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MW DX'ing
On Sep 5, 11:24*pm, "Michael" wrote:
Havent seen conditions for MW this good in a long time. *WBT 1110 in Charlotte NC & WTAM in Cleveland are usually good here, but tonight they sound like locals. * 760 WJR in Detroit is amazingly clear and regular just so long as you use SSB. *For the first time, I'm hearing 870 WWL in New Orleans. *I can copy it with LSB only. Very sloppy but I got the station ID above the clutter. *That is a first for me. Michael North NJ R75 Inverted L Hey Michael, I read your post and went to work for the last three hours, indeed conditions are good at my QTH here in Cincinnati, Ohio. I see you are in Jersey- I easily logged the ones you stated by I am in a better spot for that than you. I have been trying for the last three to four years to grab some of the really rare BCB DX in mid America. All the stations I have been trying to log are under 250w and some of them only use that much just for things like high school football and such. Now with high school football season starting it will help on Friday nights. :-) Here is the list of some of the ones that are really 'rare medium wave dx catches'. 540 KWMT IA 172 watts 550 KFRM KS 110 560 WMIK Ky 88 570 WIDS KY 42 570 WMAM MI 100 600 WKLW KY 43 610 WRUS KY 59 610 KCSR NE 118 630 WDGY WI 130 640 WMFN MI 230 690 KSTL MO 18 690 KOAQ NE 65 690 WVCY WI 70 730 WFMW ky 215 730 WJMT WI 127 ****I'll stop with that. I have been trying to log 'something- anything' on 540 for at least a couple of years. Many are in there fighting - I have three different loops and a turntable and some outside antennas also. Just have to be there at the right time and for that specific freq. it just hasn't happened for me. :-I I have a list of the ones on 540 - will be exciting when I finally verify one. |
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MW DX'ing
On Sep 6, 10:26*am, BCBlazysusan wrote:
Hey Michael, I read your post and went to work for the last three hours, indeed conditions are good at my QTH here in Cincinnati, Ohio. I see you are in Jersey- I easily logged the ones you stated by I am in a better spot for that than you. I have been trying for the last three to four years to grab some of the really rare BCB DX in mid America. All the stations I have been trying to log are under 250w and some of them only use that much just for things like high school football and such. Now with high school football season starting it will help on Friday nights. :-) Here is the list of some of the ones that are really 'rare medium wave dx catches'. 540 KWMT IA 172 watts 550 KFRM KS 110 560 WMIK Ky 88 570 WIDS KY 42 570 WMAM MI 100 600 WKLW KY 43 610 WRUS KY 59 610 KCSR NE 118 630 WDGY WI 130 640 WMFN MI 230 690 KSTL MO 18 690 KOAQ NE 65 690 WVCY WI 70 730 WFMW ky 215 730 WJMT WI 127 ****I'll stop with that. I have been trying to log 'something- anything' on 540 for at least a couple of years. Many are in there fighting - I have three different loops and a turntable and some outside antennas also. Just have to be there at the right time and for that specific freq. it just hasn't happened for me. :-I I have a list of the ones on 540 - will be exciting when I finally verify one. Good hunting - the fun with MW DXing is you can always expect the unexpected. The trick is to have your radio switched on and panning the band for those openings with your mp3 recorder handy - have fun. My best ever low powered catch here was 1410 kHz "WKKP" McDonough GA at only 58 watts. That's 8,200 miles from my QTH in Montagu which is also a very poor DX site, due to the high mountains that surround my little village. I was lucky enought to get an astonished QSL from them confirming this unusual catch. But be patient and persistent - my catch of a lifetime took 40 years of DXing to come home - CFUN Vancouver Canada, 10,000 miles away from the DXpedition site at Seefontein. Good luck and best of 73's John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s Icom IC-7700, Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods ERGO software Drake SW8. Sangean 803A Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Redsun RP2100 Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270 Kiwa MW Loop. http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx |
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