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Loggings => MW Loggings => Topic started by: Chanter on November 17, 2012, 2004 UTC
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I finally succeeded in pinning down my pesky 1060kHz classical-ish music/Spanish language unid. Credit goes to forumites for tipping me to the fact that it might be XEEP - Radio Educacion out of Mexico City. Last night/this morning, conditions from the south were nutty! and I caught the best signal I've ever managed from that station, despite horrible splatter from WTSO on 1070. I tried matching what I heard to XEEP's webstream, and tah-dah! Unid ID'd!
Now to figure out what my other pesky unid is. 1440kHz would be a lot clearer if another local, on 14*80*kHz no less, wasn't so overmodulated that it splattered for 40kHz in both directions. Good lord. Might that be a call to the station in question? Hmm.
As to the NDB heard on MW: I was messing about, trying to figure out what might've been causing a slight heterodyne on 540 - probably the country station out of Iowa or CBC Watrous up against CIAO in Ontario - and I said hey, why not tune down the band a little on sideband. Maybe you'll get lucky and find something between 10kHz steps. Well, find I did! It took me a second to realize that what I was hearing was actually CW, and then I went... the heck? Hang on... .-.. -.-- --.- L Y Q? An NDB on the MW band? I entertained the thought of hearing a harmonic of an NDB (I assume that's possible, considering a signal is a signal wherever you go) but then I checked it against an NDB database.
Turns out what I heard was LYQ on 529kHz, out of Morrison, Tennessee! Holy cow! That's the furthest U.S. NDB catch I've made. It still gets me that it's on the MW band, too. *shrugs* I'm far from complaining!