dx in the Uintah Basin

[dxlistener]

I've been working out in the Roosevelt/duschesne area and I can pick up WHO out of Des Moines IA.
I don't hear the LA stations very well but a few from Nebraska come in pretty well.
During the day when the short skip settles in, KSL can be heard, but 820 am the LDS music station is much louder out there.In fact, it is the strongest SL station during the day. Why is that?
The loudest non local am station during the day is 1100 am out of Colorado Springs

One more thing does anyone else on the fringe of KSL's signal hear hispanic music on the same frequency??

[radioguy]

It's a station out of Mexico as I understand it. Kills the signal to the south. Heard them talking on Nightside about it, that the lawyers are trying to stop the Mexican station, but the FCC won't do anything about it

[JamesAnderson]

The FCC has had some major battles with Mexico of late. Take the KSDS-FM/San Diego-XETV 6 Tijuana matter, been going for 22 years now and although the FCC issued the permit for KSDS to up its power the Mexican station (a Fox affiliate) is still fighting it.

Of course KUTR has issues with maybe XEMVS 820, and there's a thread where I mentioned this signal before.

On the other recent DX thread I mentioned a circuit house station out of Mexico city 'Radio Red'.

The Grand Junction station by the way on 1100 is a well-known 50kw blowtorch in the region. We always listened to them at night when they were KREX-AM back in the 70s. Really came in well all over.

[x]

KUTR's day / critical hours pattern throws a lot of power straight east right at the Vernal area. At night it's almost all north and west to protect WBAP Fort Worth. The amount of power thrown in that direction during the day is actually higher than KSL(AM), so it makes sense that it would be louder. There's also the possibility that oddball physics is involved. Depending on the distance you are from a source, you can get a cancellation effect when the groundwave and skywave signal meet at just the wrong time.