WCBS Signal in Midwest

[Ai4i]

The conductivity of salt water is up into the gazillians compared to anything else.

 

[secondchoice]

WCBS and all the NYC regulars (660, 710, 770, etc) have been "normal" at night here in Central KY this summer. Lesser strength NYC stations in this direction (1010, 1050, 1130 and 1560) are still heard here with regularity, but certainly not as clearly as the others mentioned.

I thought 1010 went directional East at night? I never checked them out at night when in the Midwest. I have picked them up right at sunset for less than a minute in GA (over riding 1010 WGUN's critical power) but I assumed they were switching patterns when this happens.

 

[KR4BD]

WCBS and all the NYC regulars (660, 710, 770, etc) have been "normal" at night here in Central KY this summer. Lesser strength NYC stations in this direction (1010, 1050, 1130 and 1560) are still heard here with regularity, but certainly not as clearly as the others mentioned.

I thought 1010 went directional East at night? I never checked them out at night when in the Midwest. I have picked them up right at sunset for less than a minute in GA (over riding 1010 WGUN's critical power) but I assumed they were switching patterns when this happens.

At my location in Lexington, KY, WINS and CFRB mix it up on 1010 nightly. Most of the time, CFRB is dominant, but WINS sometimes "is the winner" on the frequency. True, WINS is not usually "listenable" here like 660, 770 and 880, but it is getting here.

 

[luperm]

WINS got some help a few years back, signal wise, when they rebuilt their array and bought (and took dark) the AM 1000 in NJ and AM 1010 in Little Rock.

 

[DanStrassberg]

I thought 1010 went directional East at night? I never checked them out at night when in the Midwest. I have picked them up right at sunset for less than a minute in GA (over riding 1010 WGUN's critical power) but I assumed they were switching patterns when this happens.

WINS is and has been DA-2 for more than 60 years. The current array is much newer than that, however (maybe 10 or 15 years). The day and night patterns are quite similar with the radiation maxima at an azimuth of ~100 degrees true. The day maximum (~5600 mV/m @ 1 km) is actually about 10% stronger than the night maximum. Nevertheless, the biggest difference between the day and night patterns is that, to protect CFRB, the night pattern suppresses the day pattern's small lobe to the northwest.