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KWMT Fort Dodge, Iowa heard on Kansas SDR daytime with a good signal at 245 miles

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I was just listening around to some SDR receivers this morning and I went to the one from Kansas which is located in Overland Park a little SW of Kansas City and 540 KWMT was loud and clear from 245 miles away at only 5,000 watts.

This was 8:50 am my time which would be 1:50 local time.

Goes to show how great the ground conductivity is there.

I also checked out 780 to see if I could get WBBM and while there was nothing audible, there was that fluttering sound with the static that you hear when there's a slight trace of two weak signals on the same frequency.

Daytime DXing can be better than nighttime in some cases.
 
hawaiigar said:
I was just listening around to some SDR receivers this morning and I went to the one from Kansas which is located in Overland Park a little SW of Kansas City and 540 KWMT was loud and clear from 245 miles away at only 5,000 watts.

This was 8:50 am my time which would be 1:50 local time.

Goes to show how great the ground conductivity is there.

I also checked out 780 to see if I could get WBBM and while there was nothing audible, there was that fluttering sound with the static that you hear when there's a slight trace of two weak signals on the same frequency.

Daytime DXing can be better than nighttime in some cases.
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I live in Overland Park, Kansas and I can confirm KWMT is a listenable here every day regardless of the season when they are on their daytime pattern. As is WNAX on 570 kHz in Yankton, South Dakota. For your reference, WBBM can be received here on occasion during the day on the coldest days of winter. Same with WSCR in Chicago.

Bob
 
I can hear KWMT just about every thunderstorm-free day of the year on a good radio at my home location northwest of Chicago. Albeit underneath WAUK (Milwaukee area). i haven;t checked, but I'm going to guess the distance is closer to 300 miles than 245. I'm guessing that the only thing that keeps them from claiming the "best daytime land signal in the U.S." title is the null to the north that protects CBK and KFYR. Last I heard, KFYR owns the aforementioned title.
 
cyberdad said:
I can hear KWMT just about every thunderstorm-free day of the year on a good radio at my home location northwest of Chicago. Albeit underneath WAUK (Milwaukee area). i haven;t checked, but I'm going to guess the distance is closer to 300 miles than 245. I'm guessing that the only thing that keeps them from claiming the "best daytime land signal in the U.S." title is the null to the north that protects CBK and KFYR. Last I heard, KFYR owns the aforementioned title.
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245 miles is actually correct between Overland Park and Fort Dodge. KFYR and WNAX appear to be 1-2 in coverage area. Others who impress are KWMT and WIBW...

Bob
 
I drive across Kansas most every June along I-70. It IS TRULY AMAZING the coverage of AM radio across this state. KWMT is listenable across Almost ALL of Kansas during mid-day hours when strom static is not ripping the band up. I have listened to KWMT westbound to just west of Goodland. It does get a little "iffy" around Salina when splatter from KFRM (on 550) is present. WNAX on 570 is also mostly solid across the entire state of Kansas on I-70 with a GOOD AM radio.

My radio....A Premium, Factory Installed Bose AM/FM Stereo system in my (now ancient) 2006 Chevy Silverado. I HATE the new radios in the cars/trucks being sold today. That's why I have held on to my 2006 Silverado (which has been very reliable).
 
Good to see the Overland Park rig back. Interesting middle-of-the-country reception with that unbelievable ground conductivity
 
hawaiigar said:
I was just listening around to some SDR receivers this morning and I went to the one from Kansas which is located in Overland Park a little SW of Kansas City and 540 KWMT was loud and clear from 245 miles away at only 5,000 watts.

This was 8:50 am my time which would be 1:50 local time.

Goes to show how great the ground conductivity is there.

I also checked out 780 to see if I could get WBBM and while there was nothing audible, there was that fluttering sound with the static that you hear when there's a slight trace of two weak signals on the same frequency.

Daytime DXing can be better than nighttime in some cases.
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I used to hear KWMT during the day in the near north Chicago suburbs very well before WAUK came on the air. Even now if I null WAUK I can hear KWMT underneath at over 300 miles.
 
I've heard KWMT, Ft. Dodge, IA, in Carrollton, MO, as well as WIBW-AM, Topeka, KS (& even KKSU, Manhattan, KS when it was on the air prior to 2002.), KWTO, Springfield, MO, & what used to be (Before April 25, 2005.) KOMJ, Omaha, NE (Now KXSP.). I don't think I have heard WNAX, Yankton, SD. If I have, I haven't identified it.
 
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