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AM Frequency of the week: 1200

cyberdad

cyberdad

Let's go up the dial this time, but stick with the channels ending in "double zeros". What do you gentlemen hear on your radio when you stop at 1200?

Here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago days, it's a fair-good signal on WRTO, from the far south side of Chicago.

Nights, it's a battle between WRTO and WOAI. Null either one and get the other. WOAI is usually the stronger of the two. WRTO drops from 20kw to 4.5kw and goes to a pattern that's slightly less favorable for my location. So the result for them here is a signal that's noticeably weaker, but still very much listenable with WOAI nulled.
 
Near north suburbs of Chicago my results are very similar. During the day WRTO is fairly strong. At night not nearly as strong, but a good enough signal to give WOAI a run even in WRTOs null.
On a side note WOWO used to be listenable here in the daytime before the days of WRTO. Now the splatter makes WOWO during the day unlistenable at my location.
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - KYAA Soquel, California but not very audible most of the time. Haven't heard WOAI yet but I also haven't tried for it since I got 820 WBAP which is pretty much a regular.
 
1200 WOAI Clear Channel San Antonio. 50kW of pow-pow-power coming at us from just over 200 miles west down Interstate 10. Weak to fair days, and nights it typically stands alone.
 
I will add to that observation of WOAI that from West Houston, it is very strong. In fact, in its HD days, I could occasionally get HD lock on it. I do hear weak Spanish language under it at night when I null - I think there is a station in Columbia on 1200.
 
Unfortunately here in Columbus, Ohio, very little. Used to be a dependable WOAI at night, though never really strong. Nowadays, WOAI is very tough to pull out of the mud, and it's been that way for several years. That we have a low-powered traffic station on AM 1200 on my side of town does not help at all.
When I lived in Houston, I had various experiences with WOAI. Where I worked out in west Houston, off Gessner Road maybe a mile inside the Sam Houston Tollway, it was a pretty good signal daytime. Where I lived in the southeast suburbs, WOAI was considerably tougher to hear daytime and no powerhouse at night, at least on the nights I checked. I figured we were in the cancellation zone.
 
All day and all night it's WOAI, which is roughly 30 miles to my east. If I do a very precise N/S partial null with my better radios, I can sometimes hear a very weak station playing regional Mexican music. A while back I finally IDed it (with crucial help from an online stream) as XEQJAL, "Radio Televisión Querétaro," in Jalpan de Serra.
 
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Brand new here, 1st post, I hope to learn a lot for this group and especially fellow Metro-Detroiter Schroedingers Cat (I have been lurking for a few months)

Here in west suburbs of Detroit is it WCHB strong day and night

Back in the 80's WOAI was heard regularly, not a perfect signal as Detroit is a ways away from San Antonio (Hence the move in of WCHB about 20 years ago) , but listenable nonetheless
 
billmich said:
Brand new here, 1st post, I hope to learn a lot for this group and especially fellow Metro-Detroiter Schroedingers Cat (I have been lurking for a few months)

Here in west suburbs of Detroit is it WCHB strong day and night

Back in the 80's WOAI was heard regularly, not a perfect signal as Detroit is a ways away from San Antonio (Hence the move in of WCHB about 20 years ago) , but listenable nonetheless
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First of all, Bill, welcome to the board. Make yourself at home, don't be shy about sharing experiences, questions, etc.

I've never heard WCHB here in the Chicago area. WOAI and WRTO have 1200 pretty much to themselves at night. I know that WCHB has a nice daytime signal, albeit with a big null to the south and southwest. I used to have to make the run from Detroit to Toronto on the 401 freeway 2-3 times a year. WCHB was typically good for most of the route.
 
I highly recommend that EVERYONE go to this site and then download the directional pattern files that are in the top right of the page:

http://radio-timetraveller.blogspot.com

I kinda wish it also included the Mexican clears in the files.
Hopefully everyone can then see for certain how the patterns fit within each frequency
 
Eastern Iowa: nothing during the daytime. Nighttime used to be dominated by WOAI, but no longer. WRTO is what I hear most frequently. Sometimes a mix of WOAI and WRTO. Have heard CFGO Ottawa on occasion, which was a first-time catch for me a few years ago.
 
icybluelake said:
Eastern Iowa: nothing during the daytime. Nighttime used to be dominated by WOAI, but no longer. WRTO is what I hear most frequently. Sometimes a mix of WOAI and WRTO. Have heard CFGO Ottawa on occasion, which was a first-time catch for me a few years ago.
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Nice job with CFGO. I've never heard them here near Chicago. Although, according to R-L they do send a small lobe west at night. Overall, CFGO does have a pretty nice signal. On my biz trips to Montreal, they were easily listenable (at least on West Island) on a car radio 24/7. Distance about 115 miles.
 
I used to hear CFGO in eastern Iowa as well. I used to be a listener of WRTO when they were known as WOPA, and later WLXX. Sometimes CFGO would just crush Chicago in the late afternoons. This was back when they were still known as energy 1200 with a CHR format.

And obviously CFGO is all I get at 1200 day and night here in Ottawa.
 
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