in Sao Paulo was reported with the data sidebands town NC 28902-0098, or by email to dougsmith@ in early August. Their station on 1220 in Rio de monitoringtimes.com. Good DX! Janeiro is also reported to have installed IBOC, as well as one on 1150 in Belo Horizonte. I don’t sup- pose anyone will be hearing these in the States! URLs IN THIS MONTH’S COLUMN My AM DX blog ❖ KFI-640 back to Normal http://americanbandscan.blogspot.com. CJLO-1690 Montreal, recorded in Scotland At the end of 2004, KFI-640’s tower near Los http://cq.cjlo.com/1690cjlo.mp3 Angeles was hit by a small plane and destroyed. WorldBand Media - A company planning ethnic The station has been operating for nearly four programming on HD2 and HD3 subchannels years on a temporary antenna, at reduced power, www.worldbandmedia.com/ while waiting for reconstruction of the wrecked NET Nebraska educational TV: click on “Current tower. There was some difficulty in getting local NET Transition Schedule” www.netnebraska.org/extras/dtv/ permission to rebuild; then, when the new tower FCC report on frst day of DTV transition in Wilm- was nearly complete, a guy-wire failure caused it, ington, North Carolina too, to collapse. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attach- In September, the new tower was finally match/DOC-285330A1.txt National Radio Club’s AM Radio Log completed. The station ran a special program cel- Scott Fybush’s Tower Site Calendar www.nrcdxas.org/catalog/books/index1.html ebrating the restoration of their normal signal... www.fybush.com/calendar.html AM BANDSCAN STATION REPORT ❖ New Canadian NEW: Waterloo, Iowa 850 KXGM Expanded-band Station New stations on the air from KWOF Juneau, Alaska 1330 KXLJ Iola, Kansas 1370 KIOL I guess, if you want a radio station at your from KALN college and there aren’t any FM frequencies 10,000/3,000 ND (Air America liberal talk) Monticello, Maine 710 WXME available, you might as well go for AM. That’s Eureka, California 1400 KIHH from WCXH what Concordia University in Montreal did. They 790/790 ND (Catholic reli- Boston, Massachusetts 1150 WWDJ began testing their new station CJLO-1690 in mid- gious) from WTTT September, expecting to cover Montreal Island and Sweetwater, Florida 880 WZAB Ada, Michigan 1680 WPRR from WDSS the nearby suburbs. 4,000/5,000 DA-2 (conservative talk) Sauk Rapids, 540 WMIN They were very happily surprised – first, from WXYG with daytime reports from Ottawa and Quebec New station permits granted Jackson, Mississippi 1400 WJQS City. Then, the sun went down – and the DXers Palm Springs, Florida 1500 from WKXI started in. As of deadline for this column, CJLO 5,000/250 DA-2 Laurel, Mississippi 890 WHJA has received reports from four European countries. Middleton, Idaho 1400 from WEEZ Las Vegas, Nevada 670 KMZQ See the URLs below for a link to a recording, made 1,000/1,000 ND (near Boise) Marquette, Michigan 1430 from KBTB in Scotland. It’s a bit noisy, and you’ll have to 50,000/2,000 DA-N Berlin, New Hampshire 1490 WKDR understand French, but it’s pretty amazing to hear Jackson, Mississippi 1440 from WRTN a 1,000-watt station as it sounds on the other side 5,000/300 DA-2 Hackensack, New Jersey 970 WNYM of the Atlantic! Peralta, 700 from WWDJ (was briefy 430/220 DA-2 WTTT) I’m not entirely sure why the test announce- Albuquerque, New Mexico 1550 KQNM ment was made in French, as the CJLO schedule Middletown, New York 1400 1,000/1,000 DA-D (already as- from KKJY shows only one hour of French-language program- signed calls WZCC) Milan, New Mexico 1100 KKJY ming! CJLO’s programming is typical of a college from KQNM station: a variety of underground rock music, with New station applications denied/dismissed Middletown, New York 1400 WZCC a few world-music programs. Taft, Florida 1500 (new station) (mutually exclusive with Palm Springs) Rochester, New York 990 WDCX from WRCI ❖ How many stations are New-station permits cancelled Bend, Oregon 1340 KBNW Albert Lea, Minnesota 1100 (new station) there? Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1400 WHGB In September, the FCC released broadcast Stations deleted from WTCY McKeesport, Pennsylvania 1360 WMNY station counts for March 31 and June 30. Over the Harvard, Illinois 1600 WMCW from WPTT 90-day period, a trend was reversed, with two new Rockwood, Tennessee 580 WYHM AM stations coming on the air for a total of 4,778. from WOFE CHANGES: One hundred nineteen new FM stations signed on Burleson, Texas 1460 KCLE Stations requesting moves to new frequencies from KHFX for a total of 9,346. There are 1,758 full-power Athabasca, Alberta 94.1 CKBA TV stations and 2,822 low-power and translator Cleburne, Texas 1140 KHFX from 850 AM from KCLE operations – a decline of 105. A fair number of TV Dartmouth, Nova Scotia 92.9 CFDR Cedar City, Utah 940 KOBY translators in the West are allowing their licenses from 780 AM from KNNZ to expire, without bothering to find new channels Guelph, Ontario 95.7 CJOY Huntington, West Virginia 1470 WRWB from 1460 AM from WEMM below 52 or converting to digital operation. Twelve Sudbury, Ontario 93.5 CIGM new LPFM stations came on the air, for a total of Hudson, Wisconsin 630 WREY from 790 AM from WDGY 851. Hudson, Wisconsin 740 WDGY Callsign changes from WMIN ❖ Denver, Colorado 950 KRWZ ‘Till Next Month from KKFN ND: non-directional Just when you thought you’d heard every Sweetwater, Florida 880 WZAB DA-N: directional at night only station you could possibly hear, someone builds (new station) DA-D: directional during daytime only Clayton, Georgia 1400 WNGA DA-2: directional all hours, two different patterns a new station or moves an existing station to a (new station) new frequency. What’s the newest station you’ve DA-3: directional day, night and critical hours, three Hilo, Hawaii 620 KHNU different patterns logged? Write me at 7540 Highway 64 West, Brass- from KIPA

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