AM 1000 back at 200 watts

[tblanks]

I was flipping through the AM band in Cleveland and noticed a weak signal on AM 1000. Apparently the new owners got approved for a 200 watt, directional pattern. Is anyone else hearing this in Cuyahoga County? I wonder if power will increase over time and/or this station will get an FM translator?

 

[skiwest]

I'm in south Parma. I just checked and was hearing at least 2 different stations, nothing discernible. I believe 200 watts was the plan for that station, so unlikely there will be any power increase.

 

[johnbasalla]

I tuned in to AM1000 while driving this afternoon. Nothing but hash noise. As dead as WJTB until they turn things on.

 

[tblanks]

Right. The only way I noticed something very, very weak is that I used my CCrane Skywave and turned the setting the 2 KHz on 1000 AM. Even then, it is barely audible, but does sound like Gospel music. It's music, not talk. That's all I can say for sure.

 

[skiwest]

I assume those directional 200 watts will cover Parma, since that is the city of license.

 

[Yabadabado1]

Radio-locator shows it at 500 watts. I'm assuming that was for the prior owner. Now, can the new owners up it to 500 watts or are they stuck at 200 watts? And since it's basically just a rumour in my neck of the woods [I can sometime detect a whisper of them] I guess the tight null to the west/southwest is probably protecting WMVP in Chicago? (Although at 200 watts, maybe it's protecting someones Mr. Microphone signal coming from their basement)

 

[johnbasalla]

Radio-locator shows it at 500 watts. I'm assuming that was for the prior owner. Now, can the new owners up it to 500 watts or are they stuck at 200 watts? And since it's basically just a rumour in my neck of the woods [I can sometime detect a whisper of them] I guess the tight null to the west/southwest is probably protecting WMVP in Chicago? (Although at 200 watts, maybe it's protecting someone's Mr. Microphone signal coming from their basement)

Yes, it's to protect the signal integrity of 1000AM in Chicago, the former Top 40 powerhouse WCFL. Even before WSUM came on at 500 watts at 1000AM in the mid 1970s, I used to listen to WCFL at night by turning my little portable radio in a certain direction. As WCCD, several years ago, I remember driving on Cleveland's East side around Lee and Harvard Avenues between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. and already hearing the skywave sound of WMVP while the sun was still out and WCCD was still on the air legally.

 

[schmave]

I've heard WMVP here in Columbus as early as 3 p.m. some winter afternoons. Certainly their nighttime directional pattern to the east helps, but they are right with WGN in terms of skywave strength over Ohio at night.

 

[Santa fe]

I've heard WMVP here in Columbus as early as 3 p.m. some winter afternoons. Certainly their nighttime directional pattern to the east helps, but they are right with WGN in terms of skywave strength over Ohio at night.

Great memories of WCFL, listening when Jim Runyon, Jim Stagg and Jerry G left 1100 for chi town. I seem to remember Dick Biondi and Barney Pip, although I may have confused them with WLS.
And who can forget Chicken Man and Jim Runyon's "Wellllll..." Such creativity and entertainment. Maybe AI will bring that back!

 

[johnbasalla]

I remember specifically tuning in at night to WCFL on their last day as a Top 40 station. WLS, also Top 40, of course, was the winner as they stayed in the format for ... I don't know how long. The DJ on WCFL was perturbed at something that one of the WLS DJ's had said, on-air, about WCFL dropping the Top 40 format. It might have been the Morning Drive guy, or whomever was on opposite him on WLS. The WCFL DJ mentioned something about it, as I fuzzily recall, and then said "Ah, stick it in your ear (name of WLS DJ)". Either right then or later, at the tail end of his shift, he talked about going back home , "going back to where I started from". He did this as way to say goodbye, and introduce the, then, current hit "Get Right Back To Where We Started From" by Maxine Nightingale which was a big hit in the range of February through April, 1976.