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Picked up 88.9 WOJB from Reserve, Wisconsin on my car radio in Manville, NJ today around 12:30 PM (including the call letters displayed by RDS), about 920 miles away.
 
Report coming on NE/IA/MO/SD skip I had earlier. Matt Sittel in Bellevue, NE heard my local 100.9 Cherry FM (KARY) in Yakima!!
 
Cedar Rapids, IA, about 1 PM July 14. Two separate French-language stations on 96.9. One was a CHR station, maybe CKOI Montreal; the other what sounded like community radio; both fading in and out. Could not get IDs on either -- I mention them only because French-language programming suggests Quebec (or northeast Ontario or New Brunswick) and I've heard Quebec FMs via summer e-skip a couple of times before in eastern Iowa.
 
I had Es from two locations today - Edinburgh, Indiana Global Tuners AND locally in Ellensburg! Ellensburg logs will be in a separate thread.

Edinburgh IN this morning, around 11AM CT. Notice the jarring path switch from WY to MARITIMES!!!
93.7 KYTI Sheridan WY - So strong it sounded like an Indy local. RDS 'SheridanMedia.com'
97.9 KTAG Cody WY - local ads
97.5 KDLY Lander WY - IDed
MASSIVE path switch to Maritimes!
UNID 107.5 French one of two SRC's in NS
CBH-FM 102.7 Halifax, CBH-FM-2 103.1 Mulgrave NS // classical music
100.9 CKTO Truro NS 'Bounce'

Then had to leave since Es was starting out west (i.e., here!)
 
The Milford PA receiver had Chris Dunne (cd637299) and someone else on there, so I stayed on Edinburgh where I was the lone user for the 20 or so minutes. Then Es started hitting the west and I had to QRT.

Randy Zerr in Goldfield NV (RVing) had WBCT-93.7 Grand Rapids (320,000 flaming watts!) on DOUBLE HOP...along with WNWN-98.5 Coldwater MI (Win 98.5) and CKUE-95.1 Chatham ON Cool FM, over 1,850 miles this morning! That path switch to Maritimes from Wyoming sure resulted in classic 2Es...
 
Here in Chicago, I made yet another attempt to catch KNX on 1070, and instead I was met with a Spanish-language music station that was coming in quite well. A little sleuthing revealed that it was WCSZ in Sans Souci, South Carolina. They normally broadcast at 50KW during the day and 1.5 KW at night. Since it was about 1 AM there I'm thinking they were "pulling an all nighter".

This was my first South Carolina station, and now I have gotten at least one station in each Southern state.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
Here in Chicago, I made yet another attempt to catch KNX on 1070, and instead I was met with a Spanish-language music station that was coming in quite well. A little sleuthing revealed that it was WCSZ in Sans Souci, South Carolina. They normally broadcast at 50KW during the day and 1.5 KW at night. Since it was about 1 AM there I'm thinking they were "pulling an all nighter".

This was my first South Carolina station, and now I have gotten at least one station in each Southern state.
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Well at least you got a good catch. I haven't heard KNX in the Chicago area in years, but when I did I found the best
time to hear it was right before Chicago sunrise in the 2nd half of October right before we turn back the clocks in early Nov. If that time of the morning works for you try for it then you might get a good shot at it.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
Here in Chicago, I made yet another attempt to catch KNX on 1070, and instead I was met with a Spanish-language music station that was coming in quite well. A little sleuthing revealed that it was WCSZ in Sans Souci, South Carolina.
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Like Radioman, I haven't heard KNX at my location in Crystal Lake for quite a while. Probably at least ten years or so. KNX used to be relatively easy to pick out of the slop on the channel, because they had a unique "traffic and weather together" sounder that cut through the noise. Unfortunately, that thing is long gone. But that said, I'm sure the signal makes it to the Chicago area on occasion. so it's probably worth it to keep trying.
 
cyberdad said:
Like Radioman, I haven't heard KNX at my location in Crystal Lake for quite a while. Probably at least ten years or so. KNX used to be relatively easy to pick out of the slop on the channel, because they had a unique "traffic and weather together" sounder that cut through the noise. Unfortunately, that thing is long gone. But that said, I'm sure the signal makes it to the Chicago area on occasion. so it's probably worth it to keep trying.
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I occasionally receive KNX here in Overland Park, Kansas in the last 2 hours before my local sunrise. The signal is never strong. I did receive them once during my local evening critical hours. This was quite a surprise. My most recent L.A. log was actually KFI this past winter right before my local sunrise.

Bob
 
WCSZ has been in with good signal almost every time I checked the last week or so.

Have not heard KNX in while either.
 
radioman148 said:
Well at least you got a good catch. I haven't heard KNX in the Chicago area in years, but when I did I found the best
time to hear it was right before Chicago sunrise in the 2nd half of October right before we turn back the clocks in early Nov. If that time of the morning works for you try for it then you might get a good shot at it.
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I wasn't really expecting to get it, but WCSZ was a pleasant surprise. I've never gotten anything west of Denver, but I still try "hopeful" frequencies from time to time. The predawn time frame would be the best time to try, but unfortunately for me that counts as the middle of the night. So I generally go for midnight-1AM attempts, knowing that it's pretty unlikely to yield anything. But it's the thought that counts, right? ;)
 
It's probably been 10 years since I've heard KNX. Night was always a bit tougher, but as cyberdad said that traffic/weather sounder made it stand out. The late October pre-sunrise was when I had the best shot at hit. Sometimes it would come in pretty well on my car radio.
 
I used to have a major customer in Columbus, Nebraska (1980s-90s). KNX was fairly reliable there with a pretty good signal. But between there and Omaha, 92 miles to thre east, it just "dropped". In Omaha, it would be weak, if I could hear it at all. I observed that phenomenon one night on a nearly empty flight with my SRF-37 Walkman from California to Chicago. The flight path took me right over Nebraska, and it was strong for a couple of hours, then "now you hear it, now you don't"!
 
cyberdad said:
I used to have a major customer in Columbus, Nebraska (1980s-90s). KNX was fairly reliable there with a pretty good signal. But between there and Omaha, 92 miles to thre east, it just "dropped". In Omaha, it would be weak, if I could hear it at all. I observed that phenomenon one night on a nearly empty flight with my SRF-37 Walkman from California to Chicago. The flight path took me right over Nebraska, and it was strong for a couple of hours, then "now you hear it, now you don't"!
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Tongue firmly inserted in cheek: that was the "Canadian Barrier", an RF shield set up to protect CBA in Moncton. It was made up of microscopic granulated moose horns floated in the ionosphere.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Or maybe the signal was CHOKed off by Sarnia.
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CHOK isn't quite the pest that it used to be at my location. Although it still occasionaly turns up. Either their DA has changed, or more likely has been fixed. Right now the issues here for KNX are KHMO, WTSO, and the Indianapolis 1070 (ex-WIBC), in roughly that order. Along with CHOK and an assortment of other, usually unidentifiable weaker signals.
 
cyberdad said:
CHOK isn't quite the pest that it used to be at my location. Although it still occasionaly turns up. Either their DA has changed, or more likely has been fixed. Right now the issues here for KNX are KHMO, WTSO, and the Indianapolis 1070 (ex-WIBC), in roughly that order. Along with CHOK and an assortment of other, usually unidentifiable weaker signals.
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CHOK would dominate in Lafayette IN when I lived there, running a national Canadian oldies network at night. This because apparently they spent quite some time on day pattern at night, plus WIBC's tight southeast pattern.
 


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