[HCDX] 1700 khz

["Bob Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> I struggled for 2 hours this morning to ID the US station on 1700 khz.
> Signal gradually got stronger around  0700 utc and the peak took place
about
> local sunrise hee.
> It was a national programme about 2006 predictions (how original !!)
.There
> was a "Doctor " on the line talking about earthquakes (how smart !!) .
> There were commercials, one with a phone number starting 866.
> The news at the top of the hour included the slogan "newsradio".
> They did not sound local at all.
> The station identification included "talk about it" and the city name
ended
> by "ville" which pretty much leaves us with Huntsville AL or
Brownsville TX.
> Antenna (ALA1530 Loop active) was beamed to Iceland.All other channel
empy
> (1510, 1470,1390,1660,1680)
> Show resuming was introduced by Moroder's "midnight express theme" at
0605.
> First minutes after 0700 Here Comes The Sun by G Harrisson .

> Any clues
>
> Pat
>
> JN19ch


I have heard KVNS Brownsville TX well here in Florida recently
around 0300Z with syndicated Michael Savage program,
they also ID as "voice of the valley" (The Rio Grande river, as
Brownsville is at the southern part of TX, on the river).
Maybe south enough for the signal to get past auroral
blanketing. Did you hear "voice of the valley"?

I think the 866- phone number is a national number,
which is useless for locating specific areas.

-Bob

also, Bogdan wrote,

> Yo busquio en el diccionario c?mo se dice "arabic" en castellano; es
"ar?bico". Por est? raz?n yo ovlidio de completar mi observaciones sobre
Medi Un. ? Perdon !
>
> ? Tiene hermoso DX con usted !
> Bogdan


And for what it's worth, in Arabic, one would say "isbaniya"
for Spain and "isbanii" for Spanish, since they never use
the two-consonant "s -p" construct, unless it is preceded with a
vowel sound (though technically the leading "i" is a glottal,
and not a vowel, which never begin words)  as Spanish
itself also doesn't (witness "espan~a"), which divides the
s-p syllabically.  Also Arabic uses a "b" for what would be
the foreign "p" sound.




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