1070 WFNI- Indianapolis heard

[Hoosierky]

in Pageland, SC at 4:30 PM today. It was fighting with a gospel station from the Chattanooga, Tennesse
area (I think). I know I have heard them on nighttime 10KW power with their signal focused
southeast, but this was during daytime 50KW power.

BTW Pageland is about 45 miles southeast of Charlotte, NC.

 

[ddsparxx]

WFNI uses the IBOC stuff and at one night it displayed "WFNI" on my Sony HD tuner here in VA.

 

[formerjock]

WFNI is a regular in E. TN, the gospel station you mentioned is WFLI, 50kw day, 2.5kw night. In the 70's top 40 and the #1 station in Chatt.

 

[ddsparxx]

Forgot to say that WFNI is a great late afternon DX catch in northern SC.

 

[quadraphonic]

I heard WFNI in Fayetteville NC last week about 8:00 in the morning.
I had never heard it before.

 

[jd]

To me, 1070 is a very interesting frequency, and has always been one of my favorites. There's non-directional KNX out west, of course, but there are several fairly high-powered stations east of the Mississippi, some of them with very complex nighttime patterns. WFLI certainly is one of those. Here's the list of anything 5kW or more at night:

WAPI Birmingham (5,000 watts) www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/306955-6768.pdf
WFNI Indianapolis (10,000 watts) www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/306964-6786.pdf
WDIA Memphis (5,000 watts) www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/646-6858.pdf
KNTH Houston (5,000 watts) www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/58118-6879.pdf
WTSO Madison WI (5,000 watts) www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/92099-6891.pdf
WNCT Greenville NC (10,000 watts) www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1144972-95806.pdf

If you want to see the way the patterns really look try zooming in to, say 400%! Obviously if you're only using Radio-Locator to look up patterns you're missing a lot.

In addition to the stations above, of course, 1070 is also occupied by several low-powered full-time stations, offering great DX possibilities.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

As close to the WKOK towers as Shamokin PA just past sunset -- still lotsa light in the west -- WFNI can be considered a 1070 'regular' on the car radio, along with WNCT in NC. This, despite WKOK sending their nighttime signal toward Shamokin. There is one spot, faithfully and perennially, where the whole AM dial goes haywire as you drive through it , just east of the Shamokin city limit.

In fact, in spots of NE Philly when I lived there, in a KYW null, they were there on the car radio more than once as WIBC.

And thanks for the FCC data links, JD.

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Not exactly linked to DX, but Hoosier's post rings a common bell -- WFNI and noted pitchers. Seems his Pageland SC QTH was home to Van Lingle Mungo, while Shamokin was the birthplace of Hall of Famer Stan Coveleski. I'm sure WFNI's coverage extends to other players. But the roadside 'Stanley Coveleski' placard is right near where the AM dial does its Twilight Zone routine.

 

[gar hi]

1070 is such a loaded up frequency here.

WAPI usually dominates and I wish just once, KNX would poke through.

How far east has anyone picked up KNX?

 

[dlf]

I recevied KNX in Illinois back in late August 1988 in my car. It was about 5:30 in the morning and I was maybe 30 miles east of St. Louis on Interstate 70. I was quite surprised to pull KNX in that far.. I pulled them in down in San Antonio this past winter failry regularly around 7:30 AM Central Time.

dlf

 

[radioman148]

1070 is such a loaded up frequency here.

WAPI usually dominates and I wish just once, KNX would poke through.

How far east has anyone picked up KNX?

I've picked up KNX often in the Chicago area right before local (Chicago) sunrise. This usually works best in October. The grayline must be lined up just right then.

 

[Icangelp]

The former WIBC has a lot of history for me, having grown up in Indy. I was introduced to top 40 radio by Easy Gwynn who used to do his afternoon show from a mini-studio at the Keystone Shopping Center. Seems to me, their day signal used to be more easterly than it is today.

Here in Cincy, WFNI is a regular day & night, although I have recently managed to ID both WFLI and WAPI.

 

[gr8oldies]

I received WAPI as close to Indy as Lafayette

 

[gar hi]

Wow! I've been listening to 1070 tonight and it's been the usual stuff with WAPI fading in and out.

I started to fall asleep and was suddenly woken up to hear a voice say "On KNX 1070" !!!

It quickly faded out and now I'm wide awake!

Now, WAPI is coming in strong and steady.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Hey Gar:

Am still transferring this October/Florida AM DX to Cruel Edit and then to CD posterity. You want some of this noise, son?

Maybe the best catch at the Folks' place in North-Central FL was audio -- perhaps Cuba -- *UNDER* the extremely local WVLG Lady Lake/Villages. Gosh, it was so much fun nulling and azimuthing and tilting the snot out of this extreme, splashy *local* and getting something more important u/it.

 

[Hoosierky]

The former WIBC has a lot of history for me, having grown up in Indy. I was introduced to top 40 radio by Easy Gwynn who used to do his afternoon show from a mini-studio at the Keystone Shopping Center. Seems to me, their day signal used to be more easterly than it is today.

Here in Cincy, WFNI is a regular day & night, although I have recently managed to ID both WFLI and WAPI.

It ought to be interesting what happens to WFNI's signal once the Anson development is fully built out all around
WFNI's antenna farm.

 

[gar hi]

Hey Gar:

Am still transferring this October/Florida AM DX to Cruel Edit and then to CD posterity. You want some of this noise, son?

How about putting it on one of those audio file hosting sites.

I'd like to hear what you got and I'm sure the rest of us would too.




So, I stayed up for about an hour and a half more to hear if KNX would come through again but no luck. I had the video camera ready. I did hear some news station it sounded like in the background but it couldn't compete with WAPI. Then, I heard some Spanish station for the first time on 1070. It was coming from the south.