Farthest Daytime AM Regular

[radioman148]

Not sure anyone else has brought this up, but I used to get Trans World Radio from the Netherlands Antilles during the day in Dallas, TX.  I had an old Hallicrafters radio hooked up to a decent antenna in my back yard and a good ground too.  It was on 800 as I recall. The signal was faint, but it had a distinctive ID that let me know that was it.

that is quite a daytime catch.

[DavidEduardo]

Not sure anyone else has brought this up, but I used to get Trans World Radio from the Netherlands Antilles during the day in Dallas, TX.  I had an old Hallicrafters radio hooked up to a decent antenna in my back yard and a good ground too.  It was on 800 as I recall. The signal was faint, but it had a distinctive ID that let me know that was it.

When was this reception? TWR operated with reduced power in the daytime, in Spanish, with an intended reception area of the western Venezuelan and eastern Colombian coastal populations. In Dallas, depending on the year or time frame, you had XELO and XEROK with 150 kw on 800, as well as dozens of US daytimers and loads of medium power stations in Central America on 800.

[rbrucecarter5]

I am surprised the Aussie's haven't been on here reporting some of their loggings.  I have heard reports in that past that they can do US stations occasionally - of course they would not be regular daytime stations, and at least part of the signal path would be over darkness.

[radioman148]

There was an Aussie who used to show up here on occasion reporting reception of US MW stations.

[Schroedingers Cat]

Art Vuolo claimed that WSDS 1480 Ypsilanti, MI was heard in Australia back in the 1960s when it was a 500 watt directional daytime only station. It probably had a 500 watt presunrise authority, and it could possibly have been testing at night. 

[radioman148]

One of the Aussies on here used to have a website with recordings of his US conquests.

[jd]

Most distant regular daytime here in East Texas near Tyler is KTSA 550 (@253 miles), followed closely by KWPN [formerly WWLS] 640 and KOKC 1520 (@ 246 and 248 miles, respectively).

[DavidEduardo]

Art Vuolo claimed that WSDS 1480 Ypsilanti, MI was heard in Australia back in the 1960s when it was a 500 watt directional daytime only station. It probably had a 500 watt presunrise authority, and it could possibly have been testing at night. 

A lot of the US Class IV stations as well as low power daytimers were heard in NZ or Australia... and many of them well inland from the West Coast. A lot of these were heard on DX tests, frequency checks or maintenance tests... of course, much of this was in the 40's, 50's and 60's when channels were clearer. Then, when the Asian region converted to 9 kHz, nearly all US channels were clear for 5000 miles or more.

[DavidEduardo]

I am surprised the Aussie's haven't been on here reporting some of their loggings.  I have heard reports in that past that they can do US stations occasionally - of course they would not be regular daytime stations, and at least part of the signal path would be over darkness.

DXing the US and the Western Hemisphere became very easy for those in Australia and New Zealand when Asia went to 9 kHz allocations.

Before that, relatively clear frequencies in the 50's and 60's permitted many loggings. Some DXers there who were active in those years had upwards of 1000 North American loggings, and they often heard radio club DX programs and Frequency Checks.

Similarly, in the 50's and 60's when US stations for the most part signed off at Midnight on Sunday for maintenance, Australian and New Zealand stations could be heard in the eastern US. The difference was that Australia and New Zealand had, combined, just upwards or a hundred stations while North America had thousands.

[radioman148]

The ex band stations from the US are still heard very easily in Australia today.