KQWB West Fargo ND

[East Troy Don]

1660 KHZ @ 0356 UTC 31 May 19 (2256 CDT Local 30 May 19):

0356 Allergy Commercial
0357 Foster Care Ad
0359 Car Dealership commercial for 'best deal in Fargo"
0400 Recap of game 1 of NBA finals with a return to "The Jason Spitz Show from the Geico Studios...." 

Weak but acceptable signal.

NITE TX PWR:  1 KW
TX <> RX:  502 Miles

[East Troy Don]

Very solid signal tonite  1660 khz @ 23:57 utc:

23:58 Ad block with spots for Kitchen Refresh and Chevrolet
00:00  ID followed by brief scores and updates
00:01 Returned to syndicated "Fox Football Saturday from the Geico Sports Studios"

[pinto vortando]

Propagation has been good to the west lately for some reason.

ND is a tough catch here, KQWB is the only ND AM in my logbook.

[Treehouse SWL]

Nice catch. That state's on my "want" list along with South Dakota, as I've already logged every state and province that touches those two. KBRE out of Merced, California, sits on 1660 out here but is probably nullable when conditions are right.

[Treehouse SWL]

Well, I nulled KBRE out of Merced, California, on 1660 kHz and and heard a Fox Sports talk show and then some local Fargo ads at 0317-0320 UTC tonight (Nov. 28 UTC), so I finally nabbed this one, which is more than 1,700 miles from me.

However, can we really count this as North Dakota? Because when I looked up the transmitter site (https://www.google.com/maps/place/46%C2%B058'32.9%22N+96%C2%B035'03.3%22W/@46.9757986,-96.5864287,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d46.975795!4d-96.58424?hl=en), it turns out that's in Glyndon, Minnesota.

[pinto vortando]

Some guys log these by transmitter site and other guys by city of license.  KQWB city of license is West Fargo  ND.
It's up to you, my logbook shows KQWB as ND and KMOX as MO but neither tower is in the respective state... 
Towers are placed to direct the signal to the target market while protecting other stations on the same frequency.

Your other choices in ND include:
970 WDAY 10kw but their tower is in MN
1200  KFNW  50/13kw but the Vancouver station on 1200 will be a problem from your QTH

That leaves a couple of 5kw stations, 790 KFGO and 1310 KNOX...
both probably tough catches.

[Treehouse SWL]

Yeah, the Vancouver station already makes WOAI hard to hear on 1200.

I'm a geography geek in addition to a radio geek (I was the kid studying map books for hours on end instead of doing my homework 35 years ago), so I like being precise. However, you make a good argument here. It's not like shortwave, where you're trying to say you "heard" South Korea if you are listening to the WHRI relay of KBS. In the case of mediumwave, the transmitters are usually 20 miles or fewer from the cities of license. Actually, in my case, the transmitters for both KQWB and KMOX are actually farther away from me than their cities of license.

With that in mind, I'm going to rethink how I categorize locations. I'll admit that being able to add two more states to my loggings just by listing my stations differently is tempting!

[pinto vortando]

I'm a geography geek in addition to a radio geek (I was the kid studying map books for hours on end instead of doing my homework 35 years ago)

Yup, know what you mean... can study a map for hours