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Eclipse DX. What did you get?
WLAC 1510 Nashville
WBZ Boston 1030
KMOX St Louis 1120
WRFD Columbus OH and WCBS NYC in a pile on 880
All for a few minutes at 3:19
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Re: Eclipse DX. What did you get?
Not sure where you're located but I'm in North York. And I was really disappointed. There was nothing out of the ordinary here and no distant stations came in for me at all, despite tuning back and forth like mad for more than 10 minutes.
I guess I'll have to wait another 120 years to try it again.
If AM is still around by then!
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Am in North York Don Mills/York Mills.
True..it was not like night time...
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Re: Eclipse DX. What did you get?
770 WABC New York
780 WAVA Arlington/Washington
840 WHAS Louisville
880 WCBS New York
1120 WUST (B.I.N.) Washington
1140 WRVA Richmond
1170 WWVA Wheeling
1190 WOWO Fort Wayne
1210 WPHT Philadelphia
1410 KQV Pittsburgh
1530 ESPN Cincinnati (WCKY)
1580 CKDO Oshawa
1650 CINA Mississauga
1690 WVON Chicago
Location : Near the Christina Street Mc Donald's in Sarnia.
Radio : Grundig Satellit 800
Antenna : DIY single turn loop + PVC frame on an apartment balcony
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It wasn't terribly exciting DX-wise.
Most interesting were two travel info stations on 1620. One in Mentor OH, one in Lake County IL; one weather station on 1700 in Michigan. All allegedly 10 watts and all easily heard anytime here at dusk-dawn.
1700 AL/IA, 1670 GA, most of the usual clear channels, graveyard channels were mostly Buffalo-Erie area but at the peak there was a jumblemix. I was chasing needed 600 WFRM in Coudersport PA, but aside from a moment of pop music (which was eclipse themed and could have been bumper music), I heard nothing but CKAT NBay and presumed WSOM Salem OH. Was also chasing a fairly low power Latin station, Mega 97.5, in the Rochester area, which is supposedly on 1600.But no trace of anything Latin and no online stream near Coudersport. The ones in Rochester didn't seem to have Mega either. There was a supposed 100-watt TIS type station in Indiana (normally 10nwatts but bumped up for the eclipse). No trace of that either. The action didn't start until a few minutes from the peak. It lasted a little bit longer afterwards. I am i North Kawartha. Maybe the DX was better inside totality.
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A DXer (Allen Willie) in Newfoundland reported signals sounding local and then gone again with daylight returning fully:
693 - UNITED KINGDOM - BBC 5
855 - SPAIN - Radio Nacional de Espana
909 - UNITED KINGDOM - BBC 5
1017 - SPAIN - Radio Nacional de Espana
1044 - SPAIN - SER Radio
1089 - UNITED KINGDOM - Talksport Radio
1107 - SPAIN - Radio Nacional de Espana
1140 - CBI - Sydney, Nova Scotia
1200 - WXKS - Newton, Massachusetts
1260 - CKHJ - Fredericton, New Brunswick
1270 - CJCB - Sydney, Nova Scotia
1280 - CFMB - Montreal, Quebec
1390 - WEGP - Presque Isle, Maine
1450 - CFAB - Windsor, Nova Scotia
1510 - WMEX - Quincy, Massachusetts
1600 - WUNR - Brookline, Massachusetts
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