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AM Frequency of the Week: 1230

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Local KCOH, with an urban talk format, is dominant here, although fairly weak at night. I've ID'd KWTX in Waco underneath KCOH but the rest is a jumble.
 
Huntsville, AL - WBHP 1230, 24/7. Covers Madison County and some of the surrounding metro.

Central East Coast FL - WSBB 1230. Tower is located beside the Indian River on the North Causeway in New Smyrna Beach, which takes advantage of the excellent salt water ground conductivity when listening near the coast. Have heard this station during the daytime all the way to the North Carolina coast above Myrtle Beach, could probably hear it even further. As far as south goes gets adjacent channel interference from WMMB 1240 down in Melbourne, FL once you enter Brevard County. Going west ground conductivity is not so good so they have a station that simulcasts on 1490 in DeLand, FL. Nighttime gets in the mix with other 1230s. Overall pretty good for a kilowatt.
 
gr8oldies said:
You may recall that as top 40 WUBE, even Bill Drake couldn't make that signal work for top 40.
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It did work well for a while... until ARB expanded into the market.

Pulse and Hooper did phone surveys only calling toll-free exchanges in the central zone of a metro area. 1230 did fine there But when ARB started doing surveys by mail in the whole metro, WUBE was "over".
 
gr8oldies said:
You may recall that as top 40 WUBE, even Bill Drake couldn't make that signal work for top 40.
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Closer to home for me in a similar sized market... Milwaukee's WRIT on 1340 had a pretty good run as a top 40 station up against a much bigger signal on Bartel's WOKY (920). Although WRIT had some help from simulcasting on a full signal FM.
 
cyberdad said:
Closer to home for me in a similar sized market... Milwaukee's WRIT on 1340 had a pretty good run as a top 40 station up against a much bigger signal on Bartel's WOKY (920). Although WRIT had some help from simulcasting on a full signal FM.
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Even further off track, but related to smaller signals: For a while, 570 WMCA beat WABC with its 50 kw. Part was the fact that WABC had to carry some network shows, but the main thing was that in the "inner" part of the city where Pulse and Hooper measured audience WMCA had a competitive signal. When you added Long Island and suburban NJ, WABC won in ARB.

(ARB, American Research Bureau, became "Arbitron" and then "Nielsen" over the years).
 
Central Kansas:
Usually nothing during daytime hours. Have not had much luck trying to decipher anything at night.

North Iowa:
A fair to weak KFSP/Mankato daytime. At night, it’s a multitude of signals, but have not been able to decipher anything.
 
cyberdad said:
Closer to home for me in a similar sized market... Milwaukee's WRIT on 1340 had a pretty good run as a top 40 station up against a much bigger signal on Bartel's WOKY (920). Although WRIT had some help from simulcasting on a full signal FM.
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Unfortunately I couldn't get WOKY or WRIT in the near north Chicago suburbs. Had to drive further north to even hear them.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Even further off track, but related to smaller signals: For a while, 570 WMCA beat WABC with its 50 kw. Part was the fact that WABC had to carry some network shows, but the main thing was that in the "inner" part of the city where Pulse and Hooper measured audience WMCA had a competitive signal. When you added Long Island and suburban NJ, WABC won in ARB.

(ARB, American Research Bureau, became "Arbitron" and then "Nielsen" over the years).
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From what I always heard WMCA beat WABC in the city, but WABC beat them pretty well in the suburbs especially New Jersey and northern suburbs.
 
@ Cybredad:

Here on another GY frequency about 7 years back I heard what you might've heard. A hum, a grumble.
1450 WPAM Pottsvillle, 7 miles south of me, had a horrible signal at night. For the last year they were on the air, so was the hum.
(The stricken station was also using something like 50 watts -- really -- for some of their last days.)

Can some station off frequency, say 1,450, 004 cause a hum?

Oddly, WPAM could be crystal some nights, that meant the Aurora was having a jolly good time outside partying.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WJOB with decent signal
Nightime: usual graveyard mess

DX/RETRO: some of the stations heard on this frequency include WCLO (Janesville, WI), WJBC (Bloomington, IL), WLLR (Moline, IL) and KSEY (Seymour, TX) on a DX test in 2013. However one of my biggest domestic DX catches occurred on this frequency. I am talking about the KCUP (Toledo, OR) when they ran a DX Test. I heard a faint code and test tone during the test, but not enough to be sure it was them. I sent a recording anyway and was rewarded with a QSL card.
 
radioman148 said:
Unfortunately I couldn't get WOKY or WRIT in the near north Chicago suburbs. Had to drive further north to even hear them.
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WRIT-FM on 102.9 would have probably been out of the question for you as well with class-A WVVX parkeed on 103.1
 
gr8oldies said:
You may recall that as top 40 WUBE, even Bill Drake couldn't make that signal work for top 40.
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That was a little before my time but I am not surprised. All I knew of Cincinnati radio before the early 90s was the Big One.
Still, Cincinnati does not suffer from Atlanta-type conductivity that I know of. I suppose WDBZ hits most of its target audience but not being able to push that signal out much more than 30 miles is pretty bad.
 
Near S. Padre Island, TX its KSIX Corpus Christi daytime and sometimes at night. At 720 watts and 117 miles (as the crow flies) SportsRadio Corpus Christi puts a decent signal into eastern Cameron County. Good enough to listen to Astros Baseball if they happen to be playing an afternoon game.

All the Corpus Christi AM's are definitely listenable here since there's nothing but water and coastline in between
 
I thought updating my OP might be of interest....

Other Locations: On my trips to Winnipeg. 1230 daytime is KTRF from Thief River Falls, MN. Distance about 115 miles. Usually doesn't trip a car scan button, but signal is perfectly listenable and fade free. Example of what a ground conductivity of around 30 can do!

Berach Location: Gulf Coast beach exactly on Florida-Alabama daytime: : is a fair-weak signal from WDWR Pensacola (Catholic Radio) from a distance of 23 miles. WBOK from New Orleans (Talk/R&B music) clearly audible underneath. 135 miles via saltwater.

Retro: College location, Mount Pleasant in southeast Iowa: Daytime was a surprisingly good signal from WQUA (now WFXN) from Moline, IL. 65 miles to my northeast. KFJB from Marshalltown, Iowa usual audible underneath (110 miles). Another example of really good ground conductivity....although probably nowhere near 30.
 
Smittian said:
Near S. Padre Island, TX its KSIX Corpus Christi daytime and sometimes at night. At 720 watts and 117 miles (as the crow flies) SportsRadio Corpus Christi puts a decent signal into eastern Cameron County. Good enough to listen to Astros Baseball if they happen to be playing an afternoon game.
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Have you heard XEIZ from Monterrey? 10kw days and ~200 miles from Port Isabel might be doable.
 
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