AM DX logs here!

[a29zuk]

Don't feel bad Ridge, I only have 25' of wire with one end tied to a little weight thrown over a branch on the tree in my back yard. Sometimes I use my home made 3' loop or the Grundig AN-200 for BCB reception.

 

[Token]

I think I'm the only guy in here who lives in an apartment and runs an external wire for DX. I'm setting here reading your antennas Token and I am just awestruck. If I get Africa off my teenyweeny 50footer-what planet are you in regular contact with-and are they gonna help us straighten up this rock
seriously, Token, may we get an example of what you do dabble in? Those MW logs though, pretty much moot this thread kinda like that part in Close encounters when the ship answers the scientists with its own version of tone.

ridgescan, I have been there, as an apartment dweller / SWL / ham. But not for a few years now. In one apartment I had a hidden long wire that I ran in some trees near the building. I had to go out at night and cut the sod from the building to the trees so I could run the coax across the 50 foot gap and no one would see it.

You are using your 50 foot wire for AM DX also? Have you ever considered building a tuned loop? Again when I was an apartment dweller I had a tuned loop maybe 24 inches on a side. All that sat on a plastic lazy susan on a wooden stool right by the radio desk so I could rotate it and null offending stations. Very cheap to build and worked very well.

What I normally play with on SW is numbers, utility, and pirate stations. My YouTube channel has a few examples. Really nothing spectacular there though. I have a lot more examples waiting to the captured to video and uploaded, but every time I set down at the radio desk to do that I end up tuning a rig instead. YouTube - FirstToken's Channel

As far as mooting this thread, I would say not. There are some potentially interesting receptions in what I listed, but note only one “for sure” ID, JOUB, Japan. I am confident about the others I assigned callsigns to, but confident is not the same as positive. To tighten up those other stations would probably take hours of time, and I only had 20 minutes before I needed to leave for work.

T!

 

[ridgescan]

I appreciate your response Token I meant the "moot" thing as tongue-in-cheek as I have seen k9 and kilocat and a couple others here post up some impressive MW DXs at the very beginning of the band too-no insult meant at all to their catches-heck I'm over here thinking my AM 660 Navajo catch was something till these guys piped up
The loggings you put in here are very cool and quite an effort for someone who had to go to work right after-something I can appreciate as I am not able to work anymore.
Off to browse your YT channel!

 

[ridgescan]

Don't feel bad Ridge, I only have 25' of wire with one end tied to a little weight thrown over a branch on the tree in my back yard. Sometimes I use my home made 3' loop or the Grundig AN-200 for BCB reception.

Thanks a29-we are truly the challenge club-no? We have to find a way to grab those weak ones out of the dirt with what ever aerial we can fit I still am thinking about a loop project-I think I will take Token's advice and I may build one myself.
Today though-the project is to install the newly aquired LMR240 cable to my SWL antenna and my scanner antenna too looking for further reduction in noise here!

 

[k9rzz]

Thanks for the report. It seems that not too many folks, interested in SWL, use BIG antennas. BOGs have certainly grown in popularity which is good, but no SWLs seem to put up towers. FYI there is just ONE set of Youtube videos on rhombics, from Iceland. We need more.

Was just reading this page on rhombics: Future

Last updated in '05, so I don't think he went through with his plans, but he came up with this arrangement which I thought was ingenious.

I also have the W6AM biography which I have read cover to cover several times: http://www.arrl.org/shop/Don-C-Wallace-W6AM

Keep those logs coming!

 

[k8krh]

I was listening tonight on 530 mw and picked up a station playing olies and then announced oldies on the train..but I could find no reference to the station..anyone ever hear this..
DOCTOR

 

[ridgescan]

530 am oldies - Yahoo! Search Results

you really have to park on that frequency for a bit till you can extract an ID or a local phone# or a local business commercial etc-but the link above can help you narrow it to a few

 

[k9rzz]

I was listening tonight on 530 mw and picked up a station playing olies and then announced oldies on the train..but I could find no reference to the station..anyone ever hear this..
DOCTOR

Don't know what you mean by "oldies on the train". These were American oldies? If you're in Indiana, then 530 is usually dominated at night by a) CIAO Toronto which is usually multi-cultural, b) Cuba's Radio Encyclopedia which is a musical variety station, or c) Radio Vision Cristiana International, Turks & Caicos Islands in the British West Indies.

So, unless you've got a super low power station in your town, my guess would be b, a, or c.

 

[k9rzz]

Jan30 01:31 1230 WSOO Sault St Marie, MI 1kw with local news and weather (more snow - go figure!) NEW! and a SWEET CATCH! - de k9rzz wi

 

[pocho]

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Hey guys, I recently moved to Denver for an internship and began AM DXing here.

Right now (~0950 utc) I am picking up Radio Netherlands Worldwide on 990 AM. Anyone know what station this is from or if it's being relayed? I find it hard to believe I'm picking up something all the way from the Netherlands.

I'm using a Grundig G8 with the included whip antenna.

Here's my log so far.

Denver DX

1130 KWKH Shreveport,LA...1/29
1120 KMOX St. Louis...1/16
1070 KNX Los Angeles...1/16
990 KRKS Denver...1/29
990..radio netherlands worldwide...1/29
880 KRVN Lexington,NE...1/12
830 WCCO Minneapolis...1/12
820 WBAP Dallas...1/12
780 WBBM Chicago...1/14
710 KNUS Denver...1/29
720 WGN Chicago...1/14
660 KTNN Window Rock...1/16
650 CKOM Saskatoon,SK...1/29
650 WSM Nashville...1/29
630 KHOW Denver...1/29
620 CKRM Regina,SK...1/16
610 KNML Albuquerque...1/16
600 KSJB Jamestown,ND...1/29

 

[Jimepage]

some of my farther logs. May be inaccuate because I couldnt find any great sites or software to help me identify them better

CX6 | 0650 | MONTEVIDEO 1 | -- UY | 5252.85 M 21:18 AST 08Dec10 | 20:18 EST 08Dec10 | 01:18 UTC 09Dec10

YVLL | 0670 | CARACAS 9 | -- VE | 2047.11 M | 21:15 AST 08Dec10 | 20:15 EST 08Dec10 | 01:15 UTC 09Dec10

CMEA | 0570 | SANTA CLARA | -- CU | 1207.13 M 04:01 EDT 17Oct10 | 04:01 EDT 17Oct10 | 08:01 UTC 17Oct10

Canada is always hitting me hard on CKNX 920 and CHML 920

 

[k9rzz]

I'd like to hear more about that Uruguay logging.

The 990khz relay of Radio Netherlands is CBW out of Winnepeg.

 

[k9rzz]

Here's an oldie but a goodie:

XEEY_660KHZ_LACONSENTIDA_XALPA_MX_17DEC01_0630Z.mp3

XEQ_940KHZ_MEXICOCITY_29NOV01_2335CST.mp3

640khz_RProgresso_Cuba_3Dec01_2300cst.mp3

 

[k9rzz]

Turks_and_Caicos_530khz_Radio_Christiana_2300cdt_18Oct01 (2)short.wav

 

[ridgescan]

KOA Denver is coming in good tonight at 1000 miles. I haven't gotten them in a while.

 

[ridgescan]

Quick MW DX
KDXU out of St. George, Utah at 10,000 watts and 491 miles solid copy with minimal fade-1 fadeout every 3-5 minutes. Best I ever got this station. Dennis Miller Show.

 

[ridgescan]

Last night 0500utc hour-1650AM "immaculate Heart Radio" out of west Sacramento at 1000 watts and (get this) 77.7 miles I'll take that as a sign. Added to bedside r75

 

[ridgescan]

0551utc 1410khz MW -KRML radio out of Carmel, Ca. at 89.7 miles and (wow?>>) 17 watts power
That is the lowest MW station power I have ever heard of. Playing jazz.

 

[k9rzz]

Nice catch. They go lower.

 

[ridgescan]

Nice catch. They go lower.

You kiddin? That's funny lol maybe I should run a 5 watter out of my room here. What does the transmitter antenna look like on such a small station?