XETNT from Los Mochis has been off the air for some time, because its continuity operation was cancelled and it handed over the frequency.
You may have heard XEHEEP-AM, the only AM station in Hermosillo.
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AM Frequency of the Week: 650
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You may have heard XEHEEP-AM, the only AM station in Hermosillo.
Thanks @exbloguero, I last logged XETNT in 2021.
Seattle Tacoma metro.
Days, static or a very grainy CISL, Vancouver BC.
Nights, mostly KSTE Sacramento, with CKOM or CISL, or both. I've heard WSM a long, long time ago, at least twice. That was before there were a lot of the other stations on the air. I have logged KMTI Manti UT once at least.
Looking at my archaic log listing, I also heard KYAK Anchorage once, a few decades ago, and also KORL, Honolulu (on a DX-160 and 70 ft outdoor wire)
Days, static or a very grainy CISL, Vancouver BC.
Nights, mostly KSTE Sacramento, with CKOM or CISL, or both. I've heard WSM a long, long time ago, at least twice. That was before there were a lot of the other stations on the air. I have logged KMTI Manti UT once at least.
Looking at my archaic log listing, I also heard KYAK Anchorage once, a few decades ago, and also KORL, Honolulu (on a DX-160 and 70 ft outdoor wire)
From NW San Antonio:
Day: Away from RFI sources (i.e., outside my house) and using a very sensitive radio, I can hear a weak KIKK in Pasadena, TX.
Sunset: WSM comes up and mixes with KIKK, taking over before the latter signs off. It can be nulled fairly well if I aim NW/SE. When propagation is very good, I'll hear KGAB in Orchard Valley, WY, in the null with a listenable signal before it drops to night power.
Night: WSM has a good signal with occasional brief fades. In the null, a weak Radio Progreso in Cuba can occasionally be heard. More rarely, a very weak XEVG "Radio FĆ³rmula" in MĆ©rida will appear for a bit.
Sunrise: In the WSM null, KGAB and XEVG are heard more often but still briefly. Meanwhile, WSM still dominates until skywave disappears, by which time KIKK is back on the air.
DX/Retro: I've heard CKOM in Saskatoon a few times at night but not recently. Retired stations I've logged in past years include XEEJ "La Patrona FM" in Puerta Vallarta and XETNT "Radio 65" in Los Mochis. Also, I've heard XEPX "La Voz del Ćngel" in Puerto Ćngel a few times at sunrise, but it's currently silent per the latest IRCA Mexican Log.
Day: Away from RFI sources (i.e., outside my house) and using a very sensitive radio, I can hear a weak KIKK in Pasadena, TX.
Sunset: WSM comes up and mixes with KIKK, taking over before the latter signs off. It can be nulled fairly well if I aim NW/SE. When propagation is very good, I'll hear KGAB in Orchard Valley, WY, in the null with a listenable signal before it drops to night power.
Night: WSM has a good signal with occasional brief fades. In the null, a weak Radio Progreso in Cuba can occasionally be heard. More rarely, a very weak XEVG "Radio FĆ³rmula" in MĆ©rida will appear for a bit.
Sunrise: In the WSM null, KGAB and XEVG are heard more often but still briefly. Meanwhile, WSM still dominates until skywave disappears, by which time KIKK is back on the air.
DX/Retro: I've heard CKOM in Saskatoon a few times at night but not recently. Retired stations I've logged in past years include XEEJ "La Patrona FM" in Puerta Vallarta and XETNT "Radio 65" in Los Mochis. Also, I've heard XEPX "La Voz del Ćngel" in Puerto Ćngel a few times at sunrise, but it's currently silent per the latest IRCA Mexican Log.
Capital Xtra 96.9 is a 30-watt signal for South London (and has a second signal at 100 watts for North London at 107.1). London Greek is similar, 200 watts to cover part of North London with a Greek population.
The "main" London signals are 2-3kW each from an elevated site in South London. They aren't very exciting, just signals for national network stations, and most of the interesting radio activity in London and the rest of the UK is on DAB these days. With a DAB radio in London, you get all sorts of interesting formats and languages; with an FM radio, variations on CHR and AC (along with a dwindling number of pirates, mostly Black music or Turkish).
Back on topic, 648 is from a site right on the east coast of England, facing the Netherlands. As with a lot of AM, it crosses the sea path a lot better than it gets inland.
As an aside, 107.1 is from an interesting transmitter tower, Alexandra Palace - the site of the world's first regular TV transmissions.
Now that I'm back in Colorado, I wanted to amend this: nighttimes are a weak WSM. Never very strong, and it fades in and out.
Apologies for being a bit off-topic, but between the Netherlands and the UK, I came to the conclusion that traditional OTA broadcasts aren't very interesting in either country. Caroline is actually an exception but the exception doesn't do me much good if I can't receive it. I found what seems to be a fairly decent used Sony DAB unit up for sale on eBay and it's now on its way to me. The price was right, and it uses standard alkaline batteries so I can just squeeze it into a suitcase for travel. Too late for this trip, but there will be others.
I have a portable FM/DAB Sony (XDR-S41D) that I take with me to places. It's okay, it could be slightly more sensitive, but it's fine for listening to the local selection if I travel to a new area and has a reasonable user interface. I have my car radio if I want to do any DX - the receiver in the 2023 Toyota Yaris is a DX monster, it gets low-powered DAB signals from miles away.
During my first phase of DXing back when I was in junior high school, I had that exact same setup: DX-160 with a 70-foot outdoor wire. I really enjoyed using that radio.
DX-160's are actually good DX radios, mainly on the MW band.
Central Kentucky:
Days: A weak WSM. Outside with my GE SR III I can get a listenable signal, a little noisy but tolerable. I'll listen to it if I'm outside doing yard work.
If I go 50 miles south, it's like a local.
Nights: A solid WSM. I've never heard anything else on this frequency here.
Days: A weak WSM. Outside with my GE SR III I can get a listenable signal, a little noisy but tolerable. I'll listen to it if I'm outside doing yard work.
If I go 50 miles south, it's like a local.
Nights: A solid WSM. I've never heard anything else on this frequency here.
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...
WSM Nashville, the Air Castle of the South, was the first station I DXed, back in 1969, when I was playing with the new six-band Realistic I'd received for a birthday and discovered this unknown NBC station between WTMJ (a regular in Chicago) and WMAQ. And the fun began. Evan caught WSM once on mid-winter DX at noon for a few minutes.
Only once has something else been heard on 650: CKOM Saskatoon on 1/6/2019 at 2:40 a.m., when conditions were topsy-turvy and the Air Castle was nulled for a few minutes.
WSM Nashville, the Air Castle of the South, was the first station I DXed, back in 1969, when I was playing with the new six-band Realistic I'd received for a birthday and discovered this unknown NBC station between WTMJ (a regular in Chicago) and WMAQ. And the fun began. Evan caught WSM once on mid-winter DX at noon for a few minutes.
Only once has something else been heard on 650: CKOM Saskatoon on 1/6/2019 at 2:40 a.m., when conditions were topsy-turvy and the Air Castle was nulled for a few minutes.
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