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AM Frequency of the week: 1210

cyberdad said:
(Coming to you a day earlier than usual due to upcoming travel). Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Days: Moderate splatter from WRTO (1200). Otherwise, 1210 is empty.

Night: WPHT from Philadelphia. A bit of an underperformer (KYW is usually stronger). KGYN from the Oklahoma panhandle is a frequent intruder....sometimes even overtaking WPHT, IMHO, the fact that KGYN can be heard on a semi-regular basis here says something about KGYN, WPHT, and the FCC's ability (or desire0 to keep a lid on thinss.

Retro: Before WRTO (and its predecessors) came on, I used to be able to sometimes catch the now-defunct WKNX from Michigan during the winter months on daytime skywave.
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Surprised to hear a report of KYW outdoing WCAU (sorry I still can't get used to "WPHT") -- in my travels it's always been the opposite but I'll admit it's been a while.

When I was growing up in SE PA I had heard that CAU was audible in 47 of the 50 states. Never did find out what the 48th would have been. I do remember listening to a Phillies game from Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia where it came in clear as a bell, no doubt from (a) having less competition in that direction and (b) having water to travel over.

Couple of years ago I was trying to follow baseball (when WPHT carried it) by nighttime skywave, kept getting a Mexican station out of Nashville (I live in western NC now). By the later parts of the game (darker night) I could hear it OK.
 
AudioRadiance said:
Surprised to hear a report of KYW outdoing WCAU (sorry I still can't get used to "WPHT") -- in my travels it's always been the opposite but I'll admit it's been a while.
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A lot of AM's....big and small....don't get out as well as they used to. For a variety of reasons. In the case of "KYW vs WPHT", WPHT is omnidirectional, while KYW has a pattern that favors my location. So that's certainly part of it. But back in the day, those two stations used to be about equal strength here. My conclusion is that....for whatever reason...WCAU/WPHT has degraded, KYW not so much.
 
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