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MY wish list for my DXpedition at Daytona Beach - suggestions appreciated

gar fla said:
It looks like I'll finally be going to Daytona Beach probably this weekend or if not, the next to do my daytime DXing and I'll be staying over night which will give me plenty of time to search for stations in the afternoon unlike the last time when I had to turn back and leave soon after I got there.
I'm hoping the Terk loop may help too this time.

I've been looking at all the possible stations from South Carolina to Massachusetts and Puerto Rico too using the AM logbook and the signal pattern maps from the FCC listings.

Many of these, I probably won't be able to get, especially if Florida stations on the same frequencies are too strong, as was the case last time with WORL on 660 and WONQ on 1030.

However, many of these frequencies also have nothing listed anywhere near enough to cause interference problems.


Here's the list I've made of hopefuls. ( a "!" after the station means there could be possible intereference problems with stations on the same frequency in Florida )

550 WPAB Ponce, PR (has to travel on about 40 mi of land but it's a low frequency too) !

580 WKAQ San Juan, PR !

...

680 WAPA San Juan, PR

710 WKJB Mayaguez, PR (WAQI Miami has a null this way)

850 WABA Auguadilla, PR

...

1040 WZNA Moca, PR

...

1280 WCMN Arceibo, PR

...

1320 WSKN San Juan, PR !

1370 WIVV Vieques, PR !

...

1430 WNEL Caguas, PR !

1480 WMDD Fajardo, PR

Besides WYEL 600 and WNEL 1430, were you able to catch any of the above?

How about WUNO 630 in San Juan (their transmitter is just across the swamp from WKAQ's in Cataño), or WORA 760 in Mayagüez?

gar fla said:
... my girlfriend who's with me (she's Puerto Rican) ...

Good catch. ;)

thathoustonradiogeek
(a transplanted Puerto Rican in Texas)
 
If you had been able to listen 30 years ago and long enough, you could have heard it.

I got WCBS for a short time and very weak when I was out there in Northern California in the late 70s.

I think it would be impossible today because there are simply too many stations on the same frequencies now.

:(
 
I was stationed near Anchorage AK in the very late 70s. I was able to bag WWL there. I tried oh-so-hard for WCBS (I think KRVN 880, which I had received there, was off the air one night)....but the sound just couldn't pop through.

WWL was my farthest US catch.

cd
 
cd637299 said:
I was stationed near Anchorage AK in the very late 70s. I was able to bag WWL there. I tried oh-so-hard for WCBS (I think KRVN 880, which I had received there, was off the air one night)....but the sound just couldn't pop through.

WWL was my farthest US catch.

cd

I'm surprised that you couldn't get anything from Chicago in Alaska during the 70s especially WLS or WBBM. They both really got out in those days and I heard them both in Hawaii in 1978.
 
Nope, no Chicago AM. The Superadio was not out yet (grrrr)....WWL was on the car radio.

Reno had the 780, and there was 890 in Homer AK. I think I had Boise 670...and I don't think I had anything on 720. So much for Chicago. Again, my DX skills were not as honed as they coulda been.

I was excited to get KIKI 830 Honolulu to the point I called them long distance....but really it's no big deal.

But then again, this is Gar's thread.... :)

cd
 
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