What do you guys hear on 980? Here in the far northwest Chicago burbs, the frequency is pretty much empty during the day. But with a really good radio, you can usually hear whatever is left of WCUB from Manitowoc, WI. At night, it's usually WONE (Dayton, OH), which is aimed right at me, but WITY (Danville, IL) is also usually present and sometimes rises to the top.
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AM Frequency of the week: 980
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It used to be CFPL 980 London in the daytime and WONE 980 Dayton at night. I wonder how Dayton and London ended up both getting 980, 1290, and 1410. Particularly near London, it would seem to have given an underserved area at Night to the SSW. It's not like FM where the same frequencies appear in many larger cities.
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WONE and WITY are the stations that I've heard most often at my location in the near north Chicago suburbs. WONE was a good Top 40 station in the 60s.
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
Daytime: All WONE, with a decent signal from about 80 miles west-southwest. Not a powerhouse by any means, but 5,000 watts on 980 with our decent ground conductivity does pretty well.
Nighttime: A bunch of mush, really. A very, very, very weak trace of WONE might get here at night, then maybe D.C. figuring in as well, but I have only heard WONE here once or twice. 30 miles west of me on the other side of the Columbus metro, it might be a very different story.
In St. Marys, Ohio, 60 miles almost directly north of Dayton where I have some family, all the Dayton AMs come in well day and night. It's almost the same distance from Dayton as the west side of Columbus, but the directional patterns all go north at night.
Daytime: All WONE, with a decent signal from about 80 miles west-southwest. Not a powerhouse by any means, but 5,000 watts on 980 with our decent ground conductivity does pretty well.
Nighttime: A bunch of mush, really. A very, very, very weak trace of WONE might get here at night, then maybe D.C. figuring in as well, but I have only heard WONE here once or twice. 30 miles west of me on the other side of the Columbus metro, it might be a very different story.
In St. Marys, Ohio, 60 miles almost directly north of Dayton where I have some family, all the Dayton AMs come in well day and night. It's almost the same distance from Dayton as the west side of Columbus, but the directional patterns all go north at night.
Interesting point. I'd never thought about that. The London 1290 and 1410 have very tight patterns. Driving the 401 to/from Detroit/Windsor and Toronto, "now you hear 'em, now you don't".
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