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AM Frequency of the Week: 930

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cyberdad

cyberdad

(Another busy day for me tomorrow, so I thought I'd do this installment today.)

40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....


Days and Nights: 930 is WKBM 24/7 with a fair- good signa; 24/7. Although, I usually can hear stuff underneath at night. 2.5kw days, 4.2kw nights. Similar patterns protecting mostly WBCK and WTAD. Apparently also secondary protection for WOKY and WBAA with somewhat shallower nulls. Night pattern sends more signal north (towards me). Signal strength at my location is slightly stronger at night. Distance is 48 miles.

Retro: I've also heard WLBJ (Bowling Green, KY) and WKY (Oklahoma City) here at night, but not recently.

Other Location: 5kw WLSS in Sarasota, makes the nearly 400 mile hop to the Pensacola area daytime via saltwater path. The signal is very weak, but listenable. At my college location in southeast Iowa, WTAD (Quincy, IL) is listenable 24/7 with a fair-good signal 5kw day, 1kw night. Distance is about 65 miles. Very good ground conductivity in the area.
 
cyberdad said:
(Another busy day for me tomorrow, so I thought I'd do this installment today.)

40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....


Days and Nights: 930 is WKBM 24/7 with a fair- good signa; 24/7. Although, I usually can hear stuff underneath at night. 2.5kw days, 4.2kw nights. Similar patterns protecting mostly WBCK and WTAD. Apparently also secondary protection for WOKY and WBAA with somewhat shallower nulls. Night pattern sends more signal north (towards me). Signal strength at my location is slightly stronger at night. Distance is 48 miles.

Retro: I've also heard WLBJ (Bowling Green, KY) and WKY (Oklahoma City) here at night, but not recently.

Other Location: 5kw WLSS in Sarasota, makes the nearly 400 mile hop to the Pensacola area daytime via saltwater path. The signal is very weak, but listenable. At my college location in southeast Iowa, WTAD (Quincy, IL) is listenable 24/7 with a fair-good signal 5kw day, 1kw night. Distance is about 65 miles. Very good ground conductivity in the area.
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East Tennessee---Local in Sevierville is WSEV, which at one time was owned by Dolly Parton as WDLY. For many years it ran a continuous loop of tourist information, in an effort to have people stop into their welcome center to pick up coupons, and get set up with a timeshare tour. After being off the air for a few months Bristol Broadcasting bought them and promptly forgot about them. Now it's a wide variety of music, sounding like it's being fed by a chewed up cassette that sat in a car for a hot summer. That's the key if you hear it. Otherwise, further away in Knoxville, I've had WKCT, Bowling Green, OH and WLLL, Lynchburg VA.

Retro/other: Western Ohio: My secondary or tertiary Top 40 station was now-defunct WHON, Richmond, IN, a daytimer. I had caught WHON in Crossville, TN on "Pacers Basketball authorization" WRVC (or whatever it was then) was frequent from Huntington WV. when I lived in Quincy, IL, WTAD was a local. Other places I've heard WTAD was in Logansport, IN around sunset, and with "football authorization", in Middletown, OH.
 
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In the near north Chicago suburbs days it's WKBM with a decent signal. At night still WKBM with stuff underneath like WBCK. Back in the day I used to sometimes hear WKY at night.

Retro: Used to hear WBCK during the day before WKBM came on this frequency.
 
gr8oldies said:
d WTAD was in Logansport, IN around sunset, and with "football authorization", in Middletown, OH.
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High School sport are a REALLY big deal in the westernmost part of Illinois. "The Quincy Blue Devels" for years were a fixture for many years in State Basketball playoffs. It didn't end well in 1952, however, when they got knocked off in the State Championship game by "The Hebron Green Giants". A town with less than 900 people and a team with only six players (and sometimes played with only four, if players were sick, injured, or fouled out).






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gr8oldies said:
East Tennessee---Local in Sevierville is WSEV, which at one time was owned by Dolly Parton as WDLY. For many years it ran a continuous loop of tourist information, in an effort to have people stop into their welcome center to pick up coupons, and get set up with a timeshare tour. After being off the air for a few months Bristol Broadcasting bought them and promptly forgot about them. Now it's a wide variety of music, sounding like it's being fed by a chewed up cassette that sat in a car for a hot summer. That's the key if you hear it. Otherwise, further away in Knoxville, I've had WKCT, Bowling Green, OH and WLLL, Lynchburg VA.

Retro/other: Western Ohio: My secondary or tertiary Top 40 station was now-defunct WHON, Richmond, IN, a daytimer. I had caught WHON in Crossville, TN on "Pacers Basketball authorization" WRVC (or whatever it was then) was frequent from Huntington WV. when I lived in Quincy, IL, WTAD was a local. Other places I've heard WTAD was in Logansport, IN around sunset, and with "football authorization", in Middletown, OH.
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WGNT?
 
Bellingham, WA
Local KBAI 500W DA 2 towers towards me nights, 1000W days on one tower. Exists entirely to feed the translator.

Nights will hear 50kW CJCA Edmonton underneath. Very occasionally will come in over the top of the local. "930 The Light" Christian programming.
 
cyberdad said:
It didn't end well in 1952, however, when they got knocked off in the State Championship game by "The Hebron Green Giants". A town with less than 900 people and a team with only six players (and sometimes played with only four, if players were sick, injured, or fouled out).
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That sounds like a story worthy of a movie... sort of a "if you build it they will come" kind of fantasy / underdog tale (of course, for "underdogs" it may be a "tail").
 
DavidEduardo said:
That sounds like a story worthy of a movie... sort of a "if you build it they will come" kind of fantasy / underdog tale (of course, for "underdogs" it may be a "tail").
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There's already been a movie made of a very similar story, "Hoosiers," about an Indiana high school basketball team from a very small town that beat the odds to win a state championship.
 
CTListener said:
There's already been a movie made of a very similar story, "Hoosiers," about an Indiana high school basketball team from a very small town that beat the odds to win a state championship.
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Cool! (To use a very 70's expression). I will look for it tonight... somebody has to be streaming it!
 
Two 930 stations were important to me. First in my hometown "The Buffalo Evening News Station" WBEN Buffalo. A giant when it came to "Full Service Radio" in the '50's, '60's and '70's.

The other is one I worked for AM 93 WSOC Charlotte owned by Cox. I did afternoon drive there from '81-'85 and when we got off reels and went to cart I was the unofficial music director. I say that because I selected and mixed everyone's music. (PD Don Bell liked the way I mixed my show so he asked me to do it for the other guys). Format was first standards and toward the end AC-Gold. In 1985 Cox lost interest and the station simulcasted with Country WSOC-FM.

Today 930 in Charlotte is home base for Bible Broadcast Network as WYFQ. With K-Love's WRCM-FM and Billy Graham's giant WMIT-FM high up on Mount Mitchell in Western North Carolina with amazing coverage WYFQ is hardly heard. I don't know anyone who listens.
 
cyberdad said:
High School sport are a REALLY big deal in the westernmost part of Illinois. "The Quincy Blue Devels" for years were a fixture for many years in State Basketball playoffs. It didn't end well in 1952, however, when they got knocked off in the State Championship game by "The Hebron Green Giants". A town with less than 900 people and a team with only six players (and sometimes played with only four, if players were sick, injured, or fouled out).
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Which was also the first televised Illinois state championship. The kine of the second half survived.

Indiana’s Milan Miracle happened in 1954. Tom Carnegie and Hilliard Gates, announcers for the game, played bit parts in “Hoosiers.”
 
From Saint Petersburg, FL, 930 (now a Salem station- WLLS) was WKXY rock/Top 40 out of Sarasota,Fl, during the 1960's through at least the mid 1980's owned by a local Sarasota family - used to be great programming! Received it well day and night, since the path between their tower near downtown Sarasota and Saint Petersburg had a saltwater path. Then they increased their power and moved their towers and nighttime reception was never the same either in Saint Petersburg and even in Palmetto, barely listenable.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: WKBM Sandwich , IL with fair signal
Nightime: WKBM but able to null them out

DX/Retro: Prior to WKBM (WAUR, WBYG) signing on, WBCK Battle Creek, MI was audible during daytime. Most of the DX on this frequency happened prior to WKBM signed on and includes WGNT (Huntigton, WV), WKCT (Bowling Green, KY), WTAD (Quincy, IL), WKY (Oklahoma City, OK), WJAX (Jacksonville, FL), WEOL (Elyriaa, OH), WSEV (Sevierville, TN), WBEN (Buffalo, NY), CKNS (Espanola, ON) and WKXY (Sarasota, FL) during a DX test. Most recent DX on this frequency is WLBL (Auburndale, WI) and WWON (Waynsboro, TN). Both heard in 2021.
 
cyberdad said:
High School sport are a REALLY big deal in the westernmost part of Illinois. "The Quincy Blue Devels" for years were a fixture for many years in State Basketball playoffs. It didn't end well in 1952, however, when they got knocked off in the State Championship game by "The Hebron Green Giants". A town with less than 900 people and a team with only six players (and sometimes played with only four, if players were sick, injured, or fouled out).






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Almost "Hoosiers". I remember the Blue Devils, though I barely had time to get acclimated there. It was an interesting town, and somewhat a smaller version of Cincinnati.
 
From Cheyenne, WY:
Days: A weak 930 KRKY Granby, Colorado (98 miles at 4.5kw) with their Country format. Surprisingly, it is not related to the "KRKY" format on FM. 930 is only Listenable part of the time. I eventually would like to snag KOGA on 930.

Nights: Usually nothing except for various fading.

On the road:
I stayed about 3 miles away from the KROE Sheridan tower, and it definitely packs a punch into town.
Additionally, KROE can be heard as far west as Cody (fringe, but occasionally listenable), and as far south as Casper. (Way fringe).
In Denver, one can hear KRKY decently.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: Nothing but fading.

Critical Hours: WTAD or WKY. Usually, WTAD.

Night: A muddy mess. Not stations ID'd as yet.

Personal note: My late broadcast engineer father was a staff engineer at WTAD from 1940-49. He left WTAD to become CE at WEEK-AM in Peoria. Later, he was also CE at WEEK-TV.

Bob
 
In the daytime, it's slop from local KYST 920. Sometimes in the winter I can null them and get a weak signal from KLUP "the Answer" from the San Antonio area. At sunset, KLUP dominates. Nulling them, I hear WKY most often, but have also heard XESAME and (tentatively) KWOC. At night it's a jumble, with KLUP and WKY peeking through. At sunrise, in addition to those, I've heard KDET, talk radio from Center, Texas (despite the name, Center is in east Texas, near the Louisiana border).
 
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