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Just picked up WLW 700 just southeast of Houston Tx

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Hi their. I just went to the store locally around 8:30pm and i wanted to see if i could get lucky and pick up the cubs-reds game in my car on the way their. The station was mixing in with Houston's 700 am which is only 1000 watts at night. I was able to get WLW in enough to make out who was batting for the cubs for about a minute. On the way back home of course the Houston station had WLW beat out. It was fun while it lasted. I bet if i turned my old clock radio in the right direction i could pick up WLW better and beat out Houston's 700 am. I currently live in deer park tx.
Just registered so i could post this. Thought it would be interesting.
I used to try to pick up distant stations at night on a skip. But i lived a few towns further east of Houston; stations such as 1120 KMOX St louis when they used to broadcast the cardinals, 720 wgn Chicago, and WLW. WLW seamed easyer than WGNto pick up.
 
That's a kick ass signal. I have picked them up in south Georgia when the Braves were playing the Reds and WSB would dissolve into static. I'd flip back and forth between WSB and WLW.
 
I noticed something weird when I was down in Destin, Florida a few weeks ago for spring break. I could pick up WLW pretty well, but WCKY came in way louder. I was listening to a Grundig S350 inside a van, so a lot of AM signals didn't come in well, but WCKY sounded almost like a local.
 
WCKY's signal is directional for the South East at night and that's why the signal is so strong in Florida and Cuba. It was During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, WCKY was used to broadcast news and information to the area, due to its southerly directional signal pattern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKY_(AM)
 
One night back in 1983 my wife and I were visiting freinds and relatives in Florida. Picked up The Truckin' Bozo on my transistor radio one night at Merritt Island,FL near Kennedy Space Center. Fairly good signal down that way back then.
 
I have noticed that before too. In all directions from Cincinnati. I live in Dayton and hardly get WCKY, WLW always blow torches in but get a coouple hundred miles from Cincinnati and WCKY always comes in better of the two at night.
 
Until California sunset, WCKY is louder in Hot Springs, Arkansas than LW. When they change pattern, they go away, but BLOW into Florida. I heard LW clear as next door at midnight on the Montana - North Dakota border a few years back. It's gotta be one of the top five signals in the country, especially if you rank by how many bodies it covers.
 
Both WLW and WCKY can be heard well in throughout parts of North America and even beyond. There are many interesting stories of where each has been received.

It would be interesting to find out just how far WLW was heard when it was 500,000 watts in the 1934-1939 period; both during day and night hours. Just think of that amount of power at that time.
 
I thought I remembered reading WLW at 500kW was audible in London, England, but I don't remember where I read it.

For more on the 500kW transmission, and other WLW stories, visit Jim Hawkins' great WLW tribute page: http://www.hawkins.pair.com/wlw.shtml
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Both WLW and WCKY can be heard well in throughout parts of North America and even beyond. There are many interesting stories of where each has been received.

It would be interesting to find out just how far WLW was heard when it was 500,000 watts in the 1934-1939 period; both during day and night hours. Just think of that amount of power at that time.
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Stories abound about how WLW came into Berlin at night...much to the consternation of one Adolf Hitler.
 
And when I was a kid, I walked to school uphill..... both ways with no shoes......in 5" of snow so who gives a s@#t?
 
earlier this year i read the new bio on the crosley brothers. it mentions that 700 WAS HEARD in Europe during the experimental era when 700 broadcast on 500KW for a year and a half.
 
The 500-kw version of 700/WLW was "The Nation's Station," though its daytime reach was really more akin to a 200-to-400 mile radius around Cincy, depending on soil & terrain & interference from adjacent channel stations. Night-time? Yeah, it skipped from coast to coast & border to border--and well beyond (though the west coast coverage was pretty sketchy). But it was the interference WLW caused--or at least purportedly caused--to those adjacent channel stations that caused the FCC to knock them back down to a mere 50-kw. More than anything else, other big radio players of that time felt that Crosley had been given an unfair competitive advantage as the only "Big One." And their protests influenced the FCC to bring WLW back to the level playing field.
 
Jason Roberts said:
Cincinnati Kid said:
Both WLW and WCKY can be heard well in throughout parts of North America and even beyond. There are many interesting stories of where each has been received.

It would be interesting to find out just how far WLW was heard when it was 500,000 watts in the 1934-1939 period; both during day and night hours. Just think of that amount of power at that time.
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Stories abound about how WLW came into Berlin at night...much to the consternation of one Adolf Hitler.
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I've heard rumors that it was also heard in Moscow (USSR, not Clermont County).
 
no respect said:
And when I was a kid, I walked to school uphill..... both ways with no shoes......in 5" of snow so who gives a s@#t?
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You really do have no respect, and you forgot that your house was two miles from that school, and the snow was a foot deep. ::)

Us old coots love telling about how we picked up WLS or WSM on a crystal set hooked to a barbed wire fence. Let us have our memories they're about all we have left. ;D
 
microbob said:
WCKY's signal is directional for the South East at night and that's why the signal is so strong in Florida and Cuba. It was During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, WCKY was used to broadcast news and information to the area, due to its southerly directional signal pattern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKY_(AM)
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The Wikipedia article mentions that WCKY had a country music format in the 70's and 80's. I don't recall that being so but I lived out of the area then.
 
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