I was near Fredonia,KY this morning and went for my WKYX fix and it's normally great signal was about equal with WILL Urbana,IL on 580...barely identifiable. Anyone know what's going on?
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That's weird. I can usually hear WKYX just fine here in Owensboro (at least in my pickup, which has a better AM radio than the car). I'll have to check it out in the morning.
BobOnTheJob said:
I returned from Lexington today via Louisville and don't remember copying WKYX but then again I didn't seek them. Though WILL stood out today. It was the first time I've ever heard them beat against WVLK west of New Albany, though it might've been that WVLK wasn't up to par.
WILL on 580 has a great signal...remember hearing them on my dad's 1960 Buick car radio in Cincinnati. And I do hear something beating against WVLK here 80 miles north of Louisville but haven't figured out what it is. WKYX is usually listenable at least to Evansville when the power line buzz doesn't kill it. When WSON (live, local, small town radio is such a treat!) started getting weak on Alternate 41, I punch up 570 and heard nothing at all. Figuring they were off the air for some reason, I didn't check again until I was near Fredonia and at that location it was there but extremely weak. The sun was up so I'm sure they shouldn't have been on night power. That said, I just checked their night pattern and they have a very deep null where I was. Wonder if they were simply on night pattern for some reason?radiorob2.0 said:
Maybe someone there forgot to flip the switch to go to daytime power. Happens all the time. At a station where I formerly worked, if we didn't go to day power, we would usually hear from a listener in the "fringe" listening area, saying that they could not receive our programming. 
Reminds me of an evening in 1978 when WIFE 1310 Indianapolis was just blasting into Columbus,IN at night. I called the request line 2 hours past sunset and thanked them for the great new signal. The guy said he was glad I liked it. 30 seconds after he hung up, it was gone.firepoint525 said:Maybe someone there forgot to flip the switch to go to daytime power. Happens all the time. At a station where I formerly worked, if we didn't go to day power, we would usually hear from a listener in the "fringe" listening area, saying that they could not receive our programming.
Reminds me of a time back in the early 80's and I was working at a graveyard channel station and the 7 to midnight guy was always forgetting to power down to 250w at sunset I would come in for the overnight and notice the power still up at 1kw and he would say that's why he was getting calls from people saying the Braves game was coming in so well.
If I recall, KYX had different call letters before it became WKYX. Wasn't it WKYB or WKYG? Who had the WKYX calls before they landed in Paducah? Wish they'd break off from 94.3 and run something different like music again or sports. It seems like such a waste to merely be a simulcast partner to 94.3 and whatever the station is in Mayfield.
I'm the opposite...I wish the 94.3 would break off if anything does. The AM has far better coverage than 94.3 does (except on the morning that started this thread). I emailed Greg Dunker (who's been good at answering past emails) but got no reply this time.
BobOnTheJob said:Reminds me of an evening in 1978 when WIFE 1310 Indianapolis was just blasting into Columbus,IN at night. I called the request line 2 hours past sunset and thanked them for the great new signal. The guy said he was glad I liked it. 30 seconds after he hung up, it was gone.firepoint525 said:Maybe someone there forgot to flip the switch to go to daytime power. Happens all the time. At a station where I formerly worked, if we didn't go to day power, we would usually hear from a listener in the "fringe" listening area, saying that they could not receive our programming.
My former station (same one that I mentioned earlier) supposedly received QSL cards from as far away as Michigan! I'm in Tennessee, and no, the station in question was not WSM or WLAC. ;Dknoxbob said:
They must be havin' problems in the Clark River Bottoms... It's a slough stream... Used to go there to see a friend working on the FM side (WKYQ) when the did some shows from the transmitter site and the FM was on one of the three AM towers... And the AM transmitter had the custom plate on the door; "WKYB".... Before 1280/WGBF went Top-40 on Labor Day 1975 in Evansville, we'd flip off 1330/WJPS and roll down to 57X (WKYX).... Great station in those days.... Brian Sergent and crew....
BobOnTheJob said:
sorry 'bout that, Bob. I had to get a new email address recently. I don't mind posting it here...
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yep, we've been having some problems with the pattern, and who-knows-what-all else...
the engineers are working on it, though. thanks for the patience!
Thanks Greg! And welcome to Radio-Info. I stop by the 92.1 in Fredonia,KY once a month and always enjoy getting my WKYX fix while in the area...good show!gdunker said:
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