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I still miss Tom Kent. He was a huge loss to radio and to syndication. The 24/7 Fun network, and his Music Magazine show never returned with new hosts...every affiliate I know went to nighttime automation or Throwback Nation after he passed away. Tony Lorino is energetic, but he can't replace TK-TK-TK. If radio exists in Heaven, he's probably hosting the morning show with Dick Biondi right now :giggle:

I've never won a radio contest. But one of my school bus drivers growing up won the Vacation-a-Day Giveaway from KWJZ-98.9 (Seattle). She went to Hawaii for a week.

Anyhow, another PSA for today. There will be many NBA and NFL radio networks on the air today, as there are tons of games this Christmas. So you may be able to catch some newbies through local play-by-play. Merry Christmas, everyone!
 
K8PLW said:
That's impressive. I logged KNX here in SE Michigan back in January 2021. Extremely weak, and was only accomplished using my Wellbrook loop and an Icom general coverage receiver, along with a preselector/preamp. To date its the only west coast signal heard at my location. Couldn't imagine receiving anything from that distance on a portable as you did. Folks say DXing was easier back then when the band wasn't as crowded and there were fewer man-made noise sources in our environment. Either way I'm impressed. Very nice.
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Then you would really be impressed when I tell you that I logged KNX 1070 on a Sony Supersensitive TRF AM BC Portable on December 31, 1969. Heard Traffic and Weather Together on the 10s several times. CHOK may have already signed off. I know it was barefoot because sometimes I inductively coupled my radio to the Remco Caravelle, and that probably wouldn't work as well because of it being nondirectional. The Caravelle was grounded at the end of the water pipes in the basement, where it went to the outdoor faucet. That worked well for picking up weak AM BC stations in the Daytime, and improving signals in the 0.5 to 5 mV/m range.

HGR1290 may be interested in that I received the 990 in Clare, MI with 250 watts, beamed West. WHGR 1290 was not heard because WOIB 1290 had a much better path conductivity. When 990 in Clare was silent, you could get WERK 990 in Mecosta County, MI with my short vertical and modified Tom Kneitel TRF preamp inductively coupled to my Sony AM FM Cassette Recorder. All of those stations are gone now. The signal strength meter on that helped optimize and tune the signals. It had a logarithmic response with field strength, which gave it a wide signal strength range response, but not an S meter technically speaking.
 
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Then you would really be impressed when I tell you that I logged KNX 1070 on a Sony Supersensitive TRF AM BC Portable on December 31, 1969. Heard Traffic and Weather Together on the 10s several times. CHOK may have already signed off. I know it was barefoot because sometimes I inductively coupled my radio to the Remco Caravelle, and that probably wouldn't work as well because of it being nondirectional. The Caravelle was grounded at the end of the water pipes in the basement, where it went to the outdoor faucet. That worked well for picking up weak AM BC stations in the Daytime, and improving signals in the 0.5 to 5 mV/m range.

HGR1290 may be interested in that I received the 990 in Clare, MI with 250 watts, beamed West. WHGR 1290 was not heard because WOIB 1290 had a much better path conductivity. When 990 in Clare was silent, you could get WERK 990 in Mecosta County, MI with my short vertical and modified Tom Kneitel TRF preamp inductively coupled to my Sony AM FM Cassette Recorder. All of those stations are gone now. The signal strength meter on that helped optimize and tune the signals. It had a logarithmic response with field strength, which gave it a wide signal strength range response, but not an S meter technically speaking.
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Amazing. WOIB is still around, one of the weaker locals here at my location. ~15 miles west of me, but completely disappears after sunset and WHIO takes over the frequency.
 
@jim-satx f it matters for youor dx recording keeping, Zed BVI hasnt run 10kw years, it3kw with a 1kw back up transmitter. I've been friends with one of the management staff at the station for years.
 
K8PLW said:
Amazing. WOIB is still around, one of the weaker locals here at my location. ~15 miles west of me, but completely disappears after sunset and WHIO takes over the frequency.
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This week anyway, I think it's WLBY Saline, MI. The FM was WOIA 102.9 Ann Arbor, MI, now the WWWW call letters are parked on it by Cumulus. It had to be a different set of call letters at that time due to not having the same COL. John Landecker did News there in 1967. In Starship 73, it is misquoted as WOAI, leading some to claim that John worked at the original Clear Channel, Clear Channel Class I-A, in San Antonio, TX. John Landecker was at WTRX as Jones Boy "Dow Jones" in 1966, in between his first and second year at MSU. That is also accurately reported in Starship 73. John has worked at at least four stations now owned by Cumulus, WTRX, WOIA, WLS, and WLS-FM.

By the way, WOIB/WLBY 1290 is directed West, to comply with complicated overlap rules in place at the time, with WXYZ 5000 watts nondirectional Day at the time. Not sure if there was a problem with CJOE/CJBK 1290 London, or WKMH/WKNR...WDTW 1310.
 
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This week anyway, I think it's WLBY Saline, MI. The FM was WOIA 102.9 Ann Arbor, MI, now the WWWW call letters are parked on it by Cumulus. It had to be a different set of call letters at that time due to not having the same COL. John Landecker did News there in 1967. In Starship 73, it is misquoted as WOAI, leading some to claim that John worked at the original Clear Channel, Clear Channel Class I-A, in San Antonio, TX. John Landecker was at WTRX as Jones Boy "Dow Jones" in 1966, in between his first and second year at MSU. That is also accurately reported in Starship 73. John has worked at at least four stations now owned by Cumulus, WTRX, WOIA, WLS, and WLS-FM.
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You are correct, WLBY. Interestingly, I was looking at Google Street view images of their tower site, and a 5-bay FM array can be clearly seen on one of their towers. However WWWW transmits from a site several miles away. WWWW's aux transmitter is at a different site altogether. I believe this is a leftover from days gone by when 102.9 and 1290's transmitters were co-located.
 
K8PLW said:
You are correct, WLBY. Interestingly, I was looking at Google Street view images of their tower site, and a 5-bay FM array can be clearly seen on one of their towers. However WWWW transmits from a site several miles away. WWWW's aux transmitter is at a different site altogether. I believe this is a leftover from days gone by when 102.9 and 1290's transmitters were co-located.
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Many stations left the bays on the tower, so as not to change the impedance of the tower, (R+jX), when the DA was tuned up. They were 10000 watts at the low AM tower HAAT. Then they were 10000 watts at 500 feet HAAT on Wagner Rd. near a gravel pit. Then 50000 watts DA from there. I think the AUX is there. They moved about 3 miles West, on Zeeb Rd., possibly to negotiate with WBRB-FM/WDKL Mt. Clemens, which moved to a tower in the Oak Park/Royal Oak Township Area. Maybe the tower that the late Bob Liggett had built for 99.5 and the other FM DAs.
 
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Many stations left the bays on the tower, so as not to change the impedance of the tower, (R+jX), when the DA was tuned up. They were 10000 watts at the low AM tower HAAT. Then they were 10000 watts at 500 feet HAAT on Wagner Rd. near a gravel pit. Then 50000 watts DA from there. I think the AUX is there. They moved about 3 miles West, on Zeeb Rd., possibly to negotiate with WBRB-FM/WDKL Mt. Clemens, which moved to a tower in the Oak Park/Royal Oak Township Area. Maybe the tower that the late Bob Liggett had built for 99.5 and the other FM DAs.
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I believe they're at a site in Oak Park, 10 Mile/Greenfield Rd, co-located with 105.9 WDMK, and possibly others. The tower you're thinking of is at 8 Mile/Wyoming Ave. Many Detroit FMs transmit from there, including WABX (WYCD), WDVD, WCSX, WDRQ (WUFL-FM), and several others. The history of these sites is interesting to me. The ASR record states the tower was constructed in the late 40s I believe (1948?). Next door to the Oak Park site is the tower that is home to WKQI. I've been told this tower was manufactured by Blaw-Knox (Not the diamond design they're known for obviously). Clearly visible in 1951 aerial photos.
 
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I believe they're at a site in Oak Park, 10 Mile/Greenfield Rd, co-located with 105.9 WDMK, and possibly others. The tower you're thinking of is at 8 Mile/Wyoming Ave. Many Detroit FMs transmit from there, including WABX (WYCD), WDVD, WCSX, WDRQ (WUFL-FM), and several others. The history of these sites is interesting to me. The ASR record states the tower was constructed in the late 40s I believe (1948?). Next door to the Oak Park site is the tower that is home to WKQI. I've been told this tower was manufactured by Blaw-Knox (Not the diamond design they're known for obviously). Clearly visible in 1951 aerial photos.
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There are three very high towers in the Oak Park Royal Oak Township area. The rest of the high towers are in Southfield.
 
jim-satx said:
I’d hoped to log my first Brazilian on AM, but no dice. For a while I thought I had Brazil on 980, but it turned out to be Haitian Creole talk and music from WTPA in Pompano Beach, FL.
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Brazil is not an easy log from that area. Over nearly 30 years in Puerto Rico, I only hear Brazilian AMs a few times. In fact, western Africa was much easier to log than Brazil or the southern tier of South America. a couple of time I had Africans on my car radio in San Juan around 3 PM local time!
 
I forgot that Ferndale annexed the portion of Royal Oak Township where the originally WMJC/WCSX tower, now many others, and a bunch of Auxiliaries. Michi's site, fccdata.com, makes this easy to find the "Tower Payload", though FAA records are not always complete and up to date. I'm not sure if that tower was shortened when WGPR-TV 62 became WWJ-TV 62, and moved to the nearby 8 Mile site. The Historic WWJ 920/950 towers were dismantled when the Monroe County 50kW DA-2 site became operational. The WEYI-TV 25 near Clio was shortened when the antenna was shortened due to no longer requiring huge gain for DTV ERP. It went from 1359 feet to 1323 feet. That may have been done elsewhere.
 
Multiple east coast DXers are noticing 1khz tones on 570 tonight that seem to be WWNC in Asheville, NC. Even heard as far west as Nebraska.
 
Back on Dec. 19, my local 680 KKYX was off from late afternoon through mid-evening. I managed to log four new stations, and this was the first time I've ever heard anything else on 680 in San Antonio.

5:38 p.m. CT with my CC Radio-2E and Terk antenna aimed NE/SW, I heard KFEQ in St. Joseph, MO, with a farm report, a National Highway Traffic Safety Admin PSA, and a station ID - 5 kw at 742 miles.

6:03 p.m. with the radio/antenna aimed E/W, I heard weak sports talk with ESPN IDs and an ad with a 470 area code. That matches WCNN in North Atlanta, GA - 10 kW at 895 miles.

8:25 p.m. with the radio/antenna still aimed E/W, the sports talk was overtaken intermittently by the Oklahoma vs. Alabama college football playoff game. I presume this was WMFS in Memphis (5 kw, 633 miles) since I found promos for the station airing the game.

Finally, at 8:42 p.m. the game faded and I heard Spanish-language female talk come up, followed by a male announcer with multiple Radio Nacional de Colombia IDs - HJZO in Barranquilla, 50 kW at 2,008 miles. (I logged this station a few weeks ago in St. John, USVI). A few minutes later, KKYX came back on the air.
 
Hearing WBZ 1030 Boston on the Bridgeport WA SDR right now!! Solid traffic report!!! I will have a clip attached tomorrow.
 
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WBZ 1030 Boston from rural Douglas County WA SDR 12 29 25!!

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Clip from last night. I still haven't heard them from Yakima, where I live, so I can't count this as MA #1 yet.
 


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