AM Frequency of the Week: 1210

[radioman148]

While the WLAC daytime signal may not cover the Nashville metro well, it certainly travels well farther south, particularly as the days get shorter. Here in mid Georgia (about 275 miles away from Nashville), WLAC has a nice strong signal nearly all morning.

Is this skywave or groundwave propagation?

Now back to the thread topic: 1210 am frequency of the week.

If this did not happen when the days were longer then I'm guessing you're getting some daytime skywave.

Now back to the thread topic: 1210 am frequency of the week

 

[Schlep82]

Here in Cincinnati, OH:

Daytime station: WDAO, Dayton, OH
Daytime Signal Strength: Weak
Daytime Distance (to the city): 48.56 mi (78.16 km)

Nightime station: WPHT, Philadelphia, PA.
Nighttime Signal Strength: Strong
Nighttime Distance (to the city): 501.60 mi (807.25 km)

That's all from me.

 

[Big Weed]

1210. WPHT.
They are awful call letters . They ought to rename it WCAU since guys like me grew up with it . Hard to believe but at times it was labeled WGMP, and WOGL AM . 38 states and Canada .But I enjoy listening .

 

[radioman148]

1210. WPHT.
They are awful call letters . They ought to rename it WCAU since guys like me grew up with it . Hard to believe but at times it was labeled WGMP, and WOGL AM . 38 states and Canada .But I enjoy listening .

I still think of it as WCAU also. Things change.

 

[wildthangjim]

From NW San Antonio:


Night: KXTN switches to its directional pattern and the image is gone. There's still some WOAI splatter, though. I hear KGYN and KUBR, a Spanish-language Christian station in San Juan, TX. KGYN is usually most dominant.

Sunrise: Aiming E/W, I often briefly hear a weak WMPS in Bartlett, TN, playing oldies/nostalgia tunes when it signs on for the day.

From west Houston, I also hear KGYN and KUBR (no WOAI splatter here). Here, KGYN dominates at night with KUBR usually on top at sunset. I have also heard WMPS.

During the day, typically nothing. I can sometimes hear a weak signal in the wintertime, likely KUBR.

 

[ftballfan]

Yep...ground conductivity in northern Michigan is pretty bad.

WLAC is another example of a 50kw station with groundwave issues. Their daytime non-directional signal (1510) is barely adequate to cover the entire metro. Some would argue that it doesn't.

It's so bad that M-3 is very generous in that part of the country. In a related note, the Traverse City market has to be one of the markets with the highest FM to AM ratio