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WFAN New York had quite a good signal here in Tampa tonight (video)

MarioMania said:
Nice..Was it the first time you heard it that stronge?
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Not the first time but I've only heard it like that a couple times in the 27 years I've been down here.

Sometimes the signal is a little stronger than the Orlando or Cuban station but seldom virtually completely alone and as strong as it was last night.

Usually, the Cuban station dominates with WFAN in the background along with WORL and sometimes WORL dominates but even WORL has never come in quite as good as WFAN was in that video.
 
I don't think weather has anything to do with AM reception.

AM and FM signals propagate in very different ways.
 
For a brief time a few minutes ago, WLS from Chicago was booming in and sounded almost like a local. :eek:

I haven't heard it like this in well over 20 years when it used to boom in on a regular basis and was probably the strongest northern station on the AM dial at night here in Tampa.

That was during their top 40 days.
 
There is definitely something going on. Two nights ago on the Global Tuners node in Northern Ireland lots of US and Canadian stations were booming in better than I've ever heard them.
I heard WFAN, CFTR, WJR, WABC, WBBM, WCBS, WLS, WMVP, CFRB, WINS, WTAM, WBT, WBBR, WWZN & WWKB. Others were in there but I couldn't identify all of them.
 
Good signal on 660 gar. Just before leaving FLA last week (about this time) I caught 1010 WINS 2 nites in a row albeit very weakly, really not listenable .
 
gar fla said:
For a brief time a few minutes ago, WLS from Chicago was booming in and sounded almost like a local. :eek:

I haven't heard it like this in well over 20 years when it used to boom in on a regular basis and was probably the strongest northern station on the AM dial at night here in Tampa.

That was during their top 40 days.
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GarFla,

I happened to do an AM band scan just a few minutes after you did (around 6:40 PM) and like you WLS was coming in much stronger than usual and to my amazement, I didn't hear the Cuban 890 in the background. (maybe they were off the air?). Also WBBM was coming in, but not as well as WLS...... normally, WBBM 780 is the only Chicago station I can hear, here in St. Petersburg on an almost regular basis. Was also picking up 720 out of Chicago, but not 670. (have some splatter from the local 680 along with the strong Cuban station on 670.)

drt,
st. petersburg,fl
 
But the airwaves must be running both ways. Last evening, about 5:40 pm or about 1.5 hrs after local sunset, I caught a decent/listenable 690 from Jacksonville w/ ID's while playing with the car radio which is fair at best on AM reception. Engine was off,
I've gotten a lightbulb sixed 690 from West Virginia several times before.
There were 2 680's-1 from 30 mi distant Boston fighting it out. Chicago was unusually strong.
Location 12 mi S of Worcester MA.
 
But the airwaves must be running both ways. Last evening, about 5:40 pm or about 1.5 hrs after local sunset, I caught a decent/listenable 690 from Jacksonville w/ ID's while playing with the car radio which is fair at best on AM reception.
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Up in New Jersey, it would be a regular right around sunset with a decent signal and then vanish when they switched to their nighttime pattern.

Another station I've heard up there around sunset is what's now WWMI 1380 from St. Pete. At the time, it was WRBQ playing top 40 and I was even hearing the AM Stereo signal on my little Walkman. They hadn't yet switched to their directional night pattern. As soon as they did, they were gone.
 
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