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We're in Florida now. This evening (0220 GMT Jan 8) getting fair reception of CFRX. SINPO 43343
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Never mind CFRX! I wish I could be in Florida on the coldest night of the year!
Have a great time and keep warm down there!
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RadioActive wrote:
Never mind CFRX! I wish I could be in Florida on the coldest night of the year!
Have a great time and keep warm down there!
We arrived Monday afternoon to warm weather. But a cold front swept in overnight and today only got up to +10 C. The cold spell is supposed to last for two weeks.
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Still better than the -20 wind chill we're getting overnight.
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Outside of CHU, our time signal station, CFRX is Canada's last shortwave station. There use to be similar 49 meter band outlets from Halifax, Montreal and Calgary. CBC had stations in St. Johns and Vancouver
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We're in Florida now. This evening (0220 GMT Jan 8) getting fair reception of CFRX. SINPO 43343
Just out of curiosity, can you receive AM740 at night where you are located. Their 750 mile protected coverage area reaches to just south of Tampa.
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We're in Florida now. This evening (0220 GMT Jan 8) getting fair reception of CFRX. SINPO 43343
Just out of curiosity, can you receive AM740 at night where you are located. Their 750 mile prggotected coverage area reaches to just south of Tampa.
Never had any success yet with that. Right now I'm getting something on 740. Sounds like an all sports station. I get stations from Chigago, New York and Cincinnati, but never from Toronto or Detroit.
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How about 860? Should be easily identifiable as French.
We have a local station here in the Tampa Bay area, WGUL 860 KHZ. Right wing talk.
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We're in Florida now. This evening (0220 GMT Jan 8) getting fair reception of CFRX. SINPO 43343
Just out of curiosity, can you receive AM740 at night where you are located. Their 750 mile prggotected coverage area reaches to just south of Tampa.
Never had any success yet with that. Right now I'm getting something on 740. Sounds like an all sports station. I get stations from Chigago, New York and Cincinnati, but never from Toronto or Detroit.
That would be WYGM Orlando. They are 50000 watts day and night but the night pattern is strictly east/west. On the Atlantic side, the signal runs between Deltona and Melbourne. On the Gulf side, Leesburg to Lakeland including the Metro Tampa area.
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How about 860? Should be easily identifiable as French.
We have a local station here in the Tampa Bay area, WGUL 860 KHZ. Right wing talk.
WGUL IS 5000 watts day/1500 night. The night signal extends from Bayonet Point north to Bayshore Gardens south.
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That would be WYGM Orlando. They are 50000 watts day and night but the night pattern is strictly east/west. On the Atlantic side, the signal runs between Deltona and Melbourne. On the Gulf side, Leesburg to Lakeland including the Metro Tampa area.
When I had it on here earlier this evening,in Seminole, just outside St Pete, the signal was listenable but far from perfect. On the SINPO scale I would say it was 44343.
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I would imagine AM740 would be available further north in Jacksonville or the panhandle. There is a 740 in Montgomery, Alabama [WMSP] but 233 watts at night wouldn't travel very far.
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On the trip home every year, we always stop for the night in northern GA. Zoomer 740 always comes in there inside a hotel room using only my Walkman radio.
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Speaking of Toronto DX radio - do the CN Tower FMs ever get captured far away? Never heard of these travelling far besides southern ontario