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LOGS: MAY 2008 A site mainly dedicated to Mediumwave Dxing |
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Going..Going..
A list of common dx stations looking to move to FM include:
560 Now 103.9 KIX Country, 610 CHNC/ Frenchy, 780 CFDR/ KIX, 920 CJCH,
980 CKRU, 1140 CBI/ CBC, 1150 CHGM/ Frenchy, 1550 CBE/ CBC. 560 KIX
are already carrying the FM service, which usually signals that the
end is near!! Any more?? Many of these are dominant on their channel,
so their sign off will open the frequencies up for further dx. Saturday
May 10th 2008: I was originally going to make these pages Transatlantic
DX only, but FMDX and TVDX crept in as well. All recent logs will be
included on the latest logs and comments pages. This will save chasing
through pages of this web site, foraynone who likes to read logs. Friday
9th May 2008: Thursday
8th April: Wed
7th May: Tues May 6th 2008: A bit of a mix up with the recordings this am. 2 things.. The first was self inflicted. I made a mess of editing a text file, changing freq and times of the recording at 0400utc. Second and main problem was my PC clock jumped by an hour for some reason, and as a result file names etc were wrong. Wasn't as good as yesterday, but here we go..... 0300: 1360 WDRC, 1390 WEGP (VG), 1400 WOND (just found id from this one on 26th Feb), 1470 WLAM, 1540 WDCD, 1660 WWRU, 1140 CBC, 1010 WINS, 920 CJCH. A FEW COMMENTS: May started off, perhaps understandably, a little slow DX wise. MW TADX is usually seen as a winter hobby. But thanks to the Perseus recording capability, and Matthias Zwoch auto hotkey timer, I do not have to get up during the very narrow dx window we have at this time of year. I usually set the timer for 0200, 0300, 0400, and at the moment 0430 and 0500. It is getting a little late in the year for even 0500 here at these lattitudes. I stopped recording 0600 in early April. OLDER RECORDINGS: I have also been checking my older recordings, and found a couple of interest from a very active DX morning. The morning in question was 25th March. I have now added to the list of logs, 1060 KYW Pittsburgh, another station with a K callsign on the wrong side of the Mississippi, a personal first, and 1230 WHUC Hudson NY, another personal first. On 26th Feb I had WOND 1400 @ 0100. Possibly a first this season for me. Just after I wrote this, I noted the same ID on WOND 1400 at 0300 on 6th May!!! Also noted an id of WDCW (now WFBL) on 1390. This was on an old ID tape from 17th Jan 1995. I think even if the MW band was completely blocked by DRM in a couple of years time, I still have years of dxing time left with the old recordings!!!. WHERE IS CJYQ: Paul C has reported hearing CJYQ recently. I had not heard it in such a long time, yet other NFLD stations are still regular. CFBC seems to be heard regular and uninterrupted by all but WBEN. I checked the web page of Radio Newfoundland and found it gone, and wondered if so had the once powerful 930. But Paul has logged it, so I guess it is still on air. But why has their web stream gone, and why is the signal way down on usual?? CBC MONCTON 1070: Just had a nice e mail back from the transmitter engineer at CBC Moncton. The mystery CBC signal on 29th April was indeed from CBA. They were asked to make a few tests. "This will probably be the last time you hear CBA", the engineer told me. Monday
5th May 2008: 0023 930 CFBC (No sign of CJYQ), 3rd May 2008: 0300: 920 CJCH, 1060 WBIX, 1190 WLIB, 1390 WPLM, 1470 WNYY (5000 Watts of Democracy id), 1st
May 2008: Leaving the timer tonight with Latin ewe connected
instead of the North American beverage. Heard a Radio Nacional station
or something on 1390 @ 0430. Unsure of proper id. |