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MW Loggings / Re: WGEZ Beloit WI

« on: April 01, 2020, 1032 UTC »

been listening on 1490 past several mornings just to see what could be pulled out of the graveyard,
amazing how hard it is to hear anything intelligible in the jumble,
best DX so far...  WBBL (formerly WKLQ) Whitehall MI,  about 170 miles

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs

« on: March 30, 2020, 1229 UTC »

Got a chance to do some longwave listening over the weekend and heard some of the usual Canadian beacons:
FD, RL, YYW, MO, YTL, QT, YLD, YY, YXL, YKQ, QG, ZHU, SN.
However, was greeted mostly with poor propagation and wall to wall T-storm static.
Surprisingly, 415 CBC Cayman Brac CYM and 198 DIW Dixon NC had good sigs in here,
otherwise nothing heard to the South.
So, gonna say winter longwave season is over for me at this QTH. 

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs

« on: March 30, 2020, 1205 UTC »

Looks like Ontario took a big hit in Phase 3, not hearing these usually strong beacons:

201  ZXU  London
272  YQA  Muskoka
326  VV    Wiarton
382  XU    London
404  ZR    Sarnia

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MW Loggings / Re: WDJO AM 1480

« on: March 27, 2020, 0904 UTC »

Danke

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MW Loggings / WDJO AM 1480

« on: March 26, 2020, 1526 UTC »

WDJO AM 1480 Cincinnati OH @ 0945Z 300 watts
not very strong but decent signal for 300 watts into Michigan this morning
listened to their Oldies for about 15 minutes before the signal faded away

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MW Loggings / Re: WEUP AM 1700

« on: March 25, 2020, 1452 UTC »

Heard this one again this morning,
just happened to be listening to the jumble on 1700
when out of nowhere @ 1000Z WEUP appeared with TOH ID,
either the propagation suddenly shifted or
perhaps they are going to daytime power early during
the emergency.

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MW Loggings / Re: WSKW 1160 am 2359 utc 18 Mar 2020

« on: March 22, 2020, 1841 UTC »

Thanks for the heads up on the Maine station.
50 kw WYLL Chicago pretty much rules 1160  here even
covering more local WCXI, however, there are occasional
deep fades so it may be possible to catch WSKW on sunrise skip
after they go to 10 kw daytime full power

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MW Loggings / WEUP AM 1700

« on: March 22, 2020, 1832 UTC »

WEUP AM 1700  Huntsville AL  1kw
solid sigs into Michigan 1000-1030Z, no QSB, sounds like an urban Gospel format
was listening on 1700 to a faint Mexican format station trying to get an ID (KKLF ?)
when suddenly WEUP came booming in crushing the Mex and a local TIS

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MW Loggings / Re: WSKW 1160 am 2359 utc 18 Mar 2020

« on: March 21, 2020, 1443 UTC »

FB on the Maine station 
been looking for Maine all winter,
no joy 

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MW Loggings / WNXT AM 1430

« on: March 21, 2020, 1439 UTC »

WNXT AM 1430  Indianapolis IN  5kw
sports talker... "... Tom Brady... blah, blah, blah,  Tom Brady... blah, blah..."
good sigs into Michigan 1000Z with occasional deep QSB
a C&W in and out the background along with an oldies,
the oldies station did not match the KZQZ St. Louis online stream,
both of them are unid for now

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Amateur Radio / Re: Thoughts on HF verticals

« on: March 17, 2020, 1926 UTC »

The optimum antenna farm would include several antennas of various types.  However, if you have limited space, a vertical can be the way to go.

Verticals in general seem to have a not so good reputation among some hams... "they radiate equally poorly in all directions... blah, blah, blah".
Based on my many years experience with a Hustler 5BTV,  some of that is true.  It sucks on 10 meters and the bandwidth on 80 is real narrow.
However, performance on 15 has been excellent and on 40 it has been phenomenal.

DX Engineering can provide installation guidance as well as parts and accessory support for the Hustler verticals.
https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/hsr-5btv

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MW Loggings / Re: WDHP 1620 0320 UTC 11 Mar 2020

« on: March 15, 2020, 0032 UTC »

The malfunctioning noisy streetlight around here should burn out soon . It's wrecking my listening pleasure

Got a dirty insulator or connection in the neighborhood radiating noise that the utility has not
repaired...  will have to wait until it fails completely before they fix it.   

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General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC To Hire ‘Substantial Number’ Of New Agents To Capture Radio Pirates

« on: March 15, 2020, 0026 UTC »

When will the FCC agents go through towns to conduct sweeps of dirty powerline transformers, etc. that seem to wipe out the AM radio band in most every town or city?

^^^ this 

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MW Loggings / Re: WDHP 1620 0320 UTC 11 Mar 2020

« on: March 12, 2020, 1122 UTC »

Heard Nebraska station KOZN "Sixteen-Twenty The Zone" in the null of the Cuban this morning 1100Z.

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs

« on: March 11, 2020, 1605 UTC »

Ok, got some unfamiliar country codes there, who are CKS, SCN, TUA ?