WTIC (and WBZ, WRKO) night signals

[Mark Casey]

WTIC suffers from nightitme skywave cancelling some evenings, but not most, 
up to about 20 miles from the TX site and the Pike is about 25-30 miles 
north at it's closest point near Springfield.

In contrast, WBZ's ground wave signal starts having night skywave problems 
between Sturbridge and Palmer, which is more like 75-85 miles from Hull. 
It's often hard to listen to WBZ at night in Springfield, but they have a 
great signal when you get to pure skywave 150+ miles out. For example: 
Signal for signal, on average, at any time of year, WBZ's night signal is 
the best of all the 50kw AM's on the dial at our favorite vacation spot in 
coastal North Carolina-usually with very little fading, easy to listen to.

On the Howie subject: Interestingly enough WRKO sends some small amount of 
signal west at night. It seems to me that 30 years ago there was virtually 
no WRKO night signal in the Springfield area, but for at least the last 20 
there has been as weak signal here at night. Did WRKO have a pattern change 
somewhere in the 80's? (1510 comes in at night out here now, and they never 
used to in the 1960's and early 70's.) All in all, I don't see that the 
difference between a full Boston FM signal and WRKO is that much.

Mark Casey
K1MAP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Read" <readaaron@friedbagels.com>
Subject: WTIC night signal


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> However, I also noticed that the skywave reception was VERY in-and-out for 
> the entire drive...even the part of I-90 through Springfield, where one 
> would think WTIC should come in just fine.