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[NoMoreLurking]

0530Z on Atlantic MWDX - my time was limited and I was hardly even trying, but I did hear....

570 Cuba R Reloj
590 VOCM easy
680 too much slop to hear CFTR, oft heard last season
690 tried for Montreal, nope
740 CFZM
770 WABC presumed
880 WCBS quite good
930 CJYQ easy
1010 probably CFRB, didn't sound like WINS
1020 KDKA fair
1030 WBZ easy
1040 Coast to Coast, WHO?
1050 Believed Toronto, WEPN would have been Spanish, no?
1100 presumed WTAM
1110 unID talk, maybe WBT
1130 WBBR easiest with a little english CCI
1150 believed WHBY
1190 poss WLIB with eng language CCI
1200 Boston comedy station
1310 unID eng talk
1390 Talk, Maine?
1510 WWZN
1700 ESPN, unID

So good to have this node back in operation! Thanks, oldtimer!

 

[crainbebo]

WINS is off at the moment due to Hurricane Sandy. WMCA, WWRL, WLIB also off in the NYC Metro. WABC-TV and WCBS-TV were also flickering on and off, and WABC did lose power a little bit.

-crainbebo

 

[pianoplayer88key]

Listening to the Atlantic MWDX node right now and getting a match on 1700 with my local XEPE   Heard a Mexican-targeted ad too, but hadn't gotten around to starting Audacity recording yet.
There is a little bit of co-channel too, apparent by the rhythmic fading of the carrier... actually 2 different fade speeds, indicating 3 (if not more) stations on the frequency.

 

[radioman148]

Atlantic DX tonight around 0400Z yielded the following for me:
WFAN (poor), WBBM (poor) but listenable, WMVP (fair), KDKA (fair), WBZ (fair), WTAM (good), Something on 1150, couldn't ID--maybe WHBY? WWKB very good & in clear.

 

[crainbebo]

0440-0540 tonight

590 VOCM poor with C&W, lots of splatter. 0443 UTC.
600 CBNA extremely poor with burbles of EE talk, lots of splatter. 0443 UTC.
650 CKGA very poor with // to VOCM. 0445 UTC.
660 WFAN fair with ID. 0445 UTC.
670 threshold. 0446 UTC.
680 CFTR Toronto with sports report and weather tease, fair. 0447 UTC
680 Co-Channel to CFTR, likely WRKO or WPTF, 0448 UTC.
690 maybe CKGM Montreal at 0448 UTC, EE audio but just barely. No ID.
700 WLW Cincinnati fair with call-in talk. 0449 UTC.
740 CFZM Toronto, ON fair with 1950s music, 0449 UTC.
750 CBGY Bonavista Bay, NF poor-fair with CBC programming at 0450 UTC.
760 WJR Detroit poor with various PSAs and talk, 0451 UTC.
770 WABC New York, NY poor-fair with Sandy aftermath coverage. 0452 UTC.
780 WBBM Chicago fair-good with all news and more Sandy coverage at 0452 UTC.
830 WCRN Worcester, MA, very poor with what sounded like a "True Talk 830" jingle at 0455 UTC.
860 CJBC Toronto, ON fair with French talk 0456 UTC.
880 WCBS New York, good with Brooklyn ads. 0457 UTC.
920 CKNX Wingham, ON match to Dwight Yoakam's Fast as You. 0458 UTC, very poor.
930 CFBC St. John, NB with oldies, 0458 UTC.
930 CJYQ Newfoundland immediately under with Newfoundland style music at 0459.
950 CKNB Campbellton, NB nice signal with Marc Cohn's "Walking in Memphis" at 0500 UTC.
950 UNID with Fox TOH News, WIBX-NY? 0502 UTC.
970 UNID TOH News. Wonder if I had WNYM? 0502 UTC.
1000 WMVP Chicago fighting nasty het from 999, 0503 UTC.
1010 WINS New York with Sandy coverage, 0504 UTC. Likely CFRB co-channel.
1020 KDKA Pittsburgh with CBS TOH News, 0504 UTC.
1030 WBZ Boston leading off with Sandy news report, good signal at 0505 UTC.
1040 WHO Des Moines, IA very very poor with ID "WHO" into Coast to Coast AM at 0506 UTC.
1050 CHUM Toronto, ON with EE sports and mention of Toronto, 0507 UTC.
1060 Very weak KYW Philly at 0507 UTC.
1070 CHOK Sarnia, ON with country music matching stream, 0508 UTC.
1100 WTAM Cleveland, ON big signal with even more Sandy talk, 0509 UTC.
1120 KMOX St. Louis, MO with call-in talk at 0511 UTC.
1130 WBBR New York best signal of the night with diamond ad at 0511 UTC.
1140 CBI Sydney, NS with CBC Radio One ID, 0512 UTC. Also co-channel likely WRVA.
1150 Coast to Coast AM, likely WHBY but no ID after the first break. 0516 UTC.
1180 likely WHAM Rochester with more Coast to Coast AM, 0517 UTC.
1190 more Coast to Coast AM briefly, maybe 9.8kw WOWO Fort Wayne at 0518 UTC.
1200 WXKS Boston, MA with Matty's Comedy mentions, 0519 UTC.
1210 likely WPHT Philadelphia, but interference from 1215 is strong. 0520 UTC.
1230 various 1kw graveyard stations
1260 UNID oldies station and some preaching, help please?-0523 UTC.
1280 America's Best Music-WNAM in WI? 0526 UTC.
1300 WOOD Grand Rapids, MI with ID "NewsRadio 1300 and 106.9", 0531 UTC.
then skipped until
1510 WUFC Boston, MA with brokered preaching, 0534 UTC. The WWZN calls are no more, they switched 10/4/12.
1520 WWKB Buffalo, NY good signal with talk at 0535 UTC.
1560 WQEW New York City with Radio Disney at 0536 UTC.
1580 oldies music so likely CKDO Oshawa, ON, 0536 UTC.
1640 WKSH Sussex, WI very weak with Radio Disney. 0538 UTC.
1670 CJEU Gatineau, QC, threshold French music at 0539 UTC.

-crainbebo

 

[old_timer]

Nice Log crainbebo -

Guys, some tips for DXing from my receiver. In Europe we have 9kHz channel spacing which when combined with
a 10kHz channel produces a hetrodyne. The best way to get clear channel reception is to tune the sidebands.
Also when using the sidebands, make use of the IF shift control.

Some examples of how to tune the common Canadians:
540 LSB CBT
590 USB VOCM
620 LSB
640 USB
710 LSB CKVO
740 USB
750 USB
1140 LSB CBI
1350 AM CKAD
1400 AM
1490 AM
Common East Coasters:
770 LSB WABC
1130 AM WBBR
1490 LSB WEGP
1500 LSB WFED
1510 LSB WUFC
1520 LSB WWKB

I hope this will make your visit to Atlantic MWDX a bit more enjoyable (with less whines and splatter)..

Regards
Alan (oldtimer)

 

[radioman148]

Nice Log crainbebo -

Guys, some tips for DXing from my receiver. In Europe we have 9kHz channel spacing which when combined with
a 10kHz channel produces a hetrodyne. The best way to get clear channel reception is to tune the sidebands.
Also when using the sidebands, make use of the IF shift control.

Some examples of how to tune the common Canadians:
540 LSB CBT
590 USB VOCM
620 LSB
640 USB
710 LSB CKVO
740 USB
750 USB
1140 LSB CBI
1350 AM CKAD
1400 AM
1490 AM
Common East Coasters:
770 LSB WABC
1130 AM WBBR
1490 LSB WEGP
1500 LSB WFED
1510 LSB WUFC
1520 LSB WWKB

I hope this will make your visit to Atlantic MWDX a bit more enjoyable (with less whines and splatter)..

Regards
Alan (oldtimer)

Hi Alan,

Having lots of fun with your receiver again this season. Thanks for putting it back online and constructing the antenna.
I will use your tips to help tune in the stations you listed.

Thanks again for making "Atlantic DX" so enjoyable!

 

[crainbebo]

Tonight, much quicker than last night but here's what I have

570 Radio Reloj Cuba (never noticed them before)
590 VOCM-NF
600 CBNA-NF weak
640 CBN-NF
650 CKGM-NF
660 WFAN-NY very weak
710 CKVO-NF
740 CHCM-NF, no sign of CFZM like last night.
750 CBGY-NF in a whole ton of splatter.
770 WABC-NY weak
1010 weak WINS-NY
1020 weak KDKA-PA
1050 WEPN-NY with ESPN Deportes
1520 WWKB-NY fair

-crainbebo

 

[old_timer]

Don't forget that this receiver can be used during the day (non - DX times) for
local UK and Irish listening, and also towards sunset for some real DX to the Mid and Far East.
1170 is a regular from VOA in the Phillipines.
936 from S. India
1071 N. India
1071 Iran
1548 Kuwait
1521 China
etc..
Just past SS now 1645 GMT.

Good hunting

Regards
Alan (oldtimer)

 

[cd637299]

Question.....

Lately I have not been able to monitor Global Tuners, due to me having Firefox; posts were saying to download Google Chrome.

Has the FF problem been fixed yet?

cd

 

[radioman148]

Question.....

Lately I have not been able to monitor Global Tuners, due to me having Firefox; posts were saying to download Google Chrome.

Has the FF problem been fixed yet?

cd

I cannot use Firefox either for Global Tuners. I have been using Internet Explorer, which I don't like, but need to use for GT.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

Firefox was fine for me last night.  Haven't yet had a chance to check today, though.

So what's the farthest west station you guys have heard on the Atlantic MWDX globaltuners node?
Mine so far is 1700 XEPE Tecate/Tijuana, Baja Cali Norte / San Diego, CA area, heard a few nights ago at TOH at around the node's local sunrise time, or about midnight here locally in the San Diego area.  Heard a couple Mexican political PSA announcements and matched audio locally from ~15.6 mi NNE of their TX on my Tecsun PL-398mp (on which it indicates about 49 dBμ).  Couldn't hear the legal TOH ID, though, thanks to the lady softly flying through it en español (understood it perfectly on the local radio though), but I did hear the lead-in to the ESPN Radio Sportscenter update.

 

[crainbebo]

Now, it's WHO 1040 Des Moines, IA. Heard them a few nights ago.

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

Firefox was fine for me last night. Haven't yet had a chance to check today, though.

So what's the farthest west station you guys have heard on the Atlantic MWDX globaltuners node?
Mine so far is 1700 XEPE Tecate/Tijuana, Baja Cali Norte / San Diego, CA area, heard a few nights ago at TOH at around the node's local sunrise time, or about midnight here locally in the San Diego area. Heard a couple Mexican political PSA announcements and matched audio locally from ~15.6 mi NNE of their TX on my Tecsun PL-398mp (on which it indicates about 49 dBμ). Couldn't hear the legal TOH ID, though, thanks to the lady softly flying through it en español (understood it perfectly on the local radio though), but I did hear the lead-in to the ESPN Radio Sportscenter update.

The farthest I have heard is either WHO or WWL. I don't think any of us can beat XEPE, although maybe we can catch it.
The operator of Atlantic DX has heard KNX.

 

[Darth_vader]

@cd637299 /radioman148
I'm guessing you're on a version of Firefox ≧ 4. I've had no problem using Firefox 3.6.28 with FLash 9 (yes, I'm old) with GT*. Firefox ≧ 4, predictably, craps out almost instantly for me**. I wouldn't use or trust G Chrome or Internet Exploiter for anything (not that I could, anyways.)

Try it and see: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/3.6.28/win32/en-GB/Firefox Setup 3.6.28.exe. And if it still doesn't work, chances are your FLash may be corrupted.....

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* No computer configuration or network connection is typical; individual results may vary.
** Tested with Firefox 14 and FLash 9 using default settings on Debian Linux 5.0.8.

 

[cd637299]

@cd637299 /radioman148
I'm guessing you're on a version of Firefox ≧ 4. I've had no problem using Firefox 3.6.28 with FLash 9 (yes, I'm old) with GT*. Firefox ≧ 4, predictably, craps out almost instantly for me**. I wouldn't use or trust G Chrome or Internet Exploiter for anything (not that I could, anyways.)

Try it and see: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/3.6.28/win32/en-GB/Firefox Setup 3.6.28.exe. And if it still doesn't work, chances are your FLash may be corrupted.....

[size=8pt]_____________________________________
* No computer configuration or network connection is typical; individual results may vary.
** Tested with Firefox 14 and FLash 9 using default settings on Debian Linux 5.0.8.

Thank you. My PC should be back tomorrow and I will try to remind the person about this.

cd

 

[pianoplayer88key]

I was using ff 15 or 16 and flash 11 or 12, iirc, and had no problems last night, on, iirc, the beta xdr interface (under the more options link, iirc). Didn't get a chance 2 try this afternoon due to other tasks that got in the way.

As for beating XEPE... who's gonna be the first to catch, say, New Zealand on this node? Or what about Japan, N/S Korea, China, Thailand, India, etc. via long path?

 

[crainbebo]

1521 China was already caught, and same with 1089 in India...

-crainbebo

 

[crainbebo]

Tonight's AM DX from Atlantic DX, 0530 Zulu.
Conditions rather very poor in all parts. Seems like there is a bit of aurora that may be causing this condition.

570 Radio Reloj Cuba poor-fair
590 VOCM poor-fair
600 CBNA poor
640 CBN barely audible
650 CKGM poor-fair
660 WFAN very poor
670 I think Cuba, but barely audible
700 threshold
710 Radio Rebelde Cuba, no CKVO.
740 CFZM barely
750 CBGY very poor-poor
780 unid with Mexican music, Cuba?
800 threshold
820 Radio Reloj Cuba very poor "RR" code making it thru
880 WCBS barely audible
930 CFBC fair!
930 CJYQ under very poor
950 Threshold of CKNB
980 Unknown SS guitar music
1000 Threshold, WMVP?
1020 Another barely audible Mexican
1030 WBZ poor-fair
1100 WTAM very poor
1130 WBBR fair-good, probably strongest station from the U.S. or Canada tonight
1140 Mexican + very weak CBI Sydney
1180 Radio Marti (or another Cuban) fair-good
1190 Possibly another SS but barely audible
1200 CFGO in the splatter, poor-fair
1510 WUFC poor-fair
1520 WWKB poor-fair
1560 threshold
1630 UNID with music-looks like it's either KRND, or XEUT

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

Crainbebo, I tried about an hour earlier than you last night & conditions for me were worse. I always check WBBR first since that is my indicator as to how the band is. I could hardly hear it. Just about everything else I tried yielded Europeans. I didn't stay with it long. Must have been auroral.
Hopefully next time will be better.