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boombox4 said:
Have you tried rigging an open loop (maybe 3-4 ft of wire) between the whip and a radio ground? That's how my Sony XDR (with TEF chip inside, although it's a different number) receives the AM band. A simple one turn loop. DXes very well.
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No need/point, with the big loop on a stand i have.
 
I had an unbelievable 3-foot box loop. Then I retired it and took it down. No room in the storage :cry:
I'd love to hook up something awesome, like a D-KAZ...but believe me I will NOT have the capability for that when I move to Idaho regardless. That's going to take about 4-5 years until I can get my own place and install it myself out on the open acreage.

I have my Select-A-Tenna now. What's the big loop that you have, Paul? Custom-built or not?
 
crainbebo said:
I had an unbelievable 3-foot box loop. Then I retired it and took it down. No room in the storage :cry:
I'd love to hook up something awesome, like a D-KAZ...but believe me I will NOT have the capability for that when I move to Idaho regardless. That's going to take about 4-5 years until I can get my own place and install it myself out on the open acreage.

I have my Select-A-Tenna now. What's the big loop that you have, Paul? Custom-built or not?
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Wellbrook.. the control box thing and amp head.. you supply your own coax of any length. wellbrook closed last year and the founder died a few months ago
 
I got my first FM e-skip catches of 2024 in Clifton, NJ yesterday.

88.9 WQCS "WQCS FM 88.9" Fort Pierce, FL (Distance: 994 mi / 1,601 km)

89.3 WRMB "Moody Radio" Boynton Beach, FL (Distance: 1,050 mi / 1,691 km)

90.9 WSOR "Moody Radio Florida" Naples, FL (Distance: 1,093 mi / 1,760 km)

90.9 WLFE "Vida Unida" Cutler Bay, FL (Distance: 1,133 mi / 1,824 km)
 
It's been happening above 40N latitude, but it's backed off now. AM is wiped out in WA with only a few big stations in, and even graveyards are groundwave. I expect Mario won't have anything from the north on AM except groundwave. So no KOMO, no KEX, etc. from SF is my guess.

All of my auroral FM DX logs are in another thread.
 
I'm seeing the lights faintly here in the East SFBA, and I have a report from a reliable source of very impressive lights in Lake County, about 130 miles north.

I haven't checked the radio recently, but when I scanned through AM in my car earlier (around 8:30-ish), and aside from hearing more Spanish than usual, things seemed pretty normal.

Of course, by now, things may be different. I'm tempted to check it out, but I have an early day tomorrow.

c
 
Aurora affected the MW band in Clifton, NJ. I received mostly locals and lots of noise, but the graveyard frequencies weren't cluttered up like they usually are. That allowed me to identify what stations were on those frequencies. I got a few stations that I normally only get in the daytime during the late night hours. I also logged two new stations. They were 1340 WALL "WALL Radio" Middletown, NY and 1550 WQCD "My 92.9" Delaware, OH.
 
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MarioMania said:
I don't know about 1520 KKXA, I never really DX that
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I received KKXA down at my location once, maybe early last year sometime, though I don't remember if it was off the air directly through my radio or through a nearby KiwiSDR. At any rate, as I recall, reception wasn't the greatest, but it was good enough for me to ID it.

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I thought this clip was worth sharing, I find it interesting on a few levels.

this is the Voice Of America's Amharic language service, on 15660kzh via Wooferton (UK) to East Africa in the 1800UTC hour on Apr 13th, beaming to East Africa. It was heard quite well at my Alaska QTH with my TEF6686, big ass loop, antenna tuner and DXE Preamp.

Whats interesting is.. the signal is solidly there the whole time.. and they're playing english language disco hits!

VOA Amharic 15660khz 1839UTC Sat apr 13, 2024.MP3

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This is the VOA in english with music, via Botswana to East Africa on 15580khz from Sat apr 13, 2024 for nearly an hour beginning at 2042UTC.... signal was so strong, solid and clear, I opened my audio filter up to 8khz!

VOA Eng 15580khz Sat apr 13, 2024 1942UTC.MP3

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Despite all the solar activity, the AM band seems relatively normal to me, except I did have a new catch with KCBL 1340 Fresno.

MarioMania said:
At 12:05am in Vallejo, CA

It's blank on 1000, 1160 & 1190
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1000 is blank, and 1160 is quite noisy (I can't tell if it's the usual KSL or something else; whatever station it is seems to be airing an old time radio program), but 1190 is coming in like a local.

c
 


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