WJR Detroit, 760, heard in W. WA

[boombox]

I was pleasantly surprised to hear WJR fading in from the east on 760 khz last night, even got a clear ID, around 0630 UTC. It even came in barefoot on my TRF, although I was using a Select-A-Tenna when I heard the ID.

I haven't logged this one since the late 1980's, when I heard it on my boombox and 4 ft. spiral loop antenna. I think I also logged it once from Eastern Washington on a Superadio around the same time.

I'm sure it's been heard around here since then, but not when I was tuning the airwaves....

I also heard WBBM 780 and KTKN 930, and a tentative WSCR 670 behind KBOI with what sounded like CBS sports.

 

[schmave]

If it was CBS Sports Radio, yes, it was almost certainly WSCR. What time was this?

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

The first read-through of your post, Boombox, I thought it read 'West Virginia', and thought about writing a 're' asking, 'Wow -- what kind of equipment you got set up there?!?!?'

KBOI was what caught my eye the second, more accurate read I gave it.

I've never heard Idaho here in the east (either during the fevered hobby years on Long Island or the more casual dial-time here in Pennsylvania). It had to be more than ten years ago when the Idaho on 730 did their test broadcast. I knew a girl who just happened to live in Boise City at the time and called her up to see if I could // any audio over the phone.

Nothing.

That's a very tough state to hear here in the NE US. Some of us Yankee Conference DXers might want to take up an actual financial collection, buy :15 minutes of time to get Chicago to go off and get KBOI to go omni for the duration.

73s

 

[ftballfan]

The farthest west I can get on AM is KOA.

 

[rfry]

The farthest west I can get on AM is KOA.

I've logged KSL a few times here in Illinois about 110 miles NNW of St. Louis, MO, using a $50 Tecsun PL-310 with its internal loopstick.

 

[kilokat7]

The farthest west I can get on AM is KOA.

In another month or two you may want to try for 1070 KNX in the morning. I hear them frequently during the Fall months on my daily commute to GR on the car radio at sunrise. You might be surprised how strong it comes in at times.

 

[w9wi]

I was pleasantly surprised to hear WJR fading in from the east on 760 khz last night, even got a clear ID, around 0630 UTC. It even came in barefoot on my TRF, although I was using a Select-A-Tenna when I heard the ID.

I haven't logged this one since the late 1980's, when I heard it on my boombox and 4 ft. spiral loop antenna. I think I also logged it once from Eastern Washington on a Superadio around the same time.

I'm sure it's been heard around here since then, but not when I was tuning the airwaves....

I also heard WBBM 780 and KTKN 930, and a tentative WSCR 670 behind KBOI with what sounded like CBS sports.

Wow. The Chicago catches are nice enough, WJR is a great logging! (and I'm quite jealous of someone who can log Michigan and Alaska on the same night )

Here in the Nashville area the grand total of my Pacific NW catches are KGA-1510 (which I strongly suspect was non-directional at the time) and Vancouver's CKWX-1130 (several times) and CBU-690. (once, with Montreal off)

 

[radioman148]

The farthest west I can get on AM is KOA.

In another month or two you may want to try for 1070 KNX in the morning. I hear them frequently during the Fall months on my daily commute to GR on the car radio at sunrise. You might be surprised how strong it comes in at times.

Same here. I often get KNX in late Sept & October driving into Chicago right at local sunrise. Sometimes KNBR too.
Used to get KFI the same way, but not anymore with the Grand Rapids area station on 640.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Right after I got an RF-2200, and right before the other stations began going fulltime on 640, I could hear KFI most nights in the winter after about midnight in SE Michigan. I could hear KFI and KNBR in Western MI late at night on a decent Sony portable. I called and talked to the late Big Ron O'Brien one night, and we had a chat about when he was at WCAR 1130 and WCFL 1000. I called the night guy at KNBR and he announced that I was listening in Michigan on the air. I actually logged KNX before KFI in SE Michigan. I also heard KPMC 1560 one night after WQXR signed off, and heard the Vallejo Expanded Band station once.

 

[gar hi]

KFI and KNX can be heard here in Tampa at night if you listen long enough.

I've heard both a few times now.

 

[ftballfan]

The farthest west I can get on AM is KOA.

In another month or two you may want to try for 1070 KNX in the morning. I hear them frequently during the Fall months on my daily commute to GR on the car radio at sunrise. You might be surprised how strong it comes in at times.

I may have to try for KNX and KNBR in the morning sometime this fall

 

[radioman148]

The farthest west I can get on AM is KOA.

In another month or two you may want to try for 1070 KNX in the morning. I hear them frequently during the Fall months on my daily commute to GR on the car radio at sunrise. You might be surprised how strong it comes in at times.

I may have to try for KNX and KNBR in the morning sometime this fall

Try right before your local sunrise in October. That's when I've had the best luck.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

That reception of KNX, KNBR and KFI at sunrise in Michigan and Illinois is really interesting.

Kinda cool when you think of it, being a DXer almost anywhere in the USA. With all the time zones (further divided by SRS-SSS zones) plus the sheer geography, almost veryone benefits as they cope with their local conditions and stations.

The people on either coast seem to get equal, somewhat reciprocal, conditions that are beneficial. And those who live in the mid-coast probably are (per another thread) best situated to hear all 50 states and all the provinces, using the same path-of-darkness strategy. One man's sunrise is another man's sunset, or something to that effect ..... As The World Turns .....

Question : I've never been to the West Coast (the closest I came was renting films at West Coast Video). So I'm under the belief that any trans-Pacific DX on AM would be most ripe just before local sunrise there ?
In the East, the path of darkness and skip between us and Europe/Africa is at sunset our time. All the hets come flying across the nighttime Atlantic while, to our west everyone is on groundwave.

Anyway, I'm figuring that the best shot for Idaho here in the East, at least in terms of wattage, would be pretty iffy but possible.
Logic says near sunset in Idaho would be the time, just before KBOI goes directional. Chicago would be booming in, but an ID under them might be possible.
It also would take a quiet evening here when the A-Index isn't high.

Same for reception of Nevada ; KDWN and their big omni daytime pattern should behave and be least uncooperative near sunset Las Vegas.
Hearing that Nevada here -- flip a coin -- would be helped somewhat by an active A-index, no ? They're farther south than Idaho (and of Chicago).
Also the same quagmire vis-a-vis Idaho : Chicago lurks on that channel too, guarding their own territory.

There aren't that many available catches here west of the Mississippi. Heck -- with the way the dial is so cluttered now, I consider it an achievement to hear stations west of the Susquehanna.

 

[4dude]

Thats good to hear!!!!!

I must live in a dead zone..... FOR MONTHS I HAVENT HEARD 650 - WSM -- 750 - WSB or even 890 very well at all!! (Either not there or quite low (THEY USED TO BOMB IN EVERY NIGHT))

 

[Icangelp]

KFI and KNX can be heard here in Tampa at night if you listen long enough.

I've heard both a few times now.

I've often thought Florida is among the worst places for an MW DX'er to live, what with Cuba and all those locals on the former clear channels. Not to mention all the storms.

Yet you hear KFI and KNX far more frequently than many Mid-westerners.

Just goes to show you.

 

[Lawppy]

October has been my best luck at KNX! Right before local sunrise.

After years of trying, I finally confirmed KNBR last September just before Michigan sunrise with a San Francisco spot and local area codes. One morning in December, I had CKWX Vancouver fall into my lap with traffic and (604) area code mentions. And it was pretty strong for a few minutes!!

I think I heard CBU one morning (while Montreal was still off) but I didn't have concrete proof it was them. All I had to go by was a man with a Canadian accent. It was probably Vancouver, but it could have been anyone really.

As far as trying Nevada, there's also KHWG 750 from Fallon. I've caught them a couple times under WSB with country music. They stream, so it's easy to ID if it's them.

 

[crainbebo]

I get WJR about 2x or 3x a year in the winter. Mainly when WBBM is very strong (when it chews up Reno). I've only gotten WSCR once, WLS once, and WGN a few times. I had WLS in September 2010 with a "W-L-S" ID over KDXU, but it's never been heard ever before here.

-crainbebo

 

[kilokat7]

Speaking of KNX, I recorded this at 7am Eastern this morning:

1070 Khz KNX 10AU13 1100 UTC.mp3

'Tis the season for great MW DX, I guess it started early

 

[gar hi]

Awesome catch and a great signal too!

I haven't heard it nearly that good where I am.

What kind of receiver were you using?

Now that E Skip season is done I usually don't listen to AM until late September at the earliest and this time of year always seems like a void for DXing but your catch proves that's not the case.

 

[boombox]

Awesome catch and a great signal too!

I haven't heard it nearly that good where I am.

What kind of receiver were you using?

Now that E Skip season is done I usually don't listen to AM until late September at the earliest and this time of year always seems like a void for DXing but your catch proves that's not the case.

I was using my Realistic TRF and a Select-A-Tenna. It was around 11:30 p.m. Pacific time. I think I was just lucky -- the signal happened to peak around that hour. Later on it was gone, 760 just had a fluttery weak signal from KFMB San Diego, and CFLD from Burns Lake, B.C. fading in and out.

As for what I usually hear from the Midwest and East, it's generally KSTP 1500; KXEL 1540 sometimes peeks beneath the null of a local (KXPA), and I sometimes hear WBBM on 780. I've logged WLS once or twice, but it's next to a strong local (KIXI 880). Some of the other big stations from the Midwest and East are also next to strong locals (WLW 700 next to KIRO 710; WGN 720 next to KIRO 710; WCCO 830 next to KGNW 820 for example) so hearing anything east of the Mississippi isn't a common occurrence.

The few times I've gone east of the Cascade mountains to Eastern Washington I've had better luck with Midwest and Eastern stations. I think Crainbebo has said the same thing here before.

RE: WSCR, I heard it about 0625 UTC (11:25 p.m. Pacific time, which would be 1:25 a.m. Central time). It sounded like Amy Lawrence, // to KNBR.