[HCDX] AM DX NewsFLash - 3/15/01
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[HCDX] AM DX NewsFLash - 3/15/01
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WELCOME TO THE AM-DX NEWSFLASH - March 15 2001
Vol 6 No 50
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Deadline for next issue - Thursday, March 22 2001 @ 1400 UTC
Send all contributions to me @ phil@xxxxxxxxxxx
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CPC Chairperson (IRCA) - Lynn Hollerman - lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxxxx
* 3/18/01 Sun - 0100-0200 - KRLD - 1080 - Dallas TX (OFF THE AIR)
* 3/18/01 Sun - 0135-0229 - WTIC - 1080 - Hartford CT (OFF THE AIR)
* 3/25/01 Sun - 0000-0400 - WMIB - 1660 - Marco Island FL (NRC)
***From Bill Hale (NRC):
Just in from Erik Disen of KRLD . . .
"KRLD will be off the air on Sunday morning, March 18, from Midnight
to 2:00 AM, CST. When we get done with our work, we will return to the
air, but no earlier than 1:00 AM.
"The purpose of this off-air time is to re-install the common point RF
current meter, the device that sets the nighttime power level of KRLD's
transmitter.
"For the record, it's Sunday morning, March 18, 2001."
Just in. . .
From Jeff Hugabone of WTIC via Eric Disen of KRLD . . .
"WTIC WILL GO OFF 1:35 AM UNTIL 2:29AM local time SUNDAY MARCH 18TH
(So lets see- thats 35 min of WTIC and no KRLD, and at least 25 minutes
of no WTIC OR KRLD.)
Sunday, March 25, 2001 - WMIB-1660, Marco Island, FL will conduct a DX
test from 12:00-4:00 am EST. The test will consist of rock 'n' roll,
old jingles, and "general silliness". The Ops Manager at WMIB says that
while he doesn't have the ability to do code IDs, he will try to run a 1
kHz tone at the top of each hour.
Reception reports (with return postage) may be sent to:
Phil Beckman
Ops Manager
WMIB-AM
601 Elkam Cir #5
Marco Island, FL 34145
Mail: philbeckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Arranged by Phil Beckman for the NRC.)
PLEASE NOTE: Even if you don't hear a test, be sure and drop a card,
letter, or e-mail to the station personnel, thanking them for going to
the trouble to run a test!
Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know, via either e-mail
or in rec.radio.shortwave! And if you send a reception report to a
station, please remember to include return postage with your report...
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HOT ITEMS
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BROADCAST INFO 15 (PREPARED ON 3/11/01 1100)
FORMAT CHANGES AND ADJUSTMENTS
FREQ. CALL SIGN OLD INFO NEW INFO
820 WYPA CHICAGO, IL STUNTING SPORTS - 1 ON 1
910 WSUN PLANT CITY, FL OLDIES REPORTED SILENT
1010 KGUY MILWAUKEE, OR TALK ADDS GREESMAN
1050 KTBL ALBUQUERGUE, NM KHTL - TALK CLASSIC C&W
(I DO NOT SHOW THIS STN IN MY DATABASE. I HAVE KTBL ON
610 KHZ... CAN ANYONE SUPPLY SOME UPDATED INFO ???)
1110 KEOR ATOKA, OK S. GSPL C&W - RADIO ONE
1160 WYLL CHICAGO, IL REL // WYLL FM RELIGION
1380 KSRV ONTARIO, OR CL. C&W/ TALK TALK
1430 WNSW NEWARK, NJ STNDS & SPAN CANTONESE & SPANISH
1470 KIID SACRAMENTO, CA KRAK - C&W CHILDRENS - DISNEY
1480 WYMR BRIDGEPORT,AL WKEA- TALK STNDS - WW1
1510 KCTE INDEPENDENCE, MO STUNTING TALK
KCTX CHILDRESS, TX OLDIES - JONES ADDS REL. & STNDS
1590 WKHZ OCEAN CITY, MD WETT - SILENT CHR
WPVL PLATTEVILLE, WI STNDS - ABC OLDIES - ABC
1700 KQXX BROWNSVILLE, TX REG. MEX OLDIES - ABC
ACTIVITY
WA LACEY KBRD- 680 CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 47-03-44
122-49-49
MA WORCHESTER WCRN- 830 INCREASES TO 50000 WATTS DAYS
CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 42-14-50
71-55-42
MS JACKSON WSLI- 930 DECREASES TO 3600 WATTS NIGHTS
CHANGES XMTR SITE T 32-23-12
90-09-47
MO LIBERTY KCXL-1140 ADDS 5 WATTS NIGHTS
MT SHELBY KSEN-1150 INCREASES TO 10000 WATS DAYS
CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 48-28-52
111-53-02
WA ELLENSBURG KXLE-1240 CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 47-00-09
120-31-31
MS CLEVELAND WDSK-1410 CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 33-45-56
90-42-41
NC KANNAPOLIS WRKB-1460 INCREASES TO 2000 WATTS DAYS
GA ATHENS WXAG-1470 CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 33-59-14
83-20-17
OH CINCINNATI WCIN-1480 DECREASES TO 1300 WATTS DAYS/
250 WATTTS NIGHTS
CHANGES XMTR SITE TO 39-12-43
84-29-20
TX COLLEGE STATION WTAW-1620 CHNAGES XMTR SITE TO 30-37-15
96-15-16
NEW CONSTRUCTIONS PERMITS
SC CHARLESTON WSCC- 730 INCREASE TO 5000 WATTS DAYS -
DA-1
CA BIG BEAR LAKE KBBV-1050 INCREASE TO 1400 WATTS DAYS
CA SAN FRANCISCO KYCY-1550 INCREASE TO 40000 WATTS NIGHTS
PA CARNEGIE WZUM-1590 DECREASE TO 1000 WATTS DAYS/24
WATTS NIGHTS
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Don Kaskey - kaskey@xxxxxxx
This morning (3/6) on 1270 at 7:17 am the announcer on KPLY-Sparks was
giving a promo (very large spin) on the move of all sports radio KPLY to
1230 kHz on Monday March 12th....
This would lead one to believe that KCBN will move to 1270 also,
probably with NOS format....
I'm sure this will go over great with all their (KPLY's) fringe
listeners. They are very listenable in S.F. 70% of the time...
Also, because my daughter taught me some Mandarin phrases this summer
I was able to log KMRB-1430 solid atop at 7:30 this morning. No sign of
nearby KVVN who is Vietnamese...KMRB was giving many ads/promos in
Mandarin but had a nice EE ID at 0730, albeit heavily accented...Is the
city of license here still San Gabriel....
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**Frederick R. Vobbe - fredv@xxxxxxxxxxx
I heard that 1530-WLSP (Lapeer MI) is off the air. Also, CFCO-630
(Chattam ON) seems to be having some problems. I noticed a slight FMing
of their carrier when I looked at it with a monitor. Any reports on
these two stations would be welcomed.
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Horacio A. Nigro - hanigro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
URUGUAY 650 CX6 SODRE is broadcasting 24h since March 1. Its SW 9620,
is not used all over this full period, though. (Nigro-Uruguay, Mar 11)
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*Dennis Gibson - dcgibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From the CGC Communicator:
CALL SIGN CHANGES GRANTED
KVVQ(AM), Hesperia (California), to KRAK
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Ronald Gitschier - wgsr1570@xxxxxxxxxx
This will be the end of WGSR 1570 AM Fernandina Beach, FLorida. The
owner is pulling the plug and I get to ride the station to the end with
my usual flair.
Hope you'll listen tonight. I am leaving Jacksonville for Fernandina
Beach, FL right now. Show starts in an hour. Call entertained over
904.277.0630. Hope Mr. Hogan can call in so we can reminice.
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***John Wright - dxer@xxxxxxxxx
Australian and NZ MW guide
The Second edition is now released for sale for US10-00, of the ever
popular Australian and NZ Medium wave guide.
Has ideas of making a loop antenna, and a few other tips, then the
frequency order listing with up to date address's. comes bound, of easy
use.
Also for free is the free updater service which is sent to you
automatically in about 6 months by airmail to update your guide. A fair
amount has happened in our X band 1600 thru 1701 so revison is a must.
All for a US10-00.....A banknote or you can pay by Visa card or
Mastercard....(the credit cards are charged at 20-00 Australian
dollars), as the exchange rate is half as we speak so will leave it at
this amount), so US10-00 note or AUD20-00 credit card.
To email dxer@xxxxxxxxx
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INDIVIDUAL LOGGINGS
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*Richard Toebe - Davis CA - richtoebe@xxxxxxx
Grundig 3400 Satellit, Radio West Loop
Two almost logs, Pat: DX is improving! CBX was strong under KCBS in
null of Mexican as well.
740 XEVAY? Mexico, Puerta Vallarta 3/7 0702 UTC. Noted in strongly
but under KCBS with "La Mexicana", calls partially heard, mention
of "Punta Siete FM"; also heard "Puerta"; Fred Cantu's Mexican
Radio-TV site lists a XHVAY in Puerta Vallarta on 92.7. (RT-CA)
1560 unid Mexico? 3/7 0350-0445 UTC. Spanish language covers of pop
music, 70s tunes like "Summer Breeze" and Elton John's "Your
Song"; noticed first driving home on car stereo, missed ID on the
hour because of electrical interference. At home with the
Grundig, faded up and down, till KNZR resumed broadcasting at
0445 with sportstalk. IRCA Mex Log 6 indicates XEMAS the best
fit; XEFAJ would be more likely because of higher power I would
think but format doesn't fit. Talk by male never gave me a clue
as to location, should have taken a different turn just before
the hour, hi! (RT-CA)
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***Bogdan Chiochiu - Pierrefonds PQ - chiochiu@xxxxxxxxx
3/8. The last night was a rather poor night for DX-ing Latin America,
except from Cuba wich really blow me away. Even 1 of my regulars was not
there (Venezuela-750), but the cubans have filled the low-band (525 -
1000 kHz). I have even managed to log a new cuban on 630. It`s an out-
let of Radio Progreso network. It was CMOA from Isla Juventu. Radio
Reloj was verry strong at times on 570 with no sign of WMCA at all this
evening. Radio Progreso put-in excellent signals on 640 and 890, and the
new log for me, 630 was usually fair and at times mixing with CHLT/WPRO
and WSKN (from San Juan, Puerto Rico - not a new catch for me, yesturday
afternoon, while listening throught one of my tapes, I have discover a
Super Cadena jingle audible in the back-ground of the WPRO/CHLT/CFCO
mess, wich was clearly audible. It was back in December 2000, 1 day
before December 31. I put up also this Puerto Rican into my logbook),
however, except from this puerto rican and the cubans, the other
stations were poor. No sign YVKS on 750 wich was dominated by WSB, HJAJ-
RCN Barranquilla was poor, barely audible. The Radiodifusora Nacíonal de
Colombia station in Urbia on 610 was only audible for 5 minutes and then
fade-out to nothing (there was no sign of WIP, conditions may have been
quite auroral). However, even with the poor conditions to the rest of
Latin America, this good opening to Cuba was with no exageration the
best since I begun involved with medium-wave back in October 2000. I
have logged my first Latin American (CMOA on 630 with R, Progreso) since
the mid-February when I got YVQO Union Radio from Puerto La Cruz on 640
kHz. I have put it on m logbook and you will see it this sunday when I
sent to you my logbook. I sent it once a week.
Also does anyone know if the cubans are good verifiers of reception
report ? I would like to send a reception report to the CMOA station of
Radio Progreso and maybe to other stations. Did one of this stations
have a web-address. R. Reloj use to have one, but I don`t know if it`s
still running. I did`n`t have visited it, since a long time.
Here are my Pan-American logs from the evening of March 7, 2001. It
was a poor night for Latin American DX, except for Cuba wich really blew
me away. The conditions to Cuba were VERRY GOOD. It was one of the best
cuban evenings here in my QTH, near Montreal. I have even meneged to log
a new one, it was CMOA from Isla Juventu on 630 kHz with a fair and
steady signal, which fades occasionnally from fair to good, or from fair
to poor, but it`s still fair during most of the evening, usually over
the CHLT/WPRO/WSKN mess, in CFCO null, but sometimes for a couple of
minutes, it did fade also under the mess. Now into my logs:
Equipment: AM/FM radio with tape recorder and CD player with a relativly
long internal ferrite bar antenna and with decent
sensitivity/selectivity
Logs for Wensday March 7, 2001
530 RVC Radio Visíon Cristiana Internacíonal (South Caicos, Turks and
Caicos) fair signal, with a preacher in Spanish.
570 CMEA Radio Reloj (Pilon, Cuba) very good with no sign of WMCA,
news in SS with morse code RR at each minute, never heard with
this signal strenght and interferences-free signal before
600 CMKV Radio Rebelde (Urbano Norris, Cuba) poor-to-occasionnally-
fair, usually over WICC-Bridgeport
610 HJ?? Radiodiffusora Nacíonal de Colombia (Urbia, Colombia) good,
way over WIP for 5 or maybe 6 minutes and then gone
630 CMOA Radio Progreso (Isla Juventu, Cuba) fair signal during most
of the evening, new log for me, //CMBC-640 and CMDZ-890. Usually
630 is dominated by WPRO and CHLT during the evening at my home
and occasionnally by WSKN from Puerto Rico, but I`ve never heard
Cuba here, until the last Wensday. The show "El Ritmo".
640 CMBC Radio Progreso (Guanabacoa, Cuba) fair-to-good-to-very good-
to excellent during the evening with the show "El Ritmo"
640 YVQO Union Radio (Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela) breifly heard in the
background of Cuba with SS news-talk by telephone by a male. Fair
signal in the background of CMBC
670 CMQ Radio Rebelde (Arroyo Arrenas, Cuba) briefly heard the last
evening with a poor-to-fair signal and some slops from local-690
CINF.
760 HJAJ RCN (Barranquilla, Colombia) usually poor signal during most
of the Wensday evening with the sports show "La Copa de Todorte".
890 CMDZ Radio Progreso (Chambas, Cuba) good signal during most of the
evening with //CMOA-630 and CMBC-640, note in passing that the
correct QTH is Chambas and not Santiago de Cuba
I hope that every DX-ers in my area have enjoyed this exceptionally
nice cuban opening.
Now I have a few questions for you:
What is the power of the CMOA, Radio Progreso outlet in Isla Juventu
on 630 kHz ? Is it a low-powered or a high-powered outlet ? I have heard
several times around 600 and on 710 and several others, some political
speechs like on 710 which for over 20 minutes was heard over WOR with
talk about the Fidel Castro visit to Venezuela. This outlets were of
course, Radio Rebelde. I have heard several outlets of the Radio Rebelde
netowrk and all have a lot of programming with Fidel Castro monologues.
My question is, does other cubans carries the Fidel Castro monologues on
the air. Did Fidel Castro have been ever a DJ at Radio Rebelde ? It`s
look so for my own listening ! If anyone have more information about
Fidel Castro on Radio Rebelde and about the Fidel Castro travel to
Venezuela which aired on the 710 kHz outlet which I have heard a few
above 20 minutes of it, before it`s gones under WOR with 2 tropical
cuban songs between 2 tele-talk by males about his venezuelan visit,
please let me know. In fact the 710 station is my first Latin American
ever logged since I begun DX-ing the AM band in October last year. I
have heard them over WOR with sports. The first unidentified LAm wich is
still unidentified is 1600. I suppose WLUZ from Puerto Rico, but I`m not
sure. There is too much QRM from co-channel WWRL (in New York) to hear
them longer than 2 or 3 minutes over WWRL wich is not enough for an ID.
I suspect even a domestic spanish, as well as 2 ecuadorians, but I`m not
sure at all.
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**Rick Kenneally - CT - woodlandview@xxxxxxxxx
530 WPML750 CT Darien? 3/7 0700 Parking advisory during Bradley
Airport construction, then "You are listening to the CT Highway
Advisory Radio Network, station WPML750, broadcasting under a
license from the FCC and the Connecticut Dept. of
Transportation." (RWK-CT)
730 CKAC PQ Montreal 3/5 0403 FF talk, commercial mentioning Glen
Miller & Friendds, then CKAC 730, Montreal ID. (RWK-CT)
730 WOHS NC Shelby 3/6 2100 Bad signal w/Hornets game, pause for
stn ident "WCSL Cherryville, W??? ???, WOHS, Shelby" then back to
game. (RWK-CT)
730 WPIT PA Pittsburg 3/6 1900 M: "You are tuned to WPIT AM 730.
The following program is sponsored by World Missionary
Evangelism, Dallas, TX" o/WACE. (RWK-CT)
1550 WITK PA Pittston 3/8 1830 Definitely not the "WITR" calls I
had listed. Fairly dominant on frequency w/"WICK Scranton 1400,
WYTK Plaines/Wilkes-Barre 13-40, WITK Pittston 15-50 and all of
Northeast Pennsylvania" then sung slogan I couldn't understand
then Neil Sedaka "Sweet 16". (RWK-CT)
1570 WNST MD Towsen 3/3 2300 Way over WISP w/"Nasty Nationwide ...
only on Baltimore's 24-hour all-sports station. Nasty 15-70
Sports, WNST, Towsen/Baltimore". Then back to 1on1. Note, not the
calls I had. (RWK-CT)
1590 WCBG PA Chambersburg 3/6 2100 PSA about home fire safety by
woman, then recorded man: "AM 15-90 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania",
then, oddly, the same ID repeated again. Terrible QRM from my
local unid TV-like noise generator. (RWK-CT)
1590 WVNA AL Tuscumbia 3/7 2100 Rotten reception under crowd and QRM
(SIO 211). Man: "North Alabama's intelligent source for talk
radio, WVNA AM 15-90", then woman: "... best talk, the best
sports coverage..." then into news. (RWK-CT)
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**David J. Twiggs - Bristol CT - aa1jm@xxxxxxxx
590 WHVW NY HYDE PARK - 03/04 1323 "Best hits" ID, included an old
cigarette ad "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should..."
Oldies. (DT-CT)
630 CFCO ON CHATHAM - 03/04 2219 Newer country music, Garth Brooks
etc. ID. (DT-CT)
1310 CIWW(p) ON Ottawa - 03/12 - Many "Oldies 13-10" ID's and jingles
between songs, mentioned Ottawa in a win a jukebox contest
announcement. (DT-CT)
1330 WESR ONLEY VA - ID, "Classic country WESR", Dr. Laura promo.
1330 WJSS MD Harve de Grace - 03/09 0653 - "You're listening to WJSS,
13-30 AM, your multicultural ...faded" English ID, into Spanish
religous program. (DT-CT)
1330 WYSN PA SOMERSET - 03/09 ID, "Sunny 13-30, WYSN" nostaligia music.
1340 WIRY NY Plattsburg - 03/12 2200 - ID at top of hour, CNN news.
1340 WMSA NY Massena - 03/12 2157 - "Forecast from WMSR, sleet ..."
followed by "Solid Gold Soul" program. (DT-CT)
1370 WKMC PA ROARING SPRING - 03/08 2249 "Here's the WKMC forecast..."
followed by nostalgia music. (DT-CT)
1390 WDCW NY Syracuse - 03/12 2227 - Contemporary Christian music, ID,
"your family christian station." (DT-CT)
1430 WNAV MD Annapolis - 03/11 0700 - Sunday morning community interest
program, call in with local politician re: property tax. (DT-CT)
1430 WPNI MA Amherst - 03/11 0800 - NPR format with "Morning Edition"
program, full ID at top of hour. (DT-CT)
Yaesu FRG-7; Terk Loop.
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**Barry McLarnon VE3JF - bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A while back, I mentioned my futile quest to log Wyoming, my nearest
unheard state. KTWO seemed like the best bet, so I've gotten in the
habit of checking 1030 in the evening just before they're scheduled to
go off their day pattern (if I happen to be around at the right time,
and remember!). In March, the magic time is 2015 EST. This evening I
had an inkling that conditions might be favorable when I tuned to 1090
around 1900 and noticed KAAY with a nice signal, dominating the usual
WBAL and CKKW. From 1945 I was hearing two stations on 1030 under WBZ -
one with religious programming (probably WCTS) and one with a basketball
play-by-play. I didn't get the names of the teams, though maybe I could
dig this out of my recording, but in a station break just before 2000 I
was rewarded with a crystal clear "KTWO" ID. Woo hoo! 1510 miles!
Persistence is rewarded.
Slim pickings so far this month. There's been some good Latin
American signals the last few evenings, but nothing out of the ordinary,
except... on Mar 8 I had a tentative logging of YNLN-640 in Managua...
alas, no positive ID, just lots of mentions of Nicaragua. Has anyone
else heard this one lately?
Regular loggings:
750 WWKK MI Petoskey - 03/03 2340-2350 - Oldies, e.g. Sonny & Cher
"The Beats Goes On", then an ad for "the Old Sportman's General
Store, on US 31 just north of Petoskey", poor to fair with fading
in WSB null. New. (BM-ON)
930 WFMD MD Fredrick - 03/04 0705 - "WFMD radar weather mid-Maryland"
from meteorologist John (?), then ID "WFMD with news, weather,
public affairs and inspirational programming - Fredrick's
newsradio 930, WFMD", fair, mixing with WBEN. (BM-ON)
1030 KTWO WY Casper - 03/10 1945-2005 - Basketball play-by-play, clear
"K-T-W-O" in break for ID just before 2000, poor-fair, about even
with nulled WBZ and presumed WCTS. On ND day pattern until 2015,
per FCC website. New - WY #1! (BM-ON)
1090 KAAY AR Little Rock - 03/10 1859-1905 - Weather forecast, ID "AM
1090 KAAY Little Rock", into USA Radio Network news and sports,
good, well over WBAL and CKKW. On ND day pattern until 1915, per
FCC website. (BM-ON)
1470 WPAO PA Farrell - 03/05 2359 - Heard in pre-TOH lull: "Christian
music for the valley, AM 1470 WPAO Farrell-Youngstown", poor with
growl on the channel. New. (BM-ON)
1580 WLIJ TN Shelbyville - 03/11 0730 - Religious music, ID "it's now
6:30, you're listening to WLIJ 1580 AM stereo here in
Shelbyville, Tennessee", weather forecast, good, over WSMO &
others. (BM-ON)
1580 WTCL FL Chattahoochee - 03/10-11 2330-0004 - Urban contemporary
music, then a series of PSAs, apparent s/off at 0004 with "WTCL
1580 Chattahoochee" ID, mostly on top of the 1580 jumble,
dominant at times - running a trifle late for a daytimer! (BM-ON)
1600 WHJB PA Bedford - 03/05 0830 - "Focus on the Family" show, with
discussion of "National Prayer Day", ID, good, all alone on the
channel. (BM-ON)
Maybe someone can help with this one:
1490 UNID ?? Callsign was given twice, sounding like WGAL or something
very similar (WGEL, WJAL, etc.). Nothing on 1490 seems to match,
but they didn't say "1490", so it could be // an FM or other AM.
They did a promo for a "Disney on Ice" show coming up on March
28, but I couldn't decipher the name of the arena. A search on
"Disney on Ice" didn't turn up any likely candidates. Any ideas?
Oops, forgot a couple of details: this was at 1829 EST on March
8, and I think they said "newsradio" after the callsign on one
occasion.
**Russ Edmunds - wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxxxx
Likely Lancaster PA, as WGAL is the local TV outlet. It also used to
be on AM, but can't remember if it was this facility or not.
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*Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
1000 KKIM NM, Albuquerque, good on top of KOMO off Eastern Beverage
with Rel. talk show at 0145 EST 3/10. ID at 0159.30 EST "KKIM AM
1000, Christmas Talk Radio" Into lively Gospel mx at 0200. They
must be running 10 KW Day power. New (PM-OR)
1460 KKCS CO, Colorado Springs, fair on top of KUTI with a business
talk show. At 0459.45 EST 3/12 "Hot Talk 1460, KKCS, Colorado
Springs." Into Net news (PM-OR)
1460 KLTC ND, Dickinson, fair u/o KKCS with ID at 0505 EST 3/12 "KLTC"
Drake R8, 1500 ' Eastern Beverage
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***BERGLUND JOHAN - Berglund SWEDEN - johandx@xxxxxxxxx
1305 09-Mar 1705 Belgium.RTBF Radio Trafic, tx Marche fair signal,
mostly non-stop music with a few breaks about roadworks etc. So
this is the old RTBF2 tx for regional px of Namur-Luxembourg-
Brabant Wallon, if I got it right. Just a note :The stations on
1125 and 1233 are listed as having Radio Trafic PLUS, indicating
another program. Will try to check.
1305 09-Mar 1710 UK. Premier Radio shot up with an ID "This is
Premier", challenging the Belgian traffic channel for a few
minutes.
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**Saul Chernos - Burnt River ON - schernos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
At Burnt River ON, 100 miles n.e. of Toronto, using various portables
and a radio Shack loop (too much snow to put out the north-south wire,
and too tired to bother finding the east-west one, buried in the snow):
Last couple days were very nice for AM DX. Times Eastern:
540 WWCS PA Canonsburg 3/7 1843 Radio Disney NEW
660 XEDTL MEX Mexico City 3/7 2312 SS and numerous local and regional
references NEW
730 WACE MA Chicopee 3/7 1758 g-talk & local references NEW
810 WPIN VA Dublin 3/7 1821 "Inspirational 810 WPIB" & g-music NEW
830 WCRN MA Worcester 3/8 1735 nostalgia music (see notes below) NEW
840 WKTR VA Earlysville 3/7 1804 "The Ministry Station" & full ID & g-
music NEW
900 WILC DE Laurel 3/7 1747 SS talk & local ads NEW
950 WROL MA Boston 3/8 1735 talk // 730 but not 830 (see notes) NEW
1130 KFAN MN Minneapolis 3/8 0755 ESPN & sports (w/ WDFN MI) NEW
1240 WCBY MI Cheboygan 3/9 0500 ID RELOG
1280 WHVR PA 3/7 Hanover 1718 country music & Baltimore Orioles promo
NEW - #1000
1300 KGLO IA Mason City 3/9 0732 ID & central TC NEW
1300 WRDZ IL Chicago 3/9 0724 Radio Disney & local phone number NEW
1320 WFHR WI Wisconsin Rapids 3/9 0731 IDs & local ads NEW
1320 WILS MI Lansing 3/10 0733 Nostalgia & IDs NEW
1330 WMNN MN Minneapolis 3/8 0805 IDs RELOG
1340 WMID NJ 3/7 Atlantic City 1707 local ads & oldies NEW
1340 WMTE MI Manistee 3/9 0818 ID & local ancts NEW
1340 WWLF NY Auburn 3/8 1708 Radio Disney NEW
1350 KRNT IA Des Moines 3/9 0341 Nostalgia ID "KRNT Summer Vacation
Tour" RELOG
1380 KAGE MN Winona 3/10 0806 AP Network news & local news & "Cagey
Country" NEW
1420 WOC IA Davenport 3/9 0400 ID RELOG
1460 KXNO IA Des Moines 3/10 0744 ID & QTH RELOG
1600 WMCR NY 3/7 Oneida 1700 ID NEW
Notes:
* There seems to have been a change at 830 WCRN MA Worcester. See my
logging above. Heard nostalgia music and a very clear ID. Yet, not
running parallel to 730 WACE MA Chicopee or 950 WROL MA Boston, which
had a talk program (I think with Christian or health theme). The NRC log
lists all three (and others) running in tandem.
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****Mike Brooker - Toronto ON - aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx
Receivers: Panasonics RF-2200, RFB-45, Times: EST (UTC-5)
920 CJCH NS Halifax - 03/08, 1900 - over usual pest CKNX with top of
hour ID: "This is talk radio 920 CJCH" into Broadcast News.
1480 WADR NY Remsen - 03/08, 1800 - topping WHBC with promo for Jim
Rome show, triple-header ID: "WRNY 1350 Rome, WADR 1480 Remsen,
and WUTQ 1550 Utica", into NASCAR news report from the
Performance Racing Network. (MKB-ON)
1500 WGHT NJ Pompton Lakes - 03/06, 1800 - fighting off partially
nulled WTOP with end of local weather, into sign-off announcement
mentioning 1000 watt power and www.ghtradio.com web site. QSLed
as WKER in 1977. (MKB-ON)
1510 WNRB MA Boston - 03/08, 1925 - over WLAC with non-ID "Boston's
50,000 watt home for sports, AM 1510", into One on One Sports
talk on college hoops. (MKB-ON)
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**walter breville - FL - walterlb@xxxxxxx
Last night March 9 I was thrilled to hear nostalgia music, then a man
"Prime time radio" followed by a lady "AM 740". This has to be CHWO
Toronto, my second Canadian logged since I moved to Central Florida two
years ago, the other being Toronto's 860. CHWO was strong enough for a
few minutes to give semi-local WQTM (ex-WWNZ Orlando) a good fight. Both
are in line with each other, making nulling no good. Used the Grundig
700 portable, barefoot. 1100 miles.
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Tim Hall - Chula Vista CA - halls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delco car rx
1660 WPJP551 CA San Diego 3/14 1345 San Diego Convention Center
station is here now, ex-1620, with usual info about convention
center parking. Still using incorrect calls WPJ551. (TRH-CA)
1690 TIS CA San Diego 3/13 2125 New TIS testing at San Diego
International Airport (Lindbergh Field). One-sentence test
message does not include any call letters. Gets out pretty well.
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*kevin redding - Mesa AZ - amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxx
Heard on a DX-398 and Radio Shack 15-1833 loop:
1150 XEUAS MEXICO, Culiacan, Sinaloa MAR 14 1200 with ID and under XESO
which was dominant. Announced it was from the Universidad
Autonomo de Sinaloa. (KR-AZ)
1150 XESO MEXICO, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora MAR 14 1200 over XEUAS with
national anthem and power up with sign on. Then playing oompah
banda music. (KR-AZ)
1510 KMND TX, Midland 3/13 0400 After Art Bell a ToH ID for KMND 1510
and KRIL 1410. Apparently they are // these days. (KR-AZ)
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**Bruce Conti - Nashua NH - BACONTI@xxxxxxx
Someone recently mentioned the graveyard-like qualities of 1570 kHz.
I typically receive WNST, WISP, and WBUG. But it's really no worse than
when the frequency was once dominated by CFOR and CKLM. Here are more
1570 logs...
1570 WFLR NY Dundee - 3/5 1905 - Poor; Finger Lakes southern tier
weather forecast briefly over WNST. (BC-NH)
1570 WPGM PA Danville - 3/5 2000 - Poor; "You're listening to WPGM...
96.7 FM, WPGM..." heard through WISP. (BC-NH)
1570 WYTI VA Rocky Mount - 3/5 1830 - Fair; ad for jewelers in
downtown Rocky Mount, then ID "WYTI Rocky Mount" and C&W music.
R8B, MWDX-5, 100-ft wire, 100-ft east sloping wire.
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**neil kazaross - neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
3/8. Tonite about 815 PM CST I heard on 1520 o/u KRHW w/KOMA in a big
fade a CW station that IDed as "FM 96.3 playing it loud" Followed by
what sd/lk "If you don't like it, tough"
Any Ideas..I struck out on the web trying to find out what this may
be. I suspect it is somewhere between SE and SW of my northern IL QTH as
my antenna favors the south greatly.
**Bruce Conti - BACONTI@xxxxxxx
There's a C&W music station in Kentucky on 1520 that simulcasts 96.3
FM; WRSL Stanford.
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**Paul Greenspan - Marshfield MA - PGreen1950@xxxxxxx
Received a strong signal between 1915 and 1930 last night 3/8/01 here
in Marshfield, MA. No stop lecture by gentleman on how to identify a
chickadee. We have an Audabon Sanctuary nearby but not aware that they
transmit. Any ideas?
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***Jarmo Patala - jp@xxxxxxxxxx
Serbo-croat 1566. this is the 2nd programme (Dva ?) of Radio Jasenica,
which they have started on medium wave by the beginning of this year.
Earlier there was same programme on AM/FM. The 1st programme is still on
FM. Radio Jasenica has been on the air for 30 years now and they also
own a newspaper within the same name "Jasenica"
This was verified by the station month ago when I heard it and got an
e-mail verification back. Not any information on the current schedule or
raise of transmitter power though despite I asked that later.
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**Pete Taylor - Tacoma WA - taytac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was trying for a cleaner re-tape of the KLBS-1330 Los Banos 10PM PST
signoff Thursday - but they didn't sign off. Rather, they stayed on
with commentary for another hour. I never got an actual signoff, but
the carrier dropped at about 11:05PM. I haven't tracked it since then
to see if this was one-time-only or represents a new regular signoff
time.
During the 10-11PM PST period, KWKW dominated with very unusual
programming. The music was mostly minor key, with long sax solos, tear-
jerking ballads and almost classical Spanish guitar. It sounded like
Portuguese-accented Spanish. Basque programming perhaps? Spanish
nostalgia? The produced KWKW ID broke into the music at 11. It was
followed by a heavy piece which sounded like it was done by Enya.
Dave Gleason and others, it would be great if you could tell me what
niche KWKW is shooting for in the LA market (along with a format
description of all the other LA Spanish language stations).
KLBSseemed to just fade out around 11 - and then come back with some
sort of unreadable announcement at 11:04 (no call letters). In the
middle of this, there seemed to be a free floating "KBLV" ID. Does
anyone know what this could be? A KLBS call change?
**David Gleason - david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What you heard on KWKW with Portuguese accented Spanish and dirge-like
music was paid Religious programming from a church with its base in
Brazil called the Iglesia Universal. They reputedly pay over 1.2 million
a year for two hours at night on KW.
KWKW is all brokered or paid programming 6 PM-6 M and 24 has on
weekends. They are talk 6 AM-6 PM, and carry dodgers and lakers in
season, even if it interrupts paid programs (Dodgers pay to broadcast,
also). Simulcasts with KWKU-1220
KTNQ-1020 Simulcast with nostalgia/oldies KRCD/KRCV FM 5 AM-7 PM
"Recuerdo", paid programming nights and overnights.
KHJ-930 all ranchera as La Ranchera nueve-treinta.
1390 Radio Nueva Vida, all Spanish religion. teaching and music.
1430 Asian and Spanish brokers.
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**Saul Chernos - schernos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Has WEEI Boston switched to WSBO and Fox ? Heard an ID and Fox
programming on 850 on Wed 7 march at 1808.
UNIDs
* "Power 1030" ID with black gospel. Cuts in mid-song on Wed 7 March
at 1812 (suspect power decrease at SSS). This does NOT appear to be
WUFL-MI per their Web site.
* 1580 with SS Ranchero-type music. Hear an ad mentioning something
like Mayfield Mall, which could be San Antonio TX or anywhere else. Wed
7 March at 1832.
* Rollye James show on 1300 on Fri 9 March at 0355. I checked her site
and the station list is admittedly incomplete (completion scheduled
soon) and also the Talk America site (which doesn't seem to have a
list).
* 1300 with World Wide Web News Network Fri 9 March at 0403.
* 920 with NPR at Fri 9 March at 0518. I'm pretty sure this is WBAA
West Lafayette IN but I want to rule out other stations.
* Has WEEI Boston switched to WSBO and Fox ? Heard an ID and Fox
programming on 850 on Wed 7 march at 1808.
**Doug Smith W9WI - w9wi@xxxxxxxx
WBAA is the only NPR station on 920. Their night pattern favors you.
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**Tom Dimeo - tom@xxxxxxxxxx
Wonder if anyone knows where Dick Summer is and what he is doing?
This is the Dick Summer who was on WBZ in the 1960s and on a New York
station or two during the 1970s and maybe the 1980s.
**Pete Kemp - radioguy@xxxxxxxx
Dick Summer was down in Philly area. I don't believe that he is on
the air. He is doing voice overs. He can be heard doing spots and
infomercials for the law firm of Binder & Binder. Here are some of this
stops along the air.
WROW [Albany NY] 1956
WNHC [New Haven CT] 1957
WCPO [Cincinnati OH] 1958
WIBC [Indianapolis IN] 1959
WIL [St. Louis MO] 1959
WIBC [Indianapolis IN] 1959
WISH [Indianapolis] 1961
WBZ [Boston MA] 1963
WNEW-FM [New York NY] 1968
WNEW [New York] 1969
WMEX [Boston] 1969
WPLJ [New York] 1972
WNBC [New York] 1974
WYNY [New York] 1979
WPIX [New York] 1982
WTMX [Chicago IL] 1991
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***Mikhail Timofeyev - timofeyev@xxxxx
Could you tell me any information about "Evreysky Kanal" (="Voice of
Russian Jewry"), New York based station = WTIR (?) call. Thank you very
much for any information about this station (see also their
www.voiceofrussianjewry.com).
Are they really broadcasting on AM/FM in N.Y. ?
***Marie A. Lamb - malamb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If they are on AM or FM, it's not under a callsign of WTIR. According
to the National Radio Club's AM Radio Log, WTIR is a tourist information
station from Winter Garden (near Orlando), Florida, broadcasting on 1680
kHz. I think there is a Jewish-formatted station in the New York City
area, but I cannot recall what the callsign or the frequency may be.
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**Tony Simon - WLMCBuzzed@xxxxxxx
<<Does anyone know what a call sign might be for 1560 "The Touch". Maybe
Melbourne, FL... now that my station is off... coming in here.>>
1560 "The Touch" is indeed Melbourne, Fla., new calls are WAOA(AM), to
match the ones of sister station "WA1A", WAOA-FM.
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**Frederick R. Vobbe - fredv@xxxxxxxxxxx
If someone could help this gentleman, it would be the nice thing to
do.
From: Fred Lundgren - ceo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a few questions regarding AM. Any help would be appreciated.
What is the highest quality AM radio receiver available from the
consumer market today? What, if any, brand of consumer radio receivers
are best for after market upgrading? Who in the industry does after
market upgrading?
I am so tired of purchasing poor quality radio receivers (and paying
mega-bucks) to twenty-somethings in electronics stores who think AM
refers to the time of day!
Before I die of old age, I would love to find a quality AM receiver
for my automobile! Any thoughts?
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***Jeff - RI - jdarche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Monitoring a possible French language station on 1375 Khz 3/15@0230-
Playng a variety of music, talk and news at 0300. Quite strong signal
and easily heard above the adjacent noise. This doesn't fit any freq
plan that I know of. Also getting het on 1377 as expected.
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QSLs
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*Pat Martin - Seaside OR - mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
630 KXLI WA, Opportunity, rec. QSL form in 12df. V/S: Bud Nameck (no
title). Address: 500 West Boone Avenue, Spokane WA 99201
730 CJNW CANADA, Vancouver BC, rec. form letter in 43d. V/S: Mark
Friesen-CE. Address: 700 West Georgia Street #700, Vancouver BC
V7Y 1K9 Canada. (PM-OR)
1220 WLSD VIRGINIA, Big Stone Gap, rec. handwritten letter in 21d,
comfirmming my tentative taped report. Station does run 44 watts
ND at night! V/S: Ray Church-DJ, Address; WLSD, 724 Park Avenue
NW, Norton VA 24273.This is one of my best domestic catches. It
is nice to have a QSL from this one! (PM-OR)
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***Joachim Stiller - jst@xxxxxxxx
1570 WGSR Fernandina Beach for DX test on Feb 3, 2001. Photoprint
letter with details and photo of Ron Gitschier, the QSL manager
of the station. Address: 707 Dade St, Fernadina Beach, FL 32034
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**Mark Connelly - MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxxxxx
{The following is an excerpt from some recent correspondence with
Gerry Thomas of RadioPlus Electronics.}
Life goes on, as they say, and I expect my radio involvements to get
back on track even though I won't have all those Cape Cod weekend trips
to juice up the logbook. Local outings are still on hold: in the
northern and western suburbs of Boston we got slammed with 2 feet of
snow earlier this week (on top of as much as a foot of existing cover).
My home QTH set-up is passable for European DX, mediocre to Africa, but
poor to South America and the Caribbean (I guess because of hills in
that direction). I really am looking forward to the after-work beach DX
outings, but those look like a distant-future thing if you took a peek
out the window here right now.
The loop experiments at East Harwich did produce some interesting
results. Mainly I was looking at both absolute weak signal audibility
(signal to amp. noise ratio) and raw S-meter readings. The former is of
prime concern with a good communications receiver; the latter is more
important with cheaper receivers (especially portables) where the
receiver's own lack of sensitivity is the biggest problem. I did give a
bit of attention to ease of nulling, and achievable null depth.
I have some additional tests that I want to do before publishing the
article. One problem I ran across was, even near midday, really weak
high band stations (above 1300 kHz) exhibited some skip-related strength
variation over time. That's what you get from trying to do these types
of tests during the winter. In any event, the high-band usable
sensitivity differences aren't as great as the low-band differences.
So what happened in Loop Tests, Part 1 ? Generally the "old Quantum"
had about 6-10 dB higher S-meter reading for a given head than the "new
Quantum" in non-regeneration mode. I guess the new Quantum with your
transformer update would perform about the same as the old Quantum I
have. That being said, the old Quantum had a noisefloor of S9 on the
R8A set to PREAMP ON, versus a noisefloor of S8 for the new Quantum.
The usable sensitivity, therefore, was no different for a given head
with either base. The Kiwa Loop produced about an S4 noisefloor (amp.
noise) when peaked on a no-signal frequency. The signal output of the
Kiwa was lower by something like 10-15 dB versus the Quantum (normal
head, old base) and more like 25 dB less versus the Quantum with the
larger head (the one you'd sent me a long time ago, presumably the same
one you're providing with your longwave-capable QX+). Large head versus
smaller head on a given Quantum base gave about 16 dB of gain on the low
end of the dial (530) and about 8 dB of improvement up around 1600 kHz.
That's usable gain, as the amplifier noisefloor is the same with either
head.
On both the "new Quantum" and the Kiwa, regeneration increased output
by as much as 15 dB before received audio got excessively muddy. Amp.
noise also goes up during regeneration, so weak signal sensitivity
really doesn't change much. Using single sideband and passband tuning
on receive lets you squeeze a little more out of the regen. before audio
quality goes into the dumper (or before oscillation breaks out).
Actually, from my experiences, regeneration has the greatest benefit
when the receiver isn't, by itself, up to snuff for split DXing ... e.g.
Sangean portables, car radios, etc. Only once in a while will
regeneration improve reception on a receiver that already has a good
choice of IF bandwidths, PBT, etc.
So who's better, Kiwa or Quantum ? A good sensitivity test is Turks
and Caicos on 530 kHz at a distance of about 1400 miles on pure midday
groundwave. At south-facing beaches in Dennisport, etc. it is strong
enough to be a hair over the noisefloor on my Ford Taurus car radio (and
easily copyable there on the Drake R8A with any good loop, a 100' wire,
or an MFJ-1024 active whip). At the E. Harwich house with something
like 3-4 miles of sandy pinelands on the bearing to T&C-530 before
hitting the water, the signal level is about 6-10 dB weaker than at the
beach sites. The car radio doesn't receive the 530 groundwave at the
house. It's still easily heard on a 100' sloper to the Drake R8A.
Using the normal Quantum head (with either base) produced a signal that
was barely over the amplifier noise threshold. The Kiwa Loop produced a
cleaner (though "S-meter weaker") signal, perhaps an S-unit over its S4
noise deck. The winner turned out to be the Quantum (again, either
base) with the larger ferrite head. It had a narrow, but noticeable,
hearability edge over the Kiwa on the Turks & Caicos - 530 signal there.
Weak signals higher in the band were pretty much a dead heat between the
"big head" Quantum and the Kiwa in terms of usable signal-to-noise.
With cheapo portables, the Quantum would be preferable because of higher
"S-meter output". On a good radio like a Drake or AOR, it wouldn't
matter. The normal head Quantum lagged some, thereby validating a "size
does matter" principle. With really weak signals, amplifier gain cannot
make up for lack of ferrite, even with the best noise-figure FET's you
can find. It should be stated that, especially at night, over 95% of
what you can hear with a Kiwa or large-head Quantum can also be heard
with a Quantum having the standard size head.
I think that the large-head version of the Quantum Loop may come
fairly close to the performance of the old Gordon Nelson NRC 6 ft. FET
Altazimuth Loop in terms of digging out the weak ones. You'd have to be
way out in the middle of nowhere to see much difference. The 100'
sloper at E. Harwich, when fed through an MWT-3 regenerative preselector
(gain about 40 dB), could still pull up a couple of signals none of the
loops could find, but you're talking about 1/10 of 1% of anything of
interest unless you're DXing from Antarctica or somewhere comparably
remote.
Nulling is best with the Kiwa, second best with a normal head Quantum,
and third with the large head Quantum. In all cases, if there's
something on a channel at a right angle to a dominant and within 30-40
dB of its strength, it can be made audible without much difficulty with
any of these loops.
I did notice some of the hand capacitance effect you'd mentioned.
Instead of causing imprecise peaking, the main thing it did was to
couple in some "hand signal" to make a tight null less deep (if I was
peaking a subdominant's signal). A bit irritating, but not a big deal.
On other antenna matters, I've been following the pennant and flag
discussions (on the Topband, Pennant / Flag, and NRC reflectors) by
hobby luminaries such as Kazaross, Rauch (W8JI), Griggs (K1ZM),
Cunningham (K6SE), and Breed (K9AY). Good info. for the upcoming
outdoor antenna experimentation season.
"Gerry Thomas" <radioplus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Of immediate importance is that fact that I have made a couple of
fairly important changes to the QX Loop. The first is the substitution
of an all-nylon shaft/screw on the VC. I had been having problems
finding an adhesive that could adhere nylon and brass so I started using
a steel screw. This resulted in hand capacitance while tuning and
required gripping the tuning knob by the skirt to avoid the hand
capacitance. I'm now machining the nylon spacer so that it is "keyed" to
the VC shaft. This allows me to go back to the nylon screw and all hand
capacitance is gone. The second important change is the switch from the
broad-band output transformer that I had been using and the
incorporation in the QX of the autotransformer that I use in the QX Pro.
Instead of the 16:1 step-down, its now closer to 50-90:1. This results
in about a 6-10 dB gain in output across the band. All QX's sold within
the last month or so have these mods as will all future QX's.
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Harjot Singh Brar - harjotb50@xxxxxxxxxxx
Try out this interesting DX Site and Join GRDXC, the only Active
Shortwave & MW Radio Station DX Club in South Asia :
http://clik.to/GRDXC
http://pages.about.com/coollinkers/GRDXC/index.htm
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Robert Wien - rjwmail@xxxxxxxxx
KAFY is actually on 1100, KZPM is on 970, they used the KZPM ID on the
hour. KAFY comes in regularly in KFAX's null here especially at sunrise
with their SS format. Have to check on 970 though. KLOC is not silent
after all on 920, they were rptd. with jazz but apparently are still
SS...
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Bogdan Chiochiu - chiochiu@xxxxxxxxx
Now, I send to you my logbook. It contains all the logs that I`ve made
on the AM band since October 2000, when I get involved with AM DX-ing. I
send it to you, since I need help to fix some unIDs and tentative
catches. You should also be aware that all that catches I have made
using only an AM/FM radio with tape recorder and CD player and it`s own
internal antenna wich is perhaps longer than the ferrite bar antennas of
my other radios, since it receives AM signals VERRY WELL with strong and
consistent signal. During my Friday night DX session, I caught Radio
Visíon Cristiana on 530 (from South Caicos, Turks and Caicos) with an
almost LOCAL-LIKE signal. I got also RCN with verry good signals on 760.
It`s selectivity is not too bad. I have caught a number of carraibbean
slips, as you will see in my logbook.
The last night, the conditions were verry poor to Latin America. I
have got only Turks and Caicos-530, Colombia-610/760, Venezuela-750
(verry poor throught WSB co-channel QRM) and Cuba-600/890. So only 6
Latins. Overall this week conditions has been good, above average,
except from yesturday evening of course, and it`s amazing, since the
spring has come and during the spring conditions becomes poorer,
generally. The worst month for Pan-American DX-ing was January. I think
this was due to the mid-winter anomaly.
(Anyone wanting a copy of this log, send me an email asking for same to
phil@xxxxxxxxxxx - pb)
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**Rick Kenneally - Wilton, CT - woodlandview@xxxxxxxxx
If WDZK-1550 in Bloomfield, CT is typical, how can the affiliates get
away with NEVER giving a legal ID? Is it no longer required to give
call letters and city of license once per hour?
I listened for over an hour this afternoon (a mind-numbing experience)
and never got calls. There were several "Radio Disney, AM-1550" IDs,
but no calls. Only once, a kid's voice gave "AM 15-50, Hartford" which
is not, according to the FCC database, the city of license.
I know much has changed since I last DXed, but I hear other stations
breaking their network programming (or Spanish programming, or whatever)
to give a proper ID at the top of the hour. Is this ID-free
broadcasting occurring with other networks? This is the first/worst
I've heard.
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***Dmitri Mezin - Kazan RUSSIA - estrella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
4th issue of DX bulletin Signal is already available. Read it at:
http://listen.to/dxsignal
If you don't wish to pass through the introduction (it remains
uncganged yet), navigate directly to either of the following:
http://dxsignal.50g.com/signale.htm
http://members.v3space.com/estrella/signale.htm
I'm planning to revise the start page (in particular, to add a direct
link to the current bulletin issue). QSL gallery will be added soon. So,
come back often!
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***Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD - salmaniw@xxxxxxxx
For Canadians, Radio Shack has the WRTH 2001 on for half price, ie
19.99 Cdn at the moment. Picked up mine yesterday. Hard to pass up at
that price!..........Walt.
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*Dennis Gibson - dcgibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The FCC has issued a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking re AM directional antennas which, according to the
Commission, relaxes "our technical rules to the extent possible while
still maintaining the integrity of the service." There approximately
1,900 directional AM stations in the U.S.
The report is very technical; certainly way over my head, but I know
their are some technical types here, so it might be of interest to them:
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2001/db0307/fcc01060.do
c
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***Jari Savolainen - jari.savolainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Some info I recently received from TWR HQ which might be of interest
to listeners.
SRI LANKA: Some years ago, TWR operated a 12.5kw SW transmitter at the
Puttalam site. It was decided that the coverage it offered was not
sufficient reason to keep it operating because the MW signal gave most
of the same area as well. The old SW transmitter was probably scrapped.
TWR had a 100kw SW transmitter scheduled to go to Sri Lanka for a while,
but it was decided not to do SW from Sri Lanka. The transmitter was sent
to Swaziland instead to replace (1999) one of the old 50kw units that
had been used there for a long time.
BOLIVIA: A 50 kW MW transmitter to start in Bolivia. The 50kw unit was
one TWR used a short time on Bonaire for local broadcasting. When they
installed a new 100kw MW transmitter there, they decided to help their
Bolivian partners by providing the 50 kW unit to them. It's not yet on
the air. No frequency or ID info available yet.
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*Jim Hill - slimjimzz@xxxxxxxx
If you are interested in high performance crystal sets, I strongly
suggest you join the Yahoo Crystal Set Radio Club. Go to
http://clubs.yahoo.com/ People that belong to this club make Litz wire
group purchases from time to time (I was in a group purchase with
Richard in 2000), information on sound powered phones is covered, etc.
It's a very active site.
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**Craig Healy - ng1u@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I found the Geoclock program I'd mentioned in an earlier post. File
name is GCLK60.ZIP.
If you'd like it, I've put it up on an account on my FTP server. From
the default Windows FTP client, here are the commands. Users of other
FTP programs can extract the info they need..
-Establish a connection to your ISP.
-From a DOS prompt in your desired download directory, type "ftp". You
will get an "ftp>" prompt.
-type "open 216.175.159.38"
-type "nrc" when you get a user name prompt
-type "nrcdx" when you get a password prompt
-type "binary" to set for a data file download
-type "get gclk60.zip" The file will download at that point.
-when you get the "ftp>" prompt back, type "close" to terminate the
connection, and "quit" to exit FTP.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The 2001 WTFDA Convention will be held at the Super 8 in Boise July 27-
29. Inquiries can be sent to: N7SOK@xxxxxxx
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The 2001 IRCA convention will be held in St Louis MO, August 25-27 2001
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2001 NRC Convention will be in Pittsburgh PA over Labor Day weekend.
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**kevin redding - Mesa AZ - amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxx
Selling, selling, selling! Nice DXing radios are on the block!
Radio Shack 12-655 sort of. I had a 12-655 AM radio and the case got
toasted. This radio got assembled into a wood box with large dial and
rotary pots and a toggle on off switch. This thing is as awesome a radio
as the original but is not in the original case and the tuning is much
better than the original due to a 30:1 gearbox. This is a real nice
radio and is a smokin DXer. I have pics if you want to see it before
buying. $40 plus $8 shipping and handling.
Chrysler Infinity Model RX-690S AM Stereo / FM Stereo / Cassette car
stereo with 6 band graphic equalizer and hookup for 6 speakers, digital
readout: $25 plus $10 shipping and insurance.
Realistic TM-152 AM - AM stereo tuner $20 plus $6 shipping and handling.
Realistic TM-150 AM - FM - FM stereo tuner $15 plus $6 shipping and
insurance.
Optimus 12-603A High Performance AM - FM Radio. Knock off of GE
Superadio III. Mint virtually unused. $30 plus $9 shipping and
insurance. Regular price $59.95.
Westinghouse Multiband Model RPM5020A Dark Chocolate. AM/FM/MB/SW/VHF
radio. Covers .54 - 1.6 mHz, 1.9 - 6.0 mHz, 6.0 - 17.0 mHz and 145 -176
mHz. $22 plus $9 shipping and insurance. Tuning knob is incorrect for
this radio.
Realistic DX-440 LW/AM/SW/FM digital readout radio. LW/AM work very
well. FM ok but images, SW is very weak on this set. $15 plus $8
shipping and insurance.
All radios work and are guaranteed not DOA.
Please reply to amfmtvdx@xxxxxxxxx or call 480-632-0679. Will not accept
collect calls.
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GEOMAGNETIC INDICES
Geomagnetic Summary March 6 2001 through March 9 2001
phil bytheway - Seattle WA - phil@xxxxxxxxxxx
Tabulated from email status daily
3/ 6 158 6 2 low-mod quiet-unsettled - 6
7 177 11 0 low-mod quiet-unsettled - 4
8 167 7 2 low-mod quiet-unsettled - 6 flare
3/ 9 161 5 0 low-mod quiet-unsettled - 3
On Saturday, the Geo reports stopped coming!! I tried to resubscribe
with another email and they are still not coming. Looks like I'm going
to have to go back to the "listen at 18 past the hour" days! Sorry I
didn't notice this sooner - pb
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IRCA's web site... take a peek!!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5792/
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IRCA Mexican Log, 6th Edition
The IRCA MEXICAN LOG lists all AM stations in Mexico by frequency,
including call letters, state, city, day/night power, slogans, schedule
in UTC/GMT, formats, networks and notes. The call letter index gives
call, frequency, city and state. The city index (listed by state, then
city) includes frequency, call and day/night power. The log has been
completely updated from the 1998 edition and carefully cross-checked by
several IRCA members. This is an indispensable reference for anyone who
hears Mexican radio stations. Size is 8 1/2" x 11" and three hole
punched
for easy binding.Prices: IRCA/NRC members - $8.00 (US/Canada/Mexico/sea
mail), $9.00 (rest of the Americas airmail), $9.50 (Europe/Asia
airmail),
$10.00 (Australia/New Zealand airmail). Non-members: add $2.00 to the
above prices.
IRCA TIS List
Completely revised by IRCA's Bill Harms to 9/00, the IRCA "TIS/HAR
LIST" includes AM/FM and TV lists from the US and Canada. This 28 page
"DX Aid" can be yours for only $5.00. Non-IRCA/NRC members... add $1.00.
Overseas... add $0.50.
IRCA Bookstore - 9705 Mary Ave NW - Seattle WA 98117-2334 (please make
checks payable to Phil Bytheway)
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If you note any AM changes (call, format, slogan, etc), please send them
to the NRC Log coordinator (Wayne Heinen) @ nrclog@xxxxxxx
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END of 3/15/01 THE "AM DX NewsFlash"
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