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What does your 9 kHz/odd freq AM band look like? 513 kHz - 801 kHz

Thought we could try something a little different...

What are the TA/TP/TI 9 kHz (or other 'in-between' frequencies - such as 555 kHz) which you logged something on between 513 kHz and 801 kHz. You can include the 9 kHz/10 kHz universal frequencies.

For me in Vermilion, OH it would include
520 - hearing NAVTEX transmissions (off-freq from 518 kHz) recently around 10pm ET (My Tecsun bottoms out at 520 kHz for AM and tops at 513 kHz for LW - don't know why they couldn't bridge the gap between 513 and 520
540 - slight WGR splatter days and a mess at night
630 - CFCO day and night
720 - WGN very weak days and strong nights
 
MARYSVILLE WA - all my 9khz splits between 531 and 801
594 - JOAK Tokyo, Japan (NHK-1)
693 - JOAB Tokyo, Japan (NHK-2)
738 - have tried to log BEL2 Taiwan and Tahiti with little success, just carriers.
747 - JOIB Sapporo Japan (NHK-2)
774 - JOUB Akita Japan (NHK-2) common most good TP mornings

-crainbebo
 
Here's my results from near Rancho San Diego, CA...

513 - blank (This is the upper end of my Tecsuns LW range)
522 - blank
531 - sometimes residual offset reception of 530-WNRS427 Vista, otherwise splatter from semi-local 540-XESURF
540 - semi-local XESURF
549 - day: residual splatter from 540-XESURF ; night: offset recption of 550-KUZZ
558 - day: slight splash from 560-KBLU, otherwise blank ; night: offset reception/splash from 560-KSFO
567 - splash from 570-KLAC
576 - day: residual splash from 570-KLAC ; night: add slight splash from 580-KMJ
585 - IBOC hash from 600-KOGO
594 - mix of IBOC & splash from KOGO. A few years ago I heard JOAK Tokyo, Japan, through the hash.
603 - splash from KOGO with a little IBOC
612 - IBOC hash from 600-KOGO
621 - day: offset reception of semi-local 620-XESS ; night: 620-KTAR sometimes underneath
630 - day: weak IBOC hash from 640-KFI ; night: add KHOW Denver & KIDD Monterey
639 - offset reception of 640-KFI
648 - day: mix of residual splash & IBOC from KFI ; night: add faint offset/splash from 650-KMTI
657 - day: residual faint IBOC from KFI ; night: add splash from 660-KTNN. I heard Pyongyang once or twice a few years ago - anyone know their callsign if they have one?
666 - day: weak splash from 670-KIRN ; night: add 660-KTNN splash. sometimes 670-KMZQ or KBOI splash may also creep up underneath
675 - weak splash from KIRN ; night: add splash from other 670s and 680-KNBR
684 - day: splatter from 690-XEWW ; night: splash from 680-KNBR audible underneath
693 - splatter from 690-XEWW
702 - day: blank ; night: offset/splash from 700-KALL
711 - offset reception of 710-KSPN
720 - day: blank ; night: near-local-grade reception of 720-KDWN (have seen ~60-63 dBu with Tecsuns internal antenas)
729 - day: faint IBOC from 740-KBRT and offset 730-XEEBC ; night: IBOC from 740-KCBS
738 - day: offset/splash from 740-KBRT ; night: offset/splash from 740-KCBS
747 - day: residual splash/IBOC from KBRT ; night: same from KCBS
756 - splatter from local 760-KFMB
765 - splatter from local 760-KFMB
774 - day: blank ; night: splatter from 770-KKOB & 780-KKOH. A few years ago I heard JOUB Akita, Japan, one of my strongest received TP signals so far
783 - day: possible residual splash from 790-KABC ; night: splash from 780-KKOH
792 - offset/splash from 790-KABC
801 - day: offset reception of semi-local 800-XESPN ; night: add offset 800-XEROK underneath
 
From West Michigan during the last few years, most of these were heard with the Perseus SDR + phased BOG antennas, but some also with the trusty DX-440 prior to owning the Perseus:

531 Algeria
531 Faroe Islands (DX-440)
531 Spain
549 Algeria
555 ZIZ Saint Kitts and Nevis
558 Spain
585 Spain
621 RNE programming, probably from the Canary Islands
675 Netherlands
684 Spain
693 UK
702 Australia (2BL Sydney)
738 Tahiti
747 Netherlands
747 Japan
747 Tentative Australia
756 Germany
765 Switzerland (now off)
774 Spain
783 Mauritania
 
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