Topics

61

MW Loggings / 710 AM WFNR

« on: January 05, 2019, 0038 UTC »

Was tuned to 710 this morning after sunrise and noticed an Oldies format station under WOR.  Never heard that before so listened for a while.
The sigs got considerably louder about 2 hrs after their sunrise (propagation or Critical Hours idk) but eventually faded out as the sun got higher.
Anyway, my guess is that it may be WFNR Blacksburg VA. a 10kw daytimer with a pattern aimed my way.   They may have flipped their format from News / Talk to Oldies.
Never caught an air check or ID.  The production sounds automated.  Anybody else hearing this one ? 

62

Longwave Loggings / propagation anomaly

« on: December 16, 2018, 1546 UTC »

Past couple of mornings (Saturday and Sunday) have noticed an almost total lack of signals between about 240 and the bottom end of the DGPS band.
Almost no noise but almost no sigs either... an RF desert.
OTOH, some good DX 200 - 220 and good conditions above 326.  Strange
Anyone else have a similar experience ?

63

MW Loggings / 1090 WBAL Baltimore MD

« on: December 13, 2018, 1334 UTC »

Finally logged what should be an easy catch here in Michigan.  However, have local WCAR on same freq.
This morning was able to nicely null the local with the loop and catch the WX " 39 degrees" and multiple IDs
(love it when an AM station IDs a lot) including the TOH "WBAL News Radio 10-90" @ 0800 EST which was about 10 minutes
after local sunrise.  Was probably helped by the facts that the local apparently had reduced power to its
daytime level and the daytime pattern of WBAL is more favorable to my direction than their nighttime
pattern.

64

Longwave Loggings / 216 CLB ?

« on: September 09, 2018, 1440 UTC »

Is 216  CLB  Wilmington  NC  still on the air ?
Haven't heard it lately.
198  DIW  Dixon  NC had a nice signal in here this morning but CLB nowhere to be heard.

65

Longwave Loggings / weak signal reception

« on: July 31, 2018, 2146 UTC »

Been noticing an interesting affect when tuning around on the NDB band.  If a strong local beacon is tuned in, it seems to pull up weaker signals on the same or adjacent channels.  Is there a name for this or is it just my imagination. 

66

Longwave Loggings / Michigan NDB logs

« on: July 15, 2018, 1708 UTC »

All Michigan all the time.
Heard the following beacons this morning just before sunrise:

278  ADG   Adrian
332  PH     Port Huron
338  DE     Detroit
336  MA     Cadillac  (miskeys as MET)
359  GYG   Grayling
365  TV     Traverse City
382  IRS    Sturgis
382  SJX    Beaver Island  (never got the full ID on this one, mixing with IRS and XU London ON on same freq)
400  CI      Sault Ste. Marie

not heard:  257  MB  Saginaw Tri-City
                 269  FN  Flint Bishop (was decommissioned in May this year)

Just want to get these logged while they are still on the air...  we've lost at least 5 in the past several years.
Anybody else with Michigan logs feel free to post 'em here.

67

Longwave Loggings / unid on 504

« on: March 04, 2018, 1056 UTC »

504 NID  1045Z today, good sigs hr in MI

68

Longwave Loggings / Daytime NDB DXing

« on: December 24, 2017, 0214 UTC »

Had some time to look through some NDB loggings from the past year or so with particular attention to daytime DX reception. 
For sake of discussion, day DX being anything greater than 400 miles (640 km).

329  YHN   Hornepayne  ON  459 mi
351  YKQ   Fort Rupert  QC   642 mi
360  PN     Port Menier  QC   1020 mi
366  YMW  Maniwaki  QC      436 mi
392  ML     Malbaie  QC        719 mi
407  ZHU   Montreal  QC      513 mi

Checked my logbooks since these beacons have all been heard here many times at night and during twilight but these were all daylight path, no greyline cheating.

Feel free anybody to include your best day DX if you wish.  Would be interesting to see what others have accomplished.   

69

Longwave Loggings / NDB logs 12-16-17

« on: December 16, 2017, 1842 UTC »

1015-1115Z

244  TH    Thompson  MB
248  WG   Winnipeg  MB
269  UDE  Delta  MB
284  QD    The Pas  MB
287  ZWG  Winnipeg  MB
300  YIV    Island Lake  MB
305  YQ     Churchill  MB
370  YBV   Berens River  MB

All Manitoba all the time... 

70

Longwave Loggings / help with UNID

« on: December 16, 2017, 1717 UTC »

MB was booming in here this morning.  On 280 heard what sounded like 4TR with no DAID.  Various sources show 4B and 4T both on that freq and both in MB.   
No doubt about the 4 but my guess is perhaps it was 4B with the B miskeyed  as TR.  Then again maybe 4T with a messed up T. 
Anybody else log this one recently?  tnx.

71

Longwave Loggings / Take Off to the Great White North

« on: December 14, 2017, 1927 UTC »

Some Canadian NDBs heard here recently with cool sounding names:

201  GL    La Grande Riviere  QC
224  MO   Moosonee  ON
244  DG   Chute des Passes Dangereuses  QC
256  YXN  Whale Cove  NU
328  YTL   Big Trout Lake  ON
329  YEK   Eskimo Point  NU
340  YY     Mont Joli  QC
341  YYU   Kapuskasing  ON
344  YGV  Harve St. Pierre  QC
346  YXL   Sioux Lookout  ON
351  YKQ   Fort Rupert  QC
371  GW    Great Whale River  QC

Bunch more exotic sounding ones in NWT still trying to DX.

Thank you Canadians for keeping your NDBs in service. 

72

Longwave Loggings / NDB loggings

« on: December 10, 2017, 1928 UTC »

Conditions were fairly good early this morning and was able to pull some NDBs out of the DGPS portion of the band:

284  QD   The Pas  MB (right on the band edge)
289  YLQ  LaTuque  QC
300  YIV   Island Lake  MB
302  QW   North Battleford  SK
305  YQ    Churchill  MB
317  ZZR  Trenton  ON
317  CBE  Cumberland  MD

73

Longwave Loggings / XW

« on: November 18, 2017, 2255 UTC »

Speaking of off the air beacons...   anybody heard 400  XW  Flemingsburg  KY lately?  It was a fairly frequent visitor to the radiobunker here but looking through my logbooks it has not been heard here since June.    

74

Longwave Loggings / unid 372

« on: November 12, 2017, 1934 UTC »

Hearing I (..) about every 6 seconds mixing with 372 CQD Erie PA early this morning.  Can't seem to find it listed in any of the usual various sources.  Any ideas

75

Longwave Loggings / NDB logs

« on: September 23, 2017, 1541 UTC »

Some mid-afternoon loggings from yesterday.   Heavy T-storm QRN but not bad results for daylight LW.  RX Tecsun PL-600 with homebrew loopstick hooked to a PAR EF-SWL antenna.

201  ZXU   London  ON
207  FD     Brantford  ON
221  HM    Hamilton  ON
227  GW   Auburn  IN
230  VQ    Detroit  MI
239  HKF  Middletown  OH
245  YZE  Gore Bay  ON
253  DD   Columbus  OH
257  MB   Saginaw  MI
263  GR   Grand Rapids  MI
266  ZHM Hamilton  ON
269  FN    Flint  MI
269  TII   Tiffin  OH
272  YQA  Muskoka  ON
276  YEL   Elliot Lake  ON
278  ADG  Adrian  MI
283  PT     Pelee Is.  ON
299  HW   Wilmington  OH
326  VV    Wiarton  ON
332  PH     Port Huron  MI
335  ZKF   Kitchener  ON
338  UMP  Indianapolis  IN
338  DE    Detroit  MI
341  CCJ   Springfield  OH
350  D7    Kincardine  ON
353  QG    Windsor  ON
362  AK    Akron  OH
362  SB    Sudbury  ON
368  ZYZ  Toronto  ON
372  CQD  Erie  PA
375  7B    St. Thomas  ON
376  LC    Columbus  OH
382  XU   London  ON
382  IRS  Sturgis  MI
397  ZHA Hamilton  ON
404  ZR   Sarnia  ON
407  IL    Wilmington  OH
417  HHG Huntington  IN
419  RYS  Grosse Ile  MI
423  PCW Port Clinton  OH