You are correct, sir! Just sneaking in here under some talker and a mish-mosh of others.
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Nice job on getting so many stations. Right now I live in an apartment in a high-rise building in Chicago, and I have to stick my radio near the window and hope for the best. This makes nulling stations difficult, and when we have these auroral conditions I might get one or two or three new ones, but never a whole list of new stations like you did last night.
The other night just before 1900Hrs here in Fort Myers FL I caught a good bit of WBZ AM which was about a 1200 mile hop, over the Cubans and a couple of other stations competing for the space.
It used to be an easy catch years ago, now not so much
It used to be an easy catch years ago, now not so much
I've been hearing West Palm Beach here (Fort Myers) daytime on 850, alone with a pretty good signal. No trace of Cuba
As mentioned before, I picked up MW DXing again recently from DFW, Texas, after having been active in the hobby during the early 1970's in Tampa, FL.
Over the past 3 months, I have logged 400 stations from the DFW northern suburbs. My receiver is a Sangean ATS-909X.
I thought it would be interesting to share the breakdown of stations by state, etc.
Over the past 3 months, I have logged 400 stations from the DFW northern suburbs. My receiver is a Sangean ATS-909X.
I thought it would be interesting to share the breakdown of stations by state, etc.
Stations Logged | State/Province/Other |
124 | Texas |
26 | Oklahoma |
24 | Louisiana |
23 | Missouri |
17 | Arkansas |
16 | Kansas |
14 | Cuba |
13 | Ciudad de México |
12 | Nuevo León |
11 | Tennessee |
10 | Chihuahua |
10 | Iowa |
9 | Colorado |
9 | Nebraska |
7 | New Mexico |
6 | Illinois |
5 | Alabama |
5 | Florida |
5 | Mississippi |
5 | Tamaulipas |
4 | Georgia |
4 | Ontario |
3 | California |
3 | Minnesota |
3 | Ohio |
3 | South Dakota |
3 | Wyoming |
2 | Coahuila |
2 | Manitoba |
2 | Michigan |
2 | Montana |
2 | North Dakota |
2 | New York |
2 | Saskatchewan |
2 | Utah |
1 | Arizona |
1 | Bahamas |
1 | Kentucky |
1 | Massachusetts |
1 | Neth. Antilles |
1 | Pennsylvania |
1 | Sinaloa |
1 | San Luis Potosí |
1 | Wisconsin |
1 | Zacatecas |
400 | Grand Total |
Its 100 watts.. has special temporary authority and has had it
Logged a surprising new station while hanging out in the 1490 graveyard - WCOR in Lebanon, TN. Last Saturday around 7 p.m. CT I was hearing occasional country music under country station KPLT in Paris, TX. The station faded up twice with "Real Country" IDs.
The branding was unfamiliar to me at the time, and I later narrowed it down to WCOR and WSNT. After midnight this morning, I did more listening on 1490 and heard another "Real Country" ID. The music and ID matched the WCOR stream as well as the IDs I heard last weekend.
This is my second furthest U.S. graveyard logging at 849 miles.
The branding was unfamiliar to me at the time, and I later narrowed it down to WCOR and WSNT. After midnight this morning, I did more listening on 1490 and heard another "Real Country" ID. The music and ID matched the WCOR stream as well as the IDs I heard last weekend.
This is my second furthest U.S. graveyard logging at 849 miles.
When I lived in Fla., I recall keeping 950, Miami, which was then progressive talk, almost all the way to Sarasota on I-75. It was very staticy.
850 came in okay in Fort Myers, too, but didn't last too long going north.
Except in alaska.. lol.. My farthest graveyard log here is KPYV 1340 Oroville, CA.. about 2350 miles
Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ELOkDZR56eNuKDq1WL9EijWbutl_zR41/view?usp=sharing
Second farthest is KVTO 1400 Berkley, San Francisco.. and next farthest is !490 KCID Caldwell, ID somewhere around 1900 miles.\
My most regular graveyarder is KIHH 1400 Eureka, CA and in the grand scheme of what a graveyarder is, it can pound in. Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13elspiiURyB5zGGEGDx4Zjexn9CXJj9F/view?usp=sharing
There is no 950 in Miami... there is one on 940, though. 850 is West Palm Beach, not Miami.
From Quito, I got several North Dakota and Montana "graveyarders" at around 3,500 miles back when all of the former Class IV stations were 250 watts at night.
And from Cleveland, got lots of Great Plains, even West Texas and New Mexico and one CA and one CO just by regularly checking for unusual evening propagation conditions.
Still in Ft. Myers this morning. Next stop later today is just up the road in Sarasota.
940 is one of the better Miam daytimei signals here (Ft Myers). Not great, but between fair and good. 560 is surprisingly weak, but the bigger surprise is 610 which is getting trashed by Cuba. And of course 670 and 710 are also a mix of Cuba and Miami. 790 also mixes with Cuba, but Miami gets the better of it thanks to their STA. Cuba trips the scan button in the car on 530. 640, 950, and 1180.
Unfortunately my hotel here is not a good DX spot. I've been in worse, but there's still a rather high noise floor. A hospital and shopping mall across the street probably don't help matters
When I first visited south Fla., I was totally unimpressed with 610's signal.
Todd Schnitt, one of 610's former hosts, on his national show once said the signal "beams" up the Eastern Coast to Melbourne, etc.
What I found, however, was how weak 610 was even just a little north of West Palm.
I can't remember getting 610 so well in Naples/Fort Myers, but recall 940 and 850 being the strongest, with 940 receivable, enough to hear Rhandi Rhodes' national talk show, but in lots of static, to about Sarasota.