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I once actually heard WRKO in Kenmore Square after sundown... ;D
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I would agree that WBZ's got the best New England signal as well. But both WTIC and WFAN probably have better signals across the bulk of New England than WRKO does; WRKO (and it's similarly-patterned sister, WEEI) have virtually non-existant signals west of Framingham. That's a hefty bulk of Rhode Island and New Hampshire left out, and virtually all of Connecticut and Vermont.
FWIW, WEEI reaches pretty far into Maine but WTIC is much better; several years ago I was able to catch a west-coast (i.e. late) Sox game driving up I-95 north of Bangor and WEEI was real iffy past Augusta, but WTIC came in pretty darn strong.
FWIW, WEEI reaches pretty far into Maine but WTIC is much better; several years ago I was able to catch a west-coast (i.e. late) Sox game driving up I-95 north of Bangor and WEEI was real iffy past Augusta, but WTIC came in pretty darn strong.
aaronread said:
That's true only at night. During the day, WRKO's signal to the west is more than merely respectable; depending on the azimuth, it's at least the equivalent of 10 kW ND. And because of the low frequency and (for New England) pretty good conductivity near the Tx, it gets out like gangbusters. It's listenable at least as far as the Connecticut River. WEEI not so much. Despite towers that are both physically and electrically taller than WRKO's, WEEI's daytime signal to the west is less potent. The somewhat higher frequency also imposes a penalty on coverage. OTOH, because WEEI is miles closer to a lot of MetroWest than WRKO is, WEEI's daytime signal in places like Wayland and Natick is stronger than WRKO's, but as you go further west, WRKO starts to win. Once you pass Marlborough, WRKO wins hands down.
In other areas, such as Cape Cod and southern NH, WRKO wins hands down day and night. In much of those areas, WRKO's daytime signal is better even than WBZ's, which shows the superiority of WRKO's Burlington site to WEEI's Needham site.
DanStrassberg said:
I can vouch about WRKO's signal into New Hampshire. While I was a 7 year old "rugrat" (summer of 1967), WRKO was already THE station to listen to ("and man that's true!")
. My family and I were vacationing on the Kancamagus Highway, about 15 miles west of Conway, NH. Needless to say, "we kids" were happy to still be able to listen WRKO, much to the chagrin of my Mom who said, "You can't get rid of it!, Even up here!". Those 50,000 watts of rock and roll really soared up there some 120 miles away with some of the worst ground conductivity anywhere. Even at night, WRKO's signal was solid, even during skywave at night. WMEX was not too shabby either at night. In spite of the Sherbrooke, QC station being on the air, at night 'MEX came in pretty well. During the day, forget it. It was no match with WRKO. The following year in '68, my Dad let me try the new Ford AM/FM Stereo car radio up on the Kancamagus Highway. Surprisingly, WKBR-FM/95.7 in Manchester (about 75 miles away, behind the White Mountains) came in like gangbusters (//WKBR-1250, in mono). But even more amazing, I was getting WHDH-FM/94.5 in Stereo some 140 miles away from Newton, MA. For a little 8 year old "squirt", I was happy as a clam. It really got my DX'ing hobby to a great start, one I still enjoy to this day.carmen said:
Buy a new radio like most people. Nowadays it's very easy to be SPOT on.
..or do you wish to continue to live in the past?
BTW...is this you on the homepage?
http://www.monkeypuppet.com/k1kbw/
...nice piece. :-(
aaronread said:
But I think New England's best AM signal PER WATT is that of WICC, Bridgeport 600 kHz 1 kW-D/500W-N DA-2. Thanks to the low frequency and a transmitter site on an island in Long Island Sound, WICC probably covers as many square miles within its 0.5 mV/m contours (by day, at least) as does 50 kW WTIC. The WICC site is also very old and I presume that those self-supporting towers once hosted a long-wire antenna. I grew up in the northwest Bronx--the side of the Bronx farthest from Bridgeport. On the vacuum-tube radios of the day, WICC was almost local there in those days--even before it increased its D power from 500W to 1 kW.
carmen said:
Could it have been an image of WWZN? 1510 -2*455 = 600. I believe that today's (Wed, 7/21) Red Sox game en espanol began at 3:00PM EDT on WWZN.
In Rhode Island I can get AM 1040 WHO from Des Moines. I can hear it every night. But the signal is so faint and so in and out that you can tell that it's absolutely the most distant station I could get. If they were about 5 miles further away I am sure they would be totally undetectable.
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