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Excellent AM DX session with two new stations...from Japan! 1/13/18

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crainbebo

Trans-Pacific conditions were phenomenal last night from here. Hets everywhere, audio on more channels than usual. Even KOMO was being battled by a 999 khz het. Too bad I couldn't ID it. DXed from 0145-0245 AM PT.

567 - JOIK Japan, Sapporo; NHK-1 programming with female talking in Japanese at 0150 PT, over domestic 570 splatter. A couple minutes later, // to JOAK-594 Tokyo. NEW #754, 100KW at 4,483 miles! Recorded.

873 - JOGB Japan; Kumamoto; male talking in Japanese at 0213 PT, well over 870 splatter and // to JOUB-774 (NHK-2 network). NEW #755, 500KW (that's what I found in research) at 5,393 miles!!! Incredible to hear this at such a strong signal.
The usual blasters on 594/693/747/774 were very strong, 747 sounded like it was next door. unID JJ talk on 1134 was barely over the CKWX splatter at around 2:30am PT; likely JOQR Tokyo (would've been new). Also heard faint Asian talk on 1143 khz, suspect Taiwan.

On the domestic front, conditions were also great as well.
600 KSJB ND, Jamestown; with country music, weather forecast 'from the KSJB weather center' and ID around 0145 PT. Relog, 5KW at 1033 miles.
670 KMZQ Las Vegas, NV; with 'SB Nation' mentions under KBOI.
1400 KXGF Great Falls, MT; 'downtown Great Falls' fadeup at 0159 PT.
1490 KLOG Kelso, WA; fair with full TOH ID at 2AM PT.
630 CHED Edmonton, AB; huge (like 20 over S-9 huge) with weather forecast mentioning -32C wind chill.
780 KCEG Fountain, CO with classic country right under KKOH! 720w at almost a thousand miles - not bad.
1110 unID Religious music under KFAB. No IDs. Could be well-wanted KAGV Big Lake, AK; over 1,500 miles NW of here. Listened on and off from 2:15-2:40am and just REL music.

Recordings...
KLOG TOH - http://www.mediafire.com/file/6r6yhegqqohe8y0/KLOG_1490_WA_1_13_18.WMA
JOIK/567 - http://www.mediafire.com/file/iq2s2iddpr0v7ej/JOIK_567_Sapporo_1_13_18_(new!).WMA
JOGB/873 - http://www.mediafire.com/file/a64lzdg3nw4l7xr/JOGB_873_Kumamoto_1_13_18_(new!).WMA
KSJB - http://www.mediafire.com/file/uepdiqyllhfbwuj/KSJB_600_ND_1_13_18.WMA
 
Great stuff, crainbebo, keep 'em coming. That "basket" of Japanese stations is phenomenal! Congratulations.
 
Great job Crainbebo. I noticed last week on the Northern Ireland DX tuner that trans Atlantic DX was great. WBBM was almost coming in like a local--best I ever heard it and many other stations from the great lakes area. Looks like this is an excellent MWDX season so far.
 
That is pretty awesome! Never heard any Japanese stations here in Phoenix, but I’m sure they are out there ready to be snagged.

I was listening this past weekend to the Northern Norway SDR from Kongsfjord on Friday night and I was shocked at how clear the North American stations were coming in. KOMO 1000 from Seattle was consistently coming in all night and sometimes sounded like a local! CKWX News 1130 from Vancouver was coming in well along with 720 KOTZ from Alaska playing some high school basketball. I could also hear CKMX Funny 1060 from Calgary, Alberta, Canada coming in along with CHQT News 880 from Edmonton and 630 CHED from Edmonton. No luck hearing the Mid-west US clear channels, but those west coast channels were coming in like gangbusters in Norway.

I wonder if it is a common occurrence over there in Norway during the middle of winter to hear American and Canadian stations make the jump over the North Pole, even on a lesser equipped AM radio? Anywhere north of the Arctic Circle has to be a great place for DXing!
 
asugeorge1 said:
That is pretty awesome! Never heard any Japanese stations here in Phoenix, but I’m sure they are out there ready to be snagged.

I was listening this past weekend to the Northern Norway SDR from Kongsfjord on Friday night and I was shocked at how clear the North American stations were coming in. KOMO 1000 from Seattle was consistently coming in all night and sometimes sounded like a local! CKWX News 1130 from Vancouver was coming in well along with 720 KOTZ from Alaska playing some high school basketball. I could also hear CKMX Funny 1060 from Calgary, Alberta, Canada coming in along with CHQT News 880 from Edmonton and 630 CHED from Edmonton. No luck hearing the Mid-west US clear channels, but those west coast channels were coming in like gangbusters in Norway.

I wonder if it is a common occurrence over there in Norway during the middle of winter to hear American and Canadian stations make the jump over the North Pole, even on a lesser equipped AM radio? Anywhere north of the Arctic Circle has to be a great place for DXing!
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It helps that they have long beverage antennas and very good receivers. Remember also: they are VERY far north. Kongsfjord and Lemmenjoki (the famous Finnish DXing site) are as far north as Barrow and Pt. Hope, Alaska. Kongsfjord, and several nearby towns, are some of the farthest north inhabited towns in the world.

PS. I once emailed the guy in Kongsfjord about what he could hear with a more standard AM radio and a loop. He said he could hear Asia fairly well. He concentrates more on the beverage antennas, though. He has a blog/website. Can't remember the link. He posted a listing of catches with a Tecsun and AN-100 loop once. Don't recall if he heard any trans-polar stuff -- if he heard strong ones, it wouldn't surprise me. But most of what you probably hear on that SDR comes from beverage antennas, I'm pretty sure of that.

Still -- what those MWDXers hear in northern Scandinavia always impresses me. Not just the catches, but they really get into the hobby.
 
radioman148 said:
Do you guys have a URL for that receiver in Norway? Thanks!
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Here's his blog. I think there's a link to the SDR here.

http://arcticdx.blogspot.com/2017/11/kongsdr-finances-november.html

EDIT to ADD:
I tried out the SDR online. It works well. I heard NRK Longwave on 153 kHz, and the BBC Longwave station on 198 kHz came in also. I didn't try much on the MW band. On the blog somewhere it says the KongsfjordSDR uses a 240 foot longwire (80m), elevated 18 ft. in the middle (6m) and 9 ft on the ends (3m).
 
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WA6OUR's SDR I guess. That's in Sammamish, about 5 miles east of Bellevue in a Seattle suburb. The best SDR IMO is the KA7U Idaho and W0AY MT receivers. I've caught so many beacons on the Idaho receiver - I even keep track. I'm over 250 NDBs on that receiver including my farthest, a beacon in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America! GLS, which is on 272 khz.
 
Wow. Absolutely amazing! Unbelievable that a 40 w station can be caught in Norway, yet I've been trying for CBKY-1350 Keremeos BC (also 40w, at 185 miles) for years with no success, even on nights where I get northern BC quite well. Keremeos is not too far from Penticton, and CKOR-800 comes in every night here.
 
All you need is a beverage antenna, Crainbebo, and you'll be in business. :)

Looks like another Norwegian DXer also heard the NWT station, too. I think most of those guys run beverages.

Still -- awesome to hear about their catches on MW.
 
And about 10 acres of land out in the Yakima Valley or Kittitas Valley. I wish. I'll put up a couple of beverages, one east and one northwest (for AK and Japan/Korea/etc.); and a good FM/VHF Yagi for E-skip/tropo. And I can move the NW one to the north if necessary. My relative's farm in Wapato is very quiet, the sky is full of stars at night being miles from Yakima. I've gotten some good AM catches there. Had KMOX out there a few years ago.
 
Have you tried a temporary beverage on the ground at your relative's farm? Might be easy enough to rig up. Just roll out a 300-400 feet or so and wrap the end around your portable MW radio. I saw a vid on YouTube where some guy did that at the Canary Islands and heard daytime DX from the US.
 
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