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WBIX with KYW

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Doubtless not a big deal to most New Englanders, hi, but I had opportunity to turn on an old-fashioned tabletop Zenith on the Morning side of the day (for a change) and KYW was getting chewed apart by WBIX Boston. First time I ever caught an ID from anything else on 1060 since I moved to here, NE Pennsy, which is pretty much in KYW's NW lobe. Two IDs, and business phone calls by host Ron Birnbaum from 7:15 - 7:30. He might have been doing a quiz at the time ('No, that's not the right answer').
Radio-Locator shows a critical-hours pattern, which is what I might've heard, even though it has the deepest null toward here of their three patterns.

Is WBIX a station that's a regular catch or a pest for anyone, say, west of New England? If it's a relative rarity, that time of day might be the best to catch 'em.
 
I'm well out of range of either station (WLNO and XEEP dominate 1060 here in East Texas) but I have an observation on this. According to FCC records WBIX is set to switch from their nighttime to critical hours pattern at 7:00 EDT during March, a little ahead of sunrise at KYW's transmitter site, which is listed as 7:15 this month. Of course KYW has the same pattern day and night but looking at the official pattern data for WBIX I could see how they might make it into NE Pennsylvania for a while in the morning hours.
 
jd said:
I'm well out of range of either station (WLNO and XEEP dominate 1060 here in East Texas) but I have an observation on this. According to FCC records WBIX is set to switch from their nighttime to critical hours pattern at 7:00 EDT during March, a little ahead of sunrise at KYW's transmitter site, which is listed as 7:15 this month. Of course KYW has the same pattern day and night but looking at the official pattern data for WBIX I could see how they might make it into NE Pennsylvania for a while in the morning hours.
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Sometimes the best skip occurs right around sunrise.
 
WBIX has only been running 40 kw during the day for a couple of years so, in relative terms, they haven't been around that long. You should still be in their null for critical hours, but I could foresee a couple of reasons why WBIX could skip in. For one thing, they could have switched early to the daytime pattern. Or, it could simply be a freak of atmospherics. I know that I have picked up the likes of WCRN, WRKO and WEEI at night from Albany, NY - and all three are nulled away from that location after dark.

Under normal circumstances, only 2 New England stations will skip westward: WBZ and WTIC. The rest run at lower power or are directional toward the E or NE.
 
BRNout said:
WBIX has only been running 40 kw during the day for a couple of years so, in relative terms, they haven't been around that long. You should still be in their null for critical hours, but I could foresee a couple of reasons why WBIX could skip in. For one thing, they could have switched early to the daytime pattern. Or, it could simply be a freak of atmospherics. I know that I have picked up the likes of WCRN, WRKO and WEEI at night from Albany, NY - and all three are nulled away from that location after dark.

Under normal circumstances, only 2 New England stations will skip westward: WBZ and WTIC. The rest run at lower power or are directional toward the E or NE.
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I've received WTIC a few times, but WBZ is the only New England station that makes it into the midwest.
 
The consensus is, then, that it might've been a switch thrown early rather than atmospheric conditions? WBIX certainly didn't sound like a sharp critical-hour null to me. More like a lobe. They were really chewing KYW back into metal typeset keys for ten minutes and I had no clue as to which station was on top with all the talk going on.

It was daylight here, which means it was daylight all the way to Boston, too. There might have been some residual skip vitamins and ions left in the atmosphere, sure ; there usually always are. I've been in the car at an hour before sunset here in NE PA and have heard the thing from Ohio stomping WCBS 880 into inaudability on a few occasions.

But we have the same schedule here tomorrow. Same wakeup time. I'll give 'em a try again. I usually have that radio set to KYW anyway.

Definitely, 'DX During Daylight Savings Time Months' is another thread, hi.
 
>>The consensus is, then, that it might've been a switch thrown early rather than atmospheric conditions? >>

That would be my guess.
 
No WBIX this morning ; same day, different ____. There was only a tantalizing *change* on the frequency at precisely 7AM here. There had been a new carrier present ..... a reshuffling of the 1060 deck.

Only a DXer's ears would've sensed the sonics, even at that hour.

Especially at that hour.

KYW IDed, and the Mexican station -- would the path still be darkness? -- was still serenading along at its usual 15% modulation, and some non-KYW guy did say 'Good morning' in English at 7AM, but, well, that was about it.

At about 7:25 there was this ear-popping disintegration of KYW's signal. Obviously something was up. It was skywave and groundwave incestually mating .... froma dozen stations or just two. But only
KYW survived the skip and the Schuylkill traffic and the invasions.

Gotta go along with the poster -- forgive my lapse about names -- who said that SRS skip is incredible. SRS DX is like playing pool for six hours. Every now and then a shot is situated right in the crosshairs and the ball goes in clean as silk.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
No WBIX this morning ; same day, different ____. There was only a tantalizing *change* on the frequency at precisely 7AM here. There had been a new carrier present ..... a reshuffling of the 1060 deck.

Only a DXer's ears would've sensed the sonics, even at that hour.

Especially at that hour.

KYW IDed, and the Mexican station -- would the path still be darkness? -- was still serenading along at its usual 15% modulation, and some non-KYW guy did say 'Good morning' in English at 7AM, but, well, that was about it.

At about 7:25 there was this ear-popping disintegration of KYW's signal. Obviously something was up. It was skywave and groundwave incestually mating .... froma dozen stations or just two. But only
KYW survived the skip and the Schuylkill traffic and the invasions.

Gotta go along with the poster -- forgive my lapse about names -- who said that SRS skip is incredible. SRS DX is like playing pool for six hours. Every now and then a shot is situated right in the crosshairs and the ball goes in clean as silk.
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Mexico would still be in darkness at 7AM EDT.
 
At night down here, 1060 has some strong sounding Spanish speaking station that usually dominates the frequency. When I face the radio NW, I can hear the station from New Orleans along with it. I can sometimes hear a whisper of KYW in the background when facing the radio NNE. I assume the Spanish station is Cuban but I could be wrong.
 
It's interesting although not totally surprising that you can get 1060 New Orleans at night.
Even though they only run 5KW at night, they do have a SE lobe. Their null is obviously towards the NE.
 
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