nightime dxing is very popular. anyone try daytime dxing? i think i may start after today. at 4:22 with the sun out on a cloudless day in louisville, ky i turned my radio on and picked up wtam out of cleveland. unlike a few days ago, it sounded like a dx station should sound like and i didn't pick up its digital feed.
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daytime dxing
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This time of year, with the low sun angle, it is quite possible for am signals to skip off the ionosphere as of it were early evening. It is a great time to try dxing at night. Also, tuning in at 4-4:30 pm EST, it is possible to pick up a few east coast stations from cities where the sun is setting or has just set. WBZ 1030 is such a station - unless there is a local daytimer in your area that shares the same frequency.
Naturally, it's best to dx on quiet frequencies first; then go for the harder signals that sneak in under others on the same channel. But, now is a great time to do daytime dxing.
Naturally, it's best to dx on quiet frequencies first; then go for the harder signals that sneak in under others on the same channel. But, now is a great time to do daytime dxing.
A few daytime stations I have DX'ed from El Cajon, CA, include:
680 KNBR San Francisco, CA
810 KGO San Francisco, CA
1530 KFBK Sacramento, CA
1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ
1680 KAVT Fresno, CA
These are stations that I normally don't hear in the daytime. (If the station even just barely puts in a hint of a signal on a semi-regular basis (at least 50% of the time from 3 hours after sunrise to 3 hours before sunset throughout the year), even if the audio is completely and totally unintelligible, it's disqualified from this list.)
I think there might be a couple others but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
680 KNBR San Francisco, CA
810 KGO San Francisco, CA
1530 KFBK Sacramento, CA
1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ
1680 KAVT Fresno, CA
These are stations that I normally don't hear in the daytime. (If the station even just barely puts in a hint of a signal on a semi-regular basis (at least 50% of the time from 3 hours after sunrise to 3 hours before sunset throughout the year), even if the audio is completely and totally unintelligible, it's disqualified from this list.)
I think there might be a couple others but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
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rbrucecarter5
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Christmas day was a great day to try it - a lot of the little brokered locals were off the air. I got KOA Denver - about 800 miles away - with little trouble. A lot of expanded band stuff, too.
I noticed that to0. I was trying out my new Christmas present, and I had New York, Boston, Hartford, and Windsor Ontario all day long. It may be that I'm using a CC Radio plus, but I definitely heard stations that I should only be hearing at night. I also wasn't getting any fadeout at all.
On Monday December 24 between 11:30am-12:30pm MST,
while driving on I-10 from Phoenix to Tucson, I picked up:
KFI 640 Los Angeles
KNBR 680 San Francisco
KKOB 770 Albuquerque
KGO 810 San Francisco
Plus this rather surprising entry:
KLO 1430 Ogden, UT (10kw, or 16kw if their CP is now on line.)
KLO was coming in better than 50-gallon KSL 1160 Salt Lake City,
however KSL was being splattered on by a local (KCKY 1150 Coolidge).
while driving on I-10 from Phoenix to Tucson, I picked up:
KFI 640 Los Angeles
KNBR 680 San Francisco
KKOB 770 Albuquerque
KGO 810 San Francisco
Plus this rather surprising entry:
KLO 1430 Ogden, UT (10kw, or 16kw if their CP is now on line.)
KLO was coming in better than 50-gallon KSL 1160 Salt Lake City,
however KSL was being splattered on by a local (KCKY 1150 Coolidge).
Daytime Dxing in southwestern Ohio can bring in: WJR-760 AM- in Detroit, WOWO-1190 AM- in Fort Wayne. There are also the AM stations in nearby cities like: Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville and Lexington.
Cincinnati Kid said:
Those are hardly tough stations to pull in no matter where you live in southwest Ohio. Granted WJR is tougher to hear the closer you get to Portsmouth and deep southern Ohio, and WOWO doesn't have the signal it used to, but it takes no special equipment to get any of the above stations in Cincinnati, Dayton, Hillsboro, et al.
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ABQTom
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For Sun Angles, here's a web site where you can set parameters for different locations. It's set on Flagstaff, AZ right now...
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/flagstaff-arizona.html
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/flagstaff-arizona.html
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adamgre
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I live in Toronto and in the past I can remember picking up 880 WCBS, 1030 WBZ, 1110 WTAM from cleveland and 1190 wowo from ft wayne....got these stations as early as 2:30pm
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ABQTom
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adamgre said:
In Seattle once on about Dec. 25th I got Bob Brinker's MONEYTALK w/ a loop antenna on Citadel's KGO N/T 810 at about 1pm PT. Driving on I-5, I've noted the daytime signal making it to about Grants Pass.
Any others with records out there?
AM 1510 in Las Vegas at 3pm is really weird - you'll here Bob Brinker (SA, SU) or Moe Ansari (M-F) for a few minutes, then a sports station in San Diego, then a religious station that I think is a daytimer in the Central Valley of CA, and then a station with Spanish standards. Alternating with each other. Then, Michael Savage of Citadel's KGA 1510 Spokane comes in after 345 (in December).
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FreddyE1977
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in Pittsburgh, common late-afternoon catches in the wintertime include WPHT 1210 Philadelphia, WHAM 1080 Rochester, NY, WBBR 1130 New York (stepping heavily on local WASP), WRFD 880 Columbus, OH, WQSN 1660 Kalamazoo, MI, WRVA 1140 Richmond, VA, WOWO before they go into their nighttime pattern, and WLW 700 Cincinnati. (you do not have to drive too far west out of town until WLW becomes a solid 24 x 7 x 365 signal)
Day time brings here
1130 KWKH
870 WWL [when our local daytimer is off]
530 out of Cuba or T&C
On Christmas Day i got 1170 KFAQ unusually clear for daytime
AM 600 ABC Affiliate [forgot the calls] Morning
1010 [forgot calls]
590 KLBJ Out of Austin [winter]
680 KKYX before they switch to night pattern
And thats all i remember at the moment
1130 KWKH
870 WWL [when our local daytimer is off]
530 out of Cuba or T&C
On Christmas Day i got 1170 KFAQ unusually clear for daytime
AM 600 ABC Affiliate [forgot the calls] Morning
1010 [forgot calls]
590 KLBJ Out of Austin [winter]
680 KKYX before they switch to night pattern
And thats all i remember at the moment
WPHT in Philly was skywaving in strongly as late as 9:30 AM today in the Boston west suburbs. Stronger than the fringes of the much closer NYC stations, which seemed to be coming in on their usual daytime groundwaves.
one time during the late spring time a few years ago in central indiana i had WFAN out of NYC as late as 9:30 am. Usually by Late spring time its been daylight for back when indiana still didnt use DST time durinf Summer time by at least 2 Hours
http://rob.luniac.com/
has a list of my MW DX catches. Any help with call letters would be appreciated. (scroll down)
Just some notes, while driving on 98 going to FWB, I hear the infamous RR during the day. Surprised 570 out of Tampa doesn't come in out here. (i can hear the CW)
-Rob
has a list of my MW DX catches. Any help with call letters would be appreciated. (scroll down)
Just some notes, while driving on 98 going to FWB, I hear the infamous RR during the day. Surprised 570 out of Tampa doesn't come in out here. (i can hear the CW)
-Rob
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