AM Frequency of The Week: 1050

[newfoundlandtime]

I also get the WEPN/CHUM overlap. Some nights however, depending on the time, I get more of WEPN than CHUM.

In a separate thread, there's a piece about TSN looking at starting their own radio service: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=183012.0

 

[gar hi]

From Tampa -

Day - Nothing/WHBO splatter

Night - Kind of a mess with nothing standing out

 

[Dxer1105]

Pennsauken, NJ

All the time I get KYW 1060 splatter and if I aim the antenna at a precise direction, I can receive WEPN

 

[radioman148]

Pennsauken, NJ

All the time I get KYW 1060 splatter and if I aim the antenna at a precise direction, I can receive WEPN

Dxer,

Do you have the same issue with WMCA? In other words can you get it or does WFIL cover it up?
Also I wonder if anyone in the NYC area gets KYW or WFIL with their local adjacents in the way?

 

[gar hi]

While I don't know what it's like now with IBOC, I always used to listen for the Philly stations when we went up the turnpike to visit the relatives in Jersey City.

While KYW was virtually impossible to hear because of splatter from 1050, I was still able to hear WFIL with a weak but listenable signal when I turned the radio just right.

 

[cyberdad]

Also I wonder if anyone in the NYC area gets KYW or WFIL with their local adjacents in the way?

I was in North Jersey for a wedding a little over a year ago (Parsippany..sp?). Anyway WFIL and KYW were audible (but not exactly listenable due to splatter) daytime in my rental car radio.

 

[icybluelake]

The east coast splatter around 1050 can be really frustrating for people in the NY, NJ and Philly areas.

I was just remembering how the power outage several years ago in NYC, knocking most of all of the NY area stations off the air, enabled me to hear (on my walkman-style radio) many of the AM and FM stations from Philly, some rolling in about as well as locals (when they're on the air). I won't go so far as to hope for a blackout in the future, but if it happens, at least I'll be entertained!

 

[Banjomax]

Brattleboro, VT

Day:

WEPN usually
WSEN rarely

Night:

WEPN usually
CHUM occasionally, along with several other unid.

 

[radioman148]

Also I wonder if anyone in the NYC area gets KYW or WFIL with their local adjacents in the way?

I was in North Jersey for a wedding a little over a year ago (Parsippany..sp?). Anyway WFIL and KYW were audible (but not exactly listenable due to splatter) daytime in my rental car radio.

I kind of wondered what that situation was like. I wonder who the genius was who decided to put several stations in two major markets that close right next door to each other on the dial? Not exactly a great decision even with their directional arrays.

 

[KR4BD]

I've driven between Phillie and NY several times in the past and KYW's pattern drops off fairly quickly as you get away from Philadelphia to the Northeast of town.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Also I wonder if anyone in the NYC area gets KYW or WFIL with their local adjacents in the way?

I was in North Jersey for a wedding a little over a year ago (Parsippany..sp?). Anyway WFIL and KYW were audible (but not exactly listenable due to splatter) daytime in my rental car radio.

I kind of wondered what that situation was like. I wonder who the genius was who decided to put several stations in two major markets that close right next door to each other on the dial? Not exactly a great decision even with their directional arrays.

Keep in mind that the former rules allowed the 0.5 mV/m contour of one to just not overlap the 0.5 mV/m of the other over land. Overlap of any contour is allowed over water, such as the ocean. It's relatively easy to achieve that lack of overlap with directional antennas. Also keep in mind that these stations were not always 50 kW. Before the FCC tightened up first adjacent rules, stations were typically packed in to 0.5 mV/m contours of first adjacents. They continue to be grandfathered in most cases. Measured contours often allow even closer packing of stations. In many areas, the conductivity really isn't anywhere near M-3. If you can find an proof of performance for a DA in various FCC applications online, or have access to station directional proofs, you will find that this is true, even when there is no possible incentive to underestimate the contours. This also answers the question about Radio Locator. If the conductivity is different from M-3, AM station contours may be significantly different than that shown on Radio Locator.

 

[N4GBK]

NE North Carolina

Daytime WVXX Norfolk, VA

5:30 PM today WADC Parkersburg, WV

also WEPN New York

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

In southwestern Ohio, 1050 is WTSJ - a religious station. For many years before that, the station on that frequency was WZIP which featured a jazz format. Later on, it became country & wetern.

 

[radioman148]

I've driven between Phillie and NY several times in the past and KYW's pattern drops off fairly quickly as you get away from Philadelphia to the Northeast of town.

Does WEPN's signal drop off as quickly when you head from NYC to Phillie?

 

[Ken Tucky]

In southwestern Ohio, 1050 is WTSJ - a religious station. For many years before that, the station on that frequency was WZIP which featured a jazz format. Later on, it became country & wetern.

They changed call letters to WCVX several years ago...

 

[WPPCProductions]

WEPN here in ct.at day night is a mixed bag of others which I have not identified yet.

 

[KR4BD]

I've driven between Phillie and NY several times in the past and KYW's pattern drops off fairly quickly as you get away from Philadelphia to the Northeast of town.

Does WEPN's signal drop off as quickly when you head from NYC to Phillie?

I actually think KYW drops off faster as you go northeast away from Philadelphia toward NYC than WEPN does as you head SW toward Phillie from NYC. As I recall, WEPN was much stronger around Princeton than KYW in the daytime. I can't tell you about night conditions between the two. Here in Central Kentucky, KYW is far stonger at night than WEPN.

 

[radioman148]

In Northern Illinois KYW is very strong at night. WEPN is rarely in the jumble here.

 

[purpledevil]

In Houston, AM 1050 is KCHN-Brookshire, Tx. featuring brokered programming in Arabic, Vietnamese, and Spanish. Co-channel XEG from Monterrey, Mx. overtakes KCHN in the evenings, and overnight it is nothing but XEG. At one point KCHN applied for nighttime coverage, but I haven't heard anything further on this front since the CP was granted. Perhaps the folks at KCHN realized that their 600 watt proposal was going to be murdered by 150,000 watt XEG and saved the expense.

 

[GSP163]

1050 WEPN is 10 miles down the road so that's what we get in NE Jersey