Yes I heard a station playing Christmas music on 1580 AM last night as well on the Arctic SDR. This must have been the station. The highlight for me was hearing KNX 1070 last night on the Arctic SDR!
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I tried for KNX on the Arctic SDR, but I didn't hear it.
Nice catch. Merry Christmas!
So if Relevant Radio has flipped their Spanish language stations to English, I'd change my guess to St. Louis. I used to hear them nightly here in the 60s when they were top 40 KWK. They've been increasingly rare since. but still do-able.
Also last night (Christmas Eve), I spent the night at our middle son's house in St. Charles, IL, 20 miles south of me. While the triplet grandkids were tucked in for the nightg with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, I was in the extra bedroom with the SRF-37 DXing. Of note....
On 530. R. Enciclopedia was in stronger than I've ever heard it here in the Chicago area. From the opposite direction CJOB was also blasting. No issues for CJOB with WSCR splatter from less than fifteen miles away.
And, as was posted previously, it was interesting to hear Christmas music on some of the 50kw blowtorch talkers.
WUFL changed their pattern to a three tower in line with a maximum at around 250 degrees, essentially toward Chicago. It is about the equivalent of about 28 kW in your direction, based on a legacy minimum efficiency of 282 mV/m @ 1 kW @ 1 km. That would be the best time, particularly a good 0:30 to 0:45 after Boston Sunrise, and in that 15 minute period between Sunrise in Sterling Heights and Sunrise in Vernon Hills.
Ok really stupid question Where can I find the Arctic SDR? Is it located among the links on the KiwiSDR site?
Thanks for the info. I hadn't listened on 1030 in the morning in a long time. Figured I might ID something with Christmas music and bingo. Now to get up earlier tomorrow and see if or how long WBZ and WUFL fight it out before WNVR horns in.
Yes. When you get on the kiwi site just type in "arctic"
Nothing from NA on the Arctic SDR this morning just signals from the far east. On the Kaneohe, Hawaii SDR strong signals from the mainland. KSL, KNX, KKOH all strong. WGN in back of KDWN. 0430 CST.
Yeah, lots of stuff from Asia coming over the Arctic SDR tonight. You can tell because the stations are slightly off when you tune using the North American station spacing compared to the European and Asian AM stations. That one night a couple nights ago, it was a lot of North America coming in with KNX, KOMO, KSL and CKWX.
Yes, I have not heard any NA DX on the Arctic SDR since that one night.
When I am right on the lakeshore, WUFL can also come in reasonably well in the afternoon/evening before they sign off. But it's pretty variable, some days it's not even there.
5:30 am CST this morning at my home location, 960 KLTF, Little Falls mn.. Positive ID and several mentions of "Little Falls". 400 miles (exact) to my northwest. Fair signal, comfortably on top with a very weak WATK underneath. I'll pesume 5kw day power instead of 38 watt night power. Radio was C. Crane Skywave. Second time I've heard KLTF here.
The ion layers that reflect "closer in", like 250 miles, are lower and don't reflect the greater distances like for WBZ. As the effective layer height increases the closer you get to Sunset in Boston and points West, WBZ starts coming in strong.
WWGB Indian Head, MD, 50000 watts on 1030, DA-D, used to be a perennial CH reception, but they are on STA, officially 20 kW. Haven't heard them lately.
WUFL used to have a maximum at 340 degrees with 5000 watts into a cardioid two tower array, and near the Straits, I rarely heard them except interference to WBZ. Now there's a null close to what was the maximum. Don't know why they didn't go dogleg so that side got better service. Now the station on 1040 in OH is GONE. They should modify the pattern and fill in those nulls. WUGN 99.7 and various translators for WUFL fill in that area somewhat though.
WWGB Indian Head, MD, 50000 watts on 1030, DA-D, used to be a perennial CH reception, but they are on STA, officially 20 kW. Haven't heard them lately.
WUFL used to have a maximum at 340 degrees with 5000 watts into a cardioid two tower array, and near the Straits, I rarely heard them except interference to WBZ. Now there's a null close to what was the maximum. Don't know why they didn't go dogleg so that side got better service. Now the station on 1040 in OH is GONE. They should modify the pattern and fill in those nulls. WUGN 99.7 and various translators for WUFL fill in that area somewhat though.
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It was a pretty good day yesterday. Heard 6 new stations:
580 WXRH, Rockwood, TN - 10:40 pm CST
730 WZGV, Cramerton, NC - 3:55 pm CST
760 WENO, Nashville, TN - 4:23 pm CST
990 KFCD, Farmsville, TX - 4:43 pm CST
1070 WEKT, Elkton, KY - 9:54 pm CST
1080 WKGX, Lenoir, NC - 11:16 pm CST
After midnight I checked out the Arctic SDR for about half an hour. Opening to North America was decent. WBBM was battling a Russian Morse Code beacon on 780 kHz. WMVP was mixing with KOMO on 1000 kHz. Also IDed WHO on 1040 and KCKN on 1020.
580 WXRH, Rockwood, TN - 10:40 pm CST
730 WZGV, Cramerton, NC - 3:55 pm CST
760 WENO, Nashville, TN - 4:23 pm CST
990 KFCD, Farmsville, TX - 4:43 pm CST
1070 WEKT, Elkton, KY - 9:54 pm CST
1080 WKGX, Lenoir, NC - 11:16 pm CST
After midnight I checked out the Arctic SDR for about half an hour. Opening to North America was decent. WBBM was battling a Russian Morse Code beacon on 780 kHz. WMVP was mixing with KOMO on 1000 kHz. Also IDed WHO on 1040 and KCKN on 1020.
I must have been too late as I heard nothing on the Arctic SDR last night about 0330 CST.
Nice haul!
Whoa, I just looked at KGAB 650 nighttime pattern, it is all the to NW. Not sure how that 500w signal made it all the way SE to DFW.