Re: [IRCA] WNAX's daytime signal

[Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth, I figured WNAX would be audible for you ever since CKY went off.  Back 
in August 1990, I did a daytime bandscan from inside a Motel 6 room in Fargo, ND 
and it was in pretty easy, although I was close enough to Winnipeg that I 
already had a little bit of splash from CKY to deal with. 

 
I had to do some searching around on a road atlas to find out where your QTH is, 
but I finally located it.  You are in a terrific spot for DXing!  And the 
programming on your locals isn't too bad, either.  I get CKLQ-880 here on almost 
a nightly basis, and hearing a live country music format on AM (on a station not 
named WSM) is quite refreshing. 

 
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska
Sony ICF-2010 + Quantum QX Pro loop




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From: Kenneth Nawalkowski <kennethnaw@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] WNAX's daytime signal

Here at my location 105 miles north of the MB/ North Dakota border in western 
Manitoba, WNAX comes in quite decent on a car radio with CKSW underneath. On a 
Superadio II with a Sanserino loop it comes in great. Since WNAX is located 
almost straight south and CKSW is straight west, I can null either one and 
listen to the other. Reception is the same here day and night. These 2 have only 
been available here since KY58 Winnipeg moved to FM. Before then they were both 
buried in KY58's AM stereo lower sideband.
  Kenneth Nawalkowski
  Sandy Lake MB
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Faulkner" <drdsfaulkner@xxxxxxxxx>
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They were a regular in Lead, SD, in the northern Black Hills when I lived there; 
used a TRF w/a Radio West ferrite bar. Listened to 'em once in awhile because 
they had great state news coverage. I'd rate them about a 3 in 10. Mixed 
w/Paducah in Ft. Madison, Iowa, about 40 miles south of Iowa City. Heard 'em 
once during the day in Paducah null when I lived in Witt, Illinois SE of 
Springfield, but that was a cold, snowy winter day when I also had KFNW-1200 
from West Fargo (had 10 kw ND at the time) in all day. On a similar day when I 
lived in Nebraska I heard WLW at noon on my boom box.

73
David
PS. I also recall the Robertson twins telling me they used to hear WNAX mixing 
w/WFAA (now KLIF) on their family farm in western KS.

--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Richard Allen <richarda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Richard Allen <richarda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] WNAX's daytime signal
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Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 11:11 PM

Rick:

Thanks to good ground conductivity it is audible here in north central Oklahoma 
during the daytime at poor signal strength and with KLIF QRM. Also heard is KWMT 
540. This is using barefoot ULR's.

Richard Allen
36°22'51"N / 97°26'35"W
(near Perry OK USA)
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Subject: [IRCA] WNAX's daytime signal


I'm kinda curious as to how much ground WNAX can cover in the daytime. From
roadtrips I've done in recent years, I've been able to note the following -- 

Iowa City, IA 8/28/2002 Good signal, 3 on a scale of 1 (faint) to 5
(local)

Custer, SD 10/3/2002 Poor signal, rate it a 2
Otter Tail Lake, MN 8/2/2008 Very good signal, rate it a 3 1/2
Grand Forks, ND 8/3/2008 Good signal, rate it a 3
Salina, KS 5/31/2010 Fair signal, rate it a 2 1/2 (through
lots of WIBW splash)
Washington, MO 4/16/2011 Not there at all
Jefferson City, MO 4/17/2011 Still not there, until...
Boonville, MO 4/17/2011 Faint, rate it a 1

So that should give you some idea of what their daytime coverage looks like.
Not quite as big as CBK or KFYR, but still pretty impressive.


73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, NE
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