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WOWO's Signal

frankberry

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As I was driving home from work very early Sunday morning, I punched-up 1190 on my car radio.
I was amazed to hear WOWO ..... in Tampa, Florida!
When they were 50,000 watts at night, they threw a great signal into this area.
At 9,800 watts, I didn't think their signal would reach this far.
I'm guessing that their ERP in this direction must be close to 50kw.

Frank
 
WOWO still has an ERP like a 50 KWer to the south. It's to the east, they have cut power.
1070 from Indy also gets out like 50 KW to the south-east.
 
I frequently drive from east-central Indiana to Charleston, SC... I can hear [the former] 1070-WIBC ALL THE WAY!... In The Smoky Mountains, especially. I COULDN’T hear it in GREENCASTLE, IN at night! I hear WOWO in nearly THE SAME PLACES!
 
[WOWO]... Not quite as good along that route as 1070 WFNI - GOD, It's hard to "process" those calls - WFNI!!!
 
hipporadio said:
[WOWO]... Not quite as good along that route as 1070 WFNI - GOD, It's hard to "process" those calls - WFNI!!!
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Last night I spent the night 80 miles south of VA/NC border on I95. 1070 boomed in like it does during the day in Zionsville!
I can't get it that good in Plainfield.
 
Hoosierky said:
hipporadio said:
[WOWO]... Not quite as good along that route as 1070 WFNI - GOD, It's hard to "process" those calls - WFNI!!!
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Last night I spent the night 80 miles south of VA/NC border on I95. 1070 boomed in like it does during the day in Zionsville!
I can't get it that good in Plainfield.
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I used to live in Rocky Mount, NC, about 50 miles south of the VA border, and could always catch 1070 at night there. When I lived in Pittsboro, IN I couldn't get it hardly at all at night.
 
1070 has an amazing directional pattern. There are places where you can see their 6 towers
and hear 1070 from Sarnia Canada. But go to the southeast and it is common to hear them in Cuba
 
Timewarp said:
1070 has an amazing directional pattern. There are places where you can see their 6 towers
and hear 1070 from Sarnia Canada. But go to the southeast and it is common to hear them in Cuba
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yes you are correct. i know listing here (when 1070 was wibc talk) id be listing and at the power down time they would disappear like someone turned the transmitter off. but i do recall going on a trip to N. Carolina and was able to listen to them damn near all the way there.
 
I pick up WOWO down here in Richmond IN during the day but can't pick it up at night. Other stations bleed all over it.
 
In Tennessee WOWO comes in fine. Of course just after sunrise tehy boom in. When I lived in Lafayette, I could barely hear WIBC under a booming Sarnia, ONT, at the time playing oldies
 
When the night time skip signal and the groundwave approach equal strength, you get phase shift.
This causes fading and in some cases no signal. On an AM powerhouse, this is most common betwenn 60 and 150 miles. Richmond is too close but to far away for a good WOWO night signal.
 
It's sad to see the legendary WOWO's night signal get decreased to the way it is today. Remember one time I was on State Route 28 between Muncie and Union City on Christmas overnight and WOWO was playing Christmas music with Jack Underwood,Bob Sievers and the others voiceing some Christmas vignettes between songs. It was a lonely Christmas for me that year since I had to work both Christmas eve and Christmas day. My time back home in Ohio was much too breif...yet could feel a little Christmas magic and God's love while driving home at 2 in the morning. It was WOWO and the Hossman on WLAC keeping me company while driving back home to the old farm in 1976.
 
Down here in Mississippi I caught WOWO one night about 10 PM I think. Can't remember what was on there but I was hoping to catch a Komets game when my radio stopped there. It's tough to get a hockey fix where a lot of people don't know any sport besides football. ;)

Jonathan
 
In the old days, WOWO was a clear channel AM. These clear channels achieved much the same thing
as the internet and XM stations do today. People all over the east coast mid west and south
listened to WOWO. The New York City 1190 signed off at night and WOWO had many listeners there.
People on ships at sea reported receiving WOWO almost all the way to Europe and Africa. It was one
of the few USA signals that was directional to the east. Now WOWO's signal nulls to the east. AM
listening has declined and it's all history.
 
kirkiefan said:
WOWO was playing Christmas music with Jack Underwood,Bob Sievers and the others voicing some Christmas vignettes between songs. It was a lonely Christmas for me that year since I had to work both Christmas eve and Christmas day. My time back home in Ohio was much too breif...yet could feel a little Christmas magic and God's love while driving home at 2 in the morning.
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For those of you that missed it, THAT is the power of radio. A voice from far away, touching someone's heart and "keeping you company". The mega-corps today don't get it because it's all about the bottom line. Most of the "programmers" today don't get it.
Without that magic touch of a skilled human voice, it's just a box with electronics inside.

Thank You Kirkie for sharing. :)
 
I wish bread was still a nickle, and a dollar's worth of gas filled up the Studebaker for a trip to Indian Lake.

WOWO now serves--gasp--its city of license. Not Richmond, Cave City, KY, Sumter SC, Greenland, France, or Russia. Not that the station ever got a dime out of 'serving' those markets, anyway.

Those that complain about WOWO's lower power should remember that without the current ownership, the signal would have just been turned off entirely. You know the old adage about the gift horse.....

I miss the old days too. But I don't sit here and dwell on them. Too much new history to be made. WOWO's still alive and well...and serving Fort Wayne. The station, and it's listeners, could do a lot worse.
 
tinytunes said:
WOWO now serves--gasp--its city of license. Not Richmond, Cave City, KY, Sumter SC, Greenland, France, or Russia. Not that the station ever got a dime out of 'serving' those markets, anyway.

Those that complain about WOWO's lower power should remember that without the current ownership, the signal would have just been turned off entirely. You know the old adage about the gift horse.....

I miss the old days too. But I don't sit here and dwell on them. Too much new history to be made. WOWO's still alive and well...and serving Fort Wayne. The station, and it's listeners, could do a lot worse.
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Well, we could have a "moderate" take on what is going on in the world!! ;D
Fox News, all Republican all the time, it's getting to be a bucket of S*%T!!!! (self censored)
As for their signal, and being on the air at all, well, it would have been a shame if they went dark. When Inner City Broadcasting got the power I was upset they got it away from a "legacy" station, but money and politics and all that...

All that being said, there is a big audience here that "worships" WOWO and until the old guard dies off they'll still get the top of the book. And then (probably) the iPod and satellite generation will knock if off the air.
 
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