Far northwest suburban Chicago area.....
Days: Splatter from WTMJ and their iboc machine. I know WTVN has turned up daytime in the Chicago area, but I personally have not heard it. Just yesterday, however, I heard something that was barely audible, and which I couldn't identify. It was about two hours before sunset, so my guess was WTVN with the very beginnings skywave settig in. c
Nights: KCSP from Kansas City owns the channel. Fair signal with unidentifiable stuff underneath.
Retro: The Kansas City 610 during its run as WDAF, put in a very good signal here. One of the best out of town skywave signals on the former "regional" channels. It's still better than what's on most of those channels, but certainly not what it used to be.
Just the Other day: Totally unexpected nighttime catch. I think it was Tuesday morning (5/16) that KDAL came booming in from Duluth, Minnesota. Very good signal with minimal fading and positive ID, I listened for about fifteen minutes, then left the channel. When I came back about 15 minutes later, it was gone and never came back. KDAL is 5kw, directional nights with a null to the south. As a reusult, they're invisible here during hours of darkness, and I never heard them. At least until last week!
The obvious guess is that I happened to catch them being on day pattern for some reason. (KDAL does have a good day signal despite being in an area with poor ground conductivity.)
Days: Splatter from WTMJ and their iboc machine. I know WTVN has turned up daytime in the Chicago area, but I personally have not heard it. Just yesterday, however, I heard something that was barely audible, and which I couldn't identify. It was about two hours before sunset, so my guess was WTVN with the very beginnings skywave settig in. c
Nights: KCSP from Kansas City owns the channel. Fair signal with unidentifiable stuff underneath.
Retro: The Kansas City 610 during its run as WDAF, put in a very good signal here. One of the best out of town skywave signals on the former "regional" channels. It's still better than what's on most of those channels, but certainly not what it used to be.
Just the Other day: Totally unexpected nighttime catch. I think it was Tuesday morning (5/16) that KDAL came booming in from Duluth, Minnesota. Very good signal with minimal fading and positive ID, I listened for about fifteen minutes, then left the channel. When I came back about 15 minutes later, it was gone and never came back. KDAL is 5kw, directional nights with a null to the south. As a reusult, they're invisible here during hours of darkness, and I never heard them. At least until last week!
The obvious guess is that I happened to catch them being on day pattern for some reason. (KDAL does have a good day signal despite being in an area with poor ground conductivity.)