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I have gotten so used to the down hill spiral that many AM signals have taken over the years. So I was rather surprised today when I spent the morning "surfing" the AM band. Two signals in particular impressed me. First was 560. It has always been poor to fair in my area of Delaware. Today it was listenable with no problems.

Second was 1480. It would be moderately strong. But today, it was better than average. Also, 1340, which I often used to listen to here at home, was still coming in, although I did not linger long on that station in its new format.
 
Sounds like propagation is changing to winter DX. That'll mean up here, Long Island and Toronto will be hammering WVCH during Crirical Hours. WCHE and WWKB will be unlistenable due to the loud het from the 2000 kW Saudi on 1521.
 
Most likely, DGO. Here about a hundred miles north of Philadelphia, something was chewing away at New Jersey's 1040 WNJE just before. I was tuned in for the Penn State stuff. It wasn't even 2 PM.

The interfering station might've been the one from Avon NY, heard really loud here near sunset.

I'd thought that 'the mid-winter anomaly' started later. Guess not!
 
DG02816 said:
That'll mean up here, Long Island and Toronto will be hammering WVCH during Crirical Hours. WCHE and WWKB will be unlistenable due to the loud het from the 2000 kW Saudi on 1521.
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Yup, Dave. I'm finding that WNTP is getting pounded by CKGM anytime after 3PM. Same with CHML overpowering WURD when the latter is still on 1KW before sunset.

On my way home at night, I often check for two Bristol, VA/TN stations. (I used to work in that market). Bristol's sunset is thirty minutes after Philly. Tonight and last night, WZAP, 690, 10kw days, came in clearly after WPHE cut their carrier. Likewise, WIGN, 1550, 35kw days, was blasting in around sunset.

Great for DX, bad for local AM coverage.
 
Steve,

My bet on what was chewing up WNJE may have been Bob Savage's WYSL 1040, still on 20 kW day power, from the Buffalo area. Not totally ruling out WHO, either....
 
DG02816 said:
Steve,

My bet on what was chewing up WNJE may have been Bob Savage's WYSL 1040, still on 20 kW day power, from the Buffalo area. Not totally ruling out WHO, either....
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WYSL is required to drop to 13.2 kW during critical hours to protect WHO. However, the bidirectional (north-south) pattern remains in use until local sunset, just 1.8 dB less power than during the middle of the day, so that's probably the signal you heard.
 
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