Hello !
I decided to do some listening the past night from
a bit before mid-night to just before 1AM in the morning when I got to bed. I
got a some strong Latins, but only very few. Most of the DX was domestic
oriented and it was a very nice session since I don't DX USA/Canadian stations
very often, altough I should. I was simply impressed by the very
long-haul results Patrick Martin had with it's Eastern Beverage (I did read
some reports in the hard-core-dx mailing archive wich dated back to December
2000).
The high-lights of the night were logging WWL from
New Orleans on 870 kHz in Louisiana. This LA nr. 1 and US state nr. 21 only (I
could bagged around 35 states if I listened to domestic DX more often using my
great Sanyo radio). I also heard 1 or 2 stations fighting in and out
as deepth as possible to null CBA on 1070. I need to listen to the tape wich I
left run a bit after I got to bed so we'll see. There were a talk-show with
older music beetwen the talk segments (not sure if the same station, but
posssible; there aren't many strong domestics on 1070). I would need KNX in Los
Angeles, CA for a new state, the most distant NA log and the 2nd or 3nd most
distant if I count the tentative/presumed logs of Ecuador-640 and
Peru-760.
Into the logs now:
(Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DX'ing from Montreal
(Pierrefonds-Est) Quebec, Canada using a Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot)
Pan-American DX:
530 Turks and Caicos, Radio
Vision Cristiana JAN 5 0457 - Near the end of a spanish religious
gospel-pop song w/ man in SS with time-check, a few announcements, very
shortly after the song ended followed by their very nice "La emisora de Dios"
jingle, then a pretty new Top-of-the-Hour jingle with triple IDs from WWRV-1330,
WVIP-1310 and RVC-530 with singed parts beetwen the freqs/locations/call IDs
followed by a nice "nuevo año ... en el Señor ... Isus" jingle with a
pure eurodance/pop beat ! Excellent signal + JAN 5 0541 - Also excellent, w/ an
Adult Contemporary SS gospel ballad. (Chiochiu-QC)
910 Venezuela, YVRQ, Caracas DF
JAN 5 0510 - fair-poor signal with increasing QRM from a domestic talker
(presumably WABI); playing an old-fashionned Venezuelan tune, apparently by Los
Melodícos. No ID, but Bruce Conti also heard them playing a Los Melodícos song a
few months ago. I hope to get a full ID from them soon.
(Chiochiu-QC)
1180 Cuba, CMBA, Radio Rebelde,
Villa María JAN 5 0506 - Spanish music under WHAM.
(Chiochiu-QC)
Domestic DX (Times in Eastern Standard Time - i.e.:
0000 - local midnight in Montreal - means 0500 UTC):
750 WSB Atlanta, GA JAN 5 0006 - presumed w/
talkshow at an excellent to good level. (Chiochiu-QC)
870 WWL New Orleans, LA JAN 5 0014 - caught
the slogan at tune-in wich ended in "...information station" followed by a
possible ad and a WWL ID. Poor to very weak and soon overtaked by a
stronger stn wich had a talk-show. New log for me and a new
state ! (Chiochiu-QC)
910 WABI Bangor, ME JAN 5 0011 - tentative; weak to fair and overtaking the weaker YV with
talk. This is another 910 mystery. Just like presumably YVRQ comes in 1 evening
out of 2 with weak to poor and occasionally fair signals, but never good enough
for an ID. I understand this is a pest for DX'ers in the Bruce COnti/Mark
Connelly/Eric Stomsted area, but this would be a welcome log here.
(Chiochiu-QC)
920 WHJJ Providence, RI JAN 5 0013 - noted in
passing in local 940 slop. (Chiochiu-QC)
1070 unID (maybe KNX-CA ? ) JAN 5 0048 - Excited
talk-show mixing with nulled CBA with the radio aimed south-west-west. Also some
oldies, not sure if the same station. Any ideas ? (Chiochiu-QC)
1090 WBAL Baltimore, MD JAN 5 0002 - End of
of the "ABC news" newscast wich was presented by a woman followed by some ads
(ABC news announced repeated after the first ad, maybe a unneeded wonder
about a possible satellite delay problem wich didn't happen ?) and a promo for
the WBAL morning team. Fairly strong with a some slops from
local-like WTIC-1080. (Chiochiu-QC)
1110 WBT Charlotte, NC JAN 5 0005 - End of
nx, then "...on news, Weather and Traffic station. I'm Chris Meawhile of
WBT news..." promo followed by some spots, one of them (the following one)
did started with "News-Talk 11-10 WBT". Very good to fairly poor
(Chiochiu-QC)
1120 KMOX St. Louis, MO JAN 5 0007 - Very
good in WPRX-1120 and WBBR-1130 null: end of a fairly long newscast, followed by
lottery numbers, several ads and a promo "When you need to know if your school
has closed, listen to Strom Center Closing Updates from 11-20 KMOX" followed by
a commercial ad (Chiochiu-QC)
1130 WAFN Miami Springs, FL JAN 5 0007 - Very
tentative; Talkshow very poor mixing with remaints of nulled WBBR. Bruce Conti
has heard WAFN here ! (Chiochiu-QC)
1160 unID, JAN 5 0001 - Ads, weather forecast
followed by a NOS song. Faded almost constantly from very weak to very good in
and out two weak domestics (Chiochiu-QC)
1200 unID, JAN 5 0027 - NOS mx mixing
and very often under the big CFGO "pest" signal while trying to get WSAI San
Antonio, TX for a new state. I think I may need a good aurora to blow away CFGO
and the nostalgia music "pests" to get Texas easily, but I heard
Venezuela's Radio Tiempo here in late November for the 2nd time during a
NON-auroral evening slightly under CFGO, so everything is possible, even
hearing WSAI during a non-auroral night ! (Chiochiu-QC)
1320 CKEC New Glasgow, NS fighting with a second
stn JAN 5 0032 - Mid-tempo AC song mixing with a second station that had a
song wich sounded like a mixture beetwen pop and C&W (obviously not the
usual CJMR "pest"). I also logged an unID talker in August 2001 here, but
obviously not the same stn. Any ideas ? (Chiochiu-QC)
I hope someone will help with the unIDs and I hope
I will be able to hear sooner or later a west coast domestic.
That's it for now !,
73 and good DX,
Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu
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