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[Steve Green NEPA]

In my travels up and down the dials, my most wanted daytime catch is WJDY Salisbury MD. They used to be a sunset / waterpath regular back in Queens. For the first time, I heard the fabulous Mann-Weil-Joanie Sommers song 'I'd Be So Good For You' on WJDY. Check it out if and when ....
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Another neat one to log would be WWHY Huntington WV. Off them I heard a wonderful version of 'We Belong Together', by Dale and Grace. The station one morning -- still dark out -- was the loudest non-local on the dial for a half an hour. Nighttime/daytime skip? A mix? They were louder than WKBW!
Alas, WWHY no longer is. Nor is anything else in that city on 1470.

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O/T, but maybe interesting. A year ago when they turned back the clocks, I caught WBTX from VA at the breakfast table ; barefoot GE SR 2. I phoned and left a message, and darned if the PD calls me back, verifies the reception, and asks if I could do a station promo over the phone. So I supplied, 'Hello. This is Steve Green, from Frackville PA. And every year when we turn back the clocks, we make sure to tune into WBTX.'
Turns out that the PD was from these parts ; very familiar with the area and its stations, and worked at a few!

 

[radioman148]

1470 hasn't been much of a winner for me, but that's a cool story Steve. Anytime somebody at a station appreciates an individual listener these days it's a good thing.

 

[DXBob]

From my location 25 miles SW of downtown Kansas City:

I would like to log WMBD in Peoria, IL. 5kW directional at night...

Bob

 

[radioman148]

From my location 25 miles SW of downtown Kansas City:

I would like to log WMBD in Peoria, IL. 5kW directional at night...

Bob

Which has been heard often in the Chicago area. Good luck with WMBD.

 

[DXBob]

Which has been heard often in the Chicago area. Good luck with WMBD.

Thank you! I grew up in Peoria. When I lived in Wisconsin, WMBD was a regular...

Bob

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I heard WKMF (now WFNT) 1470 Flint, MI in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin right before power and pattern change, and after, but much weaker. This was in the early 1970s. Have it on tape somewhere. Also in the Keewanaw Peninsula on the same trip. It has been logged near Chicago according to various sites. I tried in the NWC area, but could never ID for sure. WKMF was heard in New Zealand shortly after they increased Day power to 5 kW in 1959. WMBD probably hadn't signed on yet on a Monday morning. Their maxima are both in that general great circle direction, WFNT maximum is 327 degrees true. WMBD Night maximum is 345 degrees true.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@ DX Bob:

In the Sixties, WMBD Peoria used to come in some overnights by us, steady but all alone on 1470, with an all-night show (MoR) sponsored by The Adams Street Supermarket.

Dunno if the establishment still exists.

 

[DXBob]

@ DX Bob:

In the Sixties, WMBD Peoria used to come in some overnights by us, steady but all alone on 1470, with an all-night show (MoR) sponsored by The Adams Street Supermarket.

Dunno if the establishment still exists.

Interesting!! Based on different accounts I have read, WMBD puts out a great nighttime signal when you consider their frequency and power. In the era you mention, WMBD was the station in Peoria the adults listened to. While teenagers and young people listened to WIRL on 1290 kHz with 5 kW aimed almost due north.

Bob

 

[gr8oldies]

We have a rimshot local in WBQR, Maryville, TN, which I call Conspiracy Talk 1470. Carries all the Alex Jones network stuff and some similar stuff from the owner. Easily nullable though. I figured I'd pick something at random for my "most wanted", so it's oldies WLMC, St. George SC.

 

[crainbebo]

KKTY Douglas WY by a longshot. I now have 1470 free of most splatter from 1460, so hopefully one of these sunrises it will defeat the two WAs and CJVB.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I think I remember hearing that MOR show on WMBD one morning before WKMF signed on for the Day. Even though there appears to be a null in that direction in the horizontal, it may be that it radiates a lot more above the horizon. It may be the higher tower in the array. It may have been authorized to begin using the Daytime facility early, as used to be permitted.

KTWO used to be on 1470 with 1000 watts nondirectional at Night, before they moved to 1030 as one of the first Class II-As, and 1470 was moved to Douglas, WY. I never heard it on 1470 though. A lot of smaller market stations signed off early though, like 10:00 PM.

 

[schmave]

I worked at a now-defunct 1470, WLQR in Toledo, when I was a senior in college (1999-2000). They turned in their license back in 2016, although when I was in Toledo briefly the next summer, the towers and building still were there on Pickle Road in Oregon, south-southeast of downtown.
WLQR never had a great signal by any stretch, but the presence of WMBD absolutely hurt it to the south and west of Toledo at night. In the city itself, it was listenable although even as close as campus, some garble could be detected underneath the signal.

 

[cyberdad]

From my location 25 miles SW of downtown Kansas City:

I would like to log WMBD in Peoria, IL. 5kW directional at night...

Bob

Keep after it. IME traveling around the Midwest, at times it seemed like WMBD turned up just about everywhere on a nightly basis!

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Keep after it. IME traveling around the Midwest, at times it seemed like WMBD turned up just about everywhere on a nightly basis!

I have long wondered (for decades) whether WMBD does timely pattern changes. The Day pattern could easily be heard hundreds of miles regularly at Night, like WOW 590 and WDAF 610, whatever they are now without looking it up.

 

[DXBob]

I have long wondered (for decades) whether WMBD does timely pattern changes. The Day pattern could easily be heard hundreds of miles regularly at Night, like WOW 590 and WDAF 610, whatever they are now without looking it up.

The former WDAF is now KCSP, 5kW non-directional 24/7. I am just 5.2 miles from their transmitter site. The strongest AM signal on the dial at my location. Someone on this board has mentioned the height of the towers of WMBD as a reason they put out such a good skywave. I do not possess the technical knowledge to either confirm or dispute this observation.

Bob