KFBK does have a pretty incredible daytime signal. Frequently in the winter, I would pick them up during the daytime with listenable audio from the San Diego area (about 550 miles by car, or about 490 miles as the crow flies).
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Your Best daytime-skywave AM DX Catch ?
- Thread starter Steve Green NEPA
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Update: I did look back through my logs, and it appears on December 28th around 4pm MDT, I did have reception all the way down the band with CBK Saskatoon (800+ miles) a strong and consistent signal. Still, I think my 1pm reception of KNZZ Grand Junction (275 miles) and my 3pm reception of WBBM (890 miles) still holds up.
I've heard WVON here in Ohio throughout the day in the winter. This was several years ago when they played oldies, but it was listenable. Comes in better at night here than it does in Naperville, at least as I remember.
WMVP usually makes it in pretty early in the winter, as early as 3 p.m. our time depending on conditions.
Neither of these are particularly far for me, but I was still impressed.
I need to DX more from the east this winter, but I swear I've heard WBZ before our sunset on a few occasions. It would be a logical first candidate to make it in.
WMVP usually makes it in pretty early in the winter, as early as 3 p.m. our time depending on conditions.
Neither of these are particularly far for me, but I was still impressed.
I need to DX more from the east this winter, but I swear I've heard WBZ before our sunset on a few occasions. It would be a logical first candidate to make it in.
WBZ used to make it into Northern Illinois early in winter before WNVR became a pest.
A while back I mentioned in another thread that my best daytime skywave catch was 730 XEX in Mexico City. It happened on January 27, 2019, at 10:56 a.m. local time while I was listening to my car radio in a parking lot. The distance was 702 miles, and I'm sure that the station's 60 kW transmitter helped during the opening. The next lowest frequency I've had daytime skywave on was 1050, XEG in Monterrey.
I'm looking forward to paying close attention to daytime conditions in the coming months.
I'm looking forward to paying close attention to daytime conditions in the coming months.
Heard good clear signal from 1530 WCKY Cincinnati OH yesterday afternoon around 1pm here in central Georgia.
WCKY is my indicator of daytime skip in Knoxville TN. I also get religious WTTI, Dalton GA at 10000 watts
Nice! I had a strange experience a few years ago around noon one February day at our beach vacation location near Pensacola. WLW from Cincinnati was in, but not WCKY. I would have expected just the opposite. WSM was also in, but not WLAC. Go figure!
I don't know this for sure, but I think those old...and legendary....Blaw-Knox towers help WSM and WLW get out via daytime skywave.
I wouldn't be surprised. I get WLW daytime anyway – barely – but should see if the signal is enhanced at this time of the year.
I get WLW groundwave year round just north of Chicago. Only severe thunderstorms in summer interfere.
That is weird. WCKY sometimes is in all day in the south. I've never heard WLW enhanced during the daytime from Tennessee.
WCKY is sometimes in all day during winter at my location. Blowing out semi-local WCKG in the process. As for WLW, as radioman was saying, it's usually in 24/7 year-round. Daytime reception requires a really good radio in a noise free area. Very weak, but it's always there barring thunderstorm activity.
Several summers ago, I caught the last breath of WLW at a rest area outside of Madison WI. Here, it's detectable but not listenable during deadband daytime conditions, but it arrives early and stays late at sunrise and sunset. Having said that, I remained a regular WLW daytime listener in Lafayette and Fort Wayne IN.
Nice! I used to make the run up I-90-94 from my home location to the Twin Cities every 2-3 months (in the 80s, 3M was my biggest customer). Anyway, the drive took me through Madison. I know the rest area that you're talking about. North of the city around mile marker 113. I've heard WLW around there a few times, and at all times of year. I'm not sure if it's skywave or groundwave, or both. Or maybe just the Blaw-Knox tower at work.
BTW, as you may already know, When you get just north of that rest stop and cross the Wisconsin River, ground conductivity really starts to tank.
That would be the one, but I've only been to Wisconsin once. This happened to be 4th of July weekend, going to visit a friend who was board opping at KSTP. I imagine that Blaw-Knox pumped a lot of power, even that dar out. When I lived in the Quincy IL area, I only got WLW once in the daytime, but of course it boomed in at night.Nice! I used to make the run up I-90-94 from my home location to the Twin Cities every 2-3 months (in the 80s, 3M was my biggest customer). Anyway, the drive took me through Madison. I know the rest area that you're talking about. North of the city around mile marker 113. I've heard WLW around there a few times, and at all times of year. I'm not sure if it's skywave or groundwave, or both. Or maybe just the Blaw-Knox tower at work.
BTW, as you may already know, When you get just north of that rest stop and cross the Wisconsin River, ground conductivity really starts to tank.
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