AM Frequency of the Week: 950

[radioman148]

There must be some people aboard here who remember when WGRT 950 was a 1000-watt directional daytimer .......

I believe WGRT was a 1KW daytimer ND not directional.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@ Radioman : Mike Sullivan was a DJ a few of us Long Island mokes enjoyed. He'd been on WMID Atlantic City, a gangbuster signal on L.I. beaches, and then jocked on WGBB Freeport, where he was music director in their early 'chicken rock' days.
After a short stay at WGLI Babylon, he went to WGRT.
His DXing pals moaned, 'We'll never hear him again.'
The references I used were both National Radio Club sources. One was their nighttime coverage map book (which of course had no Chicago station on 950 at night). The other was their 1970-or-so AM statio log. Upon a re-check just now, it indeed showed that 'WGRT' was 1000 DA-1.
Lol -- underneath them on the list was WXLW Indy, which was the D-3 station

Good memory you; my error me. Thanx for the correction!

(We never heard Sullivan again. Nor did any of us log WGRT.)

 

[radioman148]

@ Radioman : Mike Sullivan was a DJ a few of us Long Island mokes enjoyed. He'd been on WMID Atlantic City, a gangbuster signal on L.I. beaches, and then jocked on WGBB Freeport, where he was music director in their early 'chicken rock' days.
After a short stay at WGLI Babylon, he went to WGRT.
His DXing pals moaned, 'We'll never hear him again.'
The references I used were both National Radio Club sources. One was their nighttime coverage map book (which of course had no Chicago station on 950 at night). The other was their 1970-or-so AM statio log. Upon a re-check just now, it indeed showed that 'WGRT' was 1000 DA-1.
Lol -- underneath them on the list was WXLW Indy, which was the D-3 station

Good memory you; my error me. Thanx for the correction!

(We never heard Sullivan again. Nor did any of us log WGRT.)

I believe that Mike Sullivan did news on WGRT.

 

[schmave]

WWJ might sneak down here to suburban Columbus every so often, but if so only at night. It's been extremely weak every time I've heard it here.
Their directional pattern is extremely obvious as close as Toledo. Their signal strength there daytime is about 1/3 or less of WJR in my experience and it's gone at night. Not talking the actual power level, just how it hit my ear in the area.

 

[ente]

South Mississippi:

Day: nothing
Night: KPRC Houston, Radio Reloj, and sometimes WAKM Franklin, TN

 

[teaneck]

I used to live so close to WWDJ-970 that in order to hear then “ WPEN “ 950 I’d have to drive down River Road into Bogota to hear them at all. Dominant day and night in Central NJ. Note that they are now using two sites: daytime at the Classic neighborhood site just east of Route 1, and night time at the same site as a AM860.

 

[gr8oldies]

I used to live so close to WWDJ-970 that in order to hear then “ WPEN “ 950 I’d have to drive down River Road into Bogota to hear them at all. Dominant day and night in Central NJ. Note that they are now using two sites: daytime at the Classic neighborhood site just east of Route 1, and night time at the same site as a AM860.

A few years ago (as a Family Radio station) they were noted drifting to 970 on the night transmitter..

 

[boiseengineer]

Boise Idaho:
Day:
Nothing, since local KMHR has been off completely for over a year. When they have been on, it's sporadically with extreme low power since 2015.
Night:
XEKAM Tijuana, KJR Seattle, KCAP Helena, and the least for some reason KOZE Lewiston ID. Haven't heard Denver in years. KAHI Auburn CA shouldn't be there but the booms in occasionally.

 

[ksradiogeek]

Central Kansas:
Nothing but KJRG/Newton.

North Iowa:
Nothing but KOEL/Oelwein.

 

[CentralFL]

15 miles south of Orlando. WORL very strong daytime. Good at night, but other stations come in underneath. Heading west, I have occasionally caught WWJ Detroit.