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McConnell..one year later. Anyone know how his show is doing?

WLW's signal can be heard in part or all of 38 states at night.

I've heard it in Clearwater, Florida on a clear night. That's the advantage of a 50 KW AM signal on a relatively clear channel. Not many AM stations have the advantage that WLW has by only have a couple of other stations on the same frequency.

Imagine what the signal was like in the 1930's when they had 500,000 watts....
 
microbob said:
There's a station on 700AM in Dallas TX as well as Salt Lake City,UT so that is why the signal doesn't go to far west of the Mississippi.
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For curiosity;s sake, this is a list of stations in USA using the 700 frequency.


Info KALL 700 AM North Salt Lake City, UT Sports
Info KBYR 700 AM Anchorage, AK News/Talk
Info KGRV 700 AM Winston, OR Religious
Info KHSE 700 AM Wylie, TX Other
Info KMBX 700 AM Soledad, CA Spanish
Info KSEV 700 AM Tomball, TX Talk
Info KXLX 700 AM Airway Heights, WA Sports
Info WDMV 700 AM Walkersville, MD News/Talk
Info WEEL 700 AM Dothan, AL Unknown Format
Info WJOE 700 AM Orange-Athol, MA Talk
Info WLW 700 AM Cincinnati, OH News/Talk
 
Does anybody really care about that 50kw clear channel signal anymore anyway? Aside from radio geeks and maybe die-hard baseball fans, does anybody use the nighttime skywave signals anymore? I really wonder. Even the all-night trucker shows are finding FM affiliates and WLW's signal -and other 50k AMs' signals - are not consistent enough to listen every night. One night it can sound like WJR is a local, and then the next night you can't even pull it in.

It's cool to hear out of town stations, especially on long drives through rural areas, but how many people just hit the FM seek button?
 
Elephant said:
Does anybody really care about that 50kw clear channel signal anymore anyway?
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When I work nights, I listen to Mark Levin on WLS at midnight for the drive home. 10+ years ago, I listened to Ed Tyll on Chicago's Loop AM 1000 for the drive home. I've never cared for the local late night stuff.

If it goes away, I'll go back to Sirius or the Ipod. No big deal.
 
js...I appreciate what you're saying, but again, you're posting on a radio board.

Is there anybody who has an anecdote of a "civillian" using skywave?
 
brian65 said:
I tried to pick it up in northern Texas and couldn't.


While I'm sure there are occasional times when it has been heard in many far off places, I doubt that in any one night its anywhere near 38 states.
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Making an evening/late night up 35 from Austin to Dallas two weeks ago, WLW was getting clobbered by the Dallas 700 by the time we hit Waco. I could barely hear the Reds game behind the Dallas signal. I haven't traveled too many other places west of the Mississippi so I can't speak to WLW's nighttime strength in some areas, but I can say it makes appearances in Houston nightly where the night signal of co-channel KSEV is weak (like in the south suburbs and behind KSEV's pattern). I've heard WLW loud and pretty clear in Friendswood, Texas (25 miles from downtown Houston) when I turn the radio toward Ohio and away from KSEV.
 
Its almost a moot point with the truckers, who can get the American Trucking Network and the rest of WLW's programming on XM.
 
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