Re: WBZ / WBZA

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 01:59 AM 6/18/97 +0000, you wrote:
><<On Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:51:52 -0400 (EDT), NewHUC@aol.com said:
>
>> Yeah... I understand that the signal WLS puts out during the day can be
>> pretty clearly read for several hundred miles... that midwestern ground
>> conductivity (along with the Great Lakes) really is different from here in
>> the east...
>
>Which is why the station with the largest groundwave coverage in the
>US is WNAX 570 in Yankton, S.D.  Half-wave tower, long wavelength,
>5-kW non-directional, and 30 milliSiemens/meter ground conductivity.

We've had this discussion before, but I heard that it was KFYR, Bismark ND
on 550, also with 5 kW. KFYR doesn't have a half-wave tower, but the soil
conductivity around Bismark is even better than it is around Yankton--40
mS/m. Also, I thought I had seen a picture of the WNAX tower, and it was
guy-supported.

I remember picking up CKUA Edmondton AB on 580 with 10 kW DA clearly during
the day on a car radio 400 miles away. This was not skywave. Heard the
station clearly for over an hour with no fading.

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