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Questions about 650 WSM night coverage

We live about 15 mi W of Ashland, outside the area where one can supposedly recieve the 9w station. it interferes with WSM early in the everning, until 7-8 pm or so, them WSM can be received so so the rest of the night.
 
Thank goodness WSM and WSCR are 90 degrees to each other at my location.
I'd never hear them now without my good-ol 1924 box loop antenna.
I'm also lucky enough to have radios with tuned RF amps ahead of the superhet mixer.
However, HD on WSCR has ruined for car radio reception of WSM for 200-300 miles at least.
The hash was bad in Columbus OH, Terre Haute IN, St Louis MO, Kansas City MO, and Omaha NE.
Probably other places too, but those places I've heard the mess.
WSM used to sound fine in every one of them, and because they have interesting unique content, their loss is
a good example of what why HD AM is such a joke.
I'm supposed to be happy that I can now hear Sports Yap in HD, but I get to be the first generation EVER to
enjoy FCC-approved interference ruin my reception of WSM.
Eighty years of service to HUGE audience, and some computer people get the FCC to approve square-splatter waves?
I'd like to inject some big sinewaves into their square waves and see how their servers like hybrid operation.
 
cyberdad said:
And back to Tewksbury....on 740 there was no trace of the local Boston/Cambridge station the night I was there. CHWO totally "owned" the channel.
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WJIB 740 Cambridge, MA only puts out 5 watts at night, which is only listenable within approximately a five to ten mile radius depending on the strength of CHWO's signal. Tewksbury is at least 20 miles out. WJIB's 250 watt day signal is heard fairly well in Tewksbury, but at night CHWO would dominate there.
 
Up here in Delaware we listen to WSM quite often. They really boom in on our Bose kitchen radio. I have an old Radio Shack loop and it helps pump it up pretty well. The WFAN IBOC is troublesome but it's not unbearable like some of the adjacent channels higher up the dial. WSM is truly a national treasure. Kudos to the Gaylords for not going all-sports. It offers programming that we Yankees just don't get on this side if the Mason-Dixon Line. ( For the unwashed, the Mason-Dixon Line is the border between Delaware and Maryland and Pennsylvania and Maryland.).
 
cyberdad said:
As for 740.... I also suspect CHWO was probably the station in the dogfight with KRMG in the Central Miss location. CHWO usually is dominant in Memphis, but you can hear KRMG underneath.
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Is it really? I'm in Memphis and KRMG is always dominant, but you can usually null it out and get CHWO, especially in the winter.
 
cyberdad said:
As for 740.... I also suspect CHWO was probably the station in the dogfight with KRMG in the Central Miss location. CHWO usually is dominant in Memphis, but you can hear KRMG underneath.
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That is odd; KRMG is pretty solid here in Central Miss for me, and it & WJR used to give me fits trying to get WSB at night when I lived in Birmingham. ???
 
Zach said:
That is odd; KRMG is pretty solid here in Central Miss for me, and it & WJR used to give me fits trying to get WSB at night when I lived in Birmingham. ???
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My experience in Memphis (with CHWO usually dominating 740) may not be typical. I'm only in town a couple of times a year, and don't always get the chance to DX. Your experience in Central MS makes perfect sense. Not only are you farther from CHWO's stick west of Toronto, but, if memory serves, you'd be more directly in line with KRMG's nighttime pattern.
 
Many nights I hear WJIB at 5 watts right into my driveway in Salem NH 43 miles north of downtown Boston if CHWO is not there but most of the time WJIB drops
off between the junction of I 93 and I 95 Woburn and Route 62 in Wilmington where
CHWO takes over completely. Its a pleasurable drive listening to either station.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
cyberdad said:
And back to Tewksbury....on 740 there was no trace of the local Boston/Cambridge station the night I was there. CHWO totally "owned" the channel.
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WJIB 740 Cambridge, MA only puts out 5 watts at night, which is only listenable within approximately a five to ten mile radius depending on the strength of CHWO's signal. Tewksbury is at least 20 miles out. WJIB's 250 watt day signal is heard fairly well in Tewksbury, but at night CHWO would dominate there.
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If they are getting nearly a 10 mile radius out of a five watt signal, they are doing exceptionally well.
WPIT-730 drops to 24 watts at night, and they put a pretty decent signal into my home despite being
clear across town, which surprises me.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
If they are getting nearly a 10 mile radius out of a five watt signal, they are doing exceptionally well.
WPIT-730 drops to 24 watts at night, and they put a pretty decent signal into my home despite being
clear across town, which surprises me.
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WKXG in Greenwood, MS puts out an astonishing 2 watts at night and I couldn't even clearly hear them in the parking lot behind the transmitter site!
:D
 
That wasn't always the case. WKXG used to cover Greenwood pretty well with those 2 watts.

The 2 watt transmitter is about the side of 2 lunch boxes (a tad smaller than the average size marti).

I haven't checked on them in Greenwood since the early 90's at night though. Most of my trips have been daytime as of late.


WKXG in Greenwood, MS puts out an astonishing 2 watts at night and I couldn't even clearly hear them in the parking lot behind the transmitter site!
:D
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back in the mid 70's...the AM I worked at in Gallatin, TN ran 5.7 watts pre-sunrise on 1130...
I could see the tower from less than a mile away, but KMOX on 1120 would clobber it.

day power was 250 watts...and I had a reception report from NYC. once. ;D
 
And I am sure I heard this 1130 from Gallatin in Hobart In ( southern tip of Lk Michigan) frequently in the 60's and 70's.
Probably only during critical hours. But what was the power/antenna in the 60's/70's? Same?
That would be before Pre/post rise/set rules, no?
 
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