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DavidEduardo said:
AM is not like FM. FM has a table of assignments where applicants can file for a station. AM has been, historically, an "if it fits you can file for it" situation. That is why there are so many stations that are just bad: daytimers, highly directional stations, low power ones, etc.

In the biggest 100 US markets, there are less than 180 stations in total that cover at least 80% of the radio metro area day and night. That means that for every reasonably good signal, there are about 6 or 7 that don't cover their own market well.

In the case of KTXW, the applicant was mostly interested in the daytime operation, as the 155 watt night power is pretty useless. The day power puts a usable signal over about 2/3 of the market, and they have a translator to fill-in the more populated areas with 85 watts at over 1000 feet HAAT.

Remember, KMOX is not protected in Austin. Its protected contour ends at some distance from the city, so an Austin area station can operate on 1120 at night as long as it does not send nearly any power towards the KMOX protected night contour.
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There was an engineering firm that configured some of the strangest patterns to squeeze stations into the Great Lakes area, particularly 4 stations on 1520, 2 of them literally 30 miles apart. I worked at 1350 with 4 towers, highly directional to the east and north, nulling another 1350 and 2 1340s. Then there was a 6 tower directional in Muncie, Indiana tightly spacing 2 980s. The beat goes on.
 
gr8oldies said:
There was an engineering firm that configured some of the strangest patterns to squeeze stations into the Great Lakes area, particularly 4 stations on 1520, 2 of them literally 30 miles apart. I worked at 1350 with 4 towers, highly directional to the east and north, nulling another 1350 and 2 1340s. Then there was a 6 tower directional in Muncie, Indiana tightly spacing 2 980s. The beat goes on.
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I think you mean Kent and Canton, Ohio, and Toledo, OH and Ypsilanti, Michigan. Also, there was Bryan, OH, St. Louis, MI, and Muskegon Heights, MI. Ypsilanti was 250 watts nondirectional. Muskegon Heights eventually had 9 towers at Night. Ypsilsanti moved to 990 after they changed the Agreement between the United States and Canada. The 990 Class A is CBW Wiinnipeg, MB, but you couldn't put 5 uV/m ground wave into Windsor and Sarnia, ON, and no more than 25 uV/m ground wave into Canada. Now you just have to protect the Winnipeg station contours.
 
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IDed KTXW under KMOX a few minutes ago, matching its web stream. Surprised it's there two nights in a row. I'm imagine the KMOX engineer would be interested.

This leaves 660, 700, 780 (though two WBBM transmit sites), 890, 1100, 1390, 1490 and 1690 as single-station frequencies for me. I’ve heard something under 1390 but haven't IDed it.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I think you mean Kent and Canton, Ohio, and Toledo, OH and Ypsilanti, Michigan. Also, there was Bryan, OH, St. Louis, MI, and Muskegon Heights, MI. Ypsilanti was 250 watts nondirectional. Muskegon Heights eventually had 9 towers at Night. Ypsilsanti moved to 990 after they changed the Agreement between the United States and Canada. The 990 Class A is CBW Wiinnipeg, MB, but you couldn't put 5 uV/m ground wave into Windsor and Sarnia, ON, and no more than 25 uV/m ground wave into Canada. Now you just have to protect the Winnipeg station contours.
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I should have mentioned WERK was a daytimer with no pre-sunrise. I think the station (I think now WNAP, serving one of several translators for the tribute version of WNAP in Indianapolis) with something like 80 watts non directional
 
Looking at the station's schedules, the owners don't seem to care too much about the station's programming.
Overnights are "best of" programs or other canned shows.
Daytime, though, still appears to be local.
I wonder if the big chain which owns the legendary station degraded its news operation as well.
https://www.audacy.com/kmox/shows/show-schedule
 
Dondd said:
Looking at the station's schedules, the owners don't seem to care too much about the station's programming.
Overnights are "best of" programs or other canned shows.
Daytime, though, still appears to be local.
I wonder if the big chain which owns the legendary station degraded its news operation as well.
https://www.audacy.com/kmox/shows/show-schedule
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I couldn't tell you about the news staff; KMOX filled the former Rush Limbaugh slot locally so that is a plus. They moved Ryan Wrecker from overnights to evenings and then to the midday slot...from this schedule 1-4am is reruns. Being in Central time, America in the Morning can start at 4am
 
gr8oldies said:
Interesting they even bother running one watt. Back in Ohio, WGNZ-1110, licensed to Fairborn and transmitting from Xenia, runs 1 watt at night, and if they actually operate, they must reach more ears of corn than ears of people.
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Sycamore, Illinois is surrounded by cornfields, but I can personally vouch for the fact that when conditions are right on a clear night when conditions are just right, you can hear WSQR in the parking lot of the local McDonald's.
 
The other night, I captured KGNC 710 in Amarillo, TX, here in central Texas north of Austin near Georgetown, TX. The signal was faint and hard to hear, but I heard it (briefly).
That's quite a distance, 390 air miles.
 
WOC 1420 Davenport, IA at 3:45 EST near Pellston, MI, for about 30 minutes. Very clear for 10 minutes, faded before TOH ID, barely hear the ID. After Iowa Hawkeyes Basketball ended at 4:00 PM and the ID, the call letters were clearly heard several times. Haven't heard it in quite a few years.
 
Dondd said:
The other night, I captured KGNC 710 in Amarillo, TX, here in central Texas north of Austin near Georgetown, TX. The signal was faint and hard to hear, but I heard it (briefly).
That's quite a distance, 390 air miles.
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During my college days in Iowa, KGNC used to sometimes boom in while still on day power after WHB (then on 710) powered down. After KGNC also powered down, I never heard so much as a whiff from them. I've also never heard KGNC here at my home location.
 
I don't hear much on 710 AM here, in central Texas. It's usually blank or indecipherable.
When I do hear stations, it's on occasion KEEL, Shreveport.
KGNC was a first for me.
 
If anybody needs WXRH, Rockwood, TN they are blasting in on 580 with country music. Surely on daytime power.
 
Yep, that they must be. 5 kW instead of 49 watts. Clear slogan at 10:30 p.m. CT of “AM 580 and FM 93.3 The Ranch,” and right back into country tunes. Rockwood is a bit outside of Knoxville. Saw the tip on the DXWorld.com bcb log; apparently 780 WCKB, Dunn, N.C. is also on day power. Can't tell here with WBBM a local.
 
Right now I am also hearing choral music on 810 which turns out to be ZNS-3 Bahamas. Matched to their web stream.
 


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