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AM Dxing 1030pm-1215am (12/15/2008)
Location: Leesville, SC 57F mostly cloudy Radio: Grundig G6 internal ferrite antenna Focused mostly on the lower end of the AM dial (600-900AM) 610 UNIDENTIFIED - Monday night football, weak and faded out 630 WMAL Washington, DC - caught the ID of this one and not much else as signal faded real quick, only transmit 1000 watts at night 650 WSM Nashville, TN - talking about Hank Williams 660 WFAN New York, NY - Monday night football and 20/20 sports update at midnight, poor signal 670 UNIDENTIFIED - two stations fighting it out, one had MNF followed by Dan Patrick, other was playing rock music with Spanish DJ and commercials 700 WLW Cincinnati, OH - commercials for REI and Goodwill followed by local talk show 720 WGN Chicago, IL - local talk show, commercial for Westmont Pharmacy 740 KRNG Tulsa, OK - commercials for "Christian Train" followed by "the hamlet" commercial, then station ID 750 WSB Atlanta, GA - always booms at night here, Michael Savage 760 WJR Detroit, MI - Dr Laura show which I didn't know was still on the air, commercials for Home Medics and 1800 flowers 770 WABC New York, NY - Jared Diamond commercial followed by station ID 780 WBBM Chicago, IL - weather and traffic on the 8's, current 13 degrees in Chicago, calling for 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow 800 Canada - never heard call letters but had Canadian Press news on the hour followed by hockey news and a Walmart commercial 820 WBAP Dallas, TX - commercial for a business venture followed by a traffic report and warning of icy conditions on roads in the suburbs 840 WHAS Louisville, KY - Michael Savage spewing, "Kentucky Colonels" charity ad 860 CJBC Toronto, Canada - in french 870 WWL New Orleans, LA - monday night football commercial for Rolaids, Sporting news radio after game 880 WCBS New York, NY - always there, always news 890 WLS Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, conservative talk radio 1000 WMVP Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, ESPN radio 1070 WFNI Indianapolis, IN - ESPN radio 1100 WTAM Cleveland, OH - local call in show bitching about the Cleveland Browns losing bad to the Eagles, 30 to 10 1120 KMOX St. Louis, MO - this one is always here, CBS news 1430 WBLR Batesburg-Leesville SC - our only local station, barely can hear 1 mile from house, station goes to 130 watts at night. 1510 WLAC Nashville, TN - got call letters right away, easy catch 1530 WCKY Cincinnati, OH - sports radio, Prep H commercial, calls itself "1530 homer" --- Around dusk today earlier 1090 WBAL Baltimore, MD - knew by the commercials what this was, tends to die around 5pm local here, probably when 50kw signal goes directional 1470 WRGA Rome, GA - got the call letters clear, didn't last long though, news updates Haven't heard the LYQ beacon on 529 AM lately |
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On Dec 16, 8:34*am, Dave wrote:
I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just don't understand why you would say something like that to someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings. |
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BCBlazysusan wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:34 am, Dave wrote: I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just don't understand why you would say something like that to someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings. Every week a list of nearby clear channel flamethrowers doesn't impress me. That is an honest declaration, freely given. |
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none wrote:
BCBlazysusan wrote: On Dec 16, 8:34 am, Dave wrote: I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just don't understand why you would say something like that to someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings. Every week a list of nearby clear channel flamethrowers doesn't impress me. That is an honest declaration, freely given. Now if it was during sunlight, like getting WLS at 2 in the afternoon (CST) on a Magnavox AE-3805 [?] and a Select-A-Tenna (ca. $50 worth of stuff-I bought the SAT in a charity resale store), indoors in downtown Bryan, Texas... |
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On Dec 17, 3:32*am, BCBlazysusan wrote:
I just don't understand why you would say something like that to someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings. Yes, I do plan on upgrading my equipment after the holidays. I've seen several on Universal Radio I would like to get. And don't worry, I'm not going to let a few bored trolls ruin the fun for me. Thanks much. |
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On Dec 18, 12:08*am, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
Perhaps our evening DXer could try for some 1 KW stations on the expanded band. Cool, did just that on the X band... 1650 WHKT Portsmouth, VA - Radio Disney, had to wait until the top of the hour for ident 1660 WFNA Charlotte, NC - it's a simulcast of WFNZ 1690 WMLB Atlanta, GA - The voice of the arts several other stations I was getting pieces from but faded in and out, I asked Santa Claus to get me a Terk AM indoor antenna (40 bucks at the Shack) RS #55016335 radioshack.com seems to have several AM antennas for sale, can someone give me a recommendation ... the Terk AM seems to be popular..... |
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I should add that I want the extra antenna to be able to pick up
longwave also. I haven't picked up a single beacon or anything else on LW with the G6. Just two tones but nothing else. I do live 35 miles as the crow flies to the nearest real aiport here. And I'll add, compared to my PRO-95 scanner which picks up airband and picks it up well, the G6 has been crap there. All sorts of FM signal images are in the band making it hard to scan through. Putting a squelch control into the G6 could be a godsend for us who like to listen to air traffic by sitting on a few channels. Right how, I would say the G6 is useless for airband scanning. |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:41:31 -0800 (PST), SC Dxing
wrote: I asked Santa Claus to get me a Terk AM indoor antenna (40 bucks at the Shack) RS #55016335 ....As someone who's debating on whether or not to sacrifice his goldschalger commemorative slinky for a cantenna, are these Terk jobs worth the $40? Or is there a better, similarly priced indoor antenna that'll handle everything from BdAM up to 30m? OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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On Dec 17, 11:50*pm, Dave wrote:
It is magical, to a degree, to listen to a distant flamethrower. *I listen to KGO (about 350 miles away) and KKOH (450 miles) every evening. I do not consider them to be DXing. *"KOMO 1000" from Seattle or KOA, Denver, perhaps. *Perhaps our evening DXer could try for some 1 KW stations on the expanded band.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - What your home twenty Dave? |
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On Dec 18, 1:41*am, SC Dxing wrote:
I asked Santa Claus to get me a Terk AM indoor antenna (40 bucks at the Shack) RS #55016335 radioshack.com seems to have several AM antennas for sale, can someone give me a recommendation ... the Terk AM seems to be popular..... You may want to check out this link. It compares the Terk to the Select-a-Antenna. Actually I was going to tell you to spend the extra ten dollars- fifteen for the SAT but after reading this I wouldn't bother. Pretty informative write up on a direct comparison between the two antennas IMO. http://www.radiointel.com/review-2loop.htm |
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On Dec 16, 5:34*am, Dave wrote:
SC Dxing wrote: AM Dxing 1030pm-1215am (12/15/2008) Location: Leesville, SC 57F mostly cloudy Radio: Grundig G6 internal ferrite antenna Focused mostly on the lower end of the AM dial (600-900AM) 610 UNIDENTIFIED - Monday night football, weak and faded out 630 WMAL Washington, DC - caught the ID of this one and not much else as signal faded real quick, only transmit 1000 watts at night 650 WSM *Nashville, TN - talking about Hank Williams 660 WFAN New York, NY - Monday night football and 20/20 sports update at midnight, poor signal 670 UNIDENTIFIED - two stations fighting it out, one had MNF followed by Dan Patrick, other was playing rock music with Spanish DJ and commercials 700 WLW *Cincinnati, OH - commercials for REI and Goodwill followed by local talk show 720 WGN *Chicago, IL - local talk show, commercial for Westmont Pharmacy 740 KRNG Tulsa, OK - commercials for "Christian Train" followed by "the hamlet" commercial, then station ID 750 WSB Atlanta, GA - always booms at night here, Michael Savage 760 WJR *Detroit, MI - Dr Laura show which I didn't know was still on the air, commercials for Home Medics and 1800 flowers 770 WABC New York, NY - Jared Diamond commercial followed by station ID 780 WBBM Chicago, IL - weather and traffic on the 8's, current 13 degrees in Chicago, calling for 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow 800 Canada - never heard call letters but had Canadian Press news on the hour followed by hockey news and a Walmart commercial 820 WBAP Dallas, TX - commercial for a business venture followed by a traffic report and warning of icy conditions on roads in the suburbs 840 WHAS Louisville, KY - Michael Savage spewing, "Kentucky Colonels" charity ad 860 CJBC Toronto, Canada - in french 870 WWL New Orleans, LA - monday night football commercial for Rolaids, Sporting news radio after game 880 WCBS New York, NY - always there, always news 890 WLS *Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, conservative talk radio 1000 WMVP Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, ESPN radio 1070 WFNI Indianapolis, IN - ESPN radio 1100 WTAM Cleveland, OH - local call in show bitching about the Cleveland Browns losing bad to the Eagles, 30 to 10 1120 KMOX St. Louis, MO - this one is always here, CBS news 1430 WBLR Batesburg-Leesville SC - our only local station, barely can hear 1 mile from house, station goes to 130 watts at night. 1510 WLAC Nashville, TN - got call letters right away, easy catch 1530 WCKY Cincinnati, OH - sports radio, Prep H commercial, calls itself "1530 homer" --- Around dusk today earlier 1090 WBAL Baltimore, MD - knew by the commercials what this was, tends to die around 5pm local here, probably when 50kw signal goes directional 1470 WRGA Rome, GA - got the call letters clear, didn't last long though, news updates Haven't heard the LYQ beacon on 529 AM lately - I'm personally not impressed that you can hear - blowtorches less than a thousand miles away. Dave - It's about Radio and that is good enough whether it 'impresses' you or not. ~ RHF SC DXing - Keep-on Listening to your Radios and telling us what you are hearing. ~ RHF |
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On Dec 17, 8:50*pm, Dave wrote:
BCBlazysusan wrote: On Dec 17, 9:48 am, Dave wrote: none wrote: BCBlazysusan wrote: On Dec 16, 8:34 am, Dave wrote: I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just don't understand why you would say something like that to someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings. Every week a list of nearby clear channel flamethrowers doesn't impress me. That is an honest declaration, freely given. Now if *it was during sunlight, like getting WLS at 2 in the afternoon (CST) on a Magnavox AE-3805 [?] and a Select-A-Tenna (ca. $50 worth of stuff-I bought the SAT in a charity resale store), indoors in downtown Bryan, Texas...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I know what you are saying Dave- I really do. But he is just really getting into it again. I remember when I first started and if I would have been posting in here back then say the first six months I started I more than likely would have either quit all together or had to learn all my own. I know many in here Brenda Ann/Steve/Telamon/RHF/Tom etc. etc. really helped me out in here and didn't make me feel bad or less educated than them. FWIW that setup with the Magnavox and select-a- tenna would be a cool setup though. ;-) That is one piece (the selecta) I never added to the arsenal that I would love to try. - It is magical, to a degree, to listen to a distant flamethrower. -*I listen to KGO (about 350 miles away) and KKOH (450 miles) - every evening. I do not consider them to be DXing. -*"KOMO 1000" from Seattle or KOA, Denver, perhaps. -*Perhaps our evening DXer could try for some 1 KW - stations on the expanded band. Dave - Enjoy Your Radios : Be It DXing -or- Simply Every Day Listening. radio it's about listening and . . . enjoying what you hear ~ RHF |
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On Dec 15, 9:35*pm, SC Dxing wrote:
AM Dxing 1030pm-1215am (12/15/2008) Location: Leesville, SC 57F mostly cloudy Radio: Grundig G6 internal ferrite antenna Focused mostly on the lower end of the AM dial (600-900AM) 610 UNIDENTIFIED - Monday night football, weak and faded out 630 WMAL Washington, DC - caught the ID of this one and not much else as signal faded real quick, only transmit 1000 watts at night 650 WSM *Nashville, TN - talking about Hank Williams 660 WFAN New York, NY - Monday night football and 20/20 sports update at midnight, poor signal 670 UNIDENTIFIED - two stations fighting it out, one had MNF followed by Dan Patrick, other was playing rock music with Spanish DJ and commercials 700 WLW *Cincinnati, OH - commercials for REI and Goodwill followed by local talk show 720 WGN *Chicago, IL - local talk show, commercial for Westmont Pharmacy 740 KRNG Tulsa, OK - commercials for "Christian Train" followed by "the hamlet" commercial, then station ID 750 WSB Atlanta, GA - always booms at night here, Michael Savage 760 WJR *Detroit, MI - Dr Laura show which I didn't know was still on the air, commercials for Home Medics and 1800 flowers 770 WABC New York, NY - Jared Diamond commercial followed by station ID 780 WBBM Chicago, IL - weather and traffic on the 8's, current 13 degrees in Chicago, calling for 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow 800 Canada - never heard call letters but had Canadian Press news on the hour followed by hockey news and a Walmart commercial 820 WBAP Dallas, TX - commercial for a business venture followed by a traffic report and warning of icy conditions on roads in the suburbs 840 WHAS Louisville, KY - Michael Savage spewing, "Kentucky Colonels" charity ad 860 CJBC Toronto, Canada - in french 870 WWL New Orleans, LA - monday night football commercial for Rolaids, Sporting news radio after game 880 WCBS New York, NY - always there, always news 890 WLS *Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, conservative talk radio 1000 WMVP Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, ESPN radio 1070 WFNI Indianapolis, IN - ESPN radio 1100 WTAM Cleveland, OH - local call in show bitching about the Cleveland Browns losing bad to the Eagles, 30 to 10 1120 KMOX St. Louis, MO - this one is always here, CBS news 1430 WBLR Batesburg-Leesville SC - our only local station, barely can hear 1 mile from house, station goes to 130 watts at night. 1510 WLAC Nashville, TN - got call letters right away, easy catch 1530 WCKY Cincinnati, OH - sports radio, Prep H commercial, calls itself "1530 homer" --- Around dusk today earlier 1090 WBAL Baltimore, MD - knew by the commercials what this was, tends to die around 5pm local here, probably when 50kw signal goes directional 1470 WRGA Rome, GA - got the call letters clear, didn't last long though, news updates Haven't heard the LYQ beacon on 529 AM lately AM/MW Radio DXing in the USA North America Nighttime AM/MW Radio Station Powerhouses http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...rp/amradio.htm Note - These AM Radio Stations broadcast a signal of 50 K-Watts at Night that can often be picked up hundreds of miles away North American Nighttime Clear Channel AM Stations http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...amndbyfreq.htm Lists : 0860 - CJBC - TORONTO - ON - CAN. - U Nighttime 50000 Watt AM Stations by Frequency http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...namrp/freq.htm Nighttime 50000 Watt AM Stations by Call Letters http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...namrp/call.htm Nighttime 50000 Watt AM Stations by State http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...amrp/state.htm Nighttime 50000 Watt AM Stations by City http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bl...namrp/city.htm |
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On Dec 18, 8:47*am, Dave wrote:
BCBlazysusan wrote: On Dec 17, 11:50 pm, Dave wrote: It is magical, to a degree, to listen to a distant flamethrower. *I listen to KGO (about 350 miles away) and KKOH (450 miles) every evening. I do not consider them to be DXing. *"KOMO 1000" from Seattle or KOA, Denver, perhaps. *Perhaps our evening DXer could try for some 1 KW stations on the expanded band.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - What your home twenty Dave? My QTH is Tick Canyon, CA, *one mile from the riverbed. I see a Kings Canyon northwest of Death Valley, couldn't find Tick though. I may not be on my big wall map though. |
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On Dec 18, 9:02*am, Dave wrote:
RHF wrote: Dave - Enjoy Your Radios : Be It DXing -or- Simply Every Day Listening. radio it's about listening and . . . enjoying what you hear *~ RHF *. I do my every day listening as previously described. *I enjoy my radios when I use them to try to find very weak and otherwise difficult signals. *You do not want me riding shotgun (or driving for that matter) on a road trip as you will hear almost nothing beyond static crashes and pink noise. That is exactly what I usually do until the last couple of weeks. No one ever understood me tuning into a station that had nothing on it. Actually I wonder what a trained psychiatrist or psychologist would say if you told them what your hobby is? I am sure they would have something "deep" to say....lol. Something in your childhood or the thinking that you are "chasing" after something. I wonder what one would say about Steve? Pretty scary. ;-) |
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On Dec 18, 9:02*am, Dave wrote:
RHF wrote: Dave - Enjoy Your Radios : Be It DXing -or- Simply Every Day Listening. radio it's about listening and . . . enjoying what you hear *~ RHF *. I do my every day listening as previously described. *I enjoy my radios when I use them to try to find very weak and otherwise difficult signals. *You do not want me riding shotgun (or driving for that matter) on a road trip as you will hear almost nothing beyond static crashes and pink noise. Hey- I will add this also. I was wanting to put together again what I call my "fun car/truck".....something that is just mine and the wife wouldn't care what I looked like driving down the road. In my old fun car- it was either a 83-84 Olds Firenza that I basically stole at auction for like $400. I painted it black and darkened the windows a little and had six antennas hanging off that thing. It was fun going to the junk yards and pillaging them for the "just AM" radios. I tried three different kinds till I settled on a simple Delco that was badass as far as the BCB. Two 1/2" ground plates, one welded to the frame in the front and one to the frame by the truck. Those were the days! I loved that car. Three scanners/CB with a small modulator box/ AM radio/ shortwave. I remember cruising down the highway and heard this one driver tell another "Hey look at this little black car coming up in the hammer lane- that moth**fuc**r is wired for sound." That cracked me up. sigh |
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BCBlazysusan wrote:
My QTH is Tick Canyon, CA, one mile from the riverbed. I see a Kings Canyon northwest of Death Valley, couldn't find Tick though. I may not be on my big wall map though. http://www.mineralsocal.org/field_tripping/tick.htm http://www.mindat.org/maps.php?id=81302 |
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