Local (daylight) AM signals actually are ture ground wave, where the transmitter antenna induces currents in the surface of the Earth !

How I check for bad WX ! Love the ability to get a WX forecast and current conditions at the press of a button/ SURE it is not something to listen for any long period of time, But it is nice to have. I Have 3 scanners two desk top and one portable, I keep one chan programmed for wx, usually locked ...

I have noticed a few "short stacks" FMBC antennas, around the Detroit Metro area , a few in the New Center area/.

a 26 inch dipole made of # 10-16 gauge insulated wire would work better for "Fox 2" (RF ch 7) than a high priced UHF antenna that is dsigned for more than twice the freq you want !

There was a lot of activity on 30-50 MHz band in my early years of mobile radio repair work. I could hear sporadic E-layer propagation bringing southern State's Sheriff departmant signals into the Detroit area, strong and clear in the summers. Little by little the users migrated , first to 420-450 M...

CFRX 6070 is alive and well. Just now tuned in with my 90 Ft dipole up 35 Ft in trees. It is reading S9+20 on the FT990 meter. Not bad for 1 kW ! CFRB on 1010 is not doing as well with the daytime D layer soaking up the signal, audible but with QSB (fading) and a best reading about S8, using a 250 F...

At night I was hearing WMT in Cedar Rapids . IA from the three tower dogleg array, Reminded me that I have been there and seen the WMT antenna.

Mega Hertz wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:57 pm

I just posted on my Facebook the other night that I love nighttime AM radio. News from New York, sports from Chicago and hate-filled fear mongering from all over thr country.

And George Noory you can hear from 40 different cities at night !

RadioKev wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:02 pm

WWV gives you updates on the time about every minute or so

It's a bit more accurate than "about every minute". also gives propagation reports and marine storm warnings for shipping. Is also a primary frequency standard.

Our govt is not like the one in Cuba (yet) and would not be interested in giving WWV over to a civilian outfit, They would rather just scrap it.
In Cuba all those stations with the same program are also eliminating any signals from the outside from getting to the people.

One morning, a lot of years ago, I heard a station giving out traffic warnings during an ice storm in Oklahoma, wiped out 740 in Toronto totally. Seems like a station in Tulsa (maybe KRMG ?) was running the daytime power of 50 kW and daytime antenna during the emergency situation. . Some times you j...

syntheticexctasy wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:25 am

Have been hearing various E-skip (or perhaps F2?) just about every morning for the last week now.

Most likely some E-layer popping up, not going to be any F-layer skip up on that freq range, with the low solar activity..

Strong enough to be local, maybe commercial paging is trying to reclaim 27 MHz channels.
May be testing a system. When I first started in mobile radio servicing (4 decades + ago), there were a few systems on the 27 MHz range. using legally assigned channels for paging.

I was in that building, some years ago, doing some long overdue maintainance on the Detroit Schools security radio system. I had to walk past some of the original TV transmitting equipment. Also a working studio for the FM station that is probably a back-up for the new broadcast facility in Wixom ! ...

I recall the Rock format battle between CKLW, WKNR, WXYZ and WJBK in the 60's. When I was 17 I brought the first FM radio into our house, It was a three tube Granco Tuner that I listened to with some qulaity crystal earphones I rescued from my high school language lab, (trashed because of a broken p...