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AM Frequency of the Week: 560

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: All WIND with a very good signal.

Nights: The WIND night pattern throws most of the signal in my direction, but it is null-able. Doing so sometimes produces KWTO.

Other Location: On my annual trips to Winnipeg, WIND is usually on top at night, which is mildly surprising. I also heard it dominating the channel last month one evening on the Thunder Bay, Ontario SDR. Also surprising (to me at least) is that the WIND day signal is listenable and comparable to the 50kw Chicago blowtorches on the north shore of Lake Michigan in Michigan's upper peninsula.
 
East Tennessee: WMIK, Middlesboro KY day and night (at least sometimes). I'm not sure 88 watts should be as strong as it is at night.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio: The last breath of WIND during the day.
 
WFIL day here, semi-local strength. They're there at night, too.
One eve I caught CJKL from Canada.

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Retro mystery from the Queens NYC days, late 70's, was a 4 AM ID from what sounded like 'This is K A Z L news...'
I have it taped, too. But it's somewhere in the confusion of itinerant cardboard boxes from four different gypsy residences. If and when, I'll try to post it here.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's a strong WIND day & night. A few times I've heard KWTO either when WIND is off or nullable.
Not recently but a few times in the past when nulling WIND I've heard KLZ Denver in the background.
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - KSFO

There's sometimes another station in the background but I've never had an official ID.
 
cyberdad said:
... Also surprising (to me at least) is that the WIND day signal is listenable and comparable to the 50kw Chicago blowtorches on the north shore of Lake Michigan in Michigan's upper peninsula.
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According to FCC data/methods, the path from WIND to Escanaba, MI (for example) has a bearing of N4°E, is about 290 miles long, and they have a daytime field there of about 50 µV/m.

WSCR has a 270 mile path to Escanaba, and a daytime field there of about 90 µV/m.
 
KWTO is 24/7 here. The signal is weaker at night. No other stations have been logged. This station has consistently poor audio quality.

Bob
 
I was blown away by how well WIND came in in Cedar Grove, WI, and the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan at Night. Also WNUS/WVON/WGCI on 1390 in the Keweenaw Peninsula.
 
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rfry said:
According to FCC data/methods, the path from WIND to Escanaba, MI (for example) has a bearing of N4°E, is about 290 miles long, and they have a daytime field there of about 50 µV/m.

WSCR has a 270 mile path to Escanaba, and a daytime field there of about 90 µV/m.
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That doesn't surprise me. My experiences in that area are all with a car radio. In open noise-free areas, its hard to tell the difference between WIND and tthe bigger Chicago signals.
 
Below is a plot of the 1 mV/m and 0.1 mV/m daytime groundwave contours of WIND using a more optimistic value for Earth conductivities in that area.

WIND-Daytime-Fields.jpg
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WIND
Nightime: WIND

DX/RETRO: anything heard on this frequency is mostly with WIND being off the air. They can be partially nulled at my location, but usually it's not enough to produce any results. The only stations that I heard with WIND nulled are two DX tests by WHND (Monroe, MI) and WFIL (Philadelphia, PA). Everything else was heard with WIND off the air: KLVI (Beaumont, TX), KLZ (Denver, CO), KWTO (Springfield, MO), KMON (Great Falls, MT), WQAM (Miami, FL), WJLS (beckley, WV), WHBQ (Memphis, TN), WMIK (Middlesboro, KY), WEBC (Duluth, MN), WVOC (Columbia, SC), CFOS (Owen Sound, ON), CJKL (Kirkland Lake, ON)
 
West Central Georgia:

Day: WOOF Dothan AL 5000/118 Sports (Great call letters!) Fair
Night: Nothing - occasionally WQAM Miami FL Sports 5000/1000 or WMIK Middlesboro KY Religious 2500/88
 
In eastern Iowa:

WIND pretty much day and night. I don't think I have ever heard KWTO or WEBC at night, which has always surprised me. Have caught KLZ on occasion, but not in recent years.
 
radioman148 said:
It still amazes me that WIND can be heard in Winnipeg at night over WEBC.
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It's been WIND most nights. WEBC some nights. Usually you can hear both of tnd hem. Other stations, which I've been unable to ID usually underneath. KMON is a sunrise/sunset semi-regular in Winnipeg.

I was a little surprised on the Thunder Bay SDR receiver (north shore of Lake Superior) a few weeks back to encounter all WIND and no trace of WEBC (or CFOS).

And @rfry. Thanks for the map. It shows a little bit of overlap between WIND and CFOS east of Escanaba. For whatever reason, I've never personally heard them mixing. I'm sure it[s more than possible, however, along the Lake Michigan north shore.
 
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WIND sends so much signal to the north/NW at night I'll have to check and see if I can hear it on the arctic or one of the Northern Canadian receivers.
 
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