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WLW and WTUB 700. Mixing here in NE PA nearing midnight

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Steve_Green

Thanks to a tip from a great NJ broadcaster who heard it in his car a few nights ago, I pass along the reception of daytime 2500-watter WTUB (Orange-Athol MA) at 11:30 PM Tuesday.

WTUB is running ESPN Sports. Despite the disparity in transmitter output, this spunky signal (knowingly or otherwise) is carving up WLW as I type this. I just got a clear ID 'on tape'.

Figured to pass this along as soon as I could ID it for certain. Don't know how long this 'extra' catch from Massachusetts is going to be doing this.
 
I caught them the other night. No official ID or anything but I did hear ESPN Radio 700. Seeing how few stations are licensed on 700 AM (probably due to the history of WLW as a superpower AM) this was probably WTUB. Looks like somebody's forgetting to shut the signal off.

With the IBOC hash that WLW and its neighbor WOR put out there really isn't a clean signal anyways so a little interference from WTUB probably isn't as bad as WOR's IBOC sideband.
 
I was in Colorado Springs last month and heard WLW fairly well on my antique Sony Walkman Cassette Player. Also heard WHAS and most of the Chicago Biggies. Reception was best about two or three hours after sundown.
 
KR4BD said:
I was in Colorado Springs last month and heard WLW fairly well on my antique Sony Walkman Cassette Player. Also heard WHAS and most of the Chicago Biggies. Reception was best about two or three hours after sundown.
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I haven't checked WLW out west lately, but I can tell you it does great in the Carribbean. It was a nightly pickup when I was in Puerto Rico last winter.
 
Was WLW ever heard in CA in the Past??
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In the late 70s when I used to visit my brother out there in Fairfield when he was at Travis AFB, WLW was easily heard at night and that was in the summer too.

I had a pretty good portable radio at the time and it's the same one where I also heard KFI in New Jersey for a few minutes once in the winter of 77-78.
 
I'm going to West Sac in August..going to see about WLW
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Don't be disappointed if you don't hear anything you can ID.

The AM band now has many stations sharing the same frequency unlike it was in the 70s.

What I suggest is to carefully listen to what may be in the background of KALL or whatever other station is on the same frequency and listen for a long time as conditions change but don't expect a loud signal with an other closer station sharing the frequency.

I also heard WLS out there in the Bay Area in the late 70s and early 80s, often with a good signal too.

And I also once heard WCBS there with a very weak signal.

You sure can't do that these days.
 
WLW was a fairly easy catch in Southern California in the early 1960's. I lived 60 miles east of L.A. at the time where 710 (then KMPC out of LA) was directional away from me and rather weak at night. Also, XETRA-690's signal was also not so hot, so 700 was a fairly "clear" frequency for me. I also seem to remember receiving an Australian station on 700 or 702 just before sunrise (2NR ?) once in a while, too.

You must remember that in those days, we had truly CLEAR CHANNEL STATIONS where NO ONE else would be on that frequency at night. Today, of course, this is not the case.

I remember receiving virtually ALL of the 50 KW clear channel East Coast stations with KDKA being "very easy" most nights. WBZ was particularly common. It was also not unusual to hear many 5 KW stations from East of the Mississippi River, especially on Monday mornings when a large number of stations would be off-the-air for maintenance from midnight to 5 AM. Some of these lower powered stations that I heard many times in California included WING, WSAI, WSUN, WRDW, WCIN (500 watts), etc.
 
As KR4BD pointed out, hearing stations from coast to coast in the 60s & 70s was common--especially in the 60s. Clear channel stations were the only ones on their respective frequencies at night. Not only WLW, but many east coast stations were heard regularly on the West Coast.
I remember one night in the LA area hearing KDKA as soon as KGBS (now KTNQ) signed off. I also heard WCBS, WNBC, WABC, WCAU, & WBZ many times on the West Coast.
Those days are long gone.
 
'Born too late' .... good chuckle, TfcWings!

And the even-older DXers from that Sixties era, who weren't genetically blessed with ears like an elephant either, were even more fortunate because the dial was clearer when THEY were stealing sleep hours from Monday morning academics in the Fifties.

Great DXing there, KR4BD! I see you liked those regionals, too, lol.
 
StveGreenPA said:
'Born too late' .... good chuckle, TfcWings!

And the even-older DXers from that Sixties era, who weren't genetically blessed with ears like an elephant either, were even more fortunate because the dial was clearer when THEY were stealing sleep hours from Monday morning academics in the Fifties.

Great DXing there, KR4BD! I see you liked those regionals, too, lol.
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I didn't realize then that the regionals could be captured so easily in the early 60s. I was too busy going after the 50KWs from coast to coast.
 
In Northbridge MA (about 40 mi SE of the Orange-Athol MA area) I distinctly heard ESPN programming on 700. This was at 11PM or so; station was not strong enough to really listen to and I didn't try to wait for the calls.
VERY faint 2nd station in the background; too weak to ID.
 
KR4BD said:
I remember receiving virtually ALL of the 50 KW clear channel East Coast stations with KDKA being "very easy" most nights. WBZ was particularly common. It was also not unusual to hear many 5 KW stations from East of the Mississippi River, especially on Monday mornings when a large number of stations would be off-the-air for maintenance from midnight to 5 AM. Some of these lower powered stations that I heard many times in California included WING, WSAI, WSUN, WRDW, WCIN (500 watts), etc.
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Nowadays I sometimes have a hard time hearing KDKA where I am thanks to WBZ's IBOC.
 
spunker88 said:
KR4BD said:
I remember receiving virtually ALL of the 50 KW clear channel East Coast stations with KDKA being "very easy" most nights. WBZ was particularly common. It was also not unusual to hear many 5 KW stations from East of the Mississippi River, especially on Monday mornings when a large number of stations would be off-the-air for maintenance from midnight to 5 AM. Some of these lower powered stations that I heard many times in California included WING, WSAI, WSUN, WRDW, WCIN (500 watts), etc.
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Nowadays I sometimes have a hard time hearing KDKA where I am thanks to WBZ's IBOC.
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It's getting harder & harder to find noise free AM radio.
 
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