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AM Frequency of the week: 840

cyberdad

cyberdad

40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago....

Day: Splatter from local WAIT (850). 2.5kw from three miles away and aimed at me.

Night: WAIT signs off and it's all WHAS. One of the better skywave signals at my location.

Other Location: With a good car radio you can sometimes hear WHAS during daylight hours in Chicago's far southern/southeastrn suburbs.

Retro: In the 1980s, Joe Donovan's overnight show on WHAS was a go-to for me...and a lot of others. One of those "others" who comes to mind was WABC's "Cousin Bruce" Morrow, who went on record in an interview saying that he was a fan.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's usually nothing during the day. In the dead of winter I can sometimes hear WHAS (weak) during the day.
At night it's all WHAS with a strong signal.

Retro: Joe Donovan's all night show was a must listen for me also.
 
From Overland Park, KS:

Day: KTIC - West Point, NE - 1 kW daytimer, weak but listenable.

Critical Hours: WHAS overtakes KTIC early during this time period in the evening. WHAS during the morning critical hours period.

Night: A strong and listenable WHAS. One of the most reliable nighttime skywave signals at my location.

Bob
 
From Laramie WY:

At sunrise, KTIC West Point NE when they sign on at 6am with their 500 Watt pre sunrise authority and when they go to the full 5kw at sunrise.

At night, sometimes KMAX Colfax WA and WHAS Louisville, KY
 
DXBob said:
From Overland Park, KS:

Day: KTIC - West Point, NE - 1 kW daytimer, weak but listenable.

Critical Hours: WHAS overtakes KTIC early during this time period in the evening. WHAS during the morning critical hours period.

Night: A strong and listenable WHAS. One of the most reliable nighttime skywave signals at my location.

Bob
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5kw days and they have a 500 watt pre sunrise authority but no post sunset authority
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
5kw days and they have a 500 watt pre sunrise authority but no post sunset authority
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Correct. I seem to recall KTIC started out with 1kw and eventually went to 5kw.

As a result of the excellent ground conductivity in the area, they have a REALLY impressive signal. I had a major customer in Columbus, Nebraska, about 90 miles west of Omaha. Usually my next stop from there was either Kansas City or Des Moines, each roughly 200 miles away. KTIC was invariably solid for the entire drive in either case.
 
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All WHAS all the time. East Tennessee, a weak WHAS days and a stronger WHAS nights, often with skywave/groundwave cancellation. Pretty much the same the other places I've lived.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: maybe a small trace of WVPO, Stroudsburg PA. Otherwise, splatter from
semi-local WEEU 830 Reading.
Night: WHAS.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
Daytime: A weak WHAS. Louisville is about 200 miles to my southwest. When local WOSU on 820 (now WVSG) was running IBOC several years ago, their hash obliterated WHAS around here.
Nighttime: All WHAS, usually very strong. I also used to hear their skywave with a very respectable signal when I lived in the Houston area. Sometimes, it was the strongest signal from this part of the country, right on par with WLW and sometimes better.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing
Nightime: WHAS with solid signal

DX/RETRO: Not much to report on this frequency. Besides WHAS the only two other confirmed stations received are KWPN (now KTIC) (West Point, NE) and CHUR (North bay, ON) back in 1980's.
 
From west Houston, days are nothing but slop from local 850 KEYH. Sunset and nights are all WHAS, with KEYH slop continuing despite their drop to 185w night power. Sometimes just after sunset I hear something in Spanish underneath but never strong enough to ID.
 
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From NW San Antonio...

Daytime: nothing

Sunset: WHAS comes up first and later KTIC can also be heard before signing off.

Night: WHAS is dominant with XEXXX "Fiesta Mexicana" in Tamazula underneath and sometimes on top during fades. Aiming NW, I'll occasionally hear a weak KJFA "Exitos 102.9" in Belen, NM.

Sunrise: KWDF dominates when it signs on for the day. XEXXX is stronger than at night and eventually takes over. Later a weak KTIC usually comes up at sign-on.

DX/Retro: At sunrise I used to hear KVJY (Ultra 104.9) in Pharr, TX. It must be off air. Also, back in 2017 I logged CMHW "Doblevé" in Santa Clara, Cuba. I'm not hearing it at all these days, though.
 
Well, I already have an update on KVJY. While out driving around sunset, I tuned to 840 and was hearing a strong signal with Spanish-language Christian music. At 8 p.m. CT, the station IDed as part of the Radio Aleluya chain.

As of 8:25 p.m., it's still blasting in. The only other thing I'm now hearing on the frequency is an occasional weak WHAS in a partial null. Glad I got to DX this frequency while KVJY was away.
 
As Ryan Howard does, Steve Green does, hi, from some place maybe 80 miles north of his den.

Day -- a weak WVPO.
Night -- WHAS.

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Retro days near JFK Int'l : In the day on the average, super-selective house-radio Atwater-Kent or American Bosch -- the everyday household owned one, of course :) -- we would null out WNYC. They were on 830 at the time. But reception actually varied, dictated by which side of the STREET you lived. I would null WNYC and hear a faint WVPO. My buddy Vinny, four short blocks West, would null out WNYC and get WRYM from New Britain/Hartford. There were four of us DXers, alternatively situated. Those on the East side had predominately Philly-South Jersey stations on top. Those on the West side of the street heard the Connecticut stations atop -- even with longwires.
690, 740, 800, 1340, 1400, 1450, 1490 : The scroll of conflict went on. We'd have to use each other's radios in different houses to 'log' a catch.

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WHAS had a tremendous, singing TOH legal ID in the mid-90's. I had only heard it otherwise done -- same melody and essence -- on the unlikely WRUF 850 Gainesville FL. And since a few pals got an LPFM station licensed for Girardville PA, I suggested that they investigate that jingle; that company. I told them that there is nothing to top a catchy, jaunty, dynamic, check-the-hour identifier than a TOH statement like that.
But we never found out who did those WHAS hour-openers. Perhaps someone here knows.....
 
tomservo said:
Baldwin Co., Alabama —

Day: Local WBHY, religious talk from the Goforth people.
Night: Always WHAS.
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Is it my imagination or has WBHY tweaked something? For the better. They were sounding slightly but noticeably better (stronger) than I remembered them when I was on the beach a few weeks ago.
 
cyberdad said:
Is it my imagination or has WBHY tweaked something? For the better. They were sounding slightly but noticeably better (stronger) than I remembered them when I was on the beach a few weeks ago.
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Hmm… I'd not noticed anything in particular, but I don't go out of my way to sample the station. Doing a quick check here right now the signal is surprisingly the strongest thing on my dial (other than WHEP which is practically next door — by radio standards), and I don't recall it ever being quite that robust. Usually 660 is my biggest non-Foley AM signal, followed by 1330 and 870. (1000 is off the air, probably for good.)

So, yeah, maybe they did something recently. It's still the same crap low quality low bitrate audio, though.
 
DAY: WRYM-AM 840 New Britain, CT (Studio and transmitter on Willard Avenue in Newington, CT).
NIGHT: WRYM's poor excuse of a night time signal. It's only so-so, despite me staying no more than 3 miles from their site. I still hear a little of WHAS-AM 840 of Louisville underneath.

20-odd years ago, there was no night signal for WRYM-AM. WHAS-AM was never perfect, but was quite often listenable.
 
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