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Dxing from Puerto Rico

Your 1000 could well be WVWI "Radio One" in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Y'oughta be hearing that in the day, too! Check TOH.

Good on WLS. I cannot hear it much anymore here, forthe Progreso Cuban.

cd
 
cd637299 said:
Your 1000 could well be WVWI "Radio One" in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Y'oughta be hearing that in the day, too! Check TOH.

Good on WLS. I cannot hear it much anymore here, forthe Progreso Cuban.

cd
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I've been getting WVWI everyday, but tonight there were a bunch on 1000. I figure with a good pipeline to the midwest going I should give MVP a try. The previous nights the Cuban on 890 was all over WLS, but not tonight. How much power does that 890 out of Cuba run?
 
Note, that this is my post #1000, talking about AM 1000....hmm.

Sure, try for WMVP if WVWI doesn't bombard you.

As far as 890 power, I think that I have seen 10 kW, but I doubt that anyone outside of Cuba knows for sure. The Cuba 890, if Radio Progreso, was the only Cuban I heard daytime in Bermuda with clear ID. The 790 Reloj might have been behind WNIS Norfolk, but I am not sure.

If I had to listen to Progreso in my car, I think I'd pick 890, despite their muffled-AM feed.

cd
 
radioman148 said:
BRNout who has DXed from here often, told me earlier in the week conditions vary nightly. How right he is.
Tonight I heard WLS not only for the first time on this trip, but it was the strongest Stateside on the dial. Clearly heard the last few minutes of Sean Hannity & then WLS' station break at 9PM CST (11PM here). After that I snagged WBBM for the first time also.
Not nearly as strong as WLS, but definitely in there.
With those two new ones & the usual WGN in the books I decided to go after WSCR & WMVP. 670 had two strong Spanish language
talkers so nothing doing there. There was a crowd on 1000 also, but I did detect a English language talker, but not long enough or strong enough to identify.
Then to top it off I got a good signal on WEFL 760 with the Miami Heat San Antonio game.
Several new ones tonight & most from the midwest. New York was not in there when I was listening.

You never know for sure from night to night what you may hear the best.
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I'm guessing WSCR doesn't get in much down there at all. Cuba still has a pretty powerful station on 670 that can be heard all the way up here in Ohio at night, around 300 miles from Chicago. It's not so powerful as to blot out 670 entirely these days, but it was many nights back in the 90s. Often there was no trace of then-WMAQ at all.
 
schmave said:
radioman148 said:
BRNout who has DXed from here often, told me earlier in the week conditions vary nightly. How right he is.
Tonight I heard WLS not only for the first time on this trip, but it was the strongest Stateside on the dial. Clearly heard the last few minutes of Sean Hannity & then WLS' station break at 9PM CST (11PM here). After that I snagged WBBM for the first time also.
Not nearly as strong as WLS, but definitely in there.
With those two new ones & the usual WGN in the books I decided to go after WSCR & WMVP. 670 had two strong Spanish language
talkers so nothing doing there. There was a crowd on 1000 also, but I did detect a English language talker, but not long enough or strong enough to identify.
Then to top it off I got a good signal on WEFL 760 with the Miami Heat San Antonio game.
Several new ones tonight & most from the midwest. New York was not in there when I was listening.

You never know for sure from night to night what you may hear the best.
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I'm guessing WSCR doesn't get in much down there at all. Cuba still has a pretty powerful station on 670 that can be heard all the way up here in Ohio at night, around 300 miles from Chicago. It's not so powerful as to blot out 670 entirely these days, but it was many nights back in the 90s. Often there was no trace of then-WMAQ at all.
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You're right Schmave. 670 was crowded with more than one Spanish speaking station. However, everynight this week when I tried for WLS the Cuban on 890 dominated except last night when WLS came in over it. That's what prompted me to check 670, besides the fact that the local 680 in San Juan was off the air.
 
Does anyone know if WABC carries Seton Hall basketball games? Here in San Juan tonight I heard a little bit of a Seton Hall game on 770, but couldn't stay with it long enough to get a station ID.
 
schmave said:
I'm guessing WSCR doesn't get in much down there at all. Cuba still has a pretty powerful station on 670 that can be heard all the way up here in Ohio at night, around 300 miles from Chicago. It's not so powerful as to blot out 670 entirely these days, but it was many nights back in the 90s. Often there was no trace of then-WMAQ at all.
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The Havana station on 670 was coming in really well here earlier this week around 2:00 a.m. in NE Illinois (when WSCR was off the air for transmitter maintenance or some other issue?) Very rare for WSCR to be completely off the air since I believe they have two backup tx's: 50kW and 5kW.
 
stormy01 said:
schmave said:
I'm guessing WSCR doesn't get in much down there at all. Cuba still has a pretty powerful station on 670 that can be heard all the way up here in Ohio at night, around 300 miles from Chicago. It's not so powerful as to blot out 670 entirely these days, but it was many nights back in the 90s. Often there was no trace of then-WMAQ at all.
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The Havana station on 670 was coming in really well here earlier this week around 2:00 a.m. in NE Illinois (when WSCR was off the air for transmitter maintenance or some other issue?) Very rare for WSCR to be completely off the air since I believe they have two backup tx's: 50kW and 5kW.
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Yeah I've heard it also in the Chicago area when WSCR has been down for whatever reason.
 
cd637299 said:
radioman148 said:
Does anyone know if WABC carries Seton Hall basketball games? Here in San Juan tonight I heard a little bit of a Seton Hall game on 770, but couldn't stay with it long enough to get a station ID.
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I was about to write "no" here, but.....

http://www.wabcradio.com/Article.asp?id=493498&spid=5825

Hasn't been updated for March, but we can glean from this......

cd
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Yeah it had to be because after the game I heard a talk show on WABC.
A new catch tonight--WFTL West Palm Beach with "On The Money" with Steven L Pomerantz. Very good signal for 20 solid minutes.
Then I heard "ESPN 1000", but not the one I was hoping for. Instead it was WVWI in the Virgin Islands. Apparently they carry ESPN on Saturdays--but how was I to know it wasn't ESPN Chicago. Caught WLS briefly at 8:30CST. Tomorrow will be my last day/night here.
 
Make the most of it, then!

WFTL boomed into Bermuda at night (as did WAXY 790 S. Miami) when I was there.

WFTL musta killed the 850 in Aguadilla PR.

Is there a slight chance to hear WOKV 690 Jacksonville? or is the Caribbean Beacon still there?

cd
 
cd637299 said:
However I know there is a 1560 in PR, so that might be a moot point.
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WRSJ is, of course, in the San Juan metro. If at the same site it was at last I was on route 2, in the Caparra section of metro San Juan, even the old 250 watt night signal covered the market moderately well. In about '73 I even heard and QSL'ed it in Scottsdale, AZ... the folded unipole got a really good signal out despite the sucky ground system.

For those who have not beeen there, Bayamón, Carolina and Guaynabo are to San Juan what Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens are to New York City. PR has no counties and no cities, just Municipalities which are kind of half way between.
 
cd637299 said:
Make the most of it, then!

WFTL boomed into Bermuda at night (as did WAXY 790 S. Miami) when I was there.

WFTL musta killed the 850 in Aguadilla PR.

Is there a slight chance to hear WOKV 690 Jacksonville? or is the Caribbean Beacon still there?

cd
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WFTL was so strong that I could hear it in my room and I didn't even have to be near the window. I didn't hear anything else on that frequency. I'll check 690 again tonight, but It's tough when WAPA is on. I'll check 790 too.
 
BTW: cd or anyone in SE Fla, does WFTL provide good groundwave coverage from Palm Beach down to Miami?
It looks on radio locator that they do plus 50K on 850 would lead me to believe they can get solid groundwave coverage all the way down to Miami.
 
radioman148 said:
BTW: cd or anyone in SE Fla, does WFTL provide good groundwave coverage from Palm Beach down to Miami?
It looks on radio locator that they do plus 50K on 850 would lead me to believe they can get solid groundwave coverage all the way down to Miami.
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WFTL has decent car-radio coverage down to Miami, but no further. My wife and I travel up US 27 on the way to Ocala often....the WFTL xmtr is close by Belle Glade, sending its signal east. AM 1700 is a harmonic of WFTL near there.

BTW I **faintly** got WFTL daytime in Bermuda under WTAR in VA, but hardly listenable!

cd
 
cd637299 said:
radioman148 said:
BTW: cd or anyone in SE Fla, does WFTL provide good groundwave coverage from Palm Beach down to Miami?
It looks on radio locator that they do plus 50K on 850 would lead me to believe they can get solid groundwave coverage all the way down to Miami.
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BTW I **faintly** got WFTL daytime in Bermuda under WTAR in VA, but hardly listenable!

cd
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I gotta get out to Bermuda someday.
 
My final MW report from Puerto Rico tonight isn't displaying much from stateside. WLW is in weak, but WFTL, easily the best stateside signal down here is quite strong. I checked 790 for WAXY but all I hear is the ticking of Radio Reloj.
 
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