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Beware. Strange things are happening...

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We're inching our way up the sunspot scale towards a 2012 peak, & I just read a small sunspot is presently causing a solar flair, good for the higher frequencies in shortwaves, but not so good of AM DXers. Solar flairs can play havoc with normally reliable nighttime AM signals.

I had noticed that the signal from 1140/WRVA was practically non-existant for long periods during sunrise and sunset these last couple of days, and I am thinking that the sunspot may have caused it. 860/CJBC was blasted last night.

Perhaps unrelated, I was listenting to WVEL/1140 in Pekin, IL at 10:30 this morning here in SW Ohio. Faded fast but had a strong signal while it lasted. Was listenting to 1120/KMOX most of the morning hours also. Neither of these stations are here daytimes under normal conditions. 1510/WLAC stayed long past sunrise also.

It was slightly foggy early on, and overcast much of the morning.
 
On the contrary, solar flares can be wonderful for DX. "Auroral conditions" can wipe out all of the northern signals (and their hash generating machines) and leave the band wide open for rare southern signals.

WLAC being up past sunrise isn't that unusual during the winter months, there are times in the dead of winter that the band never fully closes. I've received WBZ at high noon in Dayton, KXEL Waterloo IA in midday, WSB and WLAC blasting in in Indiana at 2pm. I pulled daytime reception of WCNW once from Lafayette, IN during the noon hour.

Had a few new things around 4pm today from the Dayton area. WWOL-780 Forest City NC over WBBM, a gospel station over WLS on 890, (WBAJ with 50kW from SC?). Also "Hudson Valley Oldies (WGNY Newburgh NY?) mentioning 1220 and 1490.
 
gr8oldies said:
On the contrary, solar flares can be wonderful for DX. "Auroral conditions" can wipe out all of the northern signals (and their hash generating machines) and leave the band wide open for rare southern signals.

WLAC being up past sunrise isn't that unusual during the winter months, there are times in the dead of winter that the band never fully closes. I've received WBZ at high noon in Dayton, KXEL Waterloo IA in midday, WSB and WLAC blasting in in Indiana at 2pm. I pulled daytime reception of WCNW once from Lafayette, IN during the noon hour.

Had a few new things around 4pm today from the Dayton area. WWOL-780 Forest City NC over WBBM, a gospel station over WLS on 890, (WBAJ with 50kW from SC?). Also "Hudson Valley Oldies (WGNY Newburgh NY?) mentioning 1220 and 1490.
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I guess I was painting too negative a picture of rising sunspot activity. I do agree that it adds another aspect to AM DX.

One downside is the fact that routine trans-Atlantic DX is diminished or eliminated for Mid-westerners like myself, so I’m trying to enjoy it while I can.

To the good side, it can open the possibility for my receiving more western and Southern signals.

BTW, I too have been receiving WWOL during SSS on my commute home.
 
Here in Anderson, IN i had WSB atlanta at High Noon on New years day one year. i heard Georgia Bulldogs football broadcast and i thought why was WJR airing Georgia Football. then i heard the WSB ID and i was like wtf. its not the middle of the night.
 
MikeStandardsFromIndiana said:
Here in Anderson, IN i had WSB atlanta at High Noon on New years day one year. i heard Georgia Bulldogs football broadcast and i thought why was WJR airing Georgia Football. then i heard the WSB ID and i was like wtf. its not the middle of the night.
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That is rare that low on the dial, although mid day skip on the high end of the dial in winter is not too unusual. Bet the Portage,IN station on 750 was diggin' that action.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
... although mid day skip on the high end of the dial in winter is not too unusual.
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My best was 4VEH 1035 from Cap Hatiene, Haiti, around noon in Deccember from Cleveland, OH in the early 60's. The "split" frequency made it possible, of course... and identification easy since that was the only Kreyole station on 1035 in the world.

During several near-noon CONELRAD tests, the empty US dial yielded several stations from Manitoba, both high and low band.
 
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