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daytime dxing

WHAM/1180 Rochester <- i heard them wed. night here in indiana not 100% great but understandable.

something i have noticed tho. i havent picked up 1190 WOWO up in ft wayne at night anymore down here in anderson,in ( im about 80miles south of ft wayne) not shure if its just the conditions as of late

i also have been picking up a C call from somewhere up in canada very weak (less then a S1 on the meter) 800Khz (might be CKLW not shure) but at night it gets trashed
 
You might be losing WOWO because WHAM spews an awful pair of IBOC sidebands.

The 800 Canadian station might be CKLW Windsor. Only 5kw at night, but I get them semi-regularly 400 miles away, in Virginia.
 
dxho said:
The 800 Canadian station might be CKLW Windsor. Only 5kw at night, but I get them semi-regularly 400 miles away, in Virginia.
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CKLW is 50kw at all times. They do change directional patterns at sunset.
 
Lawppy said:
I heard WDIC 1430 from Clinchco, VA at 11:00 AM on Wednesday. This was in Coldwater, MI, about 360 air miles away. There has been some awesome daytime DX lately!
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WTVB AM 1590 from Coldwater, MI was a regular early-morning catch in the Pittsburgh area
during the period when WZUM Carnegie was in mothballs. 282 airmiles on what was likely
5kw....not bad!
 
oddly enuff this am ( around 3am indiana time) i caught what appeared to be a russian counting station at 1710 using LSB. verry weak signal but able to make out it was counting.
 
You mention a 1710, I'll step down to 1700....XEKTT 1700 from Tecate, Mexico, in English (Broadcast Co. of the Americaas)....talk radio for San Diego and Southern California....

The interesting thing...they remain at 10,000 watts at night (DA-N), presumably because they are in Mexico?

I've heard the station at night from Seattle to New Mexico.

I don't know how far they could go in winter during the day. They are high on the dial, but the sun angle is lower. In Las Vegas, NV they start to fade in and out at 3pm, 2hr before local sunset time.

Any reports?
 
I have caught a few X stations up here in indiana. but normally they get drowned out by the "noise" if i could find my patch cable i would make a recording of am up here make 2 tapes 1 tapped at noon and the other at midnight... so there is something to put on my to do list.

but yea, yesterday i was able to hear one of those "counting stations" on 1710 Lower SideBand it was a russian counter.
 
From Englewood Beach FL (about 80 mi S of Tampa) I've Dx'd a number of X Stations 1 hr or so before sunset in winter from Ft Smith AK, the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, and Norfolk VA last winter. Those X stations in winter (and over salt water) really get out just before sunset.
 
ABQTom said:
XEKTT 1700 from Tecate, Mexico
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The interesting thing...they remain at 10,000 watts at night (DA-N), presumably because they are in Mexico?
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Actually it's that way because the U.S. set the precedent. Several AM X-banders in the U.S. don't have to reduce power at night (one in the NYC area, plus two on air and one CP in California). In each case the FCC allowed the exceptions since the stations either use directional patterns and/or they're located along or relatively close to a coastline. This had a bearing on the U.S. decision to give approval for the Mexican assignment on 1700, because it was a similar situation.

No reports from here (North Texas), although I'll keep trying. Even in parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area at night, local KKLF Richardson (with a tower well to the north) gets hammered by 880-watt KVNS from Brownsville TX. It recently switched back to oldies and has a monster skywave signal, sometimes hanging around for a couple of hours after local sunrise.
 
Today just before 11 am in Danvers MA, I heard the end of a Laura Ingraham hour on 1390. WPLM
Plymouth MA? Not them. I doubted it was WCAT from Burlington, VT, either. "This is real talk--
WFBL, Syracuse!" Some 328 miles away...then again Philly is about 340 miles away and I can get
WPHT in the daytime quite a bit. Even WWKB 1520 Buffalo.
 
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