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AM Frequency of the week: 1100

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake, IL....

Days: Moderate splatter from WXES (1110), Otherwise blank,. I'm just out of range of WISS from Berlin, WL. 2500 watts ND from 125 miles north of me. I generally can start hearing WISS in the car right around the Illinois-Wisconsin state line, 18 miles away.

Nights: All WTAM. Usually with a strong signal.
 
Thanks for keeping this going, cyberdad. :)
From Cheyenne, WY

Days: Nothing
Critical Hours: A strong KNZZ Grand Junction (268 mi) while they are still on 50kw day power
Nights: Generally nothing, but KNZZ pops up occasionally with weak strength. Sometimes there is adjacent splatter from KFAB. I would think that I could get WTAM here considering I also have CFZM and WJR, but nothing yet.

Travel Dx: KNZZ gets stronger the more north and west one gets, so in Riverton they're decent strength.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime (dead-band): Nothing.
Night: All WTAM
Daytime skip/sunrise/sunset. WTAM can be amazing being first in and last out, and in all day during daytime skip (I' ve mentioned I have a pipeline to Northeast Ohio. Often, WWWE, Hapeville GA (this call as you know was on 1100 in Cleveland for years) makes it in with their 5000 watt or 3800 critical hours non-directional.
Night: All WTAM

Retro/other: Southwest Ohio-whatever WTAM day signal is left is overwhelmed by WGNZ-1110 splatter. It's all WTAM at night. I, like many of us, heard WZFG, Dilworth MN (Fargo ND) at night during horrible flooding a few years ago, competing with WTAM.
Edinburgh IN SDR: Late morning skip brought WZFG in on an incredible daytime skip day in 2017, with WISS, Berlin, WI. About a month later I received WSGI, Springfield TN on it.
 
A faint but steady signal from 250-watt WGPA Bethlehem (Allentown) is the midday occupant here. We're just off the map, west of Tamaqua here.
WGPA-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

Give you an idea how modernly immersed a DXer I am, the nighttime logging on 1100 is 'WWWE' !

One June sunset, and taped, was daytimer WHLI Long Island. My prevailing thinking, what there is of it, suggests that WHLI went directional after they got 10,000 watts because of Allentown, not because of Cleveland. The four points -- Cleveland, me, Bethlehem and Hempstead -- are pretty much co-linear. And wee WGPA signed on a few months before WHLI did. Yet there was Dean Anthony's show on Standards WHLI that SSS.

2nd-ed and 3rd-ed, Zantenna : Good stuff, Cyberdad !
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs: daytime nothing but WXES splatter. At night a strong WTAM. During the bad floods several years ago WZFG was in and fighting each night with WTAM. I think I've heard WZFG one or two other times.
 
Here in Wood Dale, Illinois (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: Nothing possible due to WMBI on 1110 just under 3 miles away from me.
Nightime: dominant WTAM (ex WWWE)

Other DX on this frequency: KDRY (Alamo Heights, TX), KKLL (Webbb City, MO), WSGI (Springfield, TN), WCGA (Woodbine, GA), WISS (Berlin, WI) . Also heard WZFG (Dilworth, MN )during an emergency broadcast in 2009. Foreign ones include Radio Reloj, Barranquilla, Colombia and several Cubans (Radio Taino, etc.). In recent months WWWE (Hapeville, GA) has been making an appearance under WTAM with reggae music late at might.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Nothing
Critical Hours: Sometimes WISS in Berlin, Wisconsin makes it in before it goes off for the night
Nighttime: WTAM Cleveland, with a generally good signal.

Retro: 1980s, Bay Area. It was KFAX, broadcasting a religious format at 50 KW. Today, it is still there, still broadcasting a religious format at 50 KW.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Nothing
Critical Hours: Sometimes WISS in Berlin, Wisconsin makes it in before it goes off for the night
Nighttime: WTAM Cleveland, with a generally good signal.

Retro: 1980s, Bay Area. It was KFAX, broadcasting a religious format at 50 KW. Today, it is still there, still broadcasting a religious format at 50 KW.
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KFAX sends a great deal of their signal into the Pacific and at night is pretty strong in Hawaii.
 
I've never really DXed 1100, since evenings always brought in the one and only WKYC. Got it when NBC still owned it, before the sale to Nick Mileti, who changed the call to WWWE. The current owners changed it to WTAM, which it was when NBC bought it the first time, in the 1930s. I missed out on the infamous swap with Westinghouse when it was KYW for about 10 years. On the return swap, NBC picked WKYC for the calls to keep the KY11 slogan Westinghouse used.
 
tvnut said:
I've never really DXed 1100, since evenings always brought in the one and only WKYC. Got it when NBC still owned it, before the sale to Nick Mileti, who changed the call to WWWE. The current owners changed it to WTAM, which it was when NBC bought it the first time, in the 1930s. I missed out on the infamous swap with Westinghouse when it was KYW for about 10 years. On the return swap, NBC picked WKYC for the calls to keep the KY11 slogan Westinghouse used.
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I never got the point of bringing call letters from the 30s, 40s and 50s back that no one remembered
 
My WTAM story....some of you may have heard it before.....

One time about 15-20 years ago on a biz trip, I had stopped for the night in Bellville, Ontario. Before sunrise the next morning at around 5am local time, I was awake and DXing in my hotel room, when I heard a strong signal with country music on 1100. I was excited and thought I had just snagged some fantastic rare catch. I was determined to get a positive ID. About three or four songs later, I finally got that ID. It was WTAM. Well, THAT certainly burst my baloon.. But I was astonished that WTAM would have flipped to country. But no...they hadn't. Just after I realized that the date was April 1...the jock (actually a news anchor) fessed up to the April fool's joke.
 
gr8oldies said:
I never got the point of bringing call letters from the 30s, 40s and 50s back that no one remembered
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It’s my understanding the new owners picked out WTAM without knowing the station had them previously. I don’t understand changing them in the first place.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: I am located in the far northern fringe of the coverage area for KKLL, a 5 kW non-directional daytimer located in Webb City, Missouri. The signal is not really listenable but I have made a midday ID.

Critical Hours: KKLL until sign off. Then, WTAM. Reverse conditions in the morning.

Night: WTAM is surprising listenable considering the distance from Cleveland. At times, the signal is strong. No other stations logged to date.

Bob
 
I gotta recount the gag I'd read about the fellow who found out he'd won the lottery. On his way to cash in his ticket, he was attacked by a shark. And on the way home he was struck by lightning.

Oh. That's right. Anyone here remember the years WKYC was Top 40? And how did they do in the ratings?
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, WTAM at all hours here. Weak during the day and the signal can vary wildly at night, from strong in spurts to unlistenable with cancellation given our distance from Cleveland, about 140 miles.
I read here several years ago that there is a fault line somewhere around Mansfield that takes a lot out of WTAM's groundwave in this direction. Just from practical experience, I believe it. Day and night, the groundwave is much stronger to the north and northeast of Mansfield than anywhere to the south and west.
 
radioman148 said:
WKYC had ratings problems when they were Top 40 because they were saddled with NBC News. Their competition, mainly WIXY at that time didn't have any of that.
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In Peoria, Illinois when I was high school, I listened to WKYC and the late, high energy "Big Jack" Armstrong almost nightly during the week. A fun listen!

Bob
 
schmave said:
From Pickerington, Ohio, WTAM at all hours here,,,,
........Day and night, the groundwave is much stronger to the north and northeast of Mansfield than anywhere to the south and west.
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When I was regularly making the run between Toronto and Detroit on Ontario's 401 freeway, WTAM had a pretty good signal for just about the entire 225 mile drive. Although on the west end, it would get squezed a bit from the long-gone 1090 in Detroit and CKTY on 1110 from Sarnia.

I do remember WKYC as a top 40 station, but I liked KAAY "next door" better. Wasn't WKYC the alma mater of Ken Draper, Jim Runyan, Jerry G Bishop, and Jim Stagg of the original days of WCFL as a top-40 challenger to WLS?
 
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