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Hello !
Here is the most recent version of my MW
logbook. I already sent a logbook to Hard-Core-DX in March 2001, but since
then some border-logs were retired and many new stations were identified or
logged as unIDs, of course. Many more abreviations are used, wich makes for a
more comprehensive logging list.
For anyone interessed in recent DX history, those
from the late 90's and early 2000's, here is a list of all the MW stations I
logged from various QTH here in Quebec. Some local listening and easily heard
short-skip clears were made on my olds Montreal QTHs, beetwen 1997 and 2000.
While some of the "true DX" (mostly domestics along
with 3 or 4 Latins) were heard on the new Hyonda Protégé car-radio of my father
as well as on a pocket old tube longwave/mediumwave Phillips transistor radio,
most of the DX was done using a Hi-Fi Sanyo MCD-S830 with a ferrite bar antenna
that averages 1 meter of lenght.
This may also proove to some of you, especially to
the new-commers, that some long-haul DX can be heard even using good
inexpensive and simple portables, and also may point you (if you live in
north-eastern North America) to try some of the stations I logged. Most of
them are easy catches and can be heard nightly, a
couple of them are somewhat rare and may take several weeks or several months of
serious listening to uncover, or simply need once in a year or
once-in-a-lifetime openings in a few rare cases. Finally a few are logs of
inactive locals or AM stations that have migrated to FM. Let's go
!:
My
MW Logbook
(part 1) QTHs:
Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada, on the car in the neighbors of
Pierrefonds/Montreal (i.e.: St.-Laurent, Île-Perrot). Some
older logs of local and short skip
clears was made in the Bordeaux-Cartierville parts Also
DX-ing from St.-Alphonse de Rodriguez Equipment:
Sanyo MCD-S830 portable with ferrite bar antenna Hyonda
Protégé car radio of my father, amplified whip antenna Realistic-DX150A
with 40 meters (random) wire Phillips
LW/MW transistor radio with ferrite bar antenna Realistic
DX 351 multi-band receiver with short ferrite rod antenna
526
ZLS - CW beacon (Stella Maris, Bahamas) 530
Radio Visíon Cristiana (South Caicos, Turks and Caicos) 530
CIAO (Toronto, ON) 540
CBEF La première chaîne de SRC (Windsor, ON) 540
XEWA Doble U Grande (San Louis Potosi, NL) //900 540
WLIX (Islip, NY)
550
CHLN Radio Média (Trois-Rivières, QC) 550
WEVD (Waterbury, VT) 550
unID ESPN Radio 550
unID Radio Disney outlet, //1560, in CHLN null 550
Radio Rebelde outlet (Cuba), //600 555
ZIZ (Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis) 570
WMCA (NYC, NY) 570
WSYR (Syracruse, NY) 570
CMDC Radio Reloj (Pilon, CUB) 570
YVLX Radio Rumbos (Villa-Cura, Aragua, VEN) 580
CFRA (Ottawa, ON) 580
WKAQ Radio Reloj (San Juan, PR) 580
WTAG (Princettown, NJ) 580
RJR (Galina, JMC) 580
(tent.) CMAF, Radio Monte Cristi (Monte Cristi, Dom. Rep.) meringue
music, fair-strong in mess 590
CKRS Radio Média (Jonquière, QC) 590
WEZE (Boston, MA) 590
unIDs presumably southern domestics mixing during aurora 590
unID french creole domestic 600
CIQC (Montreal, QC) # 600
CMKV Radio Rebelde (Urbano Norris, Cuba) 600
(tent.) HJHJ Radio Libertad (Barranquilla, CLM) w/ Feliz
Navidad 600
WICC (Bridgeport, CT) 600
CKAT (North Bay, ON) 610
WIP (Philadelphia, PA) 610
HJKL Radiodifusora Nacíonal de Colombia (Urbia, CLM) 610
CMMA Radio Rebelde (Guantanamo, Cuba) // CMKV-600 610
CHNC Radio Média (Gaspé, QC) // local 730 620
WVMT (Burlington, VT) 620
Cuba, seemed //600 WVMT QRM 620
unID ESPN Radio, in WVMT null 630
CHLT Radio Média (Sherbrooke, QC) 630
WPRO (Providence, RI) 630
CFCO (Chattam, ON) 630
WSKN La Super Cadena (San Juan, PR) 630
CMOA Radio Progreso (Isla de la Juventud, CUB) 2 //s noted 640
CMBC Radio Progreso (Guanabacoa, CUB) // CMDZ-890 640
YVQO Union Radio (Puerto La Cruz, Anzoàtegui, VEN) 640
WNNZ The Zone (Westfield, MA) 640
Radio Guadeloupe/France Info (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) 640
HCXY1 Radio Nacíonal (Quito, ECU) 640
CFYR Mojo Radio (Toronto, ON) 650
CKAC (Montreal, QC) local spur 650
WSM (Nashville, TN) country 650
HJKH RCN Antena Dos (Bogota, CLM) 650
(tent.) HIAJ (Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.) meringue mx in
mess 660
WFAN (NYC, NY) 660
CMHG Radio Progreso (Santa Clara, CUB) //640 and 890 670
WSCR (Chicago, IL) 670
YVLL Radio Rumbos (Caracas, DF, VEN) 670
WWFE La Poderosa 6-70 (Miami, FL) 670
CMQ Radio Rebelde (Arroyo Arrenas, CUB) 680
WRKO (Boston, MA) 690
CBF La première chaîne de SRC (Montreal, QC) # 690
CINF Infos 690 (Montreal, QC) 700
WLW (Cincinnati, OH) nice reception in null of CINF
splatter 710
WOR (NYC, NY,) 710
CKVM (Ville-Marie, QC) 710
Radio Rebelde (synchrous, Cuba) 710
(poss.) YVKY Radio Capital ??, second SS slightly atop
Cuba, QRM
from WOR and het-like interference from CINF-690 720
WGN (Chicago, IL) 730
CKAC Radio Média (Montréal, QC) 740
CHWO Prime Time Radio (Toronto, ON) 750
YVKS RCR Palabra (Caracas, DF, VEN) 750
(tent.) HJDK (Medellin, CLM) 750
CBGY CBC Radio 1 (Bonavista Bay, NF) 750
WSB (Atlanta, GA) 760
WCHP (Champlain, NY) 760
HJAJ RCN (Barranquilla, CLM) 760
unID LA heard for a couple of minutes, while RCN took a fade, giving ID as “La
Buena Nueva 7-60”, heard two gospel SS songs beetwen the ID. I initially logged
this as Costa Rica, but Henrik Klemetz point out this is not them, since they
always ID as “Columbia”. 760
unID LA salsa and sonera music; anncr said “muchas
gracías...”; (possibly
OAB4X-Peru, YVSO-Venezuela, YVQQ-Venezuela ???? or perphaps
something else) 760
WJR (Detroit City, MI) 770
WABC (NYC, NY) 770
HJJX RCN (Bogota, CLM) //760 770
(tent.) YVKK Radio Nacíonal (Valencia, Carabobo, VEN) 780
WBBM (Chicago, IL) 780
YVNM Radio Coro (Coro, Falcon, VEN) 790
CIGM (Sudbury, ON) 800
CJAD (Montreal, QC) 800
CHRC (Quebec City, QC) w/ hockey way under semi-nulled
pest 800
CKLW (tent.) (Windsor, ON) 800
VOWR (tent.) (St. John’s, NF) 810
CJVA (Caraquette, NB) in CJAD-800 null, France and Quebec
MOR 810
WGY (Stenectady, NY) 810
HJCY Caracol (Bogota, CLM) * 850
CKVL (Verdun, QC) # 850
WEEI (Boston, MA) 850
unIDs 2 stations in SS mixing in aurora 860
CJBC La première chaîne de SRC (Toronto, ON) 860
unID salsa, poss. candidates (XECCN, YVYE, YVOL, HOL55) 880
WCBS (NYC, NY)
890
CMDZ Radio Progreso (Chambas, CUB) // CMBC-640 900
CHML (Hamilton, ON) 900
XEW (Mexico, DF) 910
(pres.) YVRQ (Caracas, DF, Venezuela) 920
CKNX (Wingham, ON) 920
WHJJ (Providence, RI) 940
CBM CBC Radio 1 (Montreal, QC) # 940
CINW 940 News (Montreal, QC) 960
WEAV (Plattsburgh, NY) huge next-to-adjacent splat from
CINW during
day-time conditions 990
CKGM Oldies 9-90 (Montreal, QC) now The Team 1010
CFRB (Toronto, ON) 1010
WINS (NYC, NY) 1020
KDKA (Pittsburgh, PA) 1030
WBZ (Boston, MA) 1040
CJMS (Saint-Constant, QC) 1040
WHO (Des Moines, IA) presumed 1050
CHUM (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 1050
WEVD (NYC, NY) 1060
KYW (Pittsburgh, PA) 1070
WLFE (Plattsburg, NY) 1070
YVMA Mundial Zulia (Maracaibo, Zulia, VEN) 1070
HJCG Santa Fé (Bogota, CLM) “Santa Fé” mention under YVMA 1070
CBA CBC Radio 1 (Moncton, NB) 1080
WTIC (Hartford, CT) 1090
WBAL (Blatimore, DE) 1100
WTAM (Cleveland, OH) 1100
(tent.) HJAT (Barranquilla, CLM) bits of SS talk received
u/ Au
condx; RCN-760 was at excellent level at that time 1110
WBT (Charlotte, NC) 1120
WPRX (Bristol, CT) 1130
WBBR (NYC, NY) 1130
(very tent.) YVRL
(Caracas, DF, Venezuela) 1140
WRVA (Richmond, VA) 1140
(tent.) YV La Voz del Caribe (Porlamaar, Nueve Esparta, VEN)
SS trop.
mx. occasionnally audible on this channel 1150
CJRC Radio Média (Gâtineau, QC) 1150
CKOC (Hamilton, ON ) 1150
unID SS (WMAG or YVMV) 1170
WWVA (Wheeling, WV) 1180
WHAM (Rochester, NY) 1180
CMBA Radio Rebelde (Villa Maria, Cuba) 1190
WLIB (NYC, NY) 1200
CFGO The Team (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) 1200
YVOZ Radio Tiempo (Caracas, DF, VEN) 1200
unID PP, very loud 1200
unID nostalgia domestic 1210
WPHT (Philadelphia, PA) 1215
1220
CKSM Radio Média (Shawinigam, QC) 1230
unID Radio Média (QC) 1230
unID pop music domestic 1240
WSKI (Montpelier, VT)
1250
WEAE ESPN Radio (Pittsburg, PA) 1250
Radio Disney outlet, //1260 1260
WMKI Radio Disney (Boston, MA) // 1550 and 1560 1270
WHLD (Niagara Falls, NY) or WSPR (Sprinfield, MA) lots of local splatter from
CFMB 1280
CFMB (Montreal, QC) heard in Île-Perrôt only, where local CFM it’s a SEMI-local
and can be nulled out 1280
WADO (NYC, NY) 1300
unID “ESPN Radio” 1310
CIWW Oldies 1310 (Ottawa, ON) 1320
CKEC (New Glasgow, NS) 1320
CJMR (Missisauga, ON) 1330
WRCA Radio Cadena 13-30 (Cambridge, MA) in SS 1330
WWRV Radio Vísíon Cristiana (NYC, NY) 1340
WMSA (Massena, NY) 1340
WIRY (Platsburg, NY,) 1350
CKDO (Oshawa, ON) 1360
CKBC (Bathurst, NB) 1370
WFEA (Manchester, NH) 1375
RFO (St.-Pierre isl., St.-Pierre-et-Miquelon) 1380
CKLC (Kingston, ON) 1380
WKDM (NYC, NY) 1380
WSYB (Rutland, VT) 1390
oldies domestic
1400
(pres.) WLLH (Lowel, MA) 1400
?? (assume NY/VT or NH) fair on groundwave, ocasionally atop
the multi-stns
mess “graveyard” mess during the darkness. W?(C or Z?)? 1400
unID “News Radio eleven-forty” 1440
WRRO (Warren, OH) 1450
unID Greek programs 1460
unID w/ rancheras over/under unID R. Disney 1470
WZOU (Lewiston, ME) 1490
WICY Oldies 14-90 (Malone, NY) 1490
unID Over the huge ‘graveyard’ mess for 2 or maybe 3
minutes
with a song by a nostalgic female vocal, then the announcer
say
some comments about the song and an “AM 14-90 Que.?..”
ID
and then nostalgic vocal by a male, fair signal 1500
WTOP (Washington, DC) 1500
YVRZ Dos Mil (Cumana, Sucre, VEN) 1500
WFIF Life Changing Radio (Milford, CT) 1500
unID oldies domestic 1510
WLAC/Sporting News Radio (Boston, MA) 1520
WKBW (Buffalo, NY) # 1520 WWKB (Buffalo, NY) 1521
(tent.) Saudi Arabia het against WWKB ! 1530
WDJZ (Bridgeport, CT) 1530
WSAI (Cincinnati, OH) 1540
WPTR (Albany, NY) 1540
CHIN (Toronto, ON) presumably the stn carrying ethnic pgms 1550
CBE CBC Radio 1 (Windsor, ON) 1550
unID SS: not HJCB; ranchera music, lots of local ads and IDs as “Ke Buena”. Niel
Wolfish suggest it’s GA. 1550
WDZK Radio Disney (Bloomfield, CT) 1560
WQEW Radio Disney (NYC, NY) 1570
HIAJ Radio Amanecer Int. (Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.) 1570
unID SS domestic 1580
CBJ (Gaspé, QC) # 1590
WARV (Providence, RI) 1600
WWRL (NYC, NY) 1600
WUNR (Boston, MA) 1600
(tent.) WLUZ (Bayamo, PR) second SS stn occ. way u/ WUNR 1610
CJWI (Montreal, QC) 1610
unID TIS (prior to CJWI sign-on) 1630
KCJJ (Iowa City, IA) 1650
WHKT (Portsmouth, VA) 1660
WWRU Radio Unica (Elisabeth, NJ) 1680
WTTM (Princetown, NJ) 1690
WPTX (Lexington Park, MD)
Countries
logged: 1. United States of
America 2. Canada 3. Cuba 4. Colombia 5. Venezuela 6. Turks and
Caicos 7. Puerto Rico 8. St. Kitts and
Nevis 9. Bahamas 10.
Mexico 11.
St.-Pierre-et-Miquelon 12.
Guadeloupe 13.
Jamaica 14. Dominican
Republic 15. Ecuador 16. Panama ? (poss. the unID on 860) 17. Isla Juventus (630)
USA
states logged: 1. NY 2. VT 3. MA 4. IL 5. RI 6. GA 7. FL 8. TN 9. DC 10.
CT 11.
OH 12. VA 13. NC 14.
NJ 15. PA 16. DE 17. IA 18. WV 19. MD
Canadian provinces
logged: 1.
QC 2.
ON 3.
NB 4.
NS 5.
NF Venezuelan
“estados” logged 1. Distrito Federal 2. Falcon 3.
Anzoàtegui 4.
Aragua 5.
Sucre 6.
Zulia 7.
Carabobo
(tent.) Mexican “estados”
heard: 1.
DF 2.
NL 3.
QR
? (poss. the unID on 860) This
logbook will change weekly, since I will add new stations that I hear on it !!!! Contributours
that did helped me to identify unID stations: Niel
Wolfish (niel@xxxxxxxx) Mika
Makelainen (mika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Mark
Connelly (MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxx) David
Hochfelder (hocheld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Henrik
Klemetz (henrik.klemetz@xxxxxxxxxxxx) Symbols *
heard in St.-Alphonse-de-Rodriguez only #
inactive local or clear-channel non-DX station heard in Montreal at my two first
addresses, before involving seriously with DX-ing |