CFRX

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Posted by turkeytop
January 7, 2025 10:26 pm 		#1

We're in Florida now. This evening (0220 GMT Jan 8) getting fair reception of CFRX.   SINPO 43343  

Last edited by turkeytop (January 7, 2025 10:27 pm)

After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
 
Posted by RadioActive
January 7, 2025 11:10 pm 		#2

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!

 
Posted by turkeytop
January 7, 2025 11:26 pm 		#3

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.
 

After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
 
Posted by RadioActive
January 8, 2025 12:05 am 		#4

Still better than the -20 wind chill we're getting overnight.

 
Posted by andysradio
January 8, 2025 9:11 am 		#5

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

Canadian Radio Directory
 
Posted by mace
January 8, 2025 4:39 pm 		#6

turkeytop wrote:

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.

 
Posted by turkeytop
January 8, 2025 8:04 pm 		#7

mace wrote:

turkeytop wrote:

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.

After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
 
Posted by RadioActive
January 8, 2025 9:29 pm 		#8

How about 860? Should be easily identifiable as French. 

 
Posted by turkeytop
January 8, 2025 9:49 pm 		#9

RadioActive wrote:

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.
 

After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
 
Posted by mace
January 8, 2025 10:21 pm 		#10

turkeytop wrote:

mace wrote:

turkeytop wrote:

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.

 
Posted by mace
January 8, 2025 10:28 pm 		#11

turkeytop wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

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.

 
Posted by turkeytop
January 8, 2025 10:53 pm 		#12

mace wrote:

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.
 

After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
 
Posted by mace
January 9, 2025 11:33 am 		#13

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.

 
Posted by turkeytop
January 9, 2025 1:54 pm 		#14

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.

After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
 
Posted by markow202
January 9, 2025 2:33 pm 		#15

Speaking of Toronto DX radio - do the CN Tower FMs ever get captured far away? Never heard of these travelling far besides southern ontario 

 


 
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