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Best Old 5000 Watt III-A Skywaves

What 5000 watt nighttime (III-As mainly) stations had good skywaves in your area in the past or now?

Some that used to be good (some still are at times) in Michigan (1960s-1970s)

Southeast MI

570 WKBN
610 WTVN
980 WONE
1250 WTAE
1260 WIXY
1290 WHIO
1350 WSLR
1360 WSAI
1370 WSPD
1380 WMEE
1410 WING
1590 WAKR

Straits Area

Above plus

590 WKZO
950 WWJ
960 WSBT
1310 WKNR
1390 WYNR/WNUS

Central UP

560 WIND
1390 WYNR/WNUS
 
NW Suburbs of Chicago:

610 WDAF (now KCSP)
980 WONE
1260 WIBV (now WSDZ)
1290 WHIO
1370 WSPD
1410 WING
1430 WIL (now KZQZ)
1590 WAKR

Only WONE could even possibly make this list now in my area. All other stations in a jumble most nights. Sad.
 
Based on my many years of DX'ing here in Texas, mainly around the Dallas/Fort Worth area, I'd have to include these:

550 KTSA San Antonio (directional at night but still covers a lot of real estate in South and Central Texas)
570 KLIF Dallas/Fort Worth (a nighttime pattern protecting WNAX Yankton SD limits their range but overall it remains quite an impressive signal)
620 KLKI Plano [Dallas/Fort Worth] (runs IBOC but still has decent skywave, although for many decades as KWFT Wichita Falls it had an absolutely killer signal)
930 WKY Oklahoma City (not what it once was, but still an impressive signal north and south over the Great Plains)
1270 KFLC Fort Worth/Dallas (good, although it was much better as the legendary KFJZ with their tower site across town in west Fort Worth)
1280 WODT New Orleans (the old WDSU; once had a dependable signal into much of Texas, now not so much)
1320 KXYZ Houston (solid coverage over much of South Texas)
1330 KNSS Wichita KS (formerly KFH, still rather impressive despite being directional NNW/SSE)
1350 WWWL New Orleans (the former WSMB, same story as 1280)
1430 KTBZ Tulsa OK (once the legendary Top 40 KELI, still has a signal that blankets much of Texas and in fact destroys co-channel KEES due south of them in Gladewater TX)

Honorable mentions go to WIBW 580 Topeka KS, WREC 600 Memphis, KARN 920 Little Rock, and two stations in Kansas City: KCSP 610 (the former WDAF) with its impressive non-directional signal and KMBZ 980, which is directional but doesn't really look that way.
 
Indianapolis Early/Mid/Late 60's

Been a long time, but as I recall...no "best" III-A skywaves...other than 1590 WAKR Akron OH

The somewhat reliable regional signals I heard were classified as III B or II and included:

910 KGLC (now KVIS) Miami OK - a IIIB
940 KIOA Des Moines IA - II
990 WNOX Knoxville TN - II
1560 WDXR (now WPAD) Paducah KY
 
KGLC came in all over the place with the 1 kW night. The day is 1 kW with the same pattern, so its not a matter like many stations that often left the day power and pattern on past sunset. The pattern maxima are the equivalent of about 5 kW, and enter into NIF calculations or just below the line practically coast to coast in the maximum directions.
 
I'd be willing to bet that when the bands were less crowded, KGLC heard from more than its share of African, European and South Pacific DXer's.

I haven't heard KVIS/KGLC in years, but then I haven't tried that hard.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
What about 1290 WIRL and 1470 WMBD, stormy? I know Chicago Heights probably messed up WMBD somewhat.

I thought maybe a bit further out than Peoria or Indy for Skywave, but if you think these should be included, that's ok with me! (-:

WNDE 1260, WOOD 1300, WIBA 1310 and WOC 1420 could be added too from the past. WMBD is often fairly reliable nowadays, but not like years ago! WCFJ doesn't present a problem here for me regarding reception of WMBD in the NW suburbs.
 
A couple of 1 kW night stations in Michigan that I had no trouble hearing in the near NW suburbs of Chicago when I was there briefly for visits were WILS 1320 and WKMI 1360. Both had/have large lobes to the SW, though the new WILS array lobe probably is less in that direction. You probably would have no problem logging WILS now around sunset before pattern change. It's 25 kW days beamed west from west of Lansing.

Actually, 100 miles is far enough for skywave to kick in particulary on the upper end of the dial.

WMBD is a pest in Scandinavia, along with WGRB 1390.
 
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