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OHIO RADIO STATIONS RECEIVED THROUGHOUT OHIO IN DAYTIME

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Cincinnati Kid

What Ohio AM & FM radio stations may be received throughout the entire state during day-time hours? (As night-time reception is much greater on the AM band at night, I wanted to keep this to daylight hours only).

To start, I'm pretty sure that WLW in Cincinnati can be heard throughout the Buckeye State during the day although its signal may naturally be lower in far northeastern Ohio. However a good radio in a stationary position should be able to pick it up.

On the other end, WTAM in Cleveland does well except in southwestern Ohio, particularly because its frequency is near Wilmington's WKFI at 1090 K.C.

AM Stations in Columbus have some advantage being in the center of the state. WTVN seems to do well. WOSU's AM station might do likewise. There is also WRFD at 880-AM. Many years ago, while under another format, that station advertised that it could be heard state-wide.

Does anyone else have any additions or comments on the stations listed?
 
Sounds about right on with the am side..as far as fm goes...70 miles radius is about it(except for tropo/atmospheric enhancement) WNCI does a good job at getting out, but not state wide.
 
Ground conductivity in the eastern portions of the state is pretty poor, so reception for WLW and WTVN struggles there more than in other areas. Speaking of eastern Ohio, Wheeling's WWVA, which transmits from near St. Clairsville, can be heard throughout most of Ohio.
About WTAM ... I doubt 1090 in Wilmington does them much harm. 1110 in Dayton would b/c it's far more powerful, plus the higher dial position means that signal won't carry as far as WLW.
 
I was speaking of Ohio stations only although WWVA is near the border. If you extend this to nearby states, WJR in Detroit does well although I don't know how it might be received during the day in southeastern Ohio. WOWO in Fort Wayne does the same although it may not carry into the southeastern section either.
 
WKBN does a good job covering most of northern Ohio. The only place where the signal would be marginal is west of Defiance and Greenville and south of Chillicothe.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
I was speaking of Ohio stations only although WWVA is near the border. If you extend this to nearby states, WJR in Detroit does well although I don't know how it might be received during the day in southeastern Ohio. WOWO in Fort Wayne does the same although it may not carry into the southeastern section either.
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This is nitpicking but WWVA is officially licensed to Wheeling but the transmitter is actually in Ohio, St. Clairsville.
 
WTAM has "issues" in west central Ohio, due in part to being in the gray zone of propagation. Their night signal is pretty distorted, and the IBOC doesn't hurts it even more. Same to some extent with WTVN. And WLW is noisy here at night when they run their IBOC. Makes it sound like they are further away or lower power.

WWVA is non existent. WHAM usually puts in a better signal.
 
I remember at one time however pulling in 'TAM's predicessor "3WE" in the late 70s on my car radio..but was rather static-y...yet listenable.
 
WTAM/WWWE/WKYC (for us old guys), always did have a problem in western Ohio. They are right on the gray line where skywave and groundwave met. In the late evening, it's almost impossible to listen to Coast to Coast AM due to the distortion.

But if you get out toward Muncie, Kokomo, South Bend, it's OK. It's just in that 200 mile zone. So much for a Franklin 1/2 wave antenna.
 
FredRichards said:
WTAM/WWWE/WKYC (for us old guys), always did have a problem in western Ohio. They are right on the gray line where skywave and groundwave met. In the late evening, it's almost impossible to listen to Coast to Coast AM due to the distortion.

But if you get out toward Muncie, Kokomo, South Bend, it's OK. It's just in that 200 mile zone. So much for a Franklin 1/2 wave antenna.
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They haven't used the Franklin (which was and is also the support structure for the Channel 3 antenna) in almost 30 years. They returned to the old Brecksville tower when the ownership split from TV - and went back to non-directional operation, too, after trying that one-tower DA approach with the Franklin, which used a wire dropped from one of the guys as a parasitic element.
 
FredRichards said:
They haven't used the Franklin (which was and is also the support structure for the Channel 3 antenna) in almost 30 years. They returned to the old Brecksville tower when the ownership split from TV - and went back to non-directional operation, too, after trying that one-tower DA approach with the Franklin, which used a wire dropped from one of the guys as a parasitic element.
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Sorry, It was a bad attempt at humor, Scott. Actually, the problem is based on their present antenna design, with the half-wave approach. Technically 185.2 degrees, but who's counting? The gray zone distortion is common in this type of antenna at the distances we're speaking, so there is really not much that can be done about it. Several of the A1s had issues with this. But I guess now it's moot since most don't feel concerned about an audience outside of their metro.
 
No argument there - the antenna design that will "cure" the skywave/groundwave interference problem has yet to be invented, and if they haven't figured it out in 85 years of trying, I doubt they will!
 
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