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Have you ever heard your own voice on the radio while DXing?

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fordranger797

I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced this. It seems that there are a few criteria that could to be true in a scenario like this.

1. You’re on an AM station with big nighttime reach.
2. You voice track content in another market and dx in your spare time.
3. You voice track content ahead of when it’s scheduled to air.

I’m assuming that this a fairly rare scenario, but perhaps it’s been done before. I did once hear myself voice tracked on a FM station I used to work for. I was on a camping trip far away from civilization and my radio station was ironically one of the few that reached my location. A bit of a weird experience. I wouldn’t classify it as dx though. That’s left to the experts here on this board who record E-skip all of the time!
 
Years ago, I was scanning the band above the AM dial (which ended at 1600 kHz or thereabouts at the time). I came across a signal at 1622 kHz, which in those days was normally a "remote pickup" channel used by some radio stations. It had become a fairly popular frequency for pirate broadcasters, and it became obvious that the signal was indeed a pirate. Their on-air chatter indicated that they were somewhere in New Jersey.

In between selections of rock tunes, the operator gave out a phone number. I called and got an answering machine, left a message, and about ten minutes later I heard my message blasting down the East Coast to my location in NC.

I think I still have the QSL card they sent me somewhere in a shoebox.
 
fordranger797 said:
I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced this. It seems that there are a few criteria that could to be true in a scenario like this.

1. You’re on an AM station with big nighttime reach.
2. You voice track content in another market and dx in your spare time.
3. You voice track content ahead of when it’s scheduled to air.

I’m assuming that this a fairly rare scenario, but perhaps it’s been done before. I did once hear myself voice tracked on a FM station I used to work for. I was on a camping trip far away from civilization and my radio station was ironically one of the few that reached my location. A bit of a weird experience. I wouldn’t classify it as dx though. That’s left to the experts here on this board who record E-skip all of the time!
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I've come close! to hearing my own radio shows!

When i lived in NW Pa near erie, i was voicetracking from home for KLMI 106.1 Laramie, WY. all of a sudden i had an eskip opening and i hear KCGY 95.1 Laramie,. but the muf (maximum useable frequency ) didn't get high enough for me to hear KLMi. .and i was on the air at the time.

I'm on a bunch of country stations overnight and one DXer near duluth posted a clip of KXXX 790 colby, Ks in a FB group logging them one night and he had no idea who the voice was in the clip, but it was me.. and he had no idea i was in the group or that it was me.... his logging included a break i did
 
I'm not sure it'd be considered "DX'ing" per se, but yes, I've heard my voice plenty on voicetracked stations and have heard myself on spots I did for agencies that had wide distribution - I'd hear those on various stations when tuning through the dial.
 
tune into Radio Nacional de amazonias 11780khz from brazil some weekday evenings and youll hear me sending in whats app messages to mauricio rabello, the host. they come in very well up here in alaska
 
Perhaps a parallel, but for years, after I left a small market station, the EBS intro/outro tape used was one that I had recorded.
 
Certainly not in any unexpected way since I’m not an agency voice or voice tracker. I heard a recording of my voice being DXed when I ran a DX test.
 
I have tried several times in Ellensburg to hear KLMI 106.1 on e-skip. The same thing applies: Y95 KCGY makes it in, but if anything, the DX at 105-106 MHz is coming from CO or NE and NOT shortening to Wyoming! That isn't possible here due to a strong 250 watt translator on Ahtanum Ridge (Big 106.1).
 
When I was working in Philly they asked me to do some liners for our AM across the hall, WFIL, which was Beautiful Music for a while.
A few months later I was driving with this gal out on Long Island's South Shore, where WFIL comes in pretty well. In between songs there came this guy whose voice made her do a double take and look at me for a long while. She thought I was pranking her again.
The first time was when I mischievously had timed a drive with her one night to play an unscoped WIFI 92 aircheck from the car radio cassette deck. 'Getting some good reception tonight,' I told her. 'Station from Philadelphia'.
Don Marino was the WIFI jock, who reminded listeners to write down the number of Beatles songs they heard 'from now until February'.
She did a double-take. 'Til FEBRUARY ?!?!?'
At the time we were driving it was maybe June.
 
I would be deeply concerned if I ever hear my voice anywhere because I've never intentionally spoken into a live mic!

c
 
I have never heard myself while DXing, but my parents have. I was live on the air on WCTQ 92.1 Venice, FL. My parents were traveling and were in North Florida on I-75 near the Georgia state line. They tuned into 92.1 just to see if they could hear me. It was fighting with another co-channel, but sure enough they heard my voice on the air.
 
fordranger797 said:
I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced this. It seems that there are a few criteria that could to be true in a scenario like this.

1. You’re on an AM station with big nighttime reach.
2. You voice track content in another market and dx in your spare time.
3. You voice track content ahead of when it’s scheduled to air.

I’m assuming that this a fairly rare scenario, but perhaps it’s been done before. I did once hear myself voice tracked on a FM station I used to work for. I was on a camping trip far away from civilization and my radio station was ironically one of the few that reached my location. A bit of a weird experience. I wouldn’t classify it as dx though. That’s left to the experts here on this board who record E-skip all of the time!
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Along those lines I recently found a recording of a radio station that was taking phone calls and I was one of the callers. However, since the recording was made at a location much further than I was from the station (as in recorded BY SOMEONE ELSE and I just found out about it, 40-sh years later!) I can't hear too much of the call, the part that came out best was the station host announcing my location
 
cc333 said:
I would be deeply concerned if I ever hear my voice anywhere because I've never intentionally spoken into a live mic!

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In light of @teaneck 's post, I should add that I've never called in to a live or prerecorded radio station either.

I did hear the husband of a family friend on air one time (he was calling into that consumer reports guy that was on KGO about 10-15 years ago, can't remember his name anymore).

My mother called in once, to Len Tillem's show (also on KGO) back in 2002 or so. I never heard that one (being only about 12 or 13 at the time, I didn't listen to talk radio much), but I'm sure it exists in someone's archive somewhere.

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