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

97.1 in Pleasant Hill was indeed a weak KVVL/Marysville, MO with a rock format. KHKI 97.3 doesn't use IBOC so any DSP radio can get around them. On an ordinary radio of course it would just be splatter from KHKI's 105kW signal.

Speaking of Copper Harbor, MI, what would 1130 kHz sound like from there?
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Speaking of Copper Harbor, MI, what would 1130 kHz sound like from there?
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Right in the lobe of WISN by day. At night, I'd expect some Minneapolis and Detroit in the mix, too, and even some Vancouver if conditions are right. CKWX tends to be the first (and usually only) BC station to get east during good AM conditions.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Next one:

106.5 MHz in Marion, OH
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A sloppy three way mess of:
WDSJ Greenville, OH
WHLK Cleveland, OH
WLQR Delta, OH

Other stations that may make it in occasionally:
WQLX Chillicothe, OH
WVFM Kalamazoo, MI
 
Mostly KMZQ from Vegas these days, by day. Some KIRN in there, too, but not much. At night, that area used to get a massive KBOI signal. I was a regular listener when I lived just north of Death Valley in the late '80s, before KBOI was neutered at night to make room for the KIRN upgrade that never happened.
 
Scott Fybush said:
At night, that area used to get a massive KBOI signal. I was a regular listener when I lived just north of Death Valley in the late '80s, before KBOI was neutered at night to make room for the KIRN upgrade that never happened.
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When I was in the Laguna Beach area for a couple of nights at the beginning of the month, I was surprised at how much KIRN had the channel pretty much all to itself at night. It should be noted, however, that the skywave path to the north during my visit was far from ideal.
 
Keep in mind that KBOI's directional pattern was changed rather dramatically when that site was rebuilt. It throws very little toward southern California now. And while KIRN never built out its upgrade, the KBOI modification provided room for Las Vegas' 670 (which is flea-power at night, all of it away from California.)
 
Scott Fybush said:
Keep in mind that KBOI's directional pattern was changed rather dramatically when that site was rebuilt. It throws very little toward southern California now. And while KIRN never built out its upgrade, the KBOI modification provided room for Las Vegas' 670 (which is flea-power at night, all of it away from California.)
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KIRN currently runs 3kW at night. How much was its unbuilt upgrade going to raise it to?

Another frequency: 94.9 MHz in Oconto, WI
 
I think that one would be a tossup between WKZC Scottville, MI, WOLX Baraboo, WI or WUPZ Chocolay Township, MI. On radios with less-than-DSP-sharp selectivity, watch out for 95.1 WLST Marinette, WI, blasting 100kW from 16 mi NE.

How about ...

1090 kHz - at the KAAY Transmitter Site, while KAAY was off the air earlier this year / late last year (or whenever it was). Assume you're using KAAY's towers as your receive antenna (or something with equivalent gain), connected to a very sensitive receiver (one that could clearly get a signal without any antenna connected, that a Superradio, CC Radio, PR-D5, etc. can't detect with their built-in ferrite bars).

Question for Scott Fybush, in advance of one of my future ideas. What are some high-power (~50+ kW TPO) FM stations (preferably non-IBOC) atop high-rise buildings, either with public access to the roof, or another nearby (within 0.05 km) building or hilltop on the same level with the antenna's main beam?
One of my ideas would be first-adjacent to that local, for example 90.5 or 90.9 on Mt Wilson, CA, or 100.5 or 100.9 at the Soledad Cross in La Jolla / San Diego, CA. I'd like to find some that are a few decades of dB stronger though - preferably good enough to completely swamp a Tecsun DSP radio across all bands with the antenna disconnected. :)
As for the AM side along similar lines, I was thinking 1490 kHz near the center of the Northlake Festival parking lot in Tucker, GA, while WSB was still running IBOC, or, 1080 kHz (or 1071 if you want to try a TP/TA split) near the southwest part of Columbia Park in Torrance, CA, before KNX started using IBOC. :) (You wouldn't have to use WSB's or KNX's tower as your receive antenna, but bonus points if you could get stations *ON* the target frequencies.)
 
Some great possibilities for using KAAY as the receiver tower in the day would probably be KEXS in MO, KNWS in IA, maybe KULF TX, and maybe one of the TN daytimers.

Nighttime would be so messy that it would be hard to decipher anything. Mexicans, WBAL, etc, you name it!

-crainbebo
 
For 1090 in Little Rock with KAAY off and using their towers as a rig:
Daytime
KEXS Excelsior Springs, MO
KNWS Waterloo, IA
KULF Bellville, TX
KVOP Plainview, TX
WCRA Effingham, IL
WTNK Hartsville, TN
WWGC Albertville, AL

Nighttime
KMXA Aurora, CO
KVOP Plainview, TX
WBAL Baltimore, MD
WCAR Livonia, MI (they actually INCREASE power at night!)
WTNK Hartsville, TN (authorized for 2W at night)
Mexicans
 
If one were to use KAAY's towers as a receiving antenna would reception be as directional as their transmissions are? (at night of course)
 
radioman148 said:
If one were to use KAAY's towers as a receiving antenna would reception be as directional as their transmissions are? (at night of course)
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If it was properly matched to the receiver and the receiver was shielded from stray signals, the pattern would be identical. Engineers were known to play around with their DAs like this with the off air receiver. It's interesting when there is a major lobe toward a particular station, and nulls toward other stations that are well protected and may also be contributors to the NIF.

I do remember engineers at WAAM in Ann Arbor, MI saying that WWRL New York City, NY would come in at night on their off air receiver, especially with the day WAAM pattern, and also at sunrise when WWRL increases to 25000 watts.

Engineers are spread so thin and many younger ones don't have much interest in AM and AM arrays, so they might not try these experiments anymore, but it would be interesting to look at day and night patterns to see what you might near that you ordinarily wouldn't. If they do impedance bridge measurements, they might hear them inadvertently.
 
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