I must admit that I used to DX very early from time to time. Especially in the fall and winter. Now at that time .....zzzzzzzzzzzz
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I must admit that I used to DX very early from time to time. Especially in the fall and winter. Now at that time .....zzzzzzzzzzzz
Unfortunately I was about an hour late and missed it.
The only "DX" here as of late is firing up my Realistic Patrolman SW-60 (to make sure it still works -- it's pretty good on MW) and listening to KGEZ 600 (Kalispell, Montana) play a lot of oldies.
Last night they weren't coming in (just CJWW Saskatoon) but the two nights previous there were in well until about 5:30 a.m., when he signals petered out.
Haven't DXed at all, otherwise.
Last night they weren't coming in (just CJWW Saskatoon) but the two nights previous there were in well until about 5:30 a.m., when he signals petered out.
Haven't DXed at all, otherwise.
The opening was pretty good. It started sometime on Thursday (7/16) and lasted through Friday (7/17). Had to get on the roof of my house to rotate the antenna few times as my rotor is no longer working. Managed to hear few new ones:
88.9 WLXJ Barttle Ground, IN with K-Love format
91.7 KNSW Worthington, MN with Minnesota Public Radio
92.1 WXXM Sun POrairie, WI - "Rewind 92.1"
92.1 WGHN Grand Haven, MI - pop music
95.1 W233DB Plano, IL - WSPY relay
95.9 WKSZ De Pere, WI - Kiss FM
99.1 WYXY Savoy, IL - "Classic Country 99.1"
99.7 WXAJ Hillsboro, IL - "The Mix 90's, 2K and Today"
104.7 W284CY Hammond, IN - WJOB relay
Unfortunately I had no antenna to rotate. I was in my car and heard nothing but local stations.
Nice going.
You can have them all you want.. they pound into Laramie, WY nightly
New one for me this morning (7/21/20).... WVAL, 800khz from Sauk Rapids, MN (St.Cloud). That's about 325 miles northwest of me I'll go out on a limb and guess that they were on 2.6kw day power which sends a lobe in my direction. As opposed to the 850 watt night pattern which puts me in a slight null. Anyway, at 4am, I heard CBS TOH news, a positive ID, and classic country music with CKLW nulled. Radio was the SRF-37 Walkman. Signal was mostly weak, but steady for about 20 minutes.
After that, not a new catch, but a rare one. WPCN from Stevens Point, in central Wisconsin on 1010. Again I'm going to guess 1kw day power instead of then 10 watts they're supposed to be running at night. Oldies with positive ID. Weak with fading for about 15 minutes on the SRF-37. No evident trace of CFRB or WINS.
After that, not a new catch, but a rare one. WPCN from Stevens Point, in central Wisconsin on 1010. Again I'm going to guess 1kw day power instead of then 10 watts they're supposed to be running at night. Oldies with positive ID. Weak with fading for about 15 minutes on the SRF-37. No evident trace of CFRB or WINS.
I have caught WPCN a few times. Usually when I've heard it the sun is already up on the East coast cancelling out WINS and CFRB. I wonder if that was a factor for you?
It was an hour before local sunrise here, but I did think that the breaking dawn east of me. This morning, I was up a little earlier, and heard WPCN again. Weaker than yesterday and something I couldn't identify underneath. Presumably either CFRB or WINS. I've heard what's now WPCN (as WSPT) a couple of times before but always around sunrise or sunset. It used to be a daytimer, so it would have been 1kw. So my guess is these past couple of days they "forgot" to power down to their licensed ten watts.
I also heard WVAL from Minnesota on 800 once again this morning before sunrise. Also weaker than yesterday with more fading, but on top of occasional intrusions from CKLW.
I had heard them as WSPT a few times also. Kudos to you on the 4AM DX. I haven't done 4AM DX in many years. I remember many long years ago waking up at that time when I was very young to hear WJJD sign on at 4AM on a Zenith clock radio that was fairly new at the time. WJJD was Top 40 at that time. As you know that was a very long time ago.
Yep....You could tune in to WJJD at 4am....listen to them sign off an hour or two later....and then listen to them sign on again 15 minutes after that! All to protect KSL Then if you hung around long enough you could catch Ron Riley after her jumped ship from WOKY.
This might have been right around the time Riley was there or maybe a bit before. I had never heard WJJD sign on before so I woke up to hear it and then went back to sleep.
Yes, after WJJD in Chicago signed off at Salt Lake City sundown KSL came in pretty well into the midwest most nights.
Pretty much my experience as well. Not a monster by any means, but present more often than not.
When they extended DST into the early Winter back in the 1974, Daytimers on Clear Channels got a special authorization to run 50 watts PSA, because Sunrise was so late. I have a recording somewhere of WJJD signing on with 50 watts back then. It was roughly the same skywave FI as KSL in Genesee County, predicted and empirically. WJJD and KSL would fade in and out basically alone on 1160, at about the same signal strength.
I'm pretty sure that KSL was the first station I logged from over 1000 miles in the early 60s. In the west and on the Hawaii SDR KSL still gets out very well.