Re: [IRCA] Some gratifying Eastern catches (November 2nd)

[Mike Sanburn <mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some nice domestic catches for sure! Ms

Sent from my iPod

> On Nov 2, 2014, at 10:04 PM, Brian Rachford <azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can't compete with all of the interesting TA, TP, DU, etc., catches
> reported here, but I had an excellent cross-country evening.  This got a
> little long; I'll probably write up something even longer for my blog with
> recordings.
> 
> (This is with a $10 RTL-SDR dongle, Ham It Up upconverter, 6-foot-diagonal
> 6-turn wooden-frame loop on a camera tripod, sitting on a ground-level
> patio with my laptop.)
> 
> I did a bit of graveyard work as it was getting dark (local sunset was
> 5:34pm/0034UT) and managed one new catch:
> 1240 KFBC, Cheyenne WY, weak at 6:27pm, 700W, call (new), 617 miles
> This was at the end of a Denver Broncos football game that KFBC carries.
> 
> After another hour of the usual frustrations of graveyarding, I ended up on
> 1060 with the loop aligned roughly N-S and heard the call for CKMX, "Comedy
> 1060" out of Calgary at.  That's a frequent catch, but the first time I've
> actually heard the call letters, so I was able to upgrade the "Best" column
> in my spreadsheet from "Slogan" to "Call".  Then I rotated around to
> WSW-ENE a few minutes later.
> 
> I was barely making out a weather forecast at 7:45pm (0245UT), and was
> pretty sure I would get a new station if they gave a call given the
> orientation of the loop.  But, as with most of the east coast
> not-quite-clear-channel-anymore frequencies, there are stations out here
> that I should be able to get sometimes, and most of the time the audible
> signal was an unknown SS music station. Thus, I was quite surprised at the
> call letters:
> 1060 KYW, Philadelphia PA, weak at 7:45pm, 50000W, call (new), 2067 miles
> And, I was recording!  Except I wasn't, because of a software issue that I
> won't explain.   But, I stuck with it and was finally able to get a
> recording of the call letters shortly after 8pm.
> This shatters my overland distance record by almost 500 miles (WLW - 1584
> miles) and it was nice to pick up another 3-letter call.
> 
> That was promising, so I went to 1020 and sure enough, after 30 minutes of
> effort, through presumed KTNQ and KCKN (both SS):
> 1020 KDKA, Pittsburgh PA, weak at 8:33pm, 50000W, call (new), 1820 miles
> This was probably a slightly better catch, even given the favorable
> nighttime patterns of KTNQ and KCKN.  I've been rather disappointed at
> times with distant reception (or lack thereof), but this was a very
> encouraging night.
> 
> (I didn't keep particularly good logs when I was a teen in Iowa the last
> time I was doing consistent DXing, but I tended to do a better job with
> longer distance catches.  Thus, these are not my first lifetime logs of KYW
> and KDKA.)
> 
> Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ
> azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx
> http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/
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