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CADXER · Jul 1, 2023

tvnut said:
CADXER, I noticed your FM haul included a bunch of first adjacents to Chicago stations with IBOC, and normally blocked out. Is it more the RS antenna (directional?) you'e using or the Sangean? That's a unit I'm not familiar with. Thanks in advance.

The receiver is decent, but the big difference is the antenna which is quite directional. Unfortunately I don't have a rotor anymore so I have it pointed in a south/southwest direction to avoid the downtown stations.

Schroedingers Cat · Jul 2, 2023

After my Quantum 1160 and FM-10 on a rotator on a roof tripod fell down in a windstorm, I just have an FM-10 on a 20 foot mast with an "Armstrong" rotator. The used MR-80 is nearly useless with IBOC even with that. Right after IBOC came on, I lost regular reception of WSAG 104.1 to WOMC 104.3, and WQLB 103.3 to WMUZ 103.5. The regular reception of Alternate 400 kHz spaced stations are lost to translators and Canadian Border drop ins. The k6sti modeling shows a 15 dB Front to Largest Side Lobe ratio for the FM-10, so I figure I should get an antenna with at least 20-25 dB Front to Largest Side Lobe ratio, and a good rotator so I can put some local signals into a deep null.

pclover · Jul 2, 2023

More FMBC Es today to Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming.

Utah is a bit short so fun to see it again.

You might be curious @SomeRadioGuy managed to log 95.1 KCGY in Laramie, WY with RDS.

crainbebo · Jul 2, 2023

Fun little Es opening from the Milford PA Global Tuners this evening. MUF 107 mhz+ to MO, AR, and KS, later into MS. Loggings include:

89.1 KUAR Little Rock AR
92.3 KIPR Pine Bluff AR
92.9 KLSC Malden MO 'Hot 92.9'
93.1 KZLE Batesville AR
101.3 WCMT South Fulton TN - unexpected log
90.7 WZKV Dyersburg TN
89.7 WBMV Mt. Vernon IL with Christian music // WBGL-FM Champaign
94.3 WKYX-FM Golconda IL
89.9 KRPS Pittsburg KS
92.5 KSYN Joplin MO
94.7 KTTS-FM Springfield MO
95.5 KTOZ-FM Pleasant Hope MO
95.3 KXMO-FM Owensville MO
100.5 KSWF Aurora MO
100.9 KHOM Salem AR
102.7 KQUL Lake Ozark MO
105.9 KGBX Nixa MO
101.9 KMXF Lowell AR + unid Classic Hits station
105.1 KOMG Willard MO
92.9 KOSP Ozark MO
101.3 KWTO-FM Springfield MO
98.7 KTXR Springfield MO
94.3 KAMO-FM Rogers AR
unid 107.5 Country music station, I believe - I need to check the recording
93.9 KSPQ West Plains MO
89.9 KCVY Cabool MO
89.9 KHIS Jackson MO
92.1 KQSM-FM Fayetteville AR
88.7 KDMC-FM Van Buren MO
89.1 KWFC Springfield MO
89.9 WMAB-FM Mississippi State MS
88.3 WAFR Tupelo
92.5 WESE Baldwyn MS

MarioMania · Jul 3, 2023

pclover · Jul 3, 2023

Weak FMBC Es opening to ND and MT a bit ago. Strongest signals to Billings, MT

All relogs.

MarioMania · Jul 4, 2023

FMBC?

Schroedingers Cat · Jul 4, 2023

FMBC?

FMBC (FM Broadcast) is what serious technical radio people call FM radio, especially amateur radio operators, realizing that Frequency Modulation is used by other services. Similarly for AMBC (AM Broadcast). An amateur radio operator in my neighborhood introduced me to the designation when I was quite young.

I think that is what you are asking. Not trying to be pedantic.

tvnut · Jul 4, 2023

I thought it had to do with British Columbia. I'm an idiot.

cyberdad · Jul 4, 2023

tvnut said:
I thought it had to do with British Columbia. I'm an idiot.

It's OK. In my eight years of regular visits to Vancouver, I neveer heard if FMBC either. Of course my go=to when I was in town was the oldies on CISL...which was on AM (650).

cyberdad · Jul 5, 2023

"Trifecta" this morning on 1450. Two repeat visitors along with a new catch. 4:30-5am with the C Crane skywave. The new one was WFMB from Springfield, IL with CBS Sports. I may have heard it at my home location as WCVS, but if I have, it's been quite a while. Definitely a first as WFMB. Signal was fair, but strong enough to be on top. The two returning visitors were KMRY (Cedar Rapids, IA) and WHTC (Holland, MI). Again, each with a fair signal on top for about five minutes. These three all came and left in sequential order.

Like a very orderly procession!

Steve Green NEPA · Jul 5, 2023

This wound up -- gotta be my error -- on the New York Board site.
Anyway ....
>> '
This isn't about actual new loggings, but about a newer and friendlier venue at which to spin some dial in the day.
See, I live indoors in a corner house where power lines run past the shorter front and along the 150 foot side. Making things even more charming is that the house is an attached / double, with a common wall and all its modern QRM devices and mysteries on its other side. In the day, DX is impossible.
But two blocks west of here is a big field, some 300 feet wide and 500 feet long. There's a BPO lodge* in one corner. The big outside space even has a few benches, no doubt put there to entice and accomodate touring DXers who might sample some of the refreshments at the gin mill inside. I hauled a D-battery GE SR2 there a week ago at the exact midday, and can't recall the AM dial sounding that clear for decades. The 11:58 (really) noon lunch whistle then went off from water tower southeast of town, and I had to go home and take BP meds.
The setting is likely to be a bit inconvenient on say, a balmy 4 degree overnight in February. But I'll be back in the daytimes for a while, as I need maybe 3 AM stations to complete eastern Pennsylvania.

* If there are any questions raised, I'll cheerfully bring up a memory of the Lodge being busted a few years ago for illegal gambling. Any BPO uncertainty check of my credentials might get me a few more TOH IDs. ' <<

cyberdad · Jul 5, 2023

Steve Green NEPA said:
This wound up -- gotta be my error -- on the New York Board site.
Anyway ....
>> '
This isn't about actual new loggings, but about a newer and friendlier venue at which to spin some dial in the day.
See, I live indoors in a corner house where power lines run past the shorter front and along the 150 foot side. Making things even more charming is that the house is an attached / double, with a common wall and all its modern QRM devices and mysteries on its other side. In the day, DX is impossible.
But two blocks west of here is a big field, some 300 feet wide and 500 feet long. There's a BPO lodge* in one corner. The big outside space even has a few benches, no doubt put there to entice and accomodate touring DXers who might sample some of the refreshments at the gin mill inside. I hauled a D-battery GE SR2 there a week ago at the exact midday, and can't recall the AM dial sounding that clear for decades. The 11:58 (really) noon lunch whistle then went off from water tower southeast of town, and I had to go home and take BP meds.
The setting is likely to be a bit inconvenient on say, a balmy 4 degree overnight in February. But I'll be back in the daytimes for a while, as I need maybe 3 AM stations to complete eastern Pennsylvania.

* If there are any questions raised, I'll cheerfully bring up a memory of the Lodge being busted a few years ago for illegal gambling. AnyBPO uncertainty check of my credentials might get me a few more TOH IDs. ' <<

Reminds me a little of when I was going to London every year. The Grosvenor Square Marriott where I stayed on most trips was RELATIVELY noise free for a big city hotel. But the open square itself across from the hotel opened up my Realistic DX-75 like an audio Christmas tree. Daytime MW DX from four countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands and Ireland. (The latter actually on LW.) Lots of benches (of course, as you said, obviously put there for traveling DXers). Even complete with a lovely little neighborhood pub opposite one corner. The problem, of course, was when the notorious early spring British weather intervened. Which was rather often.

MarioMania · Jul 6, 2023

In Vallejo on my Sangean DT-400W

I'm on 700 have KALL, But I think KMBX didn't Power Down I'm hearing it mixing with KALL with Spanish

jim-satx · Jul 6, 2023

CADXER said:
Little tropo DX yesterday. Nothing spectacular, but at least it's something since E-skip has been absent around here.

89.3 WGNJ IL St. Joseph, 6/28 0741 religious talk
91.7 WBGL IL Champaign, 6/28 1044, gospel music
92.5 WREE IL Urbana, 6/28 0817 "Rewind 92.5"
94.5 WLRW IL Champaign, 6/28 0826 "Mix 94.5"
94.9 WYNG IL Mt. Carmel, 6/28 1052, K-Love
96.1 WQQB IL Rantoul, 6/28 0832, "Q96"
97.5 WHMS IL Champaign, 6/28 0835, soft rock
100.9 WHPO IL Hoopestown, 6/28 0907, talk
104.9 WAXI IN Rockville, 6/28 0945, "Super Hits 104.9"
105.3 WJLT IN Evansville, 6/28 1000

QTH: Wood Dale, IL
Sangean HDT-20
Radio Shack FM outdoor antenna

Here in San Antonio it's also been a poor year for FM e-skip - the worst that I can remember since I seriously got into it nine years ago. The openings here this spring/summer have been few and far between, and for the most part (a great opening to SE Mexico and NW Central America on June 10 excepted), those openings have been weak and short-lived.

Still, I've had some interesting new non-Es loggings on FM during the last few weeks:

June 23 at 06:17 - 97.7 "La Jefa" in Nuevo Laredo - tropo - a pirate station playing regional Mexican music w/brand IDs (heard in null of semi-local KZAR) - unknown power, 154 miles
June 28 at 07:28 - 99.7 XHPL "FM Globo" in Ciudad Acuña - tropo - playing Spanish and English soft pop w/brand IDs (a difficult DX frequency because of IBOC hash from local 99.5 KISS) - 3 kW, 142 miles
June 30 at 15:59 - 91.1 WKES in Lakeland, FLD - meteor scatter - 4-second ping with "...here on WKES Lakeland" - 100 kW, 1,007 miles
July 2 at 13:35 - 95.3 KBBN in Broken Bow, NE - meteor scatter - 5-second ping with a "KBBN" ID followed by a drum intro to a rock song - 30 kW, 819 miles

Receptions were made on my SPARC SHD-T750 table radio with supplied wire dipole at six feet except 97.7 "La Jefa," which I heard on my Tecsun PL-390 portable.

pclover · Jul 6, 2023

jim-satx said:
Here in San Antonio it's also been a poor year for FM e-skip - the worst that I can remember since I seriously got into it nine years ago. The openings here this spring/summer have been few and far between, and for the most part (a great opening to SE Mexico and NW Central America on June 10 excepted), those openings have been weak and short-lived.

Still, I've had some interesting new non-Es loggings on FM during the last few weeks:

June 23 at 06:17 - 97.7 "La Jefa" in Nuevo Laredo - tropo - a pirate station playing regional Mexican music w/brand IDs (heard in null of semi-local KZAR) - unknown power, 154 miles

June 28 at 07:28 - 99.7 XHPL "FM Globo" in Ciudad Acuña - tropo - playing Spanish and English soft pop w/brand IDs (a difficult DX frequency because of IBOC hash from local 99.5 KISS) - 3 kW, 142 miles

June 30 at 15:59 - 91.1 WKES in Lakeland, FLD - meteor scatter - 4-second ping with "...here on WKES Lakeland" - 100 kW, 1,007 miles

July 2 at 13:35 - 95.3 KBBN in Broken Bow, NE - meteor scatter - 5-second ping with a "KBBN" ID followed by a drum intro to a rock song - 30 kW, 819 miles

Receptions were made on my SPARC SHD-T750 table radio with supplied wire dipole at six feet except 97.7 "La Jefa," which I heard on my Tecsun PL-390 portable.

Hopefully you get some more.

It's been good out west this year. Many re-logs and new logs as well.

crainbebo · Jul 9, 2023

A small Es opening yesterday marking the first logged Es since the Montana trip. One new log and one relog, around 3PM PT.

88.3 KBJQ Bronson, KS; with AFR ID (also heard TOH ID but wasn't recording - "88.3 KBJQ Bronson"). NEW #782, 36KW at 1431 miles. Nice long skip, but it wasn't strong. Another station in there with hymns and religious music, probably KYFW Wichita, along with a 92.3 with sports talk, probably Wichita too.
89.3 KCUR Kansas City, MO; with NPR news and ID for KCUR-HD. Relog, 100KW at 1425 miles.
94.1 KFKF Kansas City, KS; 'That Ain't No Way to Go' Brooks & Dunn // stream, at same time as KCUR. Relog, 100KW at 1425 miles.

I do have some audio from this opening plus from the 6/22 opening I heard east of Othello WA to the same area, much stronger and an MUF around 100mhz.