Apparently the board had indigestion when I posted this last night, so I'm reposting ...
Hi all,
So I was listening to Dave Ramsey on 840 KXNT North Las Vegas on the evening of
January 25th as I usually do, and suddenly heard "Eighty-Four W-H-A-S" in the
background. I didn't have the camera running at the time, but I had noticed the
signal in the background of KXNT had been there for a while.
So I quickly set up the camera & recorded several segments over the next few
hours. I have just now had time to extract short clips with IDs, so here's the
video ...
http://youtu.be/fbM6qSyEZbU
There are WHAS mentions at 0:02, 1:32, a couple within a few seconds at 2:11,
and a KXNT TOH ID at 0:19.
Peak signal indicated on the PL-398mp (aided by the SAT) from KXNT is 78 dBµ at
0:53. You can probably hear how strong KXNT's signal is here, too - making WHAS
tough to hear.
This set a new record for domestic DX to the east of me, previously held by 720
WGN and 780 WBBM, both approximately 1700 miles from me. Both were heard with a
Panasonic RQ-SW20 (filter about as wide as a stock Sony SRF-M37W) and SAT
several years ago. WBBM was pulled out from under KKOH Reno and local 760 KFMB
splash, and WGN was bagged one Monday morning when KDWN Las Vegas was off the
air.
My all-time DX record still stands at 8344.5 miles, held by 1575 VOA in
Thailand. Video at http://youtu.be/xPODlMA1_Q4 of that reception in the early
morning on 2012-09-15 a little before sunrise.
My current DX record under a strong signal / local's "passband" (in this case
running IBOC) is 5585 miles, held by 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan, out from under 5 kW
600 KOGO San Diego, CA, 7.7 miles W/SW of me. Audio clip at
http://www.mediafire.com/?4dqx65cf85glo83 (skip ahead a minute) from 2010-11-06
early morning.
73, Stephen
Hi all,
So I was listening to Dave Ramsey on 840 KXNT North Las Vegas on the evening of
January 25th as I usually do, and suddenly heard "Eighty-Four W-H-A-S" in the
background. I didn't have the camera running at the time, but I had noticed the
signal in the background of KXNT had been there for a while.
So I quickly set up the camera & recorded several segments over the next few
hours. I have just now had time to extract short clips with IDs, so here's the
video ...
http://youtu.be/fbM6qSyEZbU
There are WHAS mentions at 0:02, 1:32, a couple within a few seconds at 2:11,
and a KXNT TOH ID at 0:19.
Peak signal indicated on the PL-398mp (aided by the SAT) from KXNT is 78 dBµ at
0:53. You can probably hear how strong KXNT's signal is here, too - making WHAS
tough to hear.
This set a new record for domestic DX to the east of me, previously held by 720
WGN and 780 WBBM, both approximately 1700 miles from me. Both were heard with a
Panasonic RQ-SW20 (filter about as wide as a stock Sony SRF-M37W) and SAT
several years ago. WBBM was pulled out from under KKOH Reno and local 760 KFMB
splash, and WGN was bagged one Monday morning when KDWN Las Vegas was off the
air.
My all-time DX record still stands at 8344.5 miles, held by 1575 VOA in
Thailand. Video at http://youtu.be/xPODlMA1_Q4 of that reception in the early
morning on 2012-09-15 a little before sunrise.
My current DX record under a strong signal / local's "passband" (in this case
running IBOC) is 5585 miles, held by 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan, out from under 5 kW
600 KOGO San Diego, CA, 7.7 miles W/SW of me. Audio clip at
http://www.mediafire.com/?4dqx65cf85glo83 (skip ahead a minute) from 2010-11-06
early morning.
73, Stephen
