KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURSDAY 24th JANUARY 2013

25th JANUARY - ANNIVERSARY:

No, it isn't the Burns day celebrations I am talking about. It is the ann of 25/1/09, the great day in dxing. It is great to have Perseus files of years gone by nowadays.

Nothing noted worthwhile today so far, bar Chicago on 1390 at 0802.

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WEDNESDAY 23rd JANUARY 2013

WIRL AND WTCH:

See top of this page for audio clips of the above two stations. The original links were not working, due to typo. (using caps by mistake for link) Tnx Alf for pointing this out. All repaired. The link plays on local PC, so problem only shows when playing files from the web!

MW DXING TODAY:

At 0800, I had 1590 XEVOZ again, with a good id. Or just after 08 to be more precise. 0758 shows Mwxican with full id on 1650. I have still to check the files a bit closer.

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - MONDAY 21st JANUARY 2013

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN 3D TECHNOLOGY:

I am not a movie buff. Well not really. I am more a geeky wirelessy, scanning old archives, recording old tapes to mp3 type of a chap. OK I do like an old movie all the same. A good old black and white war movie. Old Bazil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, or even Bazil Fawlty, The Virginian, or Alias Smith and Jones!! I am not a modern day silly clapping show fan, like all the weekend stuff everyone seems to watch nowadays, with titles like stars in your eyes or x factor. To me, these all seem to be the same anyway... And I don't really dig what silly shows like Big Brother are even supposed to be about.... lol.. But I digress as always. .

So please forgive me if I am commenting on something that never really caught my imagination before now.

I was visiting a friend on Sunday night, who has just bought a new TV, which had 3D capability. It was not important, as he had nothing to watch 3D on until his DVD player packed in, so he bought a Blue Ray 3D player.

I only saw a demo in a store last year. PC world or Dixons or whatever it was. Yes I was impressed by the technology. Yes some guys foot came right out the screen at me!! The specs are clearer than the bright red and bright green ones you used to have to wear for the 3D movies or comics or pictures of MARS!! But I never gave it much more thought!! 3D movies are not a new concept.

So when one of my drinking buddies asks if I wanna have a look at his 3D, I obviously say "Aye OK, I'll be roon the noo."

Right away the four of us sat in the living room were sitting like the time over 40 years ago, when I saw my first colour television. My old man took my mother and I to his workshop when I was only.... say about six years old I guess, to show us a colour television. It was remarkably like that time, watching the 3D on Sunday.

No development in television has been as memorable since the introduction of BBC2 colour!! You wouldn't have had the level of concentration watching some kids animation in 3D for Nicam Stereo, or for digital as opposed to analogue, or flat screen (FST), or wide screen.

Possibly there would have been some excitement around the introduction of the VCR, and "being able to record aff the telly".

But I can still remember seeing vivid greens like country side scenes on BBC2 that night back in 1969 or whenever it was. It was not programme content we were there to see. It was the colour telly. It was the same on Sunday night. We had no interest in the content.

There were four adults were sat around a screen glued to the snowflakes blowing out the screen, trains coming out the screen etc. It was quite amazing!! Programme content was unimportant. It was the 3D effect and depth that was important, and hypnotic. Only what was coming out the screen at you!! Amazing.

But I am still not a movie convert or anything like it. Now a good wildlife documentary may just be more up my street in 3D. But I enjoyed the experience.

As a footnote, I also remember having a colour tv in the house at one stage, and a wee lassie up the street going home from school, had a double take and reversed past the window and walked past again, to peek in the window. Only thing was that we saw her looking in ..lol

 

KIERAN MURRAY'S SITE CLOSING:

Who is Keiran Murray I hear the MW dxers ask. For MW fans from a certain era, that name is very familiar. Keiran also presented a show on powerful SW station out of the Drogheda area in the 80's, Radio Rainbow International. Kieran also was an early knowledge base for early pirate radio activity in Ireland.

The long established site of Irish radio veteran, Kieran Murray is to close. A large banner on the home page tells us that it closes in September 2013. There is no reason given.

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SATURDAY 19th JANUARY 2013

MW LOGS FROM THE LAST WEEKS :

There were lots of scattered logs here on the January page that I thought I might chuck into one log book here. So all of January's logs are now added to this ever expanding list. Remember stations I see as common place, are omitted, unless there is something unusual about the log. Below is a try at spacing throughout the logs, as on line, we don't need to worry about space or saving paper ..lol.

Frequencies that sounded like they had something unusual on them, that couldn't be identified, included 1430, 1330.

 

530 Rebelde mix with pres Encyclopedia 4/1 0759
530 r encyclopedia cuba 0600 12/1
560 WIND Chicago 0600 12/1
560 KMON Great Falls 0800 10/1
570 CKSW SK 0802 12/1, 0803 10/1
580 WTCM Traverse City 0800 24/12
610 KDAL 0600 10/1 CBS NEWS. Also 0600, 0900 12/1 ann like Portland's (or similar under dx condx) news / weather station.
630 CHED Edmunton 0801 10/1 faded. booming in 2m before. Better 0805 6-30 ched guaranteed weather.

650 CKOM SK 0800 10/1
650 WSM 0605 9/1
670 The Score, Chicago. noted a few times. 0600 10/1
680 CJOB Hrd a bit lately, inc 0700 10/1, 0805 12/1
710 KNUS Denver 0700 10/1 ABC News
770 CHQR 0759 10/1
780 WBBM Still hanging in 1100 105.9 FM 11/1
790 0800 10/1 unid country mx stn UPDATE CFCW ID 0757 10/1
830 WCCO 0800 10/1
850 WFTL FL 0800 12/1
900 unid Ads toth inc "my fair wedding" on ZON, or something. 0800 12/1 Prob CHML
900 CHML ads 0758 10/1 also sounds like FF in the mix.

920 CFRY 0902 9/1
920 KDHL with ABC nx 0800 7/1, 0900 8/1, 0900 13/1

930 WBEN religion but only WBEN 0900 12/1
930 The Lite, 0500 8/1
940 unid snds like preacher. cant hear id 2200 Houston?? still there 2300 11/1
940 CJGX SK 0900 10/1 vg peak also 0900 12/1
950 CFAM (AM 950) MB Local IDs and wx. 0200 12/1 // 1250 for mx. Sadly 1220 had THE WORD. Also 0900 9/1 mx only
960 WTCH WI 0900 10/1 country, ann 96.5 // fm pers 1st

970 unid country music. Louisiana Sat Nite. 0500 8/1 toth too mushy

980 CJME 0858 ID, 12/1, 0704 10/1
980 WCUB 0905 24/12
980 KKMS Richfield MN. 0900 12/1 yl. ..christian talk station, am 9-80 KKMS, Richfield / Minneapolis / St Pauls (also 0500 8/1)

1000 KOMO 0600 9/1 ABC nx
1020 Radio Artemisa, Cuba 10/1 0400
1060 CKMX am 10-60 country music. hrd a few times, eg 0942, and full call 0945 INC 6030 sw!!10/1
1060 AM 10-60 - 0400 9/1, 0759 10/1

1070 0500 like yl in FF in mix 9/1
1070 KNX 0700 0557 10/1 CBS NX
1070 Unid 2300 11/1 Seems off channel. CBS Nx. Must be identifyable

1140 AM 1140 AB. Full call for once 0952 10/1
1160 KSL 0900 11/1, 0900 8/1
1190 WCRW Daytimer China R stuff 2200 11/1
1190 Unid country mx. fade toth, 10/1 0600 - good peaks either side of the hour. SK ..??
1220 Classics similar sounding to 1250 and 950 at times 10/1, but never at id time
1230 WSOO Fair 0900 12/1

1250 WSSP Good id 0804 10/1
1260 ESPN UNID 0804 10/1 (1 id per hour usually)
1260 CFRN Edmunton Sports Radio AM 12-60 0943 10/1
1270 WMKT vg, detroit also in there 0900 10/1
1270 unid 102.3 fm ann and letters.0900 12/1

1290 Radio Disney VA Daytimer . No local id found yet 2159 11/1
1290 CFRW very good at various times. 10/1 0700 0945 VG, 11/1 0900 1000, 12/1 0800 0900, 9/1 0800
1290 WIRL Peoria, IL 0601 10/1
1290 XEAP Mexico Romantica 1290 0400 9/1 (Seems West Coast?)
1290 WHIO common enough stn, but fairly good peak 0900 24/12
1290 WNBF Binghampton 0800 5/1

1300 WXRL Lancaster / Buffalo 2200 27/12
1300 PRAISE 13-00 Cleveland 0900 10/1, 0900 13/1
1310 KNOX 0700 10/1 ABC NX, 0900 11/1,
1310 KNOX 0800 9/1
1310 WCCW The Score 0900 12/1, 0900 8/1- fox
1310 WIBA Madison 0800 12/1 in the mush
1320 CHMB. Vancouver 0900 11/1 weakish, but full call, when 1410 was booming. 4 pips 1000 10/1
1330 CJYM 0952 10/1 (CLOSING SOON i BELIEVE)
1330 Unid poss ids on 1330 0900, not like WRCA

1350 WIOU Kokomo 0900 24/12, 0900 13/1
1350 NB: UPDATE . . KRNT Des Moines. Unid heard a few times lately, eg 07, 08, etc 7/1 and 1000 6/1 with CBS News which comes out a singing toth jingle I believe. Common WOYK I don't think has CBS news??

1360 WTAQ Green Bay 0900 24/12
1360 WTAQ 0800 9/1
1370 KSUM, Fairmont, MN New one for me, dominant on 1370 0900 10/1
1380 KRKO Everret WA 0700 10/1 PERS 1st properly. hrd with no id before.
1380 CKPC Country 13-80 id 0832 12/1

1390 WRIG inc ann FM W230BU 93.9 1000 11/1
1390 WGRB Chicago 0802 12/1, 0802 24/1
1390 WLCM gd ids in a mix with others 0000 9/1
1390 WFBL Syracusse NY 2200 28/12 Good multi call ID.

1410 CKSL London Ont 0900 03/01 Amazing London so common on 1290 yet this is a personal first.
1410 CFTE Vancouver, ex CFUN 0900 11/1 - powerful clip!!

1430 Unid espn and unid news radio 06 10/1, also strong 0658, and 0703 id as espn 1430 am the sports fan. prob KCLK WA.
1430 Unid like WEE?? 0801ish 9/1
1430 KLO OR. 1000 10/1

1440 The Word ann 50kw 0800 10/1
1450 WPG 2200 11/1 reasonable peak for this channel
1460 CJOY pops. 10/1 0905, 0959 9/1
1460 unid like wdnz or similar 10/1 0935

1470 unid 0900 10/1 yl WNYY poss
1470 WNYY 2300 11/1 GD ID
1470 CJVA Vancouver 11/1 0900 weak when 1410 was booming. 3 pips. Also 0700 10/1, 0801 10/1
1470 CJVA 3 pips in mush at 0400, 1st pips this season (date missing)

1480 WLMV Madison 0902 +1000 ss id 12/1, 0803 10/1 vg
1480 WHBC Canton 0905 12/1
1500 WLQV 0800 12/1

1510 KCKK Denver 0800 10/1
1510 KGA ID 0900 10/1, 1000 11/1

1520 KOKC OK 08 9/1 GOOD. 0200 10/1 CBS NX
1520 KKXA Classic Country ids and KXA ids. 0941, 0944, ads 0950, 1020 10/1 Pers 1st

1540 unid yl 2145 ee below CHIN. Prob too weak to make anything from 11/1

1570 CKMW Country 15-70 ,10/1 0859 0903, 11/1 0901
1570 XERF vg signal 0700 9/1

1590 WCGO id 0800 12/1
1590 WGBW Denmark / Greenbay vg 2200 11/1
1590 WGBW Denmark / Greenbay 2200 31/12 0757 10/1, (Noted a few times of late, yet this is first season it's been heard)
1590 WGBW Denmark Greenbay quite good at 2200 9/1, with WHGT MD also in the mix

1600 unid espn 0903 12/1. mush on the hour sadly, as these outfits tend to have only 1 id per hr
1610 CHHA 2301 8/1 1st time call noted??
1620 KOZN poor id in usb 0800 12/1
1630 KRND wy La Jota 0457 10/1 loud ss mx during 10m clip though id could be better. USB only KCJJ 0500
1630 WTNT 102.9 announcements via a talk show on pres WRDW. Hrd this before here. 8/1 2300

1640 KBJA Sandy 0500 10/1 also 0400!!
1640 Radio Disney My 1st thoughts were of Oregan, but fairly regular WI stn WKSH is still Disney. I was thinking of 1650, where a common Disney channel is dropped for talk. ie I thought there was only 1 Disney channel on the freq. 0800 12/1 (So scrub OR for now even though XEPE coming thru) No local id heard on any of the days.

1650 KCNZ Cedar Falls gd 0400 9/1, vg 0700 9/1

1660 WQLR in mix 0800 12/1
1660 WWRU power down leaving ads in Kalamazoo 2158 8/1
1660 KRZI ESPN Waco 0700 9/1

1670 WOZN Madison. muffled sounding id in the mush. 0800 12/1

1680 WPRR good ids.0800 12/1
1680 Bloomberg 1680 0400 9/1
1690 WVON The talk of Chicago 0400 10/1, 0800 12/1,
1690 CJLO Community calendar 0200 12/1

1700 ESPN 17-00 XEPE 0600, 0700 (mix kvns), 0800 9/1, 0400 9/1 inc local id, 0700 10/1, 11/1 0400, 0500
1700 WJCC 0100 12/1
1700 ss 0700 11/1 (WJCC??)

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - FRIDAY 18th JANUARY 2013

 

MW ON LAST WEEKS FILES:

Lots of listening still to do on files from xmas until last week. A few I would like deleted out the way, some I shall keep in the archives. More logs from last week are below. Further logs will be added..

 

NB ALL LOGS FROM JANUARY NOW ABOVE

 

AMAZING CANADIAN WEATHER FORECASTS:

On the dx chat on Skype yesterday, the subject of the cold came up. -25 was suggested as being chilly. But I knew I had heard more than one of these amazing Canadian forecasts. The best I can do for now is this one on the VOCM network, although I am sure I could find others given half the chance. Early -40's rings a bell, but which station I wonder??

041227_0236_620_vocm_amazing_cold_forecast.mp3

 

WDXC QSL CARDS:

Last month we mentioned all the closures at year end, including the World DX Club. I have a couple of QSL cards from the club. I thought I would share.

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURSDAY 17th JANUARY 2013

1590 HOT FREQ:

Logs have been poor today and yesterday, and files deleted very quickly.

But I have been thinking what the "hot" frequencies have been this season. For a start, 1590 and 1290 seems hot. A few years ago during the good dx, 920 and 1380 were HOT..

The following below is a "study" of 1590 in the last few days of last weeks dx season!! The checks were done on the Perseus files, at the top of the hours. Remember, because the stations listed popped up at exactly the top of the hour, who knows what was heard before and after.

Also of course, good signals can occur seconds after the toth is mush!! (toth = top of the hour)

As your see, there were a few stations heard.

WARV RI,
WAKR OH
WGBW Denmark / Greenbay, WI
WCGO Evanstown / Chicago
WHGT MD

The two common ones in these parts, WARV RI, and WAKR OH. Seemingly we also have a new common one, WGBW Denmark / Greenbay, WI. We also hear WCGO Evanstown / Chicago and WHGT MD (Daytimer). It seems odd that when 1593 jammer was closed a few years ago for a number of weeks, the stns that were heard then eg KVGB Great Bend KS, and WVNA AL have not been heard since the freq was finally cleared of the DRM jamming.

I should make a similar list of 1290, both very busy channels. 1290 perhaps more so?

A few logs of 1590, with what is heard on the freq:

08/01/13

2200 WHGT
2300 WAKR

09/01/13

0000 WAKR
0100 WCGO
0200 A complete rat race!!
0300 graveyard style growl
0400 graveyard style growl
0500 WARV / WAKR
0600 WAKR in mush
0700 mush
0800 WGBW / WAKR
0900 WAKR
1000 signals gone

2200 WGBW / WHGT
2300 WAKR weak

10/01/13

0000 ?? WARV + unid sports
0100 mush
0200 mush
0300 mush
0400 WAKR gong in mush
0500 WGBW WAKR
0600 mush
0700 WAKR
0800 WGBW
0900 and 1000 while other channels had good dx, it had faded on 1590

11/01/13

0000 Too weak and mushy
0100 mess
0200 WARV / WAKR
0300 WARV / WAKR
0400 WAKR
0500 WAKR
0600 mush
0700 mess
0800 WAKR
0900 virtually gone
1000 virtually gone
2200 WGBW Booming in!!
2300 virtually nothing

 

12/01/13

0000 WAKR gong thru growl
0100 mess
0200 mess
0300 Poss SS / mess
0400 WARV
0500 WARV Warren, Providence
0600 WAKR Common station, with the gong and ABC News
0700 WAKR
0800 WCGO Evanstown, Chicago / WAKR
0900 WGBW Denmark / Greenbay / WAKR - WGBW Dominant
1000 WAKR
2200 WGBW +WHGT MD stn
2300 WAKR / WARV

13/01/13

0000 WARV / WAKR
0100 WAKR
0200 mess
0300 WARV
0400 mess
0500 WARV/ WAKR
0600 mess
0700 mess
0800 mess
0900 WCGO Evanstown, Chicago / WGBW

PC CLEAROUT:

I mentioned last month about the clearout here in the messy shack. Below is a photo of some tin boxes, before they went to the recycler!! And that was nowhere near them all!!

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - TUESDAY 15th JANUARY 2013

MW DXING:

Logs below under last Thursdays date.

NB ALL LOGS FROM JANUARY NOW ABOVE

Today and yesterday was a no go, and files already deleted. The good conditions have blown themselves out. A welcome bit of space as I have been bogged down for some time with the files.

NB: Also working thru the typos, as some of this was typed in a hurry!!!! Tnx AB again for pointing out the deliberate mistakes!!!

 

WGBH BOSTON ON 1400:

If anyone has heard the above call in the mush on 1400, and wondered what it was, it was CBC Radio NFLD. I heard them ann programmes from this source on 12/1 at 0500.

WIRL 1290 :

WIRL has been a target here for many years. Not because of the distance, or because of low power or anything, but very childishly, because I like the logo. It is a very similar logo to what Radio Nova Dublin used in the early 1980's. I guess Cary (Nova owner) must have seen the star style logos in the States way back. WIRL still use the same logo on their web page today.

So imagine my surprise when WIRL popped in on 10th Jan at 0600 on 1290. I think it is a pers 1st, although something rings a bell about a poor id heard in the past. I need to look back my poorly kept logs....

 

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SATURDAY 12th JANUARY 2013

MW DXING:

Yet another superb day with unusual dx coming through. i don't know really how long it's gonna take to get thru the files. My time has not been my own recently, but I have found some superb dx in the last days, and still it goes on!!

I am used to conditions like this blowing themselves out after an exceptional day, but so far I have still kept filling hard drives. Some stations are personal firsts. For now I will continue to add logs to the list below, under Thursday 11th.

NB ALL LOGS FROM JANUARY NOW ABOVE

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - FRIDAY 11th JANUARY 2013

MW DXING:

Another interesting day. Logs incorporated in the list below!!!

NB ALL LOGS FROM JANUARY NOW ABOVE

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURSDAY 10th JANUARY 2013

MW DXING:

Another excellent morning and night. I have not quite proccessed the files as yet. But a couple of new ones, and some old favourites popping in, like KOMO etc.

NB: LOGS NOW NEARER THE TOP OF THIS PAGE

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WEDNESDAY 9th JANUARY 2013

MW DXING:

An excellent morning by the looks of things, but no sign of a really late opening, like 25th Jan 2009 for example. But hey, who can grumble about west coast Mexico, and XEPE 1700 etc!! At good levels I hasten to add. Last night I was using a duff old 230 gig drive, which I tested before bed time. It worked flawlessly. But some files are a little stuttery this morning. All so far are playable, even if they have to be copied on to another free drive. I think the drive will be best used as a secondary back up of sorts, for items that don't require heavy use!!

I have incorporated the logs from the other day, into today's as well, and will probably use the same list tomorrow, assuming the band is as good as it's been.

NB ALL LOGS FROM JANUARY NOW ABOVE

KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - TUESDAY 8th JANUARY 2013

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL:

I begin this new year of dxing by wishing everyone a very happy 2013, and may you have good dxing for the season. I have not really been able to call anything my own time in the last week and a bit, but thankfully the silly season is over and we can return to a little more normality. I have a lot more files to listen through, and hopefully extract the good dx!! I wish..lol

 

PIRATE BAD BOY FROM 1934:

I came across an article in a vintage radio magazine which I shall be reproducing in full, but for the moment, I have reproduced this article only, from 1934 about a pirate station being raided!!! There are old movie footages in relation to this if you search the web.

Feature in Amateur Wireless about pirate radio, 1934 style. (4,166k pdf)

 

MW DXING:

Logs incorporated in the list above, for the 9th.

UNID 1350 WITH CBS NEWS:

This last week, I have heard CBS news regularly on the freq of 1350, which never really matched up to any of the sports programmes. Now thanks to the keen ears of SNJMWDX, the station is KRNT. This was a station heard before, KRNT, DES MOINES!! I have heard this one before, but forgot about the distinctive toth jingle.

Tnx for listening SNJMWDX!!