299]

You betcha!! It isn't like it used to be, but going back to the 1920's & 30's, stations had their own QSL cards. I collected a few in the 1970s, but I was never a serious collector.

Just go to www.eBay.com & type in "qsl card"....a vast majority that you can view are cards from ham operators, but radio stations had them too.

When I lived in Alaska, I got a QSL card from JOKR 954 (TBS radio) Tokyo. When I heard it, I had no idea what I was hearing by spoken-word, but they played familiar US hits, which I simply listed, and the time I heard them. Got a bilingual QSL card reply & even a little note written in English.

cd

[dkarrick00]

IMO once was the time when baseball teams wanted the strongest signal for teams' flagships. Ex-Braves fan I was, I was thankful for WSB back then.)

cd

WGN is frickin awesome for Cubs radio here, along with 1000AM/Chicago.

Some of the Cardinals radio network is:

WSMI 106.1 FM Litchfield, IL (I've pulled it in crystal clear north of Peoria before)
KMOX 1120AM St. Louis
WMBD 1470 Peoria
WJBC 1230 Bloomington (might be, or it splits Cubs/Cards/White Sox)
WTAX 1340 Springfield (may be another Cubs/Cards split)

EDIT TO ADD: http://www.mlb.com/stl/images/schedule/radio_map685x525.gif (map from MLB.com with Cardinals radio network) and clarify a Springfield station.

[cd637299]

I believe KMOX no longer carries Cards games (unless maybe there is a sports conflict, where 2 major sporting events are going on at the same time). KTRS 550 is the flaggie now. Not much consolation to DXers....

Actually it was less'n 10 years ago when KTXR Springfield was allowed to stream the Cardinals on the Web. MLB ostensibly put a kibosh on all affiliates who stream during ballgames. It's all about the Benjies.

BTW I am not a Cards fan...I was curious about a game in particular.

cd

[pjdyer]

Was DXing that popular that at one point stations had premade cards to send out to people. I noticed many of them had blank spots that were either typed or hand written in.

I'd been getting a few SWL cards (as WPE5ABW by late 1959) before I wrote off to any AM mw bcst or TV/FM for the like http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/swlqsls.htm http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/tvqsls.htm Often the Chief Engineer would be a understanding ham op http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx//images/wfmy-62q.jpg

73, Pat - WA5IYX