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Going..Going.. A list of common dx stations looking to move to FM include: 560 Now 103.9 KIX Country, 610 CHNC/ Frenchy, 780 CFDR/ KIX, 980 CKRU, 1140 CBI/ CBC, 1150 CHGM/ Frenchy, 1550 CBE/ CBC. 560 KIX are already carrying the FM service, which usually signals that the end is near!! Any more?? Many of these are dominant on their channel, so their sign off will open the frequencies up for further dx.

Recently gone: 550 CHLN, 630 CFCY, 920 CJCH, 950 CHER, 960 CHNS, 960 CFFX, 1070 CBA/ CBC, 1320 CKEC, 1380 CKLC. I will keep this list at the top of the next few months logs as things change. Updates welcome.

Notable logs now in bold.

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SEPTEMBER 2nd 2008: Started to add a table of logs for August at the bottom of the page. This will be a better option for me. Initially Septembers logs will be on the right hand side, There is a reason that this is here initially, but it will be removed once complete.

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AUGUST 30th 2008: Isn't it just amazing how on what seems like an otherwise average morning, and the usual stations are not necessary particularly strong or clear, that one particular channel holds a surprise. Yesterday morning gave me 1360 WDRC Hartford, with as good a signal as I have ever heard. This morning, at 0500 I have heard 1310 WCCW again. But this time, the id is so much clerarer than any I have had in the past. I logged it a couple of times last season. But on tuning lf on the recording, I find I have an opening to the Mid West. 680 CJOB, and new one on me 630 CFCO, a personal first. I had an unid coast to coast station on 550. And a possible beacon on 1428. have to check up on this, as may have been a spur/ image.

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AUGUST 28th 2008: I have been hearing a mixed bag, and it will take a little time to type up my logs. probably in the form of a list again. Dont know if there is any rare stations or not. I feel I have 2 or 3 suspicious stations in my Perseus files, but just not quite strong enough to id properly. Almost time to get up and do live dxing. I have been completely remote in my dxing this summer by recording relevant top of the hours. At present 0500 seems to be the best here.

NEW PIRATES: Seems there are two new pirates on mw. One closer to home on 1512, Tyrone Community Radio, from Eire, across the border from Strabane. There is also a station on the air from Nigeria, on 917khz, het noted here in Europe, and carrier etc, but no audio as yet. A portugese dxer recently posted audio from this hijacked transmitter, and includes English.

I have added lots of images to the tvdx pages on this site in the last week. I have also moved all the Perseus Audio to do with MWDX into the old tadx audio page. Now all the dx is on the one page in freq order. Easier to find I think.

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AUGUST 27th 2008: Today was an interesting morning here. Some good signals and some rarer ones popping up as well.

LOGS FOR 0500 TODAY

550 UNID SPORT
560 WGAN 0458
790 WTNY WATERTOWN, NY. PERSONAL FIRST
810 WGY (Noted during a BBC silent period at toth, see audio clips.)
830 WCRN
840 WHAS. VG AT 0430 AND 0434 AS WELL
860 CJBC
870 WWL
880 WCBS
920 CKNX
960 WEAV THE ZONE
1020 KDKA
1070 CKOK
1100 WTAM
1110 WBT
1120 KMOX
1230 UNID. MUST RECHECK
1280 WFAU
1290 WKBK
1310 WLOB
1330 WRCA VG SIG

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AUGUST 27th 2008: A station on 1400 caught me out today. Obviously I am updating much later. In September to be exact. I had a signal which I took to be WCYN in KY. I did think it quite a distance for a qrp station, but the id sounded OK, and verified by om PC. But in late September I learned I was caught out. At o500 this am I logged WOND on1400, ann also their sister stn WGYM. You can see how the confusion arose.

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AUGUST 19th 2008: Well here we are again at the start of the MW dx season. I have not really been quite as intense at keeping the logs up to date on these pages as I might have been. But I have lots of new logs and observations.

TVDX: First may I comment on the TVDX here in Scotland this summer. For whatever reason, the usual strong and intense openings in June and July were very poor to non existant. Judging by reports on the web, the South of England had much much better results this season than we did. But there had been some good openings.

As mentioned in June/ July page, I have again been adding to the shack. E-bay is a terrible distraction. There is always something there for sale that takes my fancy!! I think I am like the stereotype woman in the dress shop.....hi!! Anyway, I found a JVC CX610GB, one of the best DX televisions around, with a completely manual tuner and a video output, for a DVD recorder to record direct. As I write this I am watching for the postman. I haven't taken delivery of the TV yet.

I have also discovered that a DVD recorder I sourced from the web, (a specific model) is capable of recording band one and band 3. Problem is the internal tuner is not as good as my old VHF tv. But some good recordings have been made of RTP, TVE, RTL KLUB, NOVA, E21 etc. It is nice to have the very powerful, long intense openings. I had this kind of opening in mid August a few times. I may add a few movies at a later date to this site. The DVD recorded I use is an LG RC1000 combi. This model is long out of circulation, but I was lucky enough to find one a couple of years ago on e bay. The main reason I like this model is simply that whenever the video signal is interrupted during a fade for example, on most recorders the silly machine goes into an unwanted pause mode. If you are copying an old VHS tape which has seen better days, then most recorders I have seen pause and mute etc if there is a bad bit on the tape. With the LG, you could record snow all night!! Ideal also for recording TVDX. I do so hate silly modern day appliances which automatically do this that and the next thing without the option to disable the said automated function. I am a little concerned about the LG packing up, as I wouldn't know what to buy to replace it.

My old black and white Pye TV has served well since the 1980's. There is no video out, but I have taken hundreds, in fact thousands of screen shots using a digital camera in the last four seasons. Before that I was a little more conservative with the photos, as it was a film camera I used. The earlier digital cameras I had were not really suitable for DXTV.

I have also found an ICOM 706 ham tranceiver on junk sale which doesn't transmit, but receives fine. Now I can listen to the 50mHz ham band, as well as check for band 1 carriers. The old Tandy scanner covered these frequencies, but never has SSB for the Ham bands or for carrier reception with Speclab.

I have separated a load of the best TVDX photos, and hope to use them on this site very soon. I have also been digging through my older TVDX images from years ago when there were test cards to see. Some of these should find their way onto these pages too.


PERSEUS FUTURE PLANS: The most exciting development on the mw dx front is probably the potential to record the complete mw band in one sweep using the next Perseus software release. The microtelecom (Perseus) web site has all the details. The receiver will be capable of recording 1600khz, which to put into a dxers context, from LW to the top end of MW, taking in the LW beacons as well!! An example would be 150 - 1750kHz. Amazing!! This is really the ultimate in MW dxing tools. I have to say that my unattended dxing, is always done using the Perseus now. The most recent release has overcome the annoying bug on playback. I had been using Perseus version 1.0 for a time, but now version 1.1b is so much more stable and smooth running. It is a dream to operate.

It is good to have some clear frequencies to work with this season. 1395 BIG L is gone, RTE have left 567/ 729, BRT have left 540/ 1512. There are tales that 1008 may be switched off too soon, and while not an impossible channel with the strong Dutch station on it, it would be nice to be able to have a clear 1010 again at night. Shame it isn't the more interesting 670 and 680 that is going to be clear.

MWDX: August in generally seen as the real start to the dx season, when the summer conditions begin to turn into autumn. The nights begin to get longer as the summer seemingly slips away, and the short trousers get thrown to the back of the cupboard for the winter. The old shack also begins to get a bit chilly at night. At this qth, it wasn't much of a summer either. Pretty wet, overcast etc for what seemed like most of the time....

Anyway I started using the Perseus autohotkeys recordings again on 6th August. I had set it a couple of times in June and July, but there was not too much heard, except what I call the run of the mill stations, or the common stuff.

I really must try my best to get around to completing the all time list of stations heard here. It has been sadly neglected.

Another plan is to incorporate all the transatlantic clips into one audio page. As it stands, I have a page with only Perseus recordings. This was fine earlier in the year when the full potential of the Perseus was a bit of an unknown, but now...well I think from my own observations, it has certainly become my main receiver. I am a convert. I once refused to have a PC on anywhere near a dx receiver, unless making an overnight recording on the usual single spot frequencies. Now I am recording 80 American channels!! This will soon become the full MW band!! I even have little disagreements with myself sometimes about which part of MW to record, lf or hf. The next version of the Perseus software should put paid to my temporary insanity!!

If we could have had this technology years ago, wouldn't it be nice to go back in time to have a tune on the band in a certain year!!

As ever with Perseus recordings, I may not have included all that is heard on a particular recording.

Has anyone ever heard jamming noises on 1140??

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Monday 18th August: I had been out all day sunday, and came back home a little worse for wear. I forgot to set the timer!!

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Sunday 17th August 2008: This morning a definite shift South. But not totally.

0500

950 Radio Reloj
960 Radio Reloj
990 CBC
1000 WNVP Chicago. VG ID. In fact as good a peak as I have had at id time!!

0400

1290 WRNI ann 102.7

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Saturday 16th August:

0400

1390 WEGP
1320 CJMR
1430 TORONTO
1470 WLAM
1500 WWWT
1550 CBC
1650 WHKT
1700 KVNS

0430 - Some very strong signals around

920 CKNX
950 CKNB
940 940 Montreal
930 VOCM id in mush, pres CJYQ
930 CFBC (Usually dominant nowadays)
840 WHAS
760 WJR
700 WLW
680 680 News
650 VOCM / WSM mix
640 AM 6-40 Toronto / CBC mix
620 VOCM and SS mix
570 Multi Stns, inc CFCB
560 KIX and other stn
610 FF and other stn
680 6-80 News like a local 0434
120 KMOX
1010 CFRB
1320 EE mixing with CJMR.


Friday 15th August:

At 0430, I had the following..

950 CKNB
940 940 Montreal Greatest hits ids etc
920 CKNX
880 WCBS
820 CHAM
790 CFNW? (ID as 570 CFCB etc)
780 KIX
710 VOCM
680 WRKO
650 VOCM
620 VOCM
570 RADIO RELOJ
760 WJR
830 WCRN
970 WZAN
1010 CFRB

Thursday 14th August 2008: Interesting morning producing a nice id from WHJJ 920 Providence, RI at 0400. Click Perseus Audio Files page. This may well become a regular this winter since CJCH has gone off air. Multi station id on 960, poss WEAV. Difficult to make out.
Also the following at 0400:

1050 WEPN
1010 CFRB
1100 WTAM
1110 WBT
1140 CBC
1180 WHAM and sure there was another E stn
1190 WLIB
1200 TEAM 12-00
1290 unid. In the mud. I once thought it to be WVOW, but not a claim. too poor a signal.
1650 Radio Shalom
1660 WFNA
16980 CHTO (VG id)

Friday 8th August 2008:

0400:

820 WBAP
800 CKLW
760 WJR
670 Unid English stn. Silly talk show. No Id
1290 WCMS
950 CKNB
880 WCBS
870 WWL
840 WHAS
UNID on 720 below BBC
680 6-80 NEWS



0500:

1140 CBC
1080 WTIC
1110 WBT
950 CKNB
930 CFBC



Wednesday 6th August 2008: Perseus receiver programmed for 0300 and 0400.

0300 Unid on 1070 with USA Radio News. Also ESPN 1000 Chicago.

0400

590 VOCM
600 CBC
610 FF
620 VOCM
640 CBC
650 VOCM
660 WFAN
680 6-80 News Toronto
690 FF (NO ID)
700 WLW
710 VOCM
730 CKAC
740 VOCM
760 WJR (particularly good)
800 CKLW
830 WCRN
860 RADIO CANADA FF
870 WWL
880 WCBS
890 WAMG
930 WBEN
970 WZAN
990 CBC
1010 CFRB
1050 CHUM
1100 WTAM
1130 WBBR
1140 CBC

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