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DXing North America from Europe

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radioman148

It's been many years since I tried DXing US AMs in the UK--almost 30 years.
I wonder with IBOC and all the other interference if it's still possible to hear any US AMers in the UK or anywhere in Europe for that matter. Has anybody tried it in recent years?
 
It's totally possible.

A few years ago, somebody in Scotland received an AM station from Hawaii! Now THAT'S impressive.
 
Not meaning to diminish Mike M's reception in Europe of a 5-watt station broadcasting from Central USA -- if he has a QSL I will eat this post and apologize to him -- but so many AM stations nowadays, especially those former daytimers now allowed on at night, forget to throw the switch. The FM side gets all the attention, all of the phone calls, and all of the maintenance.

I don't believe that my 10 PM reception of 1280 from Alma MI several years back, for example, during a yawning and casual tune of the GE SR II, was from an actual 56 watter, for example. No, not a station from the North. No, not my DXing skill. No, not some sort of magic funnel. Alma MI forgot to flip 'er. Pure and simple.

But the subject of DXing American AM radio in Europe is always fascinating. There *has* to've been a series of 'regulars' -- pests -- from stateside here in the logboooks of many a European DXer.
 
I have never experienced Trans atlantic DX,,, not even along Outer Banks NC..... Hopefully before my old azz dies it may happen... Im not really old or nothing, but my health and physical constant taking of Prescript meds to keep me from dying I feel old.... I did read on wikipedia that a little 5oo watt AM Dance Station called KENU The Pulse, Tacomma Washington has been heard away as far away as finland, but you gotta take that Wiki stuff with a grain of salt. If I ever could DX europe here in the states I would probably soil my drawers.... I used to know a realy old DXER named Windall,,, Super nice friendly old man, and he used to sometimes pick up Top /40 Dance station Atlantic 252 Ireland-UK here in Indiana when they were still on the air... And I knew Windall very well, It was not B.S........ He didnt even have the internet to verify it back then but did hear a recording of his log... Good enogh for me

Unfourtunately Windall is no longer is with us, we was in his 80s... He was been deicist sice late 90s or early 2000... R.I.P Sir Dxer of all time.
 
The reason I'm bumping this old thread up is because I discovered quite by accident that my Sangean PR-D5 has the step adjustment where I can switch it from the usual 10K to the 9K station separation mode.

When I first got the radio, I guess I was so anxious to use it that I accidently discarded the instruction manual that mentions switching the step and even though it says "step" right above the button where it says "band", I never paid attention to it because I honestly didn't know what it meant anyway.

So I found out how to switch to the 9K station mode by going to the Sangean site, did a quick bandscan, and heard some different stations that sounded Spanish but some sounded a little different like some language I couldn't identify.

My question now is, can anyone recommend any possible AM frequencies from Europe, Africa, or anywhere else that I could look for that have a chance of being heard here in North America?

I would really appreciate it if there are any suggestions.

This may open up a whole different realm of DXing!
 
gar fla said:
The reason I'm bumping this old thread up is because I discovered quite by accident that my Sangean PR-D5 has the step adjustment where I can switch it from the usual 10K to the 9K station separation mode.

When I first got the radio, I guess I was so anxious to use it that I accidently discarded the instruction manual that mentions switching the step and even though it says "step" right above the button where it says "band", I never paid attention to it because I honestly didn't know what it meant anyway.

So I found out how to switch to the 9K station mode by going to the Sangean site, did a quick bandscan, and heard some different stations that sounded Spanish but some sounded a little different like some language I couldn't identify.

My question now is, can anyone recommend any possible AM frequencies from Europe, Africa, or anywhere else that I could look for that have a chance of being heard here in North America?

I would really appreciate it if there are any suggestions.

This may open up a whole different realm of DXing!
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Try these lists for starters: http://www.mediumwave.de/, http://www.mwlist.org/ul_login.php?sprache=en

Common frequencies that make it across the pond are: 594 Portugal, 603 France, 612 Morocco, 693 UK, 747 Netherlands, 837 France, 873 Germany, 891 Algeria, 909 UK, 927 Belgium, 1062 Denmark, 1089 UK, 1134 Croatia, 1215 UK, 1269 Germany, 1377 France, 1422 Germany, 1557 France.
 
I've been listening to the list of frequencies you suggested and there's actually one that I think I heard.

I tuned to 891 to listen for the one from Algeria and in the background of WLS and the Cuban from 890, I could hear music that sounded middle eastern so I went to see if there was an online stream and found it for Radio Algerienne Chaine 1 891 and although it wasn't matched up in real time, the music sounded like the song I was hearing on 891 for the short time I could hear something.

Wouldn't you know it, WLS is coming in much better than usual tonight and what I heard was only when WLS and the Cuban were in a weak cycle at the same time.

Maybe I'll have better luck another night and hear something worth putting to video.
 
Stephen Marius Green said:
Not meaning to diminish Mike M's reception in Europe of a 5-watt station broadcasting from Central USA -- if he has a QSL I will eat this post and apologize to him -- but so many AM stations nowadays, especially those former daytimers now allowed on at night, forget to throw the switch. The FM side gets all the attention, all of the phone calls, and all of the maintenance.

I don't believe that my 10 PM reception of 1280 from Alma MI several years back, for example, during a yawning and casual tune of the GE SR II, was from an actual 56 watter, for example. No, not a station from the North. No, not my DXing skill. No, not some sort of magic funnel. Alma MI forgot to flip 'er. Pure and simple.

But the subject of DXing American AM radio in Europe is always fascinating. There *has* to've been a series of 'regulars' -- pests -- from stateside here in the logboooks of many a European DXer.
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I realize this is an old thread, but I felt compelled to defend AM 1580 from Connersville,IN. In those days, that station was live 24/7. There was a loud, obnoxious alarm clock in the studio that went off 1 minute before power down time. It was located about 6' away from the operator's position and it was relentless. When it went off, it kept screaming bloody murder until the operator went over to it and silenced it. It was physically sitting on top of the remote control unit that was used to power down at sunset. I've been the engineer at that station non-stop since the summer of 1987 and if there ever was a station that you could bet the farm on as far as powering down goes, that was the one. While I wasn't actually there at the date & time in question, I am EXTREMELY confident that on the date & time of this report, this station was operating with 4.6 watts of power. While the process was automated about 4 years ago, prior to then the operator not only switched it manually, but he or she was required to log the exact time of the power change. On top of that, the DXer in question sent a cassette tape of the logging and the station Chief Operator (Mike Peacock) not only sent him a QSL card, but also a couple of T-shirts & bumper stickers. I have an mp3 of the logging (for once the signal faded up at ID time from a totally clear frequency). PM me with an email address if you would like to hear it.
 
I now for a certain guaranteed fact you will every night Pick up
KVNS Brownsville in Europe (Unless your Radio is crap).
Its been heard in Germany a Few times as well.
The New York Stations Make it across the Atlantic as well.
 
LibertyNT said:
I now for a certain guaranteed fact you will every night Pick up
KVNS Brownsville in Europe (Unless your Radio is crap).
Its been heard in Germany a Few times as well.
The New York Stations Make it across the Atlantic as well.
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I personally heard WCBS-AM in London a couple of times.
 
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