Thanks for posting. I was living in the Caribbean when that happened, and there were no news reports about it locally.
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AM Reception before dawn this morning at my location northwest of Chicago was definitely a mixed bag. Here are a few examples from between 4:30--530AM CDT....
680: CJOB Winnipeg. Considerably stronger than usual.. Meanwhile CBW was considerably weaker than usual. Go figure.
830: WCCO (Minneapolis) Weaker than usual.
950: WCLB: Sheboygan, WI, Weak with oldies. No positive ID, but format & translator branding "Z-107" fits. 1st time catch.
980: Interesting three-way battle. between WONE (Dayton, OH), WITY (Danville, IL) and WCUB (Manitowoc, WI. Rare.))
1090: KAAY, Little Fock. AR. Stronger than it's been in months. If not years.
1180: WHAM (Rochester, NY) alternating between weak and missing. "Rebelde Chorus" steady from Cuba. Weak, but audible.
Not quite sure what to make of all this. Other than it doesn't seem to be a major solar/auroral event. At least not at the onset (if it is indeed the onset of something).
680: CJOB Winnipeg. Considerably stronger than usual.. Meanwhile CBW was considerably weaker than usual. Go figure.
830: WCCO (Minneapolis) Weaker than usual.
950: WCLB: Sheboygan, WI, Weak with oldies. No positive ID, but format & translator branding "Z-107" fits. 1st time catch.
980: Interesting three-way battle. between WONE (Dayton, OH), WITY (Danville, IL) and WCUB (Manitowoc, WI. Rare.))
1090: KAAY, Little Fock. AR. Stronger than it's been in months. If not years.
1180: WHAM (Rochester, NY) alternating between weak and missing. "Rebelde Chorus" steady from Cuba. Weak, but audible.
Not quite sure what to make of all this. Other than it doesn't seem to be a major solar/auroral event. At least not at the onset (if it is indeed the onset of something).
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I was there in the early 60's and that was a good name for it back then...
not the onset, the tail end.. i can tell yo ufirst hand.
I had the BBC from oman or UAE on 9550 to the middle east at 1815UTc, which i wouldnt have in a big solar event... as the tail end of it winds down 9550 wasnt great but it wasnt horrible....
"Once upon a time", I worked with a guy who had been in sales at KAAY when they were still rockin' in the mid 70s. He thought the place was great. He told me once about KAAY'S "beer rate". I had heard about the "entertainment rate", which was fairly common back then. But what the heck was the "beer rate" He explained that it was very simple...."dollar a holler"! for any type of beer advertising! Apparently, KARK and the other stations in the market were matching it.
I'm anxious to check things out overnight to find out what does...or doesn't...turn up. Hopefully I won't sleep through it LOL.
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A little FM DX from Sunday. Apparently there was a bit of tropo in Illinois, for lo and behold, at 9:15 p.m., whilst in the car waiting for a fireworks display to commence, in wafted 92.9 WSQL Veedersburg, Ind., from near Danville, about 130 miles south of me, right over the IBOC of 93.1 WXRT. I caught the last five minutes or so of the opening, not enough for the full version of "American Pie." I rarely FM DX so this was only No. 127 for me, but welcome nonetheless.
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I listened for about a half hour or so after midnight. Nothing different or unusual jumped out at me. I then nodded off and woke up a little before 5am. Not much of note then, either. Except for two things I hadn't expected. First WGY was much stronger than usual on 810. Second. WBAL was in for a few minutes on 1090 , and then faded. I'm not inclined to attribute either of those to auroral conditions. Maybe just an opening to the east/northeast.
Will do! I've been trying to devote a little more time to FM DX. The C Crane Skywave is pretty good on FM (and weather band). Sensitivity and selectivity both.
One way to stay on top of is is with FMlist and put in your location.
You can turn on alerts and when people start reporting stuff you'll get emails about directions that might work.
E-Skip across the eastern US late this afternoon, with the MUF reaching 171 mhz for a while. I heard these in Picayune, MS on the Sangean HDR-15:
92.7 WFNB Brazil, IN - 92.7 The Rock
92.7 WGMD Rehoboth Beach, DE - The Talk of Delmarva
95.1 WRBS Baltimore - Bright FM
96.5 WPEL Montrose, PA - Your station for Information and Inspiration
102.7 WQSR Baltimore - 102.7 Jack FM
105.7 WBNW Endicott, NY - Now 105.7 All the hits for Binghamton
92.7 WFNB Brazil, IN - 92.7 The Rock
92.7 WGMD Rehoboth Beach, DE - The Talk of Delmarva
95.1 WRBS Baltimore - Bright FM
96.5 WPEL Montrose, PA - Your station for Information and Inspiration
102.7 WQSR Baltimore - 102.7 Jack FM
105.7 WBNW Endicott, NY - Now 105.7 All the hits for Binghamton
While I was walking to Walmart in Rocklin
Got KNCQ-FM 97.3 MHz Q97 from Redding on my Sangean DT-400W
Got KNCQ-FM 97.3 MHz Q97 from Redding on my Sangean DT-400W
Thx!
Came up empty last night and again at mid-morning today. But, if I'm reading the forecast maps correctly, things seem poised to be improving over the next 2-3 days.
One of the problems at my location is that I'm sandwiched within 75 miles of four metro areas. Three of which have multiple big signals along with a handful of full-facility rimshots.
@ cyberdad
You might've meant KARN? 920 ?
Arkansas has to be a really difficult state to log for the newer AM DXers. It appears that KARN is the only station with a respectable nighttime signal now. But 920 is a nocturnal mess now. They send / sent a bit of a signal at us in Queens overnights, far clearer than KAAY (which pulled it in our way because of Baltimore).
Latest KARN ratings have them at a 0.2. KAAY is N/A, I wonder if that's because at their listed 80 watts at night both the signal and the audience are not available.
You might've meant KARN? 920 ?
Arkansas has to be a really difficult state to log for the newer AM DXers. It appears that KARN is the only station with a respectable nighttime signal now. But 920 is a nocturnal mess now. They send / sent a bit of a signal at us in Queens overnights, far clearer than KAAY (which pulled it in our way because of Baltimore).
Latest KARN ratings have them at a 0.2. KAAY is N/A, I wonder if that's because at their listed 80 watts at night both the signal and the audience are not available.
A little more DX from the middle of the night, or this morning: First, WBEQ 90.7 Morris, Ill., which is only about 50 miles southwest but I've somehow missed it. (Long gone from 90.7 is WBHI, the Bogan High School station in Chicago about a dozen miles distant; 90.7 is pretty open but as noted before I don't hang out on FM too much, especially since IBOC covered first adjacents.)
Second, courtesy of tropo, WSPI 89.5 Ellsworth (Bloomington), Ill., 7 kW around 2 a.m. with an ID and local ads between EWN programs. Usually WNIU DeKalb is first in on 89.5 but no sign of it on my 20-year-old CCrane bedside radio. Nor WBEW Chesterton, Ind., a semi-regular if I fiddle with the antenna.
Second, courtesy of tropo, WSPI 89.5 Ellsworth (Bloomington), Ill., 7 kW around 2 a.m. with an ID and local ads between EWN programs. Usually WNIU DeKalb is first in on 89.5 but no sign of it on my 20-year-old CCrane bedside radio. Nor WBEW Chesterton, Ind., a semi-regular if I fiddle with the antenna.
For two nights now, KYNO has been much weaker than usual, but KSL out of SLC is coming in loud and clear. So clear, in fact, that the car stereo partially decodes KSL's HD signal (not enough for HD audio so far, but enough to display the station ID). Impressive.
KRKK is coming in relatively well too.
EDIT: Seals and Crofts on 920! KVIN is nowhere to be found!
EDIT #2: It's KSHO out of Lebanon, OR (matched to the internet stream). This is an impressive new catch!
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KRKK is coming in relatively well too.
EDIT: Seals and Crofts on 920! KVIN is nowhere to be found!
EDIT #2: It's KSHO out of Lebanon, OR (matched to the internet stream). This is an impressive new catch!
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90.7 for me will always be associated with New Orleans' WWOZ. Louisiana music of various genres funded by proceeds from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Music Festival. A great listen. Really, really great, when I first discovered them back in the late 80s, In those days it was a "seat of the pants" operation staffed by inexperienced volunteers. I recall it as something like 16kw on a relatively short stick from a downtown building at the foot of Canal Street. You'd start losing the signal on the north shore of Lake Ponchatrtrain at the end of the causeway, or once you got past Slidell going east. Now it's 100kw (directional) from a 440 foot stick, Also downtown.
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I love stations like that. Sounds sorta like WDCB 90.9 Glen Ellyn with its jazz format. It just sorta evolved. (So did WXRT, for that matter.)
Rockln, CA
Wow, I got KVIP 98.1 Redding on my Sangean DT-400W
Wow, I got KVIP 98.1 Redding on my Sangean DT-400W