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AM bandscan video 3-4-12

Great video. I've scanned in Vermillion myself a few times. I'd hazard a guess that 590 is WKZO, Kalamazoo MI but haven't looked up the pattern. CHYR has been off the air for years; you had Jimmy Swaggart's WJYM in Bowling Green/Perrysburg. Possibility you had daytime skywave from WFAN on 1660?
 
Thanks for the info on 730. I, too am beginning to wonder if 660 was in fact WFAN. I figured it was a daytimer somewhere with sports that was coming in but R/L only shows WFAN and WBHR in Minnesota that are sports on 660. Usually 660 during the day here brings in WMIC/Sandusky, MI with country. I'll do a nighttime bandscan this week.
 
Great video!

It's interesting how the big Chicago stations come in with listenable signals at more than 200 miles away.



If anyone else has a bandscan video go ahead and post it here.
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I did one a while back here in Tampa.

Since my camera at the time only had a one minute limit on video length for it's highest quality video, I had to scan much faster and break it into 2 parts.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoXM0C8e34


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jawM5FB0SSQ&feature=related


Note the many Cuban stations even in the daytime.


Then I did a nighttime bandscan and in order to get longer videos, I reduced the video quality and put it in 2 parts.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yukjYZNDjuI&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkO5KjevHOg&feature=related
 
Very nice video! Seems like there was some day-time skywave action going on there, especially if you were picking up WFAN all the way in Ohio.

I was surprised that the big Chicago stations were making it in with a pretty decent signal, especially WGN. Surprisingly, when you passed 890 AM, there wasn't much there. It seemed like there may have been a faint WLS in the background, but nothing like the strength of WSCR, WGN and WBBM (appears that WMVP doesn't stand a chance with WCCD blasting in). Your bandscan was probably further proof that the WLS signal has definitely degraded over the years.

Seems like your location is a good place to be for DXing, especially with those Canadian stations blasting in!
 
WLS' night signal to me hasn't degraded just from places where I have heard it in recent times. The ground wave seems to be worse than it used to be unless you go south of Chicago. In downstate Illinois all the way past St Louis WLS still puts out a good daytime signal.
Even in the good old days I never found WLS to be strong going east during the day--at least not as strong as the other Chicago stations.
 
WLS has always been significantly less that far away. I have never known it to be different. It's the frequency, and also the fact that WSCR, WGN, and WBBM go over Lake Michigan. WLS goes over much less to none in that general direction. Canada and International Ground Conductitvity Maps show the Great Lakes to be 10 mmhos/m, compared to 8 mmhos/m on the M-3 Map. Large bodies of water are much more homogenous than any land mass, and conductivity measurements are more straightforward on them. I don't put much stock in the maps for land though. Scanning through, I thought Italy and Norway looked the most believable over land.

http://hamwaves.com/antennas/gnd-sigma/vlf_mf_ground_conductivity_atlas.pdf
 
Re the receiver-it LOOKED like a car radio (and a pretty good one) or was it something else? Very interesting-the GC out in Vermillion OH is certainly much better than here in New England.
NYC on daytime skywave seems not out of the question from OH.
 
Really cool, especially since it's here in the state. Thanks for putting that up. I have considered doing one here around Columbus.
It still astonishes me how many frequencies are affected by hash. WTVN, WTAM and even WXYT didn't surprise me much, but WLW's hash was obvious even though you're all the way across the state. I couldn't even hear WLW daytime when I visited my girlfriend's family in Conneaut last summer. The Chicago stations were not surprising given your location.
I also think what you were hearing on 1150 included weak signals from WIMA and the Canadian oldies station that gets down here sometimes. I've heard it under WIMA in western Ohio on occasion.
 
I enjoyed the video...On 620, the music underneath the noise (WTVN IBOC?) may be coming from WKHB near Pittsburgh and the Toronto 740 seems to be coming in with a decent signal into northern OH. Here in northern VA on days, I could hear a very weak, unlistenable WKHB which I have heard Polka music from it on Sunday afternoons.
 
ddsparxx said:
I enjoyed the video...On 620, the music underneath the noise (WTVN IBOC?) may be coming from WKHB near Pittsburgh and the Toronto 740 seems to be coming in with a decent signal into northern OH. Here in northern VA on days, I could hear a very weak, unlistenable WKHB which I have heard Polka music from it on Sunday afternoons.
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Could the noise coming from 620 also be WTMJ from Milwaukee, WI? I know they put out a decent signal that goes across the lake and makes it well into Indiana, but not sure about northwestern Ohio.
 
I don't think so, it sounded like music on 620, and I think WTMJ is a news/talk station, and I don't know if WTMJ could be heard in OH on days as it sends its signal toward north.
 
ddsparxx said:
I don't think so, it sounded like music on 620, and I think WTMJ is a news/talk station, and I don't know if WTMJ could be heard in OH on days as it sends its signal toward north.
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I've never heard it within 30 miles of the Ohio border in Indiana. Some of that might be WTVN's hash (which definitely was what was heard on 620 in the YouTube video) but yes, they don't pump as much signal to the southeast as in other directions.
 
vibe said:
Re the receiver-it LOOKED like a car radio (and a pretty good one) or was it something else? Very interesting-the GC out in Vermillion OH is certainly much better than here in New England.
NYC on daytime skywave seems not out of the question from OH.
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This was the car radio in my 2007 Buick LaCrosse. It seems to have good sensitivity and selectivity.
 
ddsparxx said:
I enjoyed the video...On 620, the music underneath the noise (WTVN IBOC?) may be coming from WKHB near Pittsburgh and the Toronto 740 seems to be coming in with a decent signal into northern OH. Here in northern VA on days, I could hear a very weak, unlistenable WKHB which I have heard Polka music from it on Sunday afternoons.
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I monitored 620 this morning for a bit and heard someone giving a phone number with a 412 area code which would suggest that it was WKHB/Irwin, PA.
 
borderblaster said:
You had WGN better that I did in the car last time I was in Vermillion, though I didn't get CIAO.
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I can get WGN regularly during the day as long as I'm away from sources of electrical noise...which means I have to basically be somewhere other than on US route 6 which is the main east-west route through town. Seems it's nothing but electrical noise on weaker AM stations there.
 
Nice scan! You'd probably get some really nice cross lake Canadian FM snags as well, eh? ;D

I'm surprised that Buffalo's WWKB is not blasting through on 1520, unless...you've caught it, during it's rather frequent dead-air time. :I

BTW, on 1500 you're probably hearing Detroit's WLQV. As for 1690, I don't hear anything on your video, but if it all sounds Greek to you...it's Toronto's CHTO. :D

~BG
 
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