What would You say were Your five best AM DX catches were?

[David67]

My five best were:

1)640 AM KFI early 80s
2)530 AM Radio Vision Christiana(before Katrina),Turks and Caicos Islands
3)600 AM Radio Moscow World Service,out of Cuba early 80s
4)KMOX AM in the Afternoon 1988
5)800 AM Transworld Radio Bonaire 80s

and one more

6)1180 AM Radio Marti out of Miami

 

[gar hi]

1) KFI from New Jersey - late 70s .... and here in Tampa one year ago

2) WCBS from Northern California (Fairfield) - late 70s

3) WCAU from Northern California (Palo Alto) - early 80s

4) KNX from Tampa last year

5) KSL from Tampa last year

 

[gr8oldies]

640 KFI from Ohio in the 80s
810 ZNS3 Bahamas from OH
970 WFUN Ashtabula OH from Quincy IL at 8am Central
930 WTAD Quincy IL from Logansport IN
1550 WBSC Bennetsville SC

 

[ddsparxx]

Actually I didn't start doing AM DX until a couple years ago. Best AM DX catches so far..., 4 of them in VA at night

850 KOA Denver
1660 KTXR Kansas City underneath couple other 1660's, most recently
1550 WIGN Bristol on the TN/VA border operating only 6 watts at night, heard 270 miles away from my location
1134 from Europe last September while spending some time on the NC coast
650 down in Colombia

 

[gar hi]

Hey, when you were on the North Carolina coast, did you try any daytime DXing? I've heard many reports of good daytime reception from New York, Boston, Jacksonville, and Miami on Cape Hatteras and the outer banks area.

There were two daytime saltwater catches I would have included in my top 5 but didn't get official IDs.

One was KCTA 1030 Corpus Christi, Texas from the Gulf beach over in Dunedin because it was the only possible religious station I could have been getting on 1030 in the daytime. The other I'm almost certain, by the process of elimination, had to be a very weak barely detectable signal from WCBS in the background of a weak signal from WZAB in south Florida when I was on Daytona Beach.

 

[crainbebo]

1: Caribbean Beacon, Anguila on 1610 at 4000 miles!!! Logged this month, on 1/09
2: 1700 KVNS Brownsville, TX at 2021 miles, logged in early '09
3: WCKY Cincinnati, OH on 1530 at 1965 miles! Logged 11/30/2008
4: 1130 KWKH Sherveport, LA at 1800+ miles, logged on 1/18/2010
5: 780 WBBM Chicago, IL at 1727 miles. Logged in December 2008.

-crainbebo

 

[ddsparxx]

Hey, when you were on the North Carolina coast, did you try any daytime DXing? I've heard many reports of good daytime reception from New York, Boston, Jacksonville, and Miami on Cape Hatteras and the outer banks area.

There were two daytime saltwater catches I would have included in my top 5 but didn't get official IDs.

One was KCTA 1030 Corpus Christi, Texas from the Gulf beach over in Dunedin because it was the only possible religious station I could have been getting on 1030 in the daytime. The other I'm almost certain, by the process of elimination, had to be a very weak barely detectable signal from WCBS in the background of a weak signal from WZAB in south Florida when I was on Daytona Beach.

I did but not much. In the daytime I heard WCMC 1230 Wildwood, NJ, WMID 1340 Atlantic City, NJ, WOND 1400 Pleasontville, NJ, WENJ 1450 Atlantic City, (all graveyarders travelling through salt water), WLIE 540 Islip, NY on Long Island, WFAN, WOR, WABC and WCBS, I think I heard WBBR 1130 as well. Further south down at Atlantic Beach, NC I heard WOKV 690 Jacksonsville, FL with reliable signal. When I heard WOKV say "Jacksonville," I first thought they meant Jacksonville, NC, nope, it's the other Jacksonville. WOKV disappeared when I reached closer toward Greenville, NC.
I don't think I heard any Miami but I have heard WBZ and WWGB both on 1030 at the same time on the north end of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. WWGB is the daytimer just southeast of DC.
I stayed in NC only 3 days and I did mostly FM listening looking for DX during the day and there wasn't much tropo along the coast. Just some slight tropo at certain times. The Nags Head, NC, area was the only place when I heard the 1134 at night, on a third floor at a hotel overlooking southeast.

 

[davideduardo]

From NE Ohio, around 1960, and all verified at the time:

Rotorua, NZ, 1000 kcs 10 kw
KIKI Honolulu, 830, 250 w.
Radio Salta, Salta, Argentina, 830, 10 kw.
KTIP Porterville, CA, 1450 250 w.
AFRS Ramey AFB Puerto Rico, 50 w. 780.

Sentimental favorita: WITA, 1140, San Juan, PR, 500 watts. Verified. 15 years later, I was to be GM of that station, as WQII.

 

[radioman148]

From Hawaii:

1116 Brisbane, Australia (2009)
1170 KFAQ Tulsa, Ok (2009)
780 WBBM Chicago, Il (1978)
890 WLS Chicago, Il (1978)

From London, England

880 WCBS New York, NY (1977)

From home (Chicago area)

1134 Croatia (2009)

 

[Mid West Clubber]

The AM 1070 from LA heard in Hillsville Virginia this past summer....far beyond anything else amazing i ever heard.

 

[gar hi]

I did but not much. In the daytime I heard WCMC 1230 Wildwood, NJ, WMID 1340 Atlantic City, NJ, WOND 1400 Pleasontville, NJ, WENJ 1450 Atlantic City, (all graveyarders travelling through salt water), WLIE 540 Islip, NY on Long Island, WFAN, WOR, WABC and WCBS, I think I heard WBBR 1130 as well. Further south down at Atlantic Beach, NC I heard WOKV 690 Jacksonsville, FL with reliable signal. When I heard WOKV say "Jacksonville," I first thought they meant Jacksonville, NC, nope, it's the other Jacksonville. WOKV disappeared when I reached closer toward Greenville, NC.
I don't think I heard any Miami but I have heard WBZ and WWGB both on 1030 at the same time on the north end of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. WWGB is the daytimer just southeast of DC.
I stayed in NC only 3 days and I did mostly FM listening looking for DX during the day and there wasn't much tropo along the coast. Just some slight tropo at certain times. The Nags Head, NC, area was the only place when I heard the 1134 at night, on a third floor at a hotel overlooking southeast.

Not much? Those are some good loggings. I have to get up there some day.

 

[ddsparxx]

Hmmm. I guess I did better then I expected.

 

[David67]

I did but not much. In the daytime I heard WCMC 1230 Wildwood, NJ, WMID 1340 Atlantic City, NJ, WOND 1400 Pleasontville, NJ, WENJ 1450 Atlantic City, (all graveyarders travelling through salt water), WLIE 540 Islip, NY on Long Island, WFAN, WOR, WABC and WCBS, I think I heard WBBR 1130 as well. Further south down at Atlantic Beach, NC I heard WOKV 690 Jacksonsville, FL with reliable signal. When I heard WOKV say "Jacksonville," I first thought they meant Jacksonville, NC, nope, it's the other Jacksonville. WOKV disappeared when I reached closer toward Greenville, NC.
I don't think I heard any Miami but I have heard WBZ and WWGB both on 1030 at the same time on the north end of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. WWGB is the daytimer just southeast of DC.
I stayed in NC only 3 days and I did mostly FM listening looking for DX during the day and there wasn't much tropo along the coast. Just some slight tropo at certain times. The Nags Head, NC, area was the only place when I heard the 1134 at night, on a third floor at a hotel overlooking southeast.

Not much? Those are some good loggings. I have to get up there some day.

Wow,those are some strong catches! ;D

 

[BobOnTheJob]

KOB (now KKOB) 770 Albuquerque while WABC was off air during the great New York Blackout of 1965 on an old zenith console radio from the 1940's. Reception in Cincinnati at age 12. I've heard farther (even on FM) but that one has the most meaning to me. (The FM that topped that was KAFF 92.9 Flagstaff,AZ from Indiana).

 

[ddsparxx]

Perhaps I may want to add this to my 5 best catches to make it 6:

Early this morning about 3 AM EST I heard a country music station on 550 AM mixed with a bunch of other 550's being talkers...I heard a Dwight Yoakam song and someone said "California" and possibly heard "Bakersfield". Looking at the logbook the only country 550's I've seen are KUZZ Bakersfield, CA, KRAI in CO, KBOW in MT and WAME in NC operating 53 W. It was a very weak, difficult signal that was heard for a short period of time and disappeared later.

Most likely this is KUZZ heard here in VA though I wasn't able to ID the station. The loop antenna positioned to receive east/west signals and to null out WGR Bufalo. I made this loop and it has pretty sharp nulls and the radio is the Sony HD tuner. Wow!

 

[radioman148]

Perhaps I may want to add this to my 5 best catches to make it 6:

Early this morning about 3 AM EST I heard a country music station on 550 AM mixed with a bunch of other 550's being talkers...I heard a Dwight Yoakam song and someone said "California" and possibly heard "Bakersfield". Looking at the logbook the only country 550's I've seen are KUZZ Bakersfield, CA, KRAI in CO, KBOW in MT and WAME in NC operating 53 W. It was a very weak, difficult signal that was heard for a short period of time and disappeared later.

Most likely this is KUZZ heard here in VA though I wasn't able to ID the station. The loop antenna positioned to receive east/west signals and to null out WGR Bufalo. I made this loop and it has pretty sharp nulls and the radio is the Sony HD tuner. Wow!

You could call there and ask if they played the Dwight Yoakam song that you heard at that time.
I've done that (called the station) to verify contacts. They probably have it in their program log.

 

[crainbebo]

KUZZ has 5 kw, KBOW has 1 kw nights and KRAI Craig, CO has 500w nights.

I'm thinking you got KUZZ. A GREAT catch!!!

-crainbebo

 

[ddsparxx]

Thanks, guys. I may try that someday.

 

[BRNout]

Thanks, guys. I may try that someday.

Are you sure it wasn't WAME? They also have a classic country format and 53 watts weakly sneaking into VA from NC is certainly feasible on a good night.

 

[gar hi]

KUZZ has 5 kw, KBOW has 1 kw nights and KRAI Craig, CO has 500w nights.

I'm thinking you got KUZZ. A GREAT catch!!!

-crainbebo

That's one good catch!

If it was KUZZ, that has me interested in new DX possibilities.

Back in the late 70s with all the time I spent staying with my brother in Northern California, I really liked the then KFRC 610 and always wished I could pick it up somehow across the country when I was home in New Jersey. The local station WIP made that impossible but when I went to the shore house (where WIP was much weaker), north Jersey, or when I was in college in Bethlehem, Pa, I would listen to 610 at night hoping I might hear KFRC maybe come through.

In Bethlehem, WIP had a fairly good signal but I could null them out too. That was when I once picked up WIOD from Miami but that was only once.

So now here in Tampa, WIOD is usually what I hear on 610 but there often times when it fades and I can't hear it at all. Fortunately 620 WDAE doesn't splatter at all either.

Even though the former KFRC is now KEAR with religious programming (not my cup of tea), I'm still wondering if I could maybe pick it up here!

I remember how, even though KFRC was 5000w, it sounded like a 50,000 w 40 miles from San Francisco where I was and I could pick it up at night anywhere else in California we happened to go.

I recall someone here once saying a 5000 w station could be heard cross country in the right conditions.