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740 Cancun, Mexico heard midday in Tampa (video)

gar hi

gar hi

On the other thread about CHML being heard midday in Connecticut, I was just saying how daytime skywave isn't that common this far south but I was listening to 740 from Orlando and could hear the scrambling effect due to multi pathing of the signal.

So I continued to listen and started to hear something else in the background. It got a little stronger but never quite as strong as WYGM which isn't that strong anyway in the daytime.

It sounded Spanish, so I thought I would check out the online stream of 740 from Cancun on Tunein to see if there was any kind of a match.

Though the signal on the radio was not very audible, the switching of the voices from man to woman and then music matched up with the delay of the online stream which was about 30 seconds or so.

I have to start doing more daytime AM DXing now! I didn't think skywave was that common here but maybe it's more common than I realized.

You can hear XECAQ behind WYGM.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O__2A8okI9k
 
It isn't that good but all the inflections in the voices and the intermittent music matched up perfectly to the station's online stream around 30 seconds later due to the delay.

Out at the beach not far from here, that Cancun station is a daytime regular and stronger too because of the direct saltwater path which is not skywave.

But it vanishes as soon as you go inland. Today's reception was skywave and the skip was likely enhanced by the Gulf.
 
I know daytime skywave can be possible from the south, although it's more common farther north. One of my more memorable catches was WWL at high noon on a car radio in Rock Island, Illinois. I believe it was in February or March some years back. As for 740 daytime in the Tampa Bay area, last January I was able to snag KTRH daytime on the beach at Treasure Island. Car radio in the parking lot next door to Caddy's restaurant/nightclub. Under WYGM, but was able to catch a positive ID.

BTW, gar, I've got my reservation for at least two weeks at Treasure Island this coming January. I couldn't book the place for any longer than that, but I've got a friend of a friend who has a place if we decide to hang around longer. In any event, this year I plan to bring the Superadio II and see what I can do with that. I also absolutely have Honeymoon Island on my bucket list. I won't miss it this time. (I'll take the "Supe" out there with me!)
 
Sounds good!

And many frequencies there like 790, for example, sound like nighttime reception with so many stations at once.
 
The graveyards are the Class Cs...with 1KW locals omni on them...sooo many of them and they beat the crap out of each other at night 20-30 miles from their tower sites....the Regionals are not graveyards
 
gar fla said:
You can hear XECAQ behind WYGM.
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Get it while you can! This one is nearing the tail end of its twilight period, after which it will only be on FM. There will only be 4 or 5 AMs left in Q. Roo after the rest move to FM.
 
I guess in America too, it looks as though AM will eventually suffer the same fate as analog TV.

More and more FM stations that were once music are being taken over by sports and talk stations from the AM band.
 
MarioMania said:
I always wonder why we call it Graveyard frequencies ..That the saying Graveyard mean dead..
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They've been called "graveyard" channels for as long as I can remember. Back in the early '60s they were all (or mostly all) 250 watts non-directional fulltime. Then later in the '60s, they were allowed 1kw days, but still 250 watts at night. Now most of them are 1kw non-directional fulltime. I think the term "graveyard" somehow originally meant that these channels were useless for long distance reception. Unlike the the "clear" channels and, in some cases, the "regionals".
 
That is a good question that Mario asked, the more I think about it. I've wondered the same thing myself all these years.

I thought it could be because they are buried compared to the good distances other stations get out or maybe because hearing a graveyard frequency at night with all the stations at once sounds like the hum of ghosts.
 
gar fla said:
That is a good question that Mario asked, the more I think about it. I've wondered the same thing myself all these years.

I thought it could be because they are buried compared to the good distances other stations get out or maybe because hearing a graveyard frequency at night with all the stations at once sounds like the hum of ghosts.
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It's simply because there are so many stations "buried" on each of the 6 graveyard channels... about a fifth of all AM stations are on those channels.
 
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