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HadYourPhil

Are they on reduced power? Normally they are easy to get here in SW FL 24 hours a day. Now, I can barely hear them behind a jumble on 870. Very feeble during the day, too.

They do a yeoman's job of hurricane coverage. Excellent.
 
Their signal strength is showing normal strength on my Grundig G8's meter.


The coverage is riveting, specially the calls for people looking for lost relatives, or those needing rescue from their flooded house. Stayed up late listening last night.
 
HadYourPhil said:
Are they on reduced power? Normally they are easy to get here in SW FL 24 hours a day. Now, I can barely hear them behind a jumble on 870. Very feeble during the day, too.

They do a yeoman's job of hurricane coverage. Excellent.
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I had the same thought last night (from up the coast in St. Petersburg), as I was trying to pick WWL, and all I was getting was the Cuban station, that is usually underneath them, but last night, the Cuban station was front and center stage. I was able to hear something under the Cuban station, but it was so weak and intermittant, that I wasn't even sure it was English.

I ended up listening to the coverage on the WWL app on my iPod, but usually I would rather listen to the actual broadcast signal.

Their coverage was great and very detailed; it's nice to hear such good and thorough local coverage; something that is getting more rare by the day.

drt,
st. petersburg, fl 33701
 
Nothing at any time today. I just checked. Nothing. Just a jumble.

I do miss their well-described riveting coverage...

Fieldtech1, where are you?
 
He's around Lafayette which is normal daytime groundwave of WWL.

I would have thought it would have been a possible issue due to the weather (as I know it does affect FM broadcast station propagation for sure)

They do have a licensed Auxiliary (Backup) Facility near Behrman Highway in a non directional pattern with 5kw at night/10kw day and may be on that due to the water levels near the 50kw transmitter site
 
That would have to be the reason as I am close enough for decent across-the-Gulf groundwave and (usually) solid night skywave.
 
I know wwl is usually a midwest powerhouse as I can normally catch it in Kansas when I go there like a local, but yeah, there are some free sites where you can listen to am broadcast radio from around the world at and in Illinois it was fading in and out (normally it should be solid there)
 
Was pretty strong most of the way driving down to gulf shores Wednesday night until I was around Waynesboro. Though I was getting I to a cancellation zone or something but WWL never really came back. After crossing I to Alabama it was a mess mostly Cuban heard after that. Today they sounded good till somewhere down south of Meridian.
 
I've had no problems in the Florida panhandle. The signal may be weaker when I'm near the big radioactive power lines... but then again it may not.

I've listened to far to many hurricanes on WWL over my life. WWL has the best on air staff for hurricane's I've ever heard, i bet it's the best in the nation. Back when Fredrick hit Mobile in 1979, WWL was the closest radio station still on the air for nearly a week. Almost all the callers were from the Mobile/Pensacola area.
 
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