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Yessss!!!! LOUISIANA!!! New Logging #2 1/18/2010

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crainbebo

Tonight, around 6:30PM, I got my very first Louisiana logging!!!! Here it is!!!

1130: KWKH Shreveport, LA!!: Heard classic country music, and it matched the webstream!! YES!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :) Heard under CKWX weakly, but a great logging!!!

Distance=1806 miles!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I'm just shocked tonight!!!! WOW! Two states in ONE night!!! WHOO HOO!!!

PS: sorry about all the smiles and ! marks, too excited ;D ;)

-crainbebo
 
Gar would know this ; KWKH is a nighttime regular in Florida, which is in the other direction where their signal goes. Great station; a real throwback. Aside from the Country, they're big on LSU football. They *do* seem to send more signal toward Washington than they pull in, though.

Never heard them on Long Island. WNEW 1130 was hardly ever off the air. When they were, it was night, and WCAR plus WDGY would come in faintly. It would've taken WNEW to be off the air around sunset NY time, with KWKH still on their day omni pattern.
 
KWKH is often the dominant signal on 1130 around the Chicago area too. Thing of it is, their supposed nighttime pattern doesn't lend itself to that. They are supposed to pull in their signal so as not to interfere with the already short-spaced midwestern trio of WDFN Detroit, WISN Milwaukee, KFAN Minneapolis and also with WBBR New York.

So I tend to wonder whether they are being diligent in switching patterns when their license dictates that they should. According to the FCC database, KWKH should be pointing their nighttime power to the south and southwest and nulling north and east. Clearly, they're not doing this.
 
BRNout said:
They are supposed to pull in their signal so as not to interfere with the already short-spaced midwestern trio of WDFN Detroit, WISN Milwaukee, KFAN Minneapolis and also with WBBR New York.
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Actually KWKH's 50kW nighttime operation predates the high-powered trio of stations you mention, and in reality they're the ones who are protecting KWKH, along with WBBR and CKWX Vancouver. In the 1940's, after the implementation of the NARBA re-alignment, KWKH was already running 50kW at night while Detroit (actually, WCAR Pontiac MI at that time) had 1kW, as did New York's WNEW; WDGY Minneapolis used 500 watts. CBR (now CKWX) Vancouver ran 5kW at night back then. Incidentally, WISN was a late arrival on the frequency, moving from 1150 in the 1970's.
 
Still a great catch from NW washington State. All i have to add is that the Shreveport 1130 and NYC 1130 really battle it out around -Roanoke Blacksburg VA during the times I've been down I-81.
It's a semi regular in SW Fla.
 
I was just remembering recently that when i was growing up in Iowa in the 70s, I once picked up KWKH in the middle of the day. But yeah, I can corroborate that they're probably not changing their pattern very reliably sometimes, having picked them up in part of the midwest where they probably shouldn't show up. Have caught them all around the deep south at nighttime however.
 
jd said:
BRNout said:
They are supposed to pull in their signal so as not to interfere with the already short-spaced midwestern trio of WDFN Detroit, WISN Milwaukee, KFAN Minneapolis and also with WBBR New York.
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, WISN was a late arrival on the frequency, moving from 1150 in the 1970's.
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Actually, WISN made the move in 1965 (or possibly late '64). I was living with a relative attending high school in Hawaii during that winter. When I left home (northwest of Chicago), it was on 1150. When I got back home, here was this new local-grade signal (with boring elevator music) on 1130. I now live less than 40 miles from their stick. Great signal most of the day, but during "critical hours", KWKH is usually audible underneath (as is WDFN or sometimes KFAN). At night the channel is relatively uncluttered. WISN is usually absent, KWKH usually on top with a signal I'd describe as "fair" at best.

Back in the days before WISN came to the channel, I could usually catch WDGY all day long a few times every winter. Fabulous top 40 station.
 
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