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Perdido Key Florida Daytime Bandscan Highlights February 2022

cyberdad

cyberdad

Since I did the last one of these from here, new members have joined us and we've had a few changes. So here's an updated version. 23 miles southeast of downtown Pensacola........

530: R. Enciclopedia, Cuba - Very weak
540: WASG Daphne, AL Fair-weak (formerly on 550 from Atmore, AL)
570: WTBN Tampa, FL Very weak with R. Reloj underneath (All Tampa Bay area stations, approx. 330 miles)
590: R. Nacional Cuba Barely audible....was stronger on previous visits. Including when under now-defunct WDLP/WDIZ
600: WVOG New Orleans, LA Fair/weak via saltwater path. 1kw non directional All New Orleans stations approximately 160 miles)
610: WVTJ Pensacola, FL Fair (16 miles....500 watts non-directional via land path with very poor ground conductivity)
620: WDAE Tampa Fair 10kw
640: R. Progreso Cuba. Fair
660: WXQW: Fairhope, AL 34 mi. 10kw ND....and a oerfect exajmple of how bad ground conductivity is around here.
670: R Rebelde Cuba Weak
680: WGES St. Petersburg Weak 800 watts
690: WQNO New Orleans 9kw Non directional. Fair. As WTIX with 10kw and a favorable pattern, the signal was good. Better than the current setup.
710: WNTM Mobile 1kw. Fair-Weak with R. Rebelde underneath
720: WRZN Hernando FL (Ocala) Very weak 10kw 320 miles
740: WNSP Montgomery, AL Very weak 10kw 160 miles. KTRH on rare occasions underneath (ez-WBAM 50kw)
750: KKNO Gretna, LA (New Orleans) Weak 250 watts
790; WPNN Pensacola 22 miles weak (Formerly diplexed with 610. Signal is better now than when diplexed.)
800L WSHO New Orleans 1kw weak

(To be continued)
 
Thanks for the report. I used to spend alot of time in New Orleans. Good to know many of those stations make it to where you are.
 
Wow the salt-water makes all the difference! Your locals were weak at 20 miles, but you was snagging Tampa, NOLA, and Cuba at 160+ miles and they are fair!
 
ZantennaG1 said:
Wow the salt-water makes all the difference! Your locals were weak at 20 miles, but you was snagging Tampa, NOLA, and Cuba at 160+ miles and they are fair!
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Yes, that's part of the fun DXing here. Ground conductivity is some of the worst in North America. But there are saltwater paths converging from three different directions.
 
ZantennaG1 said:
Wow the salt-water makes all the difference! Your locals were weak at 20 miles, but you was snagging Tampa, NOLA, and Cuba at 160+ miles and they are fair!
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From Guánica, Puerto Rico (West of Ponce) I'd easily get Caracas, Maracaible, Coro from Venezuela and Santa Marta and Barranquilla, Colombia among others like Curacao. All were over 600 miles over unobstructed salt water paths.
 
Great scan there, CyberDad.

Lol -- I was awaiting your to-be-continued to see how well a station that used the water skiing path would show up. But apparently, WJOE 1080 from the casually named Port St. Joe isn't on the air anymore.

On our visits to Clearwater and New Port Richey, WJOE was a 3 signal (if that's how SINPO gauges things) on an average transistor radio in both vacation places. All afternoon.
Distance from Clearwater is 200 miles. Not bad for a 1000-watt daytimer.

(Maybe Joe was the patron saint of coffee?)
 
DavidEduardo said:
From Guánica, Puerto Rico (West of Ponce) I'd easily get Caracas, Maracaible, Coro from Venezuela and Santa Marta and Barranquilla, Colombia among others like Curacao. All were over 600 miles over unobstructed salt water paths.
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Distance between Pensacola and Havana, Cuba is 586 miles. That's undoubtedly downtown to downtown. and my location is 23 miles southwest of downtown P-cola, so I don't know if that put's my slightly closer or farther. Also, I don't know how many of the Cubans I'm hearing are actually in Havana.

I used to occasionally hear 560 from Kingston Jamaica here during daytime, before Jamaica closed down its AM band. That hop would have been just over 1,000 miles. I have a hard time believing that could have been all saltwater. Especially with Cuba in th way. But there it wqs, complete with positive IDs.
Steve Green NEPA said:
On our visits to Clearwater and New Port Richey, WJOE was a 3 signal (if that's how SINPO gauges things) on an average transistor radio in both vacation places. All afternoon.

Distance from Clearwater is 200 miles. Not bad for a 1000-watt daytimer.

(Maybe Joe was the patron saint of coffee?)
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I used to hear WJOE both here and at St. Pete Beach. Very weak here, still weak, but stronger at St. Pete Beach

Patron saint of coffee? I'm not a coffee drinker. I could ask my daughter. She's a coffee-holic. But if there's a Saint Starbucks, my money's on him!
 
cyberdad said:
I used to occasionally hear 560 from Kingston Jamaica here during daytime, before Jamaica closed down its AM band. That hop would have been just over 1,000 miles. I have a hard time believing that could have been all saltwater. Especially with Cuba in th way. But there it wqs, complete with positive IDs.
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Cool!
cyberdad said:
Patron saint of coffee? I'm not a coffee drinker. I could ask my daughter. She's a coffee-holic. But if there's a Saint Starbucks, my money's on him!
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🤣
 
cyberdad said:
I used to occasionally hear 560 from Kingston Jamaica here during daytime, before Jamaica closed down its AM band. That hop would have been just over 1,000 miles. I have a hard time believing that could have been all saltwater. Especially with Cuba in th way. But there it wqs, complete with positive IDs.
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That's quite a daytime haul.
 
I know you are mainly interested in the AM dial. But man, the FM reception along the Gulf Coast is amazing. A few years ago, I was near Biloxi. And I could easily get the stronger FM stations from New Orleans, Mobile and even Pensacola.

It was December 2019. The AC stations were playing Christmas music and it was the last plane ride I took pre-pandemic. I scanned the nighttime AM dial and put my reception report on this board. At night, I was getting some Cuban and some Mexican stations as well as U.S.

Interesting that no Radio Reloj frequency shows up on your list. It was faint but I heard it at 950. No matter how limited our Spanish may be, we can't miss the ticking clock and time checks every minute, 24/7.
 
Gregg. said:
I know you are mainly interested in the AM dial. But man, the FM reception along the Gulf Coast is amazing. A few years ago, I was near Biloxi. And I could easily get the stronger FM stations from New Orleans, Mobile and even Pensacola.

It was December 2019. The AC stations were playing Christmas music and it was the last plane ride I took pre-pandemic. I scanned the nighttime AM dial and put my reception report on this board. At night, I was getting some Cuban and some Mexican stations as well as U.S.

Interesting that no Radio Reloj frequency shows up on your list. It was faint but I heard it at 950. No matter how limited our Spanish may be, we can't miss the ticking clock and time checks every minute, 24/7.
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That's nice tropo in December. We don't get that up north.
 
Gregg. said:
I know you are mainly interested in the AM dial. But man, the FM reception along the Gulf Coast is amazing. A few years ago, I was near Biloxi. And I could easily get the stronger FM stations from New Orleans, Mobile and even Pensacola.

It was December 2019. The AC stations were playing Christmas music and it was the last plane ride I took pre-pandemic. I scanned the nighttime AM dial and put my reception report on this board. At night, I was getting some Cuban and some Mexican stations as well as U.S.

Interesting that no Radio Reloj frequency shows up on your list. It was faint but I heard it at 950. No matter how limited our Spanish may be, we can't miss the ticking clock and time checks every minute, 24/7.
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My omission of R. Reloj on 950 was an oversight. My apologies. During daytime it's audible with a weak signal, but alone. It's stronger at night. Reloj is also audible (barely) on 570 WTBN from the Tampa Bay area. At night R. Reloj also turns up routinely on 790 and 860,

And you're absolutely correct about FM here. Especially when I'm in a sixth floor condo, like I am now. It's even better during summer, and this coming June I'm expecting to be in a 10th floor unit for a weak. Based on past experience, New Orleans should be coming in like a local! As for Mobile and Pensacola, most of those signals are broadcasting from TV towers between the two cities around Loxley, Alabama. Kind of an interesting setup given that the Mobile and Pensacola COL AM's are mostly inaudible in each other's cities, But the FMs are strong in each of the two cities, as well as here where I am this month on the beach.
 
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Hmm, I only see Part 3

I keep on posting the FM Frequency of the Week on Sunday, like after 1 am

I don't turn my PC on til 11 or Noon

I don't want to keep on reminding everyweek
 
KTRH popping up there at any point daytime is pretty impressive. There is plenty of land between their towers northeast of Houston and your location, most notably in the first few hundred miles that signal would have to cross before it hits any salt water to speak of.
Nighttime reception doesn't surprise me. On my two visits to the Florida panhandle, it was there every time I checked at night. Never strong and I doubt that lobe would make it all that much farther east, but it was there.
 
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