What a difference it is DXing out in the wilderness!

[gar hi]

What a difference it can make DXing out in the wilderness away from all the interference of the city or suburban areas.

I did this in Lettuce Lake Park which is right outside the northeastern part of Tampa about two miles away from where the urban sprawl ends and it's also far from 970 WFLA's towers which cause some splatter during the day on most every weak frequency covering the entire dial where I live.

I used the loop antenna too.


Here's 660 WORL from Altamont Springs....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oqdiPW3_Z8


Here's 740 WYGM from Orlando....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkuUrZzxBdE


This next station WCNZ 1660 from Marco Island, I can't even get at all back home during the day, even with the loop.

Also, all this DXing was done today between 12:15 and 12:45 pm so these had to be groundwaves. The signals were steady too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhk-C5sab0Y


Here's 1700 WJCC from Miami Springs, another one I can't get at all during the day back home or even out at the Gulf in Dunedin where I did one of my other DXing videos.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqJgwVIjRw


Even though Lettuce Lake Park isn't significantly closer to Miami Springs than where I was at the Gulf, I think the reason I got it here and not at the Gulf is because the station has to travel on much less urban areas than it does to reach the Beach in Dunedin.

Again, what a difference it makes being away from all the usual interference.

 

[stormy01]

In the 80's I was with a group doing construction work (cabins, decks, shower buildings, etc.) for a church camp in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan near Newberry. I brought a decent portable and reception was incredible on both AM or FM. We were nowhere near any power lines.

 

[kenglish]

It's nice DX'ing in the South, where storms keep the Power Company busy. That every-so-often "Infrastructure Improvement Plan" gets the old, noisy power lines out of the way, and gets some new hardware up there occasionally.

Now, out here in Utah, where we have poles that have been standing (I use that term loosely) for many, many decades...........
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ;D

 

[ddsparxx]

I went to a county park in Fredericksburg, VA, with a Sangean PR-D5 and I, too, noticed a difference in reception qualities on AM, away from all kinds of electrical interferences, enough to hear no noise, and no noise caused by lightning. This was on 4/23/10 between 3 an 4 pm. I used only the internal ferrite bar antenna in the radio and listen only on AM.

Here’s the following distant AM’s I heard:

In NY City, WFAN 660, WOR 710, WABC 770, WCBS 880, all very weak and barely listenable. No WBBR 1130. I could also hear WQEW 1560, though I think that was skywave.

WIP 610 Philly was hardly heard.
WKHB 620 from just southeast of Pittsburgh was heard, very, very weak.

Norfolk, VA area, WVXX 1050 was heard, very weak, WYRM 1110 also weak, WTAR 850, WKGM 940, WNIS 790 all weak but listenable.

I could heard Baltimore’s WCBM 680, listenable signal but no WPTF down in NC at all. Heard absolutely nothing on 650. Few other Baltimore stations heard; WBGR 860 listenable, WBMD 750 weaker, WBAL 1090 semi local, WVIE 1370 listenable.

WCBC 1270 from Cumberland, MD weak. WHVR 1280 up in Hanover, PA (near MD border) a bit listenable.

WLLL 930 Lynchburg, VA could be heard, very weak, WFMD 930 Frederick, MD heard a bit better.

WGOP 540 Pocomoke City, MD (east of Chesapeake Bay) listenable with 500W, WMBG 740 in Williamsburg, VA very weak.
WTGM 960 Salisbury, MD very weak, also east of Chesapeake Bay.

 

[charlestondxman]

Even with radios as small as a walkman, you can tell the difference. Back before the DTV transition, I could go out to Cross, SC (a small town about 55 miles from Charleston), and even on a tiny walkman, I could get TV stations clearly from Charleston, Columbia, and Florence-Myrtle Beach.

FMs came in well, but AMs in that area are generally weaker, and not many of them came in.

Even though I live in suburbia (less than 3 miles LOS to downtown), there is a big difference in radio reception. Weak stations that don't come in around the RF of downtown Charleston come in the car in suburbia.

 

[gar hi]

I went to a county park in Fredericksburg, VA, with a Sangean PR-D5 and I, too, noticed a difference in reception qualities on AM, away from all kinds of electrical interferences, enough to hear no noise, and no noise caused by lightning. This was on 4/23/10 between 3 an 4 pm. I used only the internal ferrite bar antenna in the radio and listen only on AM.

Here’s the following distant AM’s I heard:

In NY City, WFAN 660, WOR 710, WABC 770, WCBS 880, all very weak and barely listenable. No WBBR 1130. I could also hear WQEW 1560, though I think that was skywave.

WIP 610 Philly was hardly heard.
WKHB 620 from just southeast of Pittsburgh was heard, very, very weak.

Wow WIP too.

I had to look on a map to see exactly where Fredericksburg is and it's interesting in that's around the area on I 95 that I had once mentioned how I was able to briefly pick up a very weak signal from the then WNBC 66 after having lost all NYC stations intil that brief stretch of the highway.

There's a small branch off of the Chesapeake Bay near there that probably helps the signals a little but I sure don't remember being able to get any other NYC station in that area but 660.

The fact that you also got WOR, WABC, WCBS, and especially WIP shows what a good receiver that is.