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Re: [IRCA] DX Tip
Pat's "New XE's are rare up here" comment reminded me of a time I recently got lucky...
I woke up early in the morning on the 5th of this month. (There may have been a little light on the eastern horizon, but I don't think local stations had switched to daytime operation yet - I'd guess 4 or 5 am PDT although it could have been 6 am.) Sitting next to me was my Sony SRF-59, so I grabbed it and put the headphones on.
Not 10 seconds after I turned it on, I heard a station (in spanish) identify themselves as "XEEH" and go into the type of detailed TOH ID typical of a lot of Mexican stations I've heard.
Upon checking the FCC's site, it turned out to be a graveyard (!) station - 1230kHz, 1kW, 795 miles at 131°.
Apparently the tuning on the SRF-59 had gotten bumped before I turned it on, as A - I thought I had left it tuned to a different frequency (don't remember which one now), and B - XEEH was fairly easily on top, and the traces of co-channel interference underneath didn't sound at all like a graveyard.
Have any of you ever gotten lucky like that? :)
--- On Mon, 5/16/11, Mike Sanburn <mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Sanburn <mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] DX Tip
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 11:34 PM
Fine catch (even if 50kw...) ms
> From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:13:19 -0700
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [IRCA] DX Tip
>
> 1530 XEUN MEXICO, Mexico DF, on top of KFBK with Tropical type
> music at 0600.30 UTC 5/17 "...en Mexico...."Radio Fiesta", back into
> music after some slogans, must be on a full 50KW tonight, as they are
> listed as 1KW nights, I really doubt. I have never logged this in OR,
> but in Rancho Mirage in 2000. I am very pleased indeed! As I rarely hear
> any new Mexicans up here. New! (PM-OR)
>
> Drake R8
> 1500' Eastern Beverage
>
> Patrick Martin
> Seaside OR
> KGED QSL Manager
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