1310 News received in Port aux Basques at night on 10/30/2018

[newfoundlandtime]

First off, this is my first post in some years.

Been some time since I last checked my AM band for anything out in the distance, in any direction, ever since 1230 CFGN went off last year and moved to FM 96.7, but I did get 1310 News in Ottawa (CIWW) while my portable AM/FM Walkman radio was being held in my hands up against one of my back windows (there are few places in our house that can receive AM radio even remotely fine at all, as I've had a laptop for the last four years now, and whatever other stuff we have, that almost any other part of this house, the AM reception is subject to gross interference). Only a power outage would result in some radio options from far away, and we now have an emergency generator in case of power outages, allows me to use my laptop and and internet. Also picked up TSN 690 Montreal (got that a bunch of times in the past).

I have tried since I began covering senior hockey to see if I could get other AM stations from out of town while coming home from those games. Success is elusive for now. I know I have gotten 720, 780 (both Chicago) and 1120 (St. Louis) in the past in our family car and/or other people's cars/taxis.

 

[cyberdad]

Nice catch! CIWW has become something of a nighttime regular here where I am northwest of Chicago. That was not the case when they were "Oldies 1310". That said, the Ottawa 1310 has always done well to the east. I listened to them all the time on my business trips to Ottawa. And they also were very listenable (at least during daytime) 115 miles east (193km) in Montreal.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

When WDTW, the old WKNR Keener 13, was off the air on Silent STA, you could hear CIWW many times during CH and even at high solar noon in SE MI in the Winter. WDTW reconstructed their array and is back on the air.