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Furthest Philadelphia signals you have recieved
- Thread starter phils07
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Starbucks said:I don't know [wtf] everyone's fascination on this post is about. It's been mentioned and discussed many times before.
Because we *do* find it fascinating.
if you want the signals to go farther [and can afford broadband rather than slow dialup that ixnay can't afford to upgrade from].....INTERNET.
ixnay
(a Lipton man, Starbucks. Get it?)
Starbucks, for many of us, older radio geeks, we always were excited about sitting up late with our table AM radio (mine was a simple GE AM clock radio) going around the dial trying to hear what far off cities we'd get. Getting WNBC, WABC, and WCBS all from NYC, WBZ Boston, WKBW Buffalo, KDKA Pittsburg, WSB Atlanta, 740 CBM - Montreal (CBC radio), I believe it was 930 CBT - Toronto - CBC radio), etc, was a great thrill. There were others depending on the skip that night, summer or winter, etc. One time when a hurricane was approaching us we were able to get an New Orleans station while in our car, not well, but well enough to catch the calls and city as it faded in and out, and that was during the day time.
So as it's fun to discuss what distant stations we've heard from the Philly/Wilmington/Trenton area, its also fun for us older radio geeks to remember when we've been far away (which Philly stations, since none of the Wilmington or Trenton stations would have that much power) we've heard in /Atlanta or Portsmouth, NH or other points far from here. I remember being in Emporia Kansas and of course could get KCMO Kansas City, WBBM Chicago, WLS Chicago, and the one truly corny station that was Emporia's one and only (think KORN from Hee Haw fame and you'll get the idea), but couldn't get any thing on the east coast much near Philly at all. It was like really being in a foreign place. No east coast at all, no Phillies, no Tastykake spots, not even the Orioles or Yankees, etc. Nothing.
Sure today as many have lap tops with WIFI or I-phones with WIFI you can go anywhere in the world and hear any station that has an online listen now feature, which includes all the Wilmington stations as well as the Philly and probably Trenton stations too. So yea, in today's world, it's not such a big deal. But just using your old school terrestrial AM or FM radio, how far away can those Philly stations be heard today with much more interference than we had back in the day. AM is far more fun as its signal will travel much farther than FM as that is essentially a 60 mile radius before the next FM on that frequency starts cutting in.
Even a lower powered AM station can get out really well if someone forgets to power down at night. I remember one of the guys I worked with at 1260 WNRK back about 30 + years ago, was training me on running the board and the transmitter as the jock on air had to power down twice, for evening broadcasting as I was brand new my first night on the job for a weekend part time on air show at this station. We had an old tube transmitter. Man did that thing put out some heat. He told me how one night he forgot to power down and a fellow jock from an Ohio station called to let him know that he was picking up the station very well and he might want to power back before Uncle Charlie aka the FCC tuned in. Radio folks tend to look out for each other that way, I was told by my trainer. As it is a rather hefty fine ( I seem to remember him saying something about $10,000) for that sort of violation for both the person on the board and the station, my co-worker quickly powered down. So who'd have thought a 1k directional AM could get out that well at night. Whether or not he exaggerated the fine I have no idea, but I always wrote down in big letter on the board near the clock the time of power down so there'd be no way I'd forget.
So as it's fun to discuss what distant stations we've heard from the Philly/Wilmington/Trenton area, its also fun for us older radio geeks to remember when we've been far away (which Philly stations, since none of the Wilmington or Trenton stations would have that much power) we've heard in /Atlanta or Portsmouth, NH or other points far from here. I remember being in Emporia Kansas and of course could get KCMO Kansas City, WBBM Chicago, WLS Chicago, and the one truly corny station that was Emporia's one and only (think KORN from Hee Haw fame and you'll get the idea), but couldn't get any thing on the east coast much near Philly at all. It was like really being in a foreign place. No east coast at all, no Phillies, no Tastykake spots, not even the Orioles or Yankees, etc. Nothing.
Sure today as many have lap tops with WIFI or I-phones with WIFI you can go anywhere in the world and hear any station that has an online listen now feature, which includes all the Wilmington stations as well as the Philly and probably Trenton stations too. So yea, in today's world, it's not such a big deal. But just using your old school terrestrial AM or FM radio, how far away can those Philly stations be heard today with much more interference than we had back in the day. AM is far more fun as its signal will travel much farther than FM as that is essentially a 60 mile radius before the next FM on that frequency starts cutting in.
Even a lower powered AM station can get out really well if someone forgets to power down at night. I remember one of the guys I worked with at 1260 WNRK back about 30 + years ago, was training me on running the board and the transmitter as the jock on air had to power down twice, for evening broadcasting as I was brand new my first night on the job for a weekend part time on air show at this station. We had an old tube transmitter. Man did that thing put out some heat. He told me how one night he forgot to power down and a fellow jock from an Ohio station called to let him know that he was picking up the station very well and he might want to power back before Uncle Charlie aka the FCC tuned in. Radio folks tend to look out for each other that way, I was told by my trainer. As it is a rather hefty fine ( I seem to remember him saying something about $10,000) for that sort of violation for both the person on the board and the station, my co-worker quickly powered down. So who'd have thought a 1k directional AM could get out that well at night. Whether or not he exaggerated the fine I have no idea, but I always wrote down in big letter on the board near the clock the time of power down so there'd be no way I'd forget.
Starbucks, for many of us, older radio geeks, we always were excited about sitting up late with our table AM radio (mine was a simple GE AM clock radio) going around the dial trying to hear what far off cities we'd get. Getting WNBC, WABC, and WCBS all from NYC, WBZ Boston, WKBW Buffalo, KDKA Pittsburg, WSB Atlanta, 740 CBM - Montreal (CBC radio), I believe it was 930 CBT - Toronto - CBC radio), etc, was a great thrill. There were others depending on the skip that night, summer or winter, etc. One time when a hurricane was approaching us we were able to get an New Orleans station while in our car, not well, but well enough to catch the calls and city as it faded in and out, and that was during the day time.
>> Hey don't get me wrong....I found it to be a thrill as well. That's back when I was a teen or younger. I'm like most people who wants to travel and see what everything is like or thinking the grass is greener way over there. Yes I use to get a thrill that a station in Chicago is playing the same hits over there but with a different style or call letters. Or hearing a jock that worked over in Philly is now playing the hits in another distant market. Hearing a pro-sports game in Detroit, Chicago etc. Hearing a new song that hasn't quite hit my market until a week later. Receiving Canada was a thrill, and then it hooked and lead me in to amateur and shortwave radio and everything to the 300 GHZ level.
And somehow I made this wish come true traveling practically everywhere in the US and been to 3 other countries and bringing radio with me whether transmitting a signal or receiving it ....I've received a thrill. I've given up dates with hot chics (when I was younger on Saturday nights) or people mentioning to me how come I'm not partying ...why? because I'm secretly at home with a sensitive receiver DXing and monitoring signals from the US to outer space. Stringing up wires or setting up stations and where I thought I was the only oddball in the world addicted to this hobby, until I got on this board and found out there's hundreds to thousands of other oddballs like me. This hobby if anyone outside this board realizes that this is as potent or addicting as cigarettes or alcohol. Worse. It's just not deadly. I've been there, experienced and done that, and that thrill has now faded.
My thrill is the WIFI-WIMAX, instead of the tired AM/FM, the IP address of a Linksys router than a frequency and so on. I feel that when something replaces for the better...it's time to move on. I wouldn't want to read or hear somebody talking or posting on the board that he recorded an oldie on his Sony cassette recorder from a satellite delivered AM oldies station.
Don't get me wrong, I had fun... but it's like going back to the old neighborhood, and it's not the same place or people anymore. That's what I get DXing the AM band.
>> Hey don't get me wrong....I found it to be a thrill as well. That's back when I was a teen or younger. I'm like most people who wants to travel and see what everything is like or thinking the grass is greener way over there. Yes I use to get a thrill that a station in Chicago is playing the same hits over there but with a different style or call letters. Or hearing a jock that worked over in Philly is now playing the hits in another distant market. Hearing a pro-sports game in Detroit, Chicago etc. Hearing a new song that hasn't quite hit my market until a week later. Receiving Canada was a thrill, and then it hooked and lead me in to amateur and shortwave radio and everything to the 300 GHZ level.
And somehow I made this wish come true traveling practically everywhere in the US and been to 3 other countries and bringing radio with me whether transmitting a signal or receiving it ....I've received a thrill. I've given up dates with hot chics (when I was younger on Saturday nights) or people mentioning to me how come I'm not partying ...why? because I'm secretly at home with a sensitive receiver DXing and monitoring signals from the US to outer space. Stringing up wires or setting up stations and where I thought I was the only oddball in the world addicted to this hobby, until I got on this board and found out there's hundreds to thousands of other oddballs like me. This hobby if anyone outside this board realizes that this is as potent or addicting as cigarettes or alcohol. Worse. It's just not deadly. I've been there, experienced and done that, and that thrill has now faded.
My thrill is the WIFI-WIMAX, instead of the tired AM/FM, the IP address of a Linksys router than a frequency and so on. I feel that when something replaces for the better...it's time to move on. I wouldn't want to read or hear somebody talking or posting on the board that he recorded an oldie on his Sony cassette recorder from a satellite delivered AM oldies station.
Don't get me wrong, I had fun... but it's like going back to the old neighborhood, and it's not the same place or people anymore. That's what I get DXing the AM band.
I bow to a master. I'm a rank amateur next to you. I certainly wasn't as dedicated to DXing as I never passed up a date with a hot chic or invested the money you apparently did in equipment and getting into shortwave and ham radio, etc. Given your experience I can totally understand your point.
Starbucks said:ixnay
(a Lipton man, Starbucks. Get it?)
No, I don't get it. Just let me know when your next Trekkie convention is.
Obviously you don't get it. Well, your handle is a brand of *coffee*. Lipton is a brand of *tea*. Now do you get it?
ixnay
Starbucks said:Don't get me wrong, I had fun... but it's like going back to the old neighborhood, and it's not the same place or people anymore. That's what I get DXing the AM band.
And that the rest of humanity doesn't think that way makes your blood boil. Don't deny it, Starbucks. Otherwise you wouldn't raise the issue on R-I.
It's one thing to have a difference of opinion. It's quite another to be a killjoy.
ixnay
And when did you become the spokesperson for Humanity? I'm glad your one of those that still gets a thrill listening to George Noory on 25 plus different frequencies at night. Off this board, your one the minorities that have stuck around. No I'm not a killjoy.....I just live in reality that what you get a thrill about isn't coming back. Just like the textile industry and many other sectors in the job industry. For the few of you...hey suit yourself. Whatever turns you on. Oh! By the way...I'll stop over your house this afternoon where we can play some pinball.
ixnay said:Starbucks said:ixnay
(a Lipton man, Starbucks. Get it?)
No, I don't get it. Just let me know when your next Trekkie convention is.
Obviously you don't get it. Well, your handle is a brand of *coffee*. Lipton is a brand of *tea*. Now do you get it?
ixnay
Actually I do get it. What I don't get is the joke or humor in it. I only hope you can improve your comedic skills if you do land a gig on an AM radio station. There's a crisis already over the dial.
While in Ocean City MD many years back, I was able to get WOGL-AM with a relatively decent signal. I also remember tuning in 1540 while there with what I'll call 'intermittent' picket fencing. I've been able to get 1210 in Central Maryland during the day (albeit barely); the same with 640.
I've listened to daytime Phillies games on 1210 in SE Conn from the shores of Clinton Ct inland to about Norwich CT on a VG radio on my old Pontiac Vibe. Reception was listenable inland to decently well at the shore.
At night I've gotten 1210 in SW Fla-Englewood but mainly in winter only.
But I get a listenable 610 at nite here in Central Mass year round.
Not really interested in KYW 1060's programming (near Worcester MA) but the night lobe of 1050 NYC certainly affect's the quality of 1060. No 1060 in SW Fla....
You guys in Philly are OK; hope my Sox and the Phils play a best of 7 later this year.
At night I've gotten 1210 in SW Fla-Englewood but mainly in winter only.
But I get a listenable 610 at nite here in Central Mass year round.
Not really interested in KYW 1060's programming (near Worcester MA) but the night lobe of 1050 NYC certainly affect's the quality of 1060. No 1060 in SW Fla....
You guys in Philly are OK; hope my Sox and the Phils play a best of 7 later this year.
John Holcomb II said:I also believe that in Allentown, most Phillly FM's are fringe and dont work in car, at least while its moving. That about right?
Wrong, for the most part. The only station you really lose is 103.9 WPPZ due to WAEB being on 104.1.
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GATESYARD
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Several years back, I received KYW while in Fairfield Iowa. South east corner of the state. This was in October. Solid signal.
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imhomerjay
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Some....mumble, cough, mumble.....years ago, picked up 1210 in London for part of a Phils game.
London England or London Ontario?
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imhomerjay
Guest
Across the pond.
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