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Am station with the largest night land coverage?

Joe Boatwright said:
My money's on WLW 700.
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Good call there, but I think it's WBAP/820 because of its location in the middle of the continent. I've heard it as strong at night in Las Vegas as I've heard it in Ohio. It's the only 50K I've heard in Vegas that I've also heard here in the Midwest.
 
I've never received WBAP-AM 820 here in central Connecticut. Obviously, I'm never going to receive KRLD-AM 1080 here (due to WTIC-AM 1080, of course!). The only Texas signal I've ever gotten here was WOAI-AM 1200 from San Antonio. The furthest west I've ever picked up was either WCCO-AM 830 from Minneapolis (If WRYM-AM 840 of New Britain isn't on at 2 AM or if WCRN-AM 830 of Worcester, MA is off) or KMOX-AM 1120 from Saint Louis (if WPRX-AM 1120 of Bristol/New Britain's crappy signal waves out).
 
Hi,
How about WSCR?, WGN?, or WBBM? They all have large coverages.
I do not care it it goes into canada that is still land.
 
740 ktrh Houston use the be heard in South American even out in El Paso at night
 
There's an interesting discussion of similar matters on a competing Minnesota radio board at the moment, and some folks over there have named 540 CBK-Watrous, SK (Regina market) as the most likely candidate for maximum DAYTIME coverage. It has the mid-continent's amazingly good ground conductivity in its favor, as well as its low frequency, PLUS the CRTC lets even low-band stations run 50 kW. (Compare 550 KFYR-Bismarck and 570 WNAX-Yankton, which the FCC only allows to run 5 kW.) Check out the Radio-Locator map for this signal -- even the 0.5 mV/m (purple) contour goes well past the map boundary!

But as far as NIGHTTIME land coverage, I'd probably have to concur with the person who mentioned WBAP and WOAI. Both of these are regular nighttime catches here in St. Paul -- despite WBAP's adjacency to 50 kW local WCCO -- combine that with Joe's mention of reception in Las Vegas AND Ohio, and you've got a pretty good candidate. (One thing, though -- isn't skywave propagation notoriously unpredictable in comparison with groundwave propagation? Wouldn't that make it difficult to name a sure winner?)
 
CBK is indeed a huge signal. They're actually my current North American AM DX distance record at 1172 miles, barely edging out WOAI for the title.

I noticed the same thing about the Radio-Locator map and couldn't help but laugh about it.

I've always wanted to get a West Coast AM signal, but no luck yet. Closest i've been is KOA and the Radio Disney affiliate in Denver.
 
Lawppy- before KFI's tower was toppled by an airplane in Dec 2004, I'll bet that would have been your best bet for a west coast station. Now they're running with 25kw until sometime in the future they can build a new 50kw transmitter.

Re this thread, I want to mention 870 AM WLW New Orleans which I regularly received at night growing up in New Jersey and now that I live in Southern California I often hear them underneath KRLA (I live about 50 miles from KRLA's TXer (3kw night signal).
I was surprised to see that WLW is directional with 2 towers. Go figure.
 
SuperRadioFan said:
Re this thread, I want to mention 870 AM WLW New Orleans which I regularly received at night growing up in New Jersey and now that I live in Southern California I often hear them underneath KRLA (I live about 50 miles from KRLA's TXer (3kw night signal).
I was surprised to see that WLW is directional with 2 towers. Go figure.
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I assume you are reffering to 870 WWL. They are directional at their own choosing to throw their 50KW signal away from the Gulf of Mexico, and to maximize it over land. Otherwise, they are authorized to be non-directional.
 
You're right Delta, WWL-- just had a brain fart--- Interesting about nulling to the Gulf where the signal would be wasted. That explains why they're receivable on the east and west coasts :)
 
In New York City, I can hear "1530 Homer" which is WCKY in Cincinnati. It has a 50kw signal where you can get into New York City to hear "Homer". They did that after the format switch from liberal talk back on July 7th where the station moved to WSAI at 1360 as "The Revolution of Talk Radio". WSAI at 1360 couldn't get better reception at night if you can hear it. WCKY's "1530 Homer" is a sports station which is right next door to WWKB's "Left Channel" at 1520 in Buffalo when it was an oldies station and the home of Jack Armstrong and Joey Reynolds. What happens if someone in New York City could hear "1530 Homer" in the car while you're driving on the BQE towards the Kosiwosko Bridge, you'll hear Radio Disney at 1560 gets splattered by "Homer" at 1530 at night. That was 3kw down and the transmitter is at the Maspeth section of Queens. Great to hear "1530 Homer" on my DX reception. It's all over Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and a few states in the north.
 
SuperRadioFan said:
Lawppy- before KFI's tower was toppled by an airplane in Dec 2004, I'll bet that would have been your best bet for a west coast station. Now they're running with 25kw until sometime in the future they can build a new 50kw transmitter.

Re this thread, I want to mention 870 AM WLW New Orleans which I regularly received at night growing up in New Jersey and now that I live in Southern California I often hear them underneath KRLA (I live about 50 miles from KRLA's TXer (3kw night signal).
I was surprised to see that WLW is directional with 2 towers. Go figure.
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I was able to hear KFI once at night here in Alabama before the tower was hit
 
Before their respective channels became more crowded, KFI, KNBR, KGO, and KNX regularly made it across the Mississippi. KCBS also turned up on my car radio (here in Northern Illinois) a couple of times after CBL signoff. (Conversely, listening to WLS at night on my regular visits to San Diego was no particular problem).
 
Id vote for WNAX, KEYZ or KFYR.

I once heard 680 KNBR in NW Mississippi, with the local 680 WJCE blasting in my direction......
 
Bryan Wellander said:
Hi,
What about KSL?
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When I lived in NJ (grew up there) more than 20 years ago.... KSL used to be a good pickup before WJJD (calls at the time) was a full time station. Now there's so much interference there along with other NJ stations, KSL's coverage eastward has to be severely curtailed. Plus Salt Lake City is not exactly in the middle of the US.
 
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