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DaveArnold
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I am just north of Charlotte,NC and recently have been getting
84 WHAS much better than usual.Using a CC Radio 2.
84 WHAS much better than usual.Using a CC Radio 2.
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Not sure why the WHAS signal is coming in better there right now, but that station doesn't get enough mention as one that gets out very well at night and has for many years. In addition to covering the south and southeast portions of the U.S. WHAS carries down into the Gulf and Caribbean. The station makes it to the central states and it also can be heard in the eastern and northeastern states as well.
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nocomradio
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WHAS comes in pretty darn strong here in Central VA nearly every night now. Has for all of this fall/winter. Very listenable most nights. Some fade, but overall a decent signal.
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rbrucecarter5
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Yep - they seem stronger in Houston. They must have dumped HD. I wish WCCO would dump HD so I could get them better.
WHAS puts a great signal into mid and northern Michigan.
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cd637299
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I say let's bring back Joe Donovan..... 
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When driving north of Louisville, WCCO's noise starts to become audible a mere 29 miles north of the city limits. The AM IBOC's are dying...WCCO is outlasting most of them. Once Clear Channel takes over WOR, that may help clean that one up. I'm sure CC doesn't like what WOR is doing to WLW.audioguy said:
I grew up 50 mies due south of WCCO's stick, and WHAS would come in most nights and fight it out on a very average radio. Of course, this was "back in the day" (late 80s).
BobOnTheJob said:
WLW gets mauled at night not far north and east of Columbus. I live probably 15 miles inside the cancellation zone and there have been times WLW has been almost inaudible between the occasional fades (which are much worse in the summer than this time of year) and WOR's hash.
So glad AM IBOC mostly has been relegated to the trash, where it has always belonged.
This might be worth a chuckle... one night I woke up very early in the morning and decided to tune around and I picked up a new station that I had never previously heard. So I logged the call letters in my brain and went back to sleep. In the morning I realized what I had done. The call letters of that "new" station? "WAJS"!
Wthom100 said:I can receive WHAS very clear here in the Detroit area - seems like they always have a basketball game on in the evening.
WHAS has a long history of covering basketball games. For many decades (with the exception of a few seasons), the station has carried the University of Kentucky games. For some years now, they have also carried the University of Louisville contests. As far back as the early 1960's (and maybe earlier than that), WHAS would pick up a couple of games each season of Eastern Kentucky and Western Kentucky universities. In the 1960's and into the 1970's, they also did many games from the Kentucky State Boys Basketball Tournament. When the pro team the Kentucky Colonels were playing in the old American Basketball Association (ABA), those were heard on WHAS as well. The station's strong signal both during the day and at night along with the success of the teams they carried helped fans of the sport in many states follow them.
A note here about WHAS' coverage: back in the '70s while I was stationed at Cannon AFB, Clovis, NM from about 90 minutes before EDT/EST radio sunset through the night to radio sunrise, I picked up WHAS (840 kHz) like a local, particularly in the fall and winter months, consistently. Only during local storms did this phenonemon fail me.
This was great for a Louisville native like myself, 1200+ road miles from home...I was listening to ball games called by Cawood Ledford and Van Vance, news and WHAS' then-excellent music format with announcers such as Gary Burbank and Joe Donovan. With the time difference in the shorter days, I'd actually hear drive-time 'copter reports from Louisville!
The same phenomenon happened in Clovis with KNX (1070 kHz), Los Angeles-about 1,075 road miles away. Both KNX and WHAS for whatever reason had strong signals on the High Plains of Eastern NM and West TX...I visited Clovis on a western trip in 1995 and the same two stations rolled in clearly, tracking KNX until sunrise in the Texas panhandle on Old 66.
This was great for a Louisville native like myself, 1200+ road miles from home...I was listening to ball games called by Cawood Ledford and Van Vance, news and WHAS' then-excellent music format with announcers such as Gary Burbank and Joe Donovan. With the time difference in the shorter days, I'd actually hear drive-time 'copter reports from Louisville!
The same phenomenon happened in Clovis with KNX (1070 kHz), Los Angeles-about 1,075 road miles away. Both KNX and WHAS for whatever reason had strong signals on the High Plains of Eastern NM and West TX...I visited Clovis on a western trip in 1995 and the same two stations rolled in clearly, tracking KNX until sunrise in the Texas panhandle on Old 66.
King Bee's story is a great example of the distance that WHAS may be received. The station's signal does very well to the east as well. Van Vance once told me of the night he was on Long Island to broadcast a Colonels' game with the New York Nets. He was approached by a young man who knew him by name from listening to the Colonels' broadcasts on WHAS at his home in New York City.
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