Re: Unusual conditions on the AM band locally last night

[Norm Rosen <inorm99@earthlink.net>]

This may have something to do with the strong Solar Flare activity over the weekend.
The stormy sun will affect some signals for at a few more days

John Bolduc wrote:
> 
> Conditions around 10PM last evening were quite unusual in the southern NH
> area.
> 
> Even two/three hours after sunset, conditions were almost mid-day like.
> 
> WJIB AM740 Cambridge with their 4 or 5 watts was dominent over a very weak
> unID'd station (probably Toronto). An ID  exactly at 10:00:00.00 PM with an
> English speaking male with a Jamaican accent.
> 
> The all but one of the graveyarders (1230,1240,1400,1450,1490, not 1340)
> were coming in with but one dominent signal. In the case of 1450 both Concord
> NH and Newburyport MA were the two signals heard. At night these channels are
> usually trashed with about six stations all piling atop each other.
> 
> WBNW 1120AM Concord MA was coming in good, with KMOX totally absent. I've
> never heard WBNW after St.Louis sunset until last night.
> 
> After about 10:30pm the band started getting very noisy with static below
> 1000 kHz
> 
> I did manage to hear WBAL 1090 in Baltimore, but it was very weak.
> 
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