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Your most distant AM DX catches

I recently shattered my previous record (Chicago & Minneapolis / St. Paul). A few days ago, using a Tecsun PL-380 and a Select-A-Tenna, I heard a signal on 657 kHz from Pyongyang, North Korea, a distance of about 6,000 miles. Also the last couple days I heard 774 JOUB from Akita, Japan (btw I'm about 7 miles from a 50kW night, 5kW day station on 760, KFMB). I recorded and uploaded a few clips, but the power is out here (we had thunderstorms here in the San Diego area), and the way the site is set up I can't access it from my phone. My farthest daytime DX, using the same equipment, still stands at 626 miles, receiving 700 KALL North Salt Lake City, UT, from here near San Diego, CA.
 
EXCELLENT job tfc!! Never gotten anything from the far east, just a couple of EU heterodynes. Haven't DXed a lot lately.

-crainbebo
 
It has started, but the peak starts around mid November to early Feburary. To get 1116, you'd have to get up real early (about 4am) and wait for 1116 audio.

-crainbebo
 
@Mario:

It's a long long shot to get *anything* on a split frequency from the Bay area, much less Australia....you need top notch equipment PLUS likely a beverage antenna (long wires running half mile or so)!! It's tough enough in Hawaii....

But miracles happen....

cd
 
Have you read "DXing in Hawaii" thread that radioman148 wrote Mario? He's gotten 1116 Brisbane, several far east stations (language barrier :mad: ) and 530 Cuba. If I ever go to Hawaii, it would be a great place to DX!

-crainbebo
 
Seem's like Search worked for me

I'm going to keep it on 1116 AM at night, but 1120 KPNW Eugene, OR is making it hard here in Vallejo
 
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Yahoo's UltralightDX group. If you go on there and look for Gary Debock's posts (dxergary), almost every day he posts a report of what he hears from across the pacific. Also, he, as well as some others, have written some good articles which are also posted there, as well as on dxer.ca. Gary is located in Puyallup, WA, near Tacoma, and uses homemade loop antennas of various sizes (the largest of which is 9' per side) inductively coupled to various portable radios, like the C-Crane SWP, Eton E100, Tecsun PL-380 (I have one), and others. Often he modifies the radios to make them better than they come out of the box.
As far as I know, Australian DX season is over, but the September/October Japan, Korea, China, and Russia DX season is in full swing. I'm near San Diego, CA, and recently heard Pyongyang, North Korea on 657 kHz and 774 JOUB from Akita, Japan (that was my first ever TP reception). I use a Tecsun PL-380 and a Select-A-Tenna. Here's a couple recordings of my reception of JOUB a few mornings ago. The signal isn't consistent, so you will probably need to skip sections of the recording.
 
In Bellingham, WA I picked up:

WHAS 840 Louisville, my farthest US DX. When I was in Moscow, ID earlier this year, I picked up WSM 650 Nashville. And WABC 770 New York.

Nothing from Croatia yet (CKWX 1130 from Vancouver blasts in like a local station, which terrestrially, it almost is), but one of my friends in Australia said they used to hear KJR, KOMO, KVI and even KIRO Seattle back in the '60's and '70s regularly. KGO San Fransisco was often very loud and clear down there.

So THAT was the Korean stuff I heard on 657 kHz (between 650 CISL and 660 CFFR)! Wow!

Farthest daytime (listened for three hours, very good, almost rock solid semi-local-like signal that day - KXL 750 Portland, OR) This was last year.

On a graveyard channel, KLOO Corvallis, OR. It was underneath a station in nearby Anacortes, WA, KWLE (also on 1340 kHz.) a few months ago....wait....I do remember picking up Korean formatted KYPA 1230 in Los Angeles (running off their old hammock transmitting antenna) in 2005. And I got a clear ID on it.....
 
Have you gotten KRVN 880 Lexington, NE? Dosen't come in that often with KIXI/KWIP/KCMX in the way.

-crainbebo
 
tfcwings said:
Here's a couple recordings of my reception of JOUB a few mornings ago. The signal isn't consistent, so you will probably need to skip sections of the recording.
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Nice going! Thanks for sharing the recordings of JOUB - awesome signal during the peaks! I was surprised by the English heard though - are these language lessons of some kind that are being broadcast by JOUB?
 
I never did noticed that there is a Yahoo ultralights groups, however, I have read in the IRCA forums recently, and in IRCA that Gary D heard a lot of DX from the western side of the Pacific Ocean.
 
crainbebo said:
Have you gotten KRVN 880 Lexington, NE? Dosen't come in that often with KIXI/KWIP/KCMX in the way.

-crainbebo
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Yes. And if you're east of the Cascades, in the Spokane area, KRVN booms in like a local.....
 
This morning at 7 am waiting for the bus..

I was listening to KEX 1190 from Vallejo fading, I heard some chinese under KEX

I asumed it's KXMX Anaheim, CA...When does KXMX incress power for the daytime??
 
KXMX increases power at sunrise. It's not a daytimer, it's 24 hrs a day, but needs to decrease power at night to protect KEX. KXMX has 20 kw day, 1.3 kw night.

-crainbebo
 
I know it's not a daytimer..

by protecting KEX at night mean, Only people in Anaheim that hears KXMX..

and the rest of the Valley hears KEX, How far does 1.3 kw goes at night??
 
I'm not sure how far 1.3 kW goes at night, but I do remember hearing. Albuquerque, NM's 1 kw then-Radio Disney affiliate on 1240 from El Cajon, CA, and yes the local co-channel nerby in San Diego (close enough to dominate the frequency 24/7, about 11 mi west) was on the air, but brodcasting an unmodulated carrier.

Also, I remember hearing the two DFW airport TIS's at night here when they had the frequencies all to themselves.

So, 1.3 kW can probably go a long way, but I don't know exactly how far the limit is.
 
WBBM picked up a few years ago on St John USVI after local ZBVI in the British Virgin Islands went off the air

Also picked up WXKS AM ( then WKOX) Newton MA in Bermuda -Loud and clear almost like a local station

From Massachusetts WDHP 1620 St Croix - Mid Winter around 9PM --They are listed as having 1000 wts at night!
 
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