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Reliable & audible clear channel AM DX reception.
Hiya....
After a few good threads on MW DX'ing, there has been some great info on some of the AM broadcast "catches" that others have managed to get. There was also a few posts regarding what AM radios are good for hearing far away AM radio stations. As was pointed out in a previous post to a poster that has asked the question of "what AM radio to buy", most of the AM DX'ing that is being reported on is unreliable and usually too messy to listen to. This leaves me with yet another AM broadcast question. I'm interested to find out what 50KW AM broadcast stations http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA (not in your state, or at least 200 miles away) are in fact reliable and listenable to you ??? Mine from North NJ are (after sundown): 840 kHz WHAS Louisville, KY 1100 kHz WTAM Cleveland, OH 1110 kHz WBT Charlotte, NC I can hear many other of the 50KW AM stations from time time time, but those three above are almost always relable and listenable here in NJ. Especially, WBT. -- Respectfully, Michael Home Page: http://md_dxing.tripod.com/ Northern NJ R75 w/DSP, Kiwa agc/sync & audio mods G5RV & 200ft longwire w/ICE-180 MFJ-1048 preselector SoundBlstr Live PC card w/five piece Cambridge speakers & full software mixer/eq. |
Michael wrote: This leaves me with yet another AM broadcast question. I'm interested to find out what 50KW AM broadcast stations http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA (not in your state, or at least 200 miles away) are in fact reliable and listenable to you ??? Mine from North NJ are (after sundown): 840 kHz WHAS Louisville, KY 1100 kHz WTAM Cleveland, OH 1110 kHz WBT Charlotte, NC OK, using your criteria, here is my list. I'm in the SW corner of Michigan. Eliminating the Chicago stations, which I get boomingly (but they're only 80 miles away across the lake), and the Detroit stations (c. 140 miles), and leaving out the stations I can get consistently - but with only poor, choppy audio, leaves me with this list. It's interesting to note that while I can get everyone of the New York City 50k stations, all of them save the one on the list are very weak. These results are all after dark: WSM Nashville 650 CNIF Montreal, 690 (all French) WLW Cincinnati 700 WSB Atlanta 750 (always very strong) CIGM Sudbury, Ont. 790 WHAS Lousisville 840 CHML Hamilton, Ont. 900 WWL New Orleans 870 (always VERY strong - must use directional antenna) WGY 810 Schenectady 810 WCCO 830 Minneapolis WCBS 880 New York KDKA Pittsburgh 1020 WHO Des Moines 1040 KYW Philadelphia 1060 WTIC Hartford 1080 KMOX St. Louis 1120 WHAM Rochester, NY 880 WBT Charlotte 1110 WLAC Nashville 1510 WSAI Cinncinatti 1530 KYEL Waterloo, IA. 1540 Some of these would not be terribly pleasant lisening, (staticy) but all are consistenly steady, clear signals at night, ID is easy. As I said above, I left out about a dozen I can get well sometimes, barely at all others. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
"Tony Meloche" wrote in message ... OK, using your criteria, here is my list. I'm in the SW corner of Michigan. Eliminating the Chicago stations, which I get boomingly (but they're only 80 miles away across the lake), and the Detroit stations (c. 140 miles), and leaving out the stations I can get consistently - but with only poor, choppy audio, leaves me with this list. It's interesting to note that while I can get everyone of the New York City 50k stations, all of them save the one on the list are very weak. These results are all after dark: WSM Nashville 650 CNIF Montreal, 690 (all French) WLW Cincinnati 700 WSB Atlanta 750 (always very strong) CIGM Sudbury, Ont. 790 WHAS Lousisville 840 CHML Hamilton, Ont. 900 WWL New Orleans 870 (always VERY strong - must use directional antenna) WGY 810 Schenectady 810 WCCO 830 Minneapolis WCBS 880 New York KDKA Pittsburgh 1020 WHO Des Moines 1040 KYW Philadelphia 1060 WTIC Hartford 1080 KMOX St. Louis 1120 WHAM Rochester, NY 880 WBT Charlotte 1110 WLAC Nashville 1510 WSAI Cinncinatti 1530 KYEL Waterloo, IA. 1540 Some of these would not be terribly pleasant lisening, (staticy) but all are consistenly steady, clear signals at night, ID is easy. As I said above, I left out about a dozen I can get well sometimes, barely at all others. Tony Hi Tony, I can get more or less the same group, except for those which are adjacent to the Chicago clear channels. I can also get WBZ quite clearly and reliably. Do you have local interference on 1030? Frank Dresser |
Frank Dresser wrote: "Tony Meloche" wrote in message ... OK, using your criteria, here is my list. I'm in the SW corner of Michigan. Eliminating the Chicago stations, which I get boomingly (but they're only 80 miles away across the lake), and the Detroit stations (c. 140 miles), and leaving out the stations I can get consistently - but with only poor, choppy audio, leaves me with this list. It's interesting to note that while I can get everyone of the New York City 50k stations, all of them save the one on the list are very weak. These results are all after dark: WSM Nashville 650 CNIF Montreal, 690 (all French) WLW Cincinnati 700 WSB Atlanta 750 (always very strong) CIGM Sudbury, Ont. 790 WHAS Lousisville 840 CHML Hamilton, Ont. 900 WWL New Orleans 870 (always VERY strong - must use directional antenna) WGY 810 Schenectady 810 WCCO 830 Minneapolis WCBS 880 New York KDKA Pittsburgh 1020 WHO Des Moines 1040 KYW Philadelphia 1060 WTIC Hartford 1080 KMOX St. Louis 1120 WHAM Rochester, NY 880 WBT Charlotte 1110 WLAC Nashville 1510 WSAI Cinncinatti 1530 KYEL Waterloo, IA. 1540 Some of these would not be terribly pleasant lisening, (staticy) but all are consistenly steady, clear signals at night, ID is easy. As I said above, I left out about a dozen I can get well sometimes, barely at all others. Tony Hi Tony, I can get more or less the same group, except for those which are adjacent to the Chicago clear channels. I can also get WBZ quite clearly and reliably. Do you have local interference on 1030? Frank Dresser Hi Frank: Nope, the closest thing would be WCFL in Chicago, and that's far enough away with good selectivity on my radios to be no problem. I can *get* WBZ almost any night - but it's the exception that I get it clear and steady. This bugs me, because as a kid in Detroit (140 miles closer to WBZ) I could get it after dark as strong as a local station, and they always "broke" Beatles records before any of the Detroit stations :D My friends thought I was clarivoyant when I'd tell them what the next Beatles hit was going to be, and that's how it turned out. I recall the DJ being some guy who called himself "Juicy Brucie Bradley", and some campaign to have sandwiches renamed "shrewsburys". Thanks for the trip down memory lane! PS: IIRC, from the few times I've heard and ID'd it here, they have different programming today - but that's no suprise. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
"Tony Meloche" wrote in message ... Hi Frank: Nope, the closest thing would be WCFL in Chicago, and that's far enough away with good selectivity on my radios to be no problem. I can *get* WBZ almost any night - but it's the exception that I get it clear and steady. This bugs me, because as a kid in Detroit (140 miles closer to WBZ) I could get it after dark as strong as a local station, and they always "broke" Beatles records before any of the Detroit stations :D My friends thought I was clarivoyant when I'd tell them what the next Beatles hit was going to be, and that's how it turned out. I recall the DJ being some guy who called himself "Juicy Brucie Bradley", and some campaign to have sandwiches renamed "shrewsburys". Thanks for the trip down memory lane! PS: IIRC, from the few times I've heard and ID'd it here, they have different programming today - but that's no suprise. Tony WBZ comes in very well almost every night here in the Chicago area. Even on my old Walkman. They're a talker now, and one of the few that has a local show at night. Frank Dresser |
Michael wrote:
This leaves me with yet another AM broadcast question. I'm interested to find out what 50KW AM broadcast stations http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA (not in your state, or at least 200 miles away) are in fact reliable and listenable to you ??? NYC: 660 WFAN, 880 WCBS Chicago: 670 WSCR, 720 WGN, 780 WBBM, 890 WLS, 1000 WMVP Atlanta: 750 WSB Detroit: 760 WJR Fort Worth: 820 WBAP New Orleans: 870 WWL Pittsburgh: 1020 KDKA Des Moines: 1040 WHO Cleveland: 1100 WTAM Shreveport: 1130 KWKH Richmond: 1140 WRVA Rochester: 1180 WHAM San Antonio: 1200 WOAI The following I can also get (weakly) during the *day* he Cincinnati: 700 WLW, 1530 WSAI Louisville: 840 WHAS (though Louisville is only about 150 miles) St. Louis: 1120 KMOX - and of course: - Nashville: 650 WSM, 1510 WLAC I can hear many other of the 50KW AM stations from time time time, but those three above are almost always relable and listenable here in NJ. Likewise for this list - there are many other stations (WBZ, WPHT, and KYW come to mind) that are usually audible here but also frequently disappear under bad conditions. And others (like 1260 WSDZ and 570 WWNC) that are almost always present and identifiable, but nobody would dream of listening to a program on the interference-laden signal. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
Michael wrote:
Hiya.... This leaves me with yet another AM broadcast question. I'm interested to find out what 50KW AM broadcast stations http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA (not in your state, or at least 200 miles away) are in fact reliable and listenable to you ??? Also take into account that many stations use directional antennas. Given that scenario you may be able to hear the 5kw guy but not the 50kw from the same city depending on whether or not the lobe favors your direction. Most of the old (what used to be actually clear) clear-channel stations are omni-directional. -Bill |
Most of the old (what used to be actually clear) clear-channel stations
are omni-directional. A while back, I looked up one in Dallas and it has a humongous array for daytime and an entirely different almost-as-large array at night. The pattern must look strange on each, and each are sort of directional. I think I'll go back and try to find in my files the call sign of that station and then recheck on it. Bill, K5BY |
Tony Meloche wrote:
Michael wrote: This leaves me with yet another AM broadcast question. I'm interested to find out what 50KW AM broadcast stations http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA (not in your state, or at least 200 miles away) are in fact reliable and listenable to you ??? Mine from North NJ are (after sundown): 840 kHz WHAS Louisville, KY 1100 kHz WTAM Cleveland, OH 1110 kHz WBT Charlotte, NC OK, using your criteria, here is my list. I'm in the SW corner of Michigan. Eliminating the Chicago stations, which I get boomingly (but they're only 80 miles away across the lake), and the Detroit stations (c. 140 miles), and leaving out the stations I can get consistently - but with only poor, choppy audio, leaves me with this list. It's interesting to note that while I can get everyone of the New York City 50k stations, all of them save the one on the list are very weak. These results are all after dark: WSM Nashville 650 CNIF Montreal, 690 (all French) WLW Cincinnati 700 WSB Atlanta 750 (always very strong) CIGM Sudbury, Ont. 790 WHAS Lousisville 840 CHML Hamilton, Ont. 900 WWL New Orleans 870 (always VERY strong - must use directional antenna) WGY 810 Schenectady 810 WCCO 830 Minneapolis WCBS 880 New York KDKA Pittsburgh 1020 WHO Des Moines 1040 KYW Philadelphia 1060 WTIC Hartford 1080 KMOX St. Louis 1120 WHAM Rochester, NY 880 WBT Charlotte 1110 WLAC Nashville 1510 WSAI Cinncinatti 1530 KYEL Waterloo, IA. 1540 Some of these would not be terribly pleasant lisening, (staticy) but all are consistenly steady, clear signals at night, ID is easy. As I said above, I left out about a dozen I can get well sometimes, barely at all others. Tony WHAM Rochester, NY is 1180 (not 880) -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
starman wrote: Tony Meloche wrote: Michael wrote: This leaves me with yet another AM broadcast question. I'm interested to find out what 50KW AM broadcast stations http://www.ac6v.com/clearam.htm#USA (not in your state, or at least 200 miles away) are in fact reliable and listenable to you ??? Mine from North NJ are (after sundown): 840 kHz WHAS Louisville, KY 1100 kHz WTAM Cleveland, OH 1110 kHz WBT Charlotte, NC OK, using your criteria, here is my list. I'm in the SW corner of Michigan. Eliminating the Chicago stations, which I get boomingly (but they're only 80 miles away across the lake), and the Detroit stations (c. 140 miles), and leaving out the stations I can get consistently - but with only poor, choppy audio, leaves me with this list. It's interesting to note that while I can get everyone of the New York City 50k stations, all of them save the one on the list are very weak. These results are all after dark: WSM Nashville 650 CNIF Montreal, 690 (all French) WLW Cincinnati 700 WSB Atlanta 750 (always very strong) CIGM Sudbury, Ont. 790 WHAS Lousisville 840 CHML Hamilton, Ont. 900 WWL New Orleans 870 (always VERY strong - must use directional antenna) WGY 810 Schenectady 810 WCCO 830 Minneapolis WCBS 880 New York KDKA Pittsburgh 1020 WHO Des Moines 1040 KYW Philadelphia 1060 WTIC Hartford 1080 KMOX St. Louis 1120 WHAM Rochester, NY 880 WBT Charlotte 1110 WLAC Nashville 1510 WSAI Cinncinatti 1530 KYEL Waterloo, IA. 1540 Some of these would not be terribly pleasant lisening, (staticy) but all are consistenly steady, clear signals at night, ID is easy. As I said above, I left out about a dozen I can get well sometimes, barely at all others. Tony WHAM Rochester, NY is 1180 (not 880) Sure is - I wrote WHAM but looked at WCBS - damned astigmatism . . . Tony -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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