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Thursday 6 December 2012

Canadian Prairies on the East Coast!

1440 0200 USA WVEI Worcester (MA)  ID Fox Sports ... Gooooooo now.
                   Surely this HAS to be WVEI  5293 km

 680 0300 CAN CFTR Six-Eighty News, Toronto/Grimsby (ON)  It's time for the 6-80 News
                   regional weather conditions ..       5711 km

 890 0300 USA WLS  Chicago/Tinley Gardens Park (IL)  Difficult copy but mentions of Chicago
                   at the toh. Over Spanish music station  6334 km

1120 0300 USA KMOX Saint Louis (MO)  Difficult in splatter. KMOX ID just audible and CBS
                   News jingle. Big problem with splatter as always  6690 km

1040 0318 USA WHO  Des Moines/Mitchellville (IA)  Two IDs in station promo:
                   Newsradio Ten Forty WHO. Fair levels  6648 km

 830 0500 USA WCRN Worcester (MA)  Reference to news and clear WCRN ID. CBS News  5301 km

 760 0600 USA WJR  Detroit (MI)  Extremely difficult in Euro-splatter but Newstalk 7-60
                   WJR squeezed out.      6009 km

 920 0600 USA KDHL Radio America, Faribault (MN)  Very difficult but I was sure I could
                   just make out the call letters and ABC News. Thanks Ken Baird in Ayrshire
                   for checking and confirming same.  6437 km

1250 0700 CAN CHSM Steinbach (MB)  Classical guitar before the hour then OM with programme
                   information. Thanks to Paul Crankshaw in Troon for help with this. Paul
                   sent me a recording of CHSM as heard in Troon, Scotland, which was
                   clearer than mine, so I was able to make a comparison and thus confirm I
                   was hearing the same OM. I know this isn't some people's idea of an ID
                   but it proves the good conditions have been getting over to the
                   east coast.  6228 km


I was really pleased to receive Manitoba this morning - first time here on the flag. Other stations like 1040 WHO and 1540 KXEL were almost blowing the windows out!

Also this afternoon I was able to see a presumed carrier from KBRW 680, Barrow AK.

These are excellent conditions considering we are in a solar maximum. I wonder what goodies the next solar minimum will bring? :)

Good DX!

Receiver: Perseus SDR,
Antenna: Flag at approx. 290 degrees
Software: Perseus v4.0c, MESTOR

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