I wanted to share my 2 favorite FM DX Catches of the last few weeks, I'm a little behind in posting some stuff.. but I like to save the posting of logs to the interesting stuff
CKLQ-FM 91.5 Brandon, Manitoba. 100,000 Watts/1000 feet, 1192.49 miles away and ZBM-FM 89..1 Hamilton, Bermuda. I am in Ridgway Pennsylvania, about 80 miles southeast of Erie PA using a 5 element Kathrein Scala YA7 and modified Sony XDRF1HD Radio (www.xdrguy.com) I heard CKLQ-FM 91.5 on Monday July 9th, 2018 between 204pm and 240pm eastern/140pm central. Here are a few audio recordings End of a newscast at 204pm eastern/104pm central: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MqL6d6fQ2PGlXqgXzOUlxI2F3apG9nFi/view?usp=sharing Weather forecast at 205pm eastern https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fz7eycl1iCsfXY61SAeIoaAktRUpvbXm/view?usp=sharing At 224pm eastern, the signal fades up with a song and then at about 10 seconds in, there's a liner.. "cotton candy, ferris wheels, parades and pancake breakfasts.. join us for Fair Season on QCountry 91.5" and then it goes into a song. The signal gets fairly strong at time, with some deep fades https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QYjq8boHNQimj8lLXXq_2YeBHxmqvQbc/view?usp=sharing And here at 232pm eastern/132pm the signal is insanely strong for about 3 minutes, with some fades.. there's a "Westmans greatest country...Qcountry 91.5" liner at about 10 seconds in: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KL3mQmAZuNgw1z-oVFbA0TYWt0kTcQc9/view?usp=sharing The signal is crunchy, grungy and crackly because I have a 250 Watt transmitter on 91.1 about 2380 feet away. What makes this a bit interesting is this came in off the back of my antenna. My 5 element yagi was pointed east because pointing it west put it in the path of a little 700 watt signal near Cleveland OH that would overwhelm my antenna and radio. I heard Ocean 89, ZBM Hamilton Bermuda on Wednesday June 27th 1027am with live sports coverage and RDS even showed up. Here's the audio recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/132xbUxiPLOfv3gW1WEqN2dQYf0upoAYy/view?usp=sharing Here's the RDS: https://imgur.com/a/3SgRW1v Paul _ 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
