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Am station with the largest night land coverage?

I've been trying for years to pull in KFI, here in Eastern NC..never happened. Have heard KSL a few times. Also heard KOA a couple of years ago under Raleigh on 850. Never have pulled in a Trans-Atlantic. That's something I've always wanted to do. I have a GE Superadio, but no luck with T/A's. Lot's of South American reception here on the coast. In fact, WABC has become unlistenable lately due to 770 in Bogata, Colombia. As far as the most nigt time coverage from a signal in the US, my choices are WWL, WLW, and WOAI. WBZ, by the way has an amazing signal up and down the coast. It comes in better here than any of the NYC stations.
 
> I have a GE Superadio, but no luck with T/A's

Try 531. From your location, you can probably null the T&C / cuba stations on 530.
 
PaulBWalkerJr said:
That second, shorter tower across the street from the main WLW tower is not an auxiliary tower.

From what I recall, WLW's signal is so strong, it has adjacent channel splatter that actually interferes with other stations and that second tower somehow fixeds that problem.
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There is no tower "across the road" at WLW.... The shorter tower IS an aux tower....used when they have to service the main 730+ft tower..the aux tower IS a grounded mono pole and has some two way stuff on it was well...but it on WLW's property and NOT across any road/street...been there, have touched it..
 
Bryan Wellander said:
Hi,
Is it koa?
Or if not whitch one?
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I used to think WLS 890....back in the 80s could hear it all over place....But any good Class A 50KW omni/ND would be best....(but I would include WWL even though they run DA)
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Everyone always says what a great signal WCCO has but even before they started breaking down their clear channal I only heard WCCO a couple of times here in North Carolina and then it was very weak.
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Blame WTRU in Winston-Salem. They got a boost a few years ago.
 
I live on the east coast so I'm probably not as qualified to make an opinion as those in more central areas of the U.S who can receive AM stations at night from 1000+ mi in all directions.
But I have travelled a bit and can offer an opinion that WWL 870 and WLW 700, Cinci both cover a lot of area at night, more so than any 2 east of the Mississippi River AM stations that I can think of. WSB 750 is a good stong station as well.
 
cyberdad said:
I think most of the Dallas AMs boom out pretty well. Possible small exception being to the east as one gets into the pine forests toward Northern Louisiana. Most of the Dallas full-facility daytime signals sound pretty much like locals in and around Austin....200 miles to the south. They also carry very well into Oklahoma....with WBAP audible into the Southern tier of counties in Kansas.
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1080 is very weak here... north of Georgetown, TX, which is north of Austin, south of Temple-KIlleen.
820 is okay. It's stronger than 1080 but nothing like a local.
570 comes in but nothing spectacular.
660 does well.
770 is okay.
 
What about XEPRS? I can hear it here at night in alaska ;)
 
I agree WLS 890 has really declined in power.
I use to pick it up in western Nebraska very well, when it was AM stereo, in the mid-80s.

WSB, Atlanta, isn't as good as it use to be, either. Though I have picked it up recently here in central Texas, but not nightly.
 
Dondd said:
I agree WLS 890 has really declined in power.
I use to pick it up in western Nebraska very well, when it was AM stereo, in the mid-80s.

WSB, Atlanta, isn't as good as it use to be, either. Though I have picked it up recently here in central Texas, but not nightly.
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WLS's power hasnt changed
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
WLS's power hasnt changed
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Not sure what's wrong, but the station is far weaker than it use to be, and doesn't get out as much as it use to, per mine and others' reports, including this 'un:

BRNout said:
Interesting about your reception of Chicago stations. Last week, I was in Puerto Rico and did some AM dxing at night. Aside from the usual Venzuelan and Cuban suspects, I was amazed to hear a clearly audible WBBM coming in. No other Chicago AMer was present, just WBBM - which was consistent. Of the New Yorkers, only WFAN made a weak and shaky appearance. Got WLW too.

WLS is a dissapointment no matter where I go. Now, they are always weaker than WGN, WSCR or WBBM - yet I remember that they were the gold standard back in the 70's and 80's. If you could get any Chicago station back then, it was WLS.
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SomeRadioGuy said:
What about XEPRS? I can hear it here at night in alaska ;)
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It only covers a narrow band along the Pacific Coast. You can barely get it in inland areas of CA, OR, WA or BBC
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
WLS's power hasnt changed
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I have heard that its radial system has been in dire need of maintenance for many years. Being in a residential area with two major highways (I-80 and US 45) along its south and west property lines, respectively, doesn't help.
 
SuperRadioFan said:
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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KSL is. definitely DX in the eastern half of the US now
 
RF101 said:
In this hemisphere it would be Trans World Radio, Bonaire. 440kw on 800kHz.

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But since that one principally operates in night hours, it's not really intended to provide local area coverage.

There are a number of 100 kw AMs in Venezuela and Colombia as well as in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. However, both Brazil and Venezuela are slowly eliminating all AM station so those will soon all disappear.
 
So... I think a consensus of the stations with the largest nighttime land coverage area are below.
Stations listed in geographic order, east to west.
  • WLW
  • WBAP
  • WOAI
  • KOA
  • KSL
Strong contenders:
  • WSM
  • WBBM
  • WWL
others
  • WGN
  • KRLD
  • KFMB
  • KNX
 
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