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Title: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: East Troy Don on December 15, 2020, 0348 UTC
@ 03:36 UTC with ID news and weather,  storm warnings  then some ads by Dr Drew Warton, Rocket Motgage and  Land Rover.
10:42  MNF score  update
            New Mets GM
10 :43   More ads
10:46  Story on New Jersey tax on weed

Really solid signal tonite on the formally lost, but just found today, Grundig Executive Traveler III with the telescopic whip
Title: Re: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: pinto vortando on December 15, 2020, 1816 UTC
Don,

Good to hear you found your Traveler III.  :)

That is a hot little receiver for a pocket radio.
Been awhile since taking the back off but IIRC
it has only a small 2" or 3" loopstick… amazing
how well it performs on AM band.
If you can inductively couple to it a wire or loop,
it gets even better.

Title: Re: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: East Troy Don on December 17, 2020, 0043 UTC
Good idea.....think I'll pair it up with the Tecsun AN-200 this week and see what surfaces.
Thanks
Title: Re: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: pinto vortando on December 17, 2020, 1324 UTC
Good idea.....think I'll pair it up with the Tecsun AN-200 this week and see what surfaces.
Thanks

Put the Traveler III and the AN-200 on a lazy susan this morning and between rotating the turntable and tuning the loop
was able to peak the signals from WSCR Chicago, KMOX St. Louis, and KCJJ Iowa City.  Some of it seemed to be skywave
and some groundwave but it did work...

good idea on the AN-200.
Title: Re: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: East Troy Don on December 17, 2020, 1604 UTC
You may have developed a new protocol - The "Shortwave Salad" HF tuning method !  :)
Title: Re: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: pinto vortando on December 19, 2020, 0336 UTC
Using the Traveler III / AN-200 / lazy susan combo again tonight,
have been able to null WWL AM 870 New Orleans and pull in
Radio Reloj on the same freq loud and clear with the time ticks
plainly audible and the beep followed by RR in Morse every minute,
OM and YL in espanol.
Title: Re: WCBS 880 AM
Post by: pinto vortando on December 30, 2020, 0949 UTC
Only hearing the one minute beep followed by the RR tonight in the WWL null,
not copying any voice, just a jumble. 
Checked some other Radio Reloj frequencies but didn't hear the distinctive RR.