WSB ATLANTA 750

[BIGSTICK]

How far have you picked up legendary WSB?
The farthest for me was on the coast of Portugal in 1995, at 3am local time it was in January. Pretty amazing.

 

[MarcB]

Obviously it's not as amazing as getting a station from Atlanta, Georgia all the way across the Atlantic Ocean I on occasion can get a weak signal from them up in Central Connecticut.

 

[greatstart]

Before the following 3 stations were on the air at night, I use to receive WSB in Reno, Nevada:

KHWG FALLON NV
KXL PORTLAND OR
KOAL PRICE UT

 

[Mid West Clubber]

You would be surprised at how far AM can propogate if there is nothing in its way to stop it. I presume you were using a U.S radio,, which would probably filter out the euopean frequencys on,, lets say 751,,,, it would be heard as squeal... I used to be able to DX spain on Outer Banks N.C on an analog car radio,,, I think it was on 1031,, but it played a mix of spanish and US pop music, and this was during the day,,, but would have been at night over there,, this was in the 80s,, Im sure the station is probably still there, but with dial congestion I doubt you would hear it over here now... Spain is only like 2000 miles from the south US Coast ya know.

 

[BIGSTICK]

You would be surprised at how far AM can propogate if there is nothing in its way to stop it. I presume you were using a U.S radio,, which would probably filter out the euopean frequencys on,, lets say 751,,,, it would be heard as squeal... I used to be able to DX spain on Outer Banks N.C on an analog car radio,,, I think it was on 1031,, but it played a mix of spanish and US pop music, and this was during the day,,, but would have been at night over there,, this was in the 80s,, Im sure the station is probably still there, but with dial congestion I doubt you would hear it over here now... Spain is only like 2000 miles from the south US Coast ya know.

I was, and it had very little interference. It was a Grundig 650, amazing radio anyway. Too bad the radio's made today are a mess.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

How far have you picked up legendary WSB?
The farthest for me was on the coast of Portugal in 1995, at 3am local time it was in January. Pretty amazing.

Interesting station - local reception in Atlanta is awful due to poor ground conductivity.

I have heard it in Lubbock, TX, in the daytime using a 4 foot loop and GE SR-3. When I lived in central Florida, it was faint, but receivable in Port Orange during the day on an GE SR-2 with nothing but its internal antenna.

Virtually all US 50 kW clears have been heard all over the world at one time or another.

 

[Mid West Clubber]

This of course was before the band got crowded... I always used to wonder if WHAS Louisville ever made it into the UK.. Im sure it did at one time or another,, but did anyone hear it and take note of it.

Its kinda like if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around.. Does it make a sound???lol Just a little sarcasm

I really wish that all the 50kw stations were still protected and still played music.... I mean,, News is important too,,, but why not have news at the top of the hour and music the rest of the time like the old days... I know most of you are much older and experienced than me,, but I remember even in the late 80s and early 90s I would DX POP Music stations all over the US and Canada,, some of which were nearly 2000 miles away, and only 5 to 10kw,, and I would often only hear these stations only once, and never again. Nothing but political talk and ball on AM now,,, but I still love to DX am,, just not as much fun as tuning across and hearing the latest Madona song fading in and out from a station thousands of miles away....

 

[radioman148]

I hate to think of myself as an oldtimer, but I guess I am.
I began DXing the AM band in the early 60s. I've always lived in the Chicago area and picked up everything around the country. I still remember what a thrill it was in 1962 when I first heard KFI in the midwest.
Then on travels to the west coast I never had trouble receiving the 50Kw Chicago clears from LA to Seattle.
Even heard WBZ, WABC, & WCBS out west at various times.
I know in the 60s WLS would get reports from listeners in Europe. Those years in the 60s and even the early 70s were the best for DX because the frequencies were pretty clear. So many 1A clear channels.

My own personal records are picking up WCBS 880 in London in Sept 1977 and WLS & WBBM in Hawaii in Nov 78 on a portable panasonic radio with a built in ferrite antenna.

 

[KR4BD]

WSB does have a great night skywave signal. I used to listen to them in Southern California in the early 60's with great regularity. WLS and WWL were two other stations one could hear in California nightly in those days with just a "regular" radio. In the early 1960's from California, I was a regular listener of Clark Weber on the WLS East of Midnight Show and the "Silver Dollar Survey". Man... Radio was GREAT back then.

My first recollection of AM DXing was in the mid-1950's when I was about 7 years old. For Christmas in 1955, I got an RCA table radio (with 5 tubes) and quickly discovered DX from my home at the time in Adrian, Michigan. It amazed me that WJJD-1160 in Chicago would sign off the air nightly about an hour or so AFTER local sunset and then KSL-1160 in Salt Lake City would be RIGHT THERE on my little radio in Michigan! It was magic! I've been hooked on radio ever since having gone on to working some in the business, ham radio and much more.

Things were definitely much nicer before the FCC decided to clutter up the bands with all the mainly unmanned, robot stations that now fill both the AM and FM bands. With so many stations competing for limited ad money (and most of them automated!), no wonder the business is in such a lousy shape today.

 

[BIGSTICK]

I was in Des Moines today, and WSB was very strong at 330pm local time today, almost sounded local.

 

[IT_Guru]

I was in Warren, OH the week of Thanksgiving and I was receiving them every day by 2 pm. On my way back after dark throughout OH, KY and TN they sounded local. In N. GA around Dalton and Calhoun where the groundwave and skywave were cancelling them out, they were almost non-existant.

What really amazed me was the coverage of the AM stations up there where the ground conductivity is much better than it is here in GA. During the day I could always get WLW, WJR, CKLW and many stations hundreds of miles away.