The sound of a graveyard frequency at night from Hawaii

[Ai4i]

Ah, for some reason I though Japan and Australia were on 10 khz spacing, like the USA is.

We saw major changes back in the 1970s or 80s as "digital" was coming in, I do not remember the exact year.
Europe, Asia, and Africa changed their channels to become exact multiples of nine.
Many channels had been 10KHz apart on the bottom of the band and 8KHz apart at the top.
Australia changed from 10KHz spacing to their current international 9KHz standard.
The Americas were toying with the idea to do this also, but ultimately rejected it.
This would have likely been a better plan than to add ten new channels at the top.
So, the few common frequencies today are:
540, 630, 720, 810, 900, 990, 1080, 1170, 1260, 1350, 1440, 1530, and *maybe* 1620.
These are the frequencies that the fictitious Republic of Antarctica would use.

 

[boombox4]

I learned as soon as I got it not to place it right next to the radio and place it at around 5 - 6 inches away.

Here's one of my older videos from when I had recently gotten the loop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oqdiPW3_Z8

But again, I never could get those same results with a nighttime signal.

Very interesting.

Technically, a loop should help at night also. A weak signal is a weak signal. Might be your locations. Here where I live the overall reception is less than other areas of the state (and country).

 

[crainbebo]

Frank Merrill in Macomb, IL (he is sometimes on the TVFM Skip Log) was in Oahu in September 2008 and logged KOMY-1340 Watsonville, CA on just a kilowatt. IDs on graveyards, 2500 miles away, can happen.
And, of course, those Finland DXers with their huge beverages have logged dozens of GYs from the northern states and Canada.

-crainbebo

 

[gr8oldies]

We saw major changes back in the 1970s or 80s as "digital" was coming in, I do not remember the exact year.
Europe, Asia, and Africa changed their channels to become exact multiples of nine.
Many channels had been 10KHz apart on the bottom of the band and 8KHz apart at the top.
Australia changed from 10KHz spacing to their current international 9KHz standard.
The Americas were toying with the idea to do this also, but ultimately rejected it.
This would have likely been a better plan than to add ten new channels at the top.
So, the few common frequencies today are:
540, 630, 720, 810, 900, 990, 1080, 1170, 1260, 1350, 1440, 1530, and *maybe* 1620.
These are the frequencies that the fictitious Republic of Antarctica would use.

Ray Livesay, owner of stations in Matoon IL and Van Wert, Ohio was lobbying for the Daytime Broadcasters Assoociation. His idea was to switch North America to 9kHz spacing and move all the daytimers to newly created graveyard channels scattered throughout the band. "702 WLW"

 

[davideduardo]

Ray Livesay, owner of stations in Matoon IL and Van Wert, Ohio was lobbying for the Daytime Broadcasters Assoociation. His idea was to switch North America to 9kHz spacing and move all the daytimers to newly created graveyard channels scattered throughout the band. "702 WLW"

There is a collection of Daytime Broadcasters Association memos and bulletins at http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Odds-and-Ends.htm I am looking for more of these, too.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

So, the few common frequencies today are:
540, 630, 720, 810, 900, 990, 1080, 1170, 1260, 1350, 1440, 1530, and *maybe* 1620.
These are the frequencies that the fictitious Republic of Antarctica would use.

Ray Livesay, owner of stations in Matoon IL and Van Wert, Ohio was lobbying for the Daytime Broadcasters Assoociation. His idea was to switch North America to 9kHz spacing and move all the daytimers to newly created graveyard channels scattered throughout the band. "702 WLW"

Ironically, the Livesay family's Mattoon station, WLBH-1170, is on one of those common frequencies listed above.

WLBH is "barely" on the air now--and in 2010 they were hit with a $14K fine for failure to enclose their towns and to even maintain a physical presence at the station's building in rural Mattoon (RadioInk story below):

http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2176975

The Livesay family also formerly owned another set of central Illinois sister stations: WHOW (1520 AM/95.9 FM) in Clinton, IL, which had their own problems over the years (including going silent for a year starting in Nov. 2002 as a result of years of deteriorating facilities.

Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph story about WHOW going dark in Nov. 2002 (via Newsbank): http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0F72B55CA072EC2D&p_docnum=1

Wikipedia (FWIW) article on WHOW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOW