I do the same thing, hey it's radio! It's what we do! I have a high stress job (RN) and it's been kind of a ROUGH past few years, if you take my meaning...Heck, the way things were going? I suppose like a lot of us, I didn't even expect that I'd survive the Spring of 2020... And WHO KNOWS what's coming next in this crazy World! Radio gets me away from that, and so I understand the whole late night radio thing completely! Hey, you can only watch so many episodes of The Twilight Zone and Green Acres on MeTV when you can't sleep. Radio is BETTER. Sometimes, I set an AM radio on a lazy Susan, and take bearings on the powerhouses, then use those readings to "set" the rough reference directions, Chicago is here, NYC is there, Boston WBZ a bit more East comes in and I hear their traffic report, KFI (LA) to the West, etc, Ft. Worth in the background of nearby (Columbus, Ohio) WTVN. "Zoomer Radio" comes in like a blowtorch from Toronto, and yet CFRB is faint from the same city... Of Course, there's WJR and WWJ coming in from Detroit... KMOX St. Louis, Davenport now... Is that a station that I'm hearing from Manitoba with a Canadian Tire ad? There's WOWO Ft.Wayne, never as strong as it was when it was a 50,000 Watt station... Finally, I try to sort out the weaker "graveyard frequency" stations and relative directions and top of the hour ID's. The sky waves fade in and out, competing with other sky waves, and the ground waves at times cancelling THEM out, even as I envision the ionospheric layers and what they must be doing if I had "special glasses" and could actually see them outside my window. I care little about the actual content, as I move the dial and the lazy Susan around... Of Course, there's 700 WLW, and I recall the tour I took there during Hamvention and of course "before" things went haywire for the planet... Wow that was fun! And now? The sky waves fade away, just before the gray line makes things REALLY interesting. Then comes The Dawn, and the Ground waves return. Now I only hear Columbus on 610... FT. Worth is simply "not there" and Toronto and Boston get on to their busy days. I take the last sip of my tea, rinse my cup and place it on the rack in the kitchen... another "Radio Night" done. Winter will bring more sky waves and the summer static will be gone soon, I think, as I drift off to sleep. On my days off? I find that "nothing" is particularly "important" between the hours of 6AM and Noon or so... And then I check for activity on 15 metres, 40 will be later... etc., etc ;-) What source is your top computer display? 73 DE W8LV BILL (W8LV/VE3 prepandemic)
Now days most stations run syndicated programs at night. WCCO is in Minneapolis.
I do the same thing, hey it's radio! It's what we do! I have a high stress job (RN) and it's been kind of a ROUGH past few years, if you take my meaning...Heck, the way things were going? I suppose like a lot of us, I didn't even expect that I'd survive the Spring of 2020... And WHO KNOWS what's coming next in this crazy World! Radio gets me away from that, and so I understand the whole late night radio thing completely! Hey, you can only watch so many episodes of The Twilight Zone and Green Acres on MeTV when you can't sleep. Radio is BETTER. Sometimes, I set an AM radio on a lazy Susan, and take bearings on the powerhouses, then use those readings to "set" the rough reference directions, Chicago is here, NYC is there, Boston WBZ a bit more East comes in and I hear their traffic report, KFI (LA) to the West, etc, Ft. Worth in the background of nearby (Columbus, Ohio) WTVN. "Zoomer Radio" comes in like a blowtorch from Toronto, and yet CFRB is faint from the same city... Of Course, there's WJR and WWJ coming in from Detroit... KMOX St. Louis, Davenport now... Is that a station that I'm hearing from Manitoba with a Canadian Tire ad? There's WOWO Ft.Wayne, never as strong as it was when it was a 50,000 Watt station... Finally, I try to sort out the weaker "graveyard frequency" stations and relative directions and top of the hour ID's. The sky waves fade in and out, competing with other sky waves, and the ground waves at times cancelling THEM out, even as I envision the ionospheric layers and what they must be doing if I had "special glasses" and could actually see them outside my window. I care little about the actual content, as I move the dial and the lazy Susan around... Of Course, there's 700 WLW, and I recall the tour I took there during Hamvention and of course "before" things went haywire for the planet... Wow that was fun! And now? The sky waves fade away, just before the gray line makes things REALLY interesting. Then comes The Dawn, and the Ground waves return. Now I only hear Columbus on 610... FT. Worth is simply "not there" and Toronto and Boston get on to their busy days. I take the last sip of my tea, rinse my cup and place it on the rack in the kitchen... another "Radio Night" done. Winter will bring more sky waves and the summer static will be gone soon, I think, as I drift off to sleep. On my days off? I find that "nothing" is particularly "important" between the hours of 6AM and Noon or so... And then I check for activity on 15 metres, 40 will be later... etc., etc ;-) What source is your top computer display? 73 DE W8LV BILL (W8LV/VE3 prepandemic)
Cool Stuff Bill! Thanks for that writing! Yes Radio late night is still interesting but far from what it used to be back in those "Good ole days".
If I may ask, what program are you running on your computer to show gray li e and sun activity? Thanks
Filter 1 sounds better. Wider