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Farthest Daytime AM Regular
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FreddyE1977
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radioman148 said:
I could get WABC here sporadically during the day before WKFB signed on at 770.
It was an occasional and not an every-day thing.
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rbrucecarter5
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FreddyE1977 said:
WABC was a nighttime regular in Houston, if you nulled then KOB 770.
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rbrucecarter5
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w9wi said:
WLW was a winter daytime regular in Houston before they got a local 700. KOA was a winter daytime regular in Dallas until Dallas got a local 850. My grandfather reported WLW as a daytime regular in Lubbock, TX when it was running 500kW in the 1930's. His five stage TRF radio had a two foot loop inside the cabinet (I was able to analyze the receiver - tuned RF radios were amazing in the days before superhet).
rbrucecarter5 said:
When you heard WLW during the winter in Houston was that ground wave or winter daytime skywave?
At my family's cottage in East Wakefield NH, 660 WFAN NYC is audible on the car radio (engine off) almost all day. Maybe in summer you lose it between noon and 3pm. 710 WOR, 770 WABC and 880 WCBS also come in in the morning and late afternoon. I'd say East Wakefield is more than 250 miles from NYC. I've also heard WFAN and WCBS at the Canadian border in the middle of a winter day. WABC wasn't audible due to a daytimer on 760 in Champlain, NY.
At the cottage, 690 CBF/CINF Montreal could also be heard, although they're off the air now. Montreal is about 225 miles away. (730 CKAC from Montreal gets stepped on by 730 Chicopee MA and 800 CJAD Montreal gets stepped on by 800 Lawrence MA.) 810 WGY Schenectady is also heard all day. AM 900 in Sherbrooke, Quebec (a simulcast of 800 CJAD Montreal, was it CKTS?) also used to be heard fairly well by day in East Wakefield, although they are also off the air now. 630 WPRO Providence also comes in by day.
Gregg
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At the cottage, 690 CBF/CINF Montreal could also be heard, although they're off the air now. Montreal is about 225 miles away. (730 CKAC from Montreal gets stepped on by 730 Chicopee MA and 800 CJAD Montreal gets stepped on by 800 Lawrence MA.) 810 WGY Schenectady is also heard all day. AM 900 in Sherbrooke, Quebec (a simulcast of 800 CJAD Montreal, was it CKTS?) also used to be heard fairly well by day in East Wakefield, although they are also off the air now. 630 WPRO Providence also comes in by day.
Gregg
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rbrucecarter5
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radioman148 said:
Probably a really dependable skywave. Not there all the time, but definitely more on that off. I suspect some sort of atmospherics with the Gulf, although I've always thought that did more on FM than AM
From Vallejo, CA
KMJ 580 Fresno, CA 187.6 mi at 50Kw
KMJ 580 Fresno, CA 187.6 mi at 50Kw
Everyone's already covered the gulf coast but 14 miles inland from the beach in AL the far and away strongest distant regular is WWL at 150 miles. But at the beach it's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. Several New Orleans, Tampa and Cubans are easy to catch and perfectly audible with a good radio.
If I discount the far away salt water stations, I'm still left with WDIZ Panama City at 590. It's about 120 miles out but still has some water-path to my residence. There are a few Biloxi stations to the west that are about 75 miles out but they're over Mobile Bay part way and also very weak.
The only non-water path way to go is north. The furtherest AM regular in that direction? WBCA 1110 in Bay Minette. A whopping 30 miles!
If I discount the far away salt water stations, I'm still left with WDIZ Panama City at 590. It's about 120 miles out but still has some water-path to my residence. There are a few Biloxi stations to the west that are about 75 miles out but they're over Mobile Bay part way and also very weak.
The only non-water path way to go is north. The furtherest AM regular in that direction? WBCA 1110 in Bay Minette. A whopping 30 miles!
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cd637299
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Natheodan said:
OB goes into SD in the day?? I'm sure that nights are a different animal!
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CJOB has a fabulous signal. The Dakotas have fabulous ground conductivity.
Its audible daytime on Manitoba 75/Interstate 29 pretty much all the way from Winnipeg to Sioux Falls...that's well over 300 miles. CBK is audible for a good chunk of that drive as well.
As for nighttime, I've heard CJOB in the Twin Cities, as well as nearby counties in Wisconsin....but not recently.
Its audible daytime on Manitoba 75/Interstate 29 pretty much all the way from Winnipeg to Sioux Falls...that's well over 300 miles. CBK is audible for a good chunk of that drive as well.
As for nighttime, I've heard CJOB in the Twin Cities, as well as nearby counties in Wisconsin....but not recently.
Back in the early 1970's here in Mobile, AL, when I was in high school, I was working after school as a mechanic's helper. I'd made Night Forman at that time. Regardless, I always listened to KAAY at night. I had the radio tuned for 1090, awaiting that big 50,000 kw signal. Well, 30 minutes before dark, I could start hearing their daytime signal coming up out of the noise. Before dark, I was gettin them pretty reliably, even in the summer static. Then, about the time the "grey line" hit, *BOOM!*, that night-time pattern kicked in and it was FM quality, albeit mono.
I guess hearing KAAY, Little Rock, AR to Mobile, AL, on their daytime pattern would qualify! Can't do that nowadays, it's so pitiful....their night-time signal isn't hardly there any more, either....
Bud
I guess hearing KAAY, Little Rock, AR to Mobile, AL, on their daytime pattern would qualify! Can't do that nowadays, it's so pitiful....their night-time signal isn't hardly there any more, either....
Bud
From Gibsonville (Burlington), NC...
My farthest daytime regular is WSVS 800 AM from Crewe, VA (near Richmond) at approximately 138 miles.
My farthest daytime regular is WSVS 800 AM from Crewe, VA (near Richmond) at approximately 138 miles.
My longest daytime reception is WBZ-Boston MA about 285mi. from my QTH in Oneida NY. The big guns from NYC (660, 770, 880) are audible here most days at a distance of maybe 200 air miles. Also 740kHz from Toronto ON is about the same distance and is received quite well thanx in part to Lake Ontario.
Zach said:Bud50 said:
Yup. I've heard them a time or two down in Mobile at night but never during the evenings. It seemed to be a mix of Spanish language music and IBOC hiss. I did hear WAPI 1070 from Birmingham and the Spanish 1030 from Memphis though just now.
In my recent experiences at Perdido Key/Orange Beach, KAAY is usually doable, but with a poor signal. Occasionally fair at best. Unlike nearby KWKH, which is usually good....even when at the 12.5kw non-directional STA.
Back in the '70s, when we used to go to Navarre Beach (about 35 miles east of Pensacola), KAAY was one of the better nighttime signals there. That's far from the case now...and it pretty much parallels the situation here at home northwest of Chicago, where KAAY used to be a top 40 blaster!
cyberdad said:
Veering is what I do best.
I live practically under the WHEP tower so WEBY is a very difficult catch for me at home. But more than a few tenths of a mile out in any direction and WEBY is very strong during the day. I seem to have little trouble getting it all the way over in Fairhope and once east of Foley it's usually the strongest signal on the dial after WXQW 660.
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