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WWJ 950 Detroit Heard In... Alaska!

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

Between 950pm and 1015pm AK Fri Mar 29 (150am to 215am Eastern Sat Mar 30)

With several clear, loud fade ups with news, weather and traffic all very clearly mentioning detroit and WWJ, including a report on an ill-legal bar where people were shot.

TEF6686 Radio, 15 ft wellbrook loop and DXEngineering preamp
 
Awesome catch Paul! I think you've heard them before?
WWJ puts all of their night power north of Detroit.
 
I thought that shouldn't happen in Alaska with a 50,000 watt KJR on 950 kHz.

But I think we're already seeing the benefits of clearing the clutter on AM. The other night driving home, I heard WHO on 1040.
 
Bongwater said:
I thought that shouldn't happen in Alaska with a 50,000 watt KJR on 950 kHz.

But I think we're already seeing the benefits of clearing the clutter on AM. The other night driving home, I heard WHO on 1040.
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Youd be surprised.

I've heard XEKAM 950 Tijuana semi regularly. XEWW 690......... and WHO
 
Did you try WFDF 910? I saw on an application that it entered into an interference study for an Alaska station, which surprised me. It's 25 kW Night, but its major lobe IDF is greater than many 50 kW Class As. They may have been on their backup transmitter at the time. As I recall, the part of the lobe in that direction is greater than WWJ.

Have you ever heard WNTD 950 Chicago? That interferes with WWJ quite a bit near the Straits. WWJ comes in clearer here on a radio with a ferrite rod, compared to in the car, because you can null out WNTD. They're not 90 degrees apart, but you can null out WNTD and still get a solid signal from WWJ.
 
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radiofan2023 said:
WJR used to come in in KC at night around 20 years ago, but not anymore
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KCCV Overland Park, KS is 200 watts Night on 760, on the edge of being Class B efficiency at the time it was authorized. Near the Straits, I have heard KCCV with 6000 watts Day before pattern change at KCCV. It was booming in with WJR nulled.

When they broke up the Clear Channels, they claimed that no cochannel station could be closer than 750 miles from the Clear Channel station. They changed the skywave model, so the protected skywave doesn't go out nearly as far, and a Class B could theoretically protect the WJR skywave at that distance. I asked the late Jeremy Ruck, who did the KCCV APP, if he knew where that 750 mile rule was in the rules or policies. I thought maybe that Class Ds were allowed at closer distances, but he said the reason why he made it Class D, was because he couldn't put a protected NIF over Overland Park for a Class B otherwise under the rules at the time. So if there ever was a 750 mile limitation, it wasn't in current rules. I think they were just trying to appease the Clear Channel stations by telling them that. They also told WJR that KFMB would never be allowed more than 5000 watts Night when they moved from 540 to 760 and there was nowhere else to go.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
Did you try WFDF 910? I saw on an application that it entered into an interference study for an Alaska station, which surprised me. It's 25 kW Night, but its major lobe IDF is greater than many 50 kW Class As. They may have been on their backup transmitter at the time. As I recall, the part of the lobe in that direction is greater than WWJ.

Have you ever heard WNTD 950 Chicago? That interferes with WWJ quite a bit near the Straits. WWJ comes in clearer here on a radio with a ferrite rod, compared to in the car, because you can null out WNTD. They're not 90 degrees apart, but you can null out WNTD and still get a solid signal from WWJ.
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Never heard WFDF or WNTD. WYLL is the only Chicago station ive heard... 3x.

The alaska station was KIYU 910
 
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