Re: Unid 820 Eclipse
Neil Kazaross
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#40874
You don't need Jaguar to get a reasonable frequency reading, while Jaguar may get you an extra decimal place, the standard UI is fine if calibrated. 73 KAZ
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 11:56 PM Jim Renfrew <jim.renfrew@...> wrote:
Nick, I have Jaguar, but have been continuing to use Perseus to review recordings. Perhaps I should take your question as a reason to get backto Jaguar! Thismight be a good reason to do so. Jim Renfrew
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 12:34 AM Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@...> wrote:
You are using Jaguar aren't you, Jim?
What is the offset that you observed on 820? WBKK is listedas 819.9916 which should be pretty distinctive. (although thatreading is over a couple of years old)
Nick
At 23:15 2024-04-10, Rick Dau wrote:
True, it is more likely, but nowthat I'm looking at the list of shows carried by RPR, I'm seeing thatthey, too, carry EWTN's open line starting at 1500 ELT (1400 inMinnesota). So WBKK can't be counted out. This is acase where you just may have to wait for a time (probably at sunset inboth Columbus, Ohio and Wilton, Minnesota) to see if you can catch ANYlocal mentions or even advertisem*nts of local underwriters to know forsure which one you have.
The two stations have sunset times that, this time of year, are an hourapart. WVSG's sunset time for April is 2015 EDT and in May is 2045EDT. WBKK's sunset time for April is 2115 EDT and in May is 2145EDT.
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska From: IRCA@groups.io <IRCA@groups.io> on behalf of JimRenfrew <jim.renfrew@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 6:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [irca] Unid 820 Eclipse
I studied the site but didn't see the program listed, but it's much morelikely than Minnesota! JimOn Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 6:57 PM Rick Dau<drummer1965us@...> wrote:
- Very likely, Jim, it is WVSG.
- https://stgabrielradio.com/schedule
- Schedule forWebsite
- stgabrielradio.com
- That shows WVSG as carrying EWTN's Open Line starting at 1500ELT/1900z on the weekdays, which is right when you were tuned to 820.
- 73,
- Rick Dau
- South Omaha, Nebraska
- From: IRCA@groups.io<IRCA@groups.io> on behalf ofJim Renfrew<jim.renfrew@...>
- Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 4:24 PM
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- Subject: [irca] Unid 820 Eclipse
- 1928z April 8 2024
- "EWTN Open Line" mostly under CHAM. Not findinganything that fits to my satisfaction
- 820 WVSG OH Columbus listed as EWTN in NRC Log, but station Web siteindicates San Gabriel Radio is the slogan, and not EWTN Open Line at thistime.
- 820 WPGO NY Horseheads is Family Life Radio, not Catholic
- 820 WBKK MN Wilton shows Open Line at 1400 CDT, so it fits, butMinnesota is a long way from here. Station slogan is Real Presence Radio,a Catholic network. NRC Log indicates RPR/EWTN. One other possiblyimportant factor is my 600 wire is aimed west, though with seemingly goodresults from stations to the east.
- Any thoughts?
- Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Bill Nollman
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#40873
Of course ;-)
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From: IRCA@groups.io <IRCA@groups.io> On Behalf Of Nick Hall-Patch
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 11:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
From the photo, were you recording FM as well Bill?
Thanks,
Nick
At 12:18 2024-04-12, Bill Nollman wrote:
Thanks Mark.
When it’s all complete I will share the Excel spreadsheet and mp3 files. Most likely as a OneDrive or Dropbox download.
Exact co-ordinates of the loop, 44.950738 N, -73.222272 W. A simple Airbnb with a great owner and a nice big backyard for the loop that also has 4000 feet of fields behind that for someone looking to stretch out a nice big BOG (with permission from the owner). Picture (hopefully) attached.
Bill
From: CapeDX@groups.io <CapeDX@groups.io> On Behalf Of MarkWA1ION via groups.io
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Subject: Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern VermontExcellent report Bill, lots of detail.
When you have it completed, besides posting on the lists, do you plan to have a website posting as Bruce Conti did with his eclipse loggings?
I'll assist if necessary.
Some stations I had forgot about being active such as 600 in Montreal. Totally absent here, even during the eclipse. Aiming NW hits me with a lot of slop from 590 WEZE. Way too much action from the south on 600 at night (Cuba, Colombia, WYEL PR, WBOB FL for starters).
Geographic coordinates of the VT DXpedition site might be worth including.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM, Bill Nollman
<billct97@...> wrote:
This time with the city and state/province….
This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in Northern Vermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the house and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path of totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled. Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeast side.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things were warmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Back at home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PC has a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and is using SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I prefer the audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has the original copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for the strongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s working well and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging the offsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days of reviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and what you see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes) into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w but otherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - BRAMPTON, ON - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - ISLIP, NY - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - WATERBURY, VT - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - BUFFALO, NY - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - OWEN SOUND, ON - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - SYRACUSE, NY - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - OTTAWA, ON - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - ALBANY, NY - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - BOSTON, MA - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - MANCHESTER, NH - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - , - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - BURLINGTON, VT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - SCRANTON, PA - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - WESTFIELD, MA - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - NEW YORK, NY - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - LEWISTOWN, PA - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - BOSTON, MA - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - BINGHAMTON, NY - No ID, songs match recently played. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - TORONTO, ON - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - WALKERSVILLE, MD - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - CINCINNATI, OH - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - NEW YORK, NY - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - SHIREMANSTOWN, PA - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - MONTREAL, QC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - TORONTO, ON - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - , - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - OLYPHANT, PA - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs… "Sunshine , "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - BALTIMORE, MD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - CHAMPLAIN, NY - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - , - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ARLINGTON, VA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - WATERTOWN, NY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ALLENTOWN, PA - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - SCHENECTADY, NY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - HORSEHEADS, NY - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - HAMILTON, ON - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - WORCESTER, MA - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - READING, PA - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - LOUISVILLE, KY - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - , - unID, "All Through The Night" Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - BOSTON, MA - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - RIDGEFIELD, CT - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - TORONTO, ON - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ITHACA, NY - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - EAST LANSING, MI - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - NEW YORK, NY - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON, OH - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - BLACKSBURG, VA - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - CHICAGO, IL - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - HAMILTON, ON - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - CLEARFIELD, PA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - SCRANTON, PA - No ID, "Northeast PA, call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - APOLLO, PA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - RICHMOND, VA - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Nick Hall-Patch
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#40872
From the photo, were you recording FM as well Bill?
Thanks,
Nick
At 12:18 2024-04-12, Bill Nollman wrote:
Thanks Mark.When it’s all complete I will share the Excel spreadsheet and mp3 files.Most likely as a OneDrive or Dropbox download.
Exact co-ordinates of the loop, 44.950738 N, -73.222272 W. A simpleAirbnb with a great owner and a nice big backyard for the loop that alsohas 4000 feet of fields behind that for someone looking to stretch out anice big BOG (with permission from the owner). Picture (hopefully)attached.
Bill
From: CapeDX@groups.io <CapeDX@groups.io> On Behalf Of MarkWA1IONvia groups.io
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 2:26 AM
To: IRCA@groups.io; Bill Nollman <billct97@...>;CapeDX@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern VermontExcellent report Bill, lots of detail.
When you have it completed, besides posting on the lists, do you plan tohave a website posting as Bruce Conti did with his eclipseloggings?
I'll assist if necessary.
Some stations I had forgot about being active such as 600 in Montreal.Totally absent here, even during the eclipse. Aiming NW hits me with alot of slop from 590 WEZE. Way too much action from the south on 600 atnight (Cuba, Colombia, WYEL PR, WBOB FL for starters).
Geographic coordinates of the VT DXpedition site might be worthincluding.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
Sent from AOL on Android
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM, Bill Nollman
<billct97@...> wrote:
This time with the city and state/province….
This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others havereported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures hasbeen slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in NorthernVermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very lownoise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for theSuperloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the houseand did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path oftotality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled.Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeastside.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things werewarmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Backat home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PChas a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and isusing SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I preferthe audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has theoriginal copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for thestrongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s workingwell and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging theoffsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days ofreviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and whatyou see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes)into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w butotherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - BRAMPTON, ON - No ID, foreign language, goodaudio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - ISLIP, NY - No ID, foreign language,888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very goodat peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - WATERBURY, VT - Local, local DJ, eclipsetime mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. -150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - BUFFALO, NY - ID, Schopp and theBulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. -243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - OWEN SOUND, ON - ID, "I Just WannaStop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - SYRACUSE, NY - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYRnewstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - OTTAWA, ON - Newstalk 580, Local eclipsecoverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. -278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - ALBANY, NY - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - BOSTON, MA - ID, Insight For Living M-F at7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM - 323deg,10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - MANCHESTER, NH - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7,good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - , - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. Noaudio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - BURLINGTON, VT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - SCRANTON, PA - ID, Northeast PA's ESPNRadio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - WESTFIELD, MA - ID, The Fabulous 413,Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z,192mi.
660 WFAN - NEW YORK, NY - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalktalking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w,1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - LEWISTOWN, PA - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies -217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - BOSTON, MA - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO,Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - BINGHAMTON, NY - No ID, songs match recentlyplayed. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". -214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - TORONTO, ON - Commercial,"employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. -251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sportsfigure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - WALKERSVILLE, MD - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, fadedup over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - CINCINNATI, OH - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW,traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - NEW YORK, NY - TOH at 3PM (-85dB)regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w,1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - SHIREMANSTOWN, PA - ID, "Open lineMonday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg,2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - MONTREAL, QC - TOH, Radio Circulation,French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - TORONTO, ON - ID, (-90dB) regular daytimereception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - , - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - OLYPHANT, PA - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipsesongs… "Sunshine , "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin'In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - BALTIMORE, MD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show(on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - CHAMPLAIN, NY - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg,35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, (-100dB) regular daytimereception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w,1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - , - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ARLINGTON, VA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z,458mi.
790 WTNY - WATERTOWN, NY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytimereception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, 790 The Score, firstheard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ALLENTOWN, PA - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB -202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, The Voice ofMontreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg,50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - SCHENECTADY, NY - TOH at 3PM, no changeof signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - HORSEHEADS, NY - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose andWPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w,1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage inNYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - HAMILTON, ON - No ID, "Remember TheMoon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg,50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - WORCESTER, MA - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg,50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - READING, PA - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's@1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, Viva Radio,commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - LOUISVILLE, KY - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS,great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - , - unID, "All Through The Night"Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - BOSTON, MA - ID, 617 area code, NortheastMen's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - RIDGEFIELD, CT - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg,2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - ID, 94.1 and 860WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - TORONTO, ON - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w,1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ITHACA, NY - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest onfrequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - EAST LANSING, MI - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg,10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - NEW YORK, NY - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytimereception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. -185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON, OH - ID,"thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. -238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - BLACKSBURG, VA - ID, Joy FM, received for20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - CHICAGO, IL - ID, The Big 89 WLS. -257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - HAMILTON, ON - ID, Global News Radio, liveeclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w,1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - CLEARFIELD, PA - ID, Passport Radio PA,playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, La Mega - 174deg,5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - SCRANTON, PA - No ID, "Northeast PA,call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - APOLLO, PA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda,724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - RICHMOND, VA - ID, "Your home forFlying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg,5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont + Bonus!
Bill Nollman
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#40871
Why wait? All mp3 files have been uploaded to Dropbox for your immediate enjoyment. Download or play right off Dropbox.
But wait there’s more! You will also find (and can download) an Excel spreadsheet with a dump of the FCC MW database (2nd tab) that includes some Excel magic that will calculate your distance and azimuth to each station. Just enter your coordinates into cells P2 and Q2 (no minus for longitude and only in the Western hemisphere, I think).
Enjoy!
Bill
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From: IRCA@groups.io <IRCA@groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill Nollman
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 8:18 AM
To: CapeDX@groups.io; IRCA@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Thanks Mark.
When it’s all complete I will share the Excel spreadsheet and mp3 files. Most likely as a OneDrive or Dropbox download.
Exact co-ordinates of the loop, 44.950738 N, -73.222272 W. A simple Airbnb with a great owner and a nice big backyard for the loop that also has 4000 feet of fields behind that for someone looking to stretch out a nice big BOG (with permission from the owner). Picture (hopefully) attached.
Bill
From: CapeDX@groups.io <CapeDX@groups.io> On Behalf Of MarkWA1ION via groups.io
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 2:26 AM
To: IRCA@groups.io; Bill Nollman <billct97@...>; CapeDX@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Excellent report Bill, lots of detail.
When you have it completed, besides posting on the lists, do you plan to have a website posting as Bruce Conti did with his eclipse loggings?
I'll assist if necessary.
Some stations I had forgot about being active such as 600 in Montreal. Totally absent here, even during the eclipse. Aiming NW hits me with a lot of slop from 590 WEZE. Way too much action from the south on 600 at night (Cuba, Colombia, WYEL PR, WBOB FL for starters).
Geographic coordinates of the VT DXpedition site might be worth including.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM, Bill Nollman
<billct97@...> wrote:
This time with the city and state/province….
This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in Northern Vermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the house and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path of totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled. Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeast side.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things were warmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Back at home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PC has a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and is using SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I prefer the audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has the original copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for the strongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s working well and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging the offsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days of reviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and what you see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes) into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w but otherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - BRAMPTON, ON - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - ISLIP, NY - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - WATERBURY, VT - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - BUFFALO, NY - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - OWEN SOUND, ON - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - SYRACUSE, NY - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - OTTAWA, ON - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - ALBANY, NY - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - BOSTON, MA - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - MANCHESTER, NH - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - , - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - BURLINGTON, VT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - SCRANTON, PA - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - WESTFIELD, MA - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - NEW YORK, NY - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - LEWISTOWN, PA - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - BOSTON, MA - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - BINGHAMTON, NY - No ID, songs match recently played. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - TORONTO, ON - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - WALKERSVILLE, MD - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - CINCINNATI, OH - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - NEW YORK, NY - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - SHIREMANSTOWN, PA - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - MONTREAL, QC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - TORONTO, ON - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - , - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - OLYPHANT, PA - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs… "Sunshine", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - BALTIMORE, MD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - CHAMPLAIN, NY - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - , - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ARLINGTON, VA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - WATERTOWN, NY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ALLENTOWN, PA - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - SCHENECTADY, NY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - HORSEHEADS, NY - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - HAMILTON, ON - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - WORCESTER, MA - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - READING, PA - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - LOUISVILLE, KY - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - , - unID, "All Through The Night" Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - BOSTON, MA - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - RIDGEFIELD, CT - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - TORONTO, ON - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ITHACA, NY - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - EAST LANSING, MI - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - NEW YORK, NY - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON, OH - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - BLACKSBURG, VA - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - CHICAGO, IL - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - HAMILTON, ON - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - CLEARFIELD, PA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - SCRANTON, PA - No ID, "Northeast PA, call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - APOLLO, PA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - RICHMOND, VA - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Recorded AM on Kiwi SDRs during April 8 2024 Solar Eclipse
Ian Hardouin
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#40870
Sending a link to a recording I took using several Kiwi SDRs from 2-3:30 pm ET on 4/8/24 during the Solar Eclipse. Started in Mexico, then later went to Texas, Tennessee, Illinois and upstate New York. The last 30 minutes is primarily the upstate New York SDR tuned to WBZ - I left it there while I went to check out the eclipse myself. Feel free to comb through and send any interesting findings.
I haven't yet gone back through it in full myself, but want to, and also want to record the SDRs on a "regular" weekday as a "control" of sorts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imUlI8UwwEw
Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Bill Nollman
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#40869
Thanks Mark.
When it’s all complete I will share the Excel spreadsheet and mp3 files. Most likely as a OneDrive or Dropbox download.
Exact co-ordinates of the loop, 44.950738 N, -73.222272 W. A simple Airbnb with a great owner and a nice big backyard for the loop that also has 4000 feet of fields behind that for someone looking to stretch out a nice big BOG (with permission from the owner). Picture (hopefully) attached.
Bill
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From: CapeDX@groups.io <CapeDX@groups.io> On Behalf Of MarkWA1ION via groups.io
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 2:26 AM
To: IRCA@groups.io; Bill Nollman <billct97@...>; CapeDX@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] [irca] Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Excellent report Bill, lots of detail.
When you have it completed, besides posting on the lists, do you plan to have a website posting as Bruce Conti did with his eclipse loggings?
I'll assist if necessary.
Some stations I had forgot about being active such as 600 in Montreal. Totally absent here, even during the eclipse. Aiming NW hits me with a lot of slop from 590 WEZE. Way too much action from the south on 600 at night (Cuba, Colombia, WYEL PR, WBOB FL for starters).
Geographic coordinates of the VT DXpedition site might be worth including.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM, Bill Nollman
<billct97@...> wrote:
This time with the city and state/province….
This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in Northern Vermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the house and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path of totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled. Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeast side.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things were warmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Back at home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PC has a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and is using SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I prefer the audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has the original copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for the strongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s working well and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging the offsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days of reviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and what you see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes) into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w but otherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - BRAMPTON, ON - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - ISLIP, NY - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - WATERBURY, VT - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - BUFFALO, NY - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - OWEN SOUND, ON - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - SYRACUSE, NY - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - OTTAWA, ON - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - ALBANY, NY - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - BOSTON, MA - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - MANCHESTER, NH - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - , - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - BURLINGTON, VT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - SCRANTON, PA - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - WESTFIELD, MA - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - NEW YORK, NY - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - LEWISTOWN, PA - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - BOSTON, MA - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - BINGHAMTON, NY - No ID, songs match recently played. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - TORONTO, ON - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - WALKERSVILLE, MD - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - CINCINNATI, OH - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - NEW YORK, NY - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - SHIREMANSTOWN, PA - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - MONTREAL, QC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - TORONTO, ON - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - , - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - OLYPHANT, PA - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs… "Sunshine", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - BALTIMORE, MD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - CHAMPLAIN, NY - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - , - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ARLINGTON, VA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - WATERTOWN, NY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ALLENTOWN, PA - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - SCHENECTADY, NY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - HORSEHEADS, NY - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - HAMILTON, ON - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - WORCESTER, MA - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - READING, PA - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - LOUISVILLE, KY - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - , - unID, "All Through The Night" Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - BOSTON, MA - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - RIDGEFIELD, CT - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - TORONTO, ON - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ITHACA, NY - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - EAST LANSING, MI - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - NEW YORK, NY - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON, OH - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - BLACKSBURG, VA - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - CHICAGO, IL - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - HAMILTON, ON - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - CLEARFIELD, PA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - SCRANTON, PA - No ID, "Northeast PA, call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - APOLLO, PA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - RICHMOND, VA - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Re: Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
MarkWA1ION
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#40868
Excellent report Bill, lots of detail.
When you have it completed, besides posting on the lists, do you plan to have a website posting as Bruce Conti did with his eclipse loggings?
I'll assist if necessary.
Some stations I had forgot about being active such as 600 in Montreal. Totally absent here, even during the eclipse. Aiming NW hits me with a lot of slop from 590 WEZE. Way too much action from the south on 600 at night (Cuba, Colombia, WYEL PR, WBOB FL for starters).
Geographic coordinates of the VT DXpedition site might be worth including.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM, Bill Nollman
<billct97@...> wrote:
This time with the city and state/province….
This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in Northern Vermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the house and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path of totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled. Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeast side.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things were warmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Back at home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PC has a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and is using SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I prefer the audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has the original copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for the strongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s working well and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging the offsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days of reviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and what you see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes) into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w but otherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - BRAMPTON, ON - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - ISLIP, NY - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - WATERBURY, VT - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - BUFFALO, NY - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - OWEN SOUND, ON - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - SYRACUSE, NY - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - OTTAWA, ON - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - ALBANY, NY - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - BOSTON, MA - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - MANCHESTER, NH - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - , - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - BURLINGTON, VT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - SCRANTON, PA - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - WESTFIELD, MA - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - NEW YORK, NY - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - LEWISTOWN, PA - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - BOSTON, MA - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - BINGHAMTON, NY - No ID, songs match recently played. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - TORONTO, ON - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - WALKERSVILLE, MD - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - CINCINNATI, OH - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - NEW YORK, NY - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - SHIREMANSTOWN, PA - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - MONTREAL, QC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - TORONTO, ON - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - , - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - OLYPHANT, PA - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs… "Sunshine", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - BALTIMORE, MD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - CHAMPLAIN, NY - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - , - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ARLINGTON, VA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - WATERTOWN, NY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ALLENTOWN, PA - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - SCHENECTADY, NY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - HORSEHEADS, NY - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - HAMILTON, ON - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - WORCESTER, MA - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - READING, PA - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - LOUISVILLE, KY - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - , - unID, "All Through The Night" Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - BOSTON, MA - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - RIDGEFIELD, CT - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - TORONTO, ON - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ITHACA, NY - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - EAST LANSING, MI - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - NEW YORK, NY - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON, OH - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - BLACKSBURG, VA - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - CHICAGO, IL - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - HAMILTON, ON - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - CLEARFIELD, PA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - SCRANTON, PA - No ID, "Northeast PA, call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - APOLLO, PA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - RICHMOND, VA - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
2nd new logging from Eclipse
Jim Renfrew
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In addition to WRQX 600 Patriot Radio, Salem OH, I just now found CKLG 570 from Kitchener ON with "City News" at 1916z on April 10. Thiswas just before max totality in Niagara Falls..This may be my closest unheard station, long sought, but always blocked by WSYR Syracuse and WKBN Youngstown. I just checked, and as I recalled, the day and night patternsof CKGL aim north and away from me. I guess it took once in a lifetime conditions to get it! For those keeping track, these are #2733 and #2734 in the log book.
Also just found an unusual reception of WVNE 760 at around 1915, deep under WJR. An ACLJ program that does not match any another station on 760. This was about six minutes before max totality at my home. It's quite evident at 1930, but it seems like my west wire was able to catch this much earlier than expected. Oh, now I see why ... it operates with 25 kw before critical hours.
Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
11 Apr 2024 Victoria version
Nick Hall-Patch
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#40866
Local sunrise monitoring took place from 1230 to 1400UT.
Poorer yet, mostly the common Asian big guns, with a slight touch of DU
(legend for audio quality below: p = poor, f = fair, g = good, vg = very good. e = excellent)
NHK1 -
NHK2 - JOIB-747 p // JOUB-774 f, JOBB-828 p
other Japanese - 1242.0000?p
S. Korea - HLCA-972 f, HLAZ-1566 g
N.Korea -
China -
Taiwan -
Thailand -
Australia - 611,9995?p
Tonga - 1017 f
Fiji -
Palau -
notables?
best times for listening:
1300-1330UT
best wishes,
Nick
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
Menauhant DX 4/9/2024
Roy Barstow
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G33 - 10X16 Ft. Loop - FLG100LN
After the eclipse i went back later for some DX
No static and many stations coming in as well as Spain and the UK.
The best at 0000 UTC and no pips before and after 0000
0000
540 Spain - T - 5+1 pips in the mix CLIP
700 UNK - With 5+1 pips under WLW
720 WGCR - NC. - S/OFF CLIP
750 UNK - 5+1 pips under WSB and CBGY NL
810 BAH. - Along w/5+1 pips late CLIP
840 UNK - 5+1 pips along w/WHAS
870 WLVP - ME. - Cuba and others, but no pips
890 WKNV - VA. On top - Joy FM
909 UK. - Fair
940 WCPC - MS. - On top
945 Mumbles, but turned out to be Angola 945.0105 per offset at 2349
999 Spain - S8
1017 Spain - weak w/slop
1071 Carrier
1089 UK. - Peak at S9+10
1188 Iran - carrier
1503 Spain - Talk but weak
1510 WPGR - PA. - On top CLIP
1539 UNK. - Weak w/woman talking
1540.120 About- Equal to 1540 at times and points to ? WECZ - PA.
1557 UK. - Weak music- at 1557.003 w/offset at 0007 UTC
Picture of truck at my new haunt off Foster Road just West of
Menauhant Beach. I can point to around 135 to 140 degree w/salt water
about 200 ft. away.
That is it for now. Take care,
Roy Barstow - Falmouth, MA.
Re: Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Nick Hall-Patch
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Wonderfully detailed set of loggings, Bill. Looking forward to therest, and thanks for submitting the details to MWoffsets.
all the best,
Nick
At 22:31 2024-04-11, Bill Nollman wrote:
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This might be my first DX reportto IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event toDX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to sharewhat I have so far.The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in NorthernVermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out tobe very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of spacefor the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from thehouse and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the pathof totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled.Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeastside.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things werewarmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Backat home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PChas a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and isusing SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I preferthe audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has theoriginal copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for thestrongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s workingwell and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging theoffsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days ofreviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and whatyou see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes)into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w butotherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. -256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief(national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w,1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TSElliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local,47mi.
550 WGR - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90%stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli,very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33.Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2ndstation sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local,123mi.
590 WROW - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg,5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM,weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w,1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard.- 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carrshow at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, verystrong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about aeclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z,372mi.
680 WRKO - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg,50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - No ID, songs match recently played. "CountryCasanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z,235mi.
680 CFTR - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca".Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was"eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. -210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving aftereclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception.Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", nosign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w,Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs…"Sunshine", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' InThe Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio),poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The RudyGuiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986,probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg,1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again@1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z,318mi.
800 CJAD - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minuteaircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal duringeclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRNNews. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back athome is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy,Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z,349mi.
830 WCRN - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. -206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. -173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg,50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - unID, "All Through The Night" CyndiLauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml,The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. -223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM(-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w,1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for afew seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completelycovering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z,770mi.
900 CHML - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage,news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fadesover CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - No ID, "Northeast PA, call1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml -228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball,Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z,553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada
Eclipse DX from Niagara Falls, NY
Gerard Hart
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#40863
From my recordings: 100% totality SDRPlay RSPdx YouLoop antenna
| 1920 ut | WCBS | 880 | NY | New York | All News |
| WLW | 700 | OH | Cinncinati | Talk | |
| 1922 ut | KDKA | 1020 | PA | Pittsburgh | Talk |
| KYW | 1060 | PA | Philadelphia | ||
| CKLW | 800 | ON | Windsor | Various | |
| 1923 ut | WWVA | 1170 | WV | Wheeling | |
| 1926 ut | WBBR | 1130 | NY | New York | Business News |
| WFAN | 660 | NY | New York | Sports | |
| WAVA | 780 | MD | Arlington | Religious New Daytimer | |
| WMUZ | 1200 | MI | Taylor | Religious New Daytimer Pastor Jack Hibbs | |
| 1930 ut | WOR | 710 | NY | New York | Talk |
| WFED | 1500 | DC | Washington | Federal Gov News | |
| WHGT | 1590 | MD | Maugansville | Religious New Daytimer | |
| WYLL | 1160 | IL | Chicago | Religious New Daytimer Salem | |
| 1936 ut | WTAM | 1100 | OH | Cleveland | Talk |
| Jerry Hart | |||||
| Niagara Falls, NY |
Re: Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Bill Nollman
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#40862
This time with the city and state/province….
This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in Northern Vermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the house and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path of totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled. Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeast side.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things were warmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Back at home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PC has a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and is using SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I prefer the audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has the original copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for the strongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s working well and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging the offsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days of reviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and what you see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes) into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w but otherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - BRAMPTON, ON - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - ISLIP, NY - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - WATERBURY, VT - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - BUFFALO, NY - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - OWEN SOUND, ON - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - SYRACUSE, NY - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - OTTAWA, ON - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - ALBANY, NY - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - BOSTON, MA - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - MANCHESTER, NH - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - , - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - BURLINGTON, VT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - SCRANTON, PA - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - WESTFIELD, MA - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - NEW YORK, NY - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - LEWISTOWN, PA - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - BOSTON, MA - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - BINGHAMTON, NY - No ID, songs match recently played. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - TORONTO, ON - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - WALKERSVILLE, MD - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - CINCINNATI, OH - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - NEW YORK, NY - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - SHIREMANSTOWN, PA - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - MONTREAL, QC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - TORONTO, ON - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - , - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - OLYPHANT, PA - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs… "Sunshine", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - BALTIMORE, MD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - CHAMPLAIN, NY - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - , - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ARLINGTON, VA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - WATERTOWN, NY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - PROVIDENCE, RI - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ALLENTOWN, PA - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - MONTREAL, QC - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - SCHENECTADY, NY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - HORSEHEADS, NY - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - NEW YORK, NY - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - HAMILTON, ON - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - WORCESTER, MA - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - READING, PA - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - LOUISVILLE, KY - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - , - unID, "All Through The Night" Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - BOSTON, MA - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - RIDGEFIELD, CT - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - TORONTO, ON - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ITHACA, NY - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - EAST LANSING, MI - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - NEW YORK, NY - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - COLUMBUS-WORTHINGTON, OH - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - BLACKSBURG, VA - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - CHICAGO, IL - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - HAMILTON, ON - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - CLEARFIELD, PA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - NEW BRITAIN, CT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - SCRANTON, PA - No ID, "Northeast PA, call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - APOLLO, PA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - RICHMOND, VA - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Eclipse DX from Northern Vermont
Bill Nollman
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This might be my first DX report to IRCA and like many others have reported, it has been a fun event to DX. Reviewing the SDR captures has been slow going but I wanted to share what I have so far.
The day after the October 2023 eclipse I booked an Airbnb in Northern Vermont for the April 8th eclipse and the place turned out to be very low noise (daytime NYC 50kw’s at 283 miles!) with plenty of space for the Superloop. I was able to put the Superloop 150 feet away from the house and did my usual 20’x60’ loop aimed at 245 degrees (along the path of totality) with the termination set so the back end wasn’t nulled. Although so far I’ve received very little off the northeast side.
Perseus with Jaguar v9 captured non-stop for 2 days to ensure things were warmed up and that timed recordings didn’t fail (hi Vince, Jim :-). Back at home I’ve tried a new method for reviewing captures. The Desktop PC has a copy of the 3PM-4PM capture files (totality was 3:26-3:29PM) and is using SDR-Console for primary playback and audio capture to MP3. I prefer the audio and waterfall in SDR-Console over Jaguar. The laptop has the original copy of the files and is running Jaguar to look for the strongest carriers and to identify multiple carrier/offsets. It’s working well and has helped id some of the tough ones. I’m also logging the offsets to add to mwoffsets.
Here’s what I’ve been able to compile so far after 2 solid days of reviewing. I keep my DX logs in Excel with 10+ columns of data and what you see below is some of that data merged (hopefully without mistakes) into a single line with an Excel formula. The unID’s have 0mi and 0w but otherwise it should all look good.
530 CHLO - No ID, foreign language, good audio at peak. - 256deg, 1000w, 1927z, 342mi.
540 WBWD - No ID, foreign language, 888-888-9914 Debt Relief (national), 800-491-6920 (national), very good at peak. - 179deg, 10000w, 1933z, 289mi.
550 WDEV - Local, local DJ, eclipse time mistake @1918, TS Elliot reading @1919, WGR cci started @1922. - 150deg, 5000w, Local, 47mi.
550 WGR - ID, Schopp and the Bulldog, sports talk, 90% stronger than piano on WDEV @1930, strong. - 243deg, 5000w, 1930z, 317mi.
560 CFOS - ID, "I Just Wanna Stop" Gino Vanelli, very weak - 268deg, 5000w, 1928z, 377mi.
570 WSYR - ID, end of Fox news, 570 WSYR newstime is 3:33. Local news stories. - 228deg, 5000w, 1934z, 198mi.
580 CFRA - Newstalk 580, Local eclipse coverage, news, 2nd station sounded like WTOP. 20 minute aircheck. - 278deg, 50000w, Local, 123mi.
590 WROW - TOH at 3PM, Magic 100.9 and AM 590 - 189deg, 5000w, Local, 166mi.
590 WEZE - ID, Insight For Living M-F at 7AM on WEZE 590 AM, weak - 147deg, 5000w, 1929z, 205mi.
600 CFQR - TOH at 3PM - 323deg, 10000w, Local, 38mi.
610 WGIR - ID, Newsradio 610 and 96.7, good. - 146deg, 5000w, 1930z, 159mi.
610 unID - unID, 2nd strong offset on Jaguar. No audio heard. - 0deg, w, 1933z, 0mi.
620 WVMT - TOH, Newstalk WVMT FM 96.3 and AM 620. Howie Carr show at 3PM. - 179deg, 5000w, Local, 28mi.
630 WPRO - ID, Newstalk 99.7 FM and AM 630. The Dan York show 3:39PM. - 155deg, 5000w, 1937z, 239mi.
630 WEJL - ID, Northeast PA's ESPN Radio, 1st station on 630kHz - 207deg, 2000w, 1929z, 273mi.
640 WNNZ - ID, The Fabulous 413, Northeast Public Radio, very strong @1933. - 172deg, 50000w, 1930z, 192mi.
660 WFAN - Evan & Tiki, Sportstalk talking about a eclipse letdown in New York City. - 185deg, 50000w, 1932z, 283mi.
670 WLUI - ID, The Big Lewie, Oldies - 217deg, 5400w, 1933z, 372mi.
680 WRKO - ID, The Voice of Boston WRKO, Howie Carr - 148deg, 50000w, 1933z, 197mi.
680 WINR - No ID, songs match recently played. "Country Casanova", "Margaritaville". - 214deg, 5000w, 1931z, 235mi.
680 CFTR - Commercial, "employmentlawyer.ca". Country underneath doesn't match WINR. - 251deg, 50000w, 1926z, 338mi.
690 CKGM - TOH at 3PM, TSN 690, sports figure that was "eclipsed" - 314deg, 50000w, Local, 34mi.
700 WDMV - ID, La Jefa 700 AM, faded up over WLW quickly. - 210deg, 5000w, 1926z, 433mi.
700 WLW - ID, Newsradio 700 WLW, traffic leaving after eclipse. - 239deg, 50000w, 1923z, 686mi.
710 WOR - TOH at 3PM (-85dB) regular daytime reception. Weather at 3:32PM (-60dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 290mi.
720 WHYF - ID, "Open line Monday here on EWTN", no sign of WGN Chicago on Jaguar. - 211deg, 2500w, 1931z, 372mi.
730 CKAC - TOH, Radio Circulation, French - 317deg, 50000w, Local, 53mi.
740 CHWO - ID, (-90dB) regular daytime reception. Traffic at 3:28PM (-70dB). - 256deg, 50000w, 1930z, 339mi.
740 unID - unID 2nd station - Jaguar has 739.9956 and 740.0016. - 0deg, w, 1930z, 0mi.
750 WGMF - ID, Gem 99 and 100, eclipse songs… "Sunshine", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Dancin' In The Moonlight". - 206deg, 1600w, 1934z, 265mi.
750 WBMD - ID, The Drew Mariani Show (on Relevant Radio), poor rx. - 204deg, 800w, 1932z, 423mi.
760 WCHP - TOH at 3PM. - 268deg, 35000w, Local, 10mi.
770 WABC - ID, (-100dB) regular daytime reception. The Rudy Guiliani Show at 3:32PM (-70dB) - 188deg, 50000w, 1932z, 284mi.
770 unID - unID Oldies station - Jaguar has 739.9986, probably WKFB-PA - 0deg, w, 1932z, 0mi.
780 WAVA - ID - 207deg, 12000w, 1929z, 458mi.
790 WTNY - TOH at 3PM, regular daytime reception. - 243deg, 1000w, Local, 151mi.
790 WPRV - ID, 790 The Score, first heard @1936 then again @1956. - 155deg, 5000w, 1936z, 234mi.
790 WAEB - ID, Newsradio 790 WAEB - 202deg, 1500w, 1930z, 318mi.
800 CJAD - TOH at 3PM, The Voice of Montreal, 30 minute aircheck of eclipse coverage in Montreal. - 324deg, 50000w, Local, 25mi.
810 WGY - TOH at 3PM, no change of signal during eclipse. - 195deg, 50000w, Local, 154mi.
820 WPGO - TOH, WPEL FM Montrose and WPGO Horseheads, SRN News. Strongest @1920, TOH @2000. - 224deg, 4100w, 1920z, 264mi.
820 WNYC - ID, NPR, eclipse coverage in NYC. Offset back at home is 820.0027. - 189deg, 10000w, 1940z, 293mi.
820 CHAM - No ID, "Remember The Moon" Comedy, Jaguar offset different from WNYC and WPGO. - 251deg, 50000w, 1920z, 349mi.
830 WCRN - ID, Radio 830 WCRN - 160deg, 50000w, 1931z, 197mi.
830 WEEU - ID, The Voice 830 WEEU, ID's @1920 and @1931. - 206deg, 20000w, 1920z, 339mi.
840 WRYM - ID, Viva Radio, commercials in Bridgeport. - 173deg, 1000w, 1932z, 226mi.
840 WHAS - ID, Newsradio 840 WHAS, great signal! - 237deg, 50000w, 1924z, 779mi.
850 unID - unID, "All Through The Night" Cyndi Lauper, could be WKGE or WYLF - 0deg, w, 1920z, 0mi.
850 WEEI - ID, 617 area code, Northeast Men's Health cmml, The Bet QL Network. - 151deg, 50000w, 1919z, 208mi.
850 WAXB - ID, Juan 850. - 183deg, 2500w, 1939z, 253mi.
860 WSBS - ID, 94.1 and 860 WSBS, a few ID's, in until almost 4PM. - 181deg, 2700w, 1939z, 189mi.
860 CJBC - ID, French - 256deg, 50000w, 1926z, 339mi.
870 WHCU - ID, Newstalk WHCU, strongest on frequency. - 223deg, 5000w, 1930z, 232mi.
870 WKAR - ID, under WHCU. - 258deg, 10000w, 1930z, 581mi.
880 WCBS - TOH, (-80dB) regular daytime reception. At 3:26PM (-60dB). Eclipse report with WRFD equal or weaker. - 185deg, 50000w, 1926z, 283mi.
880 WRFD - ID, "thewordcolumbus", over WCBS for a few seconds @19:27:50. - 238deg, 23000w, 1927z, 606mi.
890 WKNV - ID, Joy FM, received for 20+ minutes completely covering WLS. - 218deg, 10000w, 1932z, 662mi.
890 WLS - ID, The Big 89 WLS. - 257deg, 50000w, 1923z, 770mi.
900 CHML - ID, Global News Radio, live eclipse coverage, news. Fades into Passport Radio PA. - 254deg, 50000w, 1930z, 359mi.
900 WCPA - ID, Passport Radio PA, playing Classic Hits, fades over CHML. - 226deg, 2500w, 1932z, 377mi.
910 WLAT - ID, La Mega - 174deg, 5000w, 1935z, 224mi.
910 WAAF - No ID, "Northeast PA, call 1-888-CALL-GRASSHOPPER" cmml - 207deg, 900w, 1922z, 273mi.
910 WJFA - No ID, Red Ribbon Soda, 724-224-9224 cmml - 228deg, 5000w, 1933z, 439mi.
910 WRNL - ID, "Your home for Flying Squirrels baseball, Sportsradio 910 and 105.1 The Fan. - 205deg, 5000w, 1926z, 553mi.
Bill Nollman
Farmington, CT (home)
Swanton, Vermont (eclipse)
Re: New station logged during eclipse
Jim Renfrew
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WICC was surprisingly strong after 1923. Remains to be seen if Caribou ME appears post 1933. Good reception from WZAN 970, and 870 WLVP, as early as 1923, not to mention an NDB from FrederictionNB.
A productivechannel has been 870: WHCU, WKAR, WPWT, WLVP
Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 3:59 PM MarkWA1ION via groups.io <MarkWA1ION=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
600 wasn't giving anything here except weak WICC groundwave. I was expecting maybe a showing by CKAT or WFST but eclipse effects on the low end of the dial were muted compared to higher up.Ben Shapiro ... meh. I'd be a lot happier hearing '60s schoolgirl superstar Helen Shapiro coming out of my radio instead.
I certainly heard more than my fair share of wingnut talk content during this daytime listening adventure.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 1:19 PM, Jim Renfrew
<jim.renfrew@...> wrote:
Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
1921z
600 WRQX OH Salem "The Patriot" with the very unpleasant Ben Shapiro Show. New station. Strong signal disappeared by the next Perseus clip at 1923. This was eclipse max here.
One nice thing about these these non-TOH and non-BOH recordings is more local program breaks at eclipse time.
Re: New station logged during eclipse
MarkWA1ION
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600 wasn't giving anything here except weak WICC groundwave. I was expecting maybe a showing by CKAT or WFST but eclipse effects on the low end of the dial were muted compared to higher up.
Ben Shapiro ... meh. I'd be a lot happier hearing '60s schoolgirl superstar Helen Shapiro coming out of my radio instead.
I certainly heard more than my fair share of wingnut talk content during this daytime listening adventure.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA, USA | FN41vq
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 1:19 PM, Jim Renfrew
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Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
1921z
600 WRQX OH Salem "The Patriot" with the very unpleasant Ben Shapiro Show. New station. Strong signal disappeared by the next Perseus clip at 1923. This was eclipse max here.
One nice thing about these these non-TOH and non-BOH recordings is more local program breaks at eclipse time.
Re: The End of The Eclipse Adventure
Roy Barstow
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#40858
940 Joy FM would be VA.
Roy
On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 10:49 PM Vince Cavaseno via groups.io
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I had started halfway through the dial last time, so here’s the lower half from the eclipse. Only a few new ones.670 WSCR IL with ID @ 1524 edt. Good. Not strong (S4) but clear. At the start of the recording, just noise at 1512.
690 CKGM QC Fading in at 1530 with story about the Expos.
700 WLW OH Peaking at a good level (S5) @ 1526
720 WGN IL Weak S2-3 Peaks at 1522 and 1528
730 WJIB ME mixed with CKAC.
750 WBMD MD Relevant Radio. Faded in at 1527. Strong by 1532 (when my recording ended).
760 Just WVNE @ 1512. WJR MI faded in at 1525 then took over talking to kids about the eclipse.
780 WAVA VA faded in at 1523. No sign of WBBM
800 Weak talk at 1512, assume WTMR. CKLW faded in at 1523, strong (S7) by 1525
810 WGY NY faded in at 1518. Fair in WCRN slop.
830 WCRN MA alone, then mixed with Dave Ramsey Show, probably WEEU PA. Good signal at 1528.
840 Weak unID mixed with SS WRYM CT
860 WWDB PA talk giving way to CJBC QC@ 1526
870 WHCU NY faded in at 1523. Fair signal with fading
890 WLS IL Good signal (S5). Fade in at 1519
900 WJWL DE with SS as usual @ 1512, mixing with black talk station, probably WURD at 1524, finally yielding to a strong (S8) CHML
910 WLAT CT SS @ 1512 giving way to WSBA PA at 1530 (clip) [New] in WHJJ slop. LSB only way to get clear audio.
930 A strong WPAT NJ with WBEN NY bubbling up below at 1530 with traffic report.
940 Regular Joy FM, WKGM VA, making room for Relevant Radio. Only possible station listed in Relevant Radio website on 940 is WIDG MI. (clip of Joy FM ID at 1526) No ID from Relevant.
960 Initially WELI CT, but a second unID station coming fading in with perhaps Fox News also and traffic report at 1532.
990 First weak religious talk, probably WNTP PA, yielding to WDCX NY fading in at 1518 and achieving a S7 level, then yielding again to a strong (S7) WGGI PA: “Discover New Country on Froggy 95.5” (clip) [New]
1000 WMVP fading in @ 1519 with fair signal (S4), giving way to WIOO PA with an ID within the last 2 sec. of the recording! Country Gold FM. Already heard here.
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Vince C.
Mashpee, MA
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On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 9:50 PM Peter Laws <plaws0@...> wrote:
If you are an IRCA member, please consider writing up your MW eclipse
shenanigans, whatever they were. Audio clips welcome. Send them to
DXM.EiC@... and Phil will publish in next week's issue. Please
don't wait until the weekend!
"But Peter, I already did that and posted it here. Why would I send
it to the DX Monitor Editor?"
In 25 years, the chances of this mailing list's archive being around
are nearly zero. The chances of DX Monitor being archived are much
much higher (see, for example, https://www.worldradiohistory.com/ and
https://archive.org/details/dlarc . Your records might be something
needed by some future ionospheric researcher ...
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Peter Laws
Editor, DX Worldwide/Tropical Band DX, DX Monitor
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New station logged during eclipse
Jim Renfrew
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Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
1921z
600 WRQX OH Salem "The Patriot" with the very unpleasant Ben Shapiro Show. New station. Strong signal disappeared by the next Perseus clip at 1923. This was eclipse max here.
One nice thing about these these non-TOH and non-BOH recordings is more local program breaks at eclipse time.
Eclipse experience on the AM band
John Hudak
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#40855
I wasn't sure what to expect with regards to the effect the solar eclipse would have on propagation, or to what degree, but so far I'm amazed at the results. On Monday I did a 7 hour long IQ recording of the AM band while I headed out with my grandson to get as close to the centre line as we could near Lake Erie. I thought my IQ recordings might show a few stations coming up during maximum, but so far I'm hearing an effect on just about every 10kHz. channel that doesn't have a local on it. I've only just started doing a quick listen to my recordings and to date I've got some 20 or so eclipse effect loggings. Maybe in hindsight that shouldn't be a surprise as I'm in a highly populated area which is surrounded by many stations both in Canada and the U.S., and my location is in the path of totality.
I used my SDRplay RSPdx running SDRuno with a Cross Country Wireless active loop antenna. I set up SDRuno to automatically start recording the full AM broadcast band from 11a.m. until 6p.m. my time (1500 to 2200 UTC). This generated 117GB of data. Fortunately all the propagation action takes place around the time the shadow passed over this part of the continent, with the maximum occurring here at 3:19p.m. The rest of the 7 hours is baseline data for comparison.
I also did several 7 hour recordings on the days before and after the eclipse for comparison.
I'm now slogging through the recordings, 10kHz at a time. Stations that I hear at night but not during the day came up quite nicely as the shadow came by. Then there seems to be some stations that I've not picked up before at night but that did come up during eclipse maximum. This would probably be due to the fact that I was receiving them at their higher daytime power level, whereas normally they would be too weak for me to hear at night at their reduced post sunset power level. These would in particular be the "graveyard" channels. Even during the eclipse some graveyard channels were a mess due to numerous stations coming in at the same time. I wondered if the fast moving shadow might help to filter out some stations, which may very well have happened. Even so some channels came up with too many stations. I'll get a better feel for the situation when I go back and listen to these channels again. The "obvious" stations that I hear all the time at night are easy to ID, but the other ones are going to be difficult depending on how long the signals were audible. Some stations came up for several tens of minutes, which made it easier to catch an ID, while others were there only for a few minutes, or were quite weak. I think some of them will probably remain unidentified. Others I can probably take a good guess at depending on what program material I can make out. There's a lot of work ahead of me but I consider this whole exercise to have been a great success. I'll probably be passing along this data to those organizations who requested help with this event.
And oh yeah. The eclipse was amazing. In the past I've seen a number of partial eclipses and one annular eclipse, but this was my first total eclipse This was also the first eclipse of any kind for my grandson. He was totally blown away . It was not only the darkness and the beauty of the visuals, but also the noticeable drop in temperature, and the birds coming home to roost and then having to get up and take off again after only 4 minutes of "night". And being on the north shore of Lake Erie we could easily see the shadow coming at us at almost 2300 mph. Very impressive. If you ever get a chance to experience a total solar eclipse do so. It's amazing.
Cheers,
John
