by Eldon-Mr.CFAY » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:37 pm
Hi Everyone,
Hope you are having a good weekend! We are having a rainy one but its going to get worse between Monday night and Wednesday as the tail end of that Hurricane hits New York City and reaches Southern Ontario with a lot of rain and some wind! Some reports were calling it the perfect storm since another storm from the west was to combine with it but todays reports are not as dramatic!!! Personally I think there will just be heavy rain at times with some strong wind gusts certainly not Hurricane Force Winds in Toronto or Southern Ontario though. New York City is calling for stronger winds etc. so be interesting to see if any AM stations are reporting it all or knocked off the air from the NYC. area. Will keep you posted on that when I monitor WCBS etc on 880 Monday night to Wednesday.
As far as DX goes we were too busy survey trading and checking out coverage maps etc. to do any serious dxing Thursday night here. Did get one station underneath 1170 AM WWVA from Wheeling , W.V> but could not identify it!!! WWVA was just blasting in stronger than usual with some Black Gospel music and preaching show about 8 PM Eastern Time Thursday night. Their regular format is NewsTalk but they have some paid religious shows at night. My Ohio radio friend was telling me WWVA still has their longtime country live jamboree show on weekend nights though, I think Saturday night. Anyway underneath it seemed like some talk or spanish talk station on 1180. Sorry I got my frequency mixed, it was underneath WHAM 1180 Rochester which is 50,000 watts and usually strong day and night here. However on Thursday night after 7 PM they were not as strong and there was this unid. talk or spanish talk station on 1180 which we could not identify. Not sure where it was coming from, it was from the south. We both tried listening for over half an hour and it would fade up creating interference to WHAM but no station Id., in the meantime WHAM 1180 seemed to have a weaker signal on Thursday night. Earlier in the afternoon they were full strength as usual with local newstalk format. WHAM 1180 and WWVA 1170 are both 50 KW.. WWVA was coming in much stronger than WHAM on Thursday night practically all night with very little fading at all!!!!
Thats great Toomas on hearing Japan while trying for North Dakota. Great DX. You might try for KEYZ 660 Williston, N. Dakota although the pattern may not be that good at night towards Vancouver. They do get out well with their local country music format, lots os local commercials and station Ids etc.. Congratulations Jon on hearing KFNW 1200 North Dakota in Edmonton. Thats a good catch and I have never heard them on their old frequency either. Thanks for letting us know they moved to 1200 and the technical data too. Its amazing that no one had yet reported it in IRCA but I am glad you did!!!!! Wonder if Bruce Portzer or Pat Martin can hear it out on the west coast of the USA???? Again coverage pattern may not be good in that direction!
Anyway will keep you posted on any radio station coverage out here of Hurricane Sandy hitting the USA East Coast. Hopefully it won't create much damage around the New York City area or New England. There have been some flood warnings posted for this already! No snow is predicated in Toronto or Southern Ontario from it although the temperatures have dropped some from the really nice past week.
Take care everyone and continued good dxing this fall to you!!! Hope you are enjoying the nice fall colors!
73s Eldon