Recent catches (generally domestic and Mexican) with a 6-foot-diagonal wood-frame tuned loop, RTL-SDR dongle, and Ham It Up upconverter from the back patio. All dates local, times MST and UT, all distances from home to transmitter via Haversine formula, logging started here August 15th, 2014. See the blog link at the end for posts with verbose versions of these logs along with audio in most cases.
November 22nd: 1140 XEMR, Apodaca NL, weak at 6:51pm (0151UT), 50000W, slogan and webcast (new), 948 miles [Mexican clear channel station, got the webcast match and "Radio Esperanza" slogan several times, but KGEM out of Idaho came over at the 7pm TOH. I kept recording while I was doing other things, but didn't get a call at the 8pm TOH. Only second log out of Nuevo Leon.] November 23rd: 1490 KFFN, Tucson AZ, weak at 3:29am (1029UT), 1000W, local ads and slogan (new), 182 miles ["The Fan is ESPN Sports on 1490" and Tucson ads. Tucson stations are not trivial here and have local 1.2 miles away on this freq except from 12:10-4:50am.] 1400 KSHP, North Las Vegas NV, weak at 5:06am (1206UT), 1000W, webcast and unique format (new), 191 miles ["Radio Shopping Show" with only 4 affiliates in country, also Las Vegas mentioned.] 1290 KOWB, Laramie WY, weak at 10:05pm (0505UT), 1000W, call (new), 599 miles [Former home for 8 years, happy to get this one] 1300 XEXU, Nogales SO, weak at 10:59pm (0559UT), 100W, call (new), 238 miles ["eckes-eh-eckes-ooooo" and "Nogales, Sonora"] November 24th: 590 XEBH, Hermosillo SO, weak at 11:52pm (0652UT), 1000W, slogan and webcast (new), 389 miles [Over-the-air "La Mejor" slogan and webcast match; latter important because Cantu lists 3 "La Mejor" stations on freq] 590 KXSP, Omaha NE, weak at 11:59pm (0659UT), 5000W, call (new), 1011 miles [Barely intelligible at first: "K-X-S-P, Omaha's ESPN Radio ..... am590espnradio dot com"] November 25th: 800 KBRV, Soda Springs ID, weak at 11:37pm (0637UT), 150W, call (new), 562 miles ["K-B-R-V, The Bear", had email tip that they've been putting a signal into AZ despite the nominal low nighttime power and was lucky enough to null out powerhouse XEROK] November 26th: 790 KGHL, Billings MT, weak at 4:40pm (2340UT), 5000W/1800W, call (new), 809 miles [Presumed SSS; 40 minutes before local sunset here] 580 KUBC, Montrose CO, weak at 5:00pm (0000UT), 5000W/1000W, call (new), 371 miles ["K-U-B-C Western Slope weather" almost a minute after TOH into local weather forecast; presumed SSS, not sure which power would be expected] 324 stations logged since August 15th, 2014 Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ [email protected] http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
