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Weirdest DX logging you've ever had?

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crainbebo

My weirdest logging would be either TIS stations at over 100 miles (incredible), or logging KNRO Redding, but it was airing Paul Harvey stuff instead of Triple A music. I then heard "KQMS". KQMS is on 1400 AM, a graveyard frequency. What the heck would KQMS and Paul Harvey be on 1670 and not 1400?

-crainbebo
 
I guess mine would be back in my first year of college up in Bethlehem, Pa. One night, I was able to face the radio just the right way where I nulled out WIP 50 miles to the south and picked up WIOD Miami instead.
 
gar fla said:
I guess mine would be back in my first year of college up in Bethlehem, Pa. One night, I was able to face the radio just the right way where I nulled out WIP 50 miles to the south and picked up WIOD Miami instead.
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That is strange, but you never know about radio waves--especially at night.
 
For me, I would say hearing WTUE (104.7) Dayton, OH on our local translator 101.1. They normally rebroadcast WFRN from Elkhart. Not this particular morning.

So what's the weird part? I tried listening for Dayton stations on my car stereo and didn't get even a trace from ANY of them. Not even the frequent visitors (WGTZ, WHIO).
 
The weirdest one would probably be 91.9 from Lakeland, FL, when I lived in Palm Bay, FL. Why? Because I wasn't hearing it on 91.9 - I was hearing it on 93.3! There was skip that day, and the translator for the Vero Beach 91.9 on 93.3 in Melbourne, got hijacked by the 91.9 from Lakeland!
 
Before our 95.3/95.7 combo was owned by Cox, one Sunday morning 95.7 was off the air for maintenance. The setup was picking the air signal off 95.7 from Piqua at Hara Arena northwest of Dayton, then sendingit by microwave to Xenia. While 95.7 was off, 95.3 was still transmitting a signal from a 95.7 near Toledo.

Several times a year the Springfield K_Love translators rebroadcast Lexington's 96.9 instead of the 96.9 they're supposed to.
 
gr8oldies said:
Several times a year the Springfield K_Love translators rebroadcast Lexington's 96.9 instead of the 96.9 they're supposed to.
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And the ratings probably improve for that day too!! ;D
 
One weird DX I heard was WMSO 101.3 Meridian, MS in northern VA. It came in loud and clear for a few seconds and disappears completely and never came back. I thought it had to do with meteors in space instead of E-skip. The station was probably top 40 at that time, I think it's country now.
 
ddsparxx said:
One weird DX I heard was WMSO 101.3 Meridian, MS in northern VA. It came in loud and clear for a few seconds and disappears completely and never came back. I thought it had to do with meteors in space instead of E-skip. The station was probably top 40 at that time, I think it's country now.
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Sounds like meteor scatter.
 
I've had that a few times, usually on an open frequency out west. Suddenly you get a strong signal and then WHAM! it's gone forever. Lasts only a few seconds - and i've never gotten an id from one of those.
 
I live in Westchester County, NY about 30 miles north of NYC and up until a couple of years ago, I mostly picked up Jersey and Philly stations during tropo but recent DX loggings have been mostly from Hartford, CT. Although as I head farther north, I can get an almost crystal clear signal on 103.7 from Sussex County, NJ even though adjacent WKTU 103.5 from NYC is a regular. I can also from time to time pick up stations from the northern Hudson Valley (Kingston, although I have yet to pick up an Albany station), eastern Long Island, and Allentown PA.
 
My junior year of high school, I was filling out a form to go on a field trip to Washington DC later that year. There was a tropo opening the day I was filling out that form. I managed to pick up Hot 99.5 out of DC. What a coincidence!

Another time, I was going to meet a girl at her place for a date. On my way there, an e-skip opening hit. I pulled into a parking lot and scanned the dial, trying to identify the stations. I completely lost track of time, and at the end of the e-skip half an hour later, I left the parking lot. I was embarrassed to tell her that the reason I was late was because of e-skip, and I showed her my DX log. Luckily, she knew about my radio obsession and I was forgiven.

There was a tropo opening and I heard WOBM 92.7 on 107.1. There was no translator on 107.1 locally that relays a 92.7. It turns out that I was DXing the 107.1 in eastern Long Island that was relaying WLIR 92.7 by receiving it over the air. That 107.1 was DXing WOBM.
 
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Would have to be hearing 1 kW. KHLO (850), Hilo, Hawaii at three o'clock ( PST) in the afternoon in Los Angeles.

(mid-day in Hawaii.)
 
frcradio said:
Re: Weirdest DX logging - - -

Would have to be hearing 1 kW. KHLO (850), Hilo, Hawaii at three o'clock ( PST) in the afternoon in Los Angeles.

(mid-day in Hawaii.)
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WOW--that's amazing. What time of year was that?
 
frcradio said:
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Would have to be hearing 1 kW. KHLO (850), Hilo, Hawaii at three o'clock ( PST) in the afternoon in Los Angeles.

(mid-day in Hawaii.)
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What year was this? Were you on or very near the Pacific ocean? LA is not at all on the Pacific, you must have been in the LA area, not the city proper. Were you getting any other Hawaii stations? 1kW at 2400+ miles on 850 even in the winter is a bit of a stretch... Are you sure it wasn't 5kW? I see that KHLO is on the big island and it's facing the US mainland, so that's working in its favor. What were you using to hear the station? I want to believe you DXed this station at 3pm, help me out on this...
 
Sometime last fall, WQOX 88.5 Memphis, Tennessee, came booming into my car radio for a good 2 or 3 minutes (whilst on a laundry run...) in Sudbury, Ontario. According to my calculations that's just under 1500km (930mi).

When I got home, I managed to find an e-mail address and wrote the Memphis City Schools, which operates the station, with great excitement...but no response. :-\

BG
 
Sometime in the early 90's, KTXT Lubbock was booming into Ormond Beach, FL, for hours - there was so much skip it was hard to listen to anything.
 
stormy01 said:
frcradio said:
Re: Weirdest DX logging - - -

Would have to be hearing 1 kW. KHLO (850), Hilo, Hawaii at three o'clock ( PST) in the afternoon in Los Angeles.

(mid-day in Hawaii.)
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What year was this? Were you on or very near the Pacific ocean? LA is not at all on the Pacific, you must have been in the LA area, not the city proper. Were you getting any other Hawaii stations? 1kW at 2400+ miles on 850 even in the winter is a bit of a stretch... Are you sure it wasn't 5kW? I see that KHLO is on the big island and it's facing the US mainland, so that's working in its favor. What were you using to hear the station? I want to believe you DXed this station at 3pm, help me out on this...
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I also find it hard to believe that a 1KW AM can travel 2,500 miles during mid day.
 
What year was this?

--- I believe it was early 1980s.

Were you on or very near the Pacific ocean?

--- I lived about three miles southwest of the Pasadena Rose Bowl - about 25 miles from the coast.

Were you getting any other Hawaii stations?

--- After KHLO faded out I checked for other stations but heard nothing usual.

1kW at 2400+ miles on 850 even in the winter is a bit of a stretch... Are you sure it wasn't 5kW?

- - - At the time it was listed as running 1 kW, and yes, it was extraordinary, but I heard the announcer reading news

about Hawaii ( big island), then clearly identified as " KHLO, Hilo "


What were you using to hear the station?

- - - A Fisher AM / FM stereo receiver with a four foot tuned loop into an FET amp.
 
--- After KHLO faded out I checked for other stations but heard nothing usual. - - - correct that to read " unusual "

I realize that this path at 850 kHz./1kW would be extremely difficult even on a winter night during a low sun spot year,

and normally impossible during the day, but I'm sure of what I heard. Sometimes strange things happen propagation wise.
 
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