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Dondd said:
Last night, picked up WJXL 1010 sports from Jacksonville Beach, FL, here in the Austin, Texas, area.

Thought it was a first catch for me, but looking at my spreadsheet, I've gotten it before.

Odd because KBBW, a Christian teaching station from Waco, usually comes in at an average level at night, but hasn't been so great lately.
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When KLAT Houston started signing off at sunset a few months ago I was surprised at how easily I could hear WJXL. They're supposedly directional away from me, out into the Atlantic. KBBW is always there as well, but it does seem they've been weaker lately. KBBW appears to have a null in my direction.
 
That station's signal isn't supposed to go even to Louisiana.

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wildthangjim said:
Over here in Houston, XEABC in the Mexico City area (Radio Canon) is usually the dominant station on 760, with WJR underneath. The other common Mexican station I hear is XEDGO in Durango, which I can sometimes hear in XEABC's null. I've never ID'd XERA here. I believe @jim-satx is more fluent in Spanish than I am and may have ID'd other Mexicans on this frequency or have some other ideas about what's possible in your area.

I have also heard KMTL in Arkansas with Spanish language programming around sunrise and sunset.
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I get XEABC but haven't gotten XERA yet, but am on the lookout.

Lately, have been trying to ID all the Mexican (and other Spanish) stations I can.
I set up a spreadsheet listing all the frequencies, when I caught them, status, web stream link, etc.
 
DXing tonight on the Weiser ID SDR (KA7U), on this Christmas Eve...
Lots of Christmas music all over the dial as always. KKOH-780 w/ Mannheim Steamroller, CBK-540, etc.
Hearing Mark Levin ranting away on 940. Likely KIXZ Amarillo TX. 730 is a mix of KSVN Ogden (Flea power!) and XESOS Agua Prieta SON. Strong KWKW-1330 Los Angeles.
Christmas country music on 1210 matches the stream for KGYN Guymon OK. Wasn't long ago that KGYN was a country station.
 
wildthangjim said:
Over here in Houston, XEABC in the Mexico City area (Radio Canon) is usually the dominant station on 760, with WJR underneath. The other common Mexican station I hear is XEDGO in Durango, which I can sometimes hear in XEABC's null. I've never ID'd XERA here. I believe @jim-satx is more fluent in Spanish than I am and may have ID'd other Mexicans on this frequency or have some other ideas about what's possible in your area.
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Although I have a local on this frequency (KTKR), I can null it enough at night to hear XEABC consistently. I’ve also heard XEDGO in Durango and XEZZ in Guadalajara once each. I’ve never heard XERA.
 
1340 KBBR North Bend/Coos Bay, OR at 812pm AK with mele kalikimaka and a "Jukebox Radio" mention

1240 KEJO Corvallis, OR with pretty good fade up of the tail end of OSU Beaver mens basketball from Honolulu at 822pm

Heard Dec 25 with TEF6686, big ass loop and DXE Preamp
 
Now (12/26, 12:38 a.m. CT) on 1460: KCLE Burleson, TX (Fort Worth), on 11 kW day power and pattern. Rolling into the upper midwest with ease.
 
Just after 11 PM Pacific in Northern CA: R. Enciclopedia coming quite well with some fading and occasional bursts of static, presumably from distant lightning strikes. .

Currently playing as of this post is some sort of harp music.

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For the first time, captured 880-ESPN from New York here in central Texas. Have been trying, but never got it. KRVN and a Spanish language station prevents it.
But, tonight, it came in very faintly. Heard "ESPN" and matched the basketball game with their online stream. Too bad couldn't get it when it was WCBS News.

Wanted to post in the AM Frequency of the Week: 880 thread, but that thread is closed.
 
12/26 21:43 CST 680 KC
Weak Hispanic station playing music, along with WPTF Raleigh, NC. There is a Hispanic religious station listed in St Petersburg, FL with 140 watts. However this station does not appear to be playing religious programs from what I can tell. Only other stations shown are a few in Argentina, and one in Guerrero, Mexico. Not likely to be one of them due to the distance. Scratching my head...
 
Dondd said:
For the first time, captured 880-ESPN from New York here in central Texas. Have been trying, but never got it. KRVN and a Spanish language station prevents it.
But, tonight, it came in very faintly. Heard "ESPN" and matched the basketball game with their online stream. Too bad couldn't get it when it was WCBS News.

Wanted to post in the AM Frequency of the Week: 880 thread, but that thread is closed.
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I believe old Frequency of the Week threads are closed, or at least were before the original host stopped doing them. Best to put DX Catches here.
 
Hardly DX, but a fun listen

Voice of America in Korean on 9800khz via Udon Thani., Thailand at 1910UTC Dec 28 with classical music! What makes it even more fun is the signal... 250KW transmitter power into a directional curtain antenna beamed at 21 degrees puts me dead center in the main lobe, 4000 miles away from their "Far east" service area.. signal is 105dbuv (s9+100) and I had my audio filter opened up to 8khz and it sounded glorious
 
860 KKOW Pittsburg KS came in tonight, briefly and weakly, here in Austin, Texas. Turned the radio on long enough to hear an ID.
Oddly, San Antonio's KONO 860 (are those the new call letters?) was nowhere to be found.
 
Dondd said:
860 KKOW Pittsburg KS came in tonight, briefly and weakly, here in Austin, Texas. Turned the radio on long enough to hear an ID.
Oddly, San Antonio's KONO 860 (are those the new call letters?) was nowhere to be found.
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Uh, no.. 860 San Antonio has been KONO for 94 years
 
Dondd said:
860 KKOW Pittsburg KS came in tonight, briefly and weakly, here in Austin, Texas. Turned the radio on long enough to hear an ID.
Oddly, San Antonio's KONO 860 (are those the new call letters?) was nowhere to be found.
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I've gotten KKOW a few times. I sent them an email and received a nice reply from one of their dj's. I like their format. CJBC is heard often.
 
12/29 12:00 CST 100.5 WFCX Apalachicola, FL "Beach Radio." Light rock mostly. 11.5 kW.
I've heard them weakly from my car, but never with the height advantage of this apartment. The PL-880 is doing a fine job. Yesterday and today getting much static on AM. We had some thunderstorms come through here early this morning. Also had a tornado threat, the same storm from Texas. The map app says 112 miles. Curious what I could hear with a TV antenna.

12:30 PM many without power west of me.
106.9 in Ft Walton Beach off the air.
Also 100.7 in Pensacola, FL.
 

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Again...
We have cycled through the FOTW WAY too many times. It's getting very old and tiring, at least in my opinion. Others disagree, and I acknowledge those...but let's use THIS thread for posting current or recent DX (AM or FM).

I received a couple of new stations via the Quadrantids meteor shower (meteor scatter) on Thursday afternoon, 1/2. The peak was early on Friday morning, which I was not around for as I was working a new job up in McCall (part-time restaurant work on Fri/Sat).

Stations heard: KXPT-97.1 Las Vegas NV (w/ Van Halen // playlist, stream) and KLLC-97.3 San Francisco CA (with RDS match). Both NEW to Cascade logs. I believe KXPT is new overall, anywhere; and KLLC has been heard in central WA before on Ms and maybe short Es as well. Both are in the 575-600 mi range from Cascade.

I am also hooking up a SERIOUS DX machine this week!! Yes, crainbebo is finally going to a serious FM antenna. I received a Stellar Labs 4-element antenna for Christmas from a DX friend in the Midwest!!! I'm just waiting on the SMA converter from Amazon so I can hook the coax to the converter which in turn will hook up to my TEF6686 (I can just unscrew the telescopic whip and put the coax/SMA converter on instead. I have a 5 or 6' mast that is held by 50 lbs. of pea gravel in a Home Depot bucket. That's where the antenna is going. This might change everything when it comes to FM DXing in this rural mountainous town. More tropo scatter, meteor scatter, and possibly unexpected E-skip catches this summer too!!
 


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