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AM Frequency of the week: 1230

CADXER said:
Nice. Always great to hear a new station. Out of curiosity, do you keep a log of stations received?
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Only in my head. Looking back, I now wish I had kept written records. That's why when we do "Frequency of the Week" threads, someone will post hearing a given station from somewhere, it will jog my memory, and I'll jump in and say "I've heard that one".

But another part of that is, as often as not, I'll be DXing at a location where I'm unable to write things down. For example, I'm a light sleeper. So sometimes I'll wake up and turn on one of two radios I keep on the night stand by the bed (ATS-505 or SRF-37). I'll usually listen for about a half hour or hour then go back to sleep.
 
Heh, I'm the same way, cyberdad. I know I should keep better logs, but… I'm lazy.

I can remember a lot of the more memorable DX from years past even without a log. Where it gets confusing is going way, way back to the 90's, or pinpointing when exactly I heard something odd on AM or shortwave.
 
Did I imagine that there once was a 1230 in Southern Lower Michigan (maybe Hillsdale?). Seems I used to get it in Fort Wayne and not WSAL, Logansport. I have slept since the 1990s but just curious.
 
radioman148 said:
Same here. I kept DX logs back in the early 60s. Sure wish I had kept them
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Man, I can imagine how impressive DX logs would have been in the 50’s and 60’s when “clear channel” stations were just that, CLEAR! I can imagine how cool it would be to be in say LA or San Francisco and able to hear WGN, WBBM, WLS, WMAQ on a nightly basis and vice-versa with KNX, KFI, KNBR, KGO, etc... coming in clear in Chicago. Back in those days, I know Chicago clears could be heard Coast-to-Coast, but could New York stations be heard out west and vice-versa with west coast stations in New York?
 
asugeorge1 said:
Man, I can imagine how impressive DX logs would have been in the 50’s and 60’s when “clear channel” stations were just that, CLEAR! I can imagine how cool it would be to be in say LA or San Francisco and able to hear WGN, WBBM, WLS, WMAQ on a nightly basis and vice-versa with KNX, KFI, KNBR, KGO, etc... coming in clear in Chicago. Back in those days, I know Chicago clears could be heard Coast-to-Coast, but could New York stations be heard out west and vice-versa with west coast stations in New York?
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The clear channels were not really clear. But you had to wait until Sunday at local midnight for the US clears to go off... they all went down for maintenance then... so you could see what was on the frequencies.

From Ohio, 1000 yielded Brazil and New Zealand when KOMO and WCFL were off. 830 yielded Argentina (and only 5 kw) and KIKI in Honolulu at 250 watts. 870 brought Buenos Aires, 1140 brought Chile, 660 had Australia and Fairbanks while 780 had a 50 watt AFRTS station from Puerto Rico and a bigger one in the BVI. That's just a sample of what those clear channels could yield.

I heard 650, 690 (Canadian clear), 760, 830, 870, 1040 and 1210 from Hawaii... all with the lower 48 clears being off the air.

It was a cool time to DX, and the programming was fun to hear. Today, not.
 
cyberdad said:
Only in my head. Looking back, I now wish I had kept written records. That's why when we do "Frequency of the Week" threads, someone will post hearing a given station from somewhere, it will jog my memory, and I'll jump in and say "I've heard that one".

But another part of that is, as often as not, I'll be DXing at a location where I'm unable to write things down. For example, I'm a light sleeper. So sometimes I'll wake up and turn on one of two radios I keep on the night stand by the bed (ATS-505 or SRF-37). I'll usually listen for about a half hour or hour then go back to sleep.
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Interesting. For the first 2 years (1978-1979) of my DXing I did not keep written records of my catches, but I would send my reports to DX News and DX Chicago (the DX bulletin of CADX). From 1980 I started keeping a log of all my AM, SW and later FM/TV DX catches. Thanks to the above mentioned publications I was able to re-construct my logs for those first two years. Eventually, I entered all my data into Excel files, which makes it easy for me to create various reports. Probably the best thing I ever did.
 
asugeorge1 said:
Man, I can imagine how impressive DX logs would have been in the 50’s and 60’s when “clear channel” stations were just that, CLEAR! I can imagine how cool it would be to be in say LA or San Francisco and able to hear WGN, WBBM, WLS, WMAQ on a nightly basis and vice-versa with KNX, KFI, KNBR, KGO, etc... coming in clear in Chicago. Back in those days, I know Chicago clears could be heard Coast-to-Coast, but could New York stations be heard out west and vice-versa with west coast stations in New York?
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I never heard KGO in the midwest. WGY was always there and pretty strong. KGO was/is directional. I'm guessing if WGY was off David probably heard KGO.
 
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