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New log tonight on FM:

98.9 CIKT Grande Prairie AB, brief meteor scatter catch with Def Leppard // playlist, 6:22PM MT 1/11. This is 100KW at 766 miles, and the yagi antenna was pointing NW. Total FMs logged in Cascade up to 193.

Also KFTZ-103.3 and KTHK-105.5 Idaho Falls for new ones last night, both w/ IDs. Seven new FMs logged since putting up the Stellar Labs antenna. It rocks.
 
1/11 21:30 CST 1060 KC Briefly heard an oldies format station with good copy.
Two possibilities. WQMV Waverly, TN 4 watts.
WRHL Rochelle, IL 50 watts.
Hispanic station strong, most likely XECPAE
Mexico City. What's bizarre is this station is
fair copy in any direction! No difference!
That's weird.
 
Back out briefly in the freezing cold for two more new FM catches. Flightaware maps are my friend if I want to try for regionals. An American Airlines flight was approaching not too long ago from DFW to SEA, 34K ft. cruising altitude. Passed right through Cascade/Donnelly area.

92.1 KIDG Pocatello ID w/ ad for Classic Interiors, furniture/interior design store in Idaho Falls. 12KW, 210 miles.
105.7 KRSE Yakima WA w/ Live in Concert, string of national ads and just as it was fading out, very weak '105.7 the Hawk' ID. 100KW at 268 miles.

Others heard, not counting the usuals - these are the rarely-heard ones: KZJJ-104.5 WA, KZXR-101.7 WA, K239DB-95.7 Stanley (only 59 miles but a lot of mountains in the way, // 89.9 KBSK, jazz vocal), KBYI-94.3 ID. Mumbles on 95.3 as it approached from the east (I need KECH Sun Valley and KZJH Jackson WY, and both would have been on the horizon as it passed the Sawtooths), and mumbles on 100.9 beaming west (likely needed KARY Grandview WA), and 106.9 also west (KMOK?)
 
MichaelD1972 said:
At around 4:56pm EST, I received 940 WKGM Smithfield, VA in Clifton, NJ. WKGM is around 302 miles (487 km) away from me. I didn't hear the Legal ID, but heard the Joy FM network branding. The signal was weak at first, but got better until 5:15pm EST when it switched to nighttime power.
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This time of the year, long-haul AM reception, even during the day, becomes more and more possible. I have been getting WSAI-1530 from Cincinnati (granted, it is 50KW) here in Columbia SC as early as around 2 pm in the afternoon recently. The signal is weak but it is clearly discernible and identifiable.
 
Another brief meteor scatter burst results in a new one:

92.1 CHMX Regina SK, 'I'm Like a Bird' Nelly Furtado, matched playlist at 9:15PM MT. 100KW at 676 miles and NEW #196 from Cascade.

Nothing out of the ordinary on the 'plane' scatter tonight. Huge Spokane signals on 92.9, 93.7, 101.1, etc. but there are multiple Spokane FMs that I just cannot get due to Boise at 52 miles. KMBI and KTSL (Air 1) blotted out by these locals. Even pointing north they are 35dB+. I wish I could get even better directionality out of the antenna (or that SDR# co-channel canceller).
My big target(s) right now are Jackson WY and Sun Valley on 95.3, both not heard yet. Very weak KPND showed up tonight from Spokane.
 
At around 11:16pm EST, I received 1490 WINQ Brattleboro, VT in Clifton, NJ. WINQ is around 158 miles (254 km) away from me. I didn't hear the Legal ID, but heard the WINK Country branding and their website. It was mixing with other stations, but it briefly had a decent signal.
 
It gets even better. I had WLW 700 Cincinnati ("The Big One") in here at Columbia SC just after noon on Monday. The signal was weak and staticky, but several clear references were made to Cincinnati. This was on a car radio, which are often the best radios for AM DX.
 
I've heard WBZ and WMVP here in central Ohio as early as 3 p.m. during the winter months. Usually I am not in a position to DX during the daytime so a better catch might very well be out there, but if so I don't hear it.
Getting WLW with that dial position at midday is really impressive. If you caught the news, commercials and then the start of Bill Cunningham's show, no doubt you heard quite a bit of local content.
 
When i lived in SE WY, There were some winter days, Id have KNZR 1560 Bakersfield, CA from about 230-3pm until 1030am the next day. THere were also times I had KNX 1070 all day.. now, mind you at 11am-12noon-1pm, it might be a carrier barely abvoe the noise floor, but it was there
 
schmave said:
I've heard WBZ and WMVP here in central Ohio as early as 3 p.m. during the winter months. Usually I am not in a position to DX during the daytime so a better catch might very well be out there, but if so I don't hear it.
Getting WLW with that dial position at midday is really impressive. If you caught the news, commercials and then the start of Bill Cunningham's show, no doubt you heard quite a bit of local content.
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I don't know if they mentioned Bill Cunningham, but they said enough about Cincinnati, that I was able to ascertain it was WLW and not some other station.
 
Just heard KXTA-99.1 Gooding ID for a new station. The Regional Mexican FM is 148 miles and 35KW, and my local 'translator' (well, it's supposed to carry KAWZ and it broadcasts intermod/bleed from KBSM and KBSQ to the valley) is off the air. To the south, I-Rock 99.1 Boise (K256CZ) is in but weak. KUJ Burbank WA often heard west. Looking for KUPI Idaho Falls which would be new.
 
This antenna continues to impress!! Four more NEW stations including two in a row on meteor scatter!

104.7 KIKX Ketchum ID - Bob FM, into Asia 'Heat of the Moment' around 6:15PM MT. 100KW at only 127 miles, but I haven't confirmed them until now.
99.1 KUPI Rexburg ID - Sandhill Media Group mention, 6:24PM. 100KW, 218 miles and NEW FM #200 from here
99.3 KDDS Elma WA - meteor scatter burst with antenna *East* - 194C PI and La Gran D radiotext, at 6:26PM MT. 64KW at 401 miles and the first Seattle area station heard here!!! Now to try for KIRO-FM, KNWN, KQMV and others on Ms (or even extreme aircraft scatter).
99.3 CFOX Vancouver BC - in the same burst, some rock song, but the TEF captured the C294 PI code to confirm ANOTHER new station - 100KW at 466 miles.

That's over a dozen new stations since putting up the new antenna.
 
Mike in Destin said:
22:27 CST 740 CFZM Toronto playing adult standards, great copy.

Earlier 800 KC Hispanic station probably Mexico was very strong, sounded like they were in my back yard.
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More likely it was the 500,000 watt TWR Bonaire
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
More likely it was the 500,000 watt TWR Bonaire
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Let’s do some nit-picking: TER has a Nautel capable of a maximum of 440,00 watts. It is really supposed to be run at 400 kw, though. The 60’s era 500 kw gear died about 35 or so years ago.
 
Mike in Destin said:
22:27 CST 740 CFZM Toronto playing adult standards, great copy.

Earlier 800 KC Hispanic station probably Mexico was very strong, sounded like they were in my back yard.
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Remember, the term “Hispanic” is an American government not construct to cover all kinds and races of people in the USA for legal and statistical porpose.

While the term is now familiar in Latin America, it is not used there in the manner we employ in the U.S.

I can recall my colleagues at Radio 10 and Mega 98.3 in Buenos Aires actually asking me what the term meant In the US; to them it meant “something from Spain”.
 
Mike in Destin said:
Years ago I heard WKBW Buffalo From Central NJ in a truck. That's about 400 miles away. This was around 2-3 PM.
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In the mid and late 60’s I could often get WKBW in Quito, Ecuador after my local Radio Cordillera signed off. Quito is almost due south of Buffalo, so I got the southern edge of their big night pattern!
 
DavidEduardo said:
Remember, the term “Hispanic” is an American government not construct to cover all kinds and races of people in the USA for legal and statistical porpose.

While the term is now familiar in Latin America, it is not used there in the manner we employ in the U.S.

I can recall my colleagues at Radio 10 and Mega 98.3 in Buenos Aires actually asking me what the term meant In the US; to them it meant “something from Spain”.
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Other than by their national ethnicity (Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, etc), do Spanish speaking people have a catch-all descriptor for any Western Hemisphere Spanish-speaking people or nation? Is Latin American used?
 


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