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Just picked WLW 700 in cincinatti mixed with Houston's 700

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vanpudin

At 8:30 here in Deer Park i was on my way to store. I wanted to see if i could get lucky and get cubs-reds game. And sure enough i was able to hear who was batting for the cubs, while the local 700 was mixing in. When i got back in car from store, it was mostly the local 700. It was fun receiving the skip while it lasted. This was alittle easier to do when i lived in baytown. I was able to get 720 wgn Chicago once in a while on my old clock radio in baytown along with WLW and more often 1120 kmox St.Louis.
Just registerd so i could post on houston forum and cincinatti forum.
Thought it may be interesting, but not unheard of.
 
I pick up WLW mostly every night, vanpudin, even with my fairly close proximity to Tomball's KSEV. KMOX is a regular catch as well, but I tend to have issues getting WGN because of interference with KSAH/Universal City. Take a check of 1510 when you have a chance. Typically you'll get WLAC from Memphis, especially where you are east of DT Houston.
 
Thanks for replying. I'll check out that station some time. I'll pick up 650 wsm Nashville once in a while just wishing i was their again on vacation. I used to play around more often in my single days trying to pick of skips with a directional antenna on stereo or clock radio, or just in the car. Now since i have a family, i don't think about trying most of the time inless i'm on a trip.
 
I'll catch myself sitting in the car in a part of Houston I'm not typically in, and I'll start scanning to see what I'm missing in my usual NW location. WSM is a nightly catch for me as well, and can clearly be heard where I am underneath KIKK for the last hour or so before KIKK signs off at sunset. If you're interested in some Rocky Mountain action, try giving 850 a shot. After KEYH/Houston powers down, KOA/Denver comes in really well.
 
Yea i remember picking it up one time years ago. I think was trying to pick up the cubs-rockies game. I think i got a good signal one time for 850 when i went camping in the Austin area back in the 90's. If i happen to be out late one night, i'll sometimes try to see what i can pick up on am from out of town.
 
Within the last two years when i was on vacation in Nashville Tn, at night a couple of time i would see what i could pick up. Back in the mid 90's i would sit in my parents chevy minivan and pick up KMOX in am stereo. That GM radio had a button for am stereo. I believe the games were brodcast in am stereo; but not sure.
I'll check out these forums once in a while.
Thanks... Later...
 
purpledevil said:
I pick up WLW mostly every night, vanpudin, even with my fairly close proximity to Tomball's KSEV. KMOX is a regular catch as well, but I tend to have issues getting WGN because of interference with KSAH/Universal City. Take a check of 1510 when you have a chance. Typically you'll get WLAC from Memphis, especially where you are east of DT Houston.
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We have a similar situation in Dallas, there is some local cr@p on 700 at night, but the moment I throw a null at it, WLW is there.
 
In these modern times you can listen to these powerhouses anytime.

I checked and WGN, WSM, WLAC, KOA and WLW all stream on the web.

They're all just a Google away.

No static, no interference, no fading.
 
That's not really radio, if you have to run a computer to hear it.

Audio delivery by wired service was around 25 years before radio.

Only thing changing there is the equipment and mode.

Radio's much faster at the speed of light than data packets in the pipe.

Not much sport in listening to a webstream. It's audio delivery, but it's not "radio".
 
Plus people spend so much time in their cars that it's hard (?) to access a webstream. It's fun to get a far away station and enjoy a ballgame or some out of market show.
 
True u can hear some of the stations on the web, but u can't hear mlb games on those stations on the web, their blacked out. U need need the good old am radio for that; Inless u want to pay for it.
Besides listening to the grand old opry on the website for 650 wsm in Nashville to me sounds no better in quality than picken up their signal on the radio on a clear night. Their's just something special about that, and i'm not even a big country fan.
 
My mother used to tell me stories of the radio shows and the quality of the news reports that came from their Philco during WWII. I wish I had been able to hear that.

In a society that considers cable television an actual utility (as opposed to a discretionary entertainment service); it's easy to understand how radio is so quickly cast aside for something that costs $15 a month.

Perhaps the thread is more demonstrative of the current perception of Houston radio than completely off topic?
 
The Houston connection is...

In these modern times Houston stations have to compete with broadcast stations from around the world as well as new media on the web and by satellite.

There's a lot of competition for Houston ears and what sets local stations apart is LOCALISM. And you don't get local by running voice tracked DJs or nationally syndicated talk shows.

Get LOCAL or become just one of the crowd.
 
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