Weirdest DX logging you've ever had?

[radioman148]

--- 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.

Obviously a strange phenomenon. Great catch!

 

[stormy01]

That's really great...I wonder if that would be reproducible in 2009...for a number of years there was a station on 850 in or near the LA region, it must have gone silent and there is not one CA station on 850. The closest stations are on 830 and 870 in the LA area...I envy you people who are near the oceans or the gulf... in this case the high conductivity!

What were you using to hear the station?
- - - A Fisher AM / FM stereo receiver with a four foot tuned loop into an FET amp.

Do you have a setup like this now? Did you build or buy the FET amp?

 

[romer979fm]

for a number of years there was a station on 850 in or near the LA region, it must have gone silent

that was 850 in Thousand Oaks: Salem bought it and shut it down to help their 870 in LA.

And while this is not really DX-related, it caused a lot of confusion:
A number of years ago, WRVW 107.5 Nashville's studio was down to the electric company changing
a transformer outside the CC cluster (generator failed...another story). Anyway, while the studio and STL were down, the transmitter was not. So far no big deal....until Vanderbilt's WRVU comes into the picture.
Apparently WRVU's STL path is close to WRVW's...and the frequency is also VERY close, because the
STL receiver at the WRVU transmitter site locked on to the WRVU STL, and there was WRVU on both their
normal 91.1 frequency...and WRVW's 107.5. This went on for more than an hour: then as they were known to do, the jock at WRVU signed the station off at 12noon (Saturday) as no replacement arrived.
Remember, this was long ago, and the technical problems with the STL are history. Really.

 

[frcradio]

for a number of years there was a station on 850 in or near the LA region, it must have gone silent

that was 850 in Thousand Oaks: Salem bought it and shut it down to help their 870 in LA.

--- I read somewhere that they needed Simi ( 850 )off so Glendale (870) could move up to 50 kW.


I still have the Fisher receiver but haven't used it in many years. I made the loop

and the amplifier, a single FET mainly to reduce loading of the loop to a minimum,

and not degrade its selectivity.

 

[frcradio]

and there was WRVU on both their
normal 91.1 frequency...and WRVW's 107.5. This went on for more than an hour:


- - - Now that is really a unique occurrence.

 

[stormy01]

... I made the loop and the amplifier, a single FET mainly to reduce loading of the loop to a minimum, and not degrade its selectivity.

Something like this: http://www.nutstreet.net/k0lr/bal-pre/bal-pre.htm or this http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx/antenna/loop/hulapreamp_large.gif?

 

[David67]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

 

[stormy01]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

Incredible! This has to be in the winter - approximately 450 miles - what were you using for a receiving setup or was this on a car radio?
The ground conductivity of the Atlanta area I have read is very poor, so that could not have helped...

 

[radioman148]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

I'll bet that was in the winter.

 

[David67]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

Incredible! This has to be in the winter - approximately 450 miles - what were you using for a receiving setup or was this on a car radio?
The ground conductivity of the Atlanta area I have read is very poor, so that could not have helped...

Yep,It was in January

 

[David67]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

Incredible! This has to be in the winter - approximately 450 miles - what were you using for a receiving setup or was this on a car radio?
The ground conductivity of the Atlanta area I have read is very poor, so that could not have helped...

I was using a Car radio,I think the Sunspot activity was way up there also.

 

[schmave]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

Incredible! This has to be in the winter - approximately 450 miles - what were you using for a receiving setup or was this on a car radio?
The ground conductivity of the Atlanta area I have read is very poor, so that could not have helped...

It is the worst in the country. The best areas on land are 30 millimhos per meter (don't know what that truly means) ... Atlanta is 1. Salt water is 5,000.

 

[radioman148]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

Incredible! This has to be in the winter - approximately 450 miles - what were you using for a receiving setup or was this on a car radio?
The ground conductivity of the Atlanta area I have read is very poor, so that could not have helped...

It is the worst in the country. The best areas on land are 30 millimhos per meter (don't know what that truly means) ... Atlanta is 1. Salt water is 5,000.

Would this effect only the ground wave signal? WSB gets out pretty well at night.

 

[ddsparxx]

"The best areas on land are 30 millimhos per meter (don't know what that truly means)"

I would describe "mho" as a unit of conductivity (1/ohms), opposite of resistance (ohms).

 

[radiojay1]

I was driving through Perryville, Missouri which is about 100 miles south of St. Louis, and was seaching the FM dial, and heard a familiar voice. It was Dave Reid on 99.9 WQRC (Barnstable/Hyannis) from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I knew his voice right away, he has a deep voice that you can't mistake on WQRC, and I was amazed that I was hearing WQRC in southeastern Missouri. I live near Providence, RI and I often go to Cape Cod in the summer. WQRC lasted for about 15 minutes before fading out. Then I went up the dial again and heard soft rock music and then something familiar on 105.1, the DJ started talking and then said Lite 105 before going to commercial break. I then heard some commercials from my local area. It was Lite 105, WWLI in Providence! I was like, wow. I was able to hear it for a few minutes. I should start a topic on this, who has picked up any of their local stations in E-skip.

 

[Flying-Dutchman]

In Springfield, Ohio-There was a guy on CB who called himself the
Bicycle Man. He had a couple thousand watts and screwed up many
stereos and TV sets.

It was the winter of 1979, I was in England and I'll be damned.
The Bicycle Man from Springfield, Ohio came blasting in for many days
in the afternoon.

I could not receive anything else from Ohio 5,000 miles away.
Only the Bicycle Man.

I did here WOWO a couple times through the noise, the only US
station I could hear. But, Bicycle Man was loud and Clear.

 

[radioman148]

In Springfield, Ohio-There was a guy on CB who called himself the
Bicycle Man. He had a couple thousand watts and screwed up many
stereos and TV sets.

It was the winter of 1979, I was in England and I'll be damned.
The Bicycle Man from Springfield, Ohio came blasting in for many days
in the afternoon.

I could not receive anything else from Ohio 5,000 miles away.
Only the Bicycle Man.

I did here WOWO a couple times through the noise, the only US
station I could hear. But, Bicycle Man was loud and Clear.

A couple thousand watts on CB? He must have destroyed every TV and stereo within miles. The FCC must have nailed him.

 

[David67]

In Springfield, Ohio-There was a guy on CB who called himself the
Bicycle Man. He had a couple thousand watts and screwed up many
stereos and TV sets.

It was the winter of 1979, I was in England and I'll be damned.
The Bicycle Man from Springfield, Ohio came blasting in for many days
in the afternoon.

I could not receive anything else from Ohio 5,000 miles away.
Only the Bicycle Man.

I did here WOWO a couple times through the noise, the only US
station I could hear. But, Bicycle Man was loud and Clear.

A couple thousand watts on CB? He must have destroyed every TV and stereo within miles. The FCC must have nailed him.

The Guy must have had a mammoth linear!

 

[schmave]

In 1988 I caught KMOX 1120 AM in Metro Atlanta at 1pm. I was shocked i could catch a station that far off in the middle of the day.

Incredible! This has to be in the winter - approximately 450 miles - what were you using for a receiving setup or was this on a car radio?
The ground conductivity of the Atlanta area I have read is very poor, so that could not have helped...

It is the worst in the country. The best areas on land are 30 millimhos per meter (don't know what that truly means) ... Atlanta is 1. Salt water is 5,000.

Would this effect only the ground wave signal? WSB gets out pretty well at night.

Correct. Skywave is not affected by ground conductivity, but on the flip side because the ground signal is weakened by the conductivity you start to get groundwave/skywave cancellation only an hour or so out of Atlanta, whereas in other parts of the country there's no cancellation for 100-150 miles at least.

 

[gar hi]

While skywave and groundwave are two different things, you say skywave is not affected by ground conductivity but what about the ground conductivity where the skywave skips?

The last time I was over on the east coast of Florida was years ago and it was the Miami area. One thing I remembered was that New York stations at night came in much better than they do over here on the west coast. While the reception was skywave, isn't the better reception there because of the skip on nothing but water?