Do you think it's possible to hear KSL 1160 in Eastern PA?

[almaniac27]

I can get KOA usually best after 3am to about sunrise in Hillsville virginia,,, In indiana I can get KOA pretty much all night after about 10 pm,,, though oddly enough,, the signal seems stronger and louder during the brief time reception is possible in virginia.......... I sometimes get cleveland and chicago mixing and sometimes slopping all over KOA in Indiana, but sometimes KOA will even blink the HD light in Indiana...... It varys, and Winter is best, especially with snow on the ground between the transmitter and antenna, I beleive snow is a good ground conductor...

I go to Kent State University and WKNR 850 has a horrible signal in this area at night. A few times I've been outside with a portable radio on 850 and I hear KOA over WKNR.

 

[BRNout]

I can get KOA usually best after 3am to about sunrise in Hillsville virginia,,, In indiana I can get KOA pretty much all night after about 10 pm,,, though oddly enough,, the signal seems stronger and louder during the brief time reception is possible in virginia.......... I sometimes get cleveland and chicago mixing and sometimes slopping all over KOA in Indiana, but sometimes KOA will even blink the HD light in Indiana...... It varys, and Winter is best, especially with snow on the ground between the transmitter and antenna, I beleive snow is a good ground conductor...

I go to Kent State University and WKNR 850 has a horrible signal in this area at night. A few times I've been outside with a portable radio on 850 and I hear KOA over WKNR.

WKNR has a very strange nighttime signal with four nulls: a big one to the west (to protect KOA) and three smaller ones to the south-southwest, southeast, and northeast. It looks like your location is in that southeastern null, which is probably why you have lousy reception of WKNR at night. Drive 8 to 10 miles north and you'll notice their signal improving markedly. Drive west into the city of Akron and you should also have good nighttime reception of this station.

I could pick them up most nights in eastern PA (west of PHL) - because my former location was in one of their lobes. KOA was a rare visitor to that area, copied them twice over an 18 month stint there. Not that I tried every night.

 

[gar hi]

I've been trying to get KSL the past few nights.

We have a local on 1150 WTMP that has a lot of spill over into 1160 but at times, I'm able to hear a talk station when I face the radio to the NW.

I'm hoping I can time it just right when there's a lull in noise from 1150 and I can get an ID of what's on 1160.

Since I can get KOA here and have even gotten KFI once, I don't think KSL is out of the question at all.

 

[vibe]

gar-the 3 or so times I got KSL from a location 80 mi S of you were all about 11PM. Even though there were ads and numerous references to the SLC area, I wanted to hear the calls.

 

[gar hi]

That's good to hear. Maybe I'm getting it too.

When it comes to certain frequencies, I think we have an advantage that much of the northeast and even parts of the midwest don't.

 

[SweetJumper]

Thanks for the suggestions, people. Last week, I tried for KSL but what I got was WYLL with a nice signal and WQRT "Real Talk 1160" heard faintly in the background. In the summer on 1160, WCCS from Homer City, PA and WOBM from New Jersey fight it out, while in the fall and winter, WCCS and WOBM are significantly weaker.

I have gotten KOA several times over the past couple years including twice this month. I've even picked up CHRB 1140 in High River, AB in the winter a few times, so with the weakening of WCCS and WOBM, KSL would be mixed in with WYLL and WQRT, so I theoretically KSL's still a possibilty right?

 

[BRNout]

Florida has pluses and minuses for dxing. The minuses are all of those powerhouses from Cuba, Mexico and the Caribbean basin which often blow out the former clear that the rest of us take for granted.

The pluses, though are many. For one thing, there are certain frequencies where you may not get as much nuisance interference from the shoehorned locals on frequencies like 850 and 1160 and others. Of course, that depends where you are. There ARE local stations operating at night on 850 in WPB and Gainesville - each with something like 5 kw or more. WRUF from Gainesville will almost certainly be heard in the Tampa/Clearwater area and WFTL blows a local signal over most of south Florida (WPB/FtL/north Dade). Away from those areas (Naples, Sarasota, the panhandle), KOA probably would dominate. Not sure where you are gar, but it must not be near Gainesville or south FL.

For KSL, you don't want to be too close to Kissimmee or Callahan/northern Jacksonville because each has a local with night operation at 1160 (500 w and 250 w, respectively). I'd think that Florida's west coast would not be bothered by either signal. And, by the time you get into the panhandle, you're as far west as Indiana - but without WYLL to contend with.

The geography helps you a lot down there. If you're on the Gulf Coast, you have nothing to bother your reception path for a couple hundred miles. On the east coast, you still have good ground conductivity across the peninsula for westward paths and clear paths toward the northeast and east. I recall getting a good signal from then KOMA during the early evening just outside of Orlando - something unheard of in the northeast. KSL? Never had luck with it in FL, but I don't see why a decent rig couldn't pull it out of the ether down there.

 

[cyberdad]

Can the words "good ground conductivity" and Florida actually be used in the same sentence?

 

[BRNout]

Can the words "good ground conductivity" and Florida actually be used in the same sentence?

South Florida and the Gulf Coast aren't that bad - and it is excellent on barrier islands. Better than most of the northeast. To say "good" was admittedly an exaggeration when compared with the central plains; but it's not bad.