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New "Midwest Blowtorch"? WTVN 610
- Thread starter ncincy1
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Ever notice how AM signals travel so far over water? It's a great conductor. Now, see that snow on the ground?
Were you getting it on your Boston Acoustics radio? That's a really good radio. I checked it out on my Sony HD Radio and it was actually coming in worse than usual, but I think that was because my antenna was near my XM radio, which puts out some interference.
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del_griffith
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I live in the columbus area. Was on the north side leaving the Polaris area and was scanning the am dial. Hit 1410 am and heard a girls BB game clear as a bell until I hit the 161/I-71 area. While still the dominate signal and listenable, it then became emeshed in ingress.
The station was the station in Harlan, Ky. Station has something less than 100 watts at night.
The station was the station in Harlan, Ky. Station has something less than 100 watts at night.
I've heard this station several times when I've been on the road on Hwy. 68 northeast of Lexington, KY during the day. Sometimes it comes in like a local station.del_griffith said:I live in the columbus area. Was on the north side leaving the Polaris area and was scanning the am dial. Hit 1410 am and heard a girls BB game clear as a bell until I hit the 161/I-71 area. While still the dominate signal and listenable, it then became emeshed in ingress.
The station was the station in Harlan, Ky. Station has something less than 100 watts at night.
If all is right, I can null out WRUS Russellville and identify WTVN in Owensboro, KY. The receiver is a GE Superadio II. As far as Cincinnati stations during the day, WLW is easy and 55KRC is possible if I null out 550 in St. Louis and occasionally 1530.
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WTVN&service=AM&status=L&hours=DKyDXIn said:I've heard this station several times when I've been on the road on Hwy. 68 northeast of Lexington, KY during the day. Sometimes it comes in like a local station.
Likewise, I can occasionally get WLAP and WKBN 570 Youngstown here in Columbus. I was trying to tune to WLW, which doesn't have quite the signal it used to, on inauguration day in East Columbus ... and found WHLO 640 Akron to be blasting in.
Several factors at work here:
1. Conductivity is slightly higher in the winter due to ground moisture levels. Not necessarily snow on top of the ground, but moisture levels of the soil and less vegetation to absorb the signals.
2. Lower atmospheric noise levels due to absence of electrical storms.
3. Winter extension of short range skywave skip well into the daylight hours (like up to 9 AM) , and early skywave in the afternoon (starting around 3:30).
WTVN had a CP for 50 kW daytime in the early 2000's but gave it up. They are still 5 kW.
1. Conductivity is slightly higher in the winter due to ground moisture levels. Not necessarily snow on top of the ground, but moisture levels of the soil and less vegetation to absorb the signals.
2. Lower atmospheric noise levels due to absence of electrical storms.
3. Winter extension of short range skywave skip well into the daylight hours (like up to 9 AM) , and early skywave in the afternoon (starting around 3:30).
WTVN had a CP for 50 kW daytime in the early 2000's but gave it up. They are still 5 kW.
Gee Mr. Wizard, does that mean snow is made out of water??jackandcoke said:Ever notice how AM signals travel so far over water? It's a great conductor. Now, see that snow on the ground?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_RJtkKGw4c&feature=related
While I'm not positive about this, I am reasonably certain that WTVN's CP was to leave the superb daytime 5KW coverage intact, but to move the night operation further south & operate at 50KW nights only. I believe the goal was to get more of the growing south suburbia into their main directional lobe. Seems the Not In My Back Yard types doomed that effort.glieb said:WTVN had a CP for 50 kW daytime in the early 2000's but gave it up. They are still 5 kW.
Correct.BobOnTheJob said:While I'm not positive about this, I am reasonably certain that WTVN's CP was to leave the superb daytime 5KW coverage intact, but to move the night operation further south & operate at 50KW nights only. I believe the goal was to get more of the growing south suburbia into their main directional lobe. Seems the Not In My Back Yard types doomed that effort.glieb said:WTVN had a CP for 50 kW daytime in the early 2000's but gave it up. They are still 5 kW.
WTVN has come in well in Cincinnati during the day as long as I've been DX'ing AM radio - which is well over 50 years. It seems to be the same way going north or northeast. Not many years back, I had WTVN on in the car and had the station into the downtown section of Cleveland. I have wondered what kind of a tower they have and where it is located.
Their tower(s) are located just north of the I-270 freeway pretty much due south of downtown Columbus. It's a flame thrower...audible well into Kentucky and to the west, the Indiana/Illinois border is about where it runs out of steam. By the time you get to the Illinois/Missouri border, Kansas City owns the frequency. Imagine that...over 600 miles of I-70 between them and nothing between (unless you count the one in Southern KY...pretty far off the Columbus>Kansas City line). Add the distance that Kansas City goes west and WTVN goes east & you may be approaching 1000 miles of I-70 covered by 2 5000 watt stations in the daytime (I use the term coverage from a DXer's point of view, realizing neither one would have and significant audience in IL). Incidentally, Kansas City is non-directional and is the reason why WTVN disappears to the west at sunset. Low dial positions with big non directional towers really rock in this area.Cincinnati Kid said:WTVN has come in well in Cincinnati during the day as long as I've been DX'ing AM radio - which is well over 50 years. It seems to be the same way going north or northeast. Not many years back, I had WTVN on in the car and had the station into the downtown section of Cleveland. I have wondered what kind of a tower they have and where it is located.
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