Just yesterday late night (~10pm EST) caught loud and clear CJBC on 860 AM, too. It was kind of going in and out as I was driving around. Now, what is truly interesting that I caught it with Mazda 5 antenna and whatever the cheapest chinese built OEM AM radio they have in the Mazda 5. Apparently the little 10 inch stab of antenna is good enough.
The DX location is Newark, Delaware (in particular, inside the University of Delaware); so, the signal was hopping over the freshwater lake before bouncing off and flying over the Vermont's and upper NY's hills (I wouldn't call them mountains). As far as I know the basics of propagation it happens over either a body of saltwater (so, we often hear, say, Caracas - the signal hops over the Mexican Bay) or frozen freshwater - the signal sort of bounces over the ice, not?
So 50 KWt is enough to fly over to the northern DE from Toronto.
From the years past, with a run-of-the-mill Grundig Yahtboy 400 and a cheap room antenna I used to catch Radio of Caracas (this was few years back, so by now they've probably run out of russian money and scaled down the power). Among other red propaganda radios we usually get quite strong Havana Radio (sort of obvious - enough salt water to propagate the signal from Cuba) and Beijing (don't remember their call sign). Obviously, Caracas transmits in spanish and the other two in quite nice english Beijing radio is almost always has quite strong signal, which makes me think they probably retransmit it somewhere on the West Coast (because otherwise we rarely hear anything from the West Coast at all).
Few times caught one of the Australian radios, the signal was weak and sporadic, so probably it was some kind of echo. The same story, bouncing off the Pacific and somehow over the Andes range, then over the Mexican Bay.
As far Europe goes we usually get the western shore radios, Portugal and Madrid, occasional german radios (this I am not sure how - I don't know german to figure out) and I think norwegian or iceland radios. I'll have to start keeping a proper journal with times and whatnot :]] (one more reason to get organized).
The DX location is Newark, Delaware (in particular, inside the University of Delaware); so, the signal was hopping over the freshwater lake before bouncing off and flying over the Vermont's and upper NY's hills (I wouldn't call them mountains). As far as I know the basics of propagation it happens over either a body of saltwater (so, we often hear, say, Caracas - the signal hops over the Mexican Bay) or frozen freshwater - the signal sort of bounces over the ice, not?
So 50 KWt is enough to fly over to the northern DE from Toronto.
From the years past, with a run-of-the-mill Grundig Yahtboy 400 and a cheap room antenna I used to catch Radio of Caracas (this was few years back, so by now they've probably run out of russian money and scaled down the power). Among other red propaganda radios we usually get quite strong Havana Radio (sort of obvious - enough salt water to propagate the signal from Cuba) and Beijing (don't remember their call sign). Obviously, Caracas transmits in spanish and the other two in quite nice english Beijing radio is almost always has quite strong signal, which makes me think they probably retransmit it somewhere on the West Coast (because otherwise we rarely hear anything from the West Coast at all).
Few times caught one of the Australian radios, the signal was weak and sporadic, so probably it was some kind of echo. The same story, bouncing off the Pacific and somehow over the Andes range, then over the Mexican Bay.
As far Europe goes we usually get the western shore radios, Portugal and Madrid, occasional german radios (this I am not sure how - I don't know german to figure out) and I think norwegian or iceland radios. I'll have to start keeping a proper journal with times and whatnot :]] (one more reason to get organized).
