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Another new FM log last night: KOPR 94.1 Butte MT w/ stream match to "Daughters" by John Mayer around 11:30PM. Dominate semi-local KBXL wiped out completely at times. NEW #217, 60KW at 204 miles.
 
radiofan2023 said:
1600 KUSH from Cushing, Oklahoma fading in and out last night - 5 kW days and .07 kW nights.
Also 1600 KGYM from Cedar Rapids, Iowa - 5 kW days and nights.
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Ive heard KGYM here under border blaster KVRI 1600 Blaine, WA (Vancouver, BC) 10kw into multi towers with 50kw ERP pointed right at me

I've heard stuff under KVRI but always thought it was the Oregon Public Broadcasting station on 1600 or the commercial talk station in OR but i never had enough to id it.

Last year, i finally ID'd KGYM. The KVRI ID is at 09 seconds into this clip then at a pause in KVRI audio at about 17 seconds, you hear a quick KGYM Cedar Rapids:

 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Ive heard KGYM here under border blaster KVRI 1600 Blaine, WA (Vancouver, BC) 10kw into multi towers with 50kw ERP pointed right at me

I've heard stuff under KVRI but always thought it was the Oregon Public Broadcasting station on 1600 or the commercial talk station in OR but i never had enough to id it.

Last year, i finally ID'd KGYM. The KVRI ID is at 09 seconds into this clip then at a pause in KVRI audio at about 17 seconds, you hear a quick KGYM Cedar Rapids:

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If Rob Norton (the owner of KGYM who unfortunately passed away) was still around, I imagine he would think that was so cool.
 
Mike in Destin said:
5/8 10PM CST 1470 KC KLCL Lake Charles, LA talk 500 watts 1 tower. Fair/good copy.

Latino music station, most likely XEHI
Northern Tamaulipas. Weak.

Less likely XEAI Mexico City.
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The Spanish station is likely XEAI. They're very common here in Houston, often the strongest station on the frequency. They play music in the evenings.

XEHI appears to have moved to FM. No sign of them in the daytime on the Brownsville SDR, ~100 miles away. I've not logged them from Houston, and they aren't listed in the IRCA Mexican Log.
 
wildthangjim said:
The Spanish station is likely XEAI. They're very common here in Houston, often the strongest station on the frequency. They play music in the evenings.

XEHI appears to have moved to FM. No sign of them in the daytime on the Brownsville SDR, ~100 miles away. I've not logged them from Houston, and they aren't listed in the IRCA Mexican Log.
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Thanks for that info!
 
wildthangjim said:
The Spanish station is likely XEAI. They're very common here in Houston, often the strongest station on the frequency. They play music in the evenings.

XEHI appears to have moved to FM. No sign of them in the daytime on the Brownsville SDR, ~100 miles away. I've not logged them from Houston, and they aren't listed in the IRCA Mexican Log.
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Here is a link to the IRCA log. https://www.worldradiohistory.com/A...IRCA-Foreign-Log/IRCA-Mexican-Log-2024-25.pdf

And MW DXers can join the eBulletin list from the IRCA for just $5 a year at International Radio Club of America

I was a founding member of the IRCA and was on its first Board of Directors, so I recommend the club!

Also worth looking at is the National Radio Club, https://nationalradioclub.org/
 
05418UTC Tue May 13th (918pm AK Mon May 12)

World Music Radio, 157000 Denmark
Signal was good enough to have soundhound eventually ID the song I was hearing as a Bob Marley tune. SINPO was about 35343, not bad considering theyre 300 watts into a 3 element antenna beamed at 180 degrees from the TX Site (due south!)

TEF6686 radio, big ass loop, preamp and antenna tuner
 
Kenosha, WI 10:00 PM CDT WCHT 600 Escanaba, MI. Listed as 570W day / 134W night, both pointed mostly away from me (north). Decent signal for about 10 minutes in WMT's null. 220 miles, almost all water path up Lake Michigan.
 
The Gulf has been incredibly active the last couple of days. I won't bore you with a list of catches, etc., but this is pretty spectacular - the radar image out of Corpus Christi this morning. There was no rain, hardly even any clouds in the sky. This is all ducting of the radar beams:

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Mike in Destin said:
Many parts of the west will experience a heatwave this week. Don't know if that affects the propagation. We'll get some of that too here.
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Your experiences may vary in other in other parts of the country, but particularly when I lived in Ohio and Indiana, heat waves with a lot of stagnant air (I'm talking air quality advisories) have brought their share of long distance tropo catches
 
Missed an Es opening last night around 11PM MT, band was open up to 100 MHz NE/KS/MO area. A DXer in Garland NE got the RDS from my 400 watt local 88.3, KGSY McCall (relays KTSY Boise with Christian Contemporary). %$@#! Albeit it was bedtime and I needed to get up at 6AM for work.

I will be installing a Rabbitears Autologger in the coming days, I have the software and I'm just waiting on the firmware from a ham operator back east. Next step after that: a full-fledged FM SDR that I can use remotely IN TANDEM with the autologger PLUS a 2-3TB external hard drive to record DX if I am able to. I'm working a lot this summer and probably moving out to Boise area or up towards north Idaho/western MT. I will definitely need to have recording capability because there's high potential to miss a few more Es openings this summer, potentially with an MUF to the top of FM or even 2 meters.

I did get some new stations on Saturday for the logbook. #1, KLRF-88.5 Milton Freewater OR with calls and mailing address (136 miles at 8.4KW). And then a nice meteor burst that lasted nearly a minute, resulting in KAZY-93.7 Cheyenne WY (620 mi at 25KW), with hard rock and RDS. UNIDs all over the band including a pop station on 93.9 that was very likely KSWN McCook.
There was Es noted at that time from OR/WA to CO/WY. The cloud remained over my head the ENTIRE opening and I was listening on 88.5/88.9 for fadeups. None at all. Murphy's Law moment indeed, $%&@!!
 
Mike in Destin said:
5/14 12:05 AM CST 1220 KC
unidentified station playing " Separate Ways"
Journey.
12:15 "Dust In The Wind" Kansas.
Weak copy.
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check online
KenoGuy said:
Kenosha, WI 10:00 PM CDT WCHT 600 Escanaba, MI. Listed as 570W day / 134W night, both pointed mostly away from me (north). Decent signal for about 10 minutes in WMT's null. 220 miles, almost all water path up Lake Michigan.
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heard WCHT Feb. 22 - 8:42p CT 0242 UTC
nice signal for the power. now if only I could hear WMAM 570 Marinette, WI again…I checked while WCHT was coming in strong, no luck.
 
5/16 9:30 AM CST dx is crazy here!
100.9 WALX " Alex-FM" Orrville,AL ( Selma)
"Larry Puckett Chevrolet "

WXJZ Gainsville,FL "The Beach" furthest heard to the east.

Heard a station id from Alexandria, LA

107.5 WAMJ Atlanta, GA

100.7 WMTX Tampa,FL "Mix 100.7"
 


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