I am pretty new to SLW DXing, and this is actually an MW DX question,
but please bear with me.

I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC. I had
a weak signal of the game, but them another signal came in very clearly.
It overpowered the local New England station and I listened until about
2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

Any constructive suggestions would be appreciated.

Pete Davis

Pete & Renee Davis wrote:
I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC. I had
a weak signal of the game, but them another signal came in very clearly.
It overpowered the local New England station and I listened until about
2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

http://www.nrcdxas.org , the AM Radio Log is a good list for MW DXing.

The station you heard was probably WZRC New York.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Pete & Renee Davis wrote:
I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC. I had
a weak signal of the game, but them another signal came in very clearly.
It overpowered the local New England station and I listened until about
2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

http://www.nrcdxas.org , the AM Radio Log is a good list for MW DXing.

The station you heard was probably WZRC New York.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Pete & Renee Davis said :

I am pretty new to SLW DXing, and this is actually an MW DX question,
but please bear with me.

I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC.

Suggest you try 880 WCBS - they should be copyable from right around
dusk everywhere on the eastern seaboard (they're the voice of the
Yankees, though, not the Sox). 50kW, omnidirectional from NYC.

2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

Doesn't the FCC have a legal ID requirement for transmission in
English, on the hour?


73 de Peter, W2IRT
(ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX)

Please reply to Double-you Two Eye Are Tee at Arrl.net

Pete & Renee Davis said :

I am pretty new to SLW DXing, and this is actually an MW DX question,
but please bear with me.

I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC.

Suggest you try 880 WCBS - they should be copyable from right around
dusk everywhere on the eastern seaboard (they're the voice of the
Yankees, though, not the Sox). 50kW, omnidirectional from NYC.

2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

Doesn't the FCC have a legal ID requirement for transmission in
English, on the hour?


73 de Peter, W2IRT
(ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX)

Please reply to Double-you Two Eye Are Tee at Arrl.net

Peter Dougherty wrote:
Doesn't the FCC have a legal ID requirement for transmission in
English, on the hour?

Kinda. They're required to ID, but the regulation says nothing about
what language.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Peter Dougherty wrote:
Doesn't the FCC have a legal ID requirement for transmission in
English, on the hour?

Kinda. They're required to ID, but the regulation says nothing about
what language.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Thanks to all for your input!

I'm glad to have joined this newsgroup; people actually focus on radio, unlike
rec.radio.shortwave.

Doug,

I believe you're right. I must have been hearing WZRC in NY. A Google search
showed that they are a Chinese language station. I did not realize that there
were stations in the US that broadcast in languages other than Enlgish and
Spanish. Like I said... I'm new at this. But I just got a Radio Shack 15-1853
loop antenna, so maybe I'll get to find some other interesting signals on MW.

Pete Davis

Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

Pete & Renee Davis wrote:
I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC. I had
a weak signal of the game, but them another signal came in very clearly.
It overpowered the local New England station and I listened until about
2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

http://www.nrcdxas.org , the AM Radio Log is a good list for MW DXing.

The station you heard was probably WZRC New York.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

Thanks to all for your input!

I'm glad to have joined this newsgroup; people actually focus on radio, unlike
rec.radio.shortwave.

Doug,

I believe you're right. I must have been hearing WZRC in NY. A Google search
showed that they are a Chinese language station. I did not realize that there
were stations in the US that broadcast in languages other than Enlgish and
Spanish. Like I said... I'm new at this. But I just got a Radio Shack 15-1853
loop antenna, so maybe I'll get to find some other interesting signals on MW.

Pete Davis

Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

Pete & Renee Davis wrote:
I was trying to find a station carrying the Red Sox-Yankees game while
driving home in southern Maine last Friday night, around 2345 UTC. I had
a weak signal of the game, but them another signal came in very clearly.
It overpowered the local New England station and I listened until about
2400 UTC. I believe it was Chinese and it was some form of talk show or
call in program. Needless to say, I wouldn't have known a station ID if
I'd heard one. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Asian station
was broadcasting on 1480?

http://www.nrcdxas.org , the AM Radio Log is a good list for MW DXing.

The station you heard was probably WZRC New York.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com