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AM 1000 heard in Cleveland, Ohio

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johnbasalla

There is the possibility of a re-birth of daytimer WCCD-AM 1000 (Parma, OH?) at some point. However, I'm hearing a weak signal carrying of "Air-1", the Educational Media Foundation (EMF) format at AM 1000, at least during the day. Please go to the Cleveland board to read details about what I'm hearing which doesn't make sense as EMF doesn't go in for AM signals. At night, I've heard ESPN Chicago (WMVP) with some level of clarity, which is normal.

After you read my story, then come back here for this update and question. On my car radio Thursday night 10/19/24, at about 7:30 pm (after dark), through lots of noise, I still heard Christian music and after a song, an announcer talking with what seemed to have been a Spiritual message before going back to music. I did not hear him say "Air-1". So, what other Christian music station at AM1000 might it have been, if any?

THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE.
 
johnbasalla said:
There is the possibility of a re-birth of daytimer WCCD-AM 1000 (Parma, OH?) at some point. However, I'm hearing a weak signal carrying of "Air-1", the Educational Media Foundation (EMF) format at AM 1000, at least during the day. Please go to the Cleveland board to read details about what I'm hearing which doesn't make sense as EMF doesn't go in for AM signals. At night, I've heard ESPN Chicago (WMVP) with some level of clarity, which is normal.

After you read my story, then come back here for this update and question. On my car radio Thursday night 10/19/24, at about 7:30 pm (after dark), through lots of noise, I still heard Christian music and after a song, an announcer talking with what seemed to have been a Spiritual message before going back to music. I did not hear him say "Air-1". So, what other Christian music station at AM1000 might it have been, if any?

THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE.
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I can't answer your specific question, but EMF has been known to have AM stations that can feed FM translators.
 
I don't know what station that could have been. How was it holding up against WMVP? By that time of night in October, Chicago is usually blasting in to the point that nothing else is audible.
 
There's a geomagnetic storm currently going on which is causing aurora and affecting radio propagation. Last night the skywaves were almost totally dead and I heard normally-weak groundwave signals booming in. So likely you were actually hearing WCCD. (That would be a great call sign for a Catholic station!)
 
kevtronics said:
There's a geomagnetic storm currently going on which is causing aurora and affecting radio propagation. Last night the skywaves were almost totally dead and I heard normally-weak groundwave signals booming in. So likely you were actually hearing WCCD. (That would be a great call sign for a Catholic station!)
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I wish it had been that way around Columbus. About 11, in the midst of a lot of reports re. the Northern Lights, a lot of the usual skywave stations were coming in just fine. Some not as strong as usual, but they were there.
With Cleveland being much closer to that auroral activity, maybe it was different up there.
 
johnbasalla said:
After you read my story, then come back here for this update and question. On my car radio Thursday night 10/19/24, at about 7:30 pm (after dark), through lots of noise, I still heard Christian music and after a song, an announcer talking with what seemed to have been a Spiritual message before going back to music. I did not hear him say "Air-1". So, what other Christian music station at AM1000 might it have been, if any?
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Nobody? Nobody? Today, as I type this, the date is Friday, October 11th, 2024. If yesterday was 10/19, that coronal activity was doing something truly incredible, time travel backwards a week. And that "Spiritual message" John heard would have to have been truly from the Devine.

(Yes, I realize the '9' and '0' keys are next to each other, and it was likely a typo.)
 
kevtronics said:
There's a geomagnetic storm currently going on which is causing aurora and affecting radio propagation. Last night the skywaves were almost totally dead and I heard normally-weak groundwave signals booming in. So likely you were actually hearing WCCD. (That would be a great call sign for a Catholic station!)
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WCCR AM-1260 is Cleveland Ohio's Catholic radio station. WCCD is licensed to be a daytime only station. However, there has not been any top of the hour ID's for WCCD. Additionally, the coverage maps from the radio locator site indicate that, for both their original 500 watts and their CP to go down to 200 watts, the City of Cleveland is in their main listening area, yet the Air-1 programming heard on AM1000 in Cleveland, Ohio during the day is weak and sounds like an out-of-town station.
 
johnbasalla said:
WCCR AM-1260 is Cleveland Ohio's Catholic radio station. WCCD is licensed to be a daytime only station. However, there has not been any top of the hour ID's for WCCD. Additionally, the coverage maps from the radio locator site indicate that, for both their original 500 watts and their CP to go down to 200 watts, the City of Cleveland is in their main listening area, yet the Air-1 programming heard on AM1000 in Cleveland, Ohio during the day is weak and sounds like an out-of-town station.
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it sounds like theyre just putting something on the air to modulate the finals. 100 watts into a fairly inefficient antenna wouldnt produce a very strong signal but for a few miles.

the STA site had to be mvoed due to vandalism and is located at 4109 E 131st in Cleveland

This was filed for 9-25-24 and is fairly easy to set up so wouldnt take too long to get on air

 
skiwest said:
If WCCD is licensed to Parma, doesn't it need to cover Parma?
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I once had to sign and file STA paperwork for an AM once, and i recall i only had to certify that the STA contour didnt extend beyond the licensed contours. I dont think theres a reasonable expectation the STA would cover the COL, but this paperwork was filed 17 years ago.

I think.. COL coverage only matters under licensed parameters. Again, 17-18 year old fuzzy memory
 
skiwest said:
If WCCD is licensed to Parma, doesn't it need to cover Parma?
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A STA is supposed to be "temporary". The commission is very tolerant of setups that are at "lower power". I have seen a lot of 25% or lower requests approved. I sure the FCC knows you are not most likely to cover your COL with over a one half reduction in coverage. Especially with the modern background noise and corroded ground radials. I doubt few stations with an old physical plant really cover what the the 40 or 50 year old field measurements showed.
 
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