[IRCA] No chance for me, but did get KKZN under KFMB Re: WTTN 1580 WI Not on Night Power

[Stephen Airy <pianoplayer88key@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... looks like I still won't have a chance at that one, even with its SW lobe.  Co-channel KMIK in Tempe, AZ (300 miles east of me), goes directional with 6 towers at night and sends nearly all its IBOC-dehanced juicemy way.  They are one of the strongest stations I get here at night, sometimes rivaling the strength of some locals within 10 miles of me.  (Only the two nearby 50kW blasters (1170 daytime and 760 nighttime) and the 10kW (1130, 6 mi) are guaranteed to be stronger.  KMIK has out-slugged 1360 (5kW/1kW, 8 mi), 910 (5kW, 9 mi), 1170 night (2.9 kW, 9 mi) and 600 (5 kW, 8 mi), and has almost tied with 760 daytime (5 kW, 7 mi).)

On the other hand, I did log 760 KKZN Thornton (Denver), CO, at 3:45 pm PST this afternoon, heard both on the GE Superradio III and the Tecsun PL-606 barefoot in KFMB's null.  KKZN aired a traffic & weather report while KFMB had a talk show running (also KFMB is at a right angle from me vs. Denver, and hadn't stepped up to 50 kW for sunset yet) making it easier for me to hear the Denver area station.



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 From: "DXERak@xxxxxxx" <DXERak@xxxxxxx>
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 8:08 PM
Subject: [IRCA] WTTN 1580 WI Not on Night Power
 

WTTN 1580, formerly licensed to Watertown WI, moved to Columbus WI in 2009  
to become a rimshot station in the Madison market. Licensed as a 5kw  
directional station daytime, it drops to 4 watts ND nights, and cannot normally  
be heard here.

Tonight at 2200 CST  WTTN is blasting into Madison, obviously not on  its 
night facilities, probably at its full 5kw daytime power. Format is SS:SPT,  
"ESPN Deportes."

The station's daytime pattern is to the ESE/WNW (toward  
Milwaukee/west-central Wisconsin) with a smaller SW lobe right into the much  closer Madison 
market.
73     Bill Dvorak     Madison  WI 
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