Your 2009 Want List

[Steve_Green]

As they'd phrase it here in NE PA, 'I'm just a casual DXer anymore.'

But lately, reading the interest and the true expertise and craftsmanship which makes this easily the most 'hit' of the Radio-Info boards, I've been spinning dial more often lately, mostly on AM.

Want list : HI, AK, NV, ID. The DXing clique in Queens NYC, down on Jamaica Bay near JFK, *each* heard 46 of the 50 states from there, although, oddly, none of us were missing the same four! There was a DX test on 730 from Idaho City several years back. And I even had a buddy who lived there at the time and asked her to play the radio over the phone so I could try to parallel it. No go. The station came in fine by her, but not a peep here. I don't live in NYC anymore, but it'd be nice to hear ID and NV for the entire set of 48 at one point, even though the two QTH's are 160 miles apart.

Second 'want' : How do I get that pompous name back to just 'Steve Green' here, hi? Evidently there's a blockage somewhere. I'd confused name and posted name when enrolling. Ideally I'd like it without the underscore. But pompous beggars can't be choosy, either.

 

[ALRocker]

I'd like to log KTNN here in north Alabama. I try just about every morning and evening with no luck yet.

 

[gr8oldies]

A really great eskip or multi day trop opening

 

[Lawppy]

2009 want list:
from Coldwater, MI

Idaho, Arizona or Nevada via Es- I've made it to Great Falls, MT and Coalville, UT already.
Tennessee via tropo- Glasgow, KY is the closest i've gotten.
New tropo distance record- 634 miles to Brookings, SD is awesome. It would be cool to beat it though.

I won't wish for California, Oregon or Washington yet. I figure I should try to wipe ID, AZ and NV off the list first.

 

[crainbebo]

**2009 WANT LIST**
AM: I really would like to get WSCR (with KBOI nulled), WGN (with KIRO slop/KDWN nulled), WLS (with KIXI slop nulled), WMVP (if KOMO goes off the air accidently or for technical problems), also anything on the East Coast, farther than WCKY.
FM: THREE WORDS: MORE E-SKIP!!!
TV: I would like to get ANYTHING from Canada. My crappy TV can only get to KVOS (but even that is only occasionaly, also, it's not even watchable!)

-crainbebo

 

[icybluelake]

(Cedar Rapids, IA): Stations from AL, AZ, WTIC or some other CT station, DE (yeah, right), FL, ID, ME, MS, MT, NV, NH, NJ, OR, RI (how is that going to be possible?), SC, VT and WY. That's 17 states. I have a lot of work to do.

 

[gar hi]

I want to hear KFI 640. If I could get it in New Jersey, I should be able to on the west coast of Florida but nothing so far. KSL 1160 is another one I recently started looking for. From here, the frequency has no station that dominates enough to even understand. What I can hear is so faint. WYLL is a 50kw station from Chicago on the same frequency but according to the radio locator, it's directional and aimed north and east so that shouldn't be a factor.

When I get the chance, I'd also like to take a trip across the state to one of the barrier islands on the east coast. I've heard the claim that the 50kw stations from New York can be heard during the daytime. Being as how AM travels so good on salt water, it doesn't seem impossible but I'd like to hear it for myself. It's been about 20 years since I last made the attempt and that was in Miami Beach inside the hotel where I was staying but I couldn't pick up a thing. At the time, I didn't think it was possible but was just curious to see anyway.

 

[kenglish]

No one said the "Want List" had to be STATIONS, so here goes:

1. A nice little island someplace in the Pacific, with no RFI to interfere with DXing.

2. Same for the Atlantic, Carribbean, and Mediterranean. ;D

3. A place where I can put up a dozen antennas, a couple of towers, and as many satellite dishes as I want. Full arc coverage on the dishes.

4. A total lack of low-VHF TV stations nearby, so I can try to DX the few remaining low-V TV stations overseas.

5. Time (and money) to finish the K9AY, and a place large enough to test out the new Beverage.

6. I wouldn't mind hearing, and QSLing, my old station (now, X-Band) in Lexington Park.

 

[kenglish]

Just thought of #7:

A total end to this BPL lunacy!

 

[crainbebo]

(Cedar Rapids, IA): Stations from AL, AZ, WTIC or some other CT station, DE (yeah, right), FL, ID, ME, MS, MT, NV, NH, NJ, OR, RI (how is that going to be possible?), SC, VT and WY. That's 17 states. I have a lot of work to do.

Have you logged WA yet? If not, then you should put it in the wishlist!

-crainbebo

 

[icybluelake]

Good point, I forgot about Washington. I don't think I've ever heard a WA station from my state, but have heard Washington stations while traveling all over the west.

 

[Steve_Green]

In the late Seventies, Craine and Icy, some DXers from Ohio were getting a Washington station on 1590 for a few nights. Tore the whole fabric of the DX joint apart. Might be worth a try. The calls from a Sixties National Radio Club Pattern Book show a 'KZOK' from Seattle sending a juicy chunk of their 5000 watts southeast.

And in the wee-wee hours of the morning, pun intended, two of the DXers near JFK International managed to nab KRKO 1380 Everett Washington.

It took a few minor things to achieve and complete, but there they were. KRKO with their 'Jetline News!'

The minor things in the way were such matters as WBNX, WAWZ, WAMS, WTVR, WAOK, WLCY, CKPC, KWK, and 13-80 KUDL Kansas City, et all, having signed off for the night at the same time.

Keep spinning loop. Bon chance! These grandparented full-power regionals can whoop ya when you least expect it.

 

[dx1ng]

And in the wee-wee hours of the morning, pun intended, two of the DXers near JFK International managed to nab KRKO 1380 Everett Washington.

Wow! KRKO. Those are familiar calls from the past. I thought I might have heard them from Connecticut in the 60's, but I can't find all my logs. Maybe they were just a target, but I know KRKO was being heard on the East Coast. I note KRKO is now getting a power increase, night power going from 5kw to 50kw. The effective power toward me in Poughkeepsie is increasing from roughly 2kw to 5kw, a deeper null farther to the south. I remember KWK and KUDL, both were fairly regular in Connecticut in the 60's on Monday mornings.

I never was aware of 1590-Seattle. They exist now as KLFE, and have close to an effective 10kw toward the entire east coast. But there's probably just too many other signals on 1590 for KLFE to get through.

By the way, in 1965 my first (and possibly only) Washington State stations to be heard on the Connecticut coast near Bridgeport were KHOK-1560 Hoquiam and KGA-1510 Spokane. KHOK was probably heard on a DX test, and doesn't exist any more. KGA with 50kw was probably the easiest Washington target in the mid 60's.

 

[cyberdad]

**2009 WANT LIST**
AM: I really would like to get WSCR (with KBOI nulled), WGN (with KIRO slop/KDWN nulled), WLS (with KIXI slop nulled), WMVP

-crainbebo

I think if you're patient you'll eventually snag one of the Chicago stations. I've heard all of them in California. Not in Washington or Oregon, but I haven't really tried. WSCR has a monster daytime signal. At night, they get chewed up by Cuba once you get more than a couple hundred miles from Chicago. WGN isn't quite as formidable, but still pretty good. You didn't list WBBM (780), but they arguably have the best nighttime signal. WLS is higher on the dial, so theoretically you should get a better nighttime hop. Unfortunately, their signal seems to have degraded during the past several years do to commercial and residential development near their stick, as well as possible lack of maintenance to their ground system. As for WMVP, they really throw a null at KOMO at night. By the time you get to Iowa, XEOY and KTOK rip 'em to shreds. Even their daytime pattern (which isn't very severe) throws more juice east than west.

 

[crainbebo]

You didn't list WBBM (780), but they arguably have the best nighttime signal.

I didn't list 780 because I've already got them in the logs.

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

Crainbebo--

Have you tried nulling KDXU and aiming your antenna or radio in a more easterly direction for WLS?
Being that you're in Washington you should be able to null KDXU some without degrading the midwest too much.
Try on an evening when you can tell that stations from the east are more open than usual.

 

[mimo]

My want list is quite simple:

1. An end to IBOC on AM
2. A reversal of the AM to FM trend here in Canada.

I doubt either will happen this year, and no. 2 will never happen but I can dream right?

 

[crainbebo]

Crainbebo--

Have you tried nulling KDXU and aiming your antenna or radio in a more easterly direction for WLS?
Being that you're in Washington you should be able to null KDXU some without degrading the midwest too much.
Try on an evening when you can tell that stations from the east are more open than usual.

I really can't null it out, CJDC Dawson Creek and sometimes KDXU St. George, also the slop from local 880 is really hard to get WLS here.

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

That does create major problems unless you can run a very directional wire antenna with a very sophisticated tuner. Even then your odds may get better, but still tough.

 

[Icangelp]

From Southwestern Ohio

660 KTNN Widow Rock AZ I'm going to try this year.
1030 KCTA Corpus Christi TX Haven't tried all that hard, but will try to catch them on the sunset skip.
910 KVIS Miami OK Many years ago it (KGLC) was a regular in Indianapolis, my home town.

Just fixed my Worcester SM-2 ferrite antenna, so who knows?

Back in the early 60s, I tried so hard to log 1110 KRLA. I had seen them listed in the World Radio & TV Handbook at 50KW days and 10KW nights. Not knowing a thing about directional signals, I didn't realize my dream was almost impossible. I also had no idea what I was missing, at least until I visited my cousins in LA during the summer of 1962.