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A list of common dx stations looking to move to FM include: 560 CHVO/ VOCM, 610 CHNC/ Frenchy, 780 CFDR/ KIX, 920 CJCH, 960 CFFX, 1070 CBA/ CBC, 1140 CBI/ CBC, 1150 CHGM/ Frenchy, 1320 CKEC, 1380 CKLC, 1550 CBE/ CBC. 960 Kingston is already carrying the FM service, which usually signals that the end is coming!! Any more?? I may have seen somewhere that 550 CHLN French stn was going to FM??

Many of these are dominant on their channel, so their sign off will open the frequencies up for further dx.

Recently gone, 960 CHNS, 630 CFCY, 950 CHER. I will keep this list at the top of the next few months logs as things change. Updates welcome. Remember in Scotland 1530 is allocated to Celtic Music Radio, hoping to start early new Year, so qrg may be more difficult.


END OF NOVEMBER 2007: I have had nothing worthy of note until the first week in December due to the band conditions.
Wednesday 28th November 2007 : Not much to report really, hence the quiet spell in the DX logs/ forum etc. Tonight, despite the seemingly quiet condx, low ks etc, the band is struggling to provide even the powerhouses. Last night was better. I still set the alarm early and check the band, but always too much Euro splatter, and poorish band. Can't get a chance to use the Perseus rx under HOT conditions. I should be going through my overnight recordings and banging a few more ids on my audio page, but seem to always find something else which distracts me. I have written my own personal observations on the Perseus SDR receiver, see the "receivers" link at the top of the page. This is in fact an ongoing project too.


Friday 23rd November 2007 : Well it has been a bit of a stormy week, propagation wise. Nothing worthy of note, except that luckily I recorded 1510 in the hope of a decent signal peak from KCKK, or even the elusive KAGY. Well I did by chance pick up on an announcement at just after 0200 on WWZN, 15-10 THE ZONE. It is in a slight fade but click here to listen to this. Mystery solved. No KAGY log after all!!. It was THE ZONE. Still not 100% sure what is said, but certainly answers the question. Thanks to Andrew Brade, Paul Crankshaw, and RV, for listening to the clip, and offering help, appreciated chaps. I think we all heard something different!! I for one would have lost money that that log was from a four letter K station, not necessary KAGY, but some days sounding very like it!! The programme heard is called the Bernard Lee Poker Show, and is listed on the web pages. http://www.1510thezone.com/poker

PERSEUS has arrived: I have just taken delivery of the new Perseus SDR receiver. This is the one with the 400khz bandwidth recording capability. I have started to make a review of the set, viewable by clicking here. It is my intention to add some audio clips and screen shots before the end of the weekend. What a suberb DX tool, and now I need the band conditions to assist.

Tuesday 20th November 2007 (Inc Monday Night):

Added a CHAT box to the site, so if anyone is around in the mornings, they can keep in touch. If no one uses it, I will delete it, but could be a handy item.

Interestingly, the (unpredicted) rise in Ks again brought in KRHW, Sikeston, Mo, 1520, with it's classic country. Is this stn running higher power now?? Apologies for printing on the forum, 1510!! Carelessness creeping in again!! Noted 0828 in a fade with WWKB. Also heard a good id from 650 WSM Nashville at 0800, 710 WOR, 1240 VOCM AT 0913, 680 mix of WRKO and Toronto. Had country on 790 at one point and before that around 0707, sports from pres WAXY. Left 1120 recording over, but haven't checked yet to see if the high Ks messed up the band. There has been something fluttering with KMOX from time to time. UPDATE: Had a quick flick through, but only KMOX heard...

Monday night, had WPTX Lexington Pk id at 2200, a good mix on 1500, no notable ids though.. Good TOTH at 2300 from 9-40 Montreal. Radio Boomer on 1570 at 2207, and later in the early morning shift, mixing with the French was SS from XERF, Call as well as Radio ???? (Name of a prog or slogan on XERF, not La Poderosa..??).
Monday 19th November 2007:

I have been leaving live dx tips on the forum at <http://mediumwaveradio.org/forum/>. I have had no one looking in yet and using it, but will continue to do so, if it is used. Comments??

Listened again to my 1070 unid which is on line. Def a CHOK id, which I never got the first time around. Straight after the music. Guess this will be common place soon when CBC goes off.

Quite good condx this am, but seemed to lack unusual ids. Sometimes the stations just seem to fade out within a few seconds of tune in, like the FM sporadic E. Last night I left 1510 recording the Irish prog on Boston 1510. Got one peak from KCKK, which was actually giving the details for North Colorado for 1570 KSXT. Still not had a peak like Paul C had, hi!!. Guess I have managed to log a proper id, which is what counts.

At 0645 approx, the band looked like it was buzzing, and many frequencies were like graveyards. Oldies on 980, pres CKRU, but no ID. ESPN 1350 ided with full call WYOK at 0802, and Fox sports 1280 1450 and 97.5 = WFAU. CFRB booming in with their "bowell" programme!!

Had a mix with 1120 KMOX around 0830, although KMOX won. 1160 had a few stations. KOMO was in at 0906, mixing sometimes with Chicago, and an 8-20 CHAM id on 820 at 0913. WYLL id 1160 at 0926, and WJMO Cleveland on 1300, mixing with WOOD.

Sunday 18th November addition 2: I have added a few audio clips to, strangely enough, the audio clip page. Recent additions are in red. I do need a second and third opinion on the 1510 station, KAGY, as well as the country station which came in mixing with CBA Moncton, 1070. Poss CHOK, or KVKK. The latter id as double K, while CHOK ann their call letters as C-H-O-K?? Just listened again on Monday am, and a CHOK id is there for all to hear at about 4s, just after the music stops. C-H-O-K ?? AM....!!

Sunday 18th November 2007 (Inc Saturday Night)

Sat night, and Sunday morning were not as good as hoped, with the low indices, but the band not really opening up to the west. CHVO was in at 1919 just. Had an early id from 1420 country, AVR, = CKDY. No call id. Noticed a CBC Moncton full id on 1070 at 0000. Thought FM was the only thing publicised now, but there ya go. Fell asleep, but at 0705 had some rather good WJR ids. Stones music noted on 690 at 0709, but no ids. Also French on 550, but no call id noted. At 0730 there were LA ads, ie Louisiana, mixing with WBBR. NO ID at this stage. 1160 had a load of activity, and 0824 ID from CKNX 920 with a dominant fine signal, CJCH there later. There was company behind 1520 WWKB, but no ids. Had call id from WMKI Boston Radio Disney on 1260 at 0901, and also // 1460 at 0903. 1580 CKDO good 70s disco music 0905, and ids at 1024. CW on 950 at 0935, and ESPN 1410 iding as such. No call (WPOP), but their own unique web address was given, espnradio110.com. I guess that has to do. Unsure if I have IDs on 1430 Toronto today or not. Superb signal at 0940 briefly, and a web address. Brother Stair heard both on 1510, and 1530 pres Cincinati. At 1000, finally had great KWKH id on 1130. WOOD 1300, Unid english on 1570 0944, and the latest I heard 1520 WWKB was 1130, when I was looking for WIZZ signing back on... No sign of it though. Incidentally, tried the spec lab on the 1410 growl, and was surprised the number of carriers there...around 0905

Sat 17th November 2007 (Inc Friday Night)

Error/ typo on 2nd Nov. Radio Disney should read 1260, not 1280!!

Was up quite late Friday night, and as a result, knackered in the morning. On Friday night, CFMB 1280 was heard with loud Italian programming, and daytime antenna pattern. They were switching to night time pattern around 2115 or 2130, but carried on all night last night. You can tell, because it is as though they have just gone off. Just disappears here in Scotland. Even managed a few IDs.

On 930, CJYQ, CFBC and WBEN were all in the mush. Was there anything else?? It was hard to tell. Listened to 1510, and The Zone was really very strong and clear. Like a local. No fade outs unfortuantely, to bring in whatever is behind it. As I said, up late mucking around, so left 790 on over. Not checked recording yet to see what, if anything is coming through. In the morning, I had 580 CFRA, 1300 WOOD, and something mixing on 1120 with KMOX. Little else of note except the usual power houses.



Friday 16th November 2007 (Inc Thurs Night)

Woops.. Errors creeping in. Noticed I had got carried away with 820 WBAP Fort Worth log a few days back. Listed it as Chicago!! Silly me.

Thursday night was one of those nights/ mornings again when I felt I should have had more to show for the time spent at the receivers. Two channels of interest were music on 790, country, as well as 980 around 2130. On the hunt for daytimers, but no ids. Too much Euro splatter. IDs from 730 CKAC, 1370 WDEA, 610 CHNC, and a bit later on, a strange one. Around 1130, and quite wideband, but no farther that say 1110, I had a weird terrible noise from time to time, centred around 1130 roughly. Hope a one off local thing, and not any silly digital traffic. I saw a comment on line about DRM, and how some engineers of some SW broadcasters have realised that AM and DRM are not compatible on the same frequencies. Well blow me down, they must be really well qualified to have made such a statement!!!

Noticed around 2340, 590 VOCM had company. No matter what I tried, I never seemed to hit the right time to find out what station it was. I left 590 on overnight record, but still nothing worthy of note. Had ids from 780 WBBM, 1110 WBT and at 0643 noticed country behind CBC. Thought I had an id around 0645 just before The Eagles, but on playback couldn't determine what it was. Sounded like Two K A M, or I thought maybe CHO-K AM but CHOK id as C-H-O-K, or at least on the web stream when there were live programmes a bit later in the day. There was religious music in the mix on 1140 at 1008, and other stuff coming in included 1270, 1420, but no ids on any.

Thursday 15th November 2007 (Inc Wed Night)

Wednesday night I had a good Radio Disney, Norfolk ID on 1650 around 2150, 1510 The Zone ids, but seemed to have less of a tendancy to fade today, to bring out weaker farther West stations. Hearing KVNS on 1700, and fell asleep with 1700 recording overnight. Had some clear/ loud KLIF ids at various times, and a possible XEPE, with a mention in E of Mexico and California. On playback, it turned out to be a talk show and an interview, when both Mexico and Ca were mentioned. Now if I did not have a recording of that, I may have been convinced I had heard XEPE. This am there was company for WLW, & WJR on 700 and 760, but neither came up at the right times. 680 news Toronto, WCRN 830 and 1160 WYLL. Not so much else last night/ this am... Had to go out and miss any late fade out. Did manage a quick check just after 10, and had WOR on 710. Also something with nx on 1420, but no id.

Wednesday 14th November 2007 (Inc Tuesday Night)

Tuesday night I noted some music on 1490 for once, and not the usual graveyard growl.. Think there was an ID at 2200, ann 2 frequencies, but too weak. Suspect WBAE, so will monitor from time to time. Not ided this season yet. Echoy news on 1150 at 2200 caused I suspect by the 2 French stations taking the same news bulletin, similar to the 920 effect.

Recorded 1560 overnight hoping to identify the background station, but euro splatter and high ks by night made the overnight just hopeless. Nothing worth keeping. Caught up on some sleep rather than getting up early, after checking the band and finding it a bit splattery. Possibly in error, because I finally ided the country music behind Buffalo, 1520 at just shy of 0830.

KRHW - 1520 AM Sikeston, MO, listed as 1.6kw. Not impossible I guess.

I am surprised by the above, when you look at the k's.

Had audio sample listened to by RV, and he confirms that Sundays log on 1510 seems to be KAGY, Port Sulphur, LA, also a lower powered station.

If I could only id the stations I hear behind 760 and 700.


I often wonder about the long coax feed to my main beverage, whether it hampers my dxing, and picks up a lot of Euro signals. I banged in another earth at the far end of the coax the other day, although I have noticed no difference in Euro splatter. Maybe I should try different resistors on the end while listening to say BRT, or NL at the back end of the antenna. I then of course get a morning like Friday, and think, WAH, the beverage is working just fine. Perhaps the brute force over ignorance law comes into being here. ie the sheer length, 500m even if the coax is around 200m to get me to the feed point where I can obtain a NW angle.

Tuesday 13th November 2007 (Inc Monday Night)

I guess the high Ks never helped during the night, but had a nice id from 560 WGAN at 0035. Not a lot to report. Usual suspects, though maybe I wasn't as intense at the dxing this am, due to the lack of farther west stations. A lot of dx around the graveyards though. At 0730, seemed to be carrier only of 610, (or a deep fade??) and had English with C/C coming through. No ids annoyingly. Maybe when the Frenchy moves to FM it will open up the qrg. Back strong music // 1150 at 0807. Country around 0820 on 1270, but no id, and a bit later a talk show. Difficult channel with the DLF. Checked the band bit later, and WEGP noted gd around 0931 as well as a carrier on 950, or very low audio like they sometimes have during ad breaks, but nothing of the background chatter ided. The white noise of the DRM so proudly broadcast on 999 causes some amount of grief on the channel. For once the white noise jamming on 1593 seemed to be off giving a log of WAKR 1590. Freq like a graveyard, but that was the only id that popped up through the growl.

Monday 12th November 2007 (Inc Sunday Night)

Not as exciting as it has been, but early on around 1930 I was hearing usual first fade in from NFLD, and East Coast. 600, 610, 590, 560, 1400 and maybe a few others. Good ID from KXEL 1540 AT 2358, and the start of IRISHRADIO.COM via Boston's The Zone 1510. I was too keen at one stage and restarted my recording for overnight and wiped the KXEL id, and the start of the Irish thing. Pity. Caught a WLQV id on 1500 at 0027, but seemed like someone turned the fader down just at the last letter!! Left 1510 recording overnight and managed to hear a very poor id from KCKK in the mud, about 0423ish. Other logs 1700 KVNS, 1630 KCJJ, 1660 Classical mixing, but never had an id on KS, 1160 WYLL, 1620 WTAW. 800 CKLW, 1550 CBE.

Had 940 on in the morning for a time looking for the dx test, but no chance. Too much Euro splatter, 940 Montreal, and the propagation was not very good compared to a few days ago. I kept falling asleep as well this morning, and I was asleep at the peak time. Too many late nights followed by early mornings, and that ain't talking about my social life!! Recorded 950 in morning, as had to do something more constructive again this am, and heard classical music fading in and out, but as usual with MB, no ids at the time of peak signal. No sign of KOMO on 1000 today.

Sunday 11th November 2007

Just had a chat with RV, who confirms my logging earlier of KAGY 1510. Def doesn't sound like KGA. Listed as a mere 1kw, although not impossible of course.

Had CFMB 1280 and a good strong signal at change of antenna pattern, Sat night around 2115ish. Decided to chill for a bit, and watch a film on the TV at 2105 Sat night, then was gonna do some dxing. Must have fallen asleep about 2200, and woke at 3am, fresh as a daisy, missed the movie and all, but stayed up till the dx was showing no signs of anything interesting anymore this morning. I have to say that I think considering the time I spent by the radios during the night, I don't have such a great log. Spending too much time chasing the background stations on powerhouses. (And getting nowhere)!!

Had 1st ID this year from WPLM Plymouth, MA, 1390 at 2200. Odd accented YL on 1500 at 2207, and mixing with the Navy football on 3WT. Not sure what channel was recording when I fell asleep, not checked yet, but woke around 0300. ID from WLAC 1510 at 0322. There was a very K sounding ID in the mix with WLAC and The Zone at this time. Sounds like KAGY first time around. Have to have another listen.

WLAC 1510 again at 0400, but Sporting News Radio / The Zone was really dominant. Religious music on 1500 at 0530, and I can't seem to check the barrage on 970 without a WZAN id. Nothing else seems to ID!! Had KDKA 1020 at 0705, WNAM poor id in mush at 0717, CJOY strong signal during music but id poor when it came around (1460), WWVA 1170 sat right on top of Euros again. I think my best log was WHWH Princeton on 1350 at 0848. Really in the mud, but the Princeton word came through, and I got the ID from a list. It is there when you know what it is. Can't recall seeing that one logged, but when I looked at the Sheigra 2007 list, it is noted as a UK first in those pages. Unknown if it was the same station, but country music kept coming through on 1350, and played past TOTH at 0900 during a good peak. Band rapidly faded not long after 0930, and was quite poor long before. No rare dx opening at 1000, so went back to bed, knackered!!

Saturday 10th November 2007 (Inc Fri night)

2103 had CFMB again, with the daytime pattern. Poss id in there. Left 1510 recording overnight to try for Paul's KCKK. at 0600 up and around, and heard WOAI Texas. 1520 caught my interest, as there was a country station coming through mixing with WWKB and sometimes dominant, but as ever, at the wrong times. This certainly caught my attention, and had to go out at 0730, so left on record all day till I returned. Had thought about leaving 950 on when I may get the chance of Manitoba and ESPN ids, ie chance of 2, but opted for 1520, and the possibility of one id. In the end there were none. Just dominant WWKB with occasional country fading in.

Friday 9th November 2007 (WHAT AN AMAZING MORNING!!)

Out for a time on Thursday night, but got back to the receivers around midnight. Arrow has a loop of anns now on 675. Let's hope they switch it off soonest, to stop the splatter to 670 and 680. Left 920 overnight. There were unid stations all over the place as the morning got going. This would probably qualify as being the best morning I have ever had MW dxing, as far as quality of dx signals go. Band wide open to the west coast, and very unusual stations coming through. There was even a station behind WJR 760, but when something is only in the background of a powerhouse, it is very difficult to ID. They never have a break from the long winded talks to even take a breath!!

Around 0900, the band started to produce interesting signals, when KOMO and ESPN Chicago on 1000, and ESPN 950 began coming in, mixing with classical music. Not much work getting done this morning I decided. Had what is pres to be Southern Alberta on 1140, with Back to the Bible and other religious stuff. Would have liked to id this, but heard it in the past. They played past the toth of course at 1100!! At 1045 spent a disappointing time on 1180, hoping for an id, but got a time check -5, so more than likely just WHAM. And to cap it all as I said, 1140 played past 1100utc. This was high noon local time a couple of weeks ago!! Just after 11, band faded to almost nothing, WWKB 1520 being about the last. Had to leave the receivers just after 1100 anyway and go and do something more constructive..hi.

BY FREQUENCY

FREQ TIME STN DATE COMMENTS

670 0820 UNID 071109 Sporting News Radio. Pres Chicago, but no local id
670 1027 KBOI 071109 Newstalk 6-70, KBOI ID wk, but readable. Boise, ID
680 0655 WRKO 071109
680 0831 UNID 071109 ID in mush not sounding like any norm stn. To check.
680 0900 CJOB 071109 ID in mud
710 0956 KIRO 071109 Seattle, WA. WAH!!! Poor id in the ads, fade by toth
710 1033 KIRO 071109 Seattle, WA. Great peak considering. Wk sig, but in clear!!
750 0850 UNID 071109 Jin and newstalk id. Have to check. Poss Atlanta.
760 0820 UNID 071109 Behind WJR. Too far behind though
760 0952 WJR 071109 Exc signal and wx report
770 1043 CHQR 071109 Calgary, ID
780 0950 WBBM 071109 Chicago
820 0853 WBAP 071109 Fort Worth, TX. Ads and id
830 0533 WCRN 071109 Traffic
840 0540 WHAS 071109 St Louisville, KY. From The Neutral Zone Studios
850 0532 WFTL 071109 Fl id
880 0547 WCBS 071109 NY
920 0040 CKNX 071109 WINGHAM, ONT, Dominant also at 0522
920 0803 CFRY 071109 MB. Pers 1st
950 0807 UNID 071109 pres CFAM, MB but no id Gd 1028. // 1250 hrd too
960 1024 ESPN 071109 UNID ESPN stn. During the opening to the west.
970 0530 WZAN 071109 Usual ID on this qrg
1060 1005 CKMX 071109 AB. Country Music. 1005 mx, Jin 1019 Classic Country, and 1039.
1070 1008 UNID 071109 News. Think just CBC. Looking for KNX
1140 1020 UNID 071109 Back to the bible. Souther Alberta pres
1160 1036 Unid 071109 yl NEWS. Sadly no ID on this one. Poss KSL??
1420 1013 Unid 071109 Prob interesting one but no ids
1660 0527 Relevant Radio 071109 Fl. Gd pk

BY TIME

FREQ TIME STN DATE COMMENTS

920 0040 CKNX 071109 WINGHAM, ONT, Dominant also at 0522
1660 0527 Relevant Radio 071109 Fl. Gd pk
970 0530 WZAN 071109 Usual ID on this qrg
850 0532 WFTL 071109 Fl id
830 0533 WCRN 071109 Traffic
840 0540 WHAS 071109 St Louisville, KY. From The Neutral Zone Studios
880 0547 WCBS 071109 NY
680 0655 WRKO 071109
920 0803 CFRY 071109 MB. Pers 1st
950 0807 UNID 071109 pres CFAM, MB but no id Gd 1028. // 1250 hrd too
670 0820 UNID 071109 Sporting News Radio. Pres Chicago, but no local id
760 0820 UNID 071109 Behind WJR. Too far behind though
680 0831 UNID 071109 ID in mush not sounding like any norm stn. To check.
750 0850 UNID 071109 Jin and newstalk id. Have to check. Poss Atlanta.
820 0853 WBAP 071109 Fort Worth. Ads and id
680 0900 CJOB 071109 ID in mud
780 0950 WBBM 071109 Chicago
760 0952 WJR 071109 Exc signal and wx report
710 0956 KIRO 071109 Seattle, WA. WAH!!! Poor id in the ads, fade by toth
1060 1005 CKMX 071109 AB. Country Music. 1005 mx, Jin 1019 Classic Country, and 1039.
1070 1008 UNID 071109 News. Think just CBC. Looking for KNX
1420 1013 Unid 071109 Prob interesting one but no ids
1140 1020 UNID 071109 Back to the bible. Souther Alberta pres
960 1024 ESPN 071109 UNID ESPN stn. During the opening to the west.
670 1027 KBOI 071109 Newstalk 6-70, KBOI ID wk, but readable. Boise, ID
710 1033 KIRO 071109 Seattle, WA. Great peak considering. Wk sig, but in clear!!
1160 1036 Unid 071109 yl NEWS. Sadly no ID on this one. Poss KSL??
770 1043 CHQR 071109 Calgary, ID


Thursday 8th November 2007 (Inc Wed Night 7th Nov)

Radio Peking noted on 1521 at 1700 Wed evening. By 1938, fade in of 600 CBC, 590 VOCM, 1400 CBC. 650 had 2 stns, perhaps Greenland was looking in. Had top band on for a little time, 1963 roughly, or maybe slightly higher tonight, listening to the old timers network. Wednesday nights at 2100!!

Other IDs noted, 930 WBEN, 1010 CFRB, Frenchy 610, and at 2257 some rather good quality ids from WLNO New Orleans. Tried CHIN again 2303 and there was strong Chinese type lingo, but no ids. Stn in and out with CBC 1070. Guess this will be easier soon.

CBC left on from 2313 till about 0237 recording, shifting to 1470 at wake up 0237.

0600 wake up and start dxing. Ids of WAXY 790, 770 WABC, 650 VOCM with background country, 760 WJR, 1010 CFRB with a shockingly boring trailer, and ad for BRUNO'S, signal 50/9. 1050 CHUM, REM music on 1060. Sounded like VOCM id in distance between tracks. Maybe ESPN. Mistaken that before. Not checked yet. Frenchy on 550 at 0816 mention FM. Are they moving?? Poss id 0825. Difficult to ID this one. 700 WLW. 970 had SS, as well as unid like "The Zone". Maybe just WZAN. Everything that ids on 970 seems to just be WZAN. Anything else fades at the id time!! 1330 full id for WFNN The Fan.

A couple of comments. Is 950 sounding very much same old same old music wise?? Every time I hear it, seems to be like the 1250 station that plays the music that all sounds the same. Sounds like lonestar or westlife over and over again.

Does anyone notice how the Canadian propagation forecast is so often inaccurate?? Is it 50% guess work?? There is also seems to be a regular unpredicted sharp K rise around 06 as well, which can kill the band!!


Wednesday 7th November 2007

Never tuned in till a bit later tonight. Can't even remember why!!!

Stations all over the band when I tuned in. Multiple stns on various channels, inc 1510. Even 1120 had more than 1 station. Left 1250 on all night, but not checked recording yet.

Thought.. If I get one of the Perseus receivers that has been publicised on line recently, I bet will end up having a stack of unchecked hard drives full of dx.

Woke at 0637 and tried 1700, and heard KLIF with a good KLIF 570 id.

860 - 0659 Good Radio Canada ID, on Frenchy
750 - CBGY
730 - CKAC
540 - CBC Radio
960 - Kingston's Lite Rock
1160 - WYLL Chicago with good IDs 0759
1000 - KOMO 1000 WEST COAST DX!! Mix to begin with at 0803, but also exc at 0820

Paul C in Troon has a great KOMO recording made at 0830, while I was concentrating on trying for local id on 950

700 - Station behind WLW
950 - 0829 ESPN Which I pres was Seattle, but annoyingly no proper ID.
680 - 680 CJOB
1000 - ESPN Chicago 0840
1460 - CJOY in the mush 0846
680 - Some strange music mixing with 6-80 News - 0901.

(Can't seem to get Barrow audio stream to Win M.E.)

750 - Odd voice over at 0905, something like "One life at a time, all day long" Not CBC I don't think.

1480 - 0929 - BBC World Service relay, usually WGVU, Kentwood, MI.


Tuesday 6th November 2007

Had a CFBC id on 930 2250 Monday night UTC. Had a few things Tuesday UTC. ESPN ids on both 1410, and 1450, but no proper or close to proper IDs. Prob made a bad decision on recording 1160 overnight. Much splatter noted during the night. Channel active when started recording it.

0658 - 790 WAXY id as The Ticket
0730 - 1410 Some kid of SS and poss IDs. Needs investigation.

Fell asleep on the freq and never really had much of note after that today.



Monday 5th November 2007

Noticed my little contribution about the Luxembourg effect was well appreciated, and found it's way to Hard Core DX, as well as World of Radio.

Have had both CFBC and CJYQ Monday night on 930. And the usual predictable regulars. CFMB 1280 pres with Italian early on as well.

The weekend was a little on the hectic side again due to having a couple of extra weekend shifts. Next week may well be the same, and then I should have a little more time for my other interests. I have still been squeezing some dxing in at the same time though.

This morning I had only a few logs. AM 740 Toronto with the overnight jukebox, 1430 CHKT pres, but still don't have a proper ID on this one. Mixing with WENE, The Team. Chicago's ESPN on 1000 was fair at times, but not when giving an ID, as ever.. 820 had the Cuban time station/ radio station, Radio Reloj at 0736. Had sport on 1160, no id though, and WTIC had an Ozzy type voice, but was someone along with George on Coast / Coast!! Nothing grander...

When I turned in late last night, around 0220, the band was not that great. A lot of Euro splatter around. Therefore I couldn't understand why 680 was so free of splatter, and I could hear a pretty even mix of WRKO and 680 News Toronto. 670 was the same, so I tuned to Arrow, which had carrier only... on 675.. Odd. It would be nice if the Dutchies had a specific night in a month or something for maintenence, when we would know they would be off. Same goes for a lot of them.

Recorded 680 for the sake of it during the night, but looking at the waveforms, you can see exactly when Arrow came back on!!. Don't think there is much exotic on the recording bar WRKO, 680 News, and Columbia.

Sunday morning 4th November 2007

Not listening Sat night, otherwise distracted, but listening by about 0700. Noted a few odds and ends. 970 WZAN again the station that always seems to id on the freq even though there are often more than that on the channel. 680 had WRKO and 680 news, 1020 KDKA, 1180 WHAM, 1310 oldies 13-10, WWL 870, UNID on 550 in english with ads, but faded. Not the first time I have had English here, but never ided yet. Would not have had this a few years back when the gods were on 549!! Left recording on 1420 when I went out about 0800, but came back not to find WIGG DX test, but just mush!!

Saturday 3rd November (Inc Friday Night)

"Your praise and inspiration station" WLIB was my first inspiring log on 1190 at 2239. Also WDEA 1370, UNID country mx on 790 2332, like Chinese on 1280 (CFMB's night pattern antenna??). How does that count if I was a QSL hunter, and the day and night antenna pattern. Heard a few days ago as though someone switched them off, changing pattern. That's the kind of directional antenna we need for receiving!!! Unid 1450 coast to coast at 0011, VOWR 800, but mixing with a French stn. Left 1450 on 0053 to wake up 0330, when changed to 980. No recording checked yet.

Spent a bit of time organising the overnight recordings, for this season, and converting to MP3s, so now this years so far will go on a DVD. Bahamas was in at 0600, but I think I missed the IDs on 1540. Not yet had a minute to check.

Friday November 2nd 2007 (Inc Thursday Night)

Before my observations, let me remind you that there is a public MW DX forum/ message board on Tony's mediumwaveradio web site. I have been posting these logs there too. A couple of other Scottish DXers are using the board as well.

http://mediumwaveradio.org/forum/

There was a great many stations and frequencies open once the band got kindled up, though it may have been sluggish to begin with. I noticed that while looking for daytimers early on, there was a lot of euro splatter around, but by 0000 things were looking better.

Had the Chinese station on 1430 again, and mixing with 14-30, The Team. Guess what.. No id on the Ethnic. 1490 had about s9 of graveyard hummmmm, but no real audio to talk about. Seem to have fallen asleep quite sharp tuned to 960 LITE 104.3, the new FM name for Oldies 960. This I guess suggests the AM switch off will be sooner rather than later. Log it while you can. (CFFX, Kingston, Ont)

I woke just before 0700, after switching off the alarm at 0600!! Band very much alive, so much so that I got up and came down to the shack. At 0700, there was a huge choice, and I wasn't awake enough to make a decent decision as to which TOTH I would go for. In the end 1100 WTAM was like a local, so I recorded an ID on that one. That reminds me, I must get some new audio clips on line. They are mostly still contained within the large .wav files from the overnight recordings.

0700 - 1100 WTAM Great powerful ID, as "THE BIG ONE" (I thought 1170 WWVA was the big one)
0705 - 1540 RAI ID from CHIN, but I still really don't count that as a proper ID. Not ided CHIN this year yet.
0726 - 680 "6-80 News", Toronto in a mix
0729 - 580 CFRA good IDs with stn behind, prob SS

Quite a few latin / SS stations around this time, including 760, 550, 1000, and some identified common Cuban frequencies.

0741 - 1260 Radio Disney, Boston. First time I have noticed it there this season, but no call IDs despite exc IDs at 0758 as well. 0800 - 1200 Wasted on powerful 1200 CFGO pres, with loads of 1200 Sports ids of various kinds, but NO call on the hour.
0802 - 990 Sports Radio ESPN 990, Team 990 Montreal ID, no CKGM id though. IDed again at 0841, The Team 9-90, Some Radio Station. This is the same catch phrase as CKLW, Windsor 800.

Ided 700 WLW and 770 WABC, and 1700 WEUP in the passing, though neither great signals at the time of IDs.Also note that 980 as a freq starting to come in, but nothing audible yet.

0825 - 1080 WTIC, and country music behind it. Thinking to myself about Martin's usual time for logging New Zealand not far off!!..hi.. There was an English voice behind WTIC playing the said music, but the WTIC guys wouldn't give their tongues a rest even for a few seconds!! WTIC superb at 0800. Unfortunately nothing behind it.

0837, missed the bottom of the hour with this one and Coast to Coast starting. Surely not CBC, and surely not SS stn. VA??

At this time 1060 Mexico was strong. No id, but music very loud.

0839 - 990 Weather report like CBC, but wonder if I should have tried for this at TOTH to try and get a local ID, incase there was a signal from CBW, rather than CBY.

0925 - 800 Had a quick check of the band at 0925, last week that would have been 1025 local, and CKLW coming in quite well.

I note the unsociable Canadian with the boring old non stop music that all sounds the same is still putting in a good signal on 1250.

I can't help but think that the band as it was this AM would have been a dream to record 400kHz on the Perseus SDR receiver, which is a strong possibility for later this season.


Thursday November 1st 2007 (Inc Wed night)


I did wonder if the band seemed as though it is starting to pick up last night. Maybe that is wishful thinking. Hearing eg 1370 WDEA with a fair signal at 2255, and shortly after there were ads on ESPN 1410, WPOP, although no proper ID there. WRNI 1290 was quite good at 2340, for a peak which included an id. I fell asleep on 1320, but not had time to check the rec.

At 0700 the band was alive with a mix of English common East Coasters and Spanish. 550 had a strongish station with long winded talk/ poss preaching, mixing with a second station. ZIZ was booming in on 555, but only relays of the BBC. 1140 had an id from LV Miami, but rapid fade out this morning.

I was on the blower to a fellow dxer who alerted me to a report of the so called Luxembourg effect. I decided to reproduce an interesting article from an old book I fell in with a few years ago, and can be found here. For some unexplained reason, an old version of explorer didn't like the large image with the article. Try Firefox if you have any problems.

Finally I was reading on the web about the new Perseus SDR. WAHHHHHHHHH.. This is the technology we could only dream of even last year!! Recording 400kHz of bandwidth and playing back at your leasure, all the toth ids!!!! Guess who needs to stay out the pub for a few weeks!!!