But the Knoxville market is Anderson, Blount, Knox, Loudon, Sevier and Union counties, not just the city of Knoxville. None of those stations covers all of those day and night.
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1070 WFNI Silent for now
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Let me put it to you this way.....if I snag KNX after a long "dry spell", I won't keep it quiet! LOL!
KFTI/KFDI hasn't been much of an issue for me of late, and KHMO was completely absent here this morning. The "pest du jour" for me today was CHOK.
CHOK has been a problem in the past. Hard to null when trying for KNX.
Exact;y, WTSO was strong before dawn this morning, but I was able to null it completely. CHOK, OTOH, while generally not as robust as it was a couple of years ago, can still be an intruder when nulling WTSO to clear a path for KNX. Same goes for when KHMO is "on its game".
I've mentioned CHOK blasting into Lafayette IN and some other places in the 90s. If they're still on day pattern at night, it will predominate.
In Knoxvllle last night before sunset it was mostly WFLI Chattanooga, WCSZ Saint Souci and WNCT, Greenville NC. No sign of WFNI. On the other hang I've seen WFNI's daytime signal hang in most of the day in the winter.
In Knoxvllle last night before sunset it was mostly WFLI Chattanooga, WCSZ Saint Souci and WNCT, Greenville NC. No sign of WFNI. On the other hang I've seen WFNI's daytime signal hang in most of the day in the winter.
But CHOK shouldn’t put much of a signal in your direction there in Chicago since you should be in one of their night-time nulls to protect KNX. Unless they are staying on daytime pattern. That would be a problem!
They apparently stayed on day pattern for the entire year of 1995. I'm not sure about since then.
I'm not sure what's going on with them. Their figure eight north-south night pattern should make CHOK next to impossible here in the Chicago area. As a practical matter IME,they're nowhere near as strong as they were when they were running day pattern at night (which I'm pretty comfortable in saying probably happened on multiple occasions since 1995). But they still turn up here from time to time. My guess is that CHOK is not running day pattern at night, but instead, the night pattern isn't as tight as it's supposed to be.
There used to be another AM station in Sarnia that was accused of cheating. CKT Y on 1110. I don't know if they were guilty or not, but IIRC, we used to have an engineer on this board from WTAM in Cleveland (1100) who claimed they were running higher than authorized power and trashing the WTAM signal. I have no idea if that was true or not, but CKTY was a relatively easy catch for me. It's all a moot point now, since CKTY has moved to FM. "Back in the day", CKTY was country, CHOK eas oldies
(For those unfamiliar with the location of Sarnia, it's at the southern tip of Lake Huron, across the Saint Claire River from Port Huron, Michigan. I've crossed the border there on multiple occasions, via the Bluewater bridge, but never stopped.)
CKTY 1110 used to be CKJD 1250, reportedly using as many as 16 towers. They lost their site, and moved to 1110 with 4 towers Day and 9 towers Night. They were compensated with land and equipment for the new frequency from what I heard. I'll try to get more details about the pattern. I found it somewhere once, can't remember where. One may have been common to both patterns. It was 1 kW U on 1250, 10 kW Day 1 kW Night on 1110. I think WERB...WCAR 1090 squeezed in when WTAM 1100 was DA. David probably knows when that ran. They used a drop line from a guy wire as the second tower.
CKTY 1110 information found here.
CKTY 1110 information found here.
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Back in the early/mid-1990s, 1110 in New England was a huge mess at night. CKTY was almost certainly on day power/pattern all the time (we never should have heard it), and the 1110 in Providence was also on at night when it shouldn't have been, supposedly due to a misunderstanding of the FCC's PSSA rules at the time.
My recollection is that WBT had to put up a fight to get the channel cleared up (not that it helped them any in their own local deep nulls - sorry, Gaston County!)
Wow!
With those two patterns I should've never heard them. But the fact is, they weren't exactly a tough catch at my home location. I'm wondering if the other Chicago area guys on this board also heard them.
I remember hearing some type of spur from CKJD 1250 in Genesee County, MI. It was very distorted audio, and it was around the low 1000s as I recall. I could barely understand them saying CKJD. It could have been some type of reradiating from CHOK. You could barely hear 1250 in Port Huron as I recall. Those were the only times I heard a peep from it.
WTAM/WKYC/WWWE/WTAM 1100 Cleveland was licensed as DA-1 from 1958 to 1975. I remember placing the transistor ferrite loop next to the tower leg of our 35 foot TV antenna and hearing it quite well when it was WKYC.
CHOK was 5 kW Day 1 kW Night DA-N until 1968. WOAP 1080 Owosso, MI was originally 250 watts, which would have met the 0.5 mV/m overlap rule according to treaty. They probably opted to accept interference to their 0.5 mV/m to increase to 1000 watts. The 0.5 mV/m doesn't go into Canada.
Both WERB...WCAR 1090 and CKTY 1110 may have squeezed in when WTAM...WTAM was DA. So maybe WTAM created the situation by going back to nondirectional. It's always the "other station" that is short spaced!
CHOK was 5 kW Day 1 kW Night DA-N until 1968. WOAP 1080 Owosso, MI was originally 250 watts, which would have met the 0.5 mV/m overlap rule according to treaty. They probably opted to accept interference to their 0.5 mV/m to increase to 1000 watts. The 0.5 mV/m doesn't go into Canada.
Both WERB...WCAR 1090 and CKTY 1110 may have squeezed in when WTAM...WTAM was DA. So maybe WTAM created the situation by going back to nondirectional. It's always the "other station" that is short spaced!
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