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Offline ratroo

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MW monitoring
« on: December 31, 2012, 1951 UTC »
What's the station you have heard on MW that is the farthest from your location?  My is St. Louis from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2012, 2213 UTC »
For me it has been southern Mexico and possibly central America back in the 90s, though no log to prove it. KiloKat will chime in. He's logged stations with vid proof half way around the globe in the MW broadcast band.
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2012, 2232 UTC »
Quote from: ratroo on December 31, 2012, 1951 UTC
What's the station you have heard on MW that is the farthest from your location?  My is St. Louis from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.


Haven't measured it or made specific note, but can routinely get stations from NYC, Atlanta, and Texas up here. Nothing yet from south of the border. Plenty of Canadian stations, but so far nothing really far for them.

If you're talking about MW in general (not just MWBC), then Greenland on 518 kHz NAVTEX.  ;D
Also have received the stations in Bermuda & San Juan, PR.
Next on the list is the Hawaiian NAVTEX station.

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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2012, 2246 UTC »
Good point Skeeezix. Ratroo are you talking about the upper portion of the MW band or the known broadcast portion? In the upper portion I've logged international broadcast stations half way around the globe. My response was in relation to the broadcast portion.
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2012, 2305 UTC »
BDM 530-1710 khz
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2013, 1713 UTC »
In the MW broadcast band, the furthest stations for me have been either Mexico City or Cuba.  Guadalupe in Nuevo Leon or Ciudad Acuna in Coahuila might be further, though.  Anybody know which is most distant?  I still wish I'd gotten an ID on what I'm pretty sure was Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 700kHz... alas. 

I get New York, Boston, Denver, Dallas and New Orleans every night here, though those are all clear channel flamethrowers.  Lots of Canadians as well, most in Ontario, especially Toronto.  I routinely get Winnipeg and the sportscaster out of Montreal on 690, but the furthest Canadian I've had is probably one of the Saskatchewan stations I snagged.  Not sure who's closer, Melfort or Watrous.  Hmm. 

I wouldn't mind trying for NAVTEX catches.  What does it take to translate those?  I imagine you'd need recording equipment or a hookup between radio and computer.  Darnit. 
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2013, 0950 UTC »
lately it's been CUBA on 1180am, I am in arizona. Caught El Paso TX last night in the car on 1360AM which crowded out our local station on 1360AM! it drifted in...stayed awhile then drifted back out (guess they were just 'visiting' hehehe) I can hear hets on 843khz and around the 900s, sorry don' have exact 900khz band logs nearby. I assume they are Asians. I am only using a random wire about 75' or so VERTICAL (only way, it's atop a condo building can't go horizontal without being Spiderman) and balun. I am surprised at my catches as this is an extremely noisy environment and our wiring is not grounded in this building  ???
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2013, 1952 UTC »
I'm located in the Pacific Northwest.

My farthest catches on MW are JOUB-774 (Sapporo, Japan -- 4300 miles), JOIB-747 (Akita, Japan -- 4500 miles) and JOBB-828 (being the furthest away, in Osaka, Japan -- 5000 miles).  I also logged the Russian MW outlet on 1544 kc. in Vladivostok (about 4700 miles) once back in the mid 1980's, using my boombox and a 4 ft. spiral loop.

On the North American continent the farthest would be R. Rebelde-1180 at around 2700 miles (which I heard barefoot on a TRF); the second distant DX station being one of the several I've heard from Mexico City (the most recent being XEDF-1500, which I heard barefoot on my boombox) -- about 2300 miles.

Chanter: to find distances between your location and the DX location, I've found this online distance calculator handy:
http://www.distance-cities.com/
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2013, 0343 UTC »
For decoding NAVTEX, I use YaRD. Its pretty slick.

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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2013, 0055 UTC »
Longest distances logged on medium wave from here in Newfoundland would be India on 1071 khz and Djibouti on 1431 khz
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Re: MW monitoring
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2021, 1403 UTC »
My longest two are:

1) WWL 870 New Orleans  Here is a post from last year about 1300 air miles from me
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,63832.msg219253.html#msg219253

2) WNMA 1210 Miami My most frequent long catch, will knock out 50,000 watt WPHT in Philadelphia, about 1200 miles away
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