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AM Frequency of the Week: 1190

radioman148 said:
WOWO was a very good station back in the day. I had a preset for it on my car radio and I was over 150 miles away.
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Can't miss what you didn't have, and while still present, it was seriously degraded. Beyond being a "comfortable" listen. Whether day or night.

BUT....if you didn't like what was going out over WLS or WCFL, you could always dial up 920 and the very excellent WOKY. Weak at 5kw directional during the day, but when they powered down at night, they sent a spike in their 1kw pattern right at me. Boom!
 
cyberdad said:
Can't miss what you didn't have, and while still present, it was seriously degraded. Beyond being a "comfortable" listen. Whether day or night.

BUT....if you didn't like what was going out over WLS or WCFL, you could always dial up 920 and the very excellent WOKY. Weak at 5kw directional during the day, but when they powered down at night, they sent a spike in their 1kw pattern right at me. Boom!
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It's interesting how we are in the same metro area, and on the same side of the metro, but heard different stations.
I loved WOKY and tried to listen whenever I got about 25 miles or so to the north, but I could rarely hear it at my home QTH in the 60s. Couldn't hear WRIT either, but WOWO during the day although not static free was listenable even in the car. Another station I enjoyed in the late 60s was WLTH Gary, In. In fact Steve King later of WBBM-FM, WLS, WIND & WGN worked there in 66-68.
Where I lived WJJD could be heard through my tooth fillings.
 
radioman148 said:
It's interesting how we are in the same metro area, and on the same side of the metro, but heard different stations.
I loved WOKY and tried to listen whenever I got about 25 miles or so to the north, but I could rarely hear it at my home QTH in the 60s. Couldn't hear WRIT either, but WOWO during the day although not static free was listenable even in the car. Another station I enjoyed in the late 60s was WLTH Gary, In. In fact Steve King later of WBBM-FM, WLS, WIND & WGN worked there in 66-68.
Where I lived WJJD could be heard through my tooth fillings.
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A few thoughts....one at a time.

WOKY....You undoubtedly were/are in the null named at Lafayette, IN (WBAA). The signal now in Crystal Lake is "a shadow of its former self". Barely audible, and having a semi-local on 930 doesn't help matters. But as you keep going west, the signal gradually improves. WOKY is still weak in Rockford, but considerably better than it is here. You used to be able to hear it all the way to the Mississippi River. Not any more. I think the ground system and/or towers have probably degraded. Not to mention that quite a bit of development has taken place near the transmitter site near the 94/894 split by the airport.

WRIT....1340 was very problematic. WJOL was/is almost always present during the daytime. And at night, the channel was typical graveyard slop. But, when conditions were right, the WRIT-FM simulcast came through on 102.9.

WLTH....1370 daytime was...and still is....more or less vacant here. Not much different where I grew up ten miles to my east.
 
You are correct it was WBAA which I usually heard when I tried for WOKY. There was only one time I can remember even hearing WOKY at home back in it's Top 40 heyday. Other than WLS and it's competition depending on the time frame, WJJD, WYNR, and WCFL, WOWO was the next station I went to during the day. At night WOWO was much weaker due to their pattern change, but as you know there were many other Top 40 stations to hear at night.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: Splatter from local 1200 WOAI.

Sunset: KFXR in Dallas and XECT in Monterrey come up amidst the splatter.

Night: XECT and XEWK in Guadalajara take turns dominating. KFXR only shows up occasionally after going to night power. On rare occasions, KQQZ IN Fairview Heights, IL, will pop up for brief bits.

Sunrise: Aiming NW, a weak KXKS can be heard for a while after it goes to day power.

DX/Retro: KNUV in Tolleson, AZ, once at sunrise. Also, KJJI in White Hall, AR, and WMEJ in Bay St. Louis, MS, once each at sunset.
 
Hey, I made a post referencing the Fort Wayne Komets, and now the ad feed on this site is blasting me with
a ticket pitch for the Wheeling Nailers, 55 miles from where I sit, and in the same league with Fort Wayne.

Way to fine-tune that marketing, Mr. Berry!
 
radioman148 said:
I didn't like it when it happened. WOWO was a good station in the late 60s & 70s. I had a button set to it in my car. They played some good music at the time. Things changed and the owners of WLIB wanted greater coverage.
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Also, WLIB wanted to broadcast at night. Prior to Inner City Broadcasting's purchase of WOWO in 1994, WLIB was a daytime-only station.

I remember listening to WOWO during the 1980s. It came in loud and clear in New York City at night. I actually miss being able to pick up WOWO on my AM receiver. It was great while it lasted.
 
Nothing daytime. A hint of KDAO Marshalltown, IA, but it's not a listenable signal.
Nighttime, mostly KQQZ from De Soto, MO, which hits my area loud and clear with only 650 watts. CFSL from Weyburn, SK used to be a frequent catch, although I haven't heard it recently. Well before that, in its heyday, WOWO was a regular at night. Going back even further, KLIF (now KFXR) Dallas made an occasional appearance.
 
jim-satx said:
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: Splatter from local 1200 WOAI.

Sunset: KFXR in Dallas and XECT in Monterrey come up amidst the splatter.

Night: XECT and XEWK in Guadalajara take turns dominating. KFXR only shows up occasionally after going to night power.
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Over here in Houston, a similar story with days being splatter from local 1180 KGOL. Sunset and night are the same except that KFXR is quite often on top of the frequency at my location.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Hey, I made a post referencing the Fort Wayne Komets,
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I'll make a further pitch to that. Mike "Doc" Emrick, the lead hockey announcer for NBC is a native Hoosier, growing up about 40 miles southwest of Fort Wayne. In fact, Emrick's home town is right in what is now WOWO's null towards Little Rock. Emrick learned to call hockey largely by imitating WOWO's Bob Chase, who broadcast Fort Wayne's minor league hockey team from the mid 50s until a few months before his death in 2016.

Plausible to think that if WOWO had been initially licensed with its 1990s facility, we might not have Hockey Hall of Famer Mike Emrick broadcasting today.
 
While WOWO has dominated this thread, and rightly so IMO, 1190 also includes the fascinating directional pattern of KFXR Dallas (at one time KLIF among many other call letters). Four towers by day, 12 at night from northeast of Dallas, protecting WOWO among many other stations, including KEX and Guadalajara.
 
Wasn't it said that KLIF's pattern went down a major road but didn't touch either side?

schmave said:
While WOWO has dominated this thread, and rightly so IMO, 1190 also includes the fascinating directional pattern of KFXR Dallas (at one time KLIF among many other call letters). Four towers by day, 12 at night from northeast of Dallas, protecting WOWO among many other stations, including KEX and Guadalajara.
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