WWRL Heard Over WUNR At NOON!

[Laurence Glavin]

Even at noon E.S.T., just after solar midday, WUNR-AM 1600 was being battered by interference from WWRL in NYC, not WHNP near Springfield, Mass. Usually, WUNR has enough juice to be heard over WWRL daytimes, but not today. What are they doing there? Fiddling with the pattern?

 

[vibe]

it's that crazy time of year. I've been hearing more distant channels over the semi locals esp at nite. got 560 Portland ME over semi local 560 Springfield and got a 920 from Canada over semi local 920 in Providence.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Even at noon E.S.T., just after solar midday, WUNR-AM 1600 was being battered by interference from WWRL in NYC, not WHNP near Springfield, Mass. Usually, WUNR has enough juice to be heard over WWRL daytimes, but not today. What are they doing there? Fiddling with the pattern?

A decade or so ago, when WWRL was granted 25 kW-D, I forecasted exactly what you are now reporting. But it did take a decade (more or less; I don't remember exactly when the 25-kW D signal went on the air), and AFAIK, WUNR is not operating with its normal facilities (new or old). Also, this must be an exceptional skywave period. So, for all of these reasons, no MacArthur grant for me;>)

Back in the '50s in mid-winter, I remember picking up what was then WCAU Philadelphia, clear as a bell at noon in my dorm room in Troy NY, 300 miles away give or take. In the same time frame, in the same location, with the same radio, I used to pick up CBF and CBM from Montreal about 200 miles away at all hours of day and night at any time of year. I used to think it was groundwave because of the absence of fades and phasing, but then I heard some skywave effects during daylight, so I can't be sure that what I heard was even mostly groundwave--although it probably was. The soil conductivity between Montreal and Troy is better than that pretty much anywhere in New England, but it isn't Nebraska, Kansas, or eastern Montana, where, thanks to the incredible conductivity, 200+ mile daytime groundwave reception of even 5 kW stations (low on the dial) is not in the least exceptional.

 

[HHH]

Not sure where you were listening, but WUNR has always had one of the worst signals to the west that I have ever heard. The directional is (it seems) so tight--plus being way up at 1600 does not help--that one night, driving around west of the site, I could see the tower lights in the distance and I couldn't get the station!

Plus, maybe they are on some kind of temp backup setup now, which makes the coverage even worse.

 

[w9wi]

Even at noon E.S.T., just after solar midday, WUNR-AM 1600 was being battered by interference from WWRL in NYC, not WHNP near Springfield, Mass. Usually, WUNR has enough juice to be heard over WWRL daytimes, but not today. What are they doing there? Fiddling with the pattern?

I noted unusual midday conditions yesterday here in the Nashville area. Trying to listen to Talk of the Nation on WPLN-1430, it was suffering from interference. Tuning up the dial, Iowa City and Milwaukee (~450mi.) were coming in on the expanded band, and there was a loud black gospel station (probably Louisville at 150mi.) on 1350. All this on a car radio.

We're at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, where the absorption that limits DX is at its least. I would expect to hear this kind of thing from time to time.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

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I noted unusual midday conditions yesterday here in the Nashville area. Trying to listen to Talk of the Nation on WPLN-1430, it was suffering from interference. Tuning up the dial, Iowa City and Milwaukee (~450mi.) were coming in on the expanded band, and there was a loud black gospel station (probably Louisville at 150mi.) on 1350. All this on a car radio.

We're at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, where the absorption that limits DX is at its least. I would expect to hear this kind of thing from time to time.

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Thursday morning, the Stephanie Miller show was audible on AM 1520 in Buffalo until nearly 10:00 o'clock. (Sunrise was just about 7:00 am)...my listening point is about 28 miles due north of Boston.