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AM Frequency of the Week: 620

From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Not a lot here thanks to WTMJ, which is always there. Picked up from both the old Brookfield site with 5 kW and the current Union Grove site with 50/10 kW. The only other 620 I've gotten is WJDZ Jackson, Miss., presumably during an ancient WTMJ silent period.
 
Big catch this a.m.!
Caught KTAR-Phoenix for maybe 10 minutes.
Hoped it might be WDAE in Tampa, but the ESPN feed matched Phoenix.

This despite static from heavy rains in the area around 6:40 a.m. CT.
 
Dondd said:
Big catch this a.m.!
Caught KTAR-Phoenix for maybe 10 minutes.
Hoped it might be WDAE in Tampa, but the ESPN feed matched Phoenix.

This despite static from heavy rains in the area around 6:40 a.m. CT.
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That's a great catch, will have to try for that from here in Houston. 6:40am CST is almost an hour after WDAE sunrise. I've heard WDAE once just after sunset around this time of year in 2022.
 
Back when WTMJ was 5 KW I could hear them in the daytime all over central Indiana. They were a regular as far as Springfield Ohio during the day. Now, Louisville has replaced them during the day in central Indiana.
 
A few years ago when I was driving from Chicago to Columbus at midday, I flipped through a Brewers game on WTMJ about 20 miles south of Merrillville on I-65. It was very obvious that I was in their null toward Louisville. Signal was still listenable but the phasing even at that time of day was glaring. I wish I'd have checked back farther south to see how far I could catch WTMJ but never did.
 
schmave said:
A few years ago when I was driving from Chicago to Columbus at midday, I flipped through a Brewers game on WTMJ about 20 miles south of Merrillville on I-65. It was very obvious that I was in their null toward Louisville. Signal was still listenable but the phasing even at that time of day was glaring. I wish I'd have checked back farther south to see how far I could catch WTMJ but never did.
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When I lived in the Lafayette, IN area, WTMJ was constantly there during the day. That was before its power upgrade, I'm not sure how it sounds there now.
 
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