I love the sound of Canada in the morning

My morning commute is around local sunrise (6:50 AM today), so listening to the stock radio in my 2007 Subaru Outback Sport has been interesting. I logged one new station (WQOM), which I mentioned in my previous post and I would not be surprised if I logged more new stations.

This morning, I heard the following stations loud and clear during my 35-minute commute; they were already in my log, but it was interesting to hear them nonetheless:

• CKLW – 800 kc, Windsor, Ontario
• WGY – 810 kc, Schenectady, New York
• CHML – 900 kc, Hamilton, Ontario
• CKNX – 920 kc, Wingham, Ontario

Very cool!

Success to the North

I added another station while hanging around the graveyard frequencies Thursday evening at 2300 UTC: WSNO on 1450 kc transmitting 1 kW from Barre, Vermont, 179 miles north. Using the CC Skywave receiver barefoot, I heard WSNO's signal at an S-1 level for about two minutes before it disappeared in the cacophony typical on the graveyard frequencies.

Next morning, as I began my morning commute, I caught a rare new one while mobile: WQOM on 1060 kc transmitting 2.5 kW from Natick, Massachusetts, 89 miles east-northeast. It was a very brief reception of a traffic report as I drove out of WQOM's coverage area of the moment. Equipment used was my 2007 Subaru Outback Sport's stock radio and antenna.

Sunday dawn, I heard a lot of interesting stations on my barefoot CC Skywave, but only one new one: the station identification of WTWN on 1100 kc transmitting 5 kW from Wells River, Vermont, 180 miles north-northwest. Interestingly, while on vacation in that area, I have driven by WTWN's studios on Route 302 many times, but this was the first time I actually heard the station on the air.

WCTC

I'm still hanging around the graveyard frequencies and last evening (2256 UTC) I caught WCTC on 1450 kc transmitting 1000 watts 110 miles to the southwest in New Brunswick, NJ. I heard WCTC again this morning just before sunrise ― both times an S-1 signal heard using the CC Skywave receiver barefoot.

2 for 1 on 1340

Source: NECRAT.us

I have been listening to the graveyard frequencies the last few days trying to pull something intelligible out of the nightly stew in 1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450 and 1490 kc. Actually, I skip 1240 because there is a local station there broadcasting right wing malarky 24/7 (no intelligence to be found there), so I stick to the other five graveyard frequencies.

About three minutes before midnight UTC, a station came up out of the muck on 1340 with a weather forecast for the "Champlain Valley," which means the station was in upstate New York or Vermont. As the top of the hour approached, the station started fading into the muck and then a station id from another station (WMDR) popped up followed by the station id of the fading Champlain Valley station, WIRY.

Wow! Two new ones for the price of one.

WIRY is in Plattsburg, New York, transmitting 940 watts 212 miles to my north.

WMDR is in Augusta, Maines, transmitting 1000 watts 246 miles to my northeast.

The CC Skywave barefoot was the receiver.

From the Graveyard: WMRC

Monday evening, I logged a new one on a graveyard frequency, WMRC on 1490 kc. Transmitting 1 kW from Milford, Massachusetts, 83 miles to my east-northeast, it did not move the S-meter much at 2242 UTC. In fact, the only thing I received from its broadcast was the station identification on my CC Skywave receiver.