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WWBA has been on day power all night lately

Ai4i

Ai4i

It has been brought to my attention that these guys have been 17dB over their normal night power for a few nights
recently and in lieu of nulling toward DFW, their day pattern puts a LOT of signal straight toward their runways.
 
A DXer in Oregon caught them!!! He's on the BCB logger (dxworld.com), named Robert. Think he lives in southwestern Oregon. He was able to match to the Key West SDR receiver, a couple of songs under Seattle/Dallas. Shows you how 50kw can do with good conditions & not a lot in the way.
 
Thanks very much for the heads-up, ai4i. I’m hearing WWBA right now in the partial null of WBAP, and it’s a new log for me. The signal is weak, but it’s been good enough to make out Johnny Cash, Donna Fargo, Dixie Chicks, and Alan Jackson songs and match them to the station stream.
 
Hearing a Tampa station here in Hawaii has been a DXing dream because it's impossible.

WWBA doesn't favor this direction with their day or night pattern but at 50,000 watts, it's worth a try anyway.

WBAP is all I get on 820 so if I hear country music in the background, that's all the ID I would need.


I found their live stream. It still says 'News' but I'm hearing country.

https://tunein.com/radio/AM-820-News-s30995/
 
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I, too, noticed WWBA blasting into Central KY last night. I could null it out and still hear WBAP, but it was sure strong here on my old Panasonic bedside clock radio!
 
They push a lot more ERP ever so slightly west of due north than their reference nondirectional signal would be.
 
I just checked 820 now that it's dark and strangely enough, WBAP was the strongest signal from the mainland (other than KNX) but there was no trace of any other signal on the frequency.

I will check again later.
 
Still nothing later on my PR-D5 but then it occurred to me that I should check the Maui SDR receiver.

It sounded like there were 2 stations behind WBAP on 820, very weak with one that sounded like talk and one playing music, neither of which I could really discern.

So I went to the Key West SDR receiver and while WWBA was audible, it didn't sound like it was 50,000 watt strength but it's hard to be sure.

Here's the Maui SDR in case anyone else wants to listen tomorrow night once it's dark here.

http://kiwisdr.robinett.us:8073/
 
Their day pattern directs very little signal toward the Aloha state
but they are most solid and interference-free into the Savana SDR
which appears to be smack dab in one of their two their main lobes.
They use two towers on this pattern so figure about 150KW ERP.
 
I remember WWBA blasting into Michigan in the 1970s-on 107.3! It was a regular Sporadic E staple. At first, I thought they said WWVA and was confused. Then, in the early 1980s, WWRM 106.7 Gaylord, MI became WKPK, and WWBA changed to WWRM shortly thereafter. As I recall, both were called Warm 107 when they had the call.
 
Wow. I didn't put it together but I have heard country music at night on 820 on a couple of occasions the last few months. I didn't think to much of it but I did notice it because WBAP is a nighttime regular here and I figured that its country music days are far, far behind it.
 
Classic country,
not modern country,
there is a BIG difference,
and only for a couple or few months.
 
Looks like they're back to normal nighttime power.

Now that it's dark in the east, I checked the Key West receiver and it's all Cuba on 820 and no sign of WWBA.
 
Couldn't hear them here last night. Heard a religious station (EWTN) out of Columbus OH just prior to local sundown on that frequency.
 
Not in Savannah, and that was their clearest SDR and is such in the daytime.
Gone...you'll all have to get them post-sunrise, pre-sunset,
or hope that they screw up again...and we are confident that they will.
BTW...they seem to be running more light talk and less music lately,
so classic country could have been an interim placeholder.

Wow, I am checking SDRs throughout the southeast and they are all on 820.
I tuned some of them there, but definitely not all of them.
Key West has a strong signal but weaker than a Cuban co-channel station.
 
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