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Driving on I-75 in Eastern Michigan at around 7:30 AM yesterday, The Great Plains were booming in, particularly KFAB 1110 Omaha, NB, and KXEL 1540 Waterloo, IA. WHO 1040 was there, but not quite as strong. When FCC Sunrise passed, interference increased, WGNZ 1110 but no WXES 1110 possibly, and a Talk type format that might have been WBT 1110 or WJML 1110. No CHIN on 1540, which frequently comes in during afternoon CH and Daytime skywave.
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Right now (12:41 a.m. CT) in the Chicago area, WCCO 830 is being battled and occasionally wiped out by WYRU Kernersville, N.C., presumably on day pattern. Maybe 10 kW night power, maybe its full 50. A tip on the DX World board that KUYO 830 Evansville, Wyo., was misbehaving led me to listen for it, but WYRU was there instead, matched to local SDRs. So I ask WYRU, why are you audible here tonight? New AM No. 518 for me.
Well this is different. I checked it out here in Illinois and a religious station is battling with WCCO. However, the webstream from KUYO didn't match. What I heard was WTRU from North Carolina. They must be on day pattern because their hitting WCCO pretty hard.
I'm hearing something faint under KNCO, might be KUYO in Carmichael, CA
Too bad I did not stick around listening last night. At 12:12 I heard WSVS (Crewe, VA) on 800, but was tired so I went to bed. Looks like there was more action to be had. Earlier in the day I had a solid signal of WJLE (Smithville, TN) on 1480 with country music.
Something did seem odd about the 830 frequency last night, with my radio picking it up in a north-south direction as opposed to west-east. Probably was KUYO! I was just too tired to notice. On the bright side, 1500 KSTP was really strong and clear last night.
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I visited the Arctic SDR (Norway) and the Westfjords SDR (Iceland). 8!30-9::00[ last night (Wed. 10/20). Not much doing on either one in terms of TA DX. My first go-to, WBBR, was barely audible on Westfjords, and missing entirely on the Norway receiver. The lone exception was WEGP from Presque Isle, Maine with a fair signal on 1390 (10kw) on Westfjords.
So then I moved on to the Lamont, Alberta, SDR. Interesting path from there to Minnesota. The standout catch was KDIO from Ortonville in northwest Minnesota. 670 watts day/38 watts night. Non-directional. I'll leave it to anyone rading this as to which power they were using. But here's a hint: There was a high school football game being broadcast live.
Distance: 928 mi;es. Fair signal.
I was also getting a good, steady signal "next door" on 1360 from KKBJ in Bemidji, MN. 5kw ND day, 2.500 watts directional night. In this case, I'll presume they were probably running on night power.
So then I moved on to the Lamont, Alberta, SDR. Interesting path from there to Minnesota. The standout catch was KDIO from Ortonville in northwest Minnesota. 670 watts day/38 watts night. Non-directional. I'll leave it to anyone rading this as to which power they were using. But here's a hint: There was a high school football game being broadcast live.
Distance: 928 mi;es. Fair signal.I was also getting a good, steady signal "next door" on 1360 from KKBJ in Bemidji, MN. 5kw ND day, 2.500 watts directional night. In this case, I'll presume they were probably running on night power.
I was hearing sport talk, so KLAA out of Greater Los Angeles
Congrats on the Catch of WZNK
The voice you often heard on WNZK for many announcements was Jerry Tertzakian. He was also the voice often heard on WNWI 1080. Once I heard what I assume was an Armenian language program, on WNWI near Gaylord, MI, and couldn't understand a word he said, but it was clearly Jerry Tertzakian. It looks like he may have passed away, but his announcements may still be used in some instances.
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I've only gotten them on 690. One day I was right by the lake near sunset and I heard it before it went off for the day. I've gotten 4 stations on 680 but never WNZK.
Near the Straits of Mackinac, at approximately 5:30 PM EDT, I heard WKOK 1070 Sunbury, PA. I was confused at first, hearing "OK" in the call letters, thinking it was CHOK Sarnia. Then I heard them talking about Pennsylvania, and heard them say WKOK.
I believe WNZK and WNWI are co-owned. Not quite 100% sure of that, however.
Sima BIrach also owns WCXI 1160 Fenton (30 kHz from WDFN 1130) and 770 WTOR Youngstown, NY (Toronto, ON) (30 kHz from CFZM 740). WNWI 1080 Oak Park, IL is 30 kHz from WXES 1110 (recently WMBI), and WMFN 640 Peotone, IL is 30 kHz from WSCR 670. Squeezing in 30 kHz separated stations into large Metropolitan Areas is the defining Birach move. In the US, the 25 mV/m contours of two stations 30 kHz apart is the restriction. I'd have to look at the Agreement between the US and Canada to see what that restriction is.
Looking at a few applications, there does not appear to be a 30 kHz restriction between stations in the Agreement between the US and Canada. The application for WTOR 770 shows that there is no overlap of their 15 mV/m contour over land with CFZM 740 in Canada. It just reaches the edge of Lake Ontario. But any requirement seems to have disappeared from the Agreement.
Looking at a few applications, there does not appear to be a 30 kHz restriction between stations in the Agreement between the US and Canada. The application for WTOR 770 shows that there is no overlap of their 15 mV/m contour over land with CFZM 740 in Canada. It just reaches the edge of Lake Ontario. But any requirement seems to have disappeared from the Agreement.
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