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Critical Hours catches - trying to ID

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FreddyE1977

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Two first-time catches on the car radio while driving home between 5:30 and 6PM last night.
Trying to ID these stations. Was in southern suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA.

- 850AM, playing music...Monkees "Daydream Believer" followed by a Tom T. Hall country song (???)
Was fading in and out over WKNR Sports Radio in Cleveland, about the only other 850 I have ever
been able to get.

- 880AM, Country music, station ID saying "Real Country for Real People" followed by AP News.
Unfortunately it faded just before they gave the call sign. Blowing away WCBS! WRFD in
Columbus, OH only other 880 I ever get, and they are religious.
 
Raider57 said:
850 might be WREF out of Danbury, CT
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Yes, that's possible.

Or, it could be WGVS Muskegon, MI. They've been making the most of their kilowatt lately by being audible under KOA in the Chicago area, despite nulling in this direction. They do have a southeasterly lobe that could make PGH under the right circumstances.

WGVS has the same oldies format as you describe.
 
850 might be WRBZ Raleigh NC. That's one of our stations, and it recently changed from sports to oldies. It would have been running non-d 10 kilowatts when you were listening.

I'll see if I can pull the music log and check if it matches what you heard.
 
BRNout said:
Raider57 said:
850 might be WREF out of Danbury, CT
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Yes, that's possible.

Or, it could be WGVS Muskegon, MI. They've been making the most of their kilowatt lately by being audible under KOA in the Chicago area, despite nulling in this direction. They do have a southeasterly lobe that could make PGH under the right circumstances.

WGVS has the same oldies format as you describe.
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I do tend to have Michigan vibe going here. 1660 out of K'zoo and 1590 out of Coldwater have been regular late-day catches here.
I lived in Mich. for awhile, very swampy, great ground conductivity.
 
Checked the WRBZ music log, and between 5:30-6:00 PM Eastern on 3/3 it shows the Monkees "Last Train to Clarksville" followed by Tom T. Hall, "I Love". Is that what you heard on 850?

FYI, WRBZ is using "WKIX" as an identifier between songs. Those call letters are legendary in this market.
 
awsherrill said:
FYI, WRBZ is using "WKIX" as an identifier between songs. Those call letters are legendary in this market.
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That's interesting. So why don't they get those call letters back, since they appear to be available?
 
awsherrill said:
Checked the WRBZ music log, and between 5:30-6:00 PM Eastern on 3/3 it shows the Monkees "Last Train to Clarksville" followed by Tom T. Hall, "I Love". Is that what you heard on 850?

FYI, WRBZ is using "WKIX" as an identifier between songs. Those call letters are legendary in this market.
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Yes, that was it! I had a brain cramp and spit out the wrong Monkees song.
Thanks very much for checking!

On Friday's drive home I logged a new one on 850 - WTAR in Norfolk, VA.
I remember tuning in WTAR years ago when those calls were on 790.

Still trying to track down "Real Country for Real People" on 880
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Still trying to track down "Real Country for Real People" on 880
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Some nice detective work going on here. :D

Could you have nabbed the 50kW KRVN out of Lexington, NE? They are known as Rural Radio, but perhaps they they also use the "Real Country" tag line when spinning their tunes???

~BG
 
Nebraska to Western PA with 30 minutes of daylight remaining at the eastern end would
have been quite a catch!
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Nebraska to Western PA with 30 minutes of daylight remaining at the eastern end would
have been quite a catch!
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I have definitely gotten KRVN from the Chicago area during critical hours; it's very gone once darkness falls though. Yes, western PA is quite a bit farther and the sun is still quite high in Nebraska when it's setting on Pittsburgh - so that would be one heck of a catch. But, not impossible during the right time of year and with the right propagation patterns. Stranger things have happened.
 
Generally in this area I will get a poor to moderate signal from WRFD in Columbus for most of the day,
and then when the sun starts to sink WCBS will come booming in from the east. Whatever this was
it was blowing them both away. That would tend to point towards a 50kW station.
 
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