Coast to coast NEW AM log! 10/8/23

[crainbebo]

Thanks to Bell shutting off CKMX for good back in May...I finally heard my most-wanted 1060, straight from the east coast!

1060 - KYW PA, Philadelphia; with mention of the Audacy app, "as KYW's (reporter name) reports...", 'NewsRadio 103.9 and 1060' mixed with KGFX and multiple others at 2345-47 PT 10/8/23. NEW #831, 50KW at 2,290 miles! Anyone out west who would love to experience coast-to-coast AM DX...this is your best bet now!
Recording will be posted this week.

If KYW is possible, I wonder if WCBS or WBZ is next?

 

[CentralFL]

That's a great catch, KYW is difficult to get in Florida. Amazing.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Thanks to Bell shutting off CKMX for good back in May...I finally heard my most-wanted 1060, straight from the east coast!

1060 - KYW PA, Philadelphia; with mention of the Audacy app, "as KYW's (reporter name) reports...", 'NewsRadio 103.9 and 1060' mixed with KGFX and multiple others at 2345-47 PT 10/8/23. NEW #831, 50KW at 2,290 miles! Anyone out west who would love to experience coast-to-coast AM DX...this is your best bet now!
Recording will be posted this week.

If KYW is possible, I wonder if WCBS or WBZ is next?

You'd think WCBS or WBZ would've been my farthest east North American AM logs since both channels are pretty empty up here?

Nope. CFAJ 1220 is.

Though, I'd heard WBZ several times just 110 miles south of KTWO

 

[Larry]

Thanks to Bell shutting off CKMX for good back in May...I finally heard my most-wanted 1060, straight from the east coast!

Interesting. I’d guess your reception of KYW 1060 might be better than the reception in parts of Philadelphia and the Philly area!

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Interesting. I’d guess your reception of KYW 1060 might be better than the reception in parts of Philadelphia and the Philly area!

I suspect my reception of Radio Nacional Amazonias 11780 is better sometimes than some of its intended target in the amazon forest region.

I am in the damn perfect location for a 2nd/3rd hop and im more or less in the main lobe. I have friends in the deep southeast or far North new england who dont have reception as good as me

 

[crainbebo]

Here it is! KYW-1060 from last night. "As KYW's ??? reports" at 0:06, ID pops up again around 1:15. Voice recorder issue briefly around 1 min. in but rest of clip is fine.

KYW 1060 Philadelphia PA 10 8 23 2345 PT 2300mi!!

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[Gregg.]

While KYW 1060 is a Class A clear-channel station, it used to be a Class I-B because it is directional. It has to protect 1060 XEEP Mexico City to the southeast and WEPN 1050, a 50,000 watt NYC station, one channel and 90 miles away to the northeast.

Oddly, I have heard it at night, faintly, in New Hampshire. That's unusual because it has to jump OVER 1050 WEPN New York to get to New Hampshire. But it has no null against the west. Some folks on this board have said they get it fairly well almost every night in Ohio.

 

[cyberdad]

Thanks to Bell shutting off CKMX for good back in May...I finally heard my most-wanted 1060, straight from the east coast!

1060 - KYW PA, Philadelphia; with mention of the Audacy app, "as KYW's (reporter name) reports...", 'NewsRadio 103.9 and 1060' mixed with KGFX and multiple others at 2345-47 PT 10/8/23. NEW #831, 50KW at 2,290 miles! Anyone out west who would love to experience coast-to-coast AM DX...this is your best bet now!
Recording will be posted this week.

If KYW is possible, I wonder if WCBS or WBZ is next?

Nicely done. KYW is usually fairly strong here in the Chicago area. When I read your recent post about KYW being on your wanted list, I was pretty sure that you'd be able to catch it sooner or later. The same night pattern that is favorable for Chicago would seem to also be favorable for Washington State. Having CKMX off certainly can't hurt matters.

As for WBZ, I snagged them once on a clock radio in a Flagstaff Arizona hotel room. Complete with positive IDs. As a teenager! They're usually stronger here in the Chicago area than sister station KDK on 1020...which isn't exactly a weakling.

 

[cyberdad]

That's a great catch, KYW is difficult to get in Florida. Amazing.

I can't remember the last time I heard KYW in Florida. Lately, it's usually been XEEP (or whatever their call letters are now).

 

[CentralFL]

Just checked KYW is coming in right now - 10:00PM on Oct 11. I've noticed that your DX reception is so different from mine. You mentioned you get WABC frequently, here it is rare, probably less common than KYW which is a difficult catch itself.

 

[Mark Roberts]

As for WBZ, I snagged them once on a clock radio in a Flagstaff Arizona hotel room. Complete with positive IDs. As a teenager! They're usually stronger here in the Chicago area than sister station KDK on 1020...which isn't exactly a weakling.

I remember commuting in the 1990s on the Northwest Tollway near sunset in the winter, listening to WVNR (in Polish!) until it went off the air at local sunset. The very second WVNR dropped carrier, WBZ would come roaring in.

 

[cyberdad]

I remember commuting in the 1990s on the Northwest Tollway near sunset in the winter, listening to WVNR (in Polish!) until it went off the air at local sunset. The very second WVNR dropped carrier, WBZ would come roaring in.

Same here...and I'm only three miles from their stick(s)!

 

[MarioMania]

Wait I see WVNR on 1340 in Poultney, Vermont

Are we talking about WNVR on 1030?

 

[Mark Roberts]

Wait I see WVNR on 1340 in Poultney, Vermont

Are we talking about WNVR on 1030?

You are correct; I made a typo.

 

[cc333]

If KYW can be heard in Yakima, WA, it stands to reason that it could also be heard in Northern California if the conditions are right, yes?

Slop from KTCT on 1050 and, to a much lesser extent due to it's distance from the SFBA, KNX on 1070 make it somewhat hard, but it might be an interesting challenge.

c