Here's a few audio recordings of some recent catches in the last week or so
Ridgway, PA (NW corner of the state) 2000 feet in elevation Sony XDRF1HD radio with 5 element Kathrein Scala YA7 Yagi NEW LOG! Thursday April 5th, I had my radio on 103.5 and got a very quick fade up at about 7:30pm, "...48 degrees outside the glass enclosed nerve center in upper Northwest...." and that's all I had before it disappeared. Thanks to Scott Fybush, he told me this was 44KW/518 feet, 190.81 miles distant WTOP Washington, DC! Here's the audio with the temperature mention: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AdcbazwU1mrwfOALOuHGMRKQO7GsMh0f/view?usp=sharing About 90 minutes later I had another quick fade up with a story just concluding from a reporter followed by the in studio anchor, "...... WTOP News. Maryland's governor put pen to paper...." Here's the audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EoysfnIR1zQP6wxXAzlXom3ysNZ3gNrU/view?usp=sharing I've already sent these clips to one of WTOP's engineers :) NEW LOG!! CKOT-FM 101.3 Tillsonburg, Ontario. 26KW at 674 feet, 155.44 miles. This was made possible by the fact 45 mile distant 6kw equivalent WKFT Strattanville, PA was off the air due to a power outage. CKOT is my favorite log of the last week or two. It was pretty easy to figure out I had something knew, the soft music they were playing stuck out. I heard several "Easy 101" jingles, including this station at just before 9am on Wednesday April 4th: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vk_ZXGKR1eN9PhF7M5Gh4rCMGcAqfZ4x/view?usp=sharing And here they are with a station jingle into a live announcer talking: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXY5GecuOiRvxl2oMlTPz2V_7n57t60M/view?usp=sharing And here they are with a jingle then into a song. The signal got real weak at times, fading up and down, but overall this little bit of reception hung on for nearly 4 minutes unlike the usual 5-10-20 second fade ups. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19XdUkoqEU_GtyktZUpKOKLtgE0AVxz1o/view?usp=sharing And at about 947am, here is when WKFT signs back on and blasts CKOT out of the water: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_-g-nbi4358E7JoKE77tJVkJpSWRYpcC/view?usp=sharing NEW LOG!! WMHR-FM 102.9 Syracuse, NY. 20KW/789 feet, 167.72 miles. I wasn't hearing the usual "OK!102.9" AC music or "Y103" classic rock. At first, I had a preacher and then some Christian music. It would fade up for 20-25 seconds at a time. Here's two of the longer, more prominent, clear audio recordings of music on WMHR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3I9i1yzn3QAsJhVcXjOQanq92KXIuoC/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3GfR92WJFXi4OSoyLXdwZYebhI-Oq2x/view?usp=sharing _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
