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Weirdest DX You've Ever Received

eskipper411 said:
I received a 1395 on a AM and it said quote "Broadcasting throughout Sri Lanka and surrounding areas..." don't know.
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I don't doubt that you heard something like this, but could it have been an image frequency? I have checked every online source of frequency lists and the World Radio TV handbook, including older editions, and nothing like that comes close. What year, month and what time were you hearing this station? Usually the audio from thousands of miles away is attenuated quite severely so the signal must have been very strong for audio to be intelligible enough to discern its content. The signal from a great distance on MW usually fades in and out slowly, though the signal fades in and out much more slowly on LW and the low end of MW <1000kHz.

There are two high powered stations in Sri Lanka, both 400kW, one's around 873-882 kHz and another on 1548 kHz (no I have never heard either) Were there other heterodynes on the AM/MW dial while you heard the station on 1395? What were you using for a receive setup? I would agree that from Texas that would be an incredible catch, I have read DX reports that Saudi Arabia has been heard on 1521 from Texas, though they are reported to be running 2000kW (yes, that's 2 million watts!) It is also possible that 1395 kHz was considered and tested for a while. Does anyone know if 1395 was used temporarily?
 
stormy01 said:
eskipper411 said:
I received a 1395 on a AM and it said quote "Broadcasting throughout Sri Lanka and surrounding areas..." don't know.
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I don't doubt that you heard something like this, but could it have been an image frequency? I have checked every online source of frequency lists and the World Radio TV handbook, including older editions, and nothing like that comes close. What year, month and what time were you hearing this station? Usually the audio from thousands of miles away is attenuated quite severely so the signal must have been very strong for audio to be intelligible enough to discern its content. The signal from a great distance on MW usually fades in and out slowly, though the signal fades in and out much more slowly on LW and the low end of MW <1000kHz.

There are two high powered stations in Sri Lanka, both 400kW, one's around 873-882 kHz and another on 1548 kHz (no I have never heard either) Were there other heterodynes on the AM/MW dial while you heard the station on 1395? What were you using for a receive setup? I would agree that from Texas that would be an incredible catch, I have read DX reports that Saudi Arabia has been heard on 1521 from Texas, though they are reported to be running 2000kW (yes, that's 2 million watts!) It is also possible that 1395 kHz was considered and tested for a while. Does anyone know if 1395 was used temporarily?
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2009 and it was back in July 16 at 3:00 am. Yeah there was on 1548. I was using a Grundig G6 Aviator with a built in AM antenna.
 
Once picked up Baton Rouge's Hip-Hop Station MAX 94.1 in Bristol, CT on a GE SuperRadio 3. (I had never gotten a signal from that far away before and at first I thought WHJY Providence, RI had flipped from Rock to Hip-Hop. You see Providence, RI is a regular visitor to Central Connecticut in the Summer). Also in the car on more than one occasion I've picked up that Portugese formatted 97.3 out of New Bedford, Mass over semi-local WZBG Litchfield, CT. Also if I recall correctly I also picked up a 97.5 out of Kansas once.

Even more surprising than Baton Rouge or Kansas was picking up PULSE 87.7 New York's Danz Stayshun in April 08. PULSE 87.7 is actually an LPTV on Channel 6. That's why I was so surprised to pick them up. I was able to listen for more than 1/2 hour before conditions changed and 87.7 switched to WLNE-TV New Bedford/Providence.

Never picked up anything surprising on AM. I get WSM 650 on a semi-regular basis. Once in a great while I can pick up WSB 750 (sometimes I can get it but its not listenable). And a couple times I got 870 New Orleans fighting with a station on 870 in Upstate New York.
 
MarcB said:
Never picked up anything surprising on AM. I get WSM 650 on a semi-regular basis. Once in a great while I can pick up WSB 750 (sometimes I can get it but its not listenable). And a couple times I got 870 New Orleans fighting with a station on 870 in Upstate New York.
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I get WSB often, up here in eastern Ontario and I've had WWL 870 New Orleans over run Ithica NY, just last night.

Documentable on FM, would have to be getting the Memphis City School's WQOX 88.5, blowing in on me in Sudbury Ontario, one evening last spring. I do recall, over the years, having heard stations from Boston, Kansas (state) and Texas, but I can't find any of my records of them (some scribbled pieces of paper left in my car years ago...).

~BG
 
KBCO 97.3 in Boulder, CO heard in Rome, GA. Sounded like a local station.
 
radioman148 said:
The weirdest for me was WMJX 96.3 in Miami, Fl via e-skip in Chicago. The e-skip was rare enough, but if it wasn't for local WBBM-FM being off the air due to technical difficulties I never would have even had the chance. This was in 1977.
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Just this summer, I think it was June, I had WBBM-FM on in the car around 12:30 PM I believe, in a fast-food drive thru in Hammond, IN. As I pulled up when the head car got his order, I caught the end of "As Good as I once Was" by Toby Keith on 96.3, and some rambling about Texas. As soon as I moved it was gone again, but in certain spots it was coming in loud and proud. A quick Google search and yes.com verification on the iPhone revealed I was hearing KSCS 96.3 Fort Worth.

I scanned the FM and was hearing a load of Dallas/Ft. Worth area stations beaming in like semi-locals (the IBOC hash makes skip sound like crap, but I do at least get pleasure out of knowing what the skip is doing to the digital sideband...I digress). I was listening to some station on 92.7 from Texas as I drove around as well. Lasted a good 20 minutes at least, maybe longer as I had to get out of the car, but it was sure weird to hear Toby Keith on 96.3 in Chicagoland.
 
WING 1410 in Dayton and WPOP 1410 in Hartford overcoming local KQV----Not that weird.

KXEL in Waterloo Iowa.

WXYZ Detroit coming in around WCAE 1250

1650 Radio Disney in Virginia Beach coming in clear in St.Petersburg FL.

The spookiest for me was picking up WBAP 820 early in the fall of 1963. This was a station I knew about as it was joined with WFAA, but could never get in Pittsburgh. I got it only once and we know what happened in Dallas that Nov. Still freaks me out.
 
WCBS 880 in Miami Beach, with my feet dipped in the water, in the middle of the afternoon, spring of 2008. Only came in near the water.
 
And you're lucky you did it when you did because I think 880 in the Miami area WZAB signed on the air later that year.

What kind of a radio did you use?

How close to the water did you have to be in order to be able to start to hear anything?
 
I had a portable Eton E100 radio. As I said, I had my feet dipped in the water when I received WCBS in Miami.
 
I was just wondering if you could hear anything at all on the frequency on the beach before going in the water to where it was good enough to get an ID.

That's a tiny portable radio too. Good catch.
 
In the late 70's I could get 640 AM KFI occasionally in Nebraska, just before sunrise. Likewise I used to hear 1110 KFAB in California, weakly.

I was 20-30 miles from the old tower of 94.5 KDGE, but still hearing WWWV Pittsburgh...this was early 90's.

Just 2 weeks ago, driving across Texas, I was hearing 94.1 KTSO Tulsa and Wild 94.1 Tampa beating it out with one another.

I've heard 93.7 from Boston down near Atlanta, GA...and used to get stations from Maine quite frequently in the summertime near Savannah.

About five weeks ago, I had the opposite happen...I was 80 miles from a particular city and couldn't get any of their FM signals until I was 30 miles away... in fact I wasn't hearing any FM signals at ALL. It was as if the FM dial was virtually DEAD.
 
From here in Greenville, PA (40 miles south of Erie), I picked up about 6 stations from Houston, Texas one night. The one I remember most was KBXX 97.9.

Then for a while when I was living in Ashland, OH (about an hour and a half south of Cleveland, near Mansfield) for about 4 days I picked up pretty much the entire Detroit lineup. It was strange because they were crystal clear and beating out Cleveland and Mansfield stations.
 
One of my best catches, but fits in the weird category, was WRFD-880, when I lived about 15 miles from WCBS's transmitter. In fact, RFD was coming in with a good signal most afternoons over about a 2-month period that winter. I IDed them during their sign-off several times, so I know it them for sure. They were 5,000 watts at the time.
 
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