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Strong tropo across the Gulf Coast now. I'm hearing 89.5 KLUX Robstown, TX mixing with XHRV Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas. There's also Big 93.9 KMXR Corpus Christi, 107.1 XHVTM Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and 102.5 XHRR Reynosa, Tamaulipas. On TV, I'm getting a good signal on KIII 3 Corpus Christi which is on VHF 8. KIII is 519 mi away from Picayune, MS making it the most distant TV channel I've seen by far. KGBT, the Antenna TV affiliate in Harlingen is also in now.
 
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Heard pirate "B Side Radio" on 6935khz at 0230UTC Oct 16th in McGrath, Alaska. Based on other reports and where it was strongest, I think this pirate is in the upper midwest

Heres my video of reception of the station.. its audio from my radio fed directly into my phone, not held up to the radios speaker, BUT forewarning... i dont like how the iphone mixes the audio it gets... any signal with a bit of noise/fading, it screws with that.. so when you watch this video, imagine it a little less noisy and cleaner

 
cc333 said:
There's a new SDR in Ukiah, so I was checking it out.

As I was tuning around, I parked at 820 for awhile because I heard some sort of talking, which is difficult with the slop from KGO and whatever's on 830.
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830 is most likely WCCO Minneapolis, MN
 
2024-10-19, 8:39 PM:

I was poking around the Ukiah, CA SDR again, and I thought I'd check out 820 again, and after matching it to the stream, I can CONFIRM that it is in fact WBAP!

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Thanks! I'd been hoping for it for some time, but KGO is far too strong down in the SFBA for it to be practical. Up in Ukiah it's distant enough that it doesn't flood adjacent frequencies with slop.

I still can't "officially" call it my catch until I try it on one of my own radios, of course, but this is the next best thing, and I'm quite pleased. It's my first "W" station, too (it's technically kind of a cheat, though, as WBAP is an unusual, grandfathered station that got its letters during the earliest days of broadcast radio when the K/W boundary was significantly farther west than its present location, which put Texas in "W" territory).

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Latest DX has been interesting but nothing spectacular.

The Auroral conditions gave me KOGO 600 (a rarity here in my section of the Sea-Tac metro), XESURF 540 alone on the channel, KBZZ and KXBX on 1270, both playing rock-tinged classic hits (classic rock in the case of KBZZ, they IDed as "92.5 The Hawk"). KBZZ is a rarity, KXBX is uncommon. 1330 gave me KGRG-1, which is a local college alt-rock AM station that is apparently back on the air after a silent period. KLBS 1330 Los Banos was loud and clear at times with talk and music in Portuguese. KAZA Gilroy Calif on 1290 was pounding in for a while with Asian AC ballads. They're very rare here. I did hear KRVM Eugene with JPR programming, although it was in the background of the noise and faint KIT on 1280.

No Las Vegas, which was surprising, as usually the two or three Vegas stations show up if there are great conditions to the south (KMZQ 670 and KXNT 840). Ironically, during the Auroral conditions, XEPE 1700 was completely MIA, which was weird. KFSG 1680 was in OK -- that's normal. KBRE was in weakly on 1660 with Metallica. KQMS Redding on 1670 was in readably -- that's rare. No sign of KHPY Moreno Valley -- that's rare to not hear them at all. 1310 kHz was nothing but flutter (usually it's KLIX Twin Falls).

This was all on my Sangean PR-D4W and milk crate loop.

During the next morning I heard CRI in Hrvatska on 11825 with Chinese language lessons. The signal wasn't very readable, but the language lessons were apparent, and I did hear some Slavic talk by a woman around 1727 UTC (1023 am local). I don't recall hearing the Croation CRI service before. During the same time period that morning I also heard CRI in Russian to European Russia, with their 'Ni Hao' program ("Hello"). They were also playing Chinese AC ballads (which are actually quite good, as well as their instrumental music is quite good). That was on 11875. The Russian service was apparently transmitted from Urumchi, Xinjiang (western China).

All on my Grundig G2 off the whip, 16 Oct., UTC (the MW DX session the previous night was 15 Oct local, 16 Oct UTC).

It never ceases to amaze me how well some DSP portables can do off the whip.

A couple days later -- 17 Oct UTC at 0257 UTC, I heard the BBC in Dari, on 12095, beamed to Afghanistan from Oman. Then they switched to Pashto, with a faint mention of 'BBC programma'... this was on my little XHDATA D-328 with my indoor 25 ft wire clipped to the whip. The signal came in better on that radio than it did on my Panasonic RF-B45 (with the wire) or my Tecsun PL-398 (through wire or whip).

Once again, DSP radios can be little marvels. Some people laugh at them. But they can perform well.
 
cc333 said:
Unless something has changed, that should be "The Hog".


Considering KXBX operates at 97 Watts at night, it's pretty amazing that you could receive it!

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I didn't look up KBZZ's info, except the Wiki, which I merely glanced at, to doublecheck the format and FM. It sounded like "The Hawk", so that's how I wrote it in my logbook. I'll have to correct it later.... I don't have a big comprehensive list, I gave up on that a few years back during the minimum when MW DX sucked so bad. It's still not good considering the place in the Cycle, but it's the only Cycle we've got, so I'll take it. :)

I've heard KXBX mostly during Auroral conditions, or during those times that the reception to the South is really, really good. They pop up and then sink back beneath KAJO Grants Pass and KEDO Longview, normally.

Either way, it as a fun night of MW DXing.
 
boombox4 said:
I didn't look up KBZZ's info, except the Wiki, which I merely glanced at, to doublecheck the format and FM. It sounded like "The Hawk", so that's how I wrote it in my logbook. I'll have to correct it later.... I don't have a big comprehensive list, I gave up on that a few years back during the minimum when MW DX sucked so bad. It's still not good considering the place in the Cycle, but it's the only Cycle we've got, so I'll take it. :)

I've heard KXBX mostly during Auroral conditions, or during those times that the reception to the South is really, really good. They pop up and then sink back beneath KAJO Grants Pass and KEDO Longview, normally.

Either way, it as a fun night of MW DXing.
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I've heard KXBX up here, but more commonly, and somewhat well.. is KBZZ. Also regular hear the HI station on 1270
 
Goes to show that even a piddly 97 watts can reach pretty far if conditions are exceptionally good.

@SomeRadioGuy What is the lowest powered AM station you've heard, particularly high up on the dial (1600-1710)? I ask because I want to know if you could hear my (LEGAL!) 100mW Part 15 station on 1710; I can't even hear it 1000 feet away, but with conditions such as they are, maybe 1,000+ miles is possible for you up in AK, where normal rules don't seem to apply?

I mean, if 97 watts on 1270 works, why not .097 watts on 1710?

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Also this morning, I took a walk heard Go Country 1260 loud and clear at 6 to 7 going to Walmart,

Also heard KYET 1170 Golden Valley, AZ for a bit on my walk on my Sangean DT-200X
 
cc333 said:
Goes to show that even a piddly 97 watts can reach pretty far if conditions are exceptionally good.

@SomeRadioGuy What is the lowest powered AM station you've heard, particularly high up on the dial (1600-1710)? I ask because I want to know if you could hear my (LEGAL!) 100mW Part 15 station on 1710; I can't even hear it 1000 feet away, but with conditions such as they are, maybe 1,000+ miles is possible for you up in AK, where normal rules don't seem to apply?

I mean, if 97 watts on 1270 works, why not .097 watts on 1710?

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I've heard the 1 watt of KYET 1170 from AZ when i was in Wy.... and verified with the engineer it was 1 watt. He wouldve told me honestly if it hadnt been running night power.

100 mw in the broadcast broadcast band doesnt have enough oomph to travel far.

I've heard the 70 some odd watts of KGEN Tulare, CA on 1370 up here. I previously heard KGEN 94.5 in Wyoming.

Theres no real common send to say "if 97 watts on 1270 works, why not .097 on 1710".. that theory has no real basis in rea;lity because theres lots of differences between the two.

The farthest east i heard is St Catharines, ontario.

The farthest south I've heard is Peru and Mexico in in the "americas"

The farthest south worldwide ive heard is so far south that any further south and id come back up over the pole at myself... Tasmania, australia
 
I see.

Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense now that I read back.

Oh, well. It's mainly for my own enjoyment anyway, so if anyone else hears it, it's incidental and unintentional.

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SomeRadioGuy said:
“100 mw in the [AM] broadcast band doesn't have enough oomph to travel far.”
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that’s correct. 100 mW only travels a few miles line of sight at most with enough signal strength to be intelligible. the ionosphere is something like 50-600 miles in height from the earth’s surface, so the 100 mW signal won’t even reach the ionosphere to bounce back!

ground wave would be more likely over greater distances. under exceptional conditions, possibly 5 miles using Amplitude Modulation over high ground conductivity land and possibly a bit further over water assuming a clear frequency and a very sensitive receiver and large receiving antenna

And of course, using legal part 15 on the transmitting end (no more than the maximum 10 foot antenna per Part 15 rules or a combination of antenna and earth ground not exceeding 10 feet in length)

Digital modes of transmitting or sending Morse Code can effectively reach further, but then the listener at the receiving end would need to be equipped to decode these, which are usually Amateur Radio operators “Hams” or experimenters using “Medfer” (medium wave “AM”) or “Lowfer” (long wave) equipment

for more information on this, see lwca.net
 
I think I heard Start me up by the Rolling Stones on 1260 this morning then faded away right before 7:40am

I wasn't really paying attention, But I was on 1260 listening to Go Country for somereason
 


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