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Aurora noticed again tonight (11/15/13)

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Buckeyes2001

Was flipping around the AM dial about an hour ago and was noticing the following here in Vermilion, OH

570 - R. Reloj dominating and no WKBN
670 - WSCR wiped out by Cuban station
700 - WLW weaker than normal
710 - WOR wiped out by Cuban station
860 - Some station with HS basketball and no sign of CJBC

I'll check some other frequencies out. Anyone else noticing aurora conditions tonight?
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Was flipping around the AM dial about an hour ago and was noticing the following here in Vermilion, OH

570 - R. Reloj dominating and no WKBN
670 - WSCR wiped out by Cuban station
700 - WLW weaker than normal
710 - WOR wiped out by Cuban station
860 - Some station with HS basketball and no sign of CJBC

I'll check some other frequencies out. Anyone else noticing aurora conditions tonight?
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Interestly enough, at my latitude (27.73 north), the Cuban stations tonight are bad but no worse than usual; in fact I'm picking up WCBS with only a trace of Cuba (and that's rare to have WCBS on top) and on 890 the Cuban station is dominant but I can faintly hear WLS in the background. Not a trace of 670 or 720 out of Chicago.

Locally here, 570 is a local station and I'm in their lobe to the south but due to Cuban interference they have had temporary authorization going on several years doubling their power and even with that I can usually hear the Radio Reloj in the background, day and night!

I am receiving 650 WSM, and a very weak WBBM 789, 1100 WTAM is pretty much vacant tonight, no Cleveland or Cuba; WBT is fair and 1120 (KMOX) is coming in better than 1110 WBT which is usually not the case.


That's the report from just south of downtown St. Petersburg.

drt,
st. petersburg
 
I'm surprised you don't at least get ground wave from WKBN and CJBC at least part of the time. I'm getting WCKY quite strong at the high end of the band. Some fast fade outs but listenable on a very modest portable. I heard some fast fade outs on WWJ the other night.
 
Yeah, definitely auroral. I don't DX AM much anymore, with high static level in the house and lack of a a good radio. But in the past few minutes, I had WIOD-610 Miami dominating that freq, and Spanish talk on 680 which I think could be WAPA PR, was very dominant several minutes ago, now fighting the noise level. This is on a little Tecsun TL-390 portable, not bad for a little radio. Reception in Poughkeepsie, NY.
 
Normal eastern stuff like CBK 540 and CJWW 600 are completely gone tonight. Ditto CBW 990. Am hearing the Edmonton and Calgary AB stations just fine, but stuff is enhanced to the SE. Big TOH ID from 1240 KTIX-OR, 1340 KIHR-OR...

-crainbebo
 
Meant to post about this last night but didn't.
Here in Columbus, east-west propagation was awful. Anything from those two directions below 1000, which around here mostly means Chicago and New York, were nonexistent. WSB, WJR and Toronto's 740 and 860 were notable exceptions. WLW's groundwave was even stronger than usual, which should have been a tipoff.
The 530 from Cuba or wherever was much louder here than normal.
Once I got up to 1010 and beyond, reception was normal other than that WHAM was getting wiped out by the Radio Marti blocker.
 
710 Miami was making the trip to Michigan last night for an extended period of time with Miami Heat NBA play-by-play and numerous "Radio Mambi" IDs.

I was also hearing faint Spanish on 740 which I've never heard before. I never did ID it but I'm guessing it was one of the Mexican stations.
 
I specifically checked 710 and wasn't getting that here in Columbus. WLW's IBOC was wiping out everything. That usually doesn't happen at night until you're much farther down I-71 toward Cincinnati.
I remember several DXers on the old incarnation of this board, including the late MikeO, often mentioning that very weak Spanish QRM can be heard under KTRH's massive lobe over Houston at night (which is approximately 160K). I heard it myself about four years ago maybe 30 miles from KTRH's tower, but it was far too weak to identify AND the break in KTRH programming was too short.
 
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