Watching it go back the other way on one of the midwest servers…
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Yes, imagine if you got an area like Southern California or the BosWash corridor (Boston to Washington DC) via skip. Stations on top of stations on top of stations; it would be almost like tuning the Earth from the Moon. I wonder if stations would blend to simple white noise in extreme cases; I have had similar on 88.0 during strong skip to QLD.
In Europe it would be similar, particularly when Italy is received.
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I did some FM DX on a LA > NYC flight a few years back. Never heard such a busy FM band before.
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A bit of enhancement about today with the mild conditions.
Took the car up to Braye Park Lookout in Newcastle and on the car radio, received the Upper Namoi ABCs with RDS on 99.1, 99.9 and 100.7 (but oddly not 96.7 since that’s the only one of those without some sort of CCI underneath). I’ve not received those with RDS on the car radio there before.
Also received all Armidale ABCs on 101.1, 101.9, 102.7 and 103.5. 102.7 is a good get, being only 4kw and has to contend with ABC Classic Orange. No RDS on any of them however, the signals were a bit weaker than the Mt Dowe ones.
Also had Triple J Coffs 91.5 with RDS too.
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did some AM DX only focusing on listed NZ stations tonight using just a TEF / telescopic. here are all the stations i confirmed:
1575 Otago Access Radio (2275km 2.5kw)
1458 RNZ (2284km 2.5kw)
1305 Radio Dunedin (2275km 2.5kw)
1287 Newstalk (2284km 2kw)
1260 Sport Nation (2392km 5kw)
1152 Newstalk (2286km 2kw)
954 Coast (2275km 2kw)
819 RNZ (2739km 10kw) - furthest of the night
810 RNZ (2276km 10kw)
792 iHeart Country (2654km 5kw)
720 RNZ (2143km 10kw)
675 RNZ (2395km 10kw)
657 Sanctuary (2566km 50kw)
567 RNZ (2566km 50kw)
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Lots of enhancement this morning. Hit Dalby, Wide Bay very strong up to Rockhampton. Mt Dowe as well.
JJJ Mt Cenn Cruaich
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There was some minor enhancement to Sydney and Brisbane into Coffs today.
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E skip made it onto a local news bulletin in the US
Source: news5cleveland (YouTube)
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Having some exotic to me DXing tonight on MW and the lower part of SW. Basically things I don’t get everyday for propagation and noise reasons. The stations that I could open up the bandwidth on are marked with [WIDEBAND] meaning I could listen to their full 18khz bandwidth with little to no interference.
558 - 6WA Wagin (fair) / CCI with 4GY Gympie
585 - 7RN Hobart (good) / CCI with 2WEB Bourke
603 - 4CH Charleville (good) / CCI with 2RN Nowra
630 - 4QN Townsville (fair) / CCI with 2PB Sydney
738 - 2NR Grafton (strong)
756 - 2TR Taree (good) / CCI with 3RN Wangaratta
783 - 8AL Alice Springs (fair) / Splatter from 774 3LO and 792 4RN
909 - CNR 6 China (good)
918 - 4VL Charleville (strong) [WIDEBAND] / slight CCI with 6NA Narrogin
990 - 4RO Rockhampton (fair) / Splatter from 981 3HA and 999 2NB
1044 - 4WP Weipa (weak) / strong CCI from 5CS Port Pirie
1098 - 4LG Longreach (good)
1116 - 4BH Brisbane (good) / CCI with 3AK 1116
1215 - 6NM Northam (fair) / CCI with Newstalk ZB NZ
1287 - Newstalk ZB NZ (good)
1296 - 6RN Wagin (good) / slight CCI with 4RPH Brisbane
1377 - 3MP Melbourne (strong) [WIDEBAND]
1395 - 5AA Adelaide (fair) / CCI with 2LG Lithgow
1602 - 5LC Leigh Creek (weak) / strong CCI with 3WL Warrnabool
1825 - UNID Amateur station (fair) - Discussing WW2 and various topics including Neville Chamberlain’s WW2 annoucement
1865 - VK3SL transmission (good) - Classic 1950s and 60s music
2310 - Shortwave Australia (fair)
I’d be happy for clues on the 1835khz station, it seems to be playing back a program in AM modulation, the same as what VK3SL’s program was despite being in the 160m amateur band. Still interesting to hear these.
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If some of you are wondering where I have been sorry for the lack of DXing from Ouyen I’ve been In the Alfred hospital In Melbourne & I just got home so hopefully some activity coming from me soon.
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Some MW DX for a Sunday evening.
540 - 7SD Scottsdale (fair, CCI with 4QL Longreach)
558 - 6WA Wagin (good)
666 - 4CC Biolea (fair, CCI with 2CN Canberra)
747 - 6SE Esperance (fair, CCI with 4QS Toowoomba and CNR China)
783 - 8AL Alice Springs (good, CCI with 6VA Albany)
819 - 2GL Glen Innes (good, CCI with RNZ)
837 - 6ED Esperance (fair)
855 - Radio Rhema NZ (fair, CCI with 3CR Melbourne)
864 - 4QR Toowoomba (strong)
873 - 2GB Sydney (good)
882 - 4BC Brisbane (good)
909 - CNR6 China (very weak)
918 - 4VL Charleville (good)
936 - 7ZR Hobart (strong)
963 - 4WK Warwick (good, CCI with 2RG Griffith)
981 - 2NM Muswellbrook (good, CCI with 3HA Hamilton)
990 - Radio Apna NZ (fair, CCI with 3RN Albury and 4RO Rockhampton, confirmed via livestream)
1053 - 2CA Canberra (good, splatter from 1044 5CS and 1062 5MV)
1080 - 6IX Perth (weak, CCI with HPON Hobart and 2MO Gunnedah, matched livestream)
1098 - 4LG Longreach (strong)
1116 - 4BH Brisbane (fair, CCI with 3AK Melbourne)
1143 - 4HI Emerald (good)
1152 - 2WG Wagga Wagga (strong)
1206 - HPON Perth (fair)
1215 - 6NM Northam (fair)
1287 - NewstalkZB NZ (good)
1296 - 6RN Wagin (good)
1341 - 3GL Geelong (fair)
1386 - Radio Tarana NZ (good)
1395 - 2LG Lithgow (fair, CCI with 5AA Adelaide)
1494 - 2AY Albury (good)
1503 - 3KND Melbourne (strong)
1521 - 2QN Deniliquin (fair)
1530 - 2VM Moree (strong)
1539 - HPON Adelaide (fair)
1580 - UNID USA (weak, fading in and out)
The 1580 station I could not get an ID on as it had faded out at the start of the host talking, however they sounded American.
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864 is 4GR, Triple M. 1580 is KBLA Los Angeles.
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Yes, that would be 1580 KBLA Los Angeles with a talk format. That’s good going from Mildura.
The other one that can be heard sometimes is KEIB on 1150, though much less often than KBLA. There’s also XERF from Mexico on 1570.
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Don’t mind me getting my Gs and Qs mixed up, just need my glasses…
I never thought I’d hear mainland USA on MW. Most nights I see 1570 as a carrier only, plus there’s others scattered across the bands that are under splatter or in the main broadcast bandwidth of Australian channels.
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Yes, even with SSB, it’s a challenge to hear anything from the US in the southeast part of the country.
Up in Cairns- away from the high concentration of Australian MW stations- it’s a fair bit easier.
With 1179 soon to be vacant, this might open the door for 1180 Radio Marti.
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And also a bit closer to the US as well.
Just having a look on the Kiwi, 1180 zoomed right in does show a carrier and modulation, and I can hear it try to come in under 1179 / 3RPH with the iconic whistle of an off centre carrier. So I think Radio Marti is very possible when 3RPH goes in a couple days time.
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Staying for the first time ever in Brisbane tonight, in one of the tallest buildings in the city. Overall pretty good results for flat conditions
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Great results!
In one of the Meriton buildings?
I imagine you must be in western facing apartment to get good signals from north, south and west.
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