What's your BEST NOON-Time AM DX ?

[nocomradio]

Today at around 3:30 EST in Central VA, WTAM, Cleveland was coming in like a local for nearly an hour. I don't think I've ever heard them during the day here.

 

[jd]

Here's a really strange one, something that just might qualify as some of my best noontime DX ever.

Today in Tyler TX (about 100 miles SE of Dallas) on a car radio I heard something on 1520 that definitely didn't resemble the talk programming on Oklahoma City's KOKC. That station is usually audible during the day here in East Texas. Switching to 1540 I didn't hear the usual Spanish language on KZMP from Dallas/Fort Worth; in fact it was the same English programming I had heard on 1520. I confirmed that it was programming from China Radio International by comparing "sort of local" KTXV 890, which can be heard well all the way from Dallas to Tyler during the day.

There you have it, two stations that didn't belong, two which I've never heard here outside of critical hours and they're both CRI affiliates. KYND Cypress/Houston with 2600 watts (about 170 miles away) was quite readable, as was KGBC Galveston with 2500 watts (over 200 miles distant). In fact, for a short while there was no trace of KZMP underneath KGBC.

Conditions were definitely favoring the south, with neither of the two distant stations having a pattern that actually favor my direction. It probably only lasted for an hour or maybe an hour and a half, but it was one the most surprising things I can recall. By 2:00PM both were gone.

 

[KA7PAT]

14:30 (22:30 UTC) December 20th

1060 CKMX Calgary, AB Classic Country
1570 KCVR Lodi, CA Spanish
1670 KNRO Redding, CA Sports

 

[KeyTimes950]

Today, Dec. 23, 2012, KYW-1060, "traffic and transit on the twos" at 12:42 p.m., followed by Walgreens and Geico commercials, AccuWeather and 12:45 sports. Some override from another 1060 at times but no override for most of the traffic report or either commercial, in Irwin, PA, 300-plus miles west of Philadelphia.

 

[crainbebo]

930 CJCA Edmonton, AB, 535 miles. 2:30pm.
1060 CKMX Calgary, AB, 415 miles, noontime.
1140 CHRB High River, AB; 12:30PM.
1660 possibly KXOL-UT around 2pm.

-crainbebo

 

[icybluelake]

Just today in eastern Iowa, around 2 in the afternoon, WTAM Cleveland was blasting in almost like a local -- about 550 miles. WOWO Fort Wayne was also coming in very clearly. There is a local station on 1220, but I heard a station under it that may or may not have been WHKW Cleveland, but I couldn't ID it.
When I was a kid, about 35-40 years ago, I remember hearing KWKH Shreveport in the middle of the day. That's probably the farthest daytime DX I can remember.

 

[DaveArnold]

WTAM has been coming in like a local daytime in Charlotte,NC during the past week.

 

[schmave]

When I was listening to WTAM this past Wednesday around 11-11:30 a.m. in Conneaut, Ohio, about 75 miles northeast of WTAM's tower, there was considerable fading. I thought I was hearing things at first, but then it became clear the signal was coming in and out. Never was able to DX at night, but I imagine that's part of the cancellation zone.

 

[cyberdad]

Cancellation zone would be my guess for WTAM fading 75 miles from the stick.

 

[gar hi]

With the big 50 kw stations, 50 miles is about where you can first notice fading and scrambling from multipathing.

75 miles is where it gets intense.

Often times, you will get a better nighttime signal from a 50 kw station 300 to 500 miles away than 75 to 100 miles away.

 

[schmave]

With the big 50 kw stations, 50 miles is about where you can first notice fading and scrambling from multipathing.

75 miles is where it gets intense.

Often times, you will get a better nighttime signal from a 50 kw station 300 to 500 miles away than 75 to 100 miles away.

Sometimes, anyway. With WLW and the big Chicago stations, you can get 100 miles out before there's much fading. That's not to say there is no adjacent channel interference in those areas, however.

 

[KR4BD]

With the big 50 kw stations, 50 miles is about where you can first notice fading and scrambling from multipathing.

75 miles is where it gets intense.

Often times, you will get a better nighttime signal from a 50 kw station 300 to 500 miles away than 75 to 100 miles away.

Sometimes, anyway. With WLW and the big Chicago stations, you can get 100 miles out before there's much fading. That's not to say there is no adjacent channel interference in those areas, however.

I am about 80 miles south of WLW and, many nights, the fading (cancelation) of their signal is so bad, it is NOT listenable. Add WOR's IBOC interference to the fading and you have a BIG MESS!

 

[gar hi]

That's how the big New York stations often sounded at night where I grew up 80 miles away in south Jersey.

300 or 400 miles away at night and the same stations would sound almost like locals.

 

[MarioMania]

When I'm in West Sacramento on Wednesday..I see abut KFI and KNX at Noon

 

[gar hi]

On a real good receiver, you may hear a trace of KFI and that would be groundwave.

Try the car radio when you are there.

 

[Lawppy]

I had 1690 from Toronto (approx 300 miles) and 1700 KBGG Des Moines, IA (About 450ish) in pretty much all day yesterday. This was from Coldwater, MI.

 

[schmave]

With the big 50 kw stations, 50 miles is about where you can first notice fading and scrambling from multipathing.

75 miles is where it gets intense.

Often times, you will get a better nighttime signal from a 50 kw station 300 to 500 miles away than 75 to 100 miles away.

Sometimes, anyway. With WLW and the big Chicago stations, you can get 100 miles out before there's much fading. That's not to say there is no adjacent channel interference in those areas, however.

I am about 80 miles south of WLW and, many nights, the fading (cancelation) of their signal is so bad, it is NOT listenable. Add WOR's IBOC interference to the fading and you have a BIG MESS!

Ouch! Maybe that is a ground conductivity issue.
I grew up on the east side of Columbus, about 90 miles NE of the tower, and I don't remember ever having those kinds of problems with WLW. Now where I live now, about 25 miles east of town near Buckeye Lake, the fading can be bad during the summer and minimal this time of year. From my many journeys into town for work, I've concluded I'm about 10-15 miles into the cancellation zone.
In St. Marys, Ohio, about 85-90 miles north of the tower in conductivity that's even better than here, WLW is a blaster day and night (I'd guess the strongest AM station in that area along with WOWO and maybe Lima's WIMA). I have never heard WLW's signal fade in that area.

 

[MarioMania]

On a real good receiver, you may hear a trace of KFI and that would be groundwave.

Try the car radio when you are there.

My big one would be KNX 1070, It going to be hard getting KFI ..KSTE at 21,400 watts day little hard to null

 

[JaxRadioFan]

I picked up WCBS 880 at 1 in the afternoon one winter day in Jacksonville Beach, FL. It was strong enough for my car radio search to pick it up. 770 WABC was coming in as well but faint. 660 was mixed with another station. I'm guessing the 660 from Greenville, SC

 

[crainbebo]

Broke the noon hour AM DX record for me!

Yesterday, 12pm in Monroe, WA (Lake Tye Park on the west side), I heard 540 CBK Regina, SK. Poor but an ID "This is CBC Radio One, 102.5 in Regina, and 540 across the province of Saskatchewan". That is over 800 miles!!

-crainbebo