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I do not see some of these in the UK list that I have. I sometimes think we should use a phrase other than commonly used term UK FIRST. This seems to suggest a UK first ever, rather than "first reported in UK DX press". That is a mouthful mind you. Of course it is always nice to be able to add a rare station to the log book that potentially has not been reported in the UK before. I often wonder though about dxers who are not members of the MWC. Maybe they have their list of rarely reported stations as well. How can we be sure ?? In any case, the UK MW list is kept well under wraps, and not to my knowledge available in the public domain. Pity.

I do plan to upload all the audio clips from the above. Some require a second opinion anyway.

My hopeful 1400 KY was really WGYM, sister station to WOND, so now not on the list.

David Hamilton up the street here had a rarity of KCMO 710, Kansas City, MO, 21/9 0627.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30th 2008:

The server is down for maintenence as I write this. But I am hopeful it is a temporary measure.

Well if that was September, what a superb dx month. The last day was no exception. Let's hope for more to come in October. The best of the traditional DX season should be only around the corner, but I have heard a startling amount of new personal firsts thanks to using the PERSEUS SDR in anger. I will include Fri, Sat and Sunday's logs here as well. One more day and I have to make a new log page for October.

PERSEUS SOFTWARE RELEASE: The latest and long awaited dream of any MW dxer has just been released on Monday night. I checked back on these pages and found that it was not until November last year I had even heard about the Perseus SDR. Now less than a year later, I have the ability to record the complete MW band here. I am completely overwhealmed by this technology. Hats of to NICO the engineer of the highest order, who developed this for us MW dxers!! The new software will be reviewed in the very near future. Also a nice addition is the ability for the audio files from the receiver to play on any PC without the hardware attached. A simple registry file from a Perseus owner is all that is required to try out the software. In my own case, I could have used this little registry file to save me taking the hardware to a radio day in Germany a few weeks ago. All I would have taken was a recording of my AM band here. This saves carrying expensive hardware around.

NEW IRISH "RSL" ON AIR: The Irish do things differently. There has been an FM station on air for the last couple of weeks, called something like "Hot Country". They promised 549 a couple of weeks past, but nothing has been heard. On Friday morning while checking the band live at 6.30am, I noticed a rather large signal on around 550, and decided I had some kind on an image or something. Then it clicked. It was the Irish station. Amazingly the authorities have given the station permission to use the old UCB 549 transmitter site in the border area around Monaghan. This signal always used to be stronger than RTE at this location. It was stronger as well as louder, even on a rubbishy portable radio. I suspect that if RTE had still been on MW, they would have been second best still. The signal was booming in here. Power is a claimed 20kw, and however they have managed the antenna, it certainly works!!

The good thing about this temporary station is that it only comes on at midnight on a Friday night , until midnight on Sunday night. 550 was clear again on the Monday morning. So it is not a permanent nuisance like UCB used to be. It is to be on weekly until Christmas seemingly.

TOP OF THE HOUR TRICKS: There are always little tricks that we must remember when DXing. Top of the hour is traditionaly a time for switch overs from various links/ feeds. Often there may be a slight gap. Sometimes there can be complete chaos. I recently noted WCRN 830 with some kind of a technical blunder at 0600 more than once, when there were two separate audio streams from somewhere coming out at the one time. This went on one morning in particular, right through the news. Maybe the whole station was running on automatic, and there was no one at the healms. Technology in general has a habit of letting us down. But apart from the amusing little errors, there is a good side to all this automation.

Sometimes the stations don't manage to time their breaks properly with their news feeds or sat links or whatever. I have noticed this a few times lately. WEGP is a good example on 1390. This is easily the dominant station in Europe, but at the top of the hour in the silence, I often hear the less dominant stations. This includes the less common WRIG, as well as WFBL and WPLM.

On 28th Sept WWKB Buffalo 1520 had a silent period just long enough to allow perfect timing for an id from KOKC in Oklahoma City!! A rarity indeed here when Buffalo is usually a powerhouse.

The third time was a sneaky ID in a rare BBC Radio Scotland silent period when 810 was changing from Radio 5 Live through the night, to BBC Radio Scotland. WGY sneaked in at just the right time.

I have had audio break downs on 1200 CFGO recently as well, but nothing exciting poking through the ether on that occasion.

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Logs for Tuesday 30th September:

At 0600 today the band was just great for the last day of September, and new one on me, 1260thepledge.com turned out to be WPNW MI. WSSP 1250 was also good at this time, as was possible new one, WMKT 1270 . Have to look back my logs. Also had WGN 720 Chicago in the silent period at 0600, WYLL 1160 and WHBY 1150 both at good levels. KXEL 1540 was gd 0600, 980 WCUB, 1380 ESPN stn of unknown origin. WSCR was probably as strong as I have ever had them at toth, but they played past the hour of course. Unid ss on 970, and religion on 1260 at 0531. 550 WSAU at 0530.

After finally having a listen to my 0630 recording, WIND Chicago was coming in here on 560. Personal 1st.

560 WIND, Chicago 0630
1260 WPNW, ZEELAND, MI "1260thepledge.com" 30/9
1270 WMKT, Charlevoix, MI 30/9

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Logs for Monday 29th September:

At 0600 I had a few stations, but I don't think there was much out of the ordinary. I had a personal first in the dirt on 570. CKGL Kitchener, ONT. There may be an even more dodgy id from WGR Buffalo in the noise. Sports Radio 5-50.

ESPN Chicago 1000 had something behind it, whether it was KOMO, or something else, I don't know. May even have been Mexico. WOC ided on 1420, 900 W from Mexico, 930 WBEN, 920 CKNX, 1190 WOWO, and a possible ID on the French station on 800 at long last. Maybe.. . 1380 had WPHM, Port Huron, MI. Thanks to tip from Paul C.

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Logs for Sunday 28th September 2008:

This morning I was a bit puzzled by "Toronto's Sports Station" ESPN 590 on 920kHz. I actually missed that recording, but luckily the top of the hour was rewarding with a full ID as THE FAN, CJBM. I had a look on the web pages of CKNX, and assume that this was the station relaying the ESPN station. Maybe an e mail would verify the suspicion.

0600: A lot of channels were a mess at 0600 this am. 820, 970, 800, and a lot more. KMA poked it's head up on 960 again, with a nice ID. Mexico was good on 900, Montreal 940, CJBC 860, WHAS 840 particularly good, as was CFTR 680, 970 WFLA, 790 WAXY, 1510 WLAC, 1020 KDKA very strong. My best this morning was 1520 KOKC Oklahoma City (ex KOMA). This ID sneaked past during a brief silence from WWKB. And for a change, just perfect timing for the ID !

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Logs for Saturday 27th September 2008:

The logs for Sat include a few rarer stations, and personal firsts. Log needs studied and added to.

PERSONAL FIRSTS:

600 CJWW
970 WDAY Fargo/ Moorhead
980 WCUB, Two Rivers
1110 KFAB
1360 KSCJ Sioux City, IA
1480 WLMV

Normal logs: At 0600 I had :

630 CFCO
1470 WBKV

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Logs for Friday 26th September 2008:

Personal First:

1380 WFCL Clintonville, WI


Logs for this am

550 WSAU
570 WMCA
670 WSCR

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25th 2008:

We have to be careful when making educated guesses (or as good as it gets..hi) on very poor and weak ids. I have just realised I was caught out recently with the id of a sister station. The station in question was 1400 WOND Pleasantville, NJ. The sister station is WGYM Hammonton, NJ (1580). I had this listed in my logs as WCYN KY, which sounded very like WGYM in my mind. (And to PC who listened to the clip as well..hi) But this am I have just heard a better signal from the station. To cap it all, in early 2008 I have a good signal id somewhere from WOND/ WGYM. I should have known in the first place.

Not only can sister station calls be confusing, but there was an ad for wevex.com or similar, heard a few times read out as letters. There are other ads which are initials too.

Todays DX: In my initial tuning, I was aware of strong signals on the band. I was up for 0600utc dxing live, but also recording with the PERSEUS. I feel this was a pretty average morning, apart from the odd one or two, and thus the logs today can be seen as what I would expect on a good average morning here in Scotland.

Personal First: One new one this am, and one of the last freqs I checked.
1600 KLEB Golden Meadow, LA.


LOGS FOR 0600:

530 UNID. Possibly ONT.
540 CBC/ CBGA1
550 MUSH, MANY STNS UNIDENTIFIED
560 KIX, AND ONE OTHER MIXING
570 WMCA NY
580 CFRA
590 VOCM
600 CBC
610 FRENCHY
620 VOCM
630 CFCO Good ID ann 92.9
640 CBC
650 VOCM
660 WFAN
670 MESS
680 WRKO/ CFTR
700 WLW (WK THIS AM)
710 WOR
730 CKAC
740 TORONTO (NO ID)
750 CBC
760 WJR. VG LEVELS
770 WABC no id at toth id 0606
780 KIX / WBBM (WBBM is 0608)
790 WTNY WATERTOWN, NY (rare stn)
800 CKLW
820 WBAP
830 WCRN (They are still messing up their 0600 toth with 2 audio feeds)
840 WHAS Gd SIG
850 WEEI
860 CJBC FF
870 WWL
880 WCBS
890 WAMG (WLS AT 0634)
900 CHML (Rare stn)
920 CKNX
930 WBEN/ CFBC
940 MONTREAL
950 CKNB
960 WEAV THE ZONE
970 WZAN SS DURING SILENCE AT TOTH
980 MUSH
990 CBC
1000 ESPN 1000 CHICAGO
1010 CFRB
1020 KDKA
1050 WEPN
1060 WBIX (0530)
1070 CHOK
1080 WTIC
1100 WTAM
1110 WBT (POOR THIS AM)
1120 KMOX
1130 WBBR VY STRONG AS OFTEN IS
1140 CBC
1150 WHBY
1160 WYLL
1170 WWVA
1180 WHAM
1200 CFGO
1260 WNSS SYRACUSE TENT. ESPN AGAIN. Slogan ESPN RADIO 12-60 heard. This web address is for WNSS, though never hrd web address given, just the slogan. espnradio1260.com is the web site for WNSS. Slogan noted at 0556.
1270 ADS AND MUSH
1280 WNAM
1290 CJBK
1310 WLOB
1320 CJMR (NO ID, NON STOP RELIGIOUS MX)
1330 MESS
1360 MESS
1370 WDEA
1380 NO ID ON EASY MX STN. COUPLE OF POSSIBILITIES, SO CAN'T BE SURE
1390 WEGP/ WRIG ID ON SILENT PERIOD
1400 CBC/ WOND
1410 WPOP
1420 WHK G LEVEL
1500 WLQV DETROIT. VG LEVEL AT 0600
1510 THE ZONE
1520 WWKB AMAZING SIGNAL
1530 Pres Cincinnati. Brother Stair at about 0606
1540 KXEL / CHIN MIX. Neither IDed today.
1550 CBC
1560 WXEW
1570 BOOMER PRES. FF. NO ID
1580 CKDO
1590 PULLED WAKR AKRON, OH FROM THE DRM Used to be a common log
1600 KLEB RELAYING KLRZ 100.3, LA
1620 WTAW
1630 KCJJ
1670 WTDY MADISON
1690 CHTO TORONTO
1700 KVNS

Wed night into Thursday Morning:

Squeezed an id from VOAR 1210 2259, and at 0038 had an id in e from CJLO Montreal. 1470 WLAM was pretty good at 0100, CHIN id at 0100 1540, and WTAW 1620 had a dx reference jingle at the toth. Must add this to the audio clips. A KT news on 1360 is pres fl, WKAT. Finally I had the first log of the year of WCHP NY 760 closing at 2300

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24th 2008:

My logs on these pages are really just lists. I only really make detailed notes where appropriate. Long gone are the days when I take careful sinpo readings and note prog details. Most of the talk radio stations on MW anyway would consist of prog details: "rubbish" or "more rubbish" or "political talk and right wing propaganda" etc anyway. But the signals of the stations still very much interest me. The technical side of the transmissions are much as they were donkeys years ago. Even if programme formats have changed to mainly talk and sports formats.

I found it interesting that there is still an old time music station on 920 in Columbus Ohio. This may have been the type of stations out grandfathers before us tuned for at night, or of course maybe looking for a sporting event which was of interest.

An old chap from an ex military background I am friendly with in the village is interested in the aerials, and the technical side of my dxing. But when he asked me recently what programmes I listened to from the North American MW stations that interest me so much, I told him I listened to none really. He failed to grasp exactly why I listen to it all. I know I am in a minority being one of those who can't be bothered by sports on TV or radio. I hate for example going into a pub and the tv is on full bore with horses and football. Nightmare. I like to hear some of the strong signals from the likes of CBC, or VOCM, but the phone in's on the talk stations... well....

To this mornings logs...


A pretty average morning compared to yesterday's mid west and possible west coast opening. Still some strong signals around though. But at least I now have most of my logs typed up, or scribbled up.



0600

570 ID SOUNDED LIKE WFYL, MAYBE WSYR??
580 WKAQ I think PR 0602. My ss is very poor
580 CFRA VG PK
610 FRENCHY VY GD
670 WSCR POOR
710 WOR
730 CKAC SPORT
770 WABC
780 KIX
800 VOWR Good ID for once at 0600
820 CHAM
850 WEEI
860 ANOTHER STATION MIXING WITH THE FRENCHY, Poss also FF???
930 WBEN/ CFBC
1070 CHOK
1050 WEPN
1420 WHK GD
1500 WWFD OR IS IT WWFG. NEW CALL FOR WWWT. EX WTOP. Seem to recall WTOP was high in the ratings so they cleverly changed the call and rearranged the stations around!! Changed twice now in a year or so.

Some good ids from WDEA at 0530 this am. (1370). This is always there and a regular, but often splattered here by MANX.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd 2008:

I began to write some scribbles last week but became predictably bogged down in DX at this time of year. The band has been wide open to some superb DX. I am going to start this large contribution with writing a list of personal firsts this season. I may well keep this at the top of the logs each month. There have been so many, so early in the season, thanks to the superb band conditions and of course, the PERSEUS SDR. I feel my log is beginning to look like it came from Martin up north!! Never have I heard the band so wide open to rarer stations, on common frequencies. But there is one thought on this subject. If I was operating a conventional rx, would I have spent any considerable time on eg 870 if WWL was strong leading up to the top of the hour if ??? Probably not. It faded at the right to grab the ID from WHCU. I notice that 550 is a really interesting freq to check, as is 630. What a great season so far.

I will also attempt to list my logs in some kind of a readable fashion as well, but it may end up in scribbles. The tables at the bottom have not been kept up to date either .


LOGS FOR TODAY: This am was again particularly interesting. I decided to do some live dxing again, seeing as the times are catching up with reasonable morning times and not the middle of the night. As the time marches on, there has been a definite swing here at these latitudes from 0500, then 0530 and now towards the end of the month, a real peak around 0600UTC. I was recording using Autohotkeys at 0530, but stopped and moved down the band a little manually. So my mornings logs are something like:

920 CFRY 0559
830 WCCO g @ 0600
570 Poss sport
950 Classical Music from Manitoba, but no ids heard.
(Statement retracted, found good id, and prob my own personal 1st decent id CFAM, Altona, MB 0525) 1250 also heard with classical music at this time. Trying to "winkle out" an id.
1310 ESPN 0612 no local id
630 0624 Very loud SS. PR or Spain. Have to check.
at the time above though, 870, 670 and 710 all SS. Need closed scruitiny.
0630 1062 Danish Interval Signal hrd. A pest, but they use an old int sig.

I also have Chinese on 1320 at 0533, and ads that doesn't sound like ESPN on 1410 at the same time. No id from either, but my thoughts are both with CFUN 1410 AND CHMB 1320 Vancouver.

Some toth logs at 0600:

530 What is Radio Cultura? Is this Ontario?
550 WGR Buffalo poor id
550 WSAU WI
550 WKRC tent. think this is 5-50 KRC. Really needs 2nd opinion though, and even then, it may be unclear.
570 Greenland pres with no ids
680 CFTR Toronto good
760 WJR g
800 CKLW. Gd pk.
920 CKNX pk 0605
1080 WTIC Stern warning not to burn charcoal indoors during power outs!! You dont say!!
1150 WHBY Kimberly g pk this am
1160 WYLL and another unid.
1170 WWVA
1190 WOWO
1230 WTKG Grand Rapids. Would be happier with 2nd opinion.
1300 WOOD
1310 WCCW poor this am
1320 WILS poor
1380 KLIZ Brainerd, MN,
1420 KTOE poor. 1st log of this elusive signal.
1430 WENE
1480 WGVU id again this am. Listened here for years and heard BBC WS relays sometimes. Never had a local ID though.

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PERSEUS OR CATS WHISKER: I have become bemused by a debate taking place in recent days on the private e-group MWC re the Perseus SDR. I am not part of this group, but have been told about the opinions of some of the members. I sometimes find it difficult to believe what I hear. It seems Perseus users are being called cheats!! Yes Swindlers!!! Why??? I even heard of one dxer who now refuses to share his logs now incase any of the "dreaded" Perseus users see them!!

Well if anyone would like to call me a cheat to my face, feel free. I was up to my back side in mud the other night in the pouring rain, in almost dark, twisting old bits of wire together. I came back filthy, soaked, and knackered from ploughing through mucky woods with wellies on. Anyone who says that is not "real" dxing has a very different outlook on radio than I have.

My interpretation of a cheat may be a man who would deliberately pilfer money from his comrades without their knowledge, or a man who takes a short cut in a racing circuit to win a race. I do not class myself in the same category because I use a superior new dx tool. I mentioned in the dx chat recently that this site does not promote money pilfering (like a real cheat), has no secret dx tips or secret passwords. The logs here are free to view and share amongst fellow dxers who have the same interest in Transatlantic DX as I have. Maybe I should rename the site "dx tips for cheats" lol. Let me tell you that this web site started as a low key few pages of the most recent logs only a few years ago. The idea was simply to share logs, which may help fellow dxers with their unid stations, and put up a few audio clips. I thought fellow MW dxers may just find the logs interesting enough to enjoy browsing through them.

Predictably, it is the age old debate of "he has something I haven't" that seems to have reared it's ugly head again. The same style of crybabies were around in the 70's when digital frequency counters were new. Counters were seen as the devils work. The man with the tape recorder also received some stick from other dxers who did not believe in this style of dxing, as did the guy with the beverage. Akin perhaps to railroad workers of the 1800's. . . He has a shovel and I only have a trowel. Big deal. What is there to be bitter about. It is only our common hobby. And still after all these years, I still find it very interesting and enjoyable.

Many of us have by now used our PCs for convenience of recording overnight on a specific channel. Many of us used vcrs with timers to record audio on and off on a specific freq at the top of the hour all the way through the night. Sometimes stereo would be used with two receivers, one on the left channel, one on the right. Sometimes there would be reasonable DX received, sometimes it was a waste of time. But this was early timeshift DXing. I have to admit to being a sceptic at first with regards the PC, simply because of the possible RF noise. But now it seems that we have to strive for a quiet PC, rather than none at all.

We all have heard years ago about the possibilities of wideband recording?? I read recently an article about the American DXer I think it was who developed the system with the aid of a VCR, and had some limited success. To me though, this seemed to be a distant dream. Now in 2008, this dx season will be the first where one SDR receiver will have the ability to record the whole MW band, and as a bonus LW and the LF beacons as well. I for one see the Perseus as a superb breakthrough in technology. One drawback is that I will have to rewrite my review when the new version of the software is released in the next few days hopefully.

I wonder how non Perseus DXers see beverage users?? Unfair?? Or are they simply making the best of their location, like we all have to do. I personally see nothing wrong with using the best receiver that we can afford, and using the best antenna we can manage to sling up in the air. I am also glad I don't live in a noisy city. I have visited friends qth's in modern flats, one in particular springs to mind when I think about rf noisy locations. Am I a cheat because I just happen to be a country chappie?? Surely not. Are the Scandanavians cheats because they live in the far north, with far superior MW dx in winter than we have at more southerly lattitudes?? I think not.

I always hoped to win the lottery and buy an old farm in the country, away from rf noise and the like. I always liked the idea of a beverage going out at all points on the compass. Here I can't do that, but at the same time I don't see someone who can as a cheat simply because he has the space !! As a footnote, I have a lot of new files on the tadx audio clips page. The files that are taken from Perseus are marked in orange. Not because I feel it is justified because it is an SDR, but so that would be Perseus owners can hear the audio from the Perseus for themselves. A splendid machine.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd 2008:

This morning I had a few new stations again!! Getting to be an amazing year.

First of all let me list the 4 personal firsts.

550 WSAU, Wausau, WI
920 WBAA, West Lafayette, IN
960 KMA, Shenandoha, IA
1230 WMSH, Sturgis, MI (ESPN stn, Tnx Paul C for assisting)

Logs for 0600:

550 WSAU WI
560 KIX
580 WKAQ PR
670 WSCR/ CUBA
680 WRKO
730 CKAC
740 TORONTO
770 WABC
780 WBBM/ KIX
820 TBN
830 WCCO/ WCRN
850 WEEI
860 CJBC FF
870 WWL
880 WCBS
920 WBAA
960 KMA
970 WZAN
990 CBC
1000 WMVP
1010 CFRB
1120 KMOX
1160 WYLL
1170 WWVA
1200 WOAI
1230 WMSH, Sturgis, MI (ESPN stn, Tnx Paul C for assisting)
1250 WSSP Milwalkee
1280 WNAM (VG ID)
1290 CJBK
1300 WOOD
1310 WCCW VG
1420 WOC
1512 WLAC

At 0600 this morning my log of WLAC and that of David Hamilton, my dx neighbour was very similar. Check out David's UTUBE entries. Amazing though it is, he has had about 500 odd viewings in only 3 days!!

I never realised so many people were interested in MWDX!!

Coooooooooooooooooooool.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Davids UTUBE link is
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tvdxrools



0530

1140 LV Miami


0630

820 WBAP
890 WLS

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21st 2008:


Personal First Today:

1150 CKOC Hamilton Ont. Ads in Hamilton and singing jin. poor 0622

0500:

1190 WOWO

Rest of 0500 was very average


0600:

670 WSCR
680 WRKO/ CFTR
700 WLW VG
750 CBC
760 WJR VG
770 WABC
820 TALK 8-20 (CHAM)
830 WCRN. messed up toth with double audio source.
870 WWL
920 WBAA
950 WWJ
960 WEAV VG
970 WZAN VG
1150 CHOK Hamilton, ONT
1160 WYLL
1290 CJBK
1360 WDRC
1480 WGVU LOCAL ID
1540 KXEL VG

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20th 2008:


Today I couldn't believe the sheer signal strength coming out of Chicago on 1000. It really was amazing!! I had some other nice IDs as well, and some personal firsts.

Pesonal Firsts:

950 WNTD Chicago 0600

0600:

800 French pretty good. Still no real ids
840 WHAS VG
870 WWL VG
880 WCBS VG
890 WLS VG levels
920 WBAA / WMNI
960 WEAV VG
970 WZAN
1000 WMVP Amazing signal strength
1010 WINS VG
1140 LV MIAMI VG PK
1160 WYLL
1170 WWVA
1180 WHAM
1250 WSSP
1260 WMKI (UNID ESPN stn in wmki silence)
1300 WOOD
1310 WLOB
1320 WILS
1330 WRCA
1420 WOC

Today another interesting comparison was made with David Hamilton's loop antennas. David produced an amazing log of 710 KCMO Kansas City, MO around 0626. At the same time on the beverage I had a mix of goodness knows what. WOR, VOCM, CUBA at least were all in the mud, but there were others I think. No sign of my recording pulling out KCMO though. There was just too much on the channel at that time. Well done David!! Davids recordings are usually put up on YOUTUBE, but some have been removed just recently.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19th 2008:

Only a few this am. A bit on the average side this morning.

0600

610 WIOD
670 RADIO REVBELDE EXC ID
730 RADIO LIDER, COLUMBIA
770 SS ON TOP OF WABC
890 WAMG
920 CKNX
970 WZAN

0530

650 WSM 0532 v poor
770 WABC
780 KIX
790 Pres WAXY sports

0500

800 Either CKLW or VOWR playing a Christmas record. Dont these folks know it is only September for goodness sake!!

Mind you, I did hear a Christmas tune was it late August or early Sept on 820 CHAM!! Unbelievable..!!!

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18th 2008:

Today was a very very good day, with openings to OHIO as well as goodness knows where.

Personal firsts:

870 WHCU ICHACA, NY
920 WMNI COLUMBUS OH
820 WWFD FREDRICK // 1500 Tnx Paul C for alerting me to this one.



0600

555 ZIZ EXC ID 0558
560 RADIO REBELDE, CUBA ID 0600
610 WIOD
640 FRANCE INTER ID. Dominant above CBC. I am told it is only GUADELOUPE which relays FR3
660 WFAN
670 CUBA
680 WRKO/ CFTR
700 WLW
740 TORONTO
770 WABC
820 TALK 8-20 = CHAM
840 WHAS
870 WHCU ICHACA, NY
900 W. MEXICO
920 WMNI Columbus OH
930 WBEN
950 UNID ESPN STATION. could be one of many
1020 KDKA VG 0555
1080 WTIC
1100 WTAM
1110 WBT
1160 WCCS Homer City.
1170 WWVA
1180 WHAM
1210 WPHT Sneaked a nice ID in the splatter at 0604
1250 WEAE
1330 WRCA
1350 WARF AKRON, OH
1360 WDRC
1410 WPOP



0500

630 CFCO 0552
790 WAXY
920 CKNX
980 CKRU 0536 Rare id
1270 CJCB 0520
1420 WHK 0533
1470 WNYY 0530
1480 WHBC

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17th 2008:

Had a few only this am after fixing my antena properly. at 0600 had strong signals from the powerhouses, but an average morning.


0600


820 Had a very large strong carrier on 820 at 0600. Not able to winkle out any rare ids from beneath though.
830 WCRN
880 WCBS
940 MONTREAL
950 CKNB
1010 WINS
1050 ESPN NY WITH GOOD MULTI FREQ/ STN IDS.

0530

1130 WBBR WAS SUPER STRENGTH, LIKE A LOCAL.

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HEDGE CUTTER PROBLEMS: I returned from Germany on Sunday 14th, and after doing some tidying up and the like went for a pint to settle me, after such a hectic weekend. When I came back to the shack, I had a zero signal situation with the main beverage. I was unsure if the band had crashed or my antenna was broken. The following night, Monday, I waited and waited after dinner to see if the heavy rain was going to go off a bit. It did slightly, but if I was chasing dx, I was gonna have to go out in it. I found 2 breaks in the main feeder coax where a hedge cutter had gone through it. So I made a hasty join as best as I could in the muddy conditions, and left it at that. It was almost dark. I though the band was quite dead when I turned in, but set my recording anyway for dawn anyway. I was amazed that everything seemed still quite weak, and "just not quite right". So the next night, Tuesday, I set off through the undergrowth to check the full length of the antenna. I found it shredded as well around the 100m mark. I patched it up. So on Wednesday morning I had my first dx in almost a week!! The signals sounded back to normal. I am gonna do a rerun of some of the cable that is full of joins now!!

SEPTEMBER 13th: EKRATH RADIO DAY 2008: I find it hard to believe it is over 2 weeks since I started to edit this contribution. But this is so. I had no time a week past Thursday for posting logs and the likes. My focus was on a weekend in Germany, near Dusseldorf. It was one of the Radio Days at Erkrath, held very interestingly at the local observatory. It was good to meet up with old friends and come home with new friends. I was completely overwhealmed by the kindness and welcome we received in Germany. The radio day deserves a new page of it's own which I shall endevour to edit sometime very soon.

Myself and long time friend, Ian Biggar were asked a while back to come to Germany to talk about the Irish border blasters of the 1980's, specifcally KISS FM, which closed 20 years ago along with most of the other stations of the 80's. Border blasting as it is known is as old as radio itself. Here in Europe the most well known station is probably Radio Luxembourg, which broadcast in various languages to various countries in Europe. The English service of 208 has long gone, but the memories remain of the AM signals coming through the ether, sometimes fading very badly.

Often the case was that a more liberal country "A" would tollerate or even allow stations to beam signals into less liberal country "B". Thus when the Irish Republic was one of those liberal countries pre 1988, the border was dotted with pirate broadcasters, beaming into the lucrative advertising market in the North, where there was only one UK licensed ILR station in Belfast.

KISS FM operated on 103.7 FM as well as 1008 AM. Both signals were very good in Scotland, and although not sellable, well listenable for a dxer. KISS in my own opinion was possibly the best Irish station there has ever been. There are a load of long recordings made here in Scotland on the audio download pages of this web site. These are taken from old 1988 reel to reels. I will write a detailed summary soon .

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11th 2008:

My last day of dxing till next week till I come back from Germany. Quite an average morning, but one notable curiousity was a blank carrier on 1200, where CFGO should be. Again, no decent rare IDs were winkled out this, despite the blank carrier for a good 20 or 30 minutes.

0500:

1200 Team 12-00 id and CFRA id!!
( WRKO is another ID you hear all over the band because it is of course the WRKO REDSOX.)
1280 WFAU
1390 WEGP SILENCE AT TOTH FOR A FEW SECS. Both Easy 99.1(WPLM) and OLDIES 1390 WFBL ids heard.

0530

540 FF CBC STRONG
650 WSM 0552
800 FF NO ID
960 WEAV
1200 SILENT CARRIER

0600

540 CBC FF
570 WMCA
630 WBMQ Good peak and id toth with singing jingle.
680 WRKO
770 WABC
1180 WHAM

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10th 2008:

Today I made Perseus recordings at 0500, 0530 and 0600. I see it is worth while recording 0600 this season now. This is my first time in a couple of weeks, and the first time I have had proper dx at this time. It was also a rather good day, dx wise. Some very strong signals were heard at 0530, which is certainly the peak time.

0500: 960 WEAV The Zone. Good levels during multi station id. 900 SS singing jingles. Reg further investigation. 610 WIOD, 1290 WRNI, 1320 WILS Lancing, MI, 1330 WRCA, 1390 WFBL in WEGP silence. Many common powerhouses not logged.

0530: Very strong signals at 0530 today. 970 WZAN, 960 WEAV, 630 CFCO ann // 92.9, 670 WSCR Score 6-70 Chicago, 760 WJR exceptional, 700 WLW , 800 CKLW 0533, 840 WHAS 0528, 880 WCBS, 920 CKNX, 930 CFBC, 940 OLDIES MONTREAL, 900 Prob Mexico and "W", 980 CKRU, 1060 WBIX, 1080 WTIC, 1100 WTAM, 1110 WBT exceptional 0534, 1120 WBMW Concorde NH, fadeing with KMOX. ID at 0533. 1140 Miami, 1180 WHAM, 1210 WPHT id 0535, 1270 WTSN 0531, 1300 WOOD. Many other common powerhouses not mentioned.

0600: 610 WIOD, 540 CBC, 680 Tornonto, 760 WJR, 820 WABP, 1060 WBIX, 1180 WHAM, 1290 CJBK, and a personal 1st, 570 WMCA New York. Many other common powerhouses not mentioned.

I had an ESPN signal on 570 at 0536, possibly a stn in WI, mixing with something else on 570 around 0534. It was a mix up of stations really, and a former very difficult channel here due to RTE 567. (Now silent)

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9th 2008:

0500 Very weird sounding chatter on 1060 from pres Mexico at 0455. Really strange and also amusing type of chatter. Audio clip already added. Now from these lattitudes, I think I can say that 0530 is the peak for dx now, and not 0500. Haven't tried 0600 for a while, but it will soon be 0600 and the toth ids that will be the peak. Most of my dxing is still done by time shift with Perseus recordings..

0530: I think at 0530 I had WBMQ 630 again. I must listen again, as there was a pile up on 630kHz. The Euros seem to just fade away at this time. 570 CFCB had a multi call id. WABC and WCRN both good on 770/ 830, and a surprise at 0533. ESPN 14-10 Watertown again, iding as "ESPN, 14-10 The Winner". The Ticket was also hrd on 790, (WAXY), and WJNO 1290 from FL which is a personal 1st I think. There was a sports station behind 620 VOCM. No IDs though. 1310 WLOB, ided and Radio Reloj was good on 670, despite the hurricanes in Cuba. (Kinda hoped that pest would have been off air)

GERMAN RADIO DAY: I am off to the German radio day in Erkrather this coming Saturday, and I am taking a Perseus receiver and some Scottish MW mornings to show the guests. I am quite looking forward to this day of nostalgia.

WEB SITE CHANGES: I am currently having to use a temporary (hopefully) web address. I have not been able to access the server via ftp for almost a week, and therefore have uploaded this TADX site to the following address. www.xxx history.com/tadx . This is my local history web site, which is in fact running fine and so is the FTP. I have not been able to contact Tony at mediumwaveradio, who is the server provider. I hope all is well with him. Tony had some health complaints the last time I was in touch with him. The other site will have to stay where it is till such times I make contact with Tony. This current site might be worth while bookmarking.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - MON SEPTEMBER 8th 2008:

0500 On 630 at 0500 I had BBC Radio Cornwall!! Also 710 WOR, 960 The Zone, 930 WBEN, 1010 CFRB, 1360 WDRC, and an odd ESPN station on 1440. Googled ESPN on 1440 and found only a PA station. Dunno if I recall any others on 1440.

0530: I had an excellent loud signal and id from the Zone 960 WEAV, before going in to c/c. (I thought it was a sports station!!)
VOAR 1210 was pulled from the mud for a rare id during Virgin talk.

Talk 8-20 is the new id from 8-20 CHAM. www.talk820.com. These characters were mucking about a week ago playing Christmas records. What on earth is all that about!! It is September, and only just!!!! I don't know what kinda books they are reading over there!!

WABC was pretty good on 770, and there was a French station mixing with CBC 640. Guadaloupe?? SS on 1140 mentioned Cuba. My SS is shockingly poor. Good echo on 1180 from 2 SS stations. 1230 WHUC, quite a fair ID here this time. W from Mexico on 900, followed by another SS mention Venezuala.

Later at night, around 2200, both myself and David Hamilton up the road from me had Nigeria again with audio on 917. No ids, but chatter in a local language I think. Maybe. It is the only station on 917, and comes into Scotland nightly, but never well. Just trying to get the elusive ID!! Paul C reported a carrier level signal. I have uploaded a clip on the audio page. (Who is going to be the first to tell me it is not TADX!!)

CFCB had VOCM ids and news at 2329 on 570.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SUN SEPTEMBER 7th 2008:

0500 on 800khz I had the French stn at the toth, but dont think there is ids there. 840 WHAS was ok, but better logs at 0530. I was hearing a newstalk 6-30 station at 0530 and came up with WAMZ, WJAD, WKAD, WKAV, WBMG and others. I retired for the night, and listened with fresh ears the next morning and it was clearly WBMQ Savannagh, GA, meant to be on 47watts or so. I should think obviously on daytime power. A few minutes later on 630, WUNO PR peaked very nicely, at about 0534. A channel to watch I see. Also 680 WRKO, and WAXY 790.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - SAT SEPTEMBER 6th 2008:

0500 Poor this am. Radio W, Mexico on 900, WCRN 830, WIOD 610, and others much weaker than normal. At 0535 I heard a silent second or 2 from my local ILR Ayr on 1035. WBZ pres with mx was strong on 1030. Had an id from 1270 CJCB as well. Still can't update the TADX site. Can't seem to access the ftp to upload.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - FRI SEPTEMBER 5th 2008:

I went out for on Thursday night, came back in around half twelve and set the timer. Unfortunately I came in this morning, and discovered the Perseus was not switched on at the mains!! Ahhhh!! So no logs at all.

Added 10 new audio clips. 1320 CJMR, 1370 WXXI, 700 WLW, 1390 WBFL, 790 WTNY, 1620 WTAW, 1360 WKAT, 1400 Poss id from WCYN KY. Need second opinions., 900 Radio W, Mexico. Lastly some unintelligable audio from the Nigerian on 917khz, with yl tk.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - THURS SEPTEMBER 4th 2008:

This morning after some aurora, the band was very poor. Perseus files already deleted.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - WED SEPTEMBER 3rd 2008:

I have made a mess of my 0500 recordings this am, so nothing great to report. The band sounded very lively again, with Chicago stations strong. I guess some would suggest that I should have been up then anyway dxing live!! I had set my timer for 0600 as well, to see if there was anything coming through. (There wasn't) But in the proccess, I never noticed the 0600 file names were the same as the 0500 names. Thus at 0600, the software started overwriting the 0500 files!! Ahhhh!! I have managed to record less than 1m at 0505, and heard a good signal and ids from WSCR Chicago on 670, WLS 890, and 1010 KDKA.

COAST TO COAST: That 50s or so also recorded at the start of coast to coast, so it was quite easy to tune around and see how many stations carried this network show. I heard the start on 640, 770, 840, 890, 1100, 1110, 1080, 1180, 1190. There seemed to be a time shifted version, ahead of the others by a minute or two on 1420 and 1390.

I have found that the table at the bottom is easy to maintain once the main regular stations are inserted. It is just a matter of "paste in the date and time" for all stations noted at on certain top of the hour, the peak now being 0500 here at these lattitudes.

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KEN'S DX DIARY AND LOGS - MON, TUES SEPTEMBER 1st and 2nd 2008:

I am going to try another style of reporting my logs. I shall keep a table on a per month basis of the stations logged and add times etc. Workload is heavy when during every top of the hour of every Perseus recording, there are about 25 or 30 common stations to write in every time. Therefore I will probably stick to unusual catches on the text part of these pages. This may prove to be more work than previous, I don't know, but I am thinking that once the normal stations that are heard month after month are in the table, it will be easy to paste the date and time in the appropriate box.. . Time will tell. The month of August will also have a table.

I have also moved the stations leaving the air list to the bottom of these log pages. Many of the big stations have already left, 1070, 920, 1320. I know we still have 1140, 610, 560, and 780 to go, but they seem in no hurry, and dates are difficult to come by.

GOODBYE AOR - HELLO ICOM: At the end of August, I broke out in a cold sweat. I actually parted with a receiver!!! I know I hoard radios, and never liked the idea of getting rid of any. I was talking to my dx neighbour David Hamilton, and he told me he was after a swap with someone for a good MW receiver, in exchange for his ICOM ICR 7000 vhf receiver. I liked his ICOM the minute I saw it, and was on the lookout for one. There have been some on e bay, but at the last minute, prices rose dramatically, as they tend to do. So after a chat with Davie I thought, well here I am surrounded by receivers, and don't really have a decent dedicated VHF receiver. So the AOR went, and in it's place is an ICOM ICR7000.

David is well known in tv/ band2 dx circles as having heard the first known transatlantic dx on FM back in 2003, along with Paul Logan in Northern Ireland. I unfortunately missed it!! I do have historical relics of that opening though. David gave me his FM aerial which picked up the signals, and the SONY 920 tuner.

Last winter at David's old qth, he ran up a decent length beverage in the woods at the back of his house, and he became hooked on MWDX. He now lives up the road from me, about a couple of hundred yards only!! Unfortunately we have a main road between us, and I think the council would have something to say if we started to run coax cables for him to connect up to my beverages. I don't think they would like us digging up the road at 3am..hi!! Davids loft loops are featured on his many utube links. His links page is as follows..

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tvdxrools

HELLO JVC: Also on David's advice, I sourced a very good little JVC television for band 1 and band 3. The JVC CX-610gb is a well known model in dx circles. It even came with the original handbook, circuit, and an old advertising flyer. I was going to upload them to this site incase it is of interest to anyone. The performance of the JVC is good. It will lock a picture before my old black and white Pye TV, itself very sensitive and selective.

I have been uploading a large amount of TVDX photos to this site during August, see tvdx index. There are a couple of pages left to finish off, which should be done this month. Many of the images are from this seasons TVDX. I unfortunately got a hold of the JVC a little late in the season, but there is always next season.

DVD RECORDER: I sourced a DVD recorder a while back off the web. An LG RC1000. I think I mentioned during August that this piece of kit does not go in to any silly pause mode if the picture is less than perfect. Ideal for recording tvdx. In fact after investigating, I discovered that the said LG had a built in band 1 tuner, and thus I could have been making TVDX movies for the last couple of years!! I am a little worried this excellent item breaks down, as I wouldn't know what to replace it with..

On the antenna front, my receivers and antenna pages on this site need updating. I have been changing the shack all around and hopefully improving matters. One of my beverages has been minced by a hedge cutter last weekend. It is no problems though, I just have to repair it. It is one of the things you have to put up with when the farmer lets you use his land for aerials... I really don't mind!! The main NW beverage is still in one piece, including the couple of hundred yard strech of coax to get to the start of the antenna. I followed it again, all the way to the end the other night, and it is completely intact. But o dear are the woods overgrown at this time of year!!

PERSEUS: I obviously will repeat this on my Perseus observations page, but just for the record, another massive improvement in the software is just around the corner. The ability to record the whole MW band!!! Unbelievable technology!! Therewill be no more bad decisions about whether to record the hf end of mw or the lf end. The full sweep will be of 1600khz!! That's right, enough to record LW, the lf beacons, and still record mw up to 1700khz, with room to spare!! I am hopeful that it will chug along on my current PC, but if it doesn't, so be it. I may have to buy a dual core board.

Version 1.1b of the software is the best yet. So smooth and no problems to talk of. The playback problem that was experienced with any version above 1.0 has been addressed, and it runs flawlessly on an AMD 2.8g machine with a gig of RAM. I could do with the playback bar being a little wider than it is. It can be fiddly if you use it a lot, like I do.

I missed a quirk of the software until the other night. I did notice that by changing the bandwidth to 50khz you were able to squeeze out a little more bandwidth of a recording than the 800khz which is guaranteed. Our Scandanavian friend also informed us on the Perseus group, that direct freq entry is possible, and you are up the band in uncharted territory. The receiver samples 1000khz, but only shows 800 on the screen. Therefore you can actually use the 100khz or so at either end of the recording. It seems the best way to achieve this is simply dragging with the left mouse button held down, on the filter window, and you have the use of SAM and bandwidth. Thanks to Paul C and Odd J for the help and observations with this. It has given me new stations over the weekend when the band was active. So now I have a load of other files to check now at the outer limits!! After 100khz is reached, a mirror image of part of the band kicks in. I think NICO, the desighner of the PERSEUS frowns upon the extra bandwidth, but it makes such a difference. An extra 200kHz.

Another little quirk I missed until recently is that by clicking on the left of the playback bar, the file will jump to the next in the set, but only if it is a multiple file recording.

I am recording Perseus files now with a centre frequency of 1040. This gives me an official 400khz either side, but in reality, it gives me 500khz more or less. So I am covering 540 - 1540, and not the previously thought 640 - 1440!! Far out!! The band starts to fold back on itself after the outer limits are reached, and it is very obvious by using 1040 as the centre frequency which is where that fold begins. I have a very strong local on 1035 which is off the clock here, so it is obvious to say the least. The fold seems to go back to the centre freq!!

Yet another oddity I had was odd signals appearing where they shouldn't be. eg 1531. I switched off the software, and back on and the odd strong signal was still there. I checked other receivers, but there was nothing heard. So I switched from 1mhz sampling to 500khz, (800 to 400) and the problem disappeared.

I had my first problem ever encountered with the auto hotkeys timer recently. Maybe it was something to do with me listening to some old 400khz files before I set the timer/ files up. I have been recording 0400, 0430 and 0500 recently. My 0400 recording seemed as though there was no aerial connected. My 0430 and 0500 files had plenty signal, but only recorded 400khz. All I did was remove all the registry entries and start again the next night, and all was well. A glitch I guess.

Autohotkeys is fine so long as the text file is written properly. On 3rd Sept, I thought I would have a listen at 0600 to see if it is still too late for dx. It was. But in the proccess of editing a new .ahk text file, I forgot to change the file names from 0500 etc. So the 0500 files recorded fine, but I found that the 0600 files had overwritten them, because they used the same file names!! We learn!!

NEW NIGERIAN PIRATE: On a tip from David Hamilton, a dxer in Portugal has put up a recording on you tube of a Nigerian Pirate station being heard in Southern Europe. Freq is 917, off channel, so the carrier is well audible here in Scotland, but no audio so far. Who will be the first to ID it in the UK then I wonder??. The you tube link for thie Portugese dxer is as follows.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=HughTVDX

Nigerian station link only...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALdaTpPAqLA

NEW IRISH PIRATE: A new Irish MW pirate took to the air at the end of August. Tyrone Community Radio TCR was testing on 1512kHz. Tonight, Tuesday 2nd, I am listening to proper programmes. This is an all too rare trend. Radio North 846 has only non stop music most of the day and night, Energy from Dublin, weekends on 1395, is only non stop music. I must say it is like doing the late night listening on MW in the 80's. They are playing tacky remixes. Just heard a dreadful version of a Bay City Rollers Song. Just the same old style radio station as any number of country stations in the 80s. Great entertainment.

I have heard this station here on FM for many a year, on and off. Seems the authorities in Northern Ireland have raided the FM station about 14 times I read somewhere on the web (so this comes from a reliable source..lol). I'm told they are across the border from Strabane area. I have only heard a telephone number so far for contact details. 08777 25488. Sounds like a high rate number. Not caught any other numbers yet.

1008 CLOSING: I have seen various reports on line about 1008 closing at the end of August, and this morning I had a very good signal from the two stations that fight it out here in Europe, WINS and CFRB 10-10. The signals were so strong and the Euro was seemingly absent, I assumed it had indeed left the air. But on checking the band later, it was still on!! The band must have been so good to the West and the Euros faded, I mistook a quiet 1008 for a sign off. 1010 at that time was superb. So is it closing or is it not????

20 MILES IS A LOT IN DX TERMS. 1320 is an interesting channel, now that dominant CKEC is gone. Often unfortunately it is still dominated still by CJMR, The Voice of the City, Toronto. This station is often heard carrying the non stop christian music that somehow all sounds the same. These broadcasts are in // with Joy 1250. An unintelligible jingle is often played at the top of the hour, but sometimes it is only dead air. Earlier in the year, another dx neighbour, Paul C in Troon heard Vancouver on 1320 in the short silent period, yet here there was no sign of it!! Amazing what 20 miles does. We have noticed that at toth, sometimes I hear a rarer station, and Paul hears nothing, or vice versa. A few examples follow. I had WHJJ 920 RI one night when Paul had nothing. One night on 1660 we both had completely different and dominant stations. This past weekend, Paul had a rare ESPN station on 1410 WNER Watertown NY, while I had dominant common WPOP Hartford, also an ESPN station. For the record, Martin Hall in the North of Scotland also had WPOP. As if by means of a bonus for my patience (or otherwise), I logged them on 2nd Sept at 0500!!

AND FINALLY: Finally may I thank Tony Hudson of mediumwaveradio.org for the use of his server, and invaluable assistance in the last year or two. This site wouldn't have been the same without his help.

AND NOW REALLY FINALLY .....TO DX LOGS: August ended this year with an opening to the Mid West, with CJOB Winnipeg coming through on 680. Always a good sign so early on in the season. There are about 50 or so new audio clips on line, including the CJOB clip. I was becoming bogged down in the PERSEUS audio page, and having to double check through 2 lists to find audio clips. So now all but a few samples of audio are on the main tadx audio page. The Perseus files are coloured orange. There is a colour key for each dx season, August to April roughly. I have also added some older recordings I have found on old manky tapes. 930 Radio Monte Carlo, 1390 WCSC Charleston. I may add some other old call signs etc when time permits.

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Tuesday 2nd September: This morning at 0458 I had some great ids from WHBY, Kimberly. Lost to the Frenchy by 0500. WTAQ was dominant on 1360 at 0500, and WEZE Boston was heard on 590. This is a difficult channel with VOCM so dominant. WIOD FL was heard on 610. Thanks to a tip from Paul C, I have WNER 1410 AT 0500. The sound of Watertown made me think on a log from last Wednesday. I had an unid on 790, that sounded like first of all ????Boston, then Washington. But after I heard the way Watertown was prounounced and said, I went back checked my 790 log. I had indeed heard the Watertown station on 790, WTNY. A rarity indeed. I am unsure if the "top secret" UK MW list has this station logged in it recently. The list I have mentions the previous call as being heard in the UK in the 50's!! It is a shame that there is not a public UK all time list available anywhere on line. The dxers who edit this list keep it rather close to their chest for some reason.

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Monday September 1st 2008: At 0500 GMT, I noted new one for me, WARF 1350 Akron, OH. Band seemed to be open further west, 890 WLS was coming in rather than WAMG. Same with WOWO on 1190, and no sign of WLIB. KXEL 1540 was behind CHIN, and WOAI 1200 was dominant, with no sign of CFGO. WNAM is not the usual one on 1280 either.

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, 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.

Recently gone: 550 CHLN, 630 CFCY, 920 CJCH, 950 CHER, 960 CHNS, 960 CFFX, 1070 CBA/ CBC, 1320 CKEC, 1380 CKLC. I will now keep this list at the bottom of the page. Many of the major stations have gone off now. Updates welcome.


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