[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Well, ONE is bucking the trend-WQBB 1040 AM in Knoxville-"The Music of Your Life"- but they're too weak to be heard up here, 60 miles up the road..

Sandy, I'm surprised you don't hear WQBB from just 60 miles away. I just looked up the station on Radio-Locator.com and found that it runs 10kW (daytime only) and 3kW during critical hours (two hours before sunrise and two hours after sundown).You should be able to hear it just fine with that 10kW signal, but then again the signal may be so sharply directional (favoring greater Knoxville) that it won't reach your area. As I mentioned in a post to this forum last night, there is a very small station some 20 miles west of me that is absolutely inaudible in my area at night, probably for the same reasons. That station runs only 42 watts at night, probably with a sharply directional signal pattern during dusk to dawn hours as well that concentrates the station's signal on the west Lake County/eastern Cuyahoga County area (suburban Cleveland). The daytime signal (500 watts) is directional as well, with the pattern covering pretty much the same area, though I can hear it fairly well here until it goes to the night pattern; then it drops into the noise.