In the late 60s & early 70s I heard WKY many times in the Chicago area at night.
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AM Frequency of The Week: 930
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From Lexington, KY....
930 Daytime: WKCT, WRVC and WHON mix weakly together, but WKCT usually dominates ..... if you can call it dominating!
930 Night: The above three along with WKY and WSEV
FWIW: WKY used to be heard over much of the country at night back in the early 1960's. When I lived in Southern California, I frequently heard WKY at night even with KHJ only about 50-60 miles away from my location.
930 Daytime: WKCT, WRVC and WHON mix weakly together, but WKCT usually dominates ..... if you can call it dominating!
930 Night: The above three along with WKY and WSEV
FWIW: WKY used to be heard over much of the country at night back in the early 1960's. When I lived in Southern California, I frequently heard WKY at night even with KHJ only about 50-60 miles away from my location.
930 daytime is the 5kw sports station from Jacksonville, WFXJ. It was the third strongest AM signal from there in our area, behind 690 and 550, but 600 now has a better transmitter, so they're stronger. That signal is listenable all the way past Myrtle Beach.
Nights, 930 is a real mess. No station dominates the frequency. I've never even logged Charlotte's 930, as it is in the jumble.
Nights, 930 is a real mess. No station dominates the frequency. I've never even logged Charlotte's 930, as it is in the jumble.
stormy01 said:
If you drive out to the Antilope Valley (Lancaster / Palmdale) you can get WKY mixed with or over KHJ when Pocatello is not coming in... and that's today, not in some clearer-band era of the past.
KR4BD said:
It's still a fairly easy catch in many parts of CA. The KHJ pattern has relatively little power to the north, and nearly nothing on an arc that protects WKY and Pocatello. It is interesting to be in that null and hear two heritage three-letter call stations mashing it up... both in Spanish!
DavidEduardo said:
When I used to visit the Palm Springs area KHJ could barely be heard at night. I never actually listened for WKY, but I'm sure if I had stayed with it I would've heard it just 110 miles east of LA.
crainbebo said:
KBAI 930...you know what's REALLY strange about their signal - you can actually get it BETTER in Everett, Snohomish/North King County than you can almost anywhere in Skagit County, which is just south of Bellingham. They simply don't come in at all in Mount Vernon, Burlington or Sedro-Woolley. The only place they do come in is Anacortes.
At night, KBAI powers down to 500 watts - and goes SUPER directional. Even in South Bellingham, KBAI is outblasted by CJCA. The only place it comes in at night is the immediate downtown area of Bellingham. It's got to be one of the worst AM signals in Puget Sound.
KYAK also makes an occasional appearance, but when they power down - zip! All gone....
KBAI is fairly strong in Maple Ridge, B.C. in the days, at nights CJCA Edmonton totally obliderates them with KSEI Pocatello popping up during the CJCA fades now & then. Sunrise/Sunset usually brings in a KYAK Yakima and KAGI Grants Pass mix, and once in a blue moon KTKN Ketchikan makes an appearance. I have also heard KHJ Los Angeles on occasion, but they are even more rare than KTKN.
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How many have heard the now-defunct Radio Antilles from Montserrat (West Indies) on 930 in the 1970s? They boasted 200,000 watts. I heard it back then from south Florida, but nulling WINZ on 940 was quite a task. Wish I kept the tapes of it.
When I was stationed in Biloxi MS in 1978, 930 Sarasota came in quite well there! I thought it was some freaky antenna setup of mine, but later I learned more about water paths!
To the above poster---KTKN is a great catch!
cd
When I was stationed in Biloxi MS in 1978, 930 Sarasota came in quite well there! I thought it was some freaky antenna setup of mine, but later I learned more about water paths!
To the above poster---KTKN is a great catch!
cd
David Eduardo raises a question or two even considering the 'days of clearer-band past'. Maybe he or someone knows. Are directional stations easier to null than omni stations are? Even if a lot of the main directional lobe is coming at you?
I don't know if anyone else noticed this. Perhaps my experiences theorizing such put me in the right places a lot of the time. And by 'null', I mean completely, so that the lights in the studio or atop the towers dim.
WPAT was like that on Long Island -- vulnerable. This 930 station could be plunged into an electromagnetic black hole, even during the day. Logged midday while WPAT was enfeebled were WCNR Bloomsburg PA and WWNH Rochester NH. On adjacent 920, upstate NY's WGHQ, WJAR and (WAY under) WTTM Trenton were everyday loggings.
At night, WBEN was like The Blob as far as WPAT was concerned. WBEN went into every cranny of WPAT's signal, regualrly, and sometimes came right over WPAT into the car, onto Long Island. This, despite, as I mentioned, WPAT sending a good deal of their 5000 watts our way.
Jacksonville, Charlotte, Olahoma City, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Frederick MD and, everyone's favorite, Radio Reloj, were pretty easy pickings when WPAT was off.
Here in NE PA it's 'All News WHLM' (which plays Oldies most of the day), and WBEN at night. An old nighttime pattern book shows WBEN sending half their signal to theoretically cover all five boroughs of NYC -- WPAT's main audience!
I don't know if anyone else noticed this. Perhaps my experiences theorizing such put me in the right places a lot of the time. And by 'null', I mean completely, so that the lights in the studio or atop the towers dim.
WPAT was like that on Long Island -- vulnerable. This 930 station could be plunged into an electromagnetic black hole, even during the day. Logged midday while WPAT was enfeebled were WCNR Bloomsburg PA and WWNH Rochester NH. On adjacent 920, upstate NY's WGHQ, WJAR and (WAY under) WTTM Trenton were everyday loggings.
At night, WBEN was like The Blob as far as WPAT was concerned. WBEN went into every cranny of WPAT's signal, regualrly, and sometimes came right over WPAT into the car, onto Long Island. This, despite, as I mentioned, WPAT sending a good deal of their 5000 watts our way.
Jacksonville, Charlotte, Olahoma City, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Frederick MD and, everyone's favorite, Radio Reloj, were pretty easy pickings when WPAT was off.
Here in NE PA it's 'All News WHLM' (which plays Oldies most of the day), and WBEN at night. An old nighttime pattern book shows WBEN sending half their signal to theoretically cover all five boroughs of NYC -- WPAT's main audience!
Local WEOL in Elyria during the day.
I haven't checked at night recently, but I think it's a mixed up mess of whatever WEOL throws this way, and WBEN.
I haven't checked at night recently, but I think it's a mixed up mess of whatever WEOL throws this way, and WBEN.
I did log Radio Antilles, although it was back in 1966. As I recall, they used a directional antenna.cd637299 said:
I had a summer job with a small company that provided maintenance services for microwave & communication towers, and was on St. Barthelemy which is about 100 miles away, so it wasn't much of a DXing achievement.
By the way, most of the time we were on hilltops or mountain tops tightening guy wires, followed by nights in cheap hotels or a filthy sleeping bag.
Decided to post in this one since I hadn't already.
930 in Vermilion, OH is local WEOL/Elyria, OH days and a jumble at night with WEOL barely noticeable in the mess.
930 in Vermilion, OH is local WEOL/Elyria, OH days and a jumble at night with WEOL barely noticeable in the mess.
Springfield, IL:
Day: WTAD Quincy, IL all the time
Night: slop
Day: WTAD Quincy, IL all the time
Night: slop
Update from Bellevue, WA.
Nothing days (KBAI is a horrible AM signal, and has far less coverage area than KGMI).
Sunset it's usually KYAK Yakima, and sometimes CJCA Edmonton, AB. Once logged KMPT Missoula, MT at the TOH.
Nights it's usually CJCA in Edmonton, with a huge signal. KSEI Pocatello, ID is sometimes in the mess, and last night got a new log on this frequency: KTKN Ketchikan, AK. Alaska #2 logged on AM.
-crainbebo
Nothing days (KBAI is a horrible AM signal, and has far less coverage area than KGMI).
Sunset it's usually KYAK Yakima, and sometimes CJCA Edmonton, AB. Once logged KMPT Missoula, MT at the TOH.
Nights it's usually CJCA in Edmonton, with a huge signal. KSEI Pocatello, ID is sometimes in the mess, and last night got a new log on this frequency: KTKN Ketchikan, AK. Alaska #2 logged on AM.
-crainbebo
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Rochester, NY; WBEN Buffalo 24/7, on both 930 AM and simulcast 107.7 FM.
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