I recall in my youth, watching test patterns when CKLW TV and WTVS TV were ready to sign on for their initial broadcasts .

Must make a great tax write off (just like ficticious "WKRP in Cinncinatti" )

I have been logging a lot more CW contacts on 160, 80 and 60 meters the last few years. More are coming down to the low freq bands because of poor propagation on he old "DX" bands like 20, 15 and 10 Meters. Get a big spool of # 14 wire from the big home improvement supply store and hang up some low-...

I wondered why I saw 7 towers on the WPON site ! If WCXI moves in there , I see how they could share some towers in a two station system !

That noise will be really hard to knock out. Pulse noise is easy to cancel with a pulse inverter but that iBOC is a very complex kind of white noise.

FRS shares some of the GMRS channels

Here it is at the end of November, Where is WPON ? I just finished a few radio contacts on 3.550 MHz and decided to check out 1.460 and did not hear anything local ! Tonight , it's just the Mexican music from Indiana and some sports talk show (maybe WBRN) and a third signal down under that, but I co...

I have all the GMRS and FRS freqs programmed into my scanners, fun to listen when we go to the campgrounds in summer. Usually it's kids yelling "can you hear me ",....' "Yes I can hear you" and repeat this a dozen more times. There were quite few business users on GMRS repeaters 20 years ago but the...

This is NOTHING like the Mexican 100 KW + AM
stations on our southern border used to penetrate the southwest !.

[/quote] What I usually hear under WWJ is either Charleston WV or Habana Cuba, the latter very distinctive with its "di-dah-dit, di-dah-dit every minute (The signature of Radio Reloj, being "RR" in Morse code). [/quote] Radio Reloj transmits on MANY frequencies with various power levels from sites a...

XEG is on 1050

Has anyone ever received XROK 80 from the other side of the border from El Paso I did many years ago when they did Top 40 they were the CK of Texas. When I was at Ft Bliss, in the Army (El Paso) I could hear XELO 800 on a toaster ! It was that strong. I found the tower site recently, on Google Eart...

The 160 Meter Amateur band is also considered MW, and last night I had very good reports in contacts with IL, DE, KY and KS.
Transmitting on 1813.5 kHz, with 95 W to a halfwave dipole at 35 ft.

WFDF is just a few miles further, has a higher IDF toward Commerce, and is on a lower frequency than WMUZ. WJR isn't that far either. WXYT is close also. WJR is 32.4 miles from here, WFDF is 36.6 miles from me and WXYT is 39.6 miles. WMUZ (AM) is only 31.1 miles away. Sometime soon I will have to r...

I had a few of similar tiny Radio/casette players. They worked fairly well on FM , used the earfone cord as an antenna, but miserable on AM with no room for much ferrite loopstick inside, maybe could get 5 or 6 local stations.