WLEC 1450 in Sandusky has been a Guardians affiliate since the dawn of the network in 1948. WLKR-FM 95.3 Norwalk wouldn't be the easiest catch but should be received in Port Clinton. WSPD should also be a good enough catch, too.
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VintageMac
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Which radio? The Crane units have lousy sound and I have two different versions neither of which is near the quality of the SuperRadio III. The wideband AM setting makes all the difference.
I was near Lee and Fairmount Blvd as a kid and a DXer at the time. While I never noted skywave cancelation, under certain conditions I could get other co-channel stations. On several occasions, I got a 10 KW Venezuelan to be fairly readable just by rotating my antenna.
VintageMac
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Regarding the GE SuperRadio discussion, here is page highlighting the differences and the issues with the third version:
Fortunately, my SuperRadio III works well. The CranePlus is nice with the digital display for accuracy.
Fortunately, my SuperRadio III works well. The CranePlus is nice with the digital display for accuracy.
My only guess (I have no inside knowledge) would be WSM AM.
My former source at WLAC said right before they flipped to take on WMAK, the news they did during the day billed more but made less than John R and friends per inquiry business did at night. IIRC they kept the "blues" after 9 or 10 for a couple of years after the flip. Of course that was almost 50 years ago.
I will agree the GE sounds better than the CCRadio but is not as sensitive. I have both so I have verified. Listening to AM, sound quality is limited anyway and not as important to me as being able to receive a broadcast. Sound quality is meaningless if you cannot receive the station in the first place.
The CC Radio 2E (which I have) -- if I turn up the bass to roughly "3 o'clock" it improves the audio greatly. The speaker is also much bigger than the original CC Radio
Yah this is odd. It's a very slight occasional flutter and only on certain nights when the atmosphere is very "clear". Also depends on what radio I'm using at the time.
I remember when I lived in Houston in the late 2000s, sometimes garble was detectable very far under local blaster KTRH. It was never strong enough to understand anything, and even if it was, I am being kind to myself when I say my Spanish is extremely limited. (I assume the station in question was somewhere south of the border.)
Big difference between that situation and this was that I was about 25 miles SSW of the KTRH tower farm with an ERP of 150K or more coming straight at me. Much farther from the transmitter than in this situation with WTAM. That garble underneath also did not cause any flutter, and there was no phasing that close in either.
Big difference between that situation and this was that I was about 25 miles SSW of the KTRH tower farm with an ERP of 150K or more coming straight at me. Much farther from the transmitter than in this situation with WTAM. That garble underneath also did not cause any flutter, and there was no phasing that close in either.
Drove home to Columbus from a two-day work trip to Akron this evening and WTAM's signal was largely what I'm used to.
Very solid in Akron, although I did notice WBT was listenable over WTAM's adjacent-channel slop on 1110 even within the Akron area. Slop was very loud on 1090.
Started noticing some phasing and increased slop from WBT just before the U.S. 30 exit on 71, so roughly 70 miles southwest of Cleveland. WTAM was still pretty listenable for another 15 miles or so before phasing really kicked in.
Very solid in Akron, although I did notice WBT was listenable over WTAM's adjacent-channel slop on 1110 even within the Akron area. Slop was very loud on 1090.
Started noticing some phasing and increased slop from WBT just before the U.S. 30 exit on 71, so roughly 70 miles southwest of Cleveland. WTAM was still pretty listenable for another 15 miles or so before phasing really kicked in.
Until recently, Brenda and Manoloff were splitting weeknights and Brenda also had a Saturday afternoon/Sunday morning shift. Shortly after doing a very uncomfortable Browns post game show together, Brinda was relegated to just weekends and Manoloff was given the regular M-F gig rebranded once again as sportsline. Think that lasted a couple of weeks before Brinda was gone and producer Rob took over. Brinda's schtick of berating his listening audience was getting old but still very strange and secretive situation.
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Greg used to be a decent listen years ago and post game shows was where he was best but let's face it he was phoning it in the past 10-15 years and didn't care at all you could tell. All he did was complain about how horrible everything was.
Agree. I would turn off the radio when some eccentric guy named "Tank" would call him every week. I just couldn't listen to the two of them chatter back and forth for 15 minutes everytime.
Least he didn't start going on about his hemorrhoids...........
Bloomdaddy normally hosts the Sunday morning Browns pre-game show. I think this again is because Mike Snyder, getting close to retirement, who had a great Sunday morning pre-game show in prior years, probably does not want to work Sundays unless it is the CAVs.
WTAM is in my opinion having some issues. Although Bloomdaddy is a hard-working guy and has a good show, he is asked to cover too much with Cleveland-focused topics and sports. Basically, listening to Bloomdaddy now and then, Guardians games and CAVs game (and CAVs post-game show with Snyder and Sellers), is now about the only thing really worthwhile to listen to. Bill Wills in the morning is excellent radio guy but mostly avoids talking to anything of substance, and 30 minutes of the morning show is more than enough. I have been searching for alternatives to NPR which provides the best in-depth news coverage but has gone completely over the top in unbalanced and tangential coverage.
And I miss Brinda on weekends although I agree he strayed from Sports too often and had horribly boring conversations with Tank to pass time.
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Still a mystery if Brenda was fired, was part of Iheart's latest round of layoffs or decided that enough was enough and left on his own? With Brenda being more left leaning, surprised he lasted as long as he did on right wing TAM. Remember him and Triv bumping heads on numerous occasions
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