Your Best daytime-skywave AM DX Catch ?

[billmich]

It looks like WTOP...WFED filled the nulls toward WJBK...WLQV and KSTP by modifying the array parameters somewhat. The easiest way is to shift the phase of the center tower, and that seems to be the way it was accomplished. Like I said before, WJBK...WLQV took three of their twelve towers down to change their pattern. They sold the land they were on to build a Kmart, and of course, that's gone. Don't know what is in the building now.

Meijer

It was a "Super K-Mart" originally

 

[K8PLW]

Was hoping the 700 am and 650 am I received in north Austin, TX, at 3:30 p.m. this afternoon was from Cincinnati and Nashville. Unfortunately, the automated 700 had nothing identifying it for nearly an hour with the annoying Ben Shapiro rerun until TOH and 650 was sports betting. So Houston stations.
At 4:30 p.m., 840 WHAS Louisville came in and other skywavers, like 1110-KFAB and the Chicago 600-790 AM clear channels came in.

Never received KSEV, but I did log KHSE in Wylie, TX back in 2019 here in SE Michigan (At night, not during the day). At the time they were running a looped message advertising that station airtime was for "Rent." No programming, just an ID and that message. Strong signal here, definitely beat up WLW a little. Heard for several nights, clearly running on day power/pattern. That's the only other signal I've logged on 700 KHz from here.

 

[gr8oldies]

Never received KSEV, but I did log KHSE in Wylie, TX back in 2019 here in SE Michigan (At night, not during the day). At the time they were running a looped message advertising that station airtime was for "Rent." No programming, just an ID and that message. Strong signal here, definitely beat up WLW a little. Heard for several nights, clearly running on day power/pattern. That's the only other signal I've logged on 700 KHz from here.

KHSE at one time was pretty frequent in East TN, giving WLW a run for its money. We had auroral conditions for a week which muted WLW, and what I got is KHSE.

 

[dlf1]

My experience in Canyon Lake is the 50KW signals such as WSM, WSB, WHAS and the Chicago Clears are best right around our sunset and surprisingly, just before sunrise. The rest of the time, they mostly fall into the mush (WBBM, WHAS and WSM will bounce up in the in between hours). Never tried for 700 at night; my guess is they would probably follow the same pattern. KSEV puts a decent day signal out this way.

 

[schmave]

I am pretty sure I heard KHSE beating up WLW one night about 10 years go east of Columbus. An extremely rare occurrence as I don't think I've ever heard WLW take co-channel interference like that in this part of the country.
Auroras usually don't knock out WLW here. If anything, the signal sounds better because there's no skywave or adjacent channel interference (i.e. WOR). I haven't DXed in auroral conditions in years, but I remember a ton coming in from the far south during one back around 2005, along with groundwave from graveyarders within 30 miles or so that I should never hear at night.

 

[gr8oldies]

I am pretty sure I heard KHSE beating up WLW one night about 10 years go east of Columbus. An extremely rare occurrence as I don't think I've ever heard WLW take co-channel interference like that in this part of the country.
Auroras usually don't knock out WLW here. If anything, the signal sounds better because there's no skywave or adjacent channel interference (i.e. WOR). I haven't DXed in auroral conditions in years, but I remember a ton coming in from the far south during one back around 2005, along with groundwave from graveyarders within 30 miles or so that I should never hear at night.

This reception was in Knoxville TN where WLW several mornings in a row. Aurora can be something else

 

[formula72]

Winter months, between 10am-3PM, these are what I have logged so far.

From San Jose, California

KFI, AM 640 out of Los Angeles

KNX AM 1070 out of Los Angeles

KDWN AM 720 out of Las Vegas

 

[cyberdad]

Winter months, between 10am-3PM, these are what I have logged so far.

From San Jose, California

KFI, AM 640 out of Los Angeles

KNX AM 1070 out of Los Angeles

KDWN AM 720 out of Las Vegas

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those are all about 350 miles, IIRC. In a latitude that many would say isn't conducive to daytime skywave. Nicely done!

 

[formula72]

Yes, a bit lower like 315-325 miles from los angelas to San Jose (directly-straight line). Obviously, driving is like 430 or so.

KDWN is over 365 miles, but it is also much harder to hear than KNX or KFi.

Thanks Cyberdad!!

 

[Dondd]

Do you ever pick up KSEV at night in Austin? When I lived in League City, I was far enough out of their main nighttime lobe to hear WLW almost every night.

Yes, I did.
740 KTRH comes in day and night, if memory holds.

 

[cyberdad]

740 KTRH comes in day and night, if memory holds.

Yep...When I used to go to Austin on business trips, I listened to more than a few major league baseball games between appointments on KTRH....including one several years ago when the Cubs and Carlos Zambrano no-hit the Astros. Very listenable signal on a car radio.

 

[Dondd]

Do you ever pick up KSEV at night in Austin? When I lived in League City, I was far enough out of their main nighttime lobe to hear WLW almost every night.

North of Georgetown, TX, 700 Houston came in this morning, as did 740 and many other stations from Dallas and San Antonio which aren't typically significant in strength, such as 630, 1100 and 930 in San Antonio with 660 and 1080 from Dallas/FTW.

1090 KAAY Little Rock came in faintly about 5 p.m. today, enough to hear an ID, but faded. The station is inconsistent and isn't very strong out here, like it use to be.

 

[schmave]

Yep...When I used to go to Austin on business trips, I listened to more than a few major league baseball games between appointments on KTRH....including one several years ago when the Cubs and Carlos Zambrano no-hit the Astros. Very listenable signal on a car radio.

What a memorable game, made even more so by the fact that was an Astros home game in Milwaukee less than 48 hours after Hurricane Ike slammed into southeast Texas. Home game in name only, though, since Cubs fans predictably took over the place. Had the Astros owner at the time not dragged his feet in moving the games out of Houston when it was obvious the area was going to get belted, the site might have been different. No complaints here!