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Green Bay WI Quick nighttime bandscan

cyberdad

cyberdad

Highlights from last night. Hotel room with little internally generated noise, but some thunderstorm activity in the area. Eton E-10. Highlights as follows....

540: All WAUK...no trace of CBK
560: WIND...weak
600: WMT...very good and alone
620: WTMJ...good, but not as good as daytime when it's almost like a local.
650: WSM...fair
670: WSCR...fair-good (same goes for WGN, WBBM, WLS)
740: CFZM...fair
750: WSB...fair-good. Mild surprise here. Adjacent WJR was nearly invisible for some reason
770: WABC...good
810: WGY...good Another Mild Surprise
820: WBAP and CHAM battling it out with good signals
830: WCCO good, but getting trashed by something in Spanish
840: WHAS...very good
850: KOA...fair/poor
860: CJBC...fair/poor
870: WWL...good
920: WOKY...fair and alone. All 1,000 watts of it...from 100 miles away. Almost as good as 5kw day pattern.
1000: WMVP...very good. Best Chicago signal
1030: WBZ...fair. KDKA absent
1040: WHO...fair/poor
1090: KAAY...fair
1130: WISN...very good. Best Milwaukee signal, but other stuff audible underneath
1160: WYLL...good (with WHBY nulled)
1300: WOOD...fair and alone
1310: WIBA...good and alone. Surprise
1500: KSTP...fair
1510: WLAC...fair/weak
1520: KOKC...fair
1530: WCKY...weak
1540: KXEL...fair
 
WAUK falls into the mighty little station category. They are the usual, though weak, station on 540 here in SW Ohio.
WHAS still has a great signal.
KDKA bad as usual.
I assume WCKY was still on day signal.
Would have thought KXEL's signal would be stronger.

Thanks for the bandscan. Radioman and I (and I'm sure many others) love them.
 
Icangelp said:
WAUK falls into the mighty little station category. They are the usual, though weak, station on 540 here in SW Ohio.
WHAS still has a great signal.
KDKA bad as usual.
I assume WCKY was still on day signal.
Would have thought KXEL's signal would be stronger.

Thanks for the bandscan. Radioman and I (and I'm sure many others) love them.
Click to expand...

Definitely--thanks Cyberdad!
 
Icangelp said:
WAUK falls into the mighty little station category. They are the usual, though weak, station on 540 here in SW Ohio.
WHAS still has a great signal.
KDKA bad as usual.
I assume WCKY was still on day signal.
Would have thought KXEL's signal would be stronger.

Thanks for the bandscan. Radioman and I (and I'm sure many others) love them.
Click to expand...

Thanks.

WAUK: "The mouse that roars"....400 watts and audible from Chicago to Green Bay 24/7
KDKA: Unfortunately, not much of a surprise...although it did put in a decent signal later, just before sunrise
WCKY: Night pattern. I did most of this around 10PM CDT
KXEL: A little surprising. They usually blast into Wisconsin....and are pretty common daytime skywave in winter,
 
I'm surprised that you heard WOOD and not WRDZ. WOOD is beamed more NE, and the inline endfire arrangement reduces skywave in perpendicular directions . If they were on STA they could be 5000 watts nondirectional though. Surprised you didn't hear WJR, WFDF, WWJ, or WXYT. The directionals have a broadside component that is strong close in within 250 miles or so. WMVP is better because of the shorter towers without an annular null area like WGN, WBBM, and WLS have. WCFL/WMVP has always been the strongest skywave in Michigan, at least since WOWO's downgrade.
 
No WTCM on 580 or WCCW on 1310?

Did you check the graveyards? I think Green Bay is in the cancellation zone for the big Detroit stations.
 
I did hear WOOD on 1300, but forgot to mention it. Nowhere near as strong as WIBA, which was all alone. No WCCW, but perhaps if I had nulled WIBA I could've heard it. As for WTCM, I did catch a barely audible signal on 580 in the late afternoon about a half hour outside of town. I couldn't identify it, but I presumed it was WTCM. Atmospheric conditions were pretty lousy with thunderstorms in the area. I didn't check the graveyards for any length of time. There's a local in Green Bay on 1400. There's also a 1490 about 25 miles away, which was on top of the mess...but just barely. Perhaps also worth a mention are two nearby directional blowtorches which have both been heard on the Northern Ireland global tuners receiver. There was WHBY with almost a local-grade night signal on 1150 from about 30 miles away....while WNAM on 1280, and almost across the road from WHBY, was barely on top of its noisy channel.

Also, as an FYI, I've got quite a bit of travel coming up over the next several weeks, so I'll likely have a few more of these for you guys.
 
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WOKY's day pattern probably doesn't radiate any more to the north in the daytime than the nighttime, due to WDOR on 910. WOKY mainly goes east in the daytime. I think the day and night pattern were the same or close to the same when it was 1000 watts day. I think they added two more towers when they went to 5000 watts daytime. There was probably also CKCY to consider at the time. In areas where CKCY used to come in in the daytime in Northern Michigan, you can now hear WOKY with a loop or preamplifier in the daytime.
 
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