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Daytime Bandscan Cincinnati Ohio

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Icangelp

Well. Home yesterday, and decided to do a MW bandscan.

Where: Western suburb of Cincinnati.
Date: March 05, 2013
When: Between 12:30 PM and 2:45 PM
Conditions: Overcast. No snow on ground. Maybe a bit of winter skywave.
Receiver: Drake R8B
Antenna: Rotatable Wellbrook ALA1530S

I didn't get I.D. from each station.

Here goes...Assume I rotated the antenna for best reception.
540 - Nothing
550 - Local WKRC
560 - WIND weak
570 - Mixing of locals
580 - WILL Bloomington IL (dominant) & WCHS Charleston WV
590 - WVLK Lexington KY
600 - Nothing
610 - WTVN Columbus OH
620 - WTUV - Louisville Very weak & a sports station mixing
630 - WLAP Lexington KY
640 - WHLO Akron Stonger than usual
650 - WSM Nashville TN Very weak
660 - WXIC Waverly OH
670 - WSCR Chicago IL Weak
680 - WCTT Corbin KY Assumed playing oldies & very weak. + Sports station so assumed WHBE Newburg KY
690 - Nothing
700 - Local WLW
710 - Nothing
720 - WGN Chicago - Weak
730 - WJYM Bowling Green OH - Weak
740 - WNOP - Newport KY
750 - Nothing
760 - WJR Detroit MI Weak
770 - WCGW Nicholasville (Lexington) KY
780 - WBBM Chicago IL Mixing with another station
790 - WKRD Louisville KY
800 - CKLW Windsor ON Weak
810 - WSYW Indianapolis IN
820 - WVSG Columbus OH
830 - Nothing
840 - WHAS Louisville KY
850 - WKNR Cleveland OH Moderate signal. It is not always there.
860 - WMRI Marion IN
870 - Nothing
880 - WRFD Worthington (Columbus) OH
890 - WLS Chicago IL Weak
900 - WFIA Louisville KY
910 - Nothing (Had a semi-local in WPFB Middletown, but they are off air)
920 - WBAA Lafayette IN
930 - WHON Centerville IN
940 - WCND Shelbyville (Louisville) KY
950 - WXLW Indianapolis IN
960 - WSBT South Bend IN
970 - WGTK Louisville KY Surprisingly strong with the Ex WHAS Joe Elliott show.
980 - WONE Dayton OH
990 - Nothing
1000 - WMVP Chicago Weak

I'll post more.
 
More...
1010 - WCSI Columbus IN
1020 - Nothing
1030 - Nothing
1040 - WLCR Mt. Washington KY
1050 - WGRI Cincinnati OH
1060 - Nothing
1070 - WFNI Indianapolis IN Weaker than usual.
1080 - WKJK Louisville KY
1090 - WKFI Wilmington OH
1100 - WTAM Cleveland Very weak. I don't usually receive WTAM during the day.
1110 - WGNZ Fairborn (Dayton) OH
1120 - Nothing
1130 - Nothing
1140 - Nothing
1150 - WMST Mt. Sterling KY
1160 - WCVX Florence (Cincinnati) KY
1170 - ??? Late 60's & early 70's oldies. Very weak.
1180 - Nothing
1190 - WOWO Ft. Wayne IN
1200 - Nothing
1210 - WDAO Dayton OH
1220 - WSLM Salem IN
1230 - WDBZ Cincinnati OH
1240 - WFTM Maysville KY
1250 - WCHO Washington Court House OH
1260 - WNDE Indianapolis IN
1270 - WXGO Madison IN
1280 - ???
1290 - WHIO Dayton OH
1300 - WLXE Lexington KY
1310 - WTLC Indianapolis IN
1320 - WCVG Covington KY
1330 - WTRE Greensburg IN
1340 - WXFN Muncie IN
1350 - WLOU Louisville KY mixing with WCHI Chillicothe OH
1360 - WSAI Cincinnati OH
1370 - WGCL Bloomington IN
1380 - WMJR Nicholasville KY & WKJG Fort Wayne IN
1390 - WZZB Seymour IN
1400 - WCYN Cynthiana KY

More later...
 
1410 - WING Dayton OH
1420 - WHBN Harrodsburg KY
1430 - WXNT (Now CBS sports)
1440 - WYGH Paris KY
1450 - WMOH Hamilton OH
1460 - WBNS Columbus OH & WJCP North Vernon IN
1470 - WGNR Anderson IN
1480 - WDJO Cincinnati OH
1490 - WKBV Richmond IN + another unidentified
1500 - WBZI Xenia OH
1510 - Nothing
1520 - Nothing Obliterated by WCKY
1530 - WCKY Cincinnati OH
1540 - Nothing Obliterated by WCKY
1550 - Nothing
1560 - WCNW Fairfield (Cincinnati) OH
1570 - WPTW Piqua OH + WNDA New Albany (Louisville) IN
1580 - WIFE Connersville IN
1590 - WNTS Beach Grove IN
1600 - WLRS Eminence KY + WULM Springfield OH
1600 + Nothing except skywave of 1660 WBCN Charlotte NC

A few of the stations were the first I've heard them in the daytime. An example would be WGNR in Anderson IN. 1470 isn't a frequency I tune.

I must be off.
 
I see what you mean about 'some winter skywave', Gelp, what with those Akron and Cleveland stations being loud. I'm wondering if that mid-winter anomaly stuff is reciprocal. It probably is, but the engineers here would know better.

Does winter skywave on AM have a general start and stop date? Something to do with available daylight? The farthest catch I ever heard here was in late November, and the most solid (half-hour) catch was one Mid-February.
 
For example yesterday between 5-6 PM WBBR 1130, New York
came blasting into Pittsburgh here as strong as local.
 
I'm about 75 miles west of Icangelp & much of what he hears is also here. Let me fill in the "nothing" freqs :

540 WKFN Clarksville,TN
600 WMT Cedar Rapids,IA
750 WNDZ Portage,IN
830 weak ??
870 WMTL Leitchfield,KY
910 something weak but sadly WBAA's IBOC hiss at 100 miles is owning the frequency
990 WITZ Jasper,IN
1030 WNVR near Chicago
1060 WFNI IBOC hiss
1120 KMOX
1130 WERI Eaton,OH / WFNF Brazil,IN cat fight (surprised that WERI is not into Cincy)
1140 weak??
1180 WOWO IBOC hiss
1200 WOWO IBOC hiss
1520 WSVX Shelbyville,IN (local--strong)
1540 WMYJ Martinsville (semi-local strong)
1550 WMDH New Castle,IN

Unless otherwise mentioned, the signals are weak and the IBOC hiss is strong enough to be a deal breaker. 400' inverted V at 180' above ground with Drake R8 at 11:30AM local time.
 
Unusual conditions last night: able to hear WILL on night time power of 180 watts north of Chicago. Pretty decent signal.
 
Does WOWO usually come in during the day in Cincinnati?
 
DaveArnold said:
Does WOWO usually come in during the day in Cincinnati?
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WOWO can be heard in Lexington, KY (75 miles SOUTH of Cincinnati) at high noon on a good radio.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
I'm about 75 miles west of Icangelp & much of what he hears is also here.
1130 WERI Eaton,OH / WFNF Brazil,IN cat fight (surprised that WERI is not into Cincy)
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When 1130 in Eaton, Ohio was WCTM (owned and operated by Stan Coning), I used to pick it up on a regular basis here in the northeast suburbs of Greater Cincinnati. I'm not sure what WERI is operating with now in terms of power, antenna location etc. At last check, it was duplicating the output of WKFI 1090-AM in Wilmington and WBZI 1500-AM in Xenia. When it was WCTM, the station's studios, transmitter and towers were located in Glenwood on U.S. 35, just east of Eaton.
 
Radioman148.

I live on the west side of greater Cincinnati, and WIND is indeed a daily visitor, but not on just any old radio. I'm about 14 - 16 miles from the WKRC transmitter site in northern Kentucky. WKRC is directional days & protects KSD to the west.

I use my Tecsun PR-D5 & a Drake R8B coupled with a Wellbrook ALA 1530S antenna with rotor, and yes, WKRC has to be nulled a bit.

I think if I were to go outside and use one of my ultralights, I could also hear WIND during the day.

KR4BD & the Cincinnati Kid answered the WOWO question, although I wonder if they also think WOWO's day signal is not as strong as it used to be.

I work on the east side of greater Cincinnati, outside the I-275 loop. There are a number of stations heard there, and not heard at my home location, but I guess that's true of any big city.
 
Icangelp said:
KR4BD & the Cincinnati Kid answered the WOWO question, although I wonder if they also think WOWO's day signal is not as strong as it used to be.
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From where I am - basically the Madeira/Kenwood area - WOWO's daytime signal might be down a bit from what it was many years ago, but not too much.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Icangelp said:
KR4BD & the Cincinnati Kid answered the WOWO question, although I wonder if they also think WOWO's day signal is not as strong as it used to be.
Click to expand...

From where I am - basically the Madeira/Kenwood area - WOWO's daytime signal might be down a bit from what it was many years ago, but not too much.
Click to expand...

I can't say for sure if it is weaker in Lexington, But I can say that the ambient noise levels are sure higher on the AM band these days. At night WOWO is definitely not as strong since they got their wings clipped back to 9.8 KW several years back....
 
Icangelp said:
Radioman148.

I live on the west side of greater Cincinnati, and WIND is indeed a daily visitor, but not on just any old radio. I'm about 14 - 16 miles from the WKRC transmitter site in northern Kentucky. WKRC is directional days & protects KSD to the west.

I use my Tecsun PR-D5 & a Drake R8B coupled with a Wellbrook ALA 1530S antenna with rotor, and yes, WKRC has to be nulled a bit.

I think if I were to go outside and use one of my ultralights, I could also hear WIND during the day.

KR4BD & the Cincinnati Kid answered the WOWO question, although I wonder if they also think WOWO's day signal is not as strong as it used to be.

I work on the east side of greater Cincinnati, outside the I-275 loop. There are a number of stations heard there, and not heard at my home location, but I guess that's true of any big city.
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Thanks Icangelp
 
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