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Night-Time Medium Wave Bandscan: Cape Cod, MA, USA
prepared 4 SEP 1997 by Mark Connelly - WA1ION
The list below contains medium wave broadcast stations that are
audible from sites on Cape Cod at night. Many of the stations can
be heard just about every night. Others are somewhat tougher DX
that might take a few months of serious listening to uncover.
I have tried to exclude "super rare" once-in-a-lifetime type stuff.
The Newfoundland reports (for foreign DX) and the past 20 years or
so of Ernie Cooper's loggings from Provincetown (largely of unusual
domestic DX) can point the dedicated DXer to targets too uncommon
to cover in this list. My main emphasis here is on the "stable
mid-evening period", roughly from two hours after local sunset to
two hours after local midnight. Sunset and dawn openings bring
forth many additional stations, but many of these cannot be heard
on a consistent basis.
Besides being a world-class resort area, Cape Cod has a large full-
time population, including many retirees. Some sections are heavily
developed - overbuilt in the opinion of more than a few. But the area
retains much of its traditional feel along old Route 6A where many
houses built in the 17th and 18th centuries can still be found. There
is still a good deal of undeveloped conservation land, especially in
the Cape Cod National Seashore. Typical landscapes include beaches,
dunes, pine & oak woods, cranberry bogs, and fresh and salt water
marshes. Cape Cod sits below the airline paths from most of Europe
to New York and Washington. It is also America's "front door to
Europe" when it comes to incoming radio signals. That fact was not
lost on Guglielmo Marconi when he established the first USA to Europe
wireless communication from his site in Wellfleet. Amateur radio
pioneer Irving Vermilya (W1ZE) and the famous WCC maritime communications
facility also wrote important chapters in the area's radio history
book. Right up through the Cold War years, just before satellites
took over, the sky over the Massachusetts coast was the high-speed
lane of the Europe - USA information superhighway. The communications
traffic ranged from ordinary broadcasts to the most strategic military
data. Over the years, numerous medium wave DXers have recognized the
same propagational advantages of locations such as Cape Cod and Long
Island that the big commercial and government users knew about.
Although I am not a full-time resident of Cape Cod, I do have access
to family homes at East Harwich and West Yarmouth. The East Harwich
receptions were used as the "baseline" for this list. Some of the
Latin American (especially Brazilian) logs were made from beach DX
sites such as Windmill Beach in South Yarmouth: such receptions are
more common there than at the more-inland house sites and, in any
event, often require auroral activity to weaken co-channel US /
Canadian domestics. Auroral conditions and the use of Beverage
antennas at beach sites will actually provide Latin American and
African DX beyond what I have listed here. The same is true for
Florida and other southern domestics: Ernie Cooper has heard many
of these on "graveyard" channels during aurora, but I haven't tried
to include them here.
European DX is best from September to March. Some of the higher
powered Trans-Atlantic stations, especially from Spain and the Arab
countries of North Africa, can be heard year 'round. Best results
will be at an eastward-facing beach right after local sunset. An
antenna system that can provide a cardioid pattern (such as a loop
phased against a whip) will go a long way in reducing interfering
stations coming from the opposite direction of desired DX.
For each frequency, stations are listed with the most common one
first and then onward in decreasing order of dominance.
This text version can easily be converted to an Excel or Lotus
compatible file through a simple BASIC program or a spreadsheet
"macro".
Corrections / comments on the list are welcomed at my home E-mail
address of "WA1ION@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" or via snail-mail to 30 William
Road, Billerica, MA 01821-6079 USA.
kHz | stations
----|---------
530 | R.V.C - Turks & Caicos | CIAO - ON
531 | Spain | Algeria | Madeira | Switzerland
535 | Grenada
540 | CBT - NF | WLUX - NY | CBGA1 - PQ | WQTM - FL | XEWA - Mexico
| YVOV - Venezuela | CBEF - ON | HJKA - Colombia | Morocco
549 | Algeria
550 | YVKE - Venezuela | WDEV - VT | WPNW - RI | CHNO - ON | CHLN - PQ
| Cuba | RJR - Jamaica
555 | ZIZ - St. Kitts & Nevis
558 | Spain
560 | WGAN - ME | WFIL - PA | WHYN - MA | Cuba | WQAM - FL
| YVRH - Venezuela | CHVO - NF
567 | Ireland | Spain
570 | WMCA - NY | CJEM - NB | R. Reloj - Cuba | WSYR - NY
| YVLX - Venezuela
576 | Spain
580 | WTAG - MA | WKAQ - Puerto Rico | CJFX - NS | WHP - PA
| CFRA - ON | Jamaica | YVMJ - Venezuela
585 | Spain | Tunisia
590 | WEZE - MA | VOCM - NF | Cuba | YVKL - Venezuela | CKRS - PQ
594 | Portugal | Morocco | Saudi Arabia
595 | Dominica
600 | Cuba | WICC - CT | YVQB - Venezuela | HJHJ - Colombia
| CKCL - NS | CBNA - NF | ZYK275 - Brazil | Suriname | CIQC - PQ
603 | Spain | Madeira | France
610 | WGIR - NH | WIP - PA | CHNC - PQ | HJKL - Colombia | WIOD - FL
| Trinidad & Tobago
612 | Morocco | Ireland | Spain
620 | WZON - ME | WVMT - VT | Cuba | WXLX - NJ | Antigua
| HJEL - Colombia | WSUN - FL | ZYH590 - Brazil | WHEN - NY
621 | Canary Islands // Spain | Egypt
630 | WPRO - RI | CFCY - PE | CHLT - PQ | WSKN - Puerto Rico
| YVKA - Venezuela
639 | Spain
640 | CBN - NF | Cuba | WNNZ - MA | Guadeloupe | YVQO - Venezuela
| WWJZ - NJ
648 | Spain | Saudi Arabia | Gambia
650 | HJKH - Colombia | WRPT - MA | WSM - TN | YVLH - Venezuela
| CKGA - NF
657 | Spain
660 | WFAN - NY | Cuba | St. Lucia | YVNA - Venezuela | HJJM - Colombia
666 | Portugal | Spain
670 | YVLL - Venezuela | Cuba | WMAQ - IL | Suriname | WWFE - FL
673 | CKXB - NF
674 | Libya
675 | Netherlands
680 | WRKO - MA | CKXG - NF | WAPA - Puerto Rico | Cuba | WPTF - NC
| CFTR - ON
684 | Spain | Serbia
690 | CBF - PQ | Anguilla | HJCZ - Colombia | YVMR - Venezuela
| ZYH587 - Brazil | WOKV - FL | HCJB - Ecuador
693 | BBC - U.K. | Azores | Spain
700 | WLW - OH | HJCX - Colombia | YVMH - Venezuela | YVPQ - Venezuela
| CHSJ - NB | Jamaica
702 | Morocco | Spain | Slovakia
705 | St. Vincent
710 | WOR - NY | Cuba | YVKY - Venezuela | CKVM - PQ
711 | W. Sahara | Libya | France
720 | CHTN - PE | YVQE - Venezuela | WGN - IL | HJAN - Colombia
729 | Spain | Ireland
730 | CKAC - PQ | WJTO - ME | WACE - MA | XEX - Mexico
| Trinidad & Tobago | HJCU - Colombia | HIZ - Dominican Republic
738 | Spain
740 | CHCM - NF | CBL - ON | R. Progreso - Cuba | YVNC - Venezuela
| WJIB - MA | WIAC - Puerto Rico | YVNQ - Venezuela
| ZYH446 - Brazil
747 | Netherlands | Canary Islands // Spain | Burkina Faso
750 | YVKS - Venezuela | WSB - GA | CKGB - ON | CBGY - NF
| Jamaica | HJDK - Colombia
756 | Germany | Spain
760 | HJAJ - Colombia | WJR - MI | R. Reloj - Cuba
| YVQQ - Venezuela | Guyana | ZYH588 - Brazil
765 | Switzerland | Senegal
770 | WABC - NY | HJJX - Colombia | YVKK - Venezuela
774 | Spain | Egypt
780 | CFDR - NS | WBBM - IL | YVOD - Venezuela
| YVMN - Venezuela | ZBVI - British Virgin Islands
| HJZW - Colombia | HJZG - Colombia
783 | Syria | Spain | Portugal | Germany
789.8 | Barbados
790 | WLKW - RI | CFAN - NB | CIGM - ON | Cuba | WNIS - VA
| CFNW - NF | WAXY - FL
792 | Spain | France
800 | CJAD - PQ | PJB - Neth. Antilles | CKLW - ON
| CHRC - PQ | WCCM - MA
801 | Spain | Jordan
810 | WGY - NY | CJVA - NB | HJCY - Colombia | Bahamas
| Spain | ZYH589 - Brazil
819 | Egypt | Morocco | Spain
820 | WNYC - NY | CHAM - ON | WWLZ - NY | HJED - Colombia
| YVSH - Venezuela | YVXG - Venezuela | WBAP - TX
827 | Syria
828 | Spain
830 | WCRN - MA | TBN - St. Kitts & Nevis | CFJR - ON
| YVLT - Venezuela | WCCO - MN
836 | Azores
837 | Canary Islands // Spain | France
840 | WHAS - KY | Cuba | HJBI - Colombia | YVMY - Venezuela
| St. Lucia | ZYK687 - Brazil
846 | Italy
850 | WEEI - MA | CKVL - PQ | WTAR - VA
855 | Spain | Romania
860 | CJBC - ON | R. Reloj - Cuba | HILR - Dominican Republic
| HJNJ - Colombia | YVOL - Venezuela | YVYE - Venezuela
| ZYJ459 - Brazil | HOL55 - Panama | ZYH592 - Brazil
864 | Egypt | Spain | France
870 | WLAM - ME | WHCU - NY | WWL - LA | Cuba
| HJSB - Colombia | LRA1 - Argentina
873 | Spain | AFN - Germany
880 | WCBS - NY | YVYM - Venezuela | YVKU - Venezuela | Cuba
| ZYL275 - Brazil
882 | BBC - U.K. | Canary Islands // Spain
890 | WBPS - MA | WLS - IL | Cuba | HJCE - Colombia
| HJPM - Colombia
891 | Algeria | Portugal
895 | St. Kitts & Nevis
900 | CKTS - PQ | CKDH - NS | CHML - ON | CJBR - PQ | Cuba
| Barbados | XEW - Mexico | YVMD - Venezuela
907.8 | Gambia
909 | BBC - U.K. | Morocco | Azores
910 | WABI - ME | CHRL - PQ | WNEZ - CT | YVRQ - Venezuela
| CKLY - ON | WSBA - PA | WRNL - VA
918 | Spain | Syria (?)
920 | CJCH - NS | WHJJ - RI | WIRD - NY | CKNX - ON
| WMEL - FL
927 | Belgium
930 | WZNN - NH | CFBC - NB | WPAT - NJ | CJYQ - NF
| WBEN - NY
936 | Spain | Germany
940 | CBM - PQ | YVNN - Venezuela | R. Reloj - Cuba
| HJGB - Colombia | XEQ - Mexico | WINZ - FL
945 | France
950 | WPEN - PA | CKNB - NB | WROL - MA | CHER - NS
| WIBX - NY | YVKG - Venezuela
954 | Spain | Qatar
960 | CHNS - NS | WELI - CT | HJOP - Colombia
| R. Reloj - Cuba | YVRB - Venezuela
963 | Portugal
970 | WZAN - ME | CBZ - NB | WWDJ - NJ
972 | Spain | Germany | Ukraine
980 | WTRY - NY | WCAP - MA | CBV - PQ | WWRC - DC
| HJES - Colombia | WILK - PA
981 | Algeria | Portugal
990 | WALE - RI | WZZD - PA | WCMF - NY | CBY - NF
| CKGM - PQ | YVTA - Venezuela | WHOO - FL
999 | Spain
1000 | CKBW - NS | CFLP - PQ | WMVP - IL | HJAQ - Colombia
| YVNM - Venezuela | ZYK522 - Brazil | XEOY - Mexico
1008 | Canary Islands | Spain | Netherlands
1010 | WINS - NY | CFRB - ON | HJOP - Colombia
| ZYH625 - Brazil
1017 | Germany | Spain | Turkey
1020 | C.C.R. - Turks & Caicos | KDKA - PA | YVRS - Venezuela
1026 | Spain
1030 | WBZ - MA | HJER - Colombia
1035 | Italy | Portugal
1040 | HION - Dominican Republic | WZNA - Puerto Rico
| YVLB - Venezuela | WHO - IA | WJNA - FL
| ZYK537 - Brazil
1044 | Spain | Morocco
1050 | WEVD - NY | CHUM - ON | XEG - Mexico
1053 | TalkRadio - U.K. | Spain | Morocco | Romania
1060 | KYW - PA | Cuba | YVLN - Venezuela
1062 | Denmark | Italy | Turkey
1070 | CBA - NB | CHOK - ON | YVMA - Venezuela
| HJAH - Colombia | HJCG - Colombia | French Guiana
| LR1 - Argentina
1071 | Spain | France
1080 | WTIC - CT | YVQJ - Venezuela | Spain
| YVNR - Venezuela
1088 | Angola
1089 | TalkRadio - U.K. | Albania
1090 | WBAL - MD | YVSZ - Venezuela | HJBC - Colombia
| CKKW - ON
1098 | Slovakia | Spain
1100 | WTAM - OH | HJAT - Colombia | ZDK - Antigua
| ZYK694 - Brazil | YVSW - Venezuela | YVOP - Venezuela
1107 | Spain
1110 | WBT - NV | CKTY - ON | YVQT - Venezuela
1114.9 | Angola
1116 | Spain
1120 | WPRX - CT | WADN - MA | KMOX - MO | YVMF - Venezuela
1125 | Spain | Croatia
1130 | WBBR - NY | YVRL - Venezuela | HJAC - Colombia
| ZYJ461 - Brazil
1134 | Croatia | Spain
1140 | WRVA - VA | CBI - NS | Margaritena - Venezuela
1143 | Spain
1150 | WNFT - MA | WRUN - NY | CJRC - ON | CHGM - PQ
| CKOC - ON | WDEL - DE
1152 | Spain
1160 | WVNJ - NJ | WOBM - NJ | WSKW - ME | VSB3 - Bermuda
1161 | Spain | France
1170 | WWVA - WV | HJNW - Colombia | YVQV - Venezuela
| WLEO - Puerto Rico
1179 | Canary Islands // Spain | Sweden
1180 | Cuba | WHAM - NY | YVNJ - Venezuela | ZYJ463 - Brazil
1188 | Hungary | Morocco | Germany
1190 | WOWO - IN | WBMJ - Puerto Rico | HJCT - Colombia
1197 | Spain | Virgin R. - U.K. | Lesotho | Morocco
1200 | WKOX - MA | WTLA - NY | CFGO - ON | YVOZ - Venezuela
| ZYH585 - Brazil
1205 | Cayman Islands
1206 | France | Poland | Israel
1210 | WPHT - PA | VOAR - NF | YVZT - Venezuela
1215 | Virgin R. - U.K. | Spain
1220 | CKSM - PQ | CFVM - PQ | CJSS - ON | WKNR - OH
| CKCW - NB
1224 | Spain | Netherlands
1230 | WESX - MA | WERI - RI | WCMC - NJ | WQDY - ME | others
1233 | Morocco
1240 | WBUR - MA | WGBB - NY | WSNJ - NJ | WTME - ME | others
1242 | France
1250 | WKBR - NH | WARE - MA | WMTR - NJ | CHWO - ON
| WTAE - PA
1251 | Libya | Hungary | Portugal
1259 | Azores
1260 | CIHI - NB | WPZE - MA | Spain | WSUA - FL
1269 | Germany | Canary Islands
1270 | WTSN - NH | CJCB - NS | WSPR - MA | CFGT - PQ
| WXYT - MI
1278 | Ireland | France
1280 | WADO - NY | WFAU - ME | WEIM - MA | CKCV - PQ
| VSB2 - Bermuda
1287 | Spain | Germany
1290 | WRCP - RI | WKNE - NH | CJBK - ON | WNBF - NY
| YVLF - Venezuela | CHRM - PQ
1296 | Spain | R. XL - U.K. | Sudan | BBC - U.K.
1300 | WAVZ - CT | WJFK - MD | WQBK - NY | WJDA - MA
1305 | Spain | Poland
1310 | WLOB - ME | CIWW - ON | WGH - VA | others
1313 | Angola
1314 | Norway | Spain | U.A.E.
1320 | CKEC - NS | WARA - MA | WDER - NH | WATR - CT
| CJMR - ON | CJSO - PQ
1323 | Germany
1325 | Morocco
1330 | WWRV - NY | WRCA - MA | CKLD - PQ
1332 | Italy
1340 | WNBH - MA | WMID - NJ | WNHC - CT | CJLS - NS
| WWNH - NH | others
1341 | BBC - N.Ireland
1349 | Mauritania
1350 | WOYK - PA | WINY - CT | CKAD - NS | WGPL - VA
| WHWH - NJ
1359 | Spain
1360 | CKBC - NB | WDRC - CT | WLYN - MA | CJVL - PQ
1367 | Angola
1368 | Poland
1370 | WFEA - NH | WDEA - ME | WXXI - NY
1375 | St. Pierre & Miquelon
1377 | France | Ukraine
1380 | WKDM - NY | WTMN - NH | WSYB - VT | CFDA - PQ
1385.9 | Guinea
1386 | Kaliningrad | Iran | Greece
1390 | WPLM - MA | WDCW - NY | WEGP - ME | WZHF - VA
| WKDR - VT | WLAN - PA | WXTC - SC | CHOO - ON
| YVZA - Venezuela
1394.1 | Togo
1395 | Netherlands | Albania
1400 | WIDE - ME | WOND - NJ | WHTB - MA | CJFP - PQ
| WLLH - MA | WPCE - VA | WABY - NY | others
1404 | France | Ukraine
1410 | WPOP - CT | CIGO - NS | WDOV - DE | KQV - PA
1413 | Spain | Pristina Kosovo
1420 | WBSM - MA | CKDY - NS | CJMT - PQ | WBEC - MA
| WCOJ - PA
1422 | Germany | Algeria
1430 | WNJR - NJ | WENE - NY | WXKS - MA | CKYC - ON
1431 | Ukraine
1440 | WJAE - ME | WWTM - MA | WRRO - OH | Luxembourg
| Saudi Arabia
1449 | Italy
1450 | WNBP - MA | WFPG - NJ | WCTC - NJ | WCUM - CT
| CHEF - PQ | WRKD - ME | WHIM - RI | CFAB - NS | others
1458 | U.K. | Albania
1460 | CKRB - PQ | WGNA - NY | WBET - MA | WVOX - NY
| WKDV - VA
1467 | France
1470 | WZOU - ME | WMMW - CT | WSRO - MA | YVSY - Venezuela
| CHOW - ON | WKAP - PA
1475.1 | Benin
1476 | U.A.E.
1480 | WSAR - MA | WZRC - NY | WADR - NY
1485 | Spain
1490 | WPOR - ME | WUSS - NJ | WMRC - MA | WHAV - MA
| WXRE - VA | WTVL - ME | CKEN - NS | others
1492.9 | Morocco
1494 | France | Russia
1500 | WTOP - DC | YVRZ - Venezuela
1502 | Angola
1502.4 | Togo
1503 | Spain | AFN - Azores | Poland
1505 | Anguilla
1510 | WNRB - MA | WNLC - CT | WLAC - TN
1512 | Belgium | Saudi Arabia
1520 | WWKB - NY | HJLQ - Colombia | WRAI - Puerto Rico
| YVND - Venezuela
1521 | Saudi Arabia | Spain
1530 | WSAI - OH | VOA - Sao Tome | Vatican
1539 | Germany | Spain
1540 | WDCD - NY | CHIN - ON | ZNS1 - Bahamas | KXEL - IA
1544 | Algeria
1548 | VOA - Kuwait | U.K.
1550 | WRDM - CT | CBE - ON | WBSC - SC | HJCB - Colombia
1557 | France
1560 | WQEW - NY | WRHC - FL
1566 | Iran
1570 | WPEP - MA | WFLR - NY | WRHD - NY | WBUG - NY
1575 | Spain | Italy
1580 | CBJ - PQ | WSRF - FL | HJQZ - Colombia
1584 | Spain | Ceuta
1590 | WARV - RI | WSMN - NH | WCBG - PA | WETT - MD
| WAKR - OH
1593 | RFE - Germany
1600 | WWRL - NY | WUNR - MA | CHNR - ON
1602 | Spain
1610 | TIS - Wood's Hole MA | TIS - Portland ME
| TIS - Bar Harbor ME | Anguilla
1611 | Vatican
1620 | TIS - Westerly RI
1630 | TIS - NYC NY area
1640 | KXBT - CA
1660 | WJDM - NJ