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Unusually Good Path From The North This Morning

cyberdad

cyberdad

I woke up a little before 4am this morning, and couldn't decide whether to go back to sleep or start DX-ing. Of course, that was a no-brainer so I turned on the radio!

As I mentioned in my "Frequency of the week" thread, I started out on 590 looking for R. Nacional. No dice. But I was hearing a classic country station I had never heard before. Couldn't ID it, so I'm not sure, but I think it may have been WJMS from Ironwood, MI. I'll hang out there from time to time over the next few days and see if I can hear it again and confirm.

A little later I landed on 920 and was surprised to hear CFRY from Manitoba. Hey...if Crain can snag this one so can I! :) Actually, I've heard CFRY a couple of times here before, under WOKY (and WBAA). But this morning it was pretty much alone and very steady. Not a monster signal, but listenable and very steady.

My first thought was that CFRY might be on day pattern, but when I moved up the dial to 950, there was classical music from CFRY's neighbor in southerb Manitoba, CFAM. I've heard CFAM a few times during the past year or two, but this was clearly the best signal here. It was stronger than CFRY and with even less fading.

Have any of you other guys also noticed similar good conditions from the north recently?
 
Conditions from western Canada were good last night. In my thread about CBK they were listenable in Ottawa, along with CJGX 940 Yorkton Saskatchewan. CBW was actually slightly worse than normal.
 
mimo said:
Conditions from western Canada were good last night. In my thread about CBK they were listenable in Ottawa, along with CJGX 940 Yorkton Saskatchewan. CBW was actually slightly worse than normal.
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This would be great news for Tincap. He's been trying to snag CBK forever. He lives just outside Brockville and, IIRC, he works in Ottawa.

I turned on the radio at about 5am CDT, and heard pretty much what I had heard a day earlier....including CFAM and CFRY. Each was slightly weaker than the day before.

As for CBW, they had a good signal (as they usually do here). CBK was somewhat better than usual mixing with WAUK.

A couple of mild surprises.... First WSM was getting trashed by a news-talk station. Canned progamming from the bird, but I assume WNMT "forgot" to power down. Then I was hearing Spanish under WCCO. Again, I couldn't ID it, but I assume Norco, Louisiana unless the Memphis 830 has flipped to Spanish.
 
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Could you have been hearing CKOM obliterating WSM? I had a very good WSM that night and last night too. CKOM is now talk, but was a great top 40 back in the 80's.
 
mimo said:
Could you have been hearing CKOM obliterating WSM? I had a very good WSM that night and last night too. CKOM is now talk, but was a great top 40 back in the 80's.
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I wouldn't rule it out. But given that Hibbing, Minnesota is a few hundred miles closer to me than Saskatoon. and given that whatever I was hearing was overpowering WSM from time to time, I'm thinking WNMT is probably the more likely suspect.

That said, Saskatchewan is a regular visitor here in the form of CBK (of course). As well as CKRM on 620 under WTMJ most nights.
 
With the news of a G4 solar storm (G5 being highest), should be more unusual and rare DX opportunities.

A solar eclipse on Friday. :cool:
 
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