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MW Loggings / Re: DXing Baseball - April 14-15, 2017
« on: April 20, 2017, 1520 UTC »
CT Yankee,

You are right about WXYT 1270, it is not clear channel,  it is class B 50kw day and night with directional antenna.

Actually, there are no more Class 1-A clear channel stations (only station allowed on a given frequency at night).  The history is somewhat convoluted but they went away some time ago.  Today's clear channel stations are class A and share their nighttime frequency with limited protection from a number of other stations.

Interesting to look at an old 1963 publication showing WMAQ 670 Chicago, WLW 700 Cincinnati, WGN 720 Chicago, and WOAI San Antonio (all 50kw stations) as the only stations on their frequency day and night.  However, by then, many of the other clear channels had perhaps two widely geographically separated 50kw stations sharing a frequency at night. 

887
MW Loggings / Re: DXing Baseball - April 14-15, 2017
« on: April 20, 2017, 1436 UTC »
Chicago Cubs affiliate WQLR 1660 Kalamazoo MI only 10kw daytime/ 1000 watts night but being an expanded band station has a fairly decent signal due to the uncrowded nature of the band. 

btw, no A/C here either, two seasons in Michigan... winter and July.

888
Longwave Loggings / Re: unids
« on: April 20, 2017, 0833 UTC »
SOO still miskeying.
Have not heard the others since.

889
Longwave Loggings / Re: NDB YLQ 4/17/2017
« on: April 18, 2017, 2248 UTC »
Good catch on YLQ. Sometimes heard here but very elusive.

890
Longwave Loggings / Re: Australian/New Zealand NDB's heard in USA or Asia?
« on: April 18, 2017, 2245 UTC »
Probably impossible from Michigan.  My furthest west NDB DX is British Columbia. 

891
Longwave Loggings / Re: NDB logs from portable ops.
« on: April 15, 2017, 2355 UTC »
Looks like you have the same problem there that we have here...  namely the electronic lamps and ballasts.  :(   They not only radiate hash but also couple it back into the mains which then serve as a big antenna spewing the noise especially on the LW and MW bands.  Anyway, good luck with your portable ops.  Will be doing that here myself this summer in attempt to get away from all the noise.   

892
MW Loggings / Re: DXing Baseball - April 14-15, 2017
« on: April 15, 2017, 1659 UTC »
Ernie was classic.  Unlike many of today's announcers who feel compelled to  fill the air with jabber, much of it inane, Ernie would set the table and if nothing further needed to be said would let you listen to the crowd noise as your mind transported you to the ballpark.  Ernie was also quite the gracious gentleman always willing to talk to you or sign an autograph.   

893
MW Loggings / Re: DXing Baseball - April 14-15, 2017
« on: April 15, 2017, 0903 UTC »
Unfortunately, WJR 760 AM has not broadcast Tiger baseball in 17 yrs.   :(     IIRC, WJR was flagship station from 1964 (displacing previous flagship WKMH which became rocker WKNR "Keener 13")... to last season in 2000 with Ernie Harwell, Jim Price, Dan Dickerson. 

894
MW Loggings / Re: CKWW AM 580
« on: April 12, 2017, 0106 UTC »
Quote from: Chanter on April 09, 2017, 0723 UTC
I can get CKWW here, but not often.  Guessing that's to do with relative proximity.  It's more common to hear Kansas City on 580, if anything. 


Nice catch from Wisconsin.   :)

895
Longwave Loggings / Re: 372 unid
« on: April 08, 2017, 2303 UTC »
Quote from: jFarley on April 08, 2017, 2037 UTC
Could this have been the LSB of EE 374 (Alexandria, MN)?  The dits in EE are rather closely spaced.

Hmmm,  good thinking,  that does make sense,  although the dits are very close together.
Logged at least three other stations in MN this morning, propagation was excellent that direction.
Tnx   :)

896
Longwave Loggings / 372 unid
« on: April 08, 2017, 1644 UTC »
4-8-2017 @ 1020Z
unid on 372  "I" 
just the one letter ID, 1020 modulation, no DAID
coming in over CQD Erie PA on same freq
good sigs hr in MI   

897
Equipment / Re: Portable with good ssb?
« on: April 08, 2017, 0852 UTC »
Quote from: MDK2 on April 08, 2017, 0036 UTC
If that sticking point is right in the center setting, that's by design. It's meant to find the 0 setting since they don't have any markings. Just speaking from my experience with the 600.

ditto,  sounds like that could be a center detent placed there by design 

898
Longwave Loggings / Re: NDBs for winter 2017
« on: April 07, 2017, 2117 UTC »
Some nice loggings there...    :)

Couple of thoughts, use some kind of tuner with your longwire or better yet, give the PAR EF-SWL antenna a try.  It will yield a tremendous improvement over a plain vanilla longwire not only on LW but also MW and SW.

899
Equipment / Re: Portable with good ssb?
« on: April 07, 2017, 1602 UTC »
Another vote for the Satellit 750.  Maybe a bit big for a portable but it does have good SSB performance.
If that is too big for you, try the Tecsun PL-600.  Smaller in size and price but still has nice SSB tuning. 

900
MW Loggings / Re: CKWW AM 580
« on: April 05, 2017, 0832 UTC »
What RX and antenna were you using?

That is a really cool display. 

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