In Vermilion, OH, I find that WWMK 1260 is barely noticeable and was curious to know what kind of signal range 1260 had when they were "WIXY 1260" compared to today's 1260? I see they are running 10kW day and 5kW night.
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AM 1260 Radio Disney signal range compared to WIXY 1260
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1260 used to operate from a site located in Seven Hills off of Rockside near Crossview. A night site was added IIRC in the late 60's off of Miller Rd. near I-77 in Brecksville. When 1260 increased day power to 10kw, the day site was moved to Miller Rd. and the towers in Seven Hills were torn down. Vermillion is in one of the signal's deep nulls which are to the fairly deep nulls to the east and west, protecting co-channel WRIE Erie, as well as adjacent channel WXYT/1270 Detroit and WGL/1250 Ft. Wayne. The move to the Brecksville site moved the nulls farther south and improved nighttime coverage over Cuyahoga Co. The increase to 10kw allowed 1260 to put a stronger signal to the north but didn't really help them in the far west suburbs.
The tallest tower at the WIXY Seven Hills site was also the WDOK-FM stick.
1260 has always given me trouble in Kent, which is to be expected, but it comes in way worse than it should. My best guess is HD is the culprit, the station always sounds like it's drowning in hash and static.
almaniac27 said:
WWMK isn't the only one. Most -if not all- of Radio Disney's outlets tend to operate the IBOC carriers to the point where the hash nearly obliterates the analog channel.
I used to listen to the frequency a LOT back in its days as "SuperTalk 1260 WBBG", and it seems to be similar in Summit County these days.
But I'll agree with Nathan...it does sound a bit "hashier", whether it is the IBOC carrier or what. I'm a bit far away to get a regular lock on the HD side of things on my radio, though I can get WTAM (and WARF/1350) in IBOC with no problem.
But I'll agree with Nathan...it does sound a bit "hashier", whether it is the IBOC carrier or what. I'm a bit far away to get a regular lock on the HD side of things on my radio, though I can get WTAM (and WARF/1350) in IBOC with no problem.
Kent is also in a pretty deep null in 1260's nighttime signal. The Brecksville site actually gives them a better signal into the Westlake area. My wife grew up in that area back in the heyday of WIXY. She told me that they'd listen to WIXY until sundown, then it was over to CKLW.
SonoSational18 said:
Kent is a bit of a wasteland when it comes to AM signals, the only stations I can pull in consistently day and night are WTAM, WARF, WAKR, and WHLO. It's nice for DXing, but I'm living in a brick apartment complex this year, so that's a no go. WNIR booms in like crazy, it will often interfere with my reception of WGAR and WMMS. That's what I get for having a south-facing window I guess. I have the worst luck when it comes to good radio reception where I live.
almaniac27 said:
You forgot Kent's very own WJMP/1520!
Oh, that's right, you said "and night", and WKBW in Buffalo doesn't count.
Though when WJMP was running liberal talk as the local Air America affiliate, their formats matched...almaniac27 said:
Ditto for W/NW Medina County - only WTAM and WEOL (whose tower lights I can see from my house) are solid/strong both day and night. 850, 1220, 1300, and 1590 vary from poor to unlistenable at night, while 1420 usually vanishes completely at night (850 is a blowtorch during the day, and the rest are fair-to-good during the daytime); there's never even a trace of 1260 at night (and it is barely audible with tons of IBOC hash during the day). 1350 is poor both day and night, and 640 is just so-so both day and night.
To be fair to the Akron stations, nsa1, 640, 1350 and 1590 are really not trying to serve that part of Medina County. They are very much "out of town" stations that far west/northwest.
Medina County is an odd place, radio-wise. It is entirely within the Cleveland radio market, but places like Wadsworth and Sharon Center are very much Akron suburbs. Where you're at is within the Lorain/Elyria sphere of influence, right? But of course, Lorain County is also in the Cleveland market.
Medina County is an odd place, radio-wise. It is entirely within the Cleveland radio market, but places like Wadsworth and Sharon Center are very much Akron suburbs. Where you're at is within the Lorain/Elyria sphere of influence, right? But of course, Lorain County is also in the Cleveland market.
VODood said:
Heck, I remember most streets in Avon being like that...
I tried listening to 1260 around 9:30pm this evening on the car radio in Vermilion and it sounded much like a graveyard channel but I did manage to ID WCHV/Charlottesville, VA amongst the slop.
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