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WHFB 1060

cyberdad

cyberdad

Here's another one that has apparently "forgetting" to power down after sunset. For the past two nights WHFB, Benton Harbor, MI has been blasting in and overpowering KYW on 1060 at my location. Apparentkly they're running 5kw ND day power. Or it's possible that they could be running at 2.5kw CH power. I'll go out on a limb amd giess that their one watt of night power isn't enough to make the hop across Lake Michigan. Just a wild guess, mind you. Distance from my location is 89 miles. (Day signal here is very weak, due to the horrible ground conductivity of the sand dunes in extreme southwest Michigan).

Anyway, if any of you guys haven't logged this one, this might be your chance. At least for as long as their "memory lapse" continues. Format is "Motown and More" classic R & B.
 
I've definitely heard them at night before... not as strongly as you're describing them, but in the background below KYW. I've always been skeptical that they were operating at 1.3 watts, but since they are directly across the lake I thought maybe there's a small chance they just come in extremely well.
 
They applied to reduce power during Non CH to just 3 kW, CH still just 2.5 kW. Aren't they coowned with WIMS? I would think the much better signal on 1060 compared to 1420 could be put to good use rather than sacrificing it. It has trditionally been listened to by Michigan Sports fans in the Chicago Area, and was legendary with the accolades given to it by Bob Ufer.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
I've definitely heard them at night before... not as strongly as you're describing them, but in the background below KYW. I've always been skeptical that they were operating at 1.3 watts, but since they are directly across the lake I thought maybe there's a small chance they just come in extremely well.
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I'm wondering if there might be some convegence going on at your location. Or if perhaps, the skywave hasn't kicked in where you are.

OIOH, I'm pretty sure that WHFB wouldn't be blowing out KYW at my location if it wasn't skywave. Off the top of my head, however, I can't think another station 89 miles from me where reception is via a skywave hop.
 
Despite KYW being there, it does seem that WHFB is pretty similar in strength right now to how it is during the daytime. Most likely it's just broadcasting at its daytime or critical hours power. There are lots of stations in SW Michigan that broadcast at low powers at night (often using a lot more than 1.3 W) and none of them come through remotely like this.
 
WHFB should have a groundwave field intensity of less than 10 µV/m in the Chicago area when using their 1 watt of FCC-authorized power for nighttime service (see below). It also would have a lot of self-interference via its own skywaves.

But probably that net field would be below the ambient r-f noise level at most receiver locations, even if there were no other stations using 1060 kHz at that time.

WHFB CH AND NIGHTTIME FIELDS (FCC).png
 
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