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Last night 1/10 about 2AM CST I picked up WPLO from Grayson, GA on 610 and Radio Progreso on 640. A couple other unusual catches for me were WBGZ 1570 from Alton, IL (St. Louis area) and KSWM Springfield, MO.

In recent days, have heard a few good ones.
The big 540, XEWA from San Luis Potosí
WLAP 630 Lexington, KY
WSGW 790 Saginaw, MI
KWDF 840 Ball, LA
KJOZ 880 Conroe, TX
CFMB 1280 Montreal
KXYZ 1320 Houston
KBHS 1420 Hot Springs, AR
Some of these are fairly rare for me but not my first time catching them.

Cedar Rapids, IA
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
KHND carries the Dakota News Network, based in Fargo owned by the ingstad family
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So it looks like Ada, MN is fairly close to Fargo, so that may explain it. I was surprised that KHND is just 1000 watts though.

This evening, there seemed to be some kind of Auroral Conditions going on. I was getting ground waves with almost no interference. Then I got a strong skywave with very little interference from WGBW 1590 Denmark, WI until it changed patterns and went from 10000 watts to 500 watts. Then it was essentially lost in the mess. It seemed like just the top of the band was being reflected, and I also heard WAAM 1600 Ann Arbor, MI which stays at 5000 watts Day and Night, but favors the North with both Day and Night patterns. No CKDO 1580 10000 watts Class A from Oshawa, ON was noted though.

Last Night, WWV was strong on 2500 kHz. Not as strong on 5000 kHz, and nearly nonexistent on 10000 kHz. CHU was strong on 3330 kHz.
 
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NEW LOG 1/11/2023 - first of the year from Yakima!

1380 - KVSM CA, Santa Maria; very weak La Raza ID and Regional Mexican music matching the website laraza1021.com. KTKZ and something else in there with NO sign of KRKO - definitely auroral!! NEW #817, only 500 watts at 800 miles.

KZSJ-1120 San Martin CA very dominate with a very weak KANN UT in the background. KTGE-1570 Salinas CA all alone but weak.
1420 just about dead as a doornail - no sign of the two usual WAs or anything else.

This is getting strange - CJYM-1330 SK at an S8 just about alone, while 1230 is nothing but semi-local KDYM Sunnyside and hardly anything underneath them!!!
 
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Conditions have been relatively poor, and I've been busy over the holidays, so not much DXing has been done. However, I have started to hear a few new things since 2023 began:

(Houston Texas, all times CST)

670 KHGZ AR Glenwood 1/13 1733 Country music, Caddo Country mention between songs //stream, under WSCR, Cuba
820 Radio Ciudad de la Habana Cuba, La Habana 1/13 1740 tropical music in WBAP null //stream. No sign of usual WWBA
1150 KHRO TX El Paso 1/13 1802 grupera mx, "La Suavecita 93.9 FM" ID //stream mixing w/WJBO and others
1300 XEXV Mexico San Francisco del Rincon, Gto. 1/2 2356 under KVET with pop music //stream. On day power?
1380 KKRX OK Lawton 1/1/2023 2243 sports talk mixing w/KBWD, KRCM, //stream
 
DX Alert: WMAC 940 Macon, Ga., is on 50 kW day power tonight. Loud and reasonable clear in the southwest suburbs of Chicago with RedEye Radio. Caught an ID at 12:54 a.m. CT. No sign of Montreal. Tip from Justin Wolffing in Minnesota via Twitter. Go for it!
 
Tried 940 around 2:30am CST this morning. At my location in the far northwest suburbs, it was all WFAW from Fort Atkinson, WI.
 
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S'sposedly there are three R.Relojs on 870 in Cuba and that the Wobbler is one of them. Perhaps someone on board here in FL can DF which one it is. (I do have a RReloj logged on 870 here, but that was from years ago. Dunno if thatone became the culprit.)

With the GE SR II here I found some time to do some pre SRS DXing today (Tues 1-17). Good Christmas -- what a racket the dial has become! One newie, that's all. 1570 yielded a classic country WVTL Amsterdam NY @ 6:50AM, still dark out here. They mentioned '104.7' and Amsterdam, and the calls, which narrowed it down considerably, hi. Good tape, too, into 'Chug a Lug' by Roger Miller.

Also got a nice tape of a re-log, The Dinosaur from Syracuse NY on 1390, playing 'Maggie May'. It's swell to hear music from the US on the AM dial nowadays, eh ?
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
It's swell to hear music from the US on the AM dial nowadays, eh ?
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It sure is!

Musically, the local AM dial in SF is pretty much dead. Aside from a handful of Spanish-language music stations (and a Bollywood/Indian music station on 1170), anything in English is all talk, sports, news and religion.

It would be quite refreshing to hear music (oldies, classic hits, etc) on AM, but it'll likely never happen.

c
 
WSVS 800 Crewe, Va. on 10 kW day power at 4:13 a.m. CT with an ID and country music rolling into the Chicago suburbs. 270 watt night power unlikely. Wiping out CKLW and whatever was under it.
 
Same here on the 5th of Januray, TcNut. WSVS on top of CKLW for quite a bit of tune-in time. VNN Virginia nBews Network cast at 1:03.
Pain in the miscuit it is, listening intently to ID a new overnight station and then finding out they're in the logbook already as a catch. Grrrr.
 
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Same here on the 5th of Januray, TcNut. WSVS on top of CKLW for quite a bit of tune-in time. VNN Virginia nBews Network cast at 1:03.
Pain in the miscuit it is, listening intently to ID a new overnight station and then finding out they're in the logbook already as a catch. Grrrr.
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Been there, done that. Just this morning, in fact, with WILS 1320 Lansing. Thought it was new, but nope, an oldie.
 
Monday nigh 1/16 9:10pm CST on the Durango, MX SDR. WBBM with a very weak signal and ads for Chicago area businesses.

As for WWL and and "The Wobbler", I haven't heard it yet. Just WWL zlond and not as strong as usual. I'm expecting to begin a five week stay at our beach location near Pensacola at the end of the month, so we'll see what turns up there. Lasr Febuary it was a weak R. Reloj sometimes under WWL\ at night,, but mostly no wobbler.
 
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Multi-asked again early this morning.
In recent times that condition has come to involve being wide awake at an unsociable hour and making use of the situation.
7:25 AM, pretty much daylight, GE SR 2 : The nighttime 1460 occupant from Rochester and daytime speedbump WTKT Harrisburg had faded into some cancellation zone / SRS mode, and in came a WATD Brockton Mass for quite some dominant-signal time. The newscast was long, top-40 paced, with many long voicers and actualities. The traffic report -- emphasis on 'the South Shore' -- and incredibly detailed weather made for some good tape. Radio-Locator lists them as WBMS, with WATD in parentheses. 5000 omni during the day.
 
Radio Nacional de Colombia on 680 is coming in pretty well in Chicago at 10:30 pm CST with Colombian music and frequent IDs.

WAYB 1220 Birmingham, Alabama is dominating the frequency tonight with Mexican music programming. Several IDs hear including mentions of 98.3 W252BE.
 
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Radio Nacional de Colombia on 680 is coming in pretty well in Chicago at 10:30 pm CST with Colombian music and frequent IDs.

WAYB 1220 Birmingham, Alabama is dominating the frequency tonight with Mexican music programming. Several IDs hear including mentions of 98.3 W252BE.
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I'm listening to another Radio Nacional tonight, form Brazil on 6*1*80
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I'm listening to another Radio Nacional tonight, form Brazil on 6*1*80
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I wonder how many Brazilian stations are left broadcasting on shortwave.
 


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