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

[crainbebo]

99.9 MHz in Athena, OR - probably depends on precise location in Athena with respect to terrain between you and KWRL and KXLY with either of them possible but probably KWRL more common. Tropo seems less common in mountainous areas

Crain, you may want to keep an ear on your radios as the maps are showing some e-skip activity in the 6m band with paths between Seattle and WY/NE. If the MUF rises later it could get interesting out your way!

I hope so. MUF needs to rise - still in the 50 mhz range. I'd love to get some good NE and WY action again on FM - I love hearing small town stations!

-crainbebo

 

[cyberdad]

My turn to throw one out as the "AM voice in the wilderness"... 580khz in Madison, WI. I know the answer because I was there last week in a car with a good radio. But let's hear what you guys would guess.

 

[ftballfan]

My turn to throw one out as the "AM voice in the wilderness"... 580khz in Madison, WI. I know the answer because I was there last week in a car with a good radio. But let's hear what you guys would guess.

Day:
WILL Urbana, IL
WKTY La Crosse, WI
WTCM Traverse City, MI

Night:
Those three, plus WIBW Topeka, KS

 

[Buckeyes2001]

My turn to throw one out as the "AM voice in the wilderness"... 580khz in Madison, WI. I know the answer because I was there last week in a car with a good radio. But let's hear what you guys would guess.

Day:
WILL Urbana, IL
WKTY La Crosse, WI
WTCM Traverse City, MI

Night:
Those three, plus WIBW Topeka, KS

This is what I would guess it to be too with the possibility of WYHM around critical hours just before they switch to night pattern. This is provided you don't get too close to WHA, WTSO, WIBA, WLMV, WHIT, and/or WOZN's towers

 

[fybush]

I would expect to hear mostly WKTY in Madison.

 

[cyberdad]

I would expect to hear mostly WKTY in Madison.

Nope. That's what I would've thought, but it's WILL daytime (should've said daytime). Its been that way for as long as I can remember. You do hear "snatches" of WKTY in some locations, but WILL is surprisingly solid. However, you don't have to go very far northwest on I-94 before WKTY takes over.

As for nighttime, from past experience, it's pretty much a jumble. CKY and CKAP used to be somewhat common, but they're both long gone. I've heard WIBW there a couple of times, as well as WKTY.

WTCM? I've never heard it in Madison, but becomes clearly audible (and alone) not far north of Milwaukee near the Lake Michigan shoreline on I-43.

 

[ftballfan]

I would expect to hear mostly WKTY in Madison.

Nope. That's what I would've thought, but it's WILL daytime (should've said daytime). Its been that way for as long as I can remember. You do hear "snatches" of WKTY in some locations, but WILL is surprisingly solid. However, you don't have to go very far northwest on I-94 before WKTY takes over.

As for nighttime, from past experience, it's pretty much a jumble. CKY and CKAP used to be somewhat common, but they're both long gone. I've heard WIBW there a couple of times, as well as WKTY.

WTCM? I've never heard it in Madison, but becomes clearly audible (and alone) not far north of Milwaukee near the Lake Michigan shoreline on I-43.

WTCM is 50kW day/1.1kW night, but they send most of their power toward Sault Ste. Marie.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Next one:

96.3 MHz in Minot, ND

 

[bobdavcav]

If anything, here are my predictions, KNWS-Lp, KTWN, CFWD, and KRZN. That frequency looks pretty open though.

 

[radioman148]

I would expect to hear mostly WKTY in Madison.

Nope. That's what I would've thought, but it's WILL daytime (should've said daytime). Its been that way for as long as I can remember. You do hear "snatches" of WKTY in some locations, but WILL is surprisingly solid. However, you don't have to go very far northwest on I-94 before WKTY takes over.

As for nighttime, from past experience, it's pretty much a jumble. CKY and CKAP used to be somewhat common, but they're both long gone. I've heard WIBW there a couple of times, as well as WKTY.

WTCM? I've never heard it in Madison, but becomes clearly audible (and alone) not far north of Milwaukee near the Lake Michigan shoreline on I-43.

Even with the low dial position and the DA, I am very surprised that WILL is solid in Madison. I would not have guessed that one.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

If anything, here are my predictions, KNWS-Lp, KTWN, CFWD, and KRZN. That frequency looks pretty open though.

It certainly does look like a great DXing frequency from there. I don't think KNDS would make it there under dead-band conditions being only 100W @ 93ft and over 200 miles away but maybe KRZN and KTWN once in a while. Otherwise probably just static.

 

[joebtsflk1]

That does seem strange. Ground conductivity between LaCrosse and Madison is crap but I still would have guessed WKTY would win. Then again, WNAX on 570 w/5 kW in Yankton SD gets a signal daytime nearly 300 miles to the SE.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Next one:

740 kHz in Valentine, NE

 

[ftballfan]

Next one:

740 kHz in Valentine, NE

Day
KRMG Tulsa, OK
KVOR Colorado Springs, CO
KVOX Fargo, ND
WDGY Hudson, WI

Night
CFZM Toronto, ON
KRMG Tulsa, OK
KVOR Colorado Springs, CO
KVOX Fargo, ND

 

[cyberdad]

That does seem strange.  Ground conductivity between LaCrosse and Madison is crap but I still would have guessed WKTY would win.  Then again, WNAX on 570 w/5 kW in Yankton SD gets a signal daytime nearly 300 miles to the SE.

WKTY would win in Madison with a non-directional signal.  But they have a null that throws very little signal to the south of their towers....including to the southeast and southwest.  And while the conductivity between Madison and La Crosse indeed isn't good, its also not quite terrible. I once lived about 20 miles west of LaCrosse and Madison's WTSO, WIBA, and (then) WISM were all audible daily.  

Going the other way, WKTY's signal to the northwest is very good....audible well beyond the Twin Cities on I-94.

An engineer once told me that WKTY was originally put on the air by someone who concluded that 580 was a frequency that would work in the Twin Cities.  So evidently the builder of WKTY was a person (or group) who had an interest in seeing to it that a Twin Cities station on 580 couldn't happen!

 

[bobdavcav]

Here's one I'm kind of anxious to try, 94.5 at the Parodise visitors center on Mount Rainier.

 

[ddsparxx]

Depending on which side the visitor's center is on Mt. Rainier, I am thinking KATS Yakima would be most likely heard, On the west side of the mountain, maybe both two low-powered 94.5 in Shelton, WA and Kelso, WA fighting it out.

 

[crainbebo]

I'd say the same thing, but 94.5 on the west slope might be able to get K233BU and CFBT mixing with KRXY.

At 14,410 foot level I'd expect CFBT, KRXY, KATS, KLYK, KHTQ, KMGE and maybe KJDY, all mixing with each other.

-crainbebo

 

[ftballfan]

I'd say the same thing, but 94.5 on the west slope might be able to get K233BU and CFBT mixing with KRXY.

At 14,410 foot level I'd expect CFBT, KRXY, KATS, KLYK, KHTQ, KMGE and maybe KJDY, all mixing with each other.

-crainbebo

Paradise is actually on the south side of the mountain, so probably KATS and KLYK mixing together.

 

[w9wi]

My turn to throw one out as the "AM voice in the wilderness"... 580khz in Madison, WI. I know the answer because I was there last week in a car with a good radio. But let's hear what you guys would guess.

Well, I lived there for 13 years... and I'd say the daytime answer is WILL, WILL, and WILL. WKTY is directional during the day, protecting WILL, and the null passes through Madison.

I don't remember what was on top at night. Probably WIBW.