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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Medium Wave DX: 10-01-13: MORE WEST COAST!

 700 0500 USA WLW  Cincinnati  OH. ID - News, weather and traffic for 
                   ... 2013,  Newsradio 700 WLW  6292 km

1280 0600 USA WNAM Neenah-Menasha WI. ID - WNAM Neenah-Menasha, a Cumulus station. 
                   Then ABC News  6178 km

 950 0720 USA KJR  Seattle WA. Tentative with sports talk. Fair  7595 km

 930 0723 CAN CJCA Edmonton AB. Religious talk, then mention of AM 9-30 The Light 
                   before religious songs  6687 km


1520 0723 USA KKXA Snohomish WA.  Fair peaks. Nice ID at 0723 "All your classic country 
                   favourites are right here. You've found the oldies. Classic Country 
                   15-20 KXA"  7538 km

1250 0728 CAN CHSM Steinbach MB.  Lively symphony in parallel with 950  6228 km
                  
 950 0730 CAN CFAM Altona MB. Presumed with classical music. Fair and mixing sports 
                   station. Parallel 1250 at times  6315 km

1040 0734 CAN CKST Vancouver BC. Tentative. Sports talk over other English talk 
                   station. Both fair signals 7458 km

1140 0759 CAN CHRB High River AB. Presumed with religion. No CBC news jingle on the 
                   hour on fade so ruling out CBI again. Fair and slightly low in 
                   frequency  6915 km

1010 0800 CAN CBR  Calgary AB. CBC Radio 1 news jingle heard in pile-up  6920 km

Two peaks of reception overnight. The first seemed quite well-defined between 07:10 and 07:40, then another around 08:00. Some of the signal strengths were quite good.

I have listed some of the stations as Presumed and Tentative, but all the conditions, times and formats suggest those stations mentioned. If only we could identify everything we receive!

I was not 100% sure about KOMO on 1000 overnight. It may have been the Chicago station this time as there were no mentions of "Newsradio" and the speech intonation heard through the horrendous 999 splatter didn't say "news" to me but more of a softer sports talk.

I like to list only those stations I have positively identified but once again the conditions were such, i.e. very interesting, that I wanted to give a more complete picture of what was happening. It really didn't feel anything like a traditional east coast night.

Recordings:

1520 KKXA Snohomish WA 0723 10-01-13
https://www.box.com/s/59odbhh4x14y7jchivzb


  930 CJCA Edmonton AB 0723 10-01-13
https://www.box.com/s/8iojoz6rszg8qhpjm95y

CJCA Id's as "AM 9-30 The Light" which you can just hear before the religious music begins. I heard several minutes of Religious talk before the news. The actual ID is rather vague on this recording but CJCA is the only real candidate on 930. The conditions were just right for this reception too.


Good DX!

John, Skegness, Lincolnshire (JO03dd) 1m ASL
Blog: http://skegnessdx.blogspot.com

Receiver: Perseus SDR,
Antenna: Flag at approx. 330 degrees
Software: Perseus v4.0c, MESTOR

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