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Unusual daytime DX

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dxer720

Just before noon today, I picked up a station on 990 with a Canadian quiz-type show. By the top of the hour, the signal was gone. I think it might be Winnipeg's CBW. If so, that would be 662 miles from my Lake Geneva, WI location. I've heard many stations on a winter mid-day from 200-300 miles away, but never this far. I was unable to hear any other stations from this area, either.

Is this actually unusual?
 
CBW has one of the broadest coverages of any Canadian station.
Here in N Idaho at times I can hear CJDC, Dawson Creek, BC 890 10kw
all day @ 572 miles. CBW audible daily except in mid-day @ 914 miles.
I remember hearing CBW in NJ in the 50s/60s. ;D
 
dxer720 said:
Just before noon today, I picked up a station on 990 with a Canadian quiz-type show. By the top of the hour, the signal was gone. I think it might be Winnipeg's CBW. If so, that would be 662 miles from my Lake Geneva, WI location. I've heard many stations on a winter mid-day from 200-300 miles away, but never this far. I was unable to hear any other stations from this area, either.

Is this actually unusual?
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It's not at all unusual to hear daytime skywave during the winter especially in December.
I've had it happen many times.
 
I was getting some unusual daytime DX today-- WLW sounded like a semilocal station at 11:00 AM EST here in VA. About the same time, I heard WTAM, WOWO, CKOC 1150 Hamilton, ON, WHLO Akron, OH, WKBN Youngston, OH mixed with DC's local 570 that recently became WSPZ; I also heard WSCR, WGN and WJR at 11 AM. WKBN was heard about 10 AM. WBBR in NY came in very weakly, as other NY blowtorches were very weak as usual.
 
ddsparxx said:
I was getting some unusual daytime DX today-- WLW sounded like a semilocal station at 11:00 AM EST here in VA. About the same time, I heard WTAM, WOWO, CKOC 1150 Hamilton, ON, WHLO Akron, OH, WKBN Youngston, OH mixed with DC's local 570 that recently became WSPZ; I also heard WSCR, WGN and WJR at 11 AM. WKBN was heard about 10 AM. WBBR in NY came in very weakly, as other NY blowtorches were very weak as usual.
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Do you get the NYC blowtorches during the day all year round?
 
Weak signals from 4 of them (WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS) during the broad daylight in winter, hardly any of them during the summer days, except WFAN very very weak; good, reliable signals from WFAN, WOR, WCBS, WABC, WBBR, WQEW, WINS, and weakly WEPN, during night all year round. During mid afternoon in late fall and winter, WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS, WINS, WBBR start to sound like semilocals.
 
ddsparxx said:
Weak signals from 4 of them (WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS) during the broad daylight in winter, hardly any of them during the summer days, except WFAN very very weak; good, reliable signals from WFAN, WOR, WCBS, WABC, WBBR, WQEW, WINS, and weakly WEPN, during night all year round. During mid afternoon in late fall and winter, WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS, WINS, WBBR start to sound like semilocals.
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So WFAN is the only one you can hear during a summer day, right? How far are you from DC? When I was in DC during May I could also hear WOR middle of the day.
 
radioman148 said:
ddsparxx said:
Weak signals from 4 of them (WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS) during the broad daylight in winter, hardly any of them during the summer days, except WFAN very very weak; good, reliable signals from WFAN, WOR, WCBS, WABC, WBBR, WQEW, WINS, and weakly WEPN, during night all year round. During mid afternoon in late fall and winter, WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS, WINS, WBBR start to sound like semilocals.
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So WFAN is the only one you can hear during a summer day, right? How far are you from DC? When I was in DC during May I could also hear WOR middle of the day.
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I am about 30 miles SW of DC. I meant to say WOR and WFAN during the summer, WABC and WCBS was very difficult to hear in the summer at daytime. I should have mentioned that other NYC 50kW stations on frequencies higher than WCBS are not normally heard around noon when there's no skywave, or at least I don't hear them, and at night night I should have mentioned that WOR is mixed in with the Cuban 710 at night.
When I try to hear WABC, it's often bleed over from strong, local WAVA 780. I recently bought a Quantum QX Loop antenna, so I may be hearing WCBS during the daytime a bit better by spring.
 
ddsparxx said:
radioman148 said:
ddsparxx said:
Weak signals from 4 of them (WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS) during the broad daylight in winter, hardly any of them during the summer days, except WFAN very very weak; good, reliable signals from WFAN, WOR, WCBS, WABC, WBBR, WQEW, WINS, and weakly WEPN, during night all year round. During mid afternoon in late fall and winter, WFAN, WOR, WABC, WCBS, WINS, WBBR start to sound like semilocals.
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So WFAN is the only one you can hear during a summer day, right? How far are you from DC? When I was in DC during May I could also hear WOR middle of the day.
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I am about 30 miles SW of DC. I meant to say WOR and WFAN during the summer, WABC and WCBS was very difficult to hear in the summer at daytime. I should have mentioned that other NYC 50kW stations on frequencies higher than WCBS are not normally heard around noon when there's no skywave, or at least I don't hear them, and at night night I should have mentioned that WOR is mixed in with the Cuban 710 at night.
When I try to hear WABC, it's often bleed over from strong, local WAVA 780. I recently bought a Quantum QX Loop antenna, so I may be hearing WCBS during the daytime a bit better by spring.
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I remember not being able to get WABC because of WAVA's splatter.
 
I was able to hear WBZ on my car radio in Midland, Michigan yesterday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Good daytime DX here.
 
Yes, Daytime DX has been excellent on the AM dial the last few days here in Lexington, KY as well. I was coming home from my office today at 2 PM and was listening to WKNR-850 from Cleveland, OH with the Jim Rome Show coming in equally strong to next-door WHAS-840 located about 60 miles west of me . That's when I realized, WHAS has turned off their IPOX noise generator again. I hope they leave it off!
 
Visiting Los Angeles, California for the holidays, it's been interesting to say the least with daytime DXing. Yesterday (New Year's Eve), KSL 1160 AM from Salt Lake City was coming in with a strong signal down in Orange County as early as 2:30 P.M. local time. Impressive considering the interference that comes from an adjacent local channel, 1150 KTLK. 850 KOA from Denver, Colorado was already making an appearance, along with 1530 KFBK from Sacramento.

Some other day-time DX observations here in L.A.: A few days ago, I logged a good DX catch at around 3:30 P.M. local L.A. time with KAZG 1440 AM from Scottsdale, AZ fighting it out with KFNY from Riverside and KUHL from Santa Maria. I've also logged Phoenix's illegal power alien, KFNN, on 1510 AM fighting it out with KSPA around 4:00 P.M. local time. This lasts until around 5:00 P.M. L.A. time when KFNN finally decides to power down from 22,000 watts. Keep in mind this is 45 minutes AFTER KFNN is suppose to power down to 100 watts, which in December is 4:15 P.M. local time here in L.A. :eek: Market Wrap with Moe Ansari must be a really important show for KFNN if their willing to break the law and forgo their night-time power reduction by 45 minutes! ;D

P.S. As a side note, I was wondering if 850 KOA is one of the few AM stations left on the dial that can consistently be heard fairly decently on both the west coast and the east coast? Here in L.A., KOA comes in really well, almost as good as a local. I remember visiting Chicago, Illinois a few years ago in the middle of summer and being able to pick-up KOA fairly well with a decent signal. Is KOA a consistent DX catch east of Chicago? ???
 
Here in Tampa, KOA is pretty much a regular at night just like the big New York stations in that it's always present to some degree even if it's dominated by other stations and hard to hear.

About half the time, KOA is the dominant station on 850 and half the time, it's the one from Gainesville and another station I haven't identified.

Here's KOA ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mNd2MnpTJ8


KSL would probably be a regular too if it weren't for the splatter from the local 1150 WTMP. Much of the time, I can hear KSL behind the splatter of WTMP and sometimes it's a listenable signal.

Here's an example...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOt2EGDZjo
 
KOA-850 is a "regular" in Central Kentucky at night when WHAS-840 has their IPOX noise blaster in the "OFF" position.
 
I once heard KOA here in VA; KOA is normally not heard here at night. I, too, noticed that WHAS's IPOX (Wow, that's a good one :D) is off. WBZ's IBLOCK, IPOX, IWHOOSH, IBUZ, whatever you want to call it, jet engine noise is so loud it makes KDKA hard to hear at night.
 
Asugeorge....

You should post your 1440 catch in the lamptimer thread (if you haven't already)!

As for KOA, I've never heard it on the east coast myself, but a number ofthers have. I'm usually in the northeast or eastern Canada....usually with WEEI, WRMR, or Johnstown, PA (WJAC?) dominating....if not owning...the channel.
 
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