Another new Asian! 12/1/2018

[crainbebo]

Logged Yanbian-1206 early Friday morning, and now a new one to add to that:

702 - JOKB Japan, Kitami; fair at 0211 PT 12/1 OVER 700 domestics with man talking in Japanese // 693-JOAB, on the NHK-2 network. There are two NHK-2's on 702 khz, but the one in southern Japan (JOFB Hiroshima) won't be counted, because the Osaka big gun on 828 was too weak - 747-JOIB was as strong as a domestic, however! Kitami is on Hokkaido, the same island as JOIB. NEW #779, 10KW at 4,347 miles!! Conditions by sunrise were awful by the west coast DXers because a G1 geomagnetic storm has hit the Earth.

Also:
A 603, likely Seoul, was in weak audio. 738 also had weak audio, likely BEL2/Taiwan Fisheries.
1520 KOKC Oklahoma City with Coast to Coast under WA/OR...rare on 10KW STA!
1570 XERF Ciudad Acuna bonkers signal S9+20 at least...major splatter on KGAL-1580! SS Ranchera of course
1700 KKLF Richardson TX loud with SS music over XEPE, 2AM PT
1580 CKDO Oshawa ON w/ Christmas music, this is likely the one and not KKTS.
1340 KTFI Twin Falls ID w/ TOH ID 2AM PT
1220 CJRB Boissevain MB w/ ID, Classical Music
1100 with Coast to Coast AM repeat of a previous hour around 0215 PT, probably WTAM.

 

[jim-satx]

Congrats on another new Asian logging, Crainbebo. Keep up the great DXing work! Which radio/antenna were you using?

 

[crainbebo]

Grundig G5, 3 foot loop, as always. Same one that I took out to the local park several mornings in late October and heard KICY, KFQD and several new TPs.

 

[asugeorge1]

Any luck snagging some of the Chicago clear channels recently Crainbebo? Conditions seem to be good right now for east to west. I know it must be difficult at your location to snag WBBM with KKOH in your backyard in Reno and then with KDWN from Las Vegas, Nevada blocking WGN. WSCR must be tough too with KBOI being close by in Boise. Here in Phoenix, most of the Chicago clears are blocked by these west coast signals, but WGN is the one that pops up the most in my experience. WGN is able to overtake KDWN since they don’t throw a lot of their signal in this direction. WSCR should be easier as well, but there is a lot of signals fighting it out on 670 compared to the 2 or 3 on 720 and 780. Ah for the good old days when clear channels were actually clear from coast to coast!

 

[crainbebo]

WBBM comes in a few nights a week, WGN is sometimes audible under KDWN, but the main pest under is usually KFIR. WSCR is rarer and harder under KBOI, but heard once in a while. I also have WLS logged, but not recently (890 is a mess of KDXU, CJDC, KYWN etc) and a one-time log of WYLL 1160. No WMVP in my logbook, but KOMO's 100 miles away and WMVP obviously points away from PacNW.

 

[radioman148]

WBBM comes in a few nights a week, WGN is sometimes audible under KDWN, but the main pest under is usually KFIR. WSCR is rarer and harder under KBOI, but heard once in a while. I also have WLS logged, but not recently (890 is a mess of KDXU, CJDC, KYWN etc) and a one-time log of WYLL 1160. No WMVP in my logbook, but KOMO's 100 miles away and WMVP obviously points away from PacNW.

I'm impressed that you heard WYLL since they don't send much signal that way and KSL owns that part of the country.

 

[radioman148]

Ah for the good old days when clear channels were actually clear from coast to coast!

Those were great days. I'm glad I was able to be a DXer then.

 

[crainbebo]

I think they left their day pattern on, one night in 2013. Easily audible when KSL was phased. I was living in Monroe WA at that point.

 

[cyberdad]

I think they left their day pattern on, one night in 2013. Easily audible when KSL was phased. I was living in Monroe WA at that point.

WYLL's day pattern doesn't exactly favor your direction. either. I think it's the original WJJD directional pattern that goes back to when the station was WJJD. A daytimer that still had a "mild" null to protect KSL. Perhaps when you heard them, for some reason they were at 50kw ND.

Whatever. Anyway you slice it, however, it's still a very nice catch! congrats!