Interesting link. Perhaps a bit off-topic, but I'm too young to remember 1030 as anything other than WUFL. I was aware they signed on as WDRQ, any connection to 93.1 WDRQ early on? Did they simulcast 93.1 initially? Or had 93.1 flipped to WLTI by the time 1030 signed on.
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Soil types are definitely connected to conductivity, and M-3 is abysmal in many areas. If you look at a lot of AM Applications, they have measured conductivity radial data, and they match up soil type areas better than M-3. There are perhaps upwards of 15 stations in Michigan and nearby areas that have done these measurements on CDBS. There are areas that are Dune Sand that show 8 mS/m on M-3. Clay loam is better than sandy loam, which is better than gravelly and rocky soil. The Clinton Kalamazoo Canal ran into rocky soil near Rochester, and they had to give up building the canal. Remnants of the canal construction are widespread. Yet Rochester shows as 8 mS/m. Since this has such effect on ground waves, it is relevant to the discussion, but perhaps it should have its own thread, though it affects signals on every frequency.
WOKY usually trips a car radio scan button along the portion of US highway 31 roughly between Holland and north of Muskegon. That came as sort of a surprise to me as well. Although I knew a couple of people who vacationed in that area, and had told me that WOKY was a regular listen for them in its top 40 days.
WOKY is pretty well nulled in my direction in the near north suburbs. I have to get north near the state line to really hear it.
That would include me. In our trips to Fremont Michigan, WOKY was one of the stations I listened to.
During their Top 40 days I always wanted to listen to "WOKY in Milwaukee" but couldn't hear it at my home QTH.
Bob Naismith is the person who put WDRQ 1030 Sterling Heights, MI on the air. He mainly picked the call letters for the Top 40 History of 93.1, which format ran a few months before Family Life Radio took over the station and changed it to WUFL. Also, it was a way to park the call letters for a while until someone else, eventually WDRQ 93.1, went back to the call letters. Bob Naismith also stored the call letters WLLZ-LP Cahnnel 12 Traverse City, which was returned to Detroit on WLLZ 106.7 a couple years ago. They managed to get the clever WXII-LP call sign on the LPTV.
Someone grabbed the old WDEE calls (which were on 1500) for a station in Reed City, Michigan (also on 1500). There's an FM for the Reed City station and I believe the AM is silent.
There are quite a few instances of call letter recycling in Michigan. WDEE 1500 apparently used the WDEE Detroit jingles for a while. They took the 250 watt nondirectional station off the air a while after WDEE-FM 97.3 went on the air.
One of the most famous call letter recyclings was WBKB-TV 11, which went on the air in Alpena, MI circa 1976. I can't find out when they put the call letters on the CP. WBKB-TV 7 became WLS-TV 7 in 1968. WBKB-TV has CBS, ABC, FOX/MyLife on subchannels, being the only commercial channel which now credibly serves the area OTA. Why NBC ignores the area is inexplicable. But WBKB-TV is back to being an ABC affiliate on a sub channel.
One of the most famous call letter recyclings was WBKB-TV 11, which went on the air in Alpena, MI circa 1976. I can't find out when they put the call letters on the CP. WBKB-TV 7 became WLS-TV 7 in 1968. WBKB-TV has CBS, ABC, FOX/MyLife on subchannels, being the only commercial channel which now credibly serves the area OTA. Why NBC ignores the area is inexplicable. But WBKB-TV is back to being an ABC affiliate on a sub channel.
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Day: KOMO, faintly
Night: KOMO, almost semi-local
Night: KOMO, almost semi-local
Thanks! I figured you'd be the one to ask. Yes, seems our region does like to recycle old callsigns. The earliest Detroit call/format change I can recall is 95.5 going from WCZY to WKQI in 1989. BTW, WBKB TV is the only station with a consistently-viewable signal at my in-laws cabin near Port Hope (extreme NE thumb area), although it's a fabulous location for TV and FM DX due to the remote location.
WBKB-TV Longley Rice Map from rabbit ears.info. It shows the tip of The Thumb being a hot spot for WBKB-TV 11. Once it gets inland a few miles, it apparently goes downhill fast.
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Where are you? DX doesn't mean much if we don't know where you are listening.
If you've been paying attention to my posts over the years decades, you'd know whereabouts I'm based......
There’s a station that switches frequencies at night from 690 AM to 680 AM? I have never heard of that before! I have heard of stations sharing a frequency, but not changing dial positions. How common is that?
After the FCC approved WNZK 690/680, they decreed that they would not approve any more split frequency operations.
I don't know why they wouldn't approve them on a case by case basis. This was a very clever situation, including the way of steering the major lobe with the tower arrangement. Almost like putting the towers on a turntable.
I don't know why they wouldn't approve them on a case by case basis. This was a very clever situation, including the way of steering the major lobe with the tower arrangement. Almost like putting the towers on a turntable.
I guess WNZK figured they'd interfere with CHUM less at night even though they're on 680.
I think I heard CHYR/CHIR 710/730 the very first time they changed one night in 1967. They had various sounders over the years. As I recall, there was some mention as to when it would began, so I don't think I just happened to hear it.
Not very common, I believe WNZK is the only MW station in the U.S. to switch frequencies for night operation. Although there was a Canadian station that used to: CHYR in Leamington, ON operated on 710 khz day, switching to 730 khz at night. They moved to FM in 1993 however.
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