It would be just like WGN out west if it wasn't for KALL.
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And Vice versa for WGN in California and Arizona if KDWN wasn’t around.
KDWN had a much stronger signal in Southern California before the power reduction and could be heard in Hawaii.
Now during MWDX season WGN comes makes it into Hawaii and KDWN's signal is significantly reduced elsewhere.
Gar, have you heard WGN where you are?
From NW San Antonio:
Day: A weak KSEV on my more sensitive radios. There's a bit of splatter from close-by local 680 KKYX.
Sunset: WLW starts to come up and mix in weakly.
Night: KSEV is usually most dominant, with WLW and XEDKR "La Octava/Universal" in Guadalajara mixing in and sometimes rising to the top. XEGD "La Poderosa" in Hidalgo de Parral occasionally pops up. If I'm aiming the antenna E/W-ish, I sometimes get splatter from 710 KEEL.
Sunrise: XEDKR is dominant for a while after powering up for the day, but KSEV takes over once it goes to day power/pattern.
DX/Retro: One-time catches include KALL during a late winter night back in 2018 and KHSE at daytime powerup the previous year. Also, I've heard daytimer XEETCH in Etchojoa, Sonora, just twice during sunrise sign-ons.
Day: A weak KSEV on my more sensitive radios. There's a bit of splatter from close-by local 680 KKYX.
Sunset: WLW starts to come up and mix in weakly.
Night: KSEV is usually most dominant, with WLW and XEDKR "La Octava/Universal" in Guadalajara mixing in and sometimes rising to the top. XEGD "La Poderosa" in Hidalgo de Parral occasionally pops up. If I'm aiming the antenna E/W-ish, I sometimes get splatter from 710 KEEL.
Sunrise: XEDKR is dominant for a while after powering up for the day, but KSEV takes over once it goes to day power/pattern.
DX/Retro: One-time catches include KALL during a late winter night back in 2018 and KHSE at daytime powerup the previous year. Also, I've heard daytimer XEETCH in Etchojoa, Sonora, just twice during sunrise sign-ons.
I can actually hear WGN under KDWN. The two fight it out sometimes. That's quite a signal booming out of Chicago.
Like I said, it would be nice if these stations ( KALL and KDWN ) were to take a night off for scheduled maintenance, and to see how well those two stations do on the west coast. I don't mean to pick on KDWN or KALL, this goes for all stations.
When KKOH was of the air many weeks back, I could barely hear WBBM. Now mind you, I didnt have the 20" PK loop. That night, they had one of the classic nightly shows going, and its wasn't very audible.
My first trip to California in the early 1960s when clear channel stations were still plentiful, WGN was the first Chicago station I heard. That was back in the day when you had four Chicago clears you could hear practically everynight.
From Carrollton, MO:
Daytime: ??,
Nighttime: WLW, Cincinnati, OH.
Daytime: ??,
Nighttime: WLW, Cincinnati, OH.
WLW was off for roughly 10 minutes last night, from approximately 6:05-6:15 p.m. EST. A weak signal took its place, and my best guess is KHSE. The language and music sounded Asian to me; in any case, nothing I could understand. Again, that is my best guess. It took considerable adjacent channel interference from WOR.
When WLW came back, it completely dominated the frequency as usual to the point that whatever had been there could not be detected underneath. That's a credit to the groundwave signal 90-plus miles out.
When WLW came back, it completely dominated the frequency as usual to the point that whatever had been there could not be detected underneath. That's a credit to the groundwave signal 90-plus miles out.
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