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What do you think you could get if you were...

I'll "jump the gun" with the Little Canada, MN idea. What you'd get on 1490 there would be all splatter from KSTP with their 50kw stick(s) only a few miles away. There are some 1490s not all that far away, however.
 
Darn! I thought Little Canada was way up NEAR the Canadian border, not in Minneapolis!

KXRA 1490 Alexandria, MN may be a possibility - 10 miles away from KSTP... but only at night I suppose.

-crainbebo
 
KXRA actually has a pretty decent signal....but obviously not enough to overcome KSTP splatter immediately north of St. Paul where Little Canada is. BTW, the operative word in "Little Canada" is "little". Very small suburb. Nice enough place, but it basically consists of a freeway junction, small residential areas and not much else.
 
My first guess for Manistique would be "nothing"....save for maybe some very minor splatter from WTMJ. But if I had to pick a station, I'd probably go with CFCO. The 630 in Huntsville, ON is off the air (to the best of my knowledge), and the 630 in the Twin Cities may as well be.

Am I overlooking something.
 
Round 14 - 1180 kHz - Lakeside, CA

I would suspect that to be all splatter from 1170 KCBQ during the day. Critical hours likely KERN and possibly XEUBS if you can get past KCBQ (more likely when they drop to 2.9kW) Nighttime likely KERN around KCBQ splatter.
 
As for 1490 kHz in Little Canada, MN:

Daytime would be splatter from 1500 KSTP. I would think you'd have to have a receiver with excellent selectivity, perhaps with the Perseus SDR phased antenna set-up running you could eliminate the splatter enough to hear a weak KLGR and perhaps also KRIB, KQDS, KXRA, WIGM, WLFN depending on loop orientation. Nighttime, all graveyard slop all the time combined with KSTP slop unless again you can null KSTP.
 
cyberdad said:
My first guess for Manistique would be "nothing"....save for maybe some very minor splatter from WTMJ. But if I had to pick a station, I'd probably go with CFCO. The 630 in Huntsville, ON is off the air (to the best of my knowledge), and the 630 in the Twin Cities may as well be.

Am I overlooking something.
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It is a weak, but audible, CFCO, with IBOC slop from WTMJ (bad enough so that one cannot hear CFCO with an omnidirectional antenna).
At night, CFCO listenable, with some CCI.
(BTW, for about a year, CFCO seems to have been running DA1 with their former night pattern as their 24h pattern).
 
pianoplayer88key said:
594 kHz (are TP/TA freqs ok? & yes I HAVE received a station on that freq near there) .
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Yes, definitely the 9 kHz TA/TP frequencies are good. FM frequencies, SW frequencies, public safety, or anything anyone wants to throw out there would be great :)

As for 594 kHz in Rancho San Diego, CA:
With careful phasing of KOGO and with the ripe TP conditions, JOAK from Japan (@ 300 kW) could make an appearance there probably around pre-sunrise in San Diego and at a time of year where it would also be dark in Japan. Also possible, though less likely would be DZBB 594 from Manila, Philippines (@ 50 kW)
 
Probably WOOD in Muskegon, MI, or others during Tropo. My guess.

-crainbebo
 
For 106.9 MHz in Manistee, MI, I would say that in dead-band conditions, it would be a very scratchy (on a car radio) WOOD/Muskegon, MI. Tropo-enhancement would bring that station in stronger and cross-lake enhancement would also allow WLGE. If you had a good home set-up with a directional roof-top antenna, you should be able to get either WLGE or WOOD depending on antenna bearing in dead-band conditions. Cross-lake tropo enhancement could also bring in WNRG/Brookfield, WI (Milwaukee). Those are my suppositions :)
 
My answer will shock everyone!
WLGE (6kW) is way more common than WOOD-FM (50kW) in Manistee, even on a stock car radio. Even before WLGE signed on, WOOD (then WMUS) was still quite uncommon. WNRG makes an occasional appearance during the summer, but is not nearly as common as the big Milwaukee FMs (WHAD, WLDB, WMYX, WKKV, WXSS, WMIL, WVCY).

New one:
I have a bunch of good ideas, but here is my next one: 103.5 FM in Grand Rapids, MI
 
103.5 MHz in Grand Rapids, MI...

Well, according to the mibuzzboard.com site, W278BN that was licensed for 103.5 never went on the air (if they were, that would be what you'd get in Grand Rapids) so I'm guessing that in Grand Rapids, 103.5 would be dominated by IBOC from WKFR 103.3. If you could null WKFR IBOC, you could get a scratchy WTCM. Tropo should bring in WKSC or WMUZ through the hash.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
103.5 MHz in Grand Rapids, MI...

Well, according to the mibuzzboard.com site, W278BN that was licensed for 103.5 never went on the air (if they were, that would be what you'd get in Grand Rapids) so I'm guessing that in Grand Rapids, 103.5 would be dominated by IBOC from WKFR 103.3. If you could null WKFR IBOC, you could get a scratchy WTCM. Tropo should bring in WKSC or WMUZ through the hash.
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W278BN has a CP to move to 92.9 in GR. KFR is really strong in most of Grand Rapids, which is surprising considering they're only 50kW and about 40 miles away from GR. I have gotten WTCM in GR before, usually when KFR has their IBOC off. Once I even got a weak WTCM on my clock radio in my apartment in Allendale, about 15 miles west of Grand Rapids.
 
On any radio with an active component before a converter stage = WLW and it's I-trash as the front end multiples their signal by two.

On a radio not subject to overload = WING Dayton.
 
That's what I've been told, that WLW's harmonic IBOC covers up 1380, 1390, 1410, 1420 though WING can be heard above it unless you're very close to the WLW tower. So this begs the question, would an HD radio lock onto WLW's HD signal on 1400 if you were very close to the tower?

How about this one...

103.7 MHz in Winterset, IA

I've actually tried this one so after some guesses I'll post my observations.
 
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