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Doing some nighttime AM DXing from South Jersey

gar hi

gar hi

I'm settling in my hotel room in Cherry Hill and checking out the AM band on my Sangean PR-D5.

The big New York stations WFAN, WABC, and WCBS sound like I always remember them at night from 80 miles, good signals with a lot of rapid on and off scrambling due to the ground wave/sky wave combo.

WOR is being blown out by the Cuban(s) and it's been actually on top of WOR at times.

530 from Cuba sounds the same up here at night as it does down in Florida.

The big Chicago stations, WGN, WBBM, and WLS are coming in good like I always remember. No trace of WSCR, though. It sounds exactly as it does in Florida.

My biggest surprise is that I can null out WFIL almost completely and hear some sports station that gets listenable for brief times. It's not WQAM because I checked their stream online. Can't ID it as of yet.

Unfortunately, many frequencies are taken over by buzzing and all kinds of other weird noises that are the result of today's high technology.

Getting sleepy now but I hope to do a lot more listening in the coming days.
 
Perhaps it's WXBT in SC? They have 5KW at night.

-crainbebo
 
I hate buzzing on the AM Band Gar

2 Nights alo I was in the Living room going to listen to AM, There was buzzing on every Frequ
 
Gar...I'm wondering if your sports might have been CFOS. Basically Oldies, but they also have sports programming. WNSR, WHBQ, and WEBC are longshot possibilities. Less so, if one of those "forgot" to go to night pattern.
 
We got a coastal goodie of a sort here two nights ago, Gar.
WDAB 1580 Traveller's Rest SC.
Since it was 8:00 PM, there seems to be understandable skepticism that they were running on their 10-watt nighttime allotment. The ID * did * delight in mentioning 'Five thousand wants of power'.

They were in Spanish.
 
Isn't that (Cherry Hill) where some of RCA Broadcast was located? I spent a weekend in Maple Shade when I was in the Navy (about 1974). A friend's father worked for RCA.
 
kenglish said:
Isn't that (Cherry Hill) where some of RCA Broadcast was located?
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Some parts of RCA Broadcast (offices) were located in Cherry Hill, but the manufacturing and support of studio equipment was located in Camden, NJ across the river from Philadelphia.

TV transmit antennas and r-f filter hardware was made in Gibbsboro, NJ, SE of Camden.

AM, FM and TV transmitters were made in Meadowlands, PA, SW of Pittsburgh.

RF (RCA Broadcast Field Engineer. 1965-1980)
 
Wow. Interesting you mention RCA. My father worked for RCA in Camden in that old building during the 60s and early 70s.

He was a radio engineer. I remember his work bench down in the basement. He had all kinds of tubes, resistors, transistors, capacitors, etc.

I'll never forget when he first brought home a little container of Mercury. Back in those days, my brother and I had fun playing with it and even sometimes rolling it around in our hand.

Nowadays with all the paranoia about Mercury, a thermometer breaks inside a school and they evacuate the whole place. LOL
 
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