Most of these were tuned in with a Grundig G5 receiver with a Terk AM Advtange antenna connected via patch cord... NIGHTTIME 540 CBK Wautrous SK 50 kw 540 WAUK Jackson WI 0.4 kw 550 KFYR Bismarck ND 5 kw 550 KTRS St Louis MO 5 kw 550 WGR Buffalo NY 5 kw 550 WKRC Cincinnati OH 1 kw 560 CFOS Own Sound...

ftballfan wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:05 am

1. Did you mean WTMJ for the second WTEL listing?

2. KCMO is in Kansas City, not St. Louis

Corrections made. Thanks, ftballfan!

Tonight's AM Bandscan from Manistee, tuned in on a Grundig G5 receiver with a Terk AM Advantage antenna with patch cord connection: 540 WAUK Jackson WI 0.4 kw 550 WKRC Cincinnati OH 1 kw 550 WGR Buffalo NY 5 kw 560 WIND Chicago IL 5 kw 570 WKBN Youngstown OH 5 kw 580 WTCM Traverse City MI 1.1 kw 590...

What about the drive throughs that are getting so much traffic these days? What kind of communications are they using? I've used those transceivers, and they barely have enough range to use at the far end of the restaurant's parking lot. I doubt you'd pick them up more than a block away. You can tr...

Well done! I haven't seen FM DX data presented quite like this before. The map answers questions that I would never have thought to ask. Back in my formative years, I was intensely interested in the correlation between TV DX conditions--especially on UHF--and severe weather. I had several interestin...

Great stuff! I hope an episode of Saturday Night Dead turns up.

Until then, we can still remember Count Zappula here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyOw1Bcs6BI

A few fair e-layer openings this week, I finally hit 100 SKCC club members worked on 12 M (24.9 MHz) CW and can apply for an ALL BAND SWEEP of single band endorsements with the SKCC club ! the 12 M band is a pretty lightly used frequency for us. Well done! Living in an apartment, I've never venture...

I concur with your position that this is an Auroral event. It wasn't just CB but AM that was constantly fading from one region to another with occasional dead air between reflections. The Mexican station on 640 was curiously immune from the shifting reflections. It was wall-to-wall and ten feet tall...

I've been hearing it and other Manitoba stations overnights, too. Reception seems to favour stations from the south to the west. KOA 850 Denver has been an easy catch. Some peashooter AMs from 100-200 miles away have boomed in like locals. A Mexican station on 640 has been blasting in. For the first...

innate-in-you wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:35 pm

I had also seen WTMJ, WOTV and WNEM via WPBN (this was in the late seventies and early eighties, when one could rent a cabin for a week or two, instead of having to buy it).

I distinctly recall seeing WKBD slides many times on WPBN while viewing Felix The Cat in the mid '70s...

Perhaps an old-timer here can answer this: Back when WWTV and WPBN shared a secondary ABC affiliation, how did each of them receive their ABC feed? While it seems possible that WWTV would've had ABC cabled or microwaved in, I doubt WPBN would've done so. The only off-air feeds possible when both sta...

On the clip linked above, the 29&8 character generator can be seen in action at 8:45, 18:12 (repeated at 24:35), 18:27, and 24:50...

I had also seen WTMJ, WOTV and WNEM via WPBN (this was in the late seventies and early eighties, when one could rent a cabin for a week or two, instead of having to buy it). I wasn't aware they ever took an off-air network pickup from WTMJ. Back in the early days of TV, that would have been the eas...

Nice catch! The 29&8 logo that briefly appears in the lower right corner at 18:46 was their in-program ID. They would black out the video behind it and display it whenever the WJRT-12 in-program ID aired. Often, there was a bit of a lag...just as there was when 7&4 took its network feed from WNEM, ...

Nice catch! The 29&8 logo that briefly appears in the lower right corner at 18:46 was their in-program ID. They would black out the video behind it and display it whenever the WJRT-12 in-program ID aired. Often, there was a bit of a lag...just as there was when 7&4 took its network feed from WNEM, a...