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Another brief FM Es opening this evening. Didn't last long and then died.
KXOO is tentative but likely is this. KAYM is new.
This is another Es opening when DXmaps was plotting mostly green 50s. If you see a big 6M opening without yellow or something try for FM anyways as it could easily happen. It has for me multiple times
KXOO is tentative but likely is this. KAYM is new.
This is another Es opening when DXmaps was plotting mostly green 50s. If you see a big 6M opening without yellow or something try for FM anyways as it could easily happen. It has for me multiple times
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Auroral wipeout again on WA/BC SDRs, also not much skywave getting into Alberta tonight as well. 1430 KCLK Asotin WA is one of the strongest right now.
Weiser ID and Stevensville MT SDRs are more like semi-Au at best. Oregon getting in just fine. Also KTWO, KSL, etc. getting in fine. 1120 is KANN and KPNW on the ID SDR, just KANN on the MT SDR, but no sign of the UNID SSer that was in Friday night (likely the 100W station in Mexicali).
KHTS-1220 still dominant on both SDRs. KCSF-1300 Colorado Springs dominant on the Weiser ID SDR.
Weiser ID and Stevensville MT SDRs are more like semi-Au at best. Oregon getting in just fine. Also KTWO, KSL, etc. getting in fine. 1120 is KANN and KPNW on the ID SDR, just KANN on the MT SDR, but no sign of the UNID SSer that was in Friday night (likely the 100W station in Mexicali).
KHTS-1220 still dominant on both SDRs. KCSF-1300 Colorado Springs dominant on the Weiser ID SDR.
^^^^ I didn't check all the usual MW DX channels last night, but I did check a few of them.... 670 was devoid of KMZQ (usually peeks through KBOI's tight null at least half the time), no KGB-AM on 760 (usually just in there, buried in the splash from KTTH/KXTG), nothing unusual on 1480 or 1260 -- aside from a cameo appearance of KPAY, Chico, on 1260 with a lengthy Fox Sports promo, which was cool. They're actually fairly rare here. 1700 had XEPE and a couple UNIDs, and 1660 had KBRE, 1670 had KQMS/KHPY. The usual culprits. So it's back to normal I guess.
Location: South King County, WA
Location: South King County, WA
When was at my brothers was trying for something on 1310
Nothing, I could hear something, But Very Weak, Not Audable
Nothing, I could hear something, But Very Weak, Not Audable
And even more FM Es last night May 15th. Apparently also went to top of band to NV from AR. For me, Stuff around TX to OK with a few things from NM. Mostly relogs but several new things too.
Have I/Q files to look at so stuff will likely be added.
Quite a good may with lots Es happening. Besides FM there is a lot of 10m and 6m Es openings.
Have I/Q files to look at so stuff will likely be added.
Quite a good may with lots Es happening. Besides FM there is a lot of 10m and 6m Es openings.
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Slow Steve here, DXing from a temporary spot from a fixer-upper caught a weird one on Friday afternoon called 'Wilbur, 99.7'. Pretty loud and steady through the siege of QRM at the place. But it turned out to be far more of a heads-up for others than a new catch.
Apparently, the decades-durable full-service WLBR Lebanon, downstate from here, fading in the Harrisburg ratings for several years, is no longer family-owned. No more local news and provincialism; no more livestock, Amish noodle and egg-nog futures.
What caught my ear was a ghastly, endless, thoroughly unnecessary, terminally-diseased male vocal remake of 'Dancing In The Streets', then a voice-tracked female DJ went into a starry-eyed filibuster about Steve Tyler doing another show soon, followed by --- what else -- a long, ceaseless version of the otherwise sweet 45 'Just My Imagination'.
'WiLbuR. 99.7'. W-L-B-R. Duh, Green.
Just passing this along. That music mix alone should stand out for someone here. Hard enough just to find music from an AM station nowadays, let alone identify it when it doesn't want you listening to it on the AM dial.
Apparently, the decades-durable full-service WLBR Lebanon, downstate from here, fading in the Harrisburg ratings for several years, is no longer family-owned. No more local news and provincialism; no more livestock, Amish noodle and egg-nog futures.
What caught my ear was a ghastly, endless, thoroughly unnecessary, terminally-diseased male vocal remake of 'Dancing In The Streets', then a voice-tracked female DJ went into a starry-eyed filibuster about Steve Tyler doing another show soon, followed by --- what else -- a long, ceaseless version of the otherwise sweet 45 'Just My Imagination'.
'WiLbuR. 99.7'. W-L-B-R. Duh, Green.
Just passing this along. That music mix alone should stand out for someone here. Hard enough just to find music from an AM station nowadays, let alone identify it when it doesn't want you listening to it on the AM dial.
In the aftermath of last Thursday's storm, several Houston-area AM's are still off. KLAT 1010, KBRZ 1460, and KMIC 1590. The latter two have been off occasionally but I've never noticed KLAT off since we moved here. Thus, I caught two new ones on 1010 last night (times CDT):
1010 KBBW TX Waco 5/21 2358 end of Jay Sekulow show (I think), ID (as 105.9, 101.3, 100.3 and 1010), more Christian talk
1010 WJXL FL Jacksonville, 5/22 0013 poor in KBBW null w/ads and sports //stream.
1010 unID 5/22 2345 EE oldies just barely there under KBBW. Thought I heard a snippet of "Closing Time" //XEHL stream but not enough to ID
I've noticed WJXL dominating the frequency on the Galveston SDR. I would expect WJBR and/or WMOX to be in there also, but no sign of them.
1010 KBBW TX Waco 5/21 2358 end of Jay Sekulow show (I think), ID (as 105.9, 101.3, 100.3 and 1010), more Christian talk
1010 WJXL FL Jacksonville, 5/22 0013 poor in KBBW null w/ads and sports //stream.
1010 unID 5/22 2345 EE oldies just barely there under KBBW. Thought I heard a snippet of "Closing Time" //XEHL stream but not enough to ID
I've noticed WJXL dominating the frequency on the Galveston SDR. I would expect WJBR and/or WMOX to be in there also, but no sign of them.
Another new one tonight.
1590 KELP TX El Paso 5/22 2324 good signal with Christian talk, KELP jingle (!) at 2330, another Christian show. Listed 800w night
I forgot to add
On May 14 when I was the Amtrak going back to Sacramento listening to my Sangean DT-200X
Around like 9am Both are Spanish
Music on 103.7 close to Davis
Talking on 106.9 in Sacrameto, I think I could still hear it when I got off the train at 9:15am
Going to listen again next week when I go again
I can't find anything on radio-locator
Maybe a Pirate?
On May 14 when I was the Amtrak going back to Sacramento listening to my Sangean DT-200X
Around like 9am Both are Spanish
Music on 103.7 close to Davis
Talking on 106.9 in Sacrameto, I think I could still hear it when I got off the train at 9:15am
Going to listen again next week when I go again
I can't find anything on radio-locator
Maybe a Pirate?
You can hear a pin drop in this thread Lol
Congrats. The opening stopped just a few hundred miles N/NE of me.
Can someone get David or something to Pin 97.9 & 1550
I DMed him about it since Cyberdad is on Vacation, Nothing
I DMed him about it since Cyberdad is on Vacation, Nothing
It's a part of the lower region of the ionosphere (the ionosphere makes AM radio go long distance at night) that activates sporadically and the way it's composed it can reflect distant FM signals back to the earth. I've never heard it happen, but a lot of other DXers here have. PS, the "E" is the E layer of the ionosphere, and the little 's' means "sporadic", because it's not consistent, it doesn't occur every day or at regular intervals.
I heard a ton of Japanese hams on the 40 Meter ham band a few hours ago here near Seattle, and a very strong CNR-1 jammer on 13790 kHz, about full S5 signals, a station which isn't listed on EiBi or Short-wave.info. After an hour or so I could hear the station CNR-1 was jamming, prob. the VOA to China from Thailand. This was around 0900-1100 UTC on my Radio Shack 200629 and an indoor wire. There was another CNR-1 jammer, also S4-S5 signals, on 13755. The 21 Meter SW band was fairly active this a.m.
Heard a Japanese ham, out of Tohoku (northern Japan, he's in Tendo, apparently) slamming the radio. JH7MQD. He runs 1 KW into a four element beam. It was slamming my radio at S5. I checked out his QRZ page. He has four towers, all with beams (and several beams on a couple of them), and his towers have their own elevators.
I also heard some of the Indonesian ham pirates down below 7000 kHz, with some of them doing their chanting game thing on 6975. Not many of them above 7000 kHz, though, which is unusual.
Heard a Japanese ham, out of Tohoku (northern Japan, he's in Tendo, apparently) slamming the radio. JH7MQD. He runs 1 KW into a four element beam. It was slamming my radio at S5. I checked out his QRZ page. He has four towers, all with beams (and several beams on a couple of them), and his towers have their own elevators.
I also heard some of the Indonesian ham pirates down below 7000 kHz, with some of them doing their chanting game thing on 6975. Not many of them above 7000 kHz, though, which is unusual.