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MR. JAROME_CALVIN

If it's 14 watts at night. How far may that reach? Example, if the station is in Boston? How far (How many minutes) outside the city may it reach? Your thoughts?
How about 500 watts in the day? How far may that reach? Say, if the station is in Boston?
Thank you for your time and have a nice one.
 
ok
the example station is
1480 WKND Windsor Locks, CT.

They used to recently be on 1230am in Hartford, CT area. When they were on that station, I picked it up in Palmer, Ma area and listened until almost Amherst, Ma area. It came in better as I got closer to Springfield, Ma to Holyoke, Ma. as I got closer to Amherst, it got staticky, but still listenable. This was in the day time. I wasn't there at night so I couldn't tell you how it came in.

Anyways, how far will 14 watts reach at night and 500 watts in the day reach?
If you have radio station examples, tell me that?


thank you?
 
It depends on the frequency--I think you get better reach the further left you are on the dial. Also the height of an antenna varies with the frequency. If you're on I-89 in Waterbury VT you can see the fairly tall towers of WDEV 550 while a station at, say, 1490 might not need such a tall tower.

I know WNSH 1570 Beverly is 85 w at night and barely covers its city of lic. (30kW day)

You asked about 14w night. Well WJIB is 5w night and here is the coverage map:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJIB&service=AM&status=L&hours=N

From Brookline to Medford primary, and from around Needham to just N of Woburn fringe. That's 5w
not 14 and it's on 740. I'm not sure they'd reach as far with those 5 watts if they were further down
on the dial
WJIB has 250w day. You asked for 500. I can't think of any 500s offhand right now but WJIB 740 day is
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJIB&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

The diagram has a measuring unit showing 20 miles to give you an idea

If WKND moved from 1230 to 1480 I'd guess their coverage would be smaller

Here is WKND's 14w/night coverage chart
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WKND&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
Days
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WKND&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
 
WKND originally was on 1480, was moved to 1230 for a time, then back to 1480.Raccoon is partly right in saying that lower AM frequencies have better coverage. This is due to the lower frequencies having longer wavelengths, and stronger groundwave coverage. Antenna height also has a part to do, as electrically short towers don't radiate as well. You also get less skywave mixing with the groundwave, causing less selective fading. As for coverage, my station, WVCH, runs 6 watts at night, and the coverage radius is about 8 miles before 740 Toronto takes over.
 
Bob,
You're right. it's the ZIP code of my home town, Coventry, RI. ever changed the screenname when I moved to PA, though.
 
raccoonradio said:
It depends on the frequency--I think you get better reach the further left you are on the dial. Also the height of an antenna varies with the frequency. If you're on I-89 in Waterbury VT you can see the fairly tall towers of WDEV 550 while a station at, say, 1490 might not need such a tall tower.

I know WNSH 1570 Beverly is 85 w at night and barely covers its city of lic. (30kW day)

You asked about 14w night. Well WJIB is 5w night and here is the coverage map:
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJIB&service=AM&status=L&hours=N

From Brookline to Medford primary, and from around Needham to just N of Woburn fringe. That's 5w
not 14 and it's on 740. I'm not sure they'd reach as far with those 5 watts if they were further down
on the dial
WJIB has 250w day. You asked for 500. I can't think of any 500s offhand right now but WJIB 740 day is
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJIB&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

The diagram has a measuring unit showing 20 miles to give you an idea

If WKND moved from 1230 to 1480 I'd guess their coverage would be smaller

Here is WKND's 14w/night coverage chart
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WKND&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
Days
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WKND&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
Click to expand...
You help a great alot, thank you for your help and these maps, you're good
 
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