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Mike in Destin said:
2/9 21:30 CST 700 KC
Was listening to the Superbowl on WLW.
Propagation shifted for several seconds, and couldn't hear them. Did hear some music, which I'm assuming was another station, not " filler" music. Don't know what it was, but usually don't hear anything besides WLW.
Antenna was north/south. Copy weak/fair.
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2/20 9:00 PM CST 1270 KC heard what sounded like WNYC. "Listener supported " or something to that effect. But don't quote me. Looked it up and found there's a KNWC in Sioux Falls,SD. Also WMIZ Vineland, NJ which could be mistaken for it. Left scratching my head :-(
 
New FM log on 2/18. KTPZ-92.7 Hazelton ID, w/ ID "92-7, The Music Monster". Serves Twin Falls. 4.9KW at 148 miles, and NEW #204 from here. I've been trying to knock out a lot of regional targets given the constant contrails through the Idaho mountains.
100KW KEFX-88.9 Twin Falls has not been heard yet. It's the Effect's flagship station (CSN's Christian rock network). Turns out NO POWER goes out on horizontal polarization. All vertical! And nor does the CSN flagship, KAWZ-89.9 (albeit a local and KRBX Boise are in the way).

EDIT - new FM log tonight (2/21) - KQEO 107.1 Idaho Falls, way over KTHI at times (as FedEx jet flew by) with ad for Willow Creek Dental and Brent Gordon Law (injury lawyer). Heard at 6:25PM tonight. This is NEW #205, 100KW at 217 miles. Been looking for this one for quite a while and Hank FM was just too strong. Tonight they overpowered them like it was long-distance E-skip. Boy does my Stellar Labs 4-element ROCK or what?!
 
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At around 2am EST, I received a non directional beacon on 363 KHz in Clifton, NJ on my Tecsun PL-660. The call letters are RNB Millville, NJ. The station is around 112 miles (181 km) away from me at 50 watts, according to MWLIST. It had faint reception and I set the radio to USB in order to hear it.
 
MichaelD1972 said:
At around 2am EST, I received a non directional beacon on 363 KHz in Clifton, NJ on my Tecsun PL-660. The call letters are RNB Millville, NJ. The station is around 112 miles (181 km) away from me at 50 watts, according to MWLIST. It had faint reception and I set the radio to USB in order to hear it.
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For those of us who don't know what that change means, can you explain?
What is "setting to USB?"

I have a Grundig Yachtboy 400.
 
I see. My Grundig Yachtboy has SSB - single sideband.
But, whenever I try it, it makes all this noise on the AM. Am guessing it's for SW.
 
Dondd said:
I see. My Grundig Yachtboy has SSB - single sideband.
But, whenever I try it, it makes all this noise on the AM. Am guessing it's for SW.
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Short wave is AM, also. That is why in most of the rest of the world, 540 to 1700 is called "Medium Wave". Long Wave, Medium Wave, Short Wave are all Amplitude Modulated bands.
 
K6JHU said:
Except in the Amateur bands where SSB (LSB and USB) is the norm for voice.
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I'll never forget the time I heard an AM QSO going on, on crowded 20 Meters! I think it was on Field Day too, IIRC. Remember though, that before the late 50s/early 60s, AM was all there was on the voice portion of the Amateur bands. There actually is a broadcast band above 15 Meters that uses sideband. If it still exists.
 
K6JHU said:
Except in the Amateur bands where SSB (LSB and USB) is the norm for voice.
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I was speaking of broadcast bands, not ham bands. When I was HC1DG decades ago, I almost always use SSB when trolling. Because there were few English speaking hams in Ecuador then, I generally was overwhelmed with people wanting to work that country. A CQ call with the "HC" in it always got something.

Interestingly, one time that I could not get replacement 4-400's for my AM stations due to import regulation changes and delays, I found a ham in Colombia in Nariño state who said he had several and could get more. I drove up to Tulcan, Ecuador, on stone-paved roads to meet him in Ipiales and buy the tubes. He managed to get me 6 of them, which held me over until the customs rules were implemented and I could import again.
 
2/23 11:00 PM 1000 KC listening to a Latino station trying to ID, and WMVP Chicago.
I never realized how few stations are on this frequency, even during daytime. Gonna make it a point to listen to it more often.
 


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