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'The Last Frequency'

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Basically, I'm still an AM DXer here ; always have been. I never compiled a frequency-by-frequency list of FM stations -- although that can be a really fun place to camp during tropo and E-Skip.

Therefore, a lot of you folks just must've tried to fill in all the blanks on the FM dial, too.

So what was your last IDed frequency on AM and/or on FM? What is the last pebble you finally, triumphantly, got out of your shoe?

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(Our little group was from near Kennedy Airport in Queens NYC, by the water. For two of us, 'the last frequency' on which we caught an ID was 1060. That completed the set. First on our blocks, lol.
Neighboring local WHN had been too much for the longest while. But one night the two of us were at some hi-fi home console called the Pilot. And on its 'bandspread' function, in came easy-listening WRCV Philadelphia. It's now KYW, of course).
 
I believe that for me in south FL, 100.9 was the last FM frequency I had yet to get an ID, until the one in Pana IL came in.

AM.....if you are not counting X-band or 530, I'd have to think about that one. I don't have my old papers around.

cd
 
I'm working on it from the transmit end...in 46 years in radio, I believe I've worked at stations on 53 FM different frequencies. The odds are, I'll never complete this one.
 
I've got a lot of frequencies where I haven't logged anything at my HOME QTH...105.5 is an example as is 103.9. Used to be a lot more but I've cleaned it up in the past couple years. With E-skip season coming up soon, these frequencies may be filled in as well!

-crainbebo
 
I long for the days when there were actually "blank" frequencies. Here in south central Indiana, I can hear something on every FM frequency every day--and many if not most frequencies have at least 2 signals to choose from. 45 years ago when I started DXing, there were blank frequencies...and at 2AM, there were a lot of them.
 
Here in NEPA a week or so back, 'The Last Frequency' on AM was IDed -- CJEU 1670 and the children's French station in Ottawa. They were still imaging as L'Enfant rather than what their home page emphasizes.

Gracieux and a tip of the earphones to RaccoonRadio of this forum for that catch!

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Just yesterday, while gassing up, I was yakking with a fellow there with Quebec plates about CJEU, and about how they came in well here at night on 1670. He understood me quite well, and I understood him, even though he had an accented English. But he was unfamiliar with CJEU.
'I usually only listen to FM,' he explained.

(I trust I gave him more of a reference than that given to the last folks with Quebec plates, who asked for directions to Reading -- they pronounced it 'reeding'. They might still be driving around looking for it).
 
Interesting thread. I’ve been a casual DXer for a long time. Over the past couple of years, I started logging stations heard on the car radio locally here in Northeastern North Carolina, either during lunchtime or during my local commute to and from work.

On AM, the last frequency was 1610 when I heard CHHA give an ID around sunset a few months ago. There are a few AM frequencies that I have only logged one station on. I’m trying to get a second one on those channels. New ones are getting hard to find using the car radio. I stay away from the graveyard channels as they are just frustration and noise, especially when driving. Current total is about 350 stations. I only add maybe one a month or less nowadays.

On FM, I had a lot of blanks on my list until I installed the Supertuner 3. I can now hear weak stations on the 1st adjacent channel next to a strong local station. I have logged something on every FM channel.

I’ll soon be doing more FM and less AM as the AM noise level picks up and the tropo and occasional E skip happens on FM. Happy DXing! -Bill
 
I was on a DX frenzy when I began logging in October 2002, and I logged one on every single frequency as a result. But the last frequency I filled was either 103.5 (WTCM) or 105.9 (WKHQ) in November of that year.
 
Somewhere hereabouts are two 8.5 x 11 blue-ruled sheets of my AM/FM log from the 70s. There were many open and unfilled
slots, mostly graveyard, but I DO remember the last entry I made into the log.
One hot summer night in 1978, I finally filled in 640 KFI Los Angeles, and it was the furthest MW AM I ever heard in Hobart, In.
 
I still have yet to hear anything on 1610, although I may have heard a TIS or two over the many years before the X Band kicked in during the 1990's.

The most recent frequency I had as 'empty' was 1650. Last Spring I logged a couple local TIS's and a couple months ago I was able to log the Deportes station in El Paso, KSVE.

I don't DX FM, it's just too confusing, with all the translators, and I don't know the band all that well. Although when tropo is in I sometimes get fringe signals I wouldn't normally hear.

The problem is that I don't listen to FM much, hence, not that much interest in DXing a band I don't really listen to.
 
boombox said:
I still have yet to hear anything on 1610, although I may have heard a TIS or two over the many years before the X Band kicked in during the 1990's.

The most recent frequency I had as 'empty' was 1650. Last Spring I logged a couple local TIS's and a couple months ago I was able to log the Deportes station in El Paso, KSVE.

I don't DX FM, it's just too confusing, with all the translators, and I don't know the band all that well. Although when tropo is in I sometimes get fringe signals I wouldn't normally hear.

The problem is that I don't listen to FM much, hence, not that much interest in DXing a band I don't really listen to.
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For me, for the most part, it's pretty much the opposite: I don't DX *AM* very much! In south FL at night, almost every "open" frequency is like a graveyard frequency---with all the Cuban AM's & also the fact that the FCC allowed nighttime operation for many former daytime-only stations.

My main issue with FM DXing is, of course, IBOC, and also the myriad pirate FM's down here.

cd
 
I'm only an occasional and casual FM DXer....so I can't speak to that. As for AM....it would have to be 530 when CIAO came on.

I don't remember which x-band station was my last....but my first was 1660 from New Jersey. 1700 from Miami was second.
 
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