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« on: December 27, 2014, 1717 UTC »
I was dialing around the x-band yesterday around 12pm EST / 1700 UTC and noticed some stuff coming in that usually isn't there during the day. 1700 WEUP-AL was coming in well and tuning around more I noticed some other Southern stuff was skipping in as well between 1600-1700. 1600 WAOS-GA was dominating the channel with no sign of usual WAAM Ann Arbor. With just a few minutes before noon TOH I decided to make a spectrum recording with the Perseus. During recording I parked it on 1540 since I was hearing religious programming, and I was hoping for needed KTGG Spring Arbor, MI. I was surprised when the station IDed as WTBI South Carolina, completely in the clear with a decent signal, at noon! Seems I stumbled on a good opening to the South with a pipeline to NC/SC. Highlights heard here at noon include these relogs:
1170 WCXN-NC
1290 WHKY-NC
1310 WISE-NC
1350 WZGM-NC
1360 WELP-SC
1520 WDSL-NC
1550 WKBA-VA
And these new logs:
880 WPIP-NC mixing with WRFD
1010 WKJW-NC
1210 WANB-PA
1400 WEOA-IN
1430 WEEF-IL under WION
1540 WTBI-SC
1600 WTZQ-NC during WAOS fade w/ no sign of usual WAAM
These were all heard using the South D-KAZ.
Listening again today at the same time revealed a mostly dead dial with a few things skipping in from 200-300 miles out. In other words, typical daytime skywave this time of year for me.