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So this evening between 9 and 10 CDT, I decided to take a little tour of three "neighborhood" SDRs to get a feel for some of the channels we've bewen talking about lately. Essentially to address the question of whether or not they're powering down at night. The SDRS were Milwaukee, Gary, Indiana, znd Peoria I also made a couple of other discoveries while I was at it,. I'll take them by frequency....

800: Looking for WVAL. Heard it on the Milwaukee SDR and confirmed it with the live stream. This time of year it doesn't get dark in Minnesota until about 10pm CDT, so there may have been nothing nefarious going on. The Gary and Peoria SDRs were all CKLW.

1010: Heard WPCN on all three SDRs. Fair signal on the Milwaukee. Weak and mixing with CFRB on Gary and Peoria

1060: Stoppedf hear when I heard oldies. Turned out to be WHFB from Benton Harbor, MI. Obviously not running one and a half watt night power. I heard it on all three receivers. Overpowering KYW on Milwaukee and Gary. Underneath KYW on Peoria.

1170: I heard WFDL on the Milwaukee SDR, but a strong WDEK on both the Gary and Peoria rigs.

1290: On the Milwaukee SDR I assumed I was hearing an inferior local signal from 5kw WZTI. Nope...what I heard was WIRL I knew WZTI had been struggling, but I guess now they're off. Maybe one of you guys know if indeed that's the case.
 
radioman148 said:
Interesting stuff. I may take a ride on those SDR's soon.
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Quickie update from my "tour" of three midwest SDRs earlier this week. I repeated the same SDE tour between 9 and 10pm last evening (after the Cubs game, of course). Then once more using the SRF-37 Walkman about an hour before local sunrise this morning (7/25)....

800: Very weak WVAL on both occasions. CKLW strong, but I was able to null on the SRF-37.
1010: WPCN weak. Underneath CFRB on both the Milwaukee SDR and the SRF-37.
1060: WHFB gettingg blown out on the SDRs, but I heard it with KYW nulled on the SRF-37. Doubt if it was 5kw, but maybe 2.5 critical hours power. Definitely not 1.5 watt!
1170: All WWVA on all of the receivers. Weak, but alone in the evening on the Milwaukee SDR. Somewhat stronger before dawn on the SRF-37. No WFDL or WDEK.
 
cyberdad said:
Quickie update from my "tour" of three midwest SDRs earlier this week. I repeated the same SDE tour between 9 and 10pm last evening (after the Cubs game, of course). Then once more using the SRF-37 Walkman about an hour before local sunrise this morning (7/25)....

800: Very weak WVAL on both occasions. CKLW strong, but I was able to null on the SRF-37.
1010: WPCN weak. Underneath CFRB on both the Milwaukee SDR and the SRF-37.
1060: WHFB gettingg blown out on the SDRs, but I heard it with KYW nulled on the SRF-37. Doubt if it was 5kw, but maybe 2.5 critical hours power. Definitely not 1.5 watt!
1170: All WWVA on all of the receivers. Weak, but alone in the evening on the Milwaukee SDR. Somewhat stronger before dawn on the SRF-37. No WFDL or WDEK.
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In the early morning I often hear a good WWVA when they go ND. Even in the evening I can sometimes hear them, alot weaker off the back.
 
A couple of new ones for me this morning. 4-5am CDT....

860: WMRI, Marion, IN. Good with ESPN sports and at least one positive IG. Mixing with....and sometimes overtaking...CJBC. 1kw day pattern?

1370: KWRT, Boonville, MO (On I-70 between Kansas City and Columbia.) I was checking out 1370 at around 4:15 CDT am in advance of next weeks FOTW, when this came roaring in (including a positive ID.). Country music. Owned the channel for about five minutes, then vanished. Had to have been 1kw day pattern.

Radio this morning was the Sony SRF-37 Walkman.
 
cyberdad said:
A couple of new ones for me this morning. 4-5am CDT....

1370: KWRT, Boonville, MO (On I-70 between Kansas City and Columbia.) I was checking out 1370 at around 4:15 CDT am in advance of next weeks FOTW, when this came roaring in (including a positive ID.). Country music. Owned the channel for about five minutes, then vanished. Had to have been 1kw day pattern.

Radio this morning was the Sony SRF-37 Walkman.
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Good catch on 1370.
 
cyberdad said:
A couple of new ones for me this morning. 4-5am CDT....

860: WMRI, Marion, IN. Good with ESPN sports and at least one positive IG. Mixing with....and sometimes overtaking...CJBC. 1kw day pattern?

1370: KWRT, Boonville, MO (On I-70 between Kansas City and Columbia.) I was checking out 1370 at around 4:15 CDT am in advance of next weeks FOTW, when this came roaring in (including a positive ID.). Country music. Owned the channel for about five minutes, then vanished. Had to have been 1kw day pattern.

Radio this morning was the Sony SRF-37 Walkman.
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There was a time when I'd commute on Lake Shore Drive about an hour after sunrise and a couple of times WMRI came in, pretty decently if I remember correctly. Normally though, it wouldn't be there... just a barely audible WNOV Milwaukee. A similar phenomenon would sometimes happen on the same commute on the nearby frequency 880... occasionally I'd pick up WRFD in Worthington, OH. The first time it happened I thought it might be a skywave for WCBS but the programming made it clear this wasn't the case. It took me several tries to get an ID.. some days the station would be there and some days it wouldn't.
 
Not really DXing this evening / a.m., but the Carson City classic country station, KCMY, is dominating on 1300 here in the Seattle region. Playing a good mix of music. Our local has been off the air for a while. KLER in Idaho usually dominates, but not tonight. Listening now on my PR-D5. There's another two stations that are unreadable behind it, mostly talk it seems.

Edit to Add: no sooner than I hit the return key KLER boosted power, blasting the PR-D5's speakers with their own country, which is more modern in bent.
 
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I had CKBI 900 Prince Albert, Sask and Radio Rebelddeeeeeeeeeeee 710 barefoot on a CC Skywave in my front yard at midnight tues/wed in Laramie, WY... my loop antenna and bigger am gear is put away for the summer will break it out in september
 
Revisit from an "old friend" (well, sort of)....

WQNO (ex-WTIX) 690 from New Orleans. Heard it on the Gary, IN SDR last night around 9pm CDT. Fair signal but alone. Then I tried it again around 5am CDT on the SRF-37 Walkman nearly an hour before local sunrise. This time, the signal seemed even better. All alone and blasting through whatever splatter was left from WLW and WSCR. Catholic radio with positive ID.

I haven't heard this one since its days as Storz Top-40 powerhouse WTIX. In those days, the 5kw night signal would sometimes make it into the Chicago area. But I wouldn't go so far as to call it a regular. The transmitter site was seriously damaged due to Hurricane Katrina, and restoration took several years. With night power being reduceed to 2100 watts. I'm guessing what I heard was 9100 watt non-directional day power.

So if, indeed, we've got cheating going on at Catholic Radio, somebody's going to have to go to confession! :)
 
This may sound hard to believe Cyberdad, but the last time I heard "WTIX" or whatever their calls were then was during hurricane Katrina. They were all alone and easy to pick up.
 
radioman148 said:
This may sound hard to believe Cyberdad, but the last time I heard "WTIX" or whatever their calls were then was during hurricane Katrina. They were all alone and easy to pick up.
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Sounds like what I ran into overnight. They were prolbably on day pattern/power. At the time of Katrina they were 10kw directional days, but that day signal to the north was good. "Back in the day, WTIX was solid on I-55 all the way to Jackson, MS. Not bad considering that the ground conductivity north of Lake Ponchartrain isn't very good. I think WQNO is still using the same transmitter site as WTIX, which is swampland in Chalmette, Louisiana. I've driven by it, and I doubt urban development will be much of an issue since the surrounding land is probably not buildable.

BTW, the current night pattern looks pretty much like the old WTIX night pattern. Mostly east-west but a small lobe north. Of course, it's now 2,1 kw instead of 5kw.
 
cyberdad said:
Sounds like what I ran into overnight. They were prolbably on day pattern/power. At the time of Katrina they were 10kw directional days, but that day signal to the north was good. "Back in the day, WTIX was solid on I-55 all the way to Jackson, MS. Not bad considering that the ground conductivity north of Lake Ponchartrain isn't very good. I think WQNO is still using the same transmitter site as WTIX, which is swampland in Chalmette, Louisiana. I've driven by it, and I doubt urban development will be much of an issue since the surrounding land is probably not buildable.

BTW, the current night pattern looks pretty much like the old WTIX night pattern. Mostly east-west but a small lobe north. Of course, it's now 2,1 kw instead of 5kw.
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Yes I noticed that small lobe to the north. Anyway during Katrina I was listening to them for several nights. How did WTIX compare with WNOE on your road trips in Mississippi? Back in the day, WNOE put in a good signal here in the late fall right before pattern and power change.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I had CKBI 900 Prince Albert, Sask and Radio Rebelddeeeeeeeeeeee 710 barefoot on a CC Skywave in my front yard at midnight tues/wed in Laramie, WY... my loop antenna and bigger am gear is put away for the summer will break it out in september
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CKBI get out rather well. When sunspots for MW were a bit better about five to ten years ago, they came in to the Seattle area almost nightly, even on a portable.
 
radioman148 said:
Yes I noticed that small lobe to the north. Anyway during Katrina I was listening to them for several nights. How did WTIX compare with WNOE on your road trips in Mississippi? Back in the day, WNOE put in a good signal here in the late fall right before pattern and power change.
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WNOE and WTIX were about equal going up I-55 to Jackson during the daytime, IIRC. Slight advantage to WTIX, WWL got out somewhat better than both of them. Along the gulf coast in the Pensacola area WNOE and WWL were also fairly equal, each got out well. But WWL was considerably stronger. I used to Cubs games on WNOE which was on their network after WNOE had flipped to country. Fast forward to the present tine, and WWL is still the "big dog". WQNO's day signal is slightly weaker than when it was WTIX, but still good. AT night WQNO is audible in the slop, but not really listenable. As WTIX, 690 was still pretty good at night. As for WNOE, what's now WNVY from just north of Pensacola moved from 1090 to 1070 and went to 10kw. The result is splatter that makes 1060 an uncomfortable listen. At night. WNVY doesn't even make it to downtown P-cola, but the New Orleans 1060 has a weaker signal and routinely gets clobbered by XEEP.
 
cyberdad said:
WNOE and WTIX were about equal going up I-55 to Jackson during the daytime, IIRC. Slight advantage to WTIX, WWL got out somewhat better than both of them. Along the gulf coast in the Pensacola area WNOE and WWL were also fairly equal, each got out well. But WWL was considerably stronger. I used to Cubs games on WNOE which was on their network after WNOE had flipped to country. Fast forward to the present tine, and WWL is still the "big dog". WQNO's day signal is slightly weaker than when it was WTIX, but still good. AT night WQNO is audible in the slop, but not really listenable. As WTIX, 690 was still pretty good at night. As for WNOE, what's now WNVY from just north of Pensacola moved from 1090 to 1070 and went to 10kw. The result is splatter that makes 1060 an uncomfortable listen. At night. WNVY doesn't even make it to downtown P-cola, but the New Orleans 1060 has a weaker signal and routinely gets clobbered by XEEP.
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Thanks for the update.
 
@Radioman and everyone who read my last post: My bad. I meant to say "...in the Pensacola area, WNOE and WTIX were about equal..."
Apologies.
 


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