ddsparxx said:
I've also caught WMSO-FM. I caught it last year in New Hampshire and it came in like a local for about an hour then it started to fade out.
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Weirdest DX logging you've ever had?
- Thread starter crainbebo
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I've also caught WMSO-FM. I caught it last year in New Hampshire and it came in like a local for about an hour then it started to fade out.
Nick said:
It wasn't in 1977.
On AM, I picked up KISA 1540 Honolulu, HI around midnight in Everett, WA back in December 1997.....
On FM, I'd say it was an Asian station of some sort on 89.0 MHz (not 88.9 or 89.1, right at 89.0. It lit up my FM Stereo pilot light there and came in strongest at THAT frequency) It could be possibly my FARTHEST ever DX skip because many FM stations in Asia broadcast on that frequency. But I never got an ID I could understand. This was in Seattle in 1993.
On Shortwave, those bizarre "numbers" stations that pop up now and then.....
On TV, a French Canadian station on Channel 17 I picked up in Spokane in 1999.
On FM, I'd say it was an Asian station of some sort on 89.0 MHz (not 88.9 or 89.1, right at 89.0. It lit up my FM Stereo pilot light there and came in strongest at THAT frequency) It could be possibly my FARTHEST ever DX skip because many FM stations in Asia broadcast on that frequency. But I never got an ID I could understand. This was in Seattle in 1993.
On Shortwave, those bizarre "numbers" stations that pop up now and then.....
On TV, a French Canadian station on Channel 17 I picked up in Spokane in 1999.
Bongwater said:
Have you ever heard anything else from Alaska or Hawaii in the Pacific northwest?
Nick said:
Yes, but there is a WMXJ in Pompano Beach.
The weirdest DX I had was hearing shortwave in North Ga. all over my AM band - the strongest signal being Dr, Gene Scott around 1170 MHz. This was constant - mostly in the daytime.
Then, I stepped out of my all-metal camper with my radio, and the stations returned back to normal with no shortwave.
trusty said:Nick said:
Yes, but there is a WMXJ in Pompano Beach.
The weirdest DX I had was hearing shortwave in North Ga. all over my AM band - the strongest signal being Dr, Gene Scott around 1170 MHz. This was constant - mostly in the daytime.
Then, I stepped out of my all-metal camper with my radio, and the stations returned back to normal with no shortwave.
I picked up WJJD Chicago through a webcor tape recorder in the 60s from about 8 miles away from their transmitter site. Quite bothersome whenever I wanted to record something else.
Bongwater said:
Very rare for ANYTHING from AK or HI to pop up in the Northwest. That FM station must have been F2 reception or muiti-hop skip.
Logged numbers stations on 5883 and I believe 15070 kHz. No idea on the French station because there are no French stations within 1300-1400 miles of Spokane.
-crainbebo
crainbebo said:
Not so.
Channel 16, CBRFT Calgary, AB, is an affiliate of SRC (French CBC). It's about 300 air miles from Spokane, though the signal does have to bounce over the Rockies. Not unheard of, though. It's not on 17, but close enough that Bongwater's UHF tuner may have been a little off.
The closest French Canadian station that's actually on channel 17 is CHLF-13 (the 13th repeater of CHLF) from Pembroke, Ontario. That's some 2,000+ miles from Spokane. There are also a couple of channel 17's in BC; none are in French. My bet is that it was the Calgary station that he got.
1 TV, 1 radio:
In Tyler, Texas, KTBS/3 from Shreveport used to be on the cable system, although it was usually a bad signal.
A couple of times, after KTBS/3 signed off at night, WLBT/3 from Jackson, Mississippi came through.
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On the other hand, then-KDSQ 101.7 in Denison, Texas, used to be automated, and they would have an instrumental song backtimed to hit ABC-FM news at the TOH. Occasionally something was off, and the network line would be up for an extended period of time (up to an hour), with WPLJ/New York coming through. It's not exactly DX, but it felt like it at the time.
In Tyler, Texas, KTBS/3 from Shreveport used to be on the cable system, although it was usually a bad signal.
A couple of times, after KTBS/3 signed off at night, WLBT/3 from Jackson, Mississippi came through.
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On the other hand, then-KDSQ 101.7 in Denison, Texas, used to be automated, and they would have an instrumental song backtimed to hit ABC-FM news at the TOH. Occasionally something was off, and the network line would be up for an extended period of time (up to an hour), with WPLJ/New York coming through. It's not exactly DX, but it felt like it at the time.
Just a couple of weeks ago, was driving in NY's Southern Tier (around Salamanca). Picked up dance/pop music on 103.5 and thought for sure it was Trop from Z103.5, Toronto. Announcer comes on, says it's Z103.5, then the commercials come on and they're for businesses in Halifax!
I was actually picking up E-Skip from Toronto's "sister" Z103.5 in Halifax, NOVA SCOTIA. Both run the same format and the same nickname, so I was glad I stuck around to hear them say "The Beat of Halifax". Had I switched the station and looked for other catches right after I heard "Z103.5", I would have never realized it was E-Skip!
I was actually picking up E-Skip from Toronto's "sister" Z103.5 in Halifax, NOVA SCOTIA. Both run the same format and the same nickname, so I was glad I stuck around to hear them say "The Beat of Halifax". Had I switched the station and looked for other catches right after I heard "Z103.5", I would have never realized it was E-Skip!
I have had a few weird catches over the last few days, as I picked up WMTM in Moultrie, GA (about 250 miles away) with a very good signal overnight Sunday, and I think I heard WEAM in Buena Vista, GA on 100.7 (only 2600 watts, about 275 miles away), as they mentioned Buena Vista.
When I first started DXing, my first catch was WKQL in Jacksonville, on my walkman, right over WSUY (my local in Charleston).
Another weird catch I had was the time last year I got WSLQ in Roanoke, just coming in, without anything else coming in with it, which surprised me, as it was 300 miles away. I was excited about that.
When I first started DXing, my first catch was WKQL in Jacksonville, on my walkman, right over WSUY (my local in Charleston).
Another weird catch I had was the time last year I got WSLQ in Roanoke, just coming in, without anything else coming in with it, which surprised me, as it was 300 miles away. I was excited about that.
Not sure if I've already replied to this topic - anyone know how to search for posts by a certain user within a certain topic (and how to change the setting so I can view 40 or 50 posts per page instead of 10)? - but in case I haven't...
100 mi for a TIS being unusual??? I can regularly (with a good radio and antenna) hear the LAX airport TIS on 530 from El Cajon, CA. Also when the expanded band was new I was able to hear the TIS's in the mid 1600s from DFW airport regularly at night, although they too were very faint.
Also, in the category of what I would consider a good catch, I heard the Radio Disney station on 1240AM from Albuquerque. This was while my local 1240 (to which I live close enough that it doesn't sound like grayeyard garble at night) was on the air, but broadcasting dead air. The two transmitter sites were ~180° off axis from each other.
Another weird one using a radio I no longer use (but still probably works) was around my local sunrise, or maybe an hour later (same location). I heard a station that ID'd as 1440AM or something like that from somewhere in VA or WV (might have the frequency wrong though). Thing is I was tuned somewhere in the upper 800s.
Then there's the occasions where using a very poor quality radio I was picking up AM stations in the FM band and vice versa.
Also being close to a 50kW stick can enable you to hear a station without using a radio at all.
100 mi for a TIS being unusual??? I can regularly (with a good radio and antenna) hear the LAX airport TIS on 530 from El Cajon, CA. Also when the expanded band was new I was able to hear the TIS's in the mid 1600s from DFW airport regularly at night, although they too were very faint.
Also, in the category of what I would consider a good catch, I heard the Radio Disney station on 1240AM from Albuquerque. This was while my local 1240 (to which I live close enough that it doesn't sound like grayeyard garble at night) was on the air, but broadcasting dead air. The two transmitter sites were ~180° off axis from each other.
Another weird one using a radio I no longer use (but still probably works) was around my local sunrise, or maybe an hour later (same location). I heard a station that ID'd as 1440AM or something like that from somewhere in VA or WV (might have the frequency wrong though). Thing is I was tuned somewhere in the upper 800s.
Then there's the occasions where using a very poor quality radio I was picking up AM stations in the FM band and vice versa.
Also being close to a 50kW stick can enable you to hear a station without using a radio at all.
Another weird one for me that I was never able to identify... apparently there's a setting between the Local/DX settings on my Panasonic RQ-SW20's FM tuner. One summer afternoon around 100.1 or so I was picking up some kind of infomercial that sounded based on program content like it was coming from Tenessee. Thing is, I had to have the local/DX switch in the middle - in local there was no signal, and in DX I forget exactly what it was - either not much if any signal, or other stations bleeding through. In mid selector it was almost strong enough to be received in stereo, but I never heard any stereo audio.
In the summer of '90 I was living on Cape Cod. There were several cosecutive days where stations from Texas were clear and interfering with local stations. I recall hearing stations from El Paso, Abilene, and Beaumont. I wonder to this day what caused those signals to travel that far.
late 80's....probably around age 11-13. I was sitting in my parents Dodge listening to the radio mid afternoon in the late spring in a parking lot in Burlington Massachusetts. I was listening to 94.9 - the closest transmits from the top of Mt Washington in NH. At one point NH was overpowered by 94.9 Tallahassee Florida.
needless to say i freq'd out
needless to say i freq'd out
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KnoxvilleTVFan
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The weirdest DX logging was from this morning. I was listening for some opening and I turned to 88.5. What happened next was interesting. I heard a liner for WJFP 91.1 in Fort Pierce, FL and WJCB 88.5 in Clewiston, FL.
Needless to say...I kinda chuckled because it was a "teaser" for what was to come today.
Needless to say...I kinda chuckled because it was a "teaser" for what was to come today.
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AustinTX
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Back in the early 70's when I lived in NW Indiana WSM 650 AM was off the air which was unusual for them so about at the top of the hour I heard some faint island music and then a station ID and it was KORL from Honolulu. I was able to tape it back then on a old reel to reel tape recorder. Sent a reception report to them and they sent a nice QSL card. The signal was only in for 2 minutes then gone forever then about a hour later WSM returned to the air. On that same cold December morning I logged WDR 1586 from Germany which at that time was my only TA skip. I was fortunate back in those days to log and verify 49 states using a Zenith Transoceanic portable radio with 100 foot longwire and loop antenna.
FM DX would have to be when Mt. St. Helens erupted in May 1980 where I logged and verified a 3000 watt station from White River Junction, Vermont. During the course of 12 hours I heard 18 different states. That was a crazy day and luckily I caught the skip when I lived in Topeka, Kansas.
Steve
http://www.hillcountrynetradio.com
FM DX would have to be when Mt. St. Helens erupted in May 1980 where I logged and verified a 3000 watt station from White River Junction, Vermont. During the course of 12 hours I heard 18 different states. That was a crazy day and luckily I caught the skip when I lived in Topeka, Kansas.
Steve
http://www.hillcountrynetradio.com
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