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Offline Paul B. Walker, Jr.

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AM DX From Alaska
« on: September 10, 2021, 1731 UTC »
AM DXing up here is amazing in McGrath Alaska, in part because were closer to the north pole, in part because of the darkness and also because I'm 200 miles from any operating am stations

My distance record is 8000 miles.. that of 7ZR 936khz Hobart, Tasmania which is just a measley 10kw 2 tower directional. The log landed me on national Aussie Tv.

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Here's a few audio recordings that really kicked off the season for me today (Fri. Sept 10th)

Here's A3Z 1017kHz Nukualofa, Tonga at 1421UTC with a nice signal and some good, clear island music:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/176_PuDJZ8DXchkJhPw6FQU5znn6FPuRg/view?usp=sharing

Here's 4TAB 1008kHz Brisbane with some racing play by play at 1500UTC:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0aJXmxYuytJkIoAPYMQZl7U1_7aSex5/view?usp=sharing

Here's 4BC 1116kHz at 1517UTC with a nice loud peak of speech about the Covid 19 vaccine:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kduLAKCy4qT2vG1tL7FSwAmm7hSb7iuo/view?usp=sharing

Here's Magic Talk 1107kHz Tauranga, NZ with Labell's "Lady Marmalade" at 1520UTC:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ymTcQlZoVHRCrrebR0o25NiOdFIxj4E6/view?usp=sharing

Last week, domestic logs included KDOW 1220 Palo Alto, CA (145 watts) and KVTO 1400 Berkley, CA (1kw) both around 2200 miles away.


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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2021, 1558 UTC »
Sunday Sept 12:

KMZT 1260 Log Angeles with legal id and classical music


both 2kw NewsTalk ZB 1026 NZ relays

5kw Gold 1503 NZ

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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2021, 0012 UTC »
Audio, we have audio!

A3Z 1017kHz Nukualofa, Tonga at 1421UTC on Fri. Sept 10th with a nice signal and some good, clear island music. Audio https://bit.ly/3EciKEV

4TAB 1008kHz Brisbane, QLD at 1437UTC on Mon Sept 13th with fair signal and clear racing commentary. Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19QWefzWQhNuy0vc5GqE3rJq5UX7frgmu/view?usp=sharing

MagicTalk 1107kHz Tauranga, NZ at 1356UTC on Mon Sept 13, 2021 with "This Diamond Ring" By Gary Lewis and the playboys.  Fair to good signal. Audio: https://bit.ly/3EhVQfq

4BC 1116kHz  Brisbane, QLD at 1350UTC on Mon. Sept 13 with local commercials. Good signal. Audio: https://bit.ly/2Xq1V8P

Gold AM NZ 1503khz (which transmitter is unknown, as they have 2 on 1503khz) Sun Sept 12, 2021 between 1450UTC and 1514UTC with several classic hits songs. Audio #1: https://bit.ly/397TjWA and Audio #2:  https://bit.ly/3k6YUCW

NewsTalk ZB New Zealand 1026khz. Sun Sept 12th at 1411UTC No idea which transmitter this is as they have two 2kw relays on 1026khz and I'm pretty sure I hear an echo. Signal is poor to fair and its a bit hard to make speech out, but you can hear and get the gist of most of it. Audio: https://bit.ly/3z72GQR
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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2021, 0346 UTC »
I bagged a new to me AM DX log today in the case of News Talk ZB's 2KW 1395kHz relay in Oamaru, NZ. It was recorded today (Wed. Sept 15th) at 1402UTC.It's a rough listen but you can hear it in this audio clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vS3W5d5CJ8b5amPLuo2Zn-BeeCprdlpg/view?usp=sharing
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Re: AM DX From Alaska? Anything from the local AFB?
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2021, 0556 UTC »
Geez... Where you are would be a HAM's, even a Part #15 AM station op's, dream. Not to pirate, since the Anchorage FCC Office has a reputation of being really tough on that. Question is, does Tatalina Air Force Base, right near you, have a local AM / FM station? Why do I ask? When I was up in Eielson AFB in July 1985, I was told about an on-base 10W AM station that they had, and was shown the antenna, side-mounted, from ground up, on a 20-something ft wooden utility pole. I never did hear that station on-air in operation while I was there, though. So, that was disappointing. Still, interesting stations that you are catching up there. Just keep all of those mosquitoes.
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Re: AM DX From Alaska? Anything from the local AFB?
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2021, 1226 UTC »
Question is, does Tatalina Air Force Base, right near you, have a local AM / FM station?

No, not to my knowledge, they dont.

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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2021, 2022 UTC »
Here's audio of KUAZ 1550 from Friday September 15th at 5am AK Time.. the music is KGMZ San Francisco, Channel Q.... the flutter in KGMZ's signal is the carrier of KLUAZ coming up, I think... and when you hear a brief interruption in the KGMZ song, that's KUAZ causing that.  The KUAZ announcement is a bit hit hard by KGMZ's music but you can hear it fairly well and the NPR programming becomes a bit clearer, even.



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https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JY-flVh-2GNjYcQOxS_-rLmSz8hgQuQ/view?usp=sharing
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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2021, 0157 UTC »
Nice catch! As for KGMZ, that one at times can be heard over KRPI in Ferndale, Washington, at my location just over 60 miles from the KRPI transmitter.
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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2021, 1615 UTC »
Between 1410UTC and 1530UTC today (Mon Sept 20th) , I had several good fade ups of Star on 657 from NZ, making a new log for me

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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2021, 1811 UTC »
1062kHz Radio Kerman Iran (50KW) Mon Sept 20, 1507UTC with talk and some speech poor to fair signal at times.
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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2021, 1837 UTC »
Quote from: DXerPaulAK, post: 3569703, member: 1567064

1062kHz Radio Kerman Iran (50KW) Mon Sept 20, 1507UTC with talk and some speech poor to fair signal at times.



Here's audio of Radio Kerman: https://drive.google.com/file/d/158yTk8T4W487AFgBxv7BQSdLOXnpwC86/view?usp=sharing


Quote from: DXerPaulAK, post: 3569629, member: 1567064

Between 1410UTC and 1530UTC today (Mon Sept 20th) , I had several good fade ups of Star on 657 from NZ, making a new log for me



Here's audio of Star 657kHz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12UoOEA6m0g4C4e9eICHr1xu9n4KCTyPt/view?usp=sharing

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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2021, 1640 UTC »
Had english classic hits music on 1611khz shortly after 1400UTC here in Alaska today (Mon Sept. 27th) and it in theory could've been a few stations based upon a broad oldies/classic hits definition.  I wasnt having any luck finding a matching webstream.. then i heard some commercials in what I presume to be Filipino.... DING!  DWNX Milaor (Caramines Sur)
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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2021, 1811 UTC »
Here's a few logs and clips from Just East Of The Ass end Of Gods Creation Nowhere aka McGrath, Alaska using a CC Skywave and Debock 5" FSL Antenna

"Magic Talk", 1107kHz  Tauranga, NZ at 1525UTC on Fri. Oct1st. Heard on and off for 2 hours, but the absolute clearest and best signal came at 1525UTC during Toto's Africa which is in this audio clip and gets REAL clear at about 1 minute 5 seconds into the clip. Audio: https://bit.ly/3Fe2Bix  Distance: 7130 miles.

4TAB 1008kHz Brisbane, QLD, Aus at 1511UTC on Sat. Oct 2nd with live horse racing action.  The audio gets real good right after the start of the recording. Audio: https://bit.ly/3iq5gvJ  Distance: 6850 miles

A3Z 1017kHz Nuku'alofa, Tonga at 1531UTC on Fri October 1st with female talking in english and Tongan at some special event live broadcast.  Audio: http://bit.ly/3A5uztk Distance: 5910 miles 

4RN 792kHz Brisbane, QLD, Aus at 1519UTC on Fri Oct 1, 2021 with some american radio show, featured american accents.  Audio: http://bit.ly/2YmE22j Distance: 6850 miles

DWNX 1611kHz Mialor, Philippines at 1412UTC on Mon Sept 27, 2021 with bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of The Heart" and some Filipino language commercials.   Audio: http://bit.ly/2YmE22j  Distance: 5110 miles 

2KP 684kHz Kempsey, NSW, Aus between 1500 and 1600UTC on Sat. Oct 2nd, 2021 with several fade ups, including some Aussie accented english and a song during. There are three 684's in Australia but all were running separate programming at the time and I was able to match what I had to the ABC Mid North Coast webstream, which was running "Nights with Indira Naidoo". Audio clip #1 (with speech): https://bit.ly/3ozvHTX  Audio clip #2(with music): http://bit.ly/3BccCdO Distance: 7090 miles

CNR1 945kHz Jiaohe, China at 1400 to 1500UTC on Wed. Sept 29, 2021 with a massively clean, clear, strong signal carrying basketball play by play in Chinese. Signal was so good, I widened audio to 3kHz and could hear the shoes squeaking as players went up the court! Audio clip #1: bit.ly/2Y7gbTX  Audio clip #2: 2WHfgJG Distance: "only" 3100 miles.

"Star" 657Khz New Zealand at 1400 to 1530UTC on Mon Sept 20, 2021. Heard with several fade ups including the best one at 1412UTC with a song and some english chatter.  Audio: https://bit.ly/39YY4SZ  Distance: "could be 7130 miles"  Not known exactly which transmitter I heard, as two exist, Wellington and Tauranga but based upon reception behavior the fact I hear Magic on 1107 from Tauranga regularly, I'm "going with" that transmitter though I have heard ZB on 1035kHz from Wellington, just not very often. 

Radio Kerman 1062kHz Kerman, Iran at 1506UTC on Mon Sept 20, 2021  Heard with a language I didnt initially recognize in the beginning and U had to run back in to use the "Facilities" so I left it recording.  Came back out a few minutes later and the signal was gone. Upon review inside in the warm comforts of my apartment, and thanks to a RealDX member, we heard a reference to Iran and caught that this was Arabic language being spoken. 1062 here is usually Turkey  Audio: https://bit.ly/3FoxzF0  Distance: 5750 miles

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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2021, 1638 UTC »
Here's the audio of Iran in Russian on 1449kHz on Mon Oct 4th from 1415UTC. Signal held out on and off, fairly well for 9 minutes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xM8V043eSY8j4CBKnj8yeaUE9zXbylN2/view?usp=sharing
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Re: AM DX From Alaska
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2021, 1829 UTC »
WOW!  What a morning on Wed Oct 27th!

Iran on 936, 1026, 1179, 1188, 1279, 1368, 1467, 1449 and 1512
Saudi on 882 and 1260
Moldova on 864 and 1413
Romania on on 1053 and 1152

UNID on 1395 and 1413 that didnt match any stream nor did they sound asian.
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