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Am Frequency of the Week: 1650

cyberdad

cyberdad

40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago....

Days: Usually blank, but not so much during daytime skywave season. KCNZ from Cedar Falls in east-central Iowa is most likely to break through, but when I checked 1650 at around 9am CST (1500 UTC) this morning, I was hearing a language I didn't recognize. I'm guessing CINA 5kw from Mississauga, ON (Toronto). No ID, so I'm definitely guessing. But CHHA was in and KCJJ was very faint. So I'm thinking CiNA was a good guess,

Nights: All KCNZ . Usually with a fair-good signal. To the best of my knowledge, I've never heard the aforementioned CINA on 680 watt night power.

Other location: I heard KCNZ a couple of weeks back with a weak signal on the Iceland SDR.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Without skywave, nothing. But when there is skywave, CINA in the Toronto area is often there. Actually this week we had some mild weather and I went to the lakeshore around 11AM and CINA was there (along with WLAC and CHHA).

Nighttime: KCNZ in Cedar Falls is the most likely. Occasionally I'll hear CINA too.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs It's usually nothing during the day. Once in awhile I hear some daytime skywave from KCNZ.
At night it's usually all KCNZ with a pretty good signal. I have heard CINA a few times. Once or twice when I turned the radio I heard KFSW.
 
I haven't checked at midday, but right now it's KCNZ Cedar Falls, a nighttime regular, with the NFL game, with CINA Mississauga, Ont., underneath and occasionally on top.

Others: Only KYHN Fort Smith, Ark. (now KFSW), once overnight in 2015. First caught CINA a week ago at 2 a.m.
 
East Tennessee: days (no skywave). Nada
Night: KSFW, WKHT.
Winter skip: CINA, WKHT

Retro/other: Central Indiana SDR--(daytime skip) CINA, with KCNZ in the background.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually empty, but did hear the Evanston, IL TIS (WPXZ497) few times
Nightime: KCZN dominates the frequency

DX/RETRO: did hear KGXL (Costa Mesa, CA) back in 1998 with all traffic format. They are now KFOX with Korean language programming, but no luck yet hearing them with that format. Also heard KBJD (Denver, CO), KWHN (Ft. Smith, AR), WHKT (Portsmouth, VA) and CINA (Mississagua, ON). Also back in early 2000's the Aurora, IL HAR/TIS with Chicago weather forecasts used to be common during daytime, but not heard lately.
 
Based on previous posts, I'm surprised I hadn't heard CINA around here until this morning (if indeed that's what I had.) But then again, I'm the only Chicago area DXer who has yet to snag WWBA (820 from Tampa) at my home location.
 
cyberdad said:
Based on previous posts, I'm surprised I hadn't heard CINA around here until this morning (if indeed that's what I had.) But then again, I'm the only Chicago area DXer who has yet to snag WWBA (820 from Tampa) at my home location.
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Update: I guess for me, CINA has been hiding in plain sight. I dialed up 1650 at about 4:30 this morning (10:30 UTC), nulled KCNZ and there it was...CINA. Very weak and no legal ID, but unmistakable Chinese speech and music. Radio was the Sangean ATS-505. 680 watts ND from a distance of 443 miles.
 
From west Houston, nothing in the daytime. After sunset I've heard Spanish sports KSVE El Paso and KBJD Radio Luz in Denver, both probably on day power. At night I can also hear XEAZR in Mexico City, and an unID religious station in English, probably KFSW.
 
An addendum to my previous post...tonight driving to the store at 5:55pm CST, checked 1650 and found Dan Patrick commentary, CBS News, and CBS Sports talk - it's KCNZ on top of the frequency. First time I've heard them.
 
cyberdad said:
Update: I guess for me, CINA has been hiding in plain sight. I dialed up 1650 at about 4:30 this morning (10:30 UTC), nulled KCNZ and there it was...CINA. Very weak and no legal ID, but unmistakable Chinese speech and music. Radio was the Sangean ATS-505. 680 watts ND from a distance of 443 miles.
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CINA has been pretty strong lately. I was on Lake Shore Drive around 12:30 today and the skywave was such that the "usual suspects" from 1640 to 1700 were all there, but CINA was clearly the strongest, to the point where I was wondering if I was just getting a harmonic of nearby station. But after some Indian dance music I got their ID.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
CINA has been pretty strong lately. I was on Lake Shore Drive around 12:30 today and the skywave was such that the "usual suspects" from 1640 to 1700 were all there, but CINA was clearly the strongest, to the point where I was wondering if I was just getting a harmonic of nearby station. But after some Indian dance music I got their ID.
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CINA was pretty strong when I heard it for the first time this past Sunday morning via daytime skywave. I've now checked it a couple of time during hours of darkness, and each time heard it (weak) under KCNZ. So I'm getting to the point of feeling that CINA is not rare around here, I just happened to have been missing it.
 
Today at high noon while driving around on the south side near the Univ. of Chicago I heard CINA on my car radio with quite a good signal via daytime skywave.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Normally nothing. On rare occasions, I'll hear KSVE in El Paso during daytime skywave.

Sunset: KSVE often comes up with a fairly good signal until it goes to night power. Also, KCNZ and XEARZ start to come up.

Night: It's a mix of KCNZ, XEARZ, and KFSW, with the former usually most dominant and the latter heard the least. If I aim NW, KBJD is usually dominant, although KCNZ will sometimes take over for a bit.

DX/RETRO: A few years back I occasionally heard Southern Avionics Company doing NDB equipment testing from Beaumont, TX, transmitting "SAC" in CW.
 
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