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Loggings => MW Loggings => Topic started by: Chanter on April 23, 2017, 2251 UTC
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For the last few nights (roughly a week or so) I've been getting a Spanish-language religious broadcaster trading places with Winnipeg's CBC outlet on 990. The content is most definitely Christian and fairly conservative, and the occasional music is similar to the sort of thing a VCY America station might play in English - choral, simple melodies, almost martial in tone in that way some fundamentalist stations can be. I caught what might have been a prerecorded mailing address at one point, but the signal was too far down in the mud to make out details. Also a possible 214 area code, though this could have theoretically been a country code. Again, difficult copy.
Who have I got, does anybody know? Are they here in the States, Mexican, or *fingers crossed* a visitor from further south?
ETA: Thanks for ID assistance, folks! Auroral conditions are marvelous, eh?
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Interesting.
Area code 214 is near Dallas, TX.
From what I've found online, this could be KFCD in Farmersville, TX (northwest of Dallas). From what is reported, they are a Spanish language station and have religious programming.
7000 Watts daytime, 920 Watts nighttime. Directional antennas day & night with different patterns.
During the day, big blob to the northwest, some to the north, east and southeast (kind of looks like an egg with the axis 300-120 degrees with flat to the south. If that makes sense).
At night, to the SW with little headed north.
Guessing someone forgot to switch to nighttime power & antenna...
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Yes, very very likely this was KFCD you heard during the semi-auroral medium wave conditions we've been having the last few nights. From West Michigan, I had KFCD too the other night at a good level with no sign of usual Winnipeg. The 214 area code is also a very solid clue.
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Ooh, so *that's* what's been going on! I knew semi-auroral conditions were causing some unusual signals to reach the region, but this was the most distinct. I'm calling it a probable ID. Cheers, folks!