WSM at Noon

[JohnW]

I was just listening to a traffic report on WSM in Nashville on my car radio at 12:10 in the afternoon. I'm in Rochester, NY and it's a 60 degree clear sunny day. Is there daytime skip? It certainly can't be the ground wave at this distance.

 

[KeithE4]

I was just listening to a traffic report on WSM in Nashville on my car radio at 12:10 in the afternoon. I'm in Rochester, NY and it's a 60 degree clear sunny day. Is there daytime skip? It certainly can't be the ground wave at this distance.

It's rare but it can happen. On a few occasions in the mid '90s, I heard California stations in Phoenix (350-600 miles away) well into the daylight hours. It was at the sunspot minimum like it is now.

 

[w9wi]

I was just listening to a traffic report on WSM in Nashville on my car radio at 12:10 in the afternoon. I'm in Rochester, NY and it's a 60 degree clear sunny day. Is there daytime skip? It certainly can't be the ground wave at this distance.

I've heard it before -- KRLD (Dallas) here in Nashville at high noon, and one day while driving in central Kansas the big 50kw operations out of Chicago were blasting in around 1pm.

Wish I'd seen your post earlier - I'm *in* Nashville & would have loved to take a shot at WHAM!

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

That is something to get WSM that far away in the daytime. From my experience, such reception would come in late winter afternoons when the sun was setting earlier - thus a possible skywave from the impending night.

Sometimes, I don't think enough credit is given to the reception power of 50,000 watt AM stations during the day. Here locally, WLW can be heard for some 250 miles or so during the day. Some years back, I picked up both KDKA from Pittsburgh and KMOX out of St. Louis in the daytime. I was using a Hallicrafters multiple band (AM, marine band, and two shortwave bands) using two seperate aerial connections. One of the aerials was a wire stretched into a square reaching through trees in my backyard. The other aerial was a wire connected to the furnace pipes of the house. I also had the set grounded to the electrical box where it was plugged in.

 

[wpiv926]

I've heard "THE BIG 870" WWL about 500 miles out around 3 pm one cloudy afternoon. It was pretty faint though.

 

[MarcB]

Sometimes even the smaller signaled stations get out far if the conditions are just right. I remember back in 2001 I picked up a 2500 watt AM station from Southington, CT up in Brattleboro, Vermont more than 105 miles away. This was at 630AM in August. This was on a walkman as well.

 

[PhilJSmith67]

Here locally, WLW can be heard for some 250 miles or so during the day.

I am just south of Chicago and can get WLW on several radios, including the radios in both cars, during the day. The signal is weak but very much audible, at a distance of 230 miles.

As for WSM, the farthest I can get the daytime signal, going north on US-41 through Indiana, is around the I-74 interchange. That's about 270 miles from Nashville. It seems to consistently drop off right around that same area, and no matter how long I leave it on going northbound, 650 WSM never resurfaces.

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

of the midwest 50,000 clear channels during the days here in anderson indiana besides the Obvious WLW & WOWO. Is WCKY, WSCR, WGN, WBBM, WLS, WMVP, WJR, WTAM(Faintly), KMOX (Faintly), WSM (Faintly), KDKA (Very Faint if it gets through). the 2 50,000's out of Detroit i dont get is WWJ *Due to WXLW Indianapolis) and WXYT a combo Factor of 1240 WHBU Anderson and WNDE 1260

 

[rbrucecarter5]

>>> It's rare but it can happen. On a few occasions in the mid '90s, I heard California stations in Phoenix (350-600 miles away) well into the daylight hours.

KOA Denver used to be a regular catch in Dallas during the daytime - before a local 850 signed on.

In the 1960's, WNOE New Orleans was a regular catch in Abilene, TX during the daytime. And KCTA Corpus Christi can be heard almost to Baton Rouge, daytime.

 

[RMarino]

When I lived in Nashville a couple years ago I could get 1530 from Cincinnati every day during the day. In fact I set a button in my car so I could hear Air America. Of course I had to be driving in an area with no power lines.

 

[w9wi]

When I lived in Nashville a couple years ago I could get 1530 from Cincinnati every day during the day. In fact I set a button in my car so I could hear Air America. Of course I had to be driving in an area with no power lines.

You still could until WLAC turned on the IBOC. With the ham rig (which can select only the upper sideband -- and has a 200-foot antenna connected...) I still can.

1530 Cincinnati does have one heck of a skywave signal! Judging from their membership in the "format of the month club" I'd gather their groundwave within the Cincinnati market isn't nearly as good...

In VERY quiet locations and with ham recievers & large antennas, I used to be able to *just barely* get WSM in Madison, Wis. during the day. WHAS Louisville was regular reception on such a setup.