WEOK Poughkeepsie

[MarcB]

I was picking up 1390 WEOK the True Oldies Channel on my car radio in the parking lot of Blockbuster Video in Bristol, Connecticut. That's really far from Poughkeepsie. The TOC was playing some good music but I have to mention the technical goof. In the middle of one of the songs, over the music there was a liner something to the effect of "AM 1390 WEOK The True Oldies Channel".

I've never picked up WEOK before. Maybe the fact that WFNW 1380 Nauatuck, Connecticut is off the air is why I was able to pick up WEOK.

 

[necrat123]

Two things:

That's not unusual to hear WEOK in CT. They run 5kW Directional. Geographically Bristol is not that far from Poughkeepsie, especially for a 5kW AM. I used to hear them regularly in Springfield as well.

WFNW is on the air, they are running 250 watts ND on one of the towers.

 

[MarcB]

WFNW is on the air, they are running 250 watts ND on one of the towers.

Either way I was picking up Woonsocket, Rhode Island on 1380 in Bristol yesterday morning.

 

[Bucky Dornster]

That's not unusual to hear WEOK in CT. They run 5kW Directional. Geographically Bristol is not that far from Poughkeepsie, especially for a 5kW AM. I used to hear them regularly in Springfield as well.

Doesnt WEOK have a null tword Connecticut? I thought the pattern was somewhat north-south in a figure eight.

 

[necrat123]

http://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProEngine...bSearchType=Appl&sAppIDNumber=313541&sHours=D

Is the plot for WEOK, yes it does null somewhat, but it has a little lobe towards Bristol and towards Western Mass, from the array is close to the main lobes.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Might the reception have been of the Mid-Winter Anomaly type?

Last year about this time, I was at work in St. Clair PA (just north of Pottsville) hearing WGNY Newburgh. They were also playing oldies. It was maybe 1:30 PM. Yes, WGNY does send the bulk of its power west. But we're southwest. And at times, The Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose were splashing onto WPHT 1210. WGNY 1220 was so loud at points that I had to turn down the volume.

And this past January, from just about that same spot witht he portable, I heard WDJO Cincinnati on 1480, again, early afternoon, broad daylight. That was 460 miles away. That catch HAD to have been from the Mid-Winter Anomaly .... daytime skip off the atmosphere.

Or maybe Oldies travel farther than talk on AM,

 

[cspence]

.. That catch HAD to have been from the Mid-Winter Anomaly .... daytime skip off the atmosphere.

Don't know how that works but last week WFEA from the Granite state came in on the south shore of Long Island mid-day.

 

[rjrodrig]

I occasionally used to get WLS, WSCR and WBBM from Chicago and KCJJ from Iowa during the day in Poughkeepsie or Kingston, typically in December - January. They're a lot rarer now with the IBOC hash but you can still get some decent DX in the daytime this time of year.