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[cyberdad]

Just some generic observations. Some smaller Chicago area stations do well, WIND on 560, WMFL on 640, on the other end of the dial, WCGO on 1560 late into the morning and around sunset tag teaming with WTVB, WAAM Ann Arbor with several others at various times of the day. WTSO, Madison owns 1070 into the late morning. CHOK is never in.

WMFN's night signl gets out surprisingly well, IMHO. It seems to turn up in places where I'm not sure I'd expect to hear it. As for WCGO, they're on 1590 not 1560. Is that what you meant? I don't hear them at my location.....but they come in just fine at my wife's brother's house. Which is a mile away from their stick.

 

[icybluelake]

DXing tonight from midtown Manhattan -- well, sort of -- I basically turned on the radio to see what was there. In the few spaces not taken up by spillover from local signals, I had a got a couple of stations that surprised me. CKAT 600 North Bay, ON, and CBEF. Now usually, I don't even mess with DX when I am here, I just assume that it's probably the worst place in North America for this activity. So I don't know what to expect. Maybe CBEF is not unusual. The other stations I heard were expected. WHAS, CHML, CJBC, etc.

 

[gr8oldies]

WMFN's night signl gets out surprisingly well, IMHO. It seems to turn up in places where I'm not sure I'd expect to hear it. As for WCGO, they're on 1590 not 1560. Is that what you meant? I don't hear them at my location.....but they come in just fine at my wife's brother's house. Which is a mile away from their stick.

Yes 1590, my mistake on that. Those top-of the band stations skip everywhere but often aren't heard as well close in.

 

[davideduardo]

Mexican condition are good tonight as well. Logged a new one on 590 kHz at 8:06 PM CST. XEPH Mexico City with mexican music and "Sabrosita" mentions. Matched to web stream which was about 10 seconds behind.

If 590 was playing "Mexican" music, it was not XEPH... XEPH plays a mix of mostly salsa (Puerto Rican) merengue (Dominican) and cumbia (Colombian), which are not Mexican.

 

[asugeorge1]

KFI AM 640 Los Angeles is currently off the air for some maintenance so this is a good opportunity to DX AM 640 for those on the West Coast. Right now, I am hearing a couple of Spanish language stations fighting it out, one of which is Spanish language music which I believe is coming from Mexico because it is a pest in the background of KFI during the evening hours even in north San Diego County until about 10:00 PM when it presumably powers down. Enjoy the DX opportunity!

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

It's nice to know that so much SRS reception is still available -- and a relatively low QRM. Lately I;ve been back on my third-shift schedule, as I'd been for maybe ten of my former 26 years as a jock, and will get to spin some dial AN to see what pops in. Just like the olde days.
Three targets right off the bat are WGMF 1460 Tunkhannock PA, the new WYNY 1450 from Milford PA on the Delaware, and 'why not' WDLC Port Jervis 1490.
There is a Milford PA SDR setup, and WDLC is loud on it. Jervis itself is in a hole .... trains and a river and canal .... and our semi-local WAZL Hazleton is on a mountain, but one can try, eh ?
There is an SDR rig in Spring Brook (Scranton) PA, on which the elusive WGMF (Gem 104) has a nice signal. Perhaps one lucky morning I can collect the hat trick of all three.
Exhibiting my hobby apathy and negligence : One morning we were doing breakfast. It was after the clocks had been adjusted. Linda was busying herself cadging my blueberries and pouring them into her blueberry yogurt, and I was DXing off the GE SR II. A fairly loud station was coming in. I caught a weather forecast and left a message inquiring if they were the station (there was some uncertainty about the COL).
Well, the PD called me back and verified it all. And it was his wife who did the weather. We talked for a while and he asked if I would cut a liner for the station over the phone. Sure. I said somethng silly, like 'Hello! This is Steve Green from Frackville Pennsylvania, and we'd like you to know that every time they adjust the clocks, we tune into W____ at breakfast'.
Thing is, I did not add it to the log. So I don't remember what station it was for!
Small world: The PD was from up this way and very familiar with Frackville, Shenandoah, Pottsville et al.

 

[TXPH97]

New loggings from DFW, Texas. Receiver: Sangean ATS-909X Times are CST.

770 KKOB NM Albuquerque 0430 12/3/2021 Red-eye Radio, ABC news at 0500 then America in the Morning, very weak under XEFTRM's pop music with local KAAM nulled

930 WLSS FL Sarasota 0530 12/3/2021 Local traffic for Hwy 301, Cortez Blvd, mention of 93.7 FM, local ad with 941 area code weak fading up occasionally and mixing with UnID Classic Country station

930 WTAD IL Quincy 0607 12/3/2021 WTAD ID with local weather fair

 

[ZantennaG1]

The morning of December 3rd, 2021, around 7:30 am MDT, from Cheyenne, WY

New Loggings: on 1150, I was hearing programming from Fox Sports Radio, and I was facing north at the time, which would be KIMM Rapid City. Of course, I had logged that station the last time I did go to RC, but not at home until now/
On 1550, there were two stations competing whilst I was facing NE/SW. One of them mentioned NPR over and over again, so I presume that's KUAZ Tucson, right? (Also, they must have just turned on their day power of 50kw). The other-station was talking about an Oakland area police incident, so is it a stretch to say KGMZ here?

Relogs:
1160 KSL, 1330 KOVE Riverton, WY, 1500 KSTP, and 1540 KXEL.
Overall, a pretty good morning. I Dxed on a Radiwow R-108 using the internal ferrite antenna with no extras.

 

[cyberdad]

DXing tonight from midtown Manhattan -- well, sort of -- I basically turned on the radio to see what was there. In the few spaces not taken up by spillover from local signals, I had a got a couple of stations that surprised me. CKAT 600 North Bay, ON, and CBEF. Now usually, I don't even mess with DX when I am here, I just assume that it's probably the worst place in North America for this activity. So I don't know what to expect. Maybe CBEF is not unusual. The other stations I heard were expected. WHAS, CHML, CJBC, etc.

Interesting stuff. Sounds like DXing in Central London. Tough, but where there's a will, there's a way (usually).

WHAS actually didn't surprise me. Legendary New York DJ Bruce Morrow (Cousin Brucie) once in an interview at least 25 years ago called out Joe Donovan's all night WHAS oldies show as a go-to.

 

[cyberdad]

New one for me this morning. Just after 5am CST on 1310: WCCW from Traverse City MI.

Steady signal for about 10 minutes with WIBA nulled. Country music and IDed as "WTCM Country" (Co-branded with sisters statiom WTCM/580). I'm not sure whether they were on 7.5kw night power or 15kw day pattern. Either way I should have been in a rather deep null. Maybe they were on a non-directional STA. Whatever. Distance: 215 miles. Radio: C Crane Skywave.

 

[radioman148]

DXing tonight from midtown Manhattan -- well, sort of -- I basically turned on the radio to see what was there. In the few spaces not taken up by spillover from local signals, I had a got a couple of stations that surprised me. CKAT 600 North Bay, ON, and CBEF. Now usually, I don't even mess with DX when I am here, I just assume that it's probably the worst place in North America for this activity. So I don't know what to expect. Maybe CBEF is not unusual. The other stations I heard were expected. WHAS, CHML, CJBC, etc.

Glad to know that's still possible at least to some degree. Many years ago I DXed from midtown Manhattan and heard a strong CKLW during it's Top 40 days. Also heard a clear WJJD signing off at SLC sundown. This was well before 1160 became so crowded.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

New one for me this morning. Just after 5am CST on 1310: WCCW from Traverse City MI.

Steady signal for about 10 minutes with WIBA nulled. Country music and IDed as "WTCM Country" (Co-branded with sisters statiom WTCM/580). I'm not sure whether they were on 7.5kw night power or 15kw day pattern. Either way I should have been in a rather deep null. Maybe they were on a non-directional STA. Whatever. Distance: 215 miles. Radio: C Crane Skywave.

WCCW 1310 has taken their 4 tower array down already. They are broadcasting from the old WCCW 1310 tower, the same one David broadcast from in the 1960s! The STA is for 3.25 kW Day, 1.875 kW Night Nondirectional.

 

[cyberdad]

WCCW 1310 has taken their 4 tower array down already. They are broadcasting from the old WCCW 1310 tower, the same one David broadcast from in the 1960s! The STA is for 3.25 kW Day, 1.875 kW Night Nondirectional.

Thanks, that explains it. It had slipped my mind that we had talked about this just last month.

 

[TXPH97]

Location: DFW, Texas Receiver: Sangean ATS-909X, unless otherwise noted. Times are CST.

I have been trying to ID a classic country station on 930 for a couple of nights. It always seemed to fade at ID time. Finally got a clear ID last night:

930 KCCC NM Carlsbad 2305 12/3/2021 KCCC Carlbad ID, Classic country - Wichita Lineman, Looking for Love, weak to fair with fading.

The Force was strong with Mexican stations last night, new stations logged:

730 XEHB MEX Rancho Primero 0640 12/4/2021 La Mexicana ID, regional Mexican music, strong in local KKDA null
970 XEJ MEX Ciudad Juárez 2145 12/3/2021 Upbeat Spanish music followed by Santa Baby in English in local KHVN null // stream
1170 XERT MEX Reynosa 2200 12/3/2021 Ke Buena ID Spanish, mixing with normally dominant KTSB music strong signal // stream
1190 XECT MEX Monterrey 2153 12/3/2021 Contemporary/romantic Spanish music, taking over local KFXR // stream
1290 KRGE TX Weslaco 1730 12/2/2021 Spanish R. Vida ID // stream weak
1300 XEP MEX Ciudad Juárez 2140 12/3/2021 Male Spanish talk, strong on top // stream

Finally, logged a few nearby stations during the daytime that I had not been able to hear by tuning on my car radio outside of my house RFI:

1240 KVSO OK Ardmore 1010 12/3/2021 Sports talk, Oklahoma ads, weak on top
1290 KFWS TX Wichita Falls 0945 12/3/2021 Brian Kilmead show, Newstalk Texahoma ID
1410 KNTX TX Bowie 1015 12/3/2021 Oldies Rubber Band Man weak // stream

 

[radioman148]

Has anyone heard any DX so far this season on the Arctic SDR? I've had no luck. About the only station I've heard is sports from the UK on 1089 and not very well.

 

[CADXER]

You mean that is the only station you hear on the receiver?

I have not heard anything extraordinary lately, but there is DX out there, including signals from Asia, Europe and Middle East.

However the reception is not as good as it used to be in the past. It would appear that their antenna set up is different from previous years. There is also increased noise on the receiver making reception more difficult. It appears that the owners scaled down this SDR. In the past they used to have a set up with two different antennas each favoring different areas (North America/Asia).

 

[radioman148]

You mean that is the only station you hear on the receiver?

I have not heard anything extraordinary lately, but there is DX out there, including signals from Asia, Europe and Middle East.

However the reception is not as good as it used to be in the past. It would appear that their antenna set up is different from previous years. There is also increased noise on the receiver making reception more difficult. It appears that the owners scaled down this SDR. In the past they used to have a set up with two different antennas each favoring different areas (North America/Asia).

One night I heard a very weak signal on 680 but couldn't get an ID. I was trying for KBRW, but too weak to get an ID. At the times I've been trying I'm going for North America, but so far no luck. I've also noticed increased noise.

 

[CADXER]

I just took the Arctic SDR for a little spin between 2100-2115 UTC and the band is dominated by stations from Iran and Spain. I did hear Voice of America in English on 1431 kHz from Djibouti and 1530 kHz from Sao Tome. Also couple Greek pirates on 1611 kHz and 1629 kHz (Radio Anatolia).

 

[radioman148]

I just took the Arctic SDR for a little spin between 2100-2115 UTC and the band is dominated by stations from Iran and Spain. I did hear Voice of America in English on 1431 kHz from Djibouti and 1530 kHz from Sao Tome. Also couple Greek pirates on 1611 kHz and 1629 kHz (Radio Anatolia).

It sounds like the SDR may be open to Europe and the Middle East, but later at night/early morning not North America.

 

[gr8oldies]

It sounds like the SDR may be open to Europe and the Middle East, but later at night/early morning not North America.

When I used it a couple of years ago, reception was possible from wherever it was dark (northern hemisphere of course) since it was dark almost 24/7 at the receiver site.