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MW Frequency of the Week - 1390 kHz

cyberdad said:
AAARGHH....Sorry guys! 1590. Two typos in two weeks. This one even worse than last week! My bad! Maybe it's time for me to retire these series. Or turn it over to someone who knoww what he's doing.
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No worries at all, Cyberdad. Your typo brought me a new logging!

Since I saw 1390 in thread title, I listened to that frequency while driving home last night and caught WNLA in Indianola, MS. It's an urban gospel station which apparently moved over to 1390 just a few months ago. They must've been on 1 kW day power rather than 15 watts of night power.
 
Thanks, guys for the kind and encouraging words of support following my latest typo. My excuse is that I was rushing to get this week's post up before the start of TV football. I can also blame Mrs. Cyberdad because she had an avalanche of tasks and errands for me after church this week. Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

So I guess you'll be stuck with me for the forseeable future. We'll make our way through the X band starting the week after next, then right around the start of the new year we'll go back and revisit the former "clear" channels. My pleasure, and I promise to be better at proofreading!

crainbebo said:
1*5*90 in Ellensburg WA....
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LOL...love it! You guys are the best. All of you!

.....Jack
 
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Just looked at the WNLA application. By moving to 1390, they were able to increase from 500 to 1000 watts nondirectional Daytime. They had a very high NIF with 44 watts on 1380, and THEORETICALLY have a better signal with 15 watts at Night on 1390 because the NIF is much lower. In any event, like many Class Ds with very low power at Night, they have an FM translator.
 
cyberdad said:
Thanks, guys for the kind and encouraging words of support following my latest typo. My excuse is that I was rushing to get this week's post up before the start of TV football. I can also blame Mrs. Cyberdad because she had an avalanche of tasks and errands for me after church this week. Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

So I guess you'll be stuck with me for the forseeable future. We'll make our way through the X band starting the week after next, then right around the start of the new year we'll go back and revisit the former "clear" channels. My pleasure, and I promise to be better at proofreading!

LOL...love it! You guys are the best. All of you!

.....Jack
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You do a great job cyberdad and I look forward to those Sunday posts. Keep on keeping on!
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Just looked at the WNLA application. By moving to 1390, they were able to increase from 500 to 1000 watts nondirectional Daytime. They had a very high NIF with 44 watts on 1380, and THEORETICALLY have a better signal with 15 watts at Night on 1390 because the NIF is much lower. In any event, like many Class Ds with very low power at Night, they have an FM translator.
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If we're talking about moving to 1390 for an upgrade, how about WRIG in Wausau WI. I used to work with a guy who's idea of retirement was becoming News Director there. WRIG, used to be a good little top 40 station on 1400. Then they moved to 1390 and went to 10kw days/7.2kw night. DA-2 with a day pattern that's not severe at all, but a night pattern that's very directional to the north-northeast, I think I've heard them on the Arctic SDR but couldn't positively ID it.
 
Given the 1590/1390 mixup :) in the other thread, I had my observations ready to go so might as well add them here ...
Not much around Columbus, Ohio. I've picked up WMPO extremely weakly, but it's been several years ago. 5,000 watts in 1390 getting up here in the middling to awful ground conductivity of southeast Ohio is impressive to me.
In the northwest part of the metro area, it's WBLL from Bellefontaine. Listenable in the northwest suburbs, but pretty weak with 500 watts from about 35 miles away.
 
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