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Tonight poking around on the AM Band, I landed on 1030 and to my amazement WBZ, a station I kind of grew up with came in booming on the radio. Underneath 'BZ was a music station, it was weak and I couldn't tell what kind of music they were playing. It might have been religious music.
 
Signal said:
Tonight poking around on the AM Band, I landed on 1030 and to my amazement WBZ, a station I kind of grew up with came in booming on the radio. Underneath 'BZ was a music station, it was weak and I couldn't tell what kind of music they were playing. It might have been religious music.
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The station you might have heard underneath could be Memphis which I believe runs the format you described.
 
Signal said:
It could very well be Memphis. I'm not originally from Missouri, but Massachusetts.
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I used to listen to WBZ a lot here in the Chicago area--great signal. No surprise that you hear them in Missouri.
 
i didn't check but isn't 1030 Corpus Christi a daytimer?
Plus i've gotten it several times in Fla during the day (quite a haul) and all I heard was "all sermon all the time." No music.
 
jd said:
Perhaps someone around Memphis can confirm this, but unless something has changed quite recently, WGSF Memphis may still be off the air due to the flooding in the area a few months ago. According to a thread on the Memphis board their programming was shifted to 1210 in the interim; the STA to remain silent appears to still be in effect http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=26771 BTW, the station goes by "Radio Ambiente."
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Looks like you're right s Radio-locator doesn't even list them.
 
WBZ has had a good night-time signal in southwestern Ohio for many years. Their signal even made it harder to hear KDKA (1020-AM) from Pittsburgh. I always wished there was more sports play-by-play on WBZ, but all I recall hearing over the years were Patriots' games at night (which were basically pre-season games).
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
WBZ has had a good night-time signal in southwestern Ohio for many years. Their signal even made it harder to hear KDKA (1020-AM) from Pittsburgh. I always wished there was more sports play-by-play on WBZ, but all I recall hearing over the years were Patriots' games at night (which were basically pre-season games).
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WBZ has always been the best east coast signal for me here in the Chicago area. I used to check WBZ first to see how well DX from the east was back in my early DX days.
 
From here in eastern Ontario, there are times during the winter when you can faintly hear WBZ during the day.

~BG
 
radioman148 said:
Cincinnati Kid said:
WBZ has had a good night-time signal in southwestern Ohio for many years. Their signal even made it harder to hear KDKA (1020-AM) from Pittsburgh. I always wished there was more sports play-by-play on WBZ, but all I recall hearing over the years were Patriots' games at night (which were basically pre-season games).
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WBZ has always been the best east coast signal for me here in the Chicago area. I used to check WBZ first to see how well DX from the east was back in my early DX days.
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That's happened a few times here in the midwest around the winter solstice, WBZ, WHAM, & some of the NYC 50KWs have come in on those occasions.
 
listened to WBZ near Cedar Rapids IA 3 years back or so. Came in about as well as WHO. WBZ was much weaker in SE IA (near Ft. Madison) with WHO much stronger.
Can't remember about KDKA>>>
 
MarioMania said:
Can WBZ/KDKA be heard in kentucky??
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When I was in college in south-central Kentucky in the 1960's, I remember being able to pick up KDKA quite easily at night. I don't recall listening to WBZ, but that's not to say you couldn't.
 
MarioMania said:
Can WBZ/KDKA be heard in kentucky??
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To pick up on what Cincinnati Kid stated, both stations are are regularly heard in Kentucky from sunset to sunrise. Neither are heard during the daylight hours.

In the less cluttered, low electronic interference past, WBZ had a huge and reliable signal throughout the midwest. I used to listen to them almost nightly back when they played R&R in the evenings. For me, Bruce Bradley (WBZ) was far superior to Bruce Morrow (WABC).

Days, I doubt if KDKA reaches anywhere in Kentucky, as the ground conductivity from Pittsburgh to Eastern Kentucky is very low thanks to the Appalachian Mountains. WBZ hasn't a prayer of daytime groundwave to Kentucky.
 
Icangelp said:
MarioMania said:
Can WBZ/KDKA be heard in kentucky??
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To pick up on what Cincinnati Kid stated, both stations are are regularly heard in Kentucky from sunset to sunrise. Neither are heard during the daylight hours.

In the less cluttered, low electronic interference past, WBZ had a huge and reliable signal throughout the midwest. I used to listen to them almost nightly back when they played R&R in the evenings. For me, Bruce Bradley (WBZ) was far superior to Bruce Morrow (WABC).

Days, I doubt if KDKA reaches anywhere in Kentucky, as the ground conductivity from Pittsburgh to Eastern Kentucky is very low thanks to the Appalachian Mountains. WBZ hasn't a prayer of daytime groundwave to Kentucky.
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I too listen to Bruce Bradley on WBZ back in the 60s in the Chicago area. WBZ had & still has the best east coast signal here.
I did pick up WBZ on the west coast several times in the 60s before Casper, Wy came on.
 
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