Furthest Station From The East Or West Coast You Have Received???

[BRNout]

BRNout,

Have you ever heard any of the Chicago 50KWs in Costa Rica?

speaking of Chicago, when i went to West Palm in 1999 I was able to get 670 WMAQ until middle florida, then a spanish station faded in. But WBBM 780 made it all the way to South FL. Night time of course. I remember driving home listening to WBBM thru FL and GA.

And one of my most favorite urban stations from Grand Rapids, MI 1680 WJNZ (no longer) was received all the way thru KY southbound on I-65 past Nashville, and lost signal half way between Nashville and Chattanooga on I-24 southeast bound.
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I once picked up WLS from San Juan, PR. On a Walkman from a hotel balcony that faced south.

 

[radioman148]

BRNout,

Have you ever heard any of the Chicago 50KWs in Costa Rica?

speaking of Chicago, when i went to West Palm in 1999 I was able to get 670 WMAQ until middle florida, then a spanish station faded in. But WBBM 780 made it all the way to South FL. Night time of course. I remember driving home listening to WBBM thru FL and GA.

And one of my most favorite urban stations from Grand Rapids, MI 1680 WJNZ (no longer) was received all the way thru KY southbound on I-65 past Nashville, and lost signal half way between Nashville and Chattanooga on I-24 southeast bound.
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That's a pretty good trick picking up WMAQ in Florida with a strong 670 in Miami & Cuba.

>>I once picked up WLS from San Juan, PR. On a Walkman from a hotel balcony that faced south. >>

That's quite an accomplishment. What year was that?

 

[icybluelake]

I used to visit clients in Puerto Rico, and spent some time down there playing with the radio at night. I picked up a number of stations from the eastern seaboard, including 1010 WINS and WEPN 1050 from New York, seem to recall hearing WFAN, WABC or WCBS down there at some point. I had a number of other catches, which I kind of wish I'd written down. Don't recall whether I heard any of the 50k stations from Chicago, but those sound like pretty impressive catches to me.

It made me wish my Spanish comprehension was better, because I was thinking of all the stations I was hearing yet couldn't identify -- that didn't seem to be stations I recognized from PR or any of the Cubans (which are actually quite a distance from PR anyway). I wondered how many South American stations might be receivable there. Anyway, good catch on WLS in Puerto Rico.

 

[radioman148]

I used to visit clients in Puerto Rico, and spent some time down there playing with the radio at night. I picked up a number of stations from the eastern seaboard, including 1010 WINS and WEPN 1050 from New York, seem to recall hearing WFAN, WABC or WCBS down there at some point. I had a number of other catches, which I kind of wish I'd written down. Don't recall whether I heard any of the 50k stations from Chicago, but those sound like pretty impressive catches to me.

It made me wish my Spanish comprehension was better, because I was thinking of all the stations I was hearing yet couldn't identify -- that didn't seem to be stations I recognized from PR or any of the Cubans (which are actually quite a distance from PR anyway). I wondered how many South American stations might be receivable there. Anyway, good catch on WLS in Puerto Rico.

When did you pick up the east coast stations in Puerto Rico? was it fairly recently?

 

[Word!]

I can't remember how far WMAQ made it but I was mad cuz it was my choice back then over WBBM and I know I couldn't get it in South FL, but not sure when it faded. I definitely heard Spanish on 670 in South FL

That WGN reception is amaziing

 

[davideduardo]

I used to visit clients in Puerto Rico, and spent some time down there playing with the radio at night. I picked up a number of stations from the eastern seaboard, including 1010 WINS and WEPN 1050 from New York, seem to recall hearing WFAN, WABC or WCBS down there at some point. I had a number of other catches, which I kind of wish I'd written down. Don't recall whether I heard any of the 50k stations from Chicago, but those sound like pretty impressive catches to me.

US mainland stations, particularly from the East Coast, continue to be listenable in PR, particularly on the northern coast. 1580 in Ft Lauderdale was often a car-radio catch, as its narrow lobe put about 100 kw towards PR. Farther inland stations like WSB are less reliable, but can be heard when condtions block Caracas and Medellín. Anything farther inland is occasional DX, not regular... sunset time at about New Orleans got me KHEY 690 El Paso in the late 70's, also in the car right in metro San Juan just before it went directional at their sunset time.

It made me wish my Spanish comprehension was better, because I was thinking of all the stations I was hearing yet couldn't identify -- that didn't seem to be stations I recognized from PR or any of the Cubans (which are actually quite a distance from PR anyway). I wondered how many South American stations might be receivable there. Anyway, good catch on WLS in Puerto Rico.

I've been able to hear a Venezuelan or Colombian on every frequency except 550, 1550, and a couple of others with strong un-nullable locals or semi-locals and 800 , of course, with TWR) using a loop at the beach at Guánica, PR during the daytime. At night, Ecuador, the interior of Colombia and Venezuela and even occasionally Brazil were on every channel with a loop; it was very hard to get most San Juan stations, in fact.

 

[icybluelake]

I thought of you when I was writing my earlier post, David, and considered mentioning you by name. Thanks for chiming in.

Someday, when my Spanish is better (thinking optimistically here), I'll do some more traveling in the Caribbean/Latin America and do some more DXing.

 

[radioman148]

I can't remember how far WMAQ made it but I was mad cuz it was my choice back then over WBBM and I know I couldn't get it in South FL, but not sure when it faded. I definitely heard Spanish on 670 in South FL

That WGN reception is amaziing

I too always preferred WMAQ over WBBM, but found it impossible to receive in South Florida with the 670 in Miami & all the interference from Cuba.

 

[cd637299]

Even before the 670 Miami signed on, WMAQ was a tough catch! Now forget it!

cd

 

[cyberdad]

Even before the 670 Miami signed on, WMAQ was a tough catch! Now forget it!

cd

IME in my years of travel, despite having a spectacular daytime signal, WMAQ/WSCR has always had the least robust nighttime signal of the Chicago 50kw NDs. Not that the nighttime signal is exactly puny! Conversely, WBBM has the best nighttime signal. Or, at least that's been the case for about the past 20-30 years. Prior to that it was WLS.

 

[radioman148]

Even before the 670 Miami signed on, WMAQ was a tough catch! Now forget it!

cd

IME in my years of travel, despite having a spectacular daytime signal, WMAQ/WSCR has always had the least robust nighttime signal of the Chicago 50kw NDs. Not that the nighttime signal is exactly puny! Conversely, WBBM has the best nighttime signal. Or, at least that's been the case for about the past 20-30 years. Prior to that it was WLS.

Agreed. In the 60s, 70s & even early 80s WLS had by far the best night time signal of any of the Chicago 50KWs.

 

[BRNout]

Even before the 670 Miami signed on, WMAQ was a tough catch! Now forget it!

cd

IME in my years of travel, despite having a spectacular daytime signal, WMAQ/WSCR has always had the least robust nighttime signal of the Chicago 50kw NDs. Not that the nighttime signal is exactly puny! Conversely, WBBM has the best nighttime signal. Or, at least that's been the case for about the past 20-30 years. Prior to that it was WLS.

I tend to agree with this as well, except to add that - in many areas - WGN has a nighttime signal that gets out almost as far as WBBM. It was the best Chicago signal that I picked up in SW Wyoming last year, for example.

To answer radioman's inquiry: I picked up WLS in San Juan during a trip there back in 2000 or 2001. During subsequent trips, I've picked up a number of east coast signals - mainly from New York. None were receivable every night - it was a very hit and miss proposition.

 

[cd637299]

Here in south Florida, WBBM is now the easiest, but only due to no Cuban interference, and WAXY 790's pattern is "away" enough, I guess. WGN would be as good, if only WAQI 710 + the Rebelde jammers weren't messing it up. Same would go for WLW 700.

WLS has to bust thru the Radio Progreso from Cuba to be heard. Like I said earlier, what's now WSCR is a no-go. I don't think much to try for WMVP anymore.

cd

 

[radioman148]

Here in south Florida, WBBM is now the easiest, but only due to no Cuban interference, and WAXY 790's pattern is "away" enough, I guess. WGN would be as good, if only WAQI 710 + the Rebelde jammers weren't messing it up. Same would go for WLW 700.

WLS has to bust thru the Radio Progreso from Cuba to be heard. Like I said earlier, what's now WSCR is a no-go. I don't think much to try for WMVP anymore.

cd

I was able to hear WLS well in Southeast Fl back in the 70s. Probably not nearly as much Cuban interference.
Is WMVP ever recievable down there?

 

[cd637299]

Here in south Florida, WBBM is now the easiest, but only due to no Cuban interference, and WAXY 790's pattern is "away" enough, I guess. WGN would be as good, if only WAQI 710 + the Rebelde jammers weren't messing it up. Same would go for WLW 700.

WLS has to bust thru the Radio Progreso from Cuba to be heard. Like I said earlier, what's now WSCR is a no-go. I don't think much to try for WMVP anymore.

cd

I was able to hear WLS well in Southeast Fl back in the 70s. Probably not nearly as much Cuban interference.
Is WMVP ever recievable down there?

It was, long time ago. I think there is either Colombian interference, and also WMYM Radio Disney (990 Miami) puts out IBOC, despite the low power. I do not do much AM DXn anymore here....not worth the headaches....almost every frequency is a graveyarder. Maybe daytime DXn, but it's no fun now.

 

[radioman148]

Here in south Florida, WBBM is now the easiest, but only due to no Cuban interference, and WAXY 790's pattern is "away" enough, I guess. WGN would be as good, if only WAQI 710 + the Rebelde jammers weren't messing it up. Same would go for WLW 700.

WLS has to bust thru the Radio Progreso from Cuba to be heard. Like I said earlier, what's now WSCR is a no-go. I don't think much to try for WMVP anymore.

cd

I was able to hear WLS well in Southeast Fl back in the 70s. Probably not nearly as much Cuban interference.
Is WMVP ever recievable down there?

It was, long time ago. I think there is either Colombian interference, and also WMYM Radio Disney (990 Miami) puts out IBOC, despite the low power. I do not do much AM DXn anymore here....not worth the headaches....almost every frequency is a graveyarder. Maybe daytime DXn, but it's no fun now.

So I'm guessing then that WBBM is really the only Chicago station that makes it down there right?

 

[cd637299]

^^^
Yes....WGN *can* eke in, but I have to do some work!

cd

 

[radioman148]

^^^
Yes....WGN *can* eke in, but I have to do some work!

cd

Isn't there a station on 720 in Hernando, Fl? Does that interfere with "GN" where you are?

 

[cd637299]

^^^
Yes....WGN *can* eke in, but I have to do some work!

cd

Isn't there a station on 720 in Hernando, Fl? Does that interfere with "GN" where you are?

Never heard it here. Over 225 miles away. I likely could hear it at sunset, but it's a non-issue otherwise.

cd

 

[charlestondxman]

720 from Hernando even comes in daytime where I am while 730 from Charleston has been off the air. That has a powerful signal, just like 820 from Tampa, which I've also heard daytime in the Charleston area.