AM Dxing 1030pm-1215am (12/15/2008)
Location: Leesville, SC 57F mostly cloudy
Radio: Grundig G6 internal ferrite antenna
Focused mostly on the lower end of the AM dial (600-900AM)

610 UNIDENTIFIED - Monday night football, weak and faded out

630 WMAL Washington, DC - caught the ID of this one and not much else
as signal faded real quick, only transmit 1000 watts at night

650 WSM Nashville, TN - talking about Hank Williams

660 WFAN New York, NY - Monday night football and 20/20 sports update
at midnight, poor signal

670 UNIDENTIFIED - two stations fighting it out, one had MNF followed
by Dan Patrick, other was playing rock music with Spanish DJ and
commercials

700 WLW Cincinnati, OH - commercials for REI and Goodwill followed by
local talk show

720 WGN Chicago, IL - local talk show, commercial for Westmont
Pharmacy

740 KRNG Tulsa, OK - commercials for "Christian Train" followed by
"the hamlet" commercial, then station ID

750 WSB Atlanta, GA - always booms at night here, Michael Savage

760 WJR Detroit, MI - Dr Laura show which I didn't know was still on
the air, commercials for Home Medics and 1800 flowers

770 WABC New York, NY - Jared Diamond commercial followed by station
ID

780 WBBM Chicago, IL - weather and traffic on the 8's, current 13
degrees in Chicago, calling for 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow

800 Canada - never heard call letters but had Canadian Press news on
the hour followed by hockey news and a Walmart commercial

820 WBAP Dallas, TX - commercial for a business venture followed by a
traffic report and warning of icy conditions on roads in the suburbs

840 WHAS Louisville, KY - Michael Savage spewing, "Kentucky Colonels"
charity ad

860 CJBC Toronto, Canada - in french

870 WWL New Orleans, LA - monday night football commercial for
Rolaids, Sporting news radio after game

880 WCBS New York, NY - always there, always news

890 WLS Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, conservative talk
radio

1000 WMVP Chicago, IL - yet another Chicago station, ESPN radio

1070 WFNI Indianapolis, IN - ESPN radio

1100 WTAM Cleveland, OH - local call in show bitching about the
Cleveland Browns losing bad to the Eagles, 30 to 10

1120 KMOX St. Louis, MO - this one is always here, CBS news

1430 WBLR Batesburg-Leesville SC - our only local station, barely can
hear 1 mile from house, station goes to 130 watts at night.

1510 WLAC Nashville, TN - got call letters right away, easy catch

1530 WCKY Cincinnati, OH - sports radio, Prep H commercial, calls
itself "1530 homer"

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Around dusk today earlier

1090 WBAL Baltimore, MD - knew by the commercials what this was, tends
to die around 5pm local here, probably when 50kw signal goes
directional

1470 WRGA Rome, GA - got the call letters clear, didn't last long
though, news updates

Haven't heard the LYQ beacon on 529 AM lately

On Dec 16, 8:34*am, Dave wrote:
I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a
thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text -

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I just don't understand why you would say something like that to
someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking
you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings.

BCBlazysusan wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:34 am, Dave wrote:
I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a
thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I just don't understand why you would say something like that to
someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking
you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings.


Every week a list of nearby clear channel flamethrowers doesn't impress me.

That is an honest declaration, freely given.

none wrote:
BCBlazysusan wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:34 am, Dave wrote:
I'm personally not impressed that you can hear blowtorches less than a
thousand miles away.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I just don't understand why you would say something like that to
someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking
you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings.


Every week a list of nearby clear channel flamethrowers doesn't impress me.

That is an honest declaration, freely given.

Now if it was during sunlight, like getting WLS at 2 in the afternoon
(CST) on a Magnavox AE-3805 [?] and a Select-A-Tenna (ca. $50 worth of
stuff-I bought the SAT in a charity resale store), indoors in downtown
Bryan, Texas...

On Dec 17, 3:32*am, BCBlazysusan wrote:


I just don't understand why you would say something like that to
someone that is just enjoying their hobby. Are you working on picking
you up a loop SC? It'll really help you on the BCB loggings.

Yes, I do plan on upgrading my equipment after the holidays. I've seen
several on Universal Radio I would like to get.

And don't worry, I'm not going to let a few bored trolls ruin the fun
for me.

Thanks much.

On Dec 18, 12:08*am, "Brenda Ann" wrote:

Perhaps our evening DXer could try for some 1 KW
stations on the expanded band.

Cool, did just that on the X band...

1650 WHKT Portsmouth, VA - Radio Disney, had to wait until the top of
the hour for ident
1660 WFNA Charlotte, NC - it's a simulcast of WFNZ
1690 WMLB Atlanta, GA - The voice of the arts

several other stations I was getting pieces from but faded in and out,
I asked Santa Claus to get me a Terk AM indoor antenna (40 bucks at
the Shack) RS #55016335

radioshack.com seems to have several AM antennas for sale, can someone
give me a recommendation ... the Terk AM seems to be popular.....

I should add that I want the extra antenna to be able to pick up
longwave also. I haven't picked up a single beacon or anything else on
LW with the G6. Just two tones but nothing else. I do live 35 miles as
the crow flies to the nearest real aiport here.

And I'll add, compared to my PRO-95 scanner which picks up airband and
picks it up well, the G6 has been crap there. All sorts of FM signal
images are in the band making it hard to scan through. Putting a
squelch control into the G6 could be a godsend for us who like to
listen to air traffic by sitting on a few channels. Right how, I would
say the G6 is useless for airband scanning.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:41:31 -0800 (PST), SC Dxing
wrote:

I asked Santa Claus to get me a Terk AM indoor antenna (40 bucks at
the Shack) RS #55016335

....As someone who's debating on whether or not to sacrifice his
goldschalger commemorative slinky for a cantenna, are these Terk jobs
worth the $40? Or is there a better, similarly priced indoor antenna
that'll handle everything from BdAM up to 30m?

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On Dec 17, 11:50*pm, Dave wrote:
It is magical, to a degree, to listen to a distant flamethrower. *I
listen to KGO (about 350 miles away) and KKOH (450 miles) every evening.
I do not consider them to be DXing. *"KOMO 1000" from Seattle or KOA,
Denver, perhaps. *Perhaps our evening DXer could try for some 1 KW
stations on the expanded band.- Hide quoted text -

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What your home twenty Dave?

On Dec 18, 1:41*am, SC Dxing wrote:
I asked Santa Claus to get me a Terk AM indoor antenna (40 bucks at
the Shack) RS #55016335

radioshack.com seems to have several AM antennas for sale, can someone
give me a recommendation ... the Terk AM seems to be popular.....

You may want to check out this link. It compares the Terk to the
Select-a-Antenna. Actually I was going to tell you to spend the extra
ten dollars- fifteen for the SAT but after reading this I wouldn't
bother.
Pretty informative write up on a direct comparison between the two
antennas IMO.
http://www.radiointel.com/review-2loop.htm