1030 WBZ DX reports

[radioman148]

In one of those rare daytime DX instances I heard WBZ around noon in northern Illinois around Christmas in the mid 70s.

 

[fybush]

From hearing all the various reports of daytime land catches, I'm starting to think that winter time DXing in those northern areas almost always involves some skywave activity no matter what time of day it is. When I first discovered DXing as a kid near Philly, I noticed I could sometimes get WKBW Buffalo in the daytime too, though not nearly as good as the night time signal.

Without a doubt, and especially on the higher end of the AM dial. Those frequencies exhibit quasi-shortwave characteristics anyway, and in winter months they're absolutely alive with short skywave all day long.

It's not at all uncommon here in Rochester NY, for instance, to have WQEW 1560 and WWRL 1600 in at high noon. I've had WQEW stop the scan on my car radio north of Toronto at noon in January. And pity those poor daytimers on 1520 and 1540 in New England, which have to contend with some amount of skywave all day long from powerhouses WWKB in Buffalo and WDCD in Albany.

 

[Len14043]

The poor ground conductivity really constricts WBZ during the day. They barely make it out of MA. Contrast that with KTWO in Casper WY, in that they blanket a good portion of that large state. Higher up the dial, KSL compares with the great Midwest giants such as WLW, WHAS and the Chicago clears in terms of coverage due to the fantastic ground conductivity in Utah. KNRS, 570 in Salt Lake City could be heard from Montana to Arizona during the day. If fact, I can't think of a station in the US that does better than KNRS's north to south coverage.

 

[vibe]

WBZ (and all the other Boston area 50kw and 5 kw stations) came in loud and clear when we visited Nova Scotia (Yarmouth) about 5 yrs ago. One can get WBZ reasonably well (on I-95) to about Savannah GA an hour or 2 before sunset in winter (paricularly on cloudy/hazy days) but not in summer.
FWIW the only AM station I can get on seek/scan during the day when driving along rt 30 about 20-25 mi NW of Brattleboro VT is BZ. That's about 100 mi as the crow flies from Hull.

 

[radioman148]

I wonder how how many miles the WBZ signal goes during the day along the coast into Canada?

 

[vibe]

I'm not sure if I understand the question but WBZ can be heard during the day along the Maine coast, at least 300 mi from Boston. The strong signal along the coast in Yarmouth NS (about 300-400 mi from Boston) was but a whisper a few miles inland but very few people live in the interior of Nova Scotia-too many damn mosquitoes I guess.

 

[radioman148]

I'm not sure if I understand the question but WBZ can be heard during the day along the Maine coast, at least 300 mi from Boston. The strong signal along the coast in Yarmouth NS (about 300-400 mi from Boston) was but a whisper a few miles inland but very few people live in the interior of Nova Scotia-too many damn mosquitoes I guess.

OK, that answers my question--thanks.

 

[gar hi]

Let's remember too the report of the hard core DXers picking up "most Boston stations" (their words) in Newfoundland. That's around 800 miles.

 

[radioman148]

Let's remember too the report of the hard core DXers picking up "most Boston stations" (their words) in Newfoundland. That's around 800 miles.

During the day?

 

[gar hi]

During the day.

http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/newfoundland_07rep.dx


I don't doubt it, being as I can get a fairly good signal from almost 500 miles with WWL right at the Gulf in the daytime.

 

[radioman148]

I believe it.

 

[BRNout]

I read that dx-log with great interest; however, I wonder what you can pick up in Newfoundland without having an expensive communications receiver and longwires strung up all over the coast. How would you do with a good portable? Now THAT would be interesting to find out.

By the way, thanks vibe for confirming that you can indeed pick up WBZ during the day in Yarmouth. I've always assumed so, but it's nice to see confirmation. Inland would be tough because the ground conductivity is murder there (as it is in Maine).

 

[gar hi]

I read that dx-log with great interest; however, I wonder what you can pick up in Newfoundland without having an expensive communications receiver and longwires strung up all over the coast. How would you do with a good portable? Now THAT would be interesting to find out.

Good point. They really didn't say how good the signal was. I'd think that if it was even a half way decent signal with all that equipment, one should be able to pick up something on a standard radio.

A while back in this forum, there was someone mentioning cab drivers in Bermuda listening to stations from New York (think it was New York) during the day. That's well over 700 miles.

 

[radioman148]

I read that dx-log with great interest; however, I wonder what you can pick up in Newfoundland without having an expensive communications receiver and longwires strung up all over the coast. How would you do with a good portable? Now THAT would be interesting to find out.

Good point. They really didn't say how good the signal was. I'd think that if it was even a half way decent signal with all that equipment, one should be able to pick up something on a standard radio.

A while back in this forum, there was someone mentioning cab drivers in Bermuda listening to stations from New York (think it was New York) during the day. That's well over 700 miles.

Yes I think WINS was the station.