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Zach said:
[David, I thought the Franklin was with KHTK... I guess they use something different? I could never figure out if it was all just good ground conductivity that got KFBK and KHTK out so well or antenna-related, too.
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No, a Franklin is two half wave towers, one on top of the other and insulated and fed from the half way point. A Franklin on 650 would be about 1600 feet tall. KFBKs, even at 1530, are around 500 feet if I remember right.

The Franklin is amazingly better than even a 5/8 wave tower. Look at the field strength at 1 km for KFBK. Then compare with other 50 kw stations. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/amq.html

KHTK gets out due to frequency, the valley soil, and power. KFBK gets out due to the huge improvement the Franklin makes, plus the soil.
 
CW said:
KFI is in the same situation (middle of a large parking lot/shopping area...though I think its more industrial than retail)....and I dont know if KFI owns the land of the area or is leasing the site....This was one deal COX did right with WSB :)
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The KFI site is warehouses and the parking is just for the warehouses / warehouse & office combos. The ground is under and in the buildings, but it does not have a rooftop and over the parking area counterpoise like KTNQ. Somebody told me the KFI thing was done as a sale with a 99 year leaseback by Cox. The property is way too valuable for a single use, even by as big a station as KFI.
 
wsb is a regular here at night. i'm in altamonte springs north of orlando and i can get it on my eton e10 and on the factory radio of my grand parrent's saturn vue.
 
Can you get any Chicago DX in Florida?
Years ago you could get 670, 720, 780 & 890. However now with all the Cuban interference I wonder if any of those are still possible in Florida?
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
has less than spectacular signal strength at distances from their towers, maybe the soil conductivity is the big culprit.
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But ONLY soil conductivity at the point of the receiver, not the transmitter. WSB literally boomed into Lubbock, TX, in the daytime, on several occasions, different times of year, using a 4 foot loop and a GE Superadio 3. Lubbock has high ground conductivity.

At some point, I am going to run the same test on WBAP from on top of Stone Mountain. If I can lug a 4 foot loop and the GE up there - if my theory is right, I shouldn't be able to get anything. If WBAP comes in daytime, then the phenomenon has to be skywave. If not, it was ground conductivity. Perhaps somebody in Atlanta could do the test - it may be a few years before I am back that way.
 
In regards to Chicago Dx in Florida.
From Orlando

670 Never Spanish interference
720 Never Diito
780 Very rarely Spanish interference
890 Ditto Ditto
 
yes i have gotten chicago here. wls 890 has come in at times. that's about all i can think of now...
 
From SW Fla WSB is a regular catch at night 500 mi or so: on some nites one can get WBBM and WCBS NYC. Gotten 720 Chi VERY infrequently.
 
WSB, WBT, WLW and (maybe) WWL are about the only skywaves one can regularly receive in Fla.
 
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