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AM Frequnncy of the Week: 1010

Days, here, its local WTZA with 50KW. At night it used to be WINS but lately WTZA has been staying on high power at night also. Normally I wouldn't be able to hear their 28 Watt signal this far north. Don't know how they make the electric bill as I don't hear any spots at all.
WTZA used to be WGUN and had the sound of a gunshot in their ID. But today its carrying colonist programming.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
My question is: why does WINS have to pull in their signal that way in the day? The only pebble in the shoe I can see is WSID Baltimore. They're a wee 1000-watt omni daytimer. Moreover, WINS has four towers. That extra stick should provide them with a little more of a maneuvrable lump to serve one of the five boroughs that they nominally are licensed to serve, right?
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I'm guessing the null that direction is for KDKA 1020 in Pittsburgh.
 
Possible, but KDKA's groundwave is garbage. With the conductivity in that part of the country and the distance between New York and Pittsburgh, I don't know that there's any place WINS and KDKA's groundwaves would affect each other appreciably and there might be very few, if any, places where they'd be heard in the same place at all.
I live about 175 miles west of Pittsburgh as the crow flies and it's tough to pull in KDKA daytime at any time of year.
 
schmave said:
Possible, but KDKA's groundwave is garbage. With the conductivity in that part of the country and the distance between New York and Pittsburgh, I don't know that there's any place WINS and KDKA's groundwaves would affect each other appreciably and there might be very few, if any, places where they'd be heard in the same place at all.
I live about 175 miles west of Pittsburgh as the crow flies and it's tough to pull in KDKA daytime at any time of year.
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Can you hear it at night? I lived about 2 1/2 hours NE of Pittsburgh, heard it at night no problem.. and sometimes during the day.

Now in Wyoming, ive heard KDKA at night.. twice for about 1 or two minutes each time
 
It varies at night, but even on a good night for KDKA, it's usually dwarfed by WBZ next door. I've heard cancellation on KDKA within 50 miles of Pittsburgh and it's never really been a powerhouse here at all.
 
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