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AM Daytime Bandscan From Montville Connecticut

Carltheradioguy

Carltheradioguy

The radio I used was the Tecsun PL-390 and I used no loops or external antennas, just the internal ferrite. Some signals were more directional than others. The mileage shown has a 5 mile margin of error. Scan occurred around 530-600 time period on June 14th. This is how I grade reception:
1. Very Weak/Barely Making it
2. Weak but Audible
3. So so some hiss/interference or a little static
4. Fairly Strong/Almost local quality
5. Local or in like a Local

540 WLIE Islip NY 73 Miles Away (3)
550 WSJW Cumberland RI 51 Miles Away (1)
560 WHYN Southampton MA 56 Miles Away (3)
570 WMCA Kearny NJ 111 Miles Away (2)
580 WTAG Holden MA 63 Miles Away (2)
590 WEZE Medford MA 86 Miles Away (1-2)
600 WICC Stratford CT 55 Miles Away (1)
620 WSNR Lyndhurst NJ 110 Miles Away (1)
630 WPRO East Providence RI 49 Miles Away (3-4)
640 WNNZ Westfield MA 57 Miles Away (1)
660 WFAN New York City 93 Miles Away (5)
680 WRKO Burlington MA 86 Miles Away (1)
690 WADS Derby CT 49 Miles Away (2)
710 WOR Rutherford NJ 109 Miles Away (4)
730 WACE Chicopee MA 53 Miles Away (2)
740 WNYH Huntington NY 78 Miles Away (2)
760 WVNE North Brookfield MA 54 Miles Away (2-3)
770 WABC Lodi NJ 106 Miles Away (1)
790 WPRV East Providence RI 49 Miles Away (3)
810 WGY Rotterdam NY 130 Miles Away (1)
820 WNYC Kearny NJ 111 Miles Away (2-3)
830 WCRN Leicester MA 55 Miles Away (1)
840 WRYM Newington CT 32 Miles Away (3)
880 WCBS New York City 93 Miles Away (4)
910 WLAT Farmington CT 36 Miles Away (3-4)
920 WHJJ Riverside RI 49 Miles Away (2)
930 WPAT Clifton NJ 112 Miles Away (1)
950 WROL Saugus MA 91 Miles Away (1)
960 WELI Hamden CT 39 Miles Away (2)
970 WESO Dudley MA 42 Miles Away (1)
980 WXLM Groton CT 9 Miles Away (5)
1010 WINS Lyndhurst NJ 110 Miles Away (3)
1030 WBZ Hull MA 88 Miles Away (3)
1050 WEPN Secaucus NJ 108 Miles Away (3)
1080 WTIC Avon CT 38 Miles Away (4-5)
1100 WHLI Hempstead NY 92 Miles Away (1)
1120 WBNW Acton MA 78 Miles Away (1)
1130 WBBR Carlstadt NJ 106 Miles Away (3)
1150 WMRD Middletown CT 23 Miles Away (3)
1160 WVNJ Wanaque NJ 111 Miles Away (1)
1170 WCTF Vernon CT 31 Miles Away (1)
1180 WSKP Hopkinton RI 24 Miles Away (2)
1190 WLIB Lyndhurst NJ 110 Miles Away (2)
1200 WXKS Newton MA 76 Miles Away (1)
1220 WSTL East Providence RI 48 Miles Away (1)
1230 WBLQ Westerly RI 20 Miles Away (2-3) Interference from WNEZ Manchester CT
1240 WWCO Waterbury CT 45 Miles Away (1)
1250 WARE West Brookfield MA 54 Miles Away (1)
1260 WBIX Quincy MA 81 Miles Away (1)
1280 WADO Carlstadt NJ 108 Miles Away (1)
1290 WRPA North Providence RI 47 Miles Away (1)
1300 WAVZ New Haven CT 41 Miles Away (1)
1310 WICH Norwich CT 8 Miles Away (4)
1320 WARA North Attleborough MA 56 Miles Away (1)
1330 WRCA Newton MA 76 Miles Away (1)
1340 WYBC New Haven CT 41 Miles Away (1)
1350 WINY Putnam CT 34 Miles Away (2-3)
1360 WDRC Bloomfield CT 35 Miles Away (2)
1370 WALK Patchouge NY 65 Miles Away (1)
1380 WKDM Carlstadt NJ 108 Miles Away (1)
1390 WRIV Riverhead NY 45 Miles Away (1)
1400 WILI Windham CT 17 Miles Away (4)
1410 WPOP Newington CT 33 Miles Away (1)
1420 WLIS Old Saybrook CT 14 Miles Away (3)
1430 WKOX Medford CT 86 Miles Away (1)
1440 WVEI Worcester MA 59 Miles Away (1)
1450 WPVD West Warwick RI 38 Miles Away (1)
1460 Unknown (1)
1470 WMMW Meriden CT 32 Miles Away (1)
1480 WSAR Somerset MA 55 Miles Away (2)
1490 WMRC Milford MA 58 Miles Away (1)
1500 WFIF Milford CT 51 Miles Away (2)
1520 WIZZ Deerfield MA 81 Miles Away (1)
1530 WVBF Taunton MA 65 Miles Away (2)
1540 WADK Newport RI 46 Miles Away (2)
1550 WSDK Bloomfield CT 39 Miles Away (1-2)
1560 WFME New York City 104 Miles Away (2)
1570 WFTU Riverhead NY 45 Miles Away (1)
1590 WARV Warwick RI 42 Miles Away (1)
1600 WLZX East Longmeadow MA 45 Miles Away (2)
1660 WWRU Carlstadt NJ 107 Miles Away (1)
LOCATIONS ARE TRANSMITTER LOCATIONS NOT CITIES OF LICENSE.
 
Thanks for the scan Carl. I'm surprised that WABC is only a "1" when some other NJ transmitters are putting out a better signal in your direction.
 
radioman148 said:
Thanks for the scan Carl. I'm surprised that WABC is only a "1" when some other NJ transmitters are putting out a better signal in your direction.
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I'm amazed that there are only two "5" signals and that one of them is 93 miles away, despite the presence of four other signals (beside the other "5," WXLM) within 20 miles of Montville.
 
CTListener said:
I'm amazed that there are only two "5" signals and that one of them is 93 miles away, despite the presence of four other signals (beside the other "5," WXLM) within 20 miles of Montville.
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A lot of our local stations are directional. WICH is highly directional to the Southeast and I am West so it isn't as solid and the others aren't strong. WXLM is also highly directional as well. WCBS was almost a "5" but there was a little hiss underneath it and WTIC as well.
 
Good stuff, Carl. Got a question : Were you and the Tecsun indoors on wall current or outdoors with batteries?

( Retro: the family tribe used to vacation at Messina's Cabins in Old Saybrook. It was like two dozen NYC locusts (accents and all) descending on the place for a week. The late and great Paul Sidney, mostly of WLNG fame, used to work at WLIS)
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Good stuff, Carl. Got a question : Were you and the Tecsun indoors on wall current or outdoors with batteries?

( Retro: the family tribe used to vacation at Messina's Cabins in Old Saybrook. It was like two dozen NYC locusts (accents and all) descending on the place for a week. The late and great Paul Sidney, mostly of WLNG fame, used to work at WLIS)
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That's awesome! and I should have included that but it was outdoors with batteries.
 
Interesting bandscan! Thanks for sharing.

I used Google maps to see where Montville, Connecticut is and now I can see why WFAN was a 5, WCBS was a 4, but WABC was only a 1.

The path from WABC's tower in Lodi, New Jersey is virtually all over land while the path from WFAN and WCBS from High Island in the Bronx is most all over salt water.
 
hawaiigar said:
Interesting bandscan! Thanks for sharing.

I used Google maps to see where Montville, Connecticut is and now I can see why WFAN was a 5, WCBS was a 4, but WABC was only a 1.

The path from WABC's tower in Lodi, New Jersey is virtually all over land while the path from WFAN and WCBS from High Island in the Bronx is most all over salt water.
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Yeah exactly! I believe 710 and 1010 are the same way as WABC BUT I receive those fairly well. Sometimes, transmitters are weird. I have a history of getting the blowtorches from NYC and surrounding areas quite well and WBZ went from 1-2 to now a 3 since they went back on the air. At night all the NYC blowtorches kill the AM dial with my tecsun reading 60's and 70's for signal strength.
 
Good stuff, Carl. Add me to the list of those surprised by the differential between WABC and the other NYC big sticks. My limited experience with the New York day signals was about 20 years ago driving west on I-80. On that drive, WABC definitely held its own with the other big signals. IIRC, it was good for about an hour into Pennsylvania.

And, FWIW, WABC and WCBS are the best NY skywaves at my location northwest of Chicago.
 
cyberdad said:
Good stuff, Carl. Add me to the list of those surprised by the differential between WABC and the other NYC big sticks. My limited experience with the New York day signals was about 20 years ago driving west on I-80. On that drive, WABC definitely held its own with the other big signals. IIRC, it was good for about an hour into Pennsylvania.

And, FWIW, WABC and WCBS are the best NY skywaves at my location northwest of Chicago.
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Yeah, I've heard stories about NYC stations coming in everywhere. Pretty much everywhere I go, NYC comes in. Like someone else said, WABC has a different signal pattern while WCBS and WFAN are directed toward me over salt water.
 
At my location in the near north Chicago area WCBS has always had the best sky wave signal of any NYC station. WABC is second when WBBM isn’t using HD. When they are I can forget about hearing WABC at my location.
 
radioman148 said:
At my location in the near north Chicago area WCBS has always had the best sky wave signal of any NYC station. WABC is second when WBBM isn’t using HD. When they are I can forget about hearing WABC at my location.
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Very cool! On my end I receive WBBM fairly well, WMVP with lots of static (Sounds like a 60s radio) and WGN 720 on sky wave.
 
Carltheradioguy said:
The radio I used was the Tecsun PL-390 and I used no loops or external antennas, just the internal ferrite. Some signals were more directional than others. The mileage shown has a 5 mile margin of error. Scan occurred around 530-600 time period on June 14th. This is how I grade reception:

760 WVNE North Brookfield MA 54 Miles Away (2-3)

LOCATIONS ARE TRANSMITTER LOCATIONS NOT CITIES OF LICENSE.
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Hi Carltheradioguy, semi-related to your post, how were you able to determine that the WVNE transmitter was located in North Brookfield? Thanks!
 
Carltheradioguy said:
A lot of our local stations are directional. WICH is highly directional to the Southeast and I am West so it isn't as solid and the others aren't strong. WXLM is also highly directional as well. WCBS was almost a "5" but there was a little hiss underneath it and WTIC as well.
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WXLM 980 is high directional? I dont think so.. its licensed for 1000 watts day, 72 watts night, non directional
 
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