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Sunday Jan 2 2011 - A great night for sunset DX

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Icangelp

The pesky Midwest/Mid Central stations were reasonably quiet & I was able to log 15 new stations from 900 - 1200 KHZ, all on my Sangean PRD5.

One station I coudn't I.D., was on 1100 kHZ, where I could hear a foreign language station running what sounded like a middle eastern language program with music. Best heard with my antenna favoring north/south. It is Sunday, so it could have been brokered weekend programming. Definitely not WTAM.
 
Wish I would have tried! Alas, I was listening to Bears-Packers on WBBM, which like all other Chicago stations (at least at my location) is coming in very well. Was stronger earlier than usual.
 
Icangelp said:
The pesky Midwest/Mid Central stations were reasonably quiet & I was able to log 15 new stations from 900 - 1200 KHZ, all on my Sangean PRD5.

One station I coudn't I.D., was on 1100 kHZ, where I could hear a foreign language station running what sounded like a middle eastern language program with music. Best heard with my antenna favoring north/south. It is Sunday, so it could have been brokered weekend programming. Definitely not WTAM.
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Darn, I wasn't home & missed the opportunity.
 
WGPA 1100 Allentown *might* be your unID, IGelp. They're pretty weak here all day but they cut from format to format quite often. 1-2-11 was a Sunday and, for example, oldies WAZL had a polka show on at 1PM.

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WLQV Detroit, under the moniker 'Faithtalk 1500', was putting in a pretty solid secondary signal to WFCC's football game at 1:30. For a brief moment what sounded like a Standards song -- the title of an obvious song escaped me -- was also in the mix. The Standards on 1500 during the week could mean IL or IN, but, again, this was a Sunday midday and the regular programming could've been suspended for brokered purposes.

Evidently the winter-daytime-ionization (or whatever it's official name is) was kicking in again, plus a big front had just come through the place. WCKY's sports was there, for example, from 450 miles off. The nearest atlas-map locale to where I was painting might be Minersville, PA.

I'd wanted another 1430 catch here for a while, and someone with a music program (Easy Listening) IDed there as 'WUMB 91.9' at 2 PM. The only obvious AMer for the area would be the former WHIL Medford, which is listed now as WKOX Everett. Perhaps a Boston-area poster can say if 1430 there carries WUMB now, at least on Sundays, before they change to something else, hi.

And the Spanish station on 1530 was there again as early as 2PM. I recall the positioner between songs as 'La Grande', sounding more like 'La Grand- ee'. Is that what the NC station uses?

Tis the season, Icangelp! Mine wasn't 'sunset' DXing per se, but that daytime Cabin Fever Propogation seemed to be cranked up again. Good post!
 
Out driving around 25 miles east of Columbus an hour or so ago, WMVP was pretty listenable (usually doesn't make it in too well for another hour or so), WCKY was much louder than usual and I could get WVON from Chicago just barely on 1690. KDKA, which usually is awful here, was probably at 4 or 5 on a 1-of-10 scale of strength. Outside those, didn't hear too many other surprises. I might try again in an hour or so, as our sunset is around 5:30.
 
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