NEW #501 graveyard log 10/22/13

[crainbebo]

New log last night from Idaho.

1450- KWEI Notus, ID; Regional Mexican music and ID "KWEI Notus 1450" at 2102 PDT 10/22. NEW #501, 1kw, 393 miles.

Also heard were KBNH 1230 Burns OR in the null of KWYZ (342mi), 1340 KLOO-OR and others, 1240 KEJO-OR.

-crainbebo

 

[boombox4]

You seem to hit the graveyard channels a lot. Every time I tune into a GY channel, it's just all snippets of programming -- I hardly ever get any IDs, unless it's something I already heard.

I guess that's why I hang out on the regionals more -- I have tended to have more luck with them when conditions are kicking in.

 

[crainbebo]

Even the regional channels get boring sometimes - KRVM and KIT on 1280, KUMA and KGVO on 1290, KLIX and KZXR on 1310 - almost EVERY night! Always have something real interesting fading up on the GYs sometimes.

-crainbebo

 

[cyberdad]

I hereby annoint you "King of the Graveyard Channels". Your ability to pull out some great catches on the GY channels is uncanny and worthy of praise. Congratulations once again, sir!

 

[radioman148]

I hereby annoint you "King of the Graveyard Channels". Your ability to pull out some great catches on the GY channels is uncanny and worthy of praise. Congratulations once again, sir!

Agreed. I never had the patience to listen to the GY channels for very long.

 

[crainbebo]

Ah - want to see ALL my GY logs?? This is going to be long...

1230 - 10
KWYZ-WA
KBNH-OR
KSBN-WA
KDYM-WA
KOZI-WA
KCUP-OR
KVAS-OR
KRYN-OR
KORT-ID
KWG-CA

1240 - 14
CJOR-BC
KXLE-WA
KGY-WA
KQEN-OR
KTIX-OR
KOFE-ID
KCVL-WA
KNRY-CA
KJOP-CA
KSMX-CA
KSUE-CA
KWIK-ID
KEJO-OR
KRDM-OR

1340 - 16
KWLE-WA
KJOX-WA
KBNW-OR
KLOO-OR
KZNW-WA
KUOW-WA
KWVR-OR
KIHR-OR
KTSN-NV (now silent!)
KQJZ-MT
KCAP-MT
KYLT-MT
KACH-ID
KATA-CA
KOMY-CA
KEWE-CA

1400 - 13
CIOR-BC
CKGR-BC (now silent)
KITZ-WA
KRSC-WA
KLCK-WA
KEDO-WA
KSPT-ID
KFJL-OR
KNND-OR
KBCH-OR
KRPL-ID
KART-ID
KIHH-CA

1450 - 13
KONP-WA
KBKW-WA
KFLS-OR
KLBM-OR
KBFI-ID
CHOR-BC (now silent)
KWEI-ID
KMMS-MT
KGRZ-MT
KHIT-NV
KBPS-OR
KSUH-WA
KCLX-WA

1490- 12
KBRO-WA
KBKR-OR
KSKR-OR
KSYC-CA
KBZY-OR
KRKZ-WA
KEYG-WA
KLOG-WA
KWOK-WA
KYNR-WA
KTEL-WA

-crainbebo (a DXer whose GY logs are 15.5% of all AM DX alone!)

 

[ddsparxx]

That's 78 GY's including those that became silent. I could only identify 3 distant GYs I have heard in northern VA; WHGB 1400Harrisburg, and WHGO 1230 Sparta, IL and WVAX 1450 Charlottesville, VA. It's more difficult to hear GYs here in east than out west at night.

 

[crainbebo]

It sure is. And the regional channels sound like graveyards out there! I can listen to some of the remote East Coast nodes, and channels like 1590, 1270, 1290 etc are full of stations. Usually I get one or two on those regional channels, sometimes 3. Graveyards are way easier due to less stations. Sometimes it's even easier to tune the radio to 1242 (for 1240) and pick out IDs easier. Did this many times for IDs.

-crainbebo

 

[pianoplayer88key]

So how often do you all in the eastern USA (especially north & east of TN) get signals on graveyard channels like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91crQZQxLP0

Nothing is audible on 1400 in the daytime at my location on normal radios. The recording was started AFTER it started coming down from its peak, about 5-10 dB stronger. At the peak, it was comparable to my reception of 50kW clears that I regularly hear here.


Conversely ... in the eastern USA, do some "clear" channels sound more like what our graveyards out west are like?

 

[crainbebo]

That's an amazing GY signal. Sometimes it happens here as well - numerous times I've heard KCVL 1240 and KBNW 1340 sounding like a local for up to 5 min at a time before it goes into a massive jumble.

-crainbebo

 

[boombox4]

My best GY logging was in April, on 1490, KGFR in Great Falls, MT -- it was as strong as a local station. I had thought that I had mistuned the TRF to 1420 by accident. Full ID, some music, and then -- "poof!" -- it's gone.

 

[ddsparxx]

So how often do you all in the eastern USA (especially north & east of TN) get signals on graveyard channels like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91crQZQxLP0

Nothing is audible on 1400 in the daytime at my location on normal radios. The recording was started AFTER it started coming down from its peak, about 5-10 dB stronger. At the peak, it was comparable to my reception of 50kW clears that I regularly hear here.


Conversely ... in the eastern USA, do some "clear" channels sound more like what our graveyards out west are like?

Never did hear something like that at night...And a few clear channels (WSCR, WOR, WHAM) often sound somewhat more like regional due to Cuban pests on the same frequencies.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Here in the east, 88Key, the catches on the combined six GY channels is exactly 19, out of maybe 330 total stations this time around.
That paucity is mostly due to the intinerant approach to the hobby here. Lol -- I spend more time fixing up thi fixer-upper for more assiduous DXing than I spend hitting the actual dials.

I say 'this time around' because, in the teenaged- and 20-ish days at the dials, back near Kennedy Airport in Queens, the GY totals were quite formidable in the Northeast.
In the old logbook, I count 23 stations on 1230 ..... 26 on 1240 ..... 21 on 1340 : you get the idea.

GY DX is as similar now in the northeast as it's become dissimilar over the years. Back in the Sixties, especially overnight into Monday Mornings, a lot of those stations were not on the air, giving their tubes and hamsters a rest. Our local WGBB used to sign off at 1AM every night! On Monday mornings it was not uncommon to hear GYers from Fort Lauderdale, Maine, Norfolk, Harrisburg -- even inland Columbus OH.
Nowadays, the corporate thinking goes like, if you're not 24/7/365, all is lost.

So there is little of the open-buffet there was in the Sixties.

Like Boombox suggests: the regionals offer more because there's less there. Yet, even the regionals and their murmur of stingy nighttime wattage from former daytimers can be impossible. On both classifications of channels there is so much syndication and network stuff and talk and sports and too few actual call-letter IDs that it's a DXing disgrace.

But if I had my druthers, I'd go for the regional DX before plunging into a night of trying to hear something new on 1490. Lately it's been a matter of tuning into some 100-kiloherz swath (like 1300 to 1400), hearing maybe one loud station, and staying with it, hopefully near the top of the hour. I suspect that the next agenda here, if I wanted to pad the Totals List in NE PA, would be a purposeful, trenchant week of sunset DX, on any channel.