Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):
Daytime: WHP Harrisburg PA(very weak)
Night: same WHP, but a little stronger
Daytime: WHP Harrisburg PA(very weak)
Night: same WHP, but a little stronger
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AM Frequency of the Week: 580
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Haven't done any of these threads in forever...
Yakima WA days is nothing. Winter, maybe a threshold from KIDO Boise.
Nights is usually KIDO Boise (News/Talk) mixing with KTMT Ashland (ESPN). KMJ Fresno (News/Talk) also makes appearances. KANA Anaconda, MT (Classic Hits) is rare, but can be heard sometimes at sunset. KUBC Montrose, CO (News/Talk) is a one-time log late one evening w/ local ads. Also could hear CKUA Edmonton (Public Radio), but they have moved to FM.
Stations I haven't heard yet and would like to log...
KSAZ Marana, AZ (Why doesn't this show up at sunrise? SS Rel. should stick out like a sore thumb.)
CFRA Ottawa, ON (Longshot. But w/ 30KW night, maybe one spectacular night with the big loop.)
Yakima WA days is nothing. Winter, maybe a threshold from KIDO Boise.
Nights is usually KIDO Boise (News/Talk) mixing with KTMT Ashland (ESPN). KMJ Fresno (News/Talk) also makes appearances. KANA Anaconda, MT (Classic Hits) is rare, but can be heard sometimes at sunset. KUBC Montrose, CO (News/Talk) is a one-time log late one evening w/ local ads. Also could hear CKUA Edmonton (Public Radio), but they have moved to FM.
Stations I haven't heard yet and would like to log...
KSAZ Marana, AZ (Why doesn't this show up at sunrise? SS Rel. should stick out like a sore thumb.)
CFRA Ottawa, ON (Longshot. But w/ 30KW night, maybe one spectacular night with the big loop.)
KSAZ is indeed a little surprising. They have a nice daytime non-direction signal, so I'd expect them to make the hop to where you are at least once in a while. CFRA? Hmmm.... They also have a nice daytime signal. But offhand, I can't remember hearing then anywhere on skywave. Not even around Toronto (assuming I'm far enough away from CJCL/590).
Daytime, it's a weak WILL from Urbana-Champaign. WKTY La Crosse, WI is closer, but seldom shows up. Nighttime is less predictable. Most often, I hear CKWW Windsor, ON or WIBW Topeka, KS. I've also heard WILL, which is kind of remarkable, since I think it's licensed at 100 watts or so. I've also heard a weak WKTY, also remarkable because it has a sharp null in our direction. And I've heard WCHS Charleston, WV once or twice.
CFRA comes in sometimes in New England sometimes, but most of its nighttime signal goes north from Ottawa.
As I said earlier, WKTY runs....or certainly used to be a regular user of.... "football power". I briefly lived about 25 miles east of La Crosse, and on Friday nights, they did football broadcasts. Usually of whichever of the two local teams was playing out of town. When those were going on, WKTY had a better night signal than otherwise. Seemingly without fail. CKY nowhere to be found. That actually was when I first became aware of "football power".
Here it's kind of opposite the reception Ryan Howard gets down there near Philly. WHP Harrisburg is quite the semi-local here in the day even in the car. At night it's inedible, and so I've gotten WCHS from West Virginia a few times.
* * * * * * * Faint memory from the DXing days near JFK Airport in Queens suggests that WTAG Worcester MA was there in the day with a convenient 90° null of WMCA. WHP and the always-lurking WCHS would come in at night. And one early SRS in came an ID once from WIBW in Kansas. But that was back when fewer stations were on the air, and when lots of them signed off early Monday mornings to exhale.
Oddly, WMCA 570, a local, was a station I'd heard off the air on an early MM just twice. Yet our little DXing clique managed to get some good stuff on 580 even when WMCA was on.
* * * * * * * Faint memory from the DXing days near JFK Airport in Queens suggests that WTAG Worcester MA was there in the day with a convenient 90° null of WMCA. WHP and the always-lurking WCHS would come in at night. And one early SRS in came an ID once from WIBW in Kansas. But that was back when fewer stations were on the air, and when lots of them signed off early Monday mornings to exhale.
Oddly, WMCA 570, a local, was a station I'd heard off the air on an early MM just twice. Yet our little DXing clique managed to get some good stuff on 580 even when WMCA was on.
During the day, it's a weak WELO Tupelo, MS about 120 miles NE of here and a night a mix of Mexican stations.
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In 1968, I remember hearing CKPR, Thunder Bay ON a long way around the coast of Lake Superior in Ontario, then in the upper peninsula of Michigan. it was a bit of a regional powerhouse. They were playing top-40. I looked them up and they play oldies.
I was in Kankakee, IL last night, about 65 miles north of Champaign, and I found out how much 100 watts could do at night low on the dial in an area with good ground conductivity. WILL on top of the channel and listenable. No fades, but I could hear an unidentifiable station in the backgound. Presumably WIBW. Here at home, about 90 miles north northwest of Kankakee, I've never heard WILL at night.
Missed this frequency the first time around so here it goes.
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: WILL with fair signal
Nightime: nothing really stands out
DX/RETRO: in the past XEMU Piedras Negras from Mexico used to be a frequent log. CKAP and CKPR also used to come in frequently. Other common catch is WIBW. Others heard: WELO (Tupelo, MS), KALB (Alexandria, LA), WCHS (Charleston, WV), WTCM (Traverse City, MI). WKTY (La Crosse, WI), WHP (Harrisburg, PA - during DX Test). Other Canadian stations heard were CKY and CHLC. On the foreign side besides XEMU, also heard XEFI (Chihuahua, Mexico), YVMJ (Maracaibo, Venezuela) and Baracoa, Cuba. Also Madrid, Spain on the split frequency of 585. As for WILL at night at my location I can sometimes hear it with weak signal during auroral conditions.
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: WILL with fair signal
Nightime: nothing really stands out
DX/RETRO: in the past XEMU Piedras Negras from Mexico used to be a frequent log. CKAP and CKPR also used to come in frequently. Other common catch is WIBW. Others heard: WELO (Tupelo, MS), KALB (Alexandria, LA), WCHS (Charleston, WV), WTCM (Traverse City, MI). WKTY (La Crosse, WI), WHP (Harrisburg, PA - during DX Test). Other Canadian stations heard were CKY and CHLC. On the foreign side besides XEMU, also heard XEFI (Chihuahua, Mexico), YVMJ (Maracaibo, Venezuela) and Baracoa, Cuba. Also Madrid, Spain on the split frequency of 585. As for WILL at night at my location I can sometimes hear it with weak signal during auroral conditions.
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