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See if you can find KXTG Portland (The Game), or KOAL Price UT (running Coast to Coast right now).
I haven't even bothered to DX the AM band this season. With 800+ logs, I don't know what to try for anymore. I'm never around for HSFB Fridays because of work, and there hasn't been any DX tests yet this fall.
I guess I sit on 910 on a few sunsets and hope that KURY Brookings OR makes it in (the final OR that I need) ;-)
 
CADXER said:
Heads up. WSB 750 Atlanta, GA is currently completely off the air. I am getting CKJH with classic rock and Radio Progreso, Cuba with musical program.
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Thanks! CKJH is new for me too. It's a kick to see what rolls in when a "big gun" is off the air.
However, as all ham radio operators know, antenna work should be done no earlier than the first snowstorm of the season. :)
 
tvnut said:
Gracias! CKJH is new for me.
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I've heard CKJH a couple of times at my home location in Crystal Lake. Very rare, so it's a nice catch any way you look at it. Iwas hearing CKJH at two overnight stops on my road trip earlier this month through the Ontario north woods. Specifically Thunder Bar and Kapuskasing. But at each place it was under WSB....which owns 750 even up there!
 
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Reports are that WSB might go off again tonight.
 
They have been off since 10:00 pm CDT. So far the same two stations heard as yesterday: CKJH and Radio Progreso
 
I've had no luck with Progreso let but CKJH is bombing in, better than last night. Just looked on a map and Melfort is north of Watrous (CBK 540) by more than a hundred miles. About as far north as Edmonton, maybe more so.
 
DX From Thu night Sept 22

KHHO doing nicely to beat semi local KICY
KKOH wiping the floor with semi local KNOM
XEKAM 950 coming in nicely over never very strong KJR Seattle
KGB 760 mostly loud and clear for a few mintues in the second half of the 9pm hour.


DX for Fri. morning Sept 23
1206 Yanbian was super great most of the morning. 945 was great some of the time. 981 was super great most of the time. I had CNR1 on 1251 fair well on and off.

I had some Japan stuff, the usual JOHR was mostly great most of the time, JOWF was kinda ok some of the time. The other Japanese weren’t very good except some of the big guns.
 
CKJH pretty much alone was what I was hearing on 750. this morning. Fair and steady round 3:15am CDT. I say
pretty much because while WSB was off, I DID hear some "fluttering" in the background on the channel. Could've been R. Progreso, but I couldn't make out what it was that was causing the "flutter. Let alone ID it.
 
Melfort to my house is about 1,100 miles. 10 kW gets out pretty well. It gives a good approximation of what it was like in the late-1920s through 1940 or so, before all the clear-channel stations were up to 50 kW.
 
tvnut said:
Melfort to my house is about 1,100 miles. 10 kW gets out pretty well. It gives a good approximation of what it was like in the late-1920s through 1940 or so, before all the clear-channel stations were up to 50 kW.
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Good point.

I drove across the entire width of Saskatchewan on the Trans Canada Highway a few summers ago. Four lanes, but with crossroads, so it was not freeway. Only three stoplights between Winnipeg and Regima. About a five hour drive. Then another couple of hours to Medison Hat, Alberta where I spent the night. (Surprisingly nice little city).

But the AM radio was the exact opposite of what I encountered a couple of weeks ago on my drive north of Lake Superior. On that drive, it was several hundred miles of a completely empty AM band during daytime. In Saskatchewan the dial had something on every channel, Signals that went on forever. From all over Saskatchewan as well as Manitoba and Alberta along with North Dakota and Montana. CKJH was good for about 300 miles...minimum.
 
As of 12:40am CDT Saturday morning, WSB is off again. I’m hearing Cuba mostly, but just before 1:30 got a clear ID and stream match from CKJH, my first SK reception from Houston.
 
cyberdad said:
Good point.

I drove across the entire width of Saskatchewan on the Trans Canada Highway a few summers ago. Four lanes, but with crossroads, so it was not freeway. Only three stoplights between Winnipeg and Regima. About a five hour drive. Then another couple of hours to Medison Hat, Alberta where I spent the night. (Surprisingly nice little city).

But the AM radio was the exact opposite of what I encountered a couple of weeks ago on my drive north of Lake Superior. On that drive, it was several hundred miles of a completely empty AM band during daytime. In Saskatchewan the dial had something on every channel, Signals that went on forever. From all over Saskatchewan as well as Manitoba and Alberta along with North Dakota and Montana. CKJH was good for about 300 miles...minimum.
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That is what great ground conductivity will do for you! Imagine if it were like that everywhere?
 
cyberdad said:
Good point.

I drove across the entire width of Saskatchewan on the Trans Canada Highway a few summers ago. Four lanes, but with crossroads, so it was not freeway. Only three stoplights between Winnipeg and Regima. About a five hour drive. Then another couple of hours to Medison Hat, Alberta where I spent the night. (Surprisingly nice little city).

But the AM radio was the exact opposite of what I encountered a couple of weeks ago on my drive north of Lake Superior. On that drive, it was several hundred miles of a completely empty AM band during daytime. In Saskatchewan the dial had something on every channel, Signals that went on forever. From all over Saskatchewan as well as Manitoba and Alberta along with North Dakota and Montana. CKJH was good for about 300 miles...minimum.
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1. The hockey guy in me knows that's Medicine Hat. Home of Canucks great Trevor Linden. I can only imagine what the city's logo is.
2. Ain't radio cool?
 
I'm surprised, looking at IRCA and RadioDiscussions reports, that KXTG and KOAL aren't getting out. My guess is they have a super-tight null east because of Atlanta. They are *my* pests at night, CKJH too. I'd love to hear WSB *once* in WA before I die. Once :)
 
According to reports WSB was off last night as well, but I missed.

I am surprised too that I was only able to get CKJH and Radio Progreso on the two nights I was listening. I would expect to hear couple more such as KAMA or KOAL. Some people on the east coast were reporting CBGY Newfoundland last night. Wish I did not go to sleep early last night.
 
tvnut said:
1. The hockey guy in me knows that's Medicine Hat. Home of Canucks great Trevor Linden. I can only imagine what the city's logo is.
2. Ain't radio cool?
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1,) The locals refer to their town simply as "Hat". I t truly is a nice place....which I guess I wasn't quite expecting. I remember two things about it..... Dinner at Earl's. Which is sort of a more upscale version of Friday's or Applebees with locations mostly in western Canada. It was a go to place for lunch with customers in Winnipeg and Vancouver. And secondly, "Hat" is where I took the "Ice Bucket Challenge" which was for the benefit of ALS research.

2.) Yes, absolutely! :)
 
asugeorge1 said:
That is what great ground conductivity will do for you! Imagine if it were like that everywhere?
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The conductivity in the prairies around the U.S. - Canada border is probably the greatest in North America. It's no coincidnce that the two stations with the greatest daytime coverage in Canada and the U.S. are in the same neighborhood, CBK and KFYR respectively.
 
cyberdad said:
The conductivity in the prairies around the U.S. - Canada border is probably the greatest in North America. It's no coincidnce that the two stations with the greatest daytime coverage in Canada and the U.S. are in the same neighborhood, CBK and KFYR respectively.
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I wonder of there is a list of the largest service areas in the country. WNAX 570 and WMAQ 670 have to be pretty high on the list. Not sure if they use 0.5 mV/m or 0.1 mV/m to determine this.
 


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