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In Cheyenne, WY around 7:15pm MDT:
New Log - 970 WDAY Fargo, ND in a mumble jumble, but did pop up right on a liner ID. Truck radio at around 575 miles.
 
ZantennaG1 said:
In Cheyenne, WY around 7:15pm MDT:
New Log - 970 WDAY Fargo, ND in a mumble jumble, but did pop up right on a liner ID. Truck radio at around 575 miles.
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I find it interesting the difference between laramie and cheyenne.. stuff that was a regular for me, isnt for you and vice versa. i wouldnt exactly say WDAY was a regular but it wasnt rare
 
Rolling down I-65 today in the chariot with a really good radio, I noted the following around mid-day:
WGN outlasts WSCR and WBBM in the audibility war, thanks to no adjacents nearby. You can listen to WGN until you're south of Louisville. 670 and 780 are there but hampered by adjacents. WMVP also hangs in until deep in Indiana. (Didn't check WLS; I'll try to remember on the return trip, as well as how long WSB lasts going north.)
WTMJ and WJR come in well south of Indianapolis. WHAS pops in before you get to Lafayette, and WSM was audible at least just south of Indianapolis.
 
tvnut said:
Rolling down I-65 today in the chariot with a really good radio, I noted the following around mid-day:
WGN outlasts WSCR and WBBM in the audibility war, thanks to no adjacents nearby. You can listen to WGN until you're south of Louisville. 670 and 780 are there but hampered by adjacents. WMVP also hangs in until deep in Indiana. (Didn't check WLS; I'll try to remember on the return trip, as well as how long WSB lasts going north.)
WTMJ and WJR come in well south of Indianapolis. WHAS pops in before you get to Lafayette, and WSM was audible at least just south of Indianapolis.
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WSM can be heard pretty well in Indianapolis on a good radio.
 
DX alert: I suspect my local KVAM is on day power of 10kw. Best of luck!
 
jim-satx said:
Logged a surprising new station while hanging out in the 1490 graveyard - WCOR in Lebanon, TN. Last Saturday around 7 p.m. CT I was hearing occasional country music under country station KPLT in Paris, TX. The station faded up twice with "Real Country" IDs.

The branding was unfamiliar to me at the time, and I later narrowed it down to WCOR and WSNT. After midnight this morning, I did more listening on 1490 and heard another "Real Country" ID. The music and ID matched the WCOR stream as well as the IDs I heard last weekend.

This is my second furthest U.S. graveyard logging at 849 miles.
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It's funny, I was reading this yesterday and decided to check 1490. At 6:30pm CST I was hearing classic country music down in the jumble, thought maybe it was KPLT, which I haven't ID'd, or maybe even WCOR. At 6:32 I heard a clear ID as "Classic Country WHOC" from Philadelphia, MS. At 430 miles from Houston, not as cool as WCOR, but a nice surprise nonetheless.
 
Finally grabbed TWR on 800 tonight from Columbus, Ohio, and by total happenstance. This is one I seriously wondered whether I'd ever catch here, and it happened about 7:45 p.m. while I was driving home from work, just flipping up the dial from WLW.
I heard faint Spanish and wondered if it could be TWR. It was very weak, not far above the noise floor, then faded away for about five minutes. I was able to pull off the road about 7:55, find TWR's stream and attempt to verify. At 7:59, the signal came back enough that I could hear a man speaking Spanish, then verified the programming via the stream a few moments later.
As best I can tell, that's about a 2,100-mile haul. A recent Radio World article says TWR is broadcasting at 440,000 watts, but still, I never thought I'd get TWR here.
 
Continuing to roll south: The WSB cancellation zone is about 77 miles out, based on the flutter before dawn this morning in Dalton, Ga., up on I-75. It cleared up about 5-10 miles closer to Atlanta.

The Chicago clears were in solid – WSCR hammered by Cuba until the sun came up in Castro's paradise, and then, along with WGN, WBBM and WLS, good until about a half-hour after sunrise in Atlanta. (Aside: WSB's traffic reports are useless compared to WBBM's thorough effort.)

Evening in Orlando, Fla.: WSCR obscured by Cuba, WBBM and WLS a tough get because of adjacents, I guess, but WGN in solid again with the Blackhawks game. Will have to investigate further.
 
radioman148 said:
TWR used to come into the Chicago area very well years ago. Now not nearly as well.
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It is directional now, aiming at Cuba in the evening and Brazil in the early morning.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I find it interesting the difference between laramie and cheyenne.. stuff that was a regular for me, isnt for you and vice versa. i wouldnt exactly say WDAY was a regular but it wasnt rare
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A thousand feet difference in elevation probably is part of the difference, plus any difference in terrain.

It's amazing how even a few miles can also make a difference. If I go uphill (just a couple miles away) my smaller portables will bring in DX that needs a loop in the valley. In another valley a few miles over, because of the high groundwater (including some saltwater), DX is more plentiful as well.
 
radioman148 said:
TWR used to come into the Chicago area very well years ago. Now not nearly as well.
DavidEduardo said:
It is directional now, aiming at Cuba in the evening and Brazil in the early morning.
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radioman148 said:
Yes, but wouldn't that enhance the signal towards the midwest at night?
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DavidEduardo said:
More like Texas, Colorado and Idaho.
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I'm writing this tonight from Sarasota, Florida. Both here and where I was over the weekend in Fort Myers, 80 miles south of where I am now, TWR was in with a solid channel on 800. Good, but I definitely wouldn't describe it as a blaster. I have yet to hear TWR at my home location in the Chicago area since they re-emerged in their current incarnation.
 
Sarasota FL AM bandscan highlights Jan 23-24, 2022. Relatively noise free hotel room. C Crane Skywave. Nighttime unless otherwise indicated. Locals omitted

540: WFLF. Weak with unidentifiable signals underneath.
600: R. Rebelde with a good signal
640: R. Progreso. Strongest Cuban signal
650: WSM Fair
670: Rebelde all alone. No WSCR or Miami
700: WLW fair
710: Rebelde chorus.
750; WSB fair. Mixing with something else
720: WGN good. Best Chicago signal
780: WBBM weak
800: TWR good
840: WHAS getting trashed by a Spanish language signal I couldn't ID
880: WCBS underneath R. Progreso. The only NYC signal I heard
890: WLS fair, but on top of R Progreso.
950: R. Reloj good and alone
1000: WMVP weak, but on top of XEOY
1040: WHBO getting clobbered by a Spanish signal I couldn't ID. No trace of WHO
1060: Mexico (ex XEEP) fair and alone
1090: KAAY fair
1110: WBT fair
1120: KMOX weak
1130: KWKH weak
1180: Rebelde chorus good
1220: XEB under local Sarasota station
1370: WCOA good and alone on top. On my wanted list....for at my home!
1530: WCKY good
1620: R. Rebelde fair
 
From Chicago... on 1440, instead of the usual jumble, there was a pretty clear WZYX in Cowan, Tennessee. I'm going to make a wild guess and say they were on their daytime power of 5 KW and not their 66 W nighttime power. I think also there are auroral conditions going on which might be suppressing the more local jumble.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
From Chicago... on 1440, instead of the usual jumble, there was a pretty clear WZYX in Cowan, Tennessee. I'm going to make a wild guess and say they were on their daytime power of 5 KW and not their 66 W nighttime power. I think also there are auroral conditions going on which might be suppressing the more local jumble.
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Yeah, Cowan is a frequent offender
 
I saw on Facebook that KAAY AM 1090 out of Little Rock, Arkansas has made the difficult decision to not rebuild the one night-time tower that collapsed a while back meaning it will not be going back to 50,000 watts at night. KAAY-1090 filed with the FCC for an extension of the existing STA and noted, “after considerable discussion, a business decision has been made” to not rebuild the one fallen nighttime tower and instead seek a construction permit to operate ND 24/7 at a power to be determined.

What is KAAY currently broadcasting at night with? This FCC link I found says 12,500 watts non-directional: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101818086&formid=911&fac_num=33253. Meanwhile, people are reporting that KAAY is coming in very strong tonight up in Wisconsin, Detroit and other northern Midwest locations so I am not sure if 12,500 watts is correct or not.
 
asugeorge1 said:
I saw on Facebook that KAAY AM 1090 out of Little Rock, Arkansas has made the difficult decision to not rebuild the one night-time tower that collapsed a while back meaning it will not be going back to 50,000 watts at night. KAAY-1090 filed with the FCC for an extension of the existing STA and noted, “after considerable discussion, a business decision has been made” to not rebuild the one fallen nighttime tower and instead seek a construction permit to operate ND 24/7 at a power to be determined.

What is KAAY currently broadcasting at night with? This FCC link I found says 12,500 watts non-directional: https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101818086&formid=911&fac_num=33253. Meanwhile, people are reporting that KAAY is coming in very strong tonight up in Wisconsin, Detroit and other northern Midwest locations so I am not sure if 12,500 watts is correct or not.
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If theyre operating non directionally all you can get is 25 percent if what was your licensed direcitonal power

And theres no guarentee youll get 12.5kw non directional if you re license it..... when you file to relicense to non directional and 12.5 kw may nto fit without causing interference.. thats not quite taken into account when filing for an STa but has to be measured when filing for an actual license
 


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