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Very interesting and strange conditions tonight. Probably due to the recent X-flare. Southerly reception on a bunch of channels (KHAC-880 NM on top, for example, also XESURF-540, KRDU-1130 mixed with KSDO, KGEN-1370 all alone)...but on 1190, CFSL Weyburn SK is 20 over S9?!?! And on 900...it's CKBI at S9++ as well.
Almost like there's a pipeline to parts of Saskatchewan but not to Regina. I can't find CBK whatsoever.
 
A little AM DX tonight finds KLTC-1460 Dickinson ND on top of the jumble with Travis Tritt // stream. 700 watts at 839 miles. KRKK-1360 Rock Springs easy copy on top of 2-3 others as well.

Meanwhile, the Stevensville MT (W0AY) SDR has 1410 KOOQ North Platte NE on top of a light jumble...and locally it's a jumble with nothing dominating and no sign of the Def Leppard that was playing on KOOQ.
 
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At 0305 check May 4, the Marti SW frequencies were dead air for several minutes before coming back with what sounded like a backup feed.

Marti usually sounds pretty good, if not bass heavy.

Now? it’s very metallic, wimpy and sounds like an internet feed to the TX
 
i was outside from 2330 May 3rd to 0330 utc May 4 and heard nothing from Cuba on 11760, 9710…… whatever other 11 mhz channel their on.

I did hear 11880 on air at 2335 with dead air but it was supposed to have gone off at 2300
 
Merely a note or two from some kill-time SRS DX of MM 5-4.
Off the GE SR2 while causing a hot cup to toss down my throat.

Atop 1570 was Sports around 6:05 .... sounded 'local' to Baltimore .... two hosts (one radio-voiced; the other hysterical with perhaps too much coffee) ; Rx-Locator says WNST Towson MD just N of Ball-more, a re-log from their Radio Ahhhs days long ago .... no sign of semi-local religion WPGM Danville.
WNST is 5000 watts omni during the day. So perchance you hear two guys talking about homeboys Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken and Ron Swoboda some weekday morning while auditioning for Mike & The Mad Dog 02 ......

1240 had a thunderous 'Working My Way Back to You' by the Spinners for a teasing :30 seconds before fading. This was about 6:10 .... Doubt it was a Canadian; the logs suggest un-logged WFUZ Wilkes-Barre PA. That'd be a re-log for me here; they were an AN regular back in Queens as Top 40 WBAX for years .... will listen next time. Too starved for blueberries, dry Special K, yogurt, meds and coffee this morning.
73's!
 
@ kevtroics

Ahhhh, shhhhhhucks. Can't seem to thrash through the 'quote' maze ; hope this suffices :

"Late last night instead of WHAM on 1180 kHz here in NJ, I heard Classic Hits station "Kool Radio" WSKP from Hope Valley, RI, which is supposed to be a daytimer....." : you.

That Hope Valley 1180 was the very last new log on my Queens NYC resume before moving out here to metro Pottsville PA. As WJJF, a SSS catch, they completed Rhode Island for me -- the only state I ever logged all the AMers from. That's gotta be one tough little cookie to hear for most of the contagious 48. Out here I've heard just four -- two of them by accident. Be neat to hear if others catch WSKP's music via your heads-up.

I presume you must've logged WFYL 1180, a 1000-watt omni rimshot licensed to serve a rim of Philly? When the days were less noisy here they were a steady but barely audible catch all day. I don't even know if they're on the AIR anymore. Always got a kick out of their maladroit COL -- 'King of Prussia'. Made me wonder if there's a shire called 'Marylandtown, Germany' somewhere, hi.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
At 0305 check May 4, the Marti SW frequencies were dead air for several minutes before coming back with what sounded like a backup feed.

Marti usually sounds pretty good, if not bass heavy.

Now? it’s very metallic, wimpy and sounds like an internet feed to the TX
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I am in South Carolina probably two hours from Greenville. 11860/11930 is always weak and frequently under modulated as you describe. Sending to Cuba what they send here lol.. with this administration I wouldn't be surprised if they're using a CB rig.
 
Patrick 29582 said:
I am in South Carolina probably two hours from Greenville. 11860/11930 is always weak and frequently under modulated as you describe. Sending to Cuba what they send here lol.. with this administration I wouldn't be surprised if they're using a CB rig.
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Thats because youre too close. Marti sounds just find here 99 plus percent of the time. A few hundred miles is too close for shortwave.

Its nothing more than the main feed was lost for some reason and they resorted to a back up feed.

When Marti is playing music their processing is balls to the wall reminiscent of 80s Top 40 on AM.
 
Patrick 29582 said:
I suspect the skip and wave is to blame but they boomed in at triple the strength before the shutdown. Something ain't the same.
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again, youre too close... nothing has really changed hat i can tell here. that skywave/groundwave cancellation can do a number on audio
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Merely a note or two from some kill-time SRS DX of MM 5-4.
Off the GE SR2 while causing a hot cup to toss down my throat.

Atop 1570 was Sports around 6:05 .... sounded 'local' to Baltimore .... two hosts (one radio-voiced; the other hysterical with perhaps too much coffee) ; Rx-Locator says WNST Towson MD just N of Ball-more, a re-log from their Radio Ahhhs days long ago .... no sign of semi-local religion WPGM Danville.
WNST is 5000 watts omni during the day. So perchance you hear two guys talking about homeboys Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken and Ron Swoboda some weekday morning while auditioning for Mike & The Mad Dog 02 ......
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I have received WNST and WPGM before. When I got WNST, it was during the overnight hours in August 2024. They probably forgot to lower power that night because it came in pretty well.

I got WPGM in March 2023 at around sunset, which makes sense because it was still on daytime power. Unfortunately, 1560 WFME is now transmitting from my hometown of Clifton, NJ under an STA. That means DXing on 1570 is almost impossible now, even at night.
 
Some help here, pls, with a bit of rising sun DX this past Tuesday morning May 5th?
Local SRS was 5:58 AM. and I'm in the kitchen slaughtering fresh coffee with the GE SR 2 (also barefoot). The mid-AM dial was pretty QRM-free, and two stations atop 1040 were a wonderful 90° null at 6:03. Slurp. Turn 90 degrees. DX. Slurp. Pivot again.

The louder one was WYSL, a 24-7 Avon NY directional license I presume was designed to cover the I-390 stretch encompassing Rochester to Genesee (or maybe they had no choice). YL newscaster. Peppy-sounding morning station ....good way to get-the-A-out-of-B presentation. I wish we had one in this area.
The lesser signal was from the more sedate WCHR 1040 in Hackettstown NJ (what call letters for a religious station; but since I doubt even whatever music listeners who'd tune to AM radio nowadays would give a flying one about what the 'CHR' acronym meant 40 years ago............).

Well, ONE of the two stations, or perhaps a third? did a spot for a place that ended 'in 'Rising Sun'. It was tossed out like a NYC station would bray some location like 'White Plains', or an LA station would say 'Pasadena'. You know, as though it were a well-known place in the market.
I could not find a 'Rising Sun' that made any proximate sense to either 1040 station, or to any other 1040 station. Is there a place called that by anyone here?
73 and tia. Have a hot cup on me.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Some help here, pls, with a bit of rising sun DX this past Tuesday morning May 5th?
Local SRS was 5:58 AM. and I'm in the kitchen slaughtering fresh coffee with the GE SR 2 (also barefoot). The mid-AM dial was pretty QRM-free, and two stations atop 1040 were a wonderful 90° null at 6:03. Slurp. Turn 90 degrees. DX. Slurp. Pivot again.

The louder one was WYSL, a 24-7 Avon NY directional license I presume was designed to cover the I-390 stretch encompassing Rochester to Genesee (or maybe they had no choice). YL newscaster. Peppy-sounding morning station ....good way to get-the-A-out-of-B presentation. I wish we had one in this area.
The lesser signal was from the more sedate WCHR 1040 in Hackettstown NJ (what call letters for a religious station; but since I doubt even whatever music listeners who'd tune to AM radio nowadays would give a flying one about what the 'CHR' acronym meant 40 years ago............).

Well, ONE of the two stations, or perhaps a third? did a spot for a place that ended 'in 'Rising Sun'. It was tossed out like a NYC station would bray some location like 'White Plains', or an LA station would say 'Pasadena'. You know, as though it were a well-known place in the market.
I could not find a 'Rising Sun' that made any proximate sense to either 1040 station, or to any other 1040 station. Is there a place called that by anyone here?
73 and tia. Have a hot cup on me.
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From Google in Avon NY ... "Rising Sun is a highly-rated Chinese restaurant located near Avon, NY, specifically at 10 Honeoye Commons in nearby Honeoye, NY (roughly 8.6 miles away), known for its clean environment, quick service, and delicious food."
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Some help here, pls, with a bit of rising sun DX this past Tuesday morning May 5th?
Local SRS was 5:58 AM. and I'm in the kitchen slaughtering fresh coffee with the GE SR 2 (also barefoot). The mid-AM dial was pretty QRM-free, and two stations atop 1040 were a wonderful 90° null at 6:03. Slurp. Turn 90 degrees. DX. Slurp. Pivot again.

The louder one was WYSL, a 24-7 Avon NY directional license I presume was designed to cover the I-390 stretch encompassing Rochester to Genesee (or maybe they had no choice). YL newscaster. Peppy-sounding morning station ....good way to get-the-A-out-of-B presentation. I wish we had one in this area.
The lesser signal was from the more sedate WCHR 1040 in Hackettstown NJ (what call letters for a religious station; but since I doubt even whatever music listeners who'd tune to AM radio nowadays would give a flying one about what the 'CHR' acronym meant 40 years ago............).

Well, ONE of the two stations, or perhaps a third? did a spot for a place that ended 'in 'Rising Sun'. It was tossed out like a NYC station would bray some location like 'White Plains', or an LA station would say 'Pasadena'. You know, as though it were a well-known place in the market.
I could not find a 'Rising Sun' that made any proximate sense to either 1040 station, or to any other 1040 station. Is there a place called that by anyone here?
73 and tia. Have a hot cup on me.
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There is a house in New Orleans..
 
Coffee, Chips Ahoy and insomnia this early Monday morn 5-11.
One newie catch was WPDM Potsdam NY at 5:10. But dam -- the station is almost in the St. Lawrence River; local SRS is 5:52, and the log says WPDM is 44 watts at night.
Two 'Wild country dot com' ID's heard when they were atop the channel.

One ? catch a few minutes before that. Loud Fox News on 1420 (national and world) ended at 5:05, followed by what (pardon the oxymoron) sounded like dead air -- no programming, music or talk. It was as if the board op was in the can or asleep. None of the other stations on 1420 filled in the void with raised signals. I tuned away after 2 mins.
 


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