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MW DX help
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 |
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