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First New AM Logging of the Season Here

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Wow, is the AM dial *quiet* at 6:55 AM, even off wall current in the noisy kitchen.

We had just gotten done setting all the clocks back an hour over breakfast, and I tuned in KYW Philly to see if we had the correct hour. A solid, booming KYW said we indeed were on the correct planet. So I tuned up the dial.
The dial was wonderful. Noise-free! I heard that EWTN station from Rochester on 1460, and upon being saved for another week, went next door to 1470. Up from the moil rose a weather forecast from a gal, and then a WBTX ID.
WBTX is from western Virginia, 5000 watts day, omni. Distance between there and our kitchen is 200 miles.
Since I'd heard so many of these VA, WV, MD, and PA stations sign-on back in Queens, this morning's reception is understandable. Heck -- at 5000 watts omni the reception was probably unavoidable. I'm just surprised that the AM dial was so listenable. I have to get back into this sunrise-style propogation.

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After turning the odometer back to 000:
311 AM stations logged from the new site in PA
41 FM's.
Now that's ALMOST a DXer!

Lol crainbebo; couldn't resist.
 
Back atcha and hi, Cyberded.

About a half hour ago I got a phone call from a Jim Snavely at WBTX. Perhaps he's the PD there. He was answering a message I'd left at 8:30 Sunday morning to WBTX. I had asked on their answering machine if they were them; if the gal who did the weather was indeed from WBTX. He assured me it was.

You know back in the old DX days like it was .... you'd hear call letters and 'count' the station as a new one. They IDed with the call letters far more frequently than they do now or ever will again. But I wanted to make sure, even if 'WBTX' was the only thing on Radio-Locator to make even remote sense.

Turns out, Jim has worked up *this* way, in Boyertown at WBYO -- religious at the time -- and is familiar with the region. So we're on a first-name basis now, hi. We were discussing AM DX, the mid-Winter anomaly, crime, mother-stabbing, father-raping, the whole 27 feet.

He asked me to cut a liner over the phone for him to use. So I did. Next time you drive through the WBTX area and hear something like 'Hi. This Steve Green from Frackville PA. Every time we turn the clocks back an hour we make sure to tune in and enjoy WBTX 1470' .... you'll know it's authentic.

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One odd thing: I didn't hear WSAN Allentown that breakfast session. On *their* 5000 omni daytime signal, they should've been smothering 1470 from maybe 40 miles east of me. Nope.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Next time you drive through the WBTX area and hear something like 'Hi. This Steve Green from Frackville PA. Every time we turn the clocks back an hour we make sure to tune in and enjoy WBTX 1470' .... you'll know it's authentic.
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Congrats on achieving your 15 seconds of fame. ;)

Jim
 
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