• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Post your latest DX

MarioMania said:
Carmichael, CA

Seems like KLIB 1110 Roseville is off, I'm listening to KRDC right now at 12:24 am

Also KRPU 1210 Sacramento is distorting really bad

I'm on my Insignia NS-R5111A
Click to expand...
KLIB came back, I don't know what time it was

I was playing around with SDR last night, I was hearing New Music on 850..I didn't want to go til I got the ID

Keeps fading on the Orlando SDR, I got it finally, 850 WPTB Statesboro, GA Hashtag 99.7 at 1 kw
 
On Sunday around 9:45 p.m. CT I logged my first AM station from Guatemala, 1570 TGVE, as well as a new station from Oklahoma, 1570 KTAT.

I had the radio (Sangean PR-D4W + Terk loop) aimed N-NW/S-SE to get a partial null of powerhouse XERF. Besides hearing some occasional oldies (either KLLA or KPYK, both previously logged), I was hearing a weak intermittent station with Spanish-language preaching. I checked mwlist.org to see what it might be, and the only likely candidate was TGVE. Sure enough, that station's stream matched the bits of talk, bumper music, and Christian songs that I heard. Distance was 1,152 miles.

I didn't realize I'd logged KTAT until I reviewed the recording. There was a brief English-language fadeup with IDs for the High Plains Radio Network and KYBE 95.7, The Coyote, which is a sister station to KTAT. The signal was gone for good after the IDs. KTAT transmits at just 6 watts at night.
 
cyberdad said:
At our beach vacation spot near Pensacola, 780 is blank during the day, and WBBM is pretty much in the clear at night, although I do occasionally hear Spanish underneath. I'm pretty comofortable in saying that if Cuba was running 200kw on 780 with that amount of brute force, they'd be audible at the place where we stay 24/7. Just like 530, 590, 640, 670, 710, and ocasionally a couple of others. Either alone or underneath something else.
Click to expand...
I was wondering Cyberdad, have you ever picked up any Arizona stations in either Chicago or your beach vacation spot in Florida? Arizona has always been handicapped on the AM band with no traditional Class A signals being granted to the great state of Arizona. The only 50,000 watt AM station is KTNN 660 from Window Rock, Arizona on the Navajo Nation so if anything, maybe you have picked them up before they shift to a directional nighttime signal at sunset to protect WFAN in New York City.

As a transplanted Chicagoan living in Arizona and now San Diego, I always enjoy DXing WGN and WBBM. WLS has always been difficult for me in Arizona along with WSCR despite them also being Class A 50,000 watt non-directional stations.
 
Yesterday, around 3:30 PM, three hours before Sunset. Daytime, pre CH Skywave.

CKPC 1380 Brantford, ON
CHKT 1430 Toronto, ON
CJOY 1460 Guelph, ON
CHIN 1540 Toronto, ON
CKDO 1580 Oshawa, ON

Nothing much below 1380.
 
asugeorge1 said:
I was wondering Cyberdad, have you ever picked up any Arizona stations in either Chicago or your beach vacation spot in Florida?
Click to expand...
Never have. I think my best shot would be KTNN, because other DXers around here have heard it, It would be tough, but if it's doable it would probably have to be on day pattern. Either around sunset, or if they forget to flip on the DA some night. I'd like to snag KTAR, but I think that's a pipe dream. Greg Schulte...the D-backs PBP guy on KTAR, is an old friend. I used to work with him back in the 70s, but it's been years since he and I used to get together for breakfast or whatever when I was in town.

As for the beach, we have our usual spot booked for the first week in June (after having rolled over our deposit three or four times due to the Pandemic...and Hurricane Sally). I've never heard AZ there eiter, but if anything turns up this coming June, I won't keep it a secret.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Yesterday, around 3:30 PM, three hours before Sunset. Daytime, pre CH Skywave.

CKPC 1380 Brantford, ON
CHKT 1430 Toronto, ON
CJOY 1460 Guelph, ON
CHIN 1540 Toronto, ON
CKDO 1580 Oshawa, ON

Nothing much below 1380.
Click to expand...
That's an impressive daytime skywave assortment. All from the Toronto area. Congratulations and nicely done!

I've never heard CJOY here. But I have heard the others at one time or another. CHIN is the only one I've heard on daytime skywave, however. And CKDO is the only one that anything resembling a nighttime regular. Then there's CJOY, it's definitely on my "most wanted" list. I used to stay at a Hotel in Guelph that was basically across the road from CJOY's stransmitter site. 10kw but very directional to the north, Still, it was a good oldies station, and a go-to for me when I was in the area.
 
cyberdad said:
Never have. I think my best shot would be KTNN, because other DXers around here have heard it, It would be tough, but if it's doable it would probably have to be on day pattern. Either around sunset, or if they forget to flip on the DA some night. I'd like to snag KTAR, but I think that's a pipe dream. Greg Schulte...the D-backs PBP guy on KTAR, is an old friend. I used to work with him back in the 70s, but it's been years since he and I used to get together for breakfast or whatever when I was in town.

As for the beach, we have our usual spot booked for the first week in June (after having rolled over our deposit three or four times due to the Pandemic...and Hurricane Sally). I've never heard AZ there eiter, but if anything turns up this coming June, I won't keep it a secret.
Click to expand...
That’s awesome! Greg Schulte is great, he has been the Arizona Diamondbacks play by play guy on KTAR 620 AM / KMVP 98.7 FM since the franchise started in 1998. As a Diamondbacks season ticket holder, I have met him a few times on the elevator. Very nice guy along with Mark Grace. “The Gub'nuh” is one of the best in the business! I think he was originally from Milwaukee, but I could be mistaken.

I myself have tried for KTAR many times when I have visited Chicago, but WTMJ is way too strong in those parts that it’s nearly impossible to hear anything else, day or night. But, if you head west, KTAR is one of the easiest stations to DX in Southern California along with KTNN. I am going to be visiting Hawaii for the first time in May on my honeymoon and I hope to have a chance to do some DXing there. Considering how much night-time power KTAR and KTNN throw toward the southwest, I expect I will be able to pick-up both KTAR and KTNN in Honolulu, but maybe one of the Hawaii DXer’s can confirm that for me. (KMIK 1580 AM from Tempe would have been another easy pick-up a few years ago, but the new owners recently got rid of their 50,000 watt night-time directional signal that had been picked up by DXer’s in Australia when it was still Radio Disney).

I hope that someday you will be able to pick-up an Arizona station in Chicago, Cyberdad!
 
KTNN should be an easy night catch in Hawaii, as long as you can null out the KPRP slop. KTNN is a nightly catch here with their country music and Native American chanting, and often DJs talking in Navajo. I have heard 15 AZ stations on AM, but it's far less than the dozens I've heard on FM from E skip openings!
 
At 1:00 AM in Picayune, MS, I'm hearing 1210 WPHT Philadelphia mixing in with KGYN Guymon, OK, the station I usually get on this frequency. First time I've heard WPHT. Earlier, I checked 660 for any trace of KTNN, but only heard KSKY. KTNN is almost completely directed to the west at night.
 
asugeorge1 said:
That’s awesome! Greg Schulte is great, he has been the Arizona Diamondbacks play by play guy on KTAR 620 AM / KMVP 98.7 FM since the franchise started in 1998. As a Diamondbacks season ticket holder, I have met him a few times on the elevator. Very nice guy along with Mark Grace. “The Gub'nuh” is one of the best in the business! I think he was originally from Milwaukee, but I could be mistaken.

I myself have tried for KTAR many times when I have visited Chicago, but WTMJ is way too strong in those parts that it’s nearly impossible to hear anything else, day or night. But, if you head west, KTAR is one of the easiest stations to DX in Southern California along with KTNN. I am going to be visiting Hawaii for the first time in May on my honeymoon and I hope to have a chance to do some DXing there. Considering how much night-time power KTAR and KTNN throw toward the southwest, I expect I will be able to pick-up both KTAR and KTNN in Honolulu, but maybe one of the Hawaii DXer’s can confirm that for me. (KMIK 1580 AM from Tempe would have been another easy pick-up a few years ago, but the new owners recently got rid of their 50,000 watt night-time directional signal that had been picked up by DXer’s in Australia when it was still Radio Disney).

I hope that someday you will be able to pick-up an Arizona station in Chicago, Cyberdad!
Click to expand...
You can check out the DX in Hawaii on this SDR: http://72.235.217.245:8073/
 
asugeorge1 said:
. I am going to be visiting Hawaii for the first time in May on my honeymoon and I hope to have a chance to do some DXing there. Considering how much night-time power KTAR and KTNN throw toward the southwest, I expect I will be able to pick-up both KTAR and KTNN in Honolulu, but maybe one of the Hawaii DXer’s can confirm that for me.
Click to expand...
First of all, congratulations on your upcoming wedding

Honolulu was not a good DX spot for me when I lived there. Too many strong signals, harmonics, etc. The rest of Oahu and the other islands are more than fine, however. The link Radioman sent you will give you a good introduction of what DX is like once you're away from the big city. Ground conductivity on Oahu isn't that great, so you shouldn't have to go very far.

You're right about KTAR being easy duty in So-Cal. Many an evening on my way back to my hotel from dinner, I'd dial up 620 and catch some of Greg Schulte's pbp calls. I was actually his first color guy. Long story short.....He knew what he was doing. Me? I sort of faked it. Greg had grown up as a St. Louis Cardinals fan, but was always very clear on our sometimes long car rides to game sitres (football and basketball) that his goal was to be a major league baseball broadcaster. Years later, when I'd meet up with him in Phoenix, he'd always have some great stories.....that he could never tell on the air! LOL
 
I'm surprised at what I hear on the Brownsville, Texas SDR just after 10 pm their time on 770.

KKOB is there with a slightly weaker KAAM and no trace of WABC.

I didn't think the signal of KKOB made it that far east and that strong.
 
I expect I will be able to pick-up both KTAR and KTNN in Honolulu, but maybe one of the Hawaii DXer’s can confirm that for me.
Click to expand...

KTNN is a nighttime regular here on the Big Island.

It's not that strong compared to the west coast 50 kw regulars but still listenable much of the time.
 
3:40 a.m. CT Sat 3/13 – 640 Radio Progreso in over the open carrier of WFMN in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Another station or two under it.
 


Back
Top Bottom