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Aren't we reaching the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24?

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
I posted on here last night, but it seems to be gone. Anyway, the best signals were VOCM and CBN. NFLD was very poor, and WBBR was the only NYC station. Horrible night last night.

-crainbebo
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Long story short, I had an early wake up call this morning (3am). I thought it might be a good opportunity for some pre-dawn DX in the car, but instead conditions were awful. Even super-reliable skywave signals like CFZM, WBAP, WHAS, KDKA, and KMOX were challenged.
 
cyberdad said:
crainbebo said:
I posted on here last night, but it seems to be gone. Anyway, the best signals were VOCM and CBN. NFLD was very poor, and WBBR was the only NYC station. Horrible night last night.

-crainbebo
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Long story short, I had an early wake up call this morning (3am). I thought it might be a good opportunity for some pre-dawn DX in the car, but instead conditions were awful. Even super-reliable skywave signals like CFZM, WBAP, WHAS, KDKA, and KMOX were challenged.
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Same thing here. I was up an hour before dawn and I checked the signals. Usually reliable KOA was barely there and it usually blasts in at that time.
 
Try for Venezuela and Cuba in the states I guess...

-crainbebo
 
I was listening to the receiver in the Mojave Desert around 5:30 pm (2:30 their time) and KFBK was coming in with a good signal.
 
The Grand Junction, Colorado receiver is fascinating tonight!

KKOB was dominating but when it went into a fade, there was a slight echo effect as if there was another distant station with the same show.

I figured it may be KTTH from Seattle so I went to the websites of both KKOB and KTTH and they both said the Bill Cunningham show was currently on.

Then during a big fade of KKOB, another talk station came in for a brief time and although I did not get an official ID, I grabbed my Sangean PR-D5 here in Tampa and tuned to WABC which was coming in at the time and it was the same thing I was hearing on the unidentified talk station.
 
AWESOME CATCH! Grand Junction to NYC is 1824 miles as the crow flies.

-crainbebo
 
Transatlantic MWDX was good tonight.

For a while, WFAN was booming in almost like a local! They had the 49ers Bears game.

WABC and WCBS were only listenable for short periods of time but 1010 WINS came in strong for a short time.
 
Had the Grand Junction, Colorado receiver tuned to 1530 and it sounded like a graveyard station.

Then a sports talk station drifted in for a while with a fairly good signal but I got no ID and it was gone.

Wonder if it could have been WCKY.
 
gar fla said:
Had the Grand Junction, Colorado receiver tuned to 1530 and it sounded like a graveyard station.

Then a sports talk station drifted in for a while with a fairly good signal but I got no ID and it was gone.

Wonder if it could have been WCKY.
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Depends on what time you were listening. If it was shortly after Grand Junction sunset, WCKY would have been on their non-directional day pattern and running sports programming. Later in the evening they'd have gone to the DA and pretty much nulled everything to the west. (Which may explain why they disappeared). Later still, they'd have switched from sports programming to paid religion.
 
Tonight on the Grand Junction receiver on 700, I could hear WLW during the fading of the much closer and louder KALL.

I had my radio on here in Tampa at the same time to confirm it was WLW.

In California in the 70s, WLW was an easy nighttime catch even during the summer.
 
Regarding Atlantic DX,

Alan--I saw your note about the lousy propagation. Too bad for all of us that it is so bad this year. Hope things rise back up soon.
Thanks for trying & please keep us informed.
 
I guess it depends on when you listen.

As I mentioned in earlier recent posts, I managed to get some great reception of some of the New York stations.

One night, WFAN was far better than I've ever heard it here in Florida.
 
I wonder if we might be getting a little "break in the action" from the lousy conditions.

I wasn't using the online receivers, but this morning before dawn on the E-10 things were sounding pretty open. Most of the channels seemed "busier" than they've been lately, and I was particularly hanging out on 680, trying for the "elusive" KNBR. I did hear "Mike and Mike", but no ID or anything else to indicate that, in fact, I had KNBR.
 
I was just on the Grand Junction, Colorado receiver and tuned to 770 and for a second, I was freaked out because I heard the John Batchelor show coming in strong which I thought was only on WABC but it was KKOB.

Then for a while during a fade, I could hear the same show in the background only on a delay.

Wondering if it was WABC again.
 
Getting some EARLY DX conditions! 0300 GMT 12/06 from Northern Ireland

570-WMCA? Sounded like Christian talk
580-mix of stations
590-VOCM strong
600-CBNA fair but lots of splatter
620-CKCM fair + one other
650-WSM Nashville dominating (!) with CKGA under
660-WFAN New York strong
670-WSCR? Very poor signal
680-CFTR good
700-barely WLW
710-WOR New York? EE talk
730-CKAC fair
740-CFZM + CHCM fair
760-WJR poor-fair
770-WABC good
780-WBBM fair
830-WCRN? Very poor
860-CJBC poor
880-WCBS up to very good levels
890-WLS poor-fair. No sign of WAMG
930-huge mess, CFBC in there somewhere with oldies
1000-WMVP barely in
1010-CFRB and WINS mess
1020-KDKA very good
1030-WBZ barely
1050-WEPN and CHUM very good mess
1060-KYW barely
1100-WTAM fair
1120-KMOX very good!
1130-WBBR very good and what sounds like a co-channel
1140-Mexican station?
1150-WHBY Kimberly, WI very good with Rusty Humphries
1180-WHAM?
1190-WLIB barely
1200-WXKS and Ottawa, maybe others
1290-UNID Mexican station

-crainbebo
 
^ Interesting that there are no Cubans to muddy things on the usual suspect frequencies like 570, 670, 710 & 1180.

If the 1140 played music, you can rule out Miami & San Juan.

570 could well have been WMCA.

Man I need to listen to all this again....I still need Google Chrome or some way to fix Firefox. I tried to "downgrade" but that did not seem to work.

cd
 
My guess...and it's just a guess...is that your 1130 co-channel could've been WDFN or perhaps even WISN.

As for 1150.... WHBY has come a long way from its days as a daytimer on 1570! (Actually, there's probably no real connection with the WHBY calls residing on 1570. The current 1150 took over the frequency when WISN jumped from 1130 to 1150 in 1965. The station in Fox Cities ...Appleton/Neenah/Menasha/Green Bay....came on as a 5kw daytimer a few years later as WYNE.)

You might a;sp want to check out 1280. WNAM is in the same area with a similar night pattern. I think they're either 5 or 10kw night with adult standards.
 
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