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Was browsing the AM band earlier tonight, and conditions are pretty lousy compared to even a few days ago.

Northern stations are pretty much MIA, but southern stations are coming in fairly well. Didn't listen long enough to pick out anything in particular aside from the Vietnamese station on 1480 from SoCal (I seem to be almost perfectly half way between that and KEJB in Eureka, which is also on 1480, so they tend to trade places fairly regularly depending on conditions).

Hopefully in a few months, I'll be moving back up to Lake County, where there's only a couple locals, and none are particularly powerful, so DXing should be easier and more fun.

c
 
Not much DX done lately, but last night was listening to XEG on 1050, when WWIC Scottsboro, AL faded in with country music and "radio WWIC" mention. Quickly faded out, but enough info to count it as a new station heard.
 
Picked up 104.7 WNOK FM from Columbia SC in Myrtle Beach, alongside adjacent local BOB FM 104.9. Usually K Love 89.7 and WCOS 97.5 are the Columbia stations heard when the winds favor that area, but they had company alongside the Big DM 101.3 from Sumter.
 
Last night again, conditions favored stations from south of me, and very little from the east. Chicago stations weaker than usual, no New York stations. No WTAM, WRVA or KYW, WJR weak and mixed with XEABC 760 from Mexico City. Also heard a bunch of other Mexico City stations including XEEP 1060, ZEQ 940, XEW 900. But no XEX (who knows). Strangely, I heard KCNC 740 from Texarkana, TX, supposedly running only 68 watts, but I did NOT hear powerhouses KRMG from Tulsa or KTRH Houston (the latter which I've never heard before here anyway) from the same region.
 
Try not to sprain yourself shaking heads in pity. But off the car radio in the local Boyer's quiet parking lot at 1:58 today I finally got to log 50,000 watt WNTP from Philly for the list.
Didn't hear the actual legal ID, but the gal doing the weather plugged it as being from 'Philadelphia's 990, The Answer'. I guess that'll do in this day and my age.
Same session, same parking spot, I automatically tried for the similar, unacceptably unlogged WTMR 800 from Camden. The audio I heard was of a male and a female tandemly doing what sounded like the start of a Rosary, in English. From school days I know those can be long, so I drove home, back into the noise of the town where I live.
Maybe tomorrow I'll park there again near the top of the hour. See, with the glitzy, flanged sound-bytes of slogans and translators being so universal today instead of call letters, the TOH has become the last vantage spot -- the most likely time -- at which to ID a station (if the ID is not that of some substandard dump buried in a ten-spot commercial break).
 
Either a first or secomd time catch for me.....

WZAM 970 Marquette, MI, 5:30 am CST,on top for about 15 minutes with a fair-good signal. Rock music, ads for local businesses, and a positive ID. About 300 miles north of me in Michigan's upper peninsula. Probably 5kw day power instead of 62 waatts night power (90 minutes befre my local sunrise.). Radio was C Crane Skywave.
 
Today around 5 PM Pacific, I'm tuning around at my usual location, and KSL is coming almost like a local, with some splatter from somewhere.

Reception is so good that the car radio recognized the HD signal. It only decoded the station ID, but from so far away, I'm impressed that it was received at all!

Aside from that, conditions seem to be favoring DX to the north, as KXBX is coming in again, surfacing above the mess of other stations every now and then ( (apparently they haven't gone to night power yet), and KEJB is booming in too.

I'll keep scanning and see what else comes up.

EDIT: buried underneath the obnoxious splatter of KEAR 610, I have found KOGO 600 from San Diego. That's a new one that I haven't heard before (to be honest, I never bothered to try because KEAR's splatter is so terrible).

EDIT2: Another new one: KALL 700.

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cc333 said:
Was browsing the AM band earlier tonight, and conditions are pretty lousy compared to even a few days ago.

Northern stations are pretty much MIA, but southern stations are coming in fairly well. Didn't listen long enough to pick out anything in particular aside from the Vietnamese station on 1480 from SoCal (I seem to be almost perfectly half way between that and KEJB in Eureka, which is also on 1480, so they tend to trade places fairly regularly depending on conditions).

Hopefully in a few months, I'll be moving back up to Lake County, where there's only a couple locals, and none are particularly powerful, so DXing should be easier and more fun.

c
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Presumably you can't hear KYOS since night power went from 5 kW DA-N to just 75 Watts. Can't hear it in SoCal anymore either.
 
TomásEstefan said:
Presumably you can't hear KYOS since night power went from 5 kW DA-N to just 75 Watts. Can't hear it in SoCal anymore either.
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The other 1480, KEJB Eureka is quite regular at night with 1KW ND up here. .and quite good at times.
 
The best eastern conditions in some time.
780 WBBM massive signal with Old Time Radio
670 WSCR CBS Sports Radio IDed with KBOI nulled out.
640 Weak Cuba / Progreso under KFI
740 KNFL Fargo in null of KCBS with ESPN Radio
680 CJOB Winnipeg outdoing KNBR at times
 
crainbebo said:
The best eastern conditions in some time.
780 WBBM massive signal with Old Time Radio
670 WSCR CBS Sports Radio IDed with KBOI nulled out.
640 Weak Cuba / Progreso under KFI
740 KNFL Fargo in null of KCBS with ESPN Radio
680 CJOB Winnipeg outdoing KNBR at times
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That’s quite a haul in Yakima, and it’s early.
 
tvnut said:
That’s quite a haul in Yakima, and it’s early.
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Oh, WBBM is easy, but it hasn't been this strong lately with the solar disturbances. Need to go look at 1000 as WMVP is or has changed their pattern recently and they could make the trip under KNWN. WVON-1690 would also be nice, but sure, dream on.

Add 980 KSPZ Ammon ID (1KW, 470 mi.) to that list, not new but rare. KTCR-AM has been off the air lately, so 980 is wide open. Another UNID with Blondie 'Call Me' not matching KWSW (in Christmas music) or KDSJ in SD, also hearing CJME/CKNW. It may have been C2C bumper music, but it seemed too long to be that.
 
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WMVP would be an outstanding catch given their eastern pattern and KNWN in your lap. WVON? Maybe on a perfect early morning when they go back to 10 kW.
 
I've never heard WBBM here, mostly because of KNOM.. but I have heard KKOH under/over them at times

My Chicago log is 1160 and my only Detroit log is WWJ
 
More catches from last night
1660 KQWB West Fargo dominate with KBRE nulled, '2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, mornings at 5am on Bison 1660'. There may have been a third station buried. WQLR MI has been heard. I need KRZI Waco and especially KWOD in Kansas City.
810 unid with 'Since I Fell for You' Lenny Welch way under KGO and a late repeat of a college basketball game. I assume this is KLVZ Brighton CO on 430 watts night power.
720 WGN easy with KFIR nulled
1060 KGFX Pierre SD with ID, Johnny Paycheck 'Take This Job and Shove It,' etc.
1090 XEPRS in Tijuana running a 400hz tone continuously last night. Not sure if maintenance related OR if they forgot to switch to another satellite feed after a game. KBOZ and a weak KPTR noted underneath.
1210 KHAT Laramie 'New Country 96.7'
 
crainbebo said:
More catches from last night
1660 KQWB West Fargo dominate with KBRE nulled, '2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, mornings at 5am on Bison 1660'. There may have been a third station buried. WQLR MI has been heard. I need KRZI Waco and especially KWOD in Kansas City.
810 unid with 'Since I Fell for You' Lenny Welch way under KGO and a late repeat of a college basketball game. I assume this is KLVZ Brighton CO on 430 watts night power.
720 WGN easy with KFIR nulled
1060 KGFX Pierre SD with ID, Johnny Paycheck 'Take This Job and Shove It,' etc.
1090 XEPRS in Tijuana running a 400hz tone continuously last night. Not sure if maintenance related OR if they forgot to switch to another satellite feed after a game. KBOZ and a weak KPTR noted underneath.
1210 KHAT Laramie 'New Country 96.7'
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XEPRS used to be in here every night like a local on and off all night till they lost a tower. Now, its them and Seattle mixing. That sounds like they forgot to switch from one satellite feed to another.

I can see KHAT hasnt ceased night operation yet. They have a CP, as it were.. to do so.. and all they have to do is start shutting off the transmitter at night
 
An unexpected catch from last night, when I was seeing what I could get on 1010 at night in Denver. (More on that in next week's Frequency of the Week). At 8:59, I heard the end of a program, then a PSA for the Shelter Pet Project/Maddie's Fund and then the beginning of a TOH ID: "From deep in the heart of Texas, 105.9 FM in Waco, 101.3 FM in Temple, 94.3 in Round Rock, and all over [unintelligible] on 1010 AM...." and then it faded out. From the list of FM translators, I determined this was KBBW in Waco. It appears this station is mostly nulled toward Denver though there also appear to be a couple of small "backdoor" lobes to the NW of Waco that I might have been picking up.

Receiver was a Digitech AR-1780 using a bandwidth of 3 kHz.
 
crainbebo said:
810 unid with 'Since I Fell for You' Lenny Welch way under KGO and a late repeat of a college basketball game. I assume this is KLVZ Brighton CO on 430 watts night power.
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The music sounds like something KLVZ would do. It identifies on-air as "Legends 95.3".
 
I dont post here much anymore, because ive moved over to solely doing HF/SW DXing due to work and scheduling and etc........The stuff i hear up here on HF is uh-may-zing.... shocks even some broadcast engineers a bit.

My most common, regular catch.. and favorite station is Radio Nacional Amazonias on 11780 with 100kw from brazil...... quite regularly it just slams in here like a ton of bricks and than some. And to think.. im over 5000km away from their target area.
 


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