Reception of Minneapolis, MN Stations in Your Area

[kc0ltv]

How well (or often) can you hear...

830 WCCO ?
1130 KFAN ?
1500 KSTP ?

Here in Duluth WCCO and KFAN are very audible during the day, KSTP less so, at least on a decent radio. At night, KFAN is plagued by IBOC, WCCO is weak, and KSTP is OK.

 

[quadraphonic]

In central NC 30 miles from the Virginia line, I have heard WCCO one night last summer, but that's all. Unless it's other times I just couldn't ID it.....

 

[cyberdad]

WCCO is a regular nighttime catch here in Northern Illinois. Usually with a modest signal. KSTP occasionally makes it in under the slop at night or sometimes before the pattern kicks in at sunset. KFAN usually is absent, although I've heard it on rare occasions. More rare...but audible on a couple of occasions is WWTC or whatever 1280 is called these days.

 

[everydayguy]

Have recently heard WCCO on my car radio at night here in Central Texas. Some static, but listenable. Heard it one time, but not again.

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

Here in Mesa, Arizona, in the eastern part of the Phoenix metropolis, I get WCCO occasionally (KLAA is dominant on 830 here), I get KSTP every night, with variable strengths, and I never get KFAN (KWKH is dominant on 1130 here).

 

[mimo]

In Ottawa, Canada, the only one we get is WCCO, and moderately at best.

 

[pbf1]

in North Dakota...

KSTP *booms* in (thanks to its DA).

WCCO is OK - but one time, I had flipped on The Big 8-3-0, and heard a Paul Harvey promo! Not that Paul would be a bad fit; quite the contrary. (Turns out it was CKKY in Alberta.)

 

[vibe]

I live in central MA-we have a local 830-I never listen to it much, think the calls are WCRN which is 50 kw and only 10 mi away. The signal is nulled deeply to the west. On I-84 between Hartford and Sturbridge MA, I got WCCO last summer around 4 AM and have gotten it in Clinton CT 2 yrs ago.
No way for the other 2 stations-not a trace. Strone 50 kw's in NYC and Wash DC on 1130 and 1500.
In SW Fla-not a trace of anything.
I did get WCCO about 2 hrs before local sunset on the NC-SC line several winters ago. The Chicago AM's were booming and WCCO was weak and listenable. But it was probably a fluke.

 

[kc0ltv]

Speaking of FMs...I get most of the 100 kW stations on a more or less regular basis from my house (on a hill at about 1300' asl, 124 miles from Shoreview and farther from Northfield), fairly strong in the summer and weak to inaudible in the winter / spring.

It seems like today, without moving my car (where I am in the driveway makes a difference), 99.5 is coming in with a signal that's weak but definitely MPR Classical, and 98.5 is very weak with what sounds like KTIS.

 

[BRNout]

From SE PA, we get none of the above. 830 WEEU Reading, PA precludes any reception possibility of picking up WCCO as it beams a 6000 watt signal right toward Philadelphia. I have picked WCCO up in upstate NY and western PA, though.

As for the others, never. As previously stated, 1130 is WBBR New York and 1500 is WWWT Washington - each with a 50 kw signal. In particular, WBBR is very dominant here.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Plano (suburb of Dallas)

830 WCCO - moderate at night, although suffers from crosstalk unless WBAP nulled
1130 KFAN - never, obliterated by KWKH
1500 KSTP - moderate at night

From Lubbock, TX, I could regularly get WCCO daytime with a five foot loop and GE SR-3

 

[kc0ltv]

From Lubbock, TX, I could regularly get WCCO daytime with a five foot loop and GE SR-3

Wow!

 

[gr8oldies]

In Ohio, WCCO most nights, KSTP before pattern change and I can't say whether or not I've heard KFAN.

 

[vibe]

In SW VA last week I picked up the 1130 from Shrewveport and the NYC 1130 within minutes of each other; think I recached an area where they are equidistant. But nothing else on 1130.

 

[foreverchanges1975]

In Memphis, I remember being able to get KFAN a couple of years ago when they were working on their towers. Usually it's a weak KWKH. WCCO comes in pretty well most nights. I've never heard KSTP here.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

I've picked up WCCO at night here for many years. I've never heard the other two stations.

 

[w9wi]

How well (or often) can you hear...

830 WCCO ?
1130 KFAN ?
1500 KSTP ?

Here in Duluth WCCO and KFAN are very audible during the day, KSTP less so, at least on a decent radio. At night, KFAN is plagued by IBOC, WCCO is weak, and KSTP is OK.

WCCO is in every night, weak but in the clear, unless conditions are auroral.

I heard KFAN once. Their DA pattern should theoretically make them impossible anywhere south of the Twin Cities. Don't know if their pattern was out of kilter or it was weird propagation, as I seem to recall hearing the 1130 station from Detroit a day or two either side of when KFAN came in. Detroit has essentially the same directional pattern as KFAN and should be equally impossible here in the South.

KSTP is frequently heard well around sunrise or sunset, when they're still on daytime non-directional pattern. There tends to be a fair amount of interference from WTOP Washington. (OK, they aren't WTOP anymore...) More recently, WLAC's IBOC has gotten to be a big problem.

No chance at any of these daytime. KOTC in Missouri owns 830 daylight; there's a local daytimer on 1130; and WLAC's IBOC takes care of 1500.

730 in Worthington has also been heard down here.

 

[dxnemo78]

From Northeast Missouri:

830 WCCO = Every night that I've ever DX'ed for many years. Even a little while after sunrise in the Winter. Neither loud nor faint, just a quiet nextdoor neighbor to perpetual loudmouth 840 WHAS Louisville ;D

1130 KFAN = Never that I recall. KWKH Shreveport is a blowtorch here many nights. KILJ Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, which is between here and Minneapolis, is heard in the daytime.

1500 KSTP = Mostly a sunsetter. Sometimes fights it out with WLAC

 

[chuckydoll]

Before WEEU moved to 830, WCCO would come in at night on occasion in Central New Jersey.

KFAN is blocked by local WBBR while KSTP is blocked by 3WT from Washington DC.