40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago....
Days: 1150 is splatter from local WYLL (1160)
Nights: Usually WHBY from Appleton, WI makes it to the top of the pile with a fair signal. I used to sometimes hear KSAL from Salina, KS, but not recently.
Other Location: WHBY has been fairly frequenty heard during past winter DX seasons on both the Iceland and Norway Arctic SDRs.
Retro: WisN was the Milwaukee occupant of 1150 for many years before flipping to 1130 in 1965. 5kw with the same pattern day and night. I never heard it here during the daytime due to the splatter from 1160 (then WJJD). At night with WJJD off (after Salt Lake City sunset) WISN came through with a fair signal.
1150 was also home to a 500-watt daytimer, WJRL, from Rockford, IL. About 35 miles west of me. The signal never made it to my location due to WJRL's tight pattern protecting WISN and WJJD. Too bad! It was a nice little top-40 rocker.
Fast forward to the more recent past, and for most of the past decade CKOC was usually on top of 1150 at nightround here. I'm not sure if their night pattern was out of whack or if they just weren't bothering with it. Whatever, the "problem" seems to have gotten fixed a couple of years ago,
Days: 1150 is splatter from local WYLL (1160)
Nights: Usually WHBY from Appleton, WI makes it to the top of the pile with a fair signal. I used to sometimes hear KSAL from Salina, KS, but not recently.
Other Location: WHBY has been fairly frequenty heard during past winter DX seasons on both the Iceland and Norway Arctic SDRs.
Retro: WisN was the Milwaukee occupant of 1150 for many years before flipping to 1130 in 1965. 5kw with the same pattern day and night. I never heard it here during the daytime due to the splatter from 1160 (then WJJD). At night with WJJD off (after Salt Lake City sunset) WISN came through with a fair signal.
1150 was also home to a 500-watt daytimer, WJRL, from Rockford, IL. About 35 miles west of me. The signal never made it to my location due to WJRL's tight pattern protecting WISN and WJJD. Too bad! It was a nice little top-40 rocker.
Fast forward to the more recent past, and for most of the past decade CKOC was usually on top of 1150 at nightround here. I'm not sure if their night pattern was out of whack or if they just weren't bothering with it. Whatever, the "problem" seems to have gotten fixed a couple of years ago,