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Downtime for three Chicago clears early Saturday morning

R. Reloj gets out pretty well on 790, so that's probably what you heard/where you would've heard it.

I'm sorry I missed all this. I had it in my head that it was going to be Monday morning. My bad for sure!
 
I was only able to catch 5 minutes at about 3 AM.
Duplicate results as heard by audioguy, only a few miles form him...
Only one real positive ID at top of hour, WCTT 680 Corbin, Kentucky with 830 watts, a new catch for me.
It was definitely weird to hear these 3 stations off the air at one time.
 
Tom Wells said:
Only one real positive ID at top of hour, WCTT 680 Corbin, Kentucky with 830 watts, a new catch for me.
It was definitely weird to hear these 3 stations off the air at one time.
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If you can null WSCR, WCTT isn't all that unusual of a catch. I've heard it numerous times here in McHenry county. I've previously in other threads called it "The Little Blowtorch"....all 830 watts of it.
 
cyberdad said:
Tom Wells said:
Only one real positive ID at top of hour, WCTT 680 Corbin, Kentucky with 830 watts, a new catch for me.
It was definitely weird to hear these 3 stations off the air at one time.
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If you can null WSCR, WCTT isn't all that unusual of a catch. I've heard it numerous times here in McHenry county. I've previously in other threads called it "The Little Blowtorch"....all 830 watts of it.
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With WSCR off I tried for KNBR last night, but no luck. I used to get it all the time in the Chicago area many years ago when then WMAQ signed off on Monday mornings.
 
radioman148 said:
With WSCR off I tried for KNBR last night, but no luck. I used to get it all the time in the Chicago area many years ago when then WMAQ signed off on Monday mornings.
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I'm a little farther away from WSCR's stick than you. So I'm able to null it, but it's been at least ten years....and probably more...since I've heard KNBR. What I've been able to hear on 680 lately....especially since CBS shut down the noisemaker....has been WCTT, WPTF, and CFTR. WPTF is the most rare of the three.
 
cyberdad said:
radioman148 said:
With WSCR off I tried for KNBR last night, but no luck. I used to get it all the time in the Chicago area many years ago when then WMAQ signed off on Monday mornings.
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I'm a little farther away from WSCR's stick than you. So I'm able to null it, but it's been at least ten years....and probably more...since I've heard KNBR. What I've been able to hear on 680 lately....especially since CBS shut down the noisemaker....has been WCTT, WPTF, and CFTR. WPTF is the most rare of the three.
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I used to get WPTF back in the 60s when I could null WMAQ.
 
radioman148 said:
I used to get WPTF back in the 60s when I could null WMAQ.
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With apologies for the veer....

I was in North Carolina last month. Realizing that ground conductivity is rather poor there, I still got the impression that WPTF wasn't getting out very well. Not as well as I remembered it from trips in 2002 and in the 90s. I don't know if they've tweaked something or if perhaps their physical plant has degraded. Their skywave did sound okay the last couple of times I've been in Florida.
 
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