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What Do You Hear On 540 kHz Now?

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Schroedingers Cat

CBEF has signed off on 540. What do you hear on 540 kHz now? I could hear some weak groundwave heterodyning this afternoon. I'm thinking WWCS Canonsburg, PA is one. WAUK Jackson, WI has a deep null toward CBEF. Otherwise I would think that would be the other station I am hearing, in the 10-20 uV/m range.
 
Here in Vermilion, OH I'm hearing a Christian station playing 'Here I Am to Worship' in Spanish. Now I'm hearing another Spanish song.
 
I had another station fade up over the Spanish station just now with best of Coast to Coast. Just heard the ID as I type this...WDAK/Columbus, GA. I can hear this station with the radio oriented N/S. The Spanish station dominates with the radio oriented NW/SE
 
The only possibility I can come up with is KDFT Ferris TX (just south of Dallas). They run just 249 watts at night with a pattern that doesn't exactly favor your direction. The day 1kW pattern sort of does, although I've never confirmed hearing them run that at night. So far as I know they play by the rules and the signal in Dallas is nothing really remarkable, what with interference from XEWA.
 
jd said:
The only possibility I can come up with is KDFT Ferris TX (just south of Dallas). They run just 249 watts at night with a pattern that doesn't exactly favor your direction. The day 1kW pattern sort of does, although I've never confirmed hearing them run that at night. So far as I know they play by the rules and the signal in Dallas is nothing really remarkable, what with interference from XEWA.
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From Houston it is either KDFT or XEWA during the day. I don't speak foreign so I don't really know which I am getting. Maybe I'll get curious and try to identify by web streams.
 
I typically hear WAUK day or night in my area, although at night I can always hear CBK trying to come through, especially if I null WAUK. But they are usually not strong enough to overcome the inteference from WAUK to the point where you would actually enjoy listening, except on nights when signals from that direction are unusually strong. Before WAUK stayed on at night, you could listen to CBK almost any night.
 
What, no more French echoes, with the SRC's Windsor and Grand-Anse signals banging off of each other, any more?

At the moment, it's very quiet, which is odd. Normally, I'd be hearing the afore mentioned CBGA-1 Grand-Anse NB, along with the Islip NY based, Spanish religious broadcaster, with the rather unfortunate call letters (WLIE).

On the DX side of things, the loss of the Windsor signal, does mean that maybe I can finally snag the CBC's Watrous SK signal, though the CBC outlet in Grand Falls NL, will still make that a challenge. I have picked up Hungary's MR1 Kossuth Rádió once and then there's Radio Kuwait, just waiting to be bagged. So, the move over to 1550 isn't necesarily a bad thing. :D

~BG
 
Cedar Rapids, IA:

Daytime, KWMT Fort Dodge, IA, about 150 mi away

Nighttime: sometimes a weak KWMT, which runs 170 watts at night, often CBK Regina, SK.

Last week, I visited the Gulf coast of Alabama and picked up XEWA for the first time. I guess it's not unusual for that part of the country, but it was a first catch for me.

I don't think the absence of the Windsor signal has changed anything around here.
 
WXYG/St. Cloud; much cleaner and stronger at night even in the western 'burbs of Minneapolis.

(Fun, yet odd, format for a 250 watt AM station: Classic Album Rock!)
 
From Tampa ...

Daytime - WFLF Orlando fair signal

Nighttime - WFLF fading in and out

540 isn't one of the frequencies I pay too much attention to for DXing but after reading this post, I checked 540 tonight and I'm hearing some other station as strong as WFLF which had some long infomercial, so I haven't been able to get an ID.

Looking at the AM frequency listings, I can't imagine where this station is from. It seems to be strongest out of the N to NNW.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago. CBEF has never been a factor here, so the fact that it's off is moot. Here it's WAUK with a fair signal daytime If I null it, I can usually get KWMT with a perfectly audible signal. At night, WAUK sends a little more juice my way, but CBK sometimes can spend an entire night on top.
 
Here in Vermilion, OH 540 is now blank during the daytime but by evening critical hours, I can get a news/talk station, possible WDAK. Now I'm getting a station with Fox News with the radio positioned to get N/S signals and the Spanish music station again coming from the NW/SE as last night.
 
Discovered CBEF went silent this morning, when I looked around the band for stations on the east coast signing on at March average sunrise at the beginning of the month (only things unusual were someone on 1510 in Spanish almost even with WLAC amd WDAK 540 Columbus, GA almost completely alone on the channel).

This evening 540 had no strong signals at all - reminds me of when I would DX the channel after CBEF would sign off at 0000, I'd hear CBK for an hour, then is would be XEWA and YVOY - or often nothing at all. All I heard was someone with what could be described as "contemporary gospel country" and a station with Mexican music (XEWA, which I have not heard for 30 years?)
 
In the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, we have a Spanish-formatted 540, WETC/Wendell-Zebulon. They run 4kW daytime and 500 watts at night (which still packs quite a punch at that low-end AM frequency). They have a construction permit to go to 10 kW days.
 
SW Ohio.

Same as always. Except no Windsor.

Nothing is strong, but the usual night signal is WAUK .5 KW Wisconsin.

At various times over the last few years, I've heard about a dozen other stations.
 
Daytime in central Maryland it's a very weak WWCS from the Pittsburgh area with "Fox Sports". If I drive one county over then WGOP from Pocomoke City, MD begins fading in with a "Timeless Favorites" oldies format. Nighttime here is usually a AM 540 soup with nothing standing out. Sometimes I can make out Spanish talk and urban gospel music.
 
Little bit of very weak het noise from KOAC but static/electrical otherwise. Everything below 620 kHz is pretty dead around here during the daytime.
 
North Alabama - WKFN "The Fan," Clarksville TN daytime.
WDAK, Columbus GA, and recently WRGC Sylva, Critical hours.
Nighttime- various mish-mash of stations.
 
In Salt Lake City, I usually get CBK, Watrous, Saskatchewon on 540 KHz early in the mornings. They are 50 KW, about 400 miles north. Sometimes they are loud and clear all the way in (12.5 miles south of SLC) to work around 4:00 AM. Other times, they fight a Mexican station until I'm about 5 miles out, then just "pop" in solid.

In the afternoons and also the sunrise/sunset times, I get KYAH from Delta, Utah, running a kilowatt daytime. I've even heard their 13 watt night signal a time or two.

Not sure who the Mexican station is.
 
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