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WHIO-1290 off air last evening-a couple of catches

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WHIO (Dayton OH) picked the dinner hour to do routine maintenance. I logged WDZY, the Radio Disney affiliate in VA, which isn't that unusual even with WHIO on. I heard a station with several mentions of West Virginia (presumably WOMP). Also a country station with a show called "New Music Nashville". These between 6:30 and 7pm EDT.
 
I've only heard WHIO once or twice here northwest of Chicago. WIRL and what used to be KOIL rule 1290 here (in that order). Two stations with absolutely glorious top 40 histories.
 
When the gang DXed from near Jamaica Bay/JFK Airport in Queens, 1290 was one of *those* frequencies for nighttime DX -- the good kind. Only maybe 20 miles to our east was WGLI Babylon, but they sent everything toward Bermuda. You had to drive east to within actual sight of WGLI's three towers to hear them. And maybe not even then because WADO 1280 was doing a job on them. As a result, 1290 was pretty much a prairie back in our Jamaica Bay dens.

We did get WHIO, and WICE Providence (good top 40 themselves!), and WFBG Altoona (usually at SRS), and Canada and Omaha, and even Ocala on an Auroral goose, but if there was a nighttime dominant -- 9PM to 11 PM or so -- it indeed was WIRL.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
When the gang DXed from near Jamaica Bay/JFK Airport in Queens, 1290 was one of *those* frequencies for nighttime DX -- the good kind. Only maybe 20 miles to our east was WGLI Babylon, but they sent everything toward Bermuda. You had to drive east to within actual sight of WGLI's three towers to hear them. And maybe not even then because WADO 1280 was doing a job on them. As a result, 1290 was pretty much a prairie back in our Jamaica Bay dens.

We did get WHIO, and WICE Providence (good top 40 themselves!), and WFBG Altoona (usually at SRS), and Canada and Omaha, and even Ocala on an Auroral goose, but if there was a nighttime dominant -- 9PM to 11 PM or so -- it indeed was WIRL.
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WOW--I would've never thought WIRL making it regularly into New York.
 
WIRL certainly gets to Ohio; when they were having some antenna issues and were on day pattern at night they were strong under WHIO. Right after sunrise, I get a mix of WDZY, a station in Manchester, KY which is distinguishable by it's weather sounders (a jingle that says "Weather" and a 60s era sounding news open followed by a telephonic forecast). The Manchester station had a glitch on it's li9cense that allowed it to sign on fuill power at 5:30am in December and they belew everyone away. I'm sure a couple others as well, and I'm only about 10 air miles from WHIO's transmitter.
 
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