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Huge X9.3 solar flare; CME hurtling towards Earth, aurora upon us shortly!

crainbebo said:
Now #5 - the hits just keep on comin'...

880 - KKMC Gonzales, CA; with Through the Bible, ID 'Christian Radio KKMC' and community announcement at 2129 PT 9/11/17. NEW #741, 10KW at 693 miles. I've been looking for this one for many years and finally bagged them. Also hearing a much-fainter KHAC NM than last night.
760 has very faint SS talk under Mark Levin/KFMB. Possibly XEABC DF.
940 faded in with 'Crimson and Clover' and out, under KFIG. XEQ?
1150 has SS talk at a blistering S9+. This might be XEAD Toluca JAL on day power, or maybe KCKY AZ (needed). XEAD would be 2nd time ever.
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1150 is not KCKY. That station lost its license.

XEAD is a possibility. It's in Guadalajara, with a transmitter site in Toluca, Jal. The Mexican government lists show site location, and one has to somewhat intuitively decide if that is the city of service or just the fact that the transmitter is not within the same city limits of the market it serves.

Your logs of XEX and, probably, XEQ are better catches than you thought. XEX recently reduced power to 50 kw and XEQ reportedly is 40 kw (Raymie may have further data or confirmation). Many of the higher power stations in Mexico on AM have cut back to save on equipment costs and electric bills.
 
Confirmed the 1150 as XEAD Toluca, JAL! This is the 2nd time ever heard, at about 2045mi on 50KW. Matched the webstream and got some audio outside.
Couldn't confirm XEQ but it sure was interesting hearing SS on 940 that wasn't KWBY OR...
1340 KATA Arcata CA heard at TOH with ID 'ESPN 1340 and 92.7, KATA Arcata'. It's 1000w at 432 miles. KVMI Tulare dominating 1270 with adult contemporary, plus some SSer on 1250 (presumed KZER). 1450 had KFLS Klamath Falls at 2230.
 
This is absolutely nuts, it's 6:40pm PT here, sunset is 40 minutes away and NOTHING is propagating on skywave. Nothing! Not even a faint mumble from KFBK...this is unbelievable! In fact, Portland stations are coming in very faintly on 1550 and 1640...and it's groundwave! I can't wait to hear what happens tonight. So many more I need from the south even with 143 CAs in the official logbook.
 
Had KEIB-1150 earlier tonight 'The Patriot,' quite strong at times with Dave Ramsey, also some unid very weak SS on 1120 and Regional Mexican on 1440 (likely KFNY). But then Au conditions really faded away and now it's gone back to semi-auroral with lots of Oregon and British Columbia. In fact, KWYZ/1230 Everett was S9+ at 2100 TOH, even recorded the ID.
 
Maybe I'm not listening much, I don't hear anything odd on the Band

Seems like a Normal Band for me -- I'm assuming it past California
 
The last two nights haven't been that auroral here, Mario, and I live in Western WA state. The two nights or so before that were definitely auroral here.
 
I'm glad those flares did someone some good as far as DXing goes, for us shortwave listeners it was a knife to the heart for several days. I couldn't even hear "local" stations (as in 300-600 miles away, anything closer is almost always inaudible).

Of course after it died down, there was a nice opening to North and South Korea…
 
Long time coming...been too busy the past couple of months! All from the September Au.
KZNB 1490 w/ AutoZone ad and 'La Zeta' ID at end - http://www.mediafire.com/file/h297k584m2i2y9a/KZNB_1490_CA_9_11_17_Au.WMA
KKMC 880 w/ ID - http://www.mediafire.com/file/y6zx8z86wr2x6pf/KKMC_880_CA_9_11_17_Au.WMA
KVTO 1400 w/ Korean programming, almost alone - http://www.mediafire.com/file/0xpf7rjfinv3ej9/KVTO_1400_CA_9_11_17_Au.WMA
XEAD 1150 w/ SS news talk, huge signal for 2,045 miles! - http://www.mediafire.com/file/j8jzruaq6eyn0lb/XEAD_1150_JAL_9_11_17_HUGE!_Au.WMA
 
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