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A great E-skip opening this morning...just when you've had enough. It started early, at 7:45AM. Lasted through to 10AM, then back from 10:45-11:05AM. Many, many new logs, top-of-band to NE/IA, shifting to SD, then to MN. Also a surprise appearance by a station in northern Alberta! More details tonight.

KFAE and KOLU Pasco (89.1, 90.1) were logged by *double-hop* by someone in Milford IL!!! That's 85 miles south of Chicago. Tri-Cities stations were also received by Matt Sittel in Manhattan KS this morning, as well as several western MT stations (KYSS, KUFM, KIBG, etc.) and Alberta/eastern BC stations.
 
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VERY impressive list. Not every day you hear Canadian FMs in south Mississippi. The Toronto FMs transmit from the CN tower, which I believe is the tallest building in North America. What also got my attention was CJBC-FM 3 from Penetanguishene, ON. That's a resort town nearly 100 miles north-northeast of Toronto. I;ve been there. I had a customer in Midland, Ontario, who made it a point to make fun of me for my inability to pronounce the name of the place. I still can't! (I was actually in the same general area just a few weeks ago. Lovely.)

The only e-skip experience I.ve had that compares yours was in June 1994 and also involving Ontario. I was in Thunder Bay, on the north shore of Lake Superior atop a high bluff when my car radio lit up with a bunch of signals from the Jacksonville Daytona Beach area,
 
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This morning a little after 3AM CST, I was hearing a good signal from WISN, Milwaukee on 1130. Apparently on day power and/or pattern.

WISN's antenna farm is only about 35 miles northeast of me, 10kw night power, but their null protecting KWKH is so deep that I almost never hear them at my home location northwest of Chicago at night. In fact, my brother who's less than 20 miles from the site, can only barely hear WISN at night.

I'm not sure if this was just a one.off or if something's up. But I thought some of you guys might want to check this out. Especially if WISN is missing from your trophy case. :)
 
It looks like it's last-chance time for these Canadian stations, which Bell Canada announced today it will close due to bad economic conditions (plus cutting a bunch of non-AM stuff and staff, and selling three other AMs): Calgary 1060, Edmonton 1260, London, Ont., 1290, Vancouver 1040, Vancouver 1410 and Winnipeg 1290. The story on the Toronto Star website didn't note a closing date, so you may have a few days to DX them.
 
This is massive. 1060 will be a *much* different frequency this fall, the same with 1410. WHO-1040 will be easy in Vancouver when conditions are good. 1260 being off enables KPOW Powell WY and a few others to mix nightly.
I'd love to see a DX test out of these stations, but highly, highly doubt it. The only one I need is CJBK 1290.
 
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WISN is also sandwiched in between WBBR, WDFN, KFAN, and CKWX as well as protecting KWKH.
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Yep! Hence the tight pattern at night.

UPDATE: WISN missing this morning before sunrise at my location. In other words, 1130 was pretty much back to normal. So, initial indications would suggest that what I previously experienced this week was a one-off. I'll keep checking, however.

Sorry to hear that Bell Canada is closing those various AMs, but I can't really say that I'm surprised. According to CBC News. CHAM (820) and CKOC (1150) in Hamilton, ON are also being sold, along with CKWW in Windsor. The buyer has not been disclosed pending CRTC approval.
 
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It should say KTLK on 1130. I'd forgotten that they are storing KFAN on 1270 in Rochester.

WDFN, WISN, and KTLK all use similar 9 tower arrays at Night to protect themselves and the three Class As on the frequency.
 
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WDFN, WISN, and KTLK all use similar 9 tower arrays at Night to protect themselves and the three Class As on the frequency.
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Yep! David Eduardo and others have talked a little in previous posts about how this came about.

WISN moved from 1150 to 1130 in early 1965. For those of us in the Chicago area, the bottom line, was that WISN went from invisible during daytime and audible at night to the exact opposite.
 
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tvnut said:
It looks like it's last-chance time for these Canadian stations, which Bell Canada announced today it will close due to bad economic conditions (plus cutting a bunch of non-AM stuff and staff, and selling three other AMs): Calgary 1060, Edmonton 1260, London, Ont., 1290, Vancouver 1040, Vancouver 1410 and Winnipeg 1290. The story on the Toronto Star website didn't note a closing date, so you may have a few days to DX them.
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At least in Edmonton, 1260 was shut down at the time of the announcement.
 
1290 Winnipeg is now defunct and so is CFRN-1260 in Edmonton, opening up the channel in both of those markets for new nighttime DX.
 
For whatever reason, It's been a few months since I've gotten a new catch here at my home location in the far northwest Chicago suburbs. Finally got one this week...albeiit not very impressive. WHBL on 1330 from Sheboygan, WI. About an hour before sunrise on Monday morning, 6/12, Probably on 5kw day power. Sheboygan is roughly 50 miles north of Milwaukee, which puts it about 115 miles north of me. Both WHBL's day and 1kw night patterns are unfavorable towards the south. Which is my direction, and explains why I;ve never heard it here before. Having two semi-locals that fight it out during daytine on 1330 doesn''t help matters, A, t night 1330 here is several very weak signals. Seemingly none of which ever can manage to rise to the top.

Hey! I'll take a new catch anytime. Any way I can get it. No distance to small! :)
 
KRKK 1360 has been coming in quite reliably the past few nights.

It's kind of unusual to hear oldies on a frequency that usually serves up conservative talk (KFIV out of Modesto comes in during the day).

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The License to Cover Application for WISN 1130 was filed in February, 1965. It was not granted until 1967. I think it was around August, 1965, that I heard it at Crystal Lake near Frankfort, MI during Morning Critical Hours. It was on a 1960 vintage Magnavox transistor radio. They said they were now Wisconsin's first 50000 watt station, which confused me because I thought they were still on 1150, because it was difficult to tell the exact frequency in that range on the slide rule dial.

WHBL 1330 is only two towers Daytime. The nulls aren't that deep, about equivalent to the previous 1000 watts nondirectional Days, and it goes far into Michigan, across the Lake, interfering with WTRX 1330 by between Midland and Houghton Lake, unless you can null it out. The Night nulls are also not very deep, about equivalent to the previous 250 watts nondirectional. It was one of Charles L. Carrell's mobile stations that ended up in Sheboygan. It used to sign off at 10:00 PM.
 
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I would have said it, But I was waiting for the Bus so I just typed it fast

Sangean DT-400W radio

Now I'm home, I can see KZAP's Playlist
 
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