cHR top 40 on am 540 Determined, where is it

[FreddyE1977]

WWCS is 5000 watts day and 500 night.  It carries pretty well at that low frequency.
Daytime signal makes it down to Washington DC, and I have picked-up their night
signal as far out as Fremont, Ohio (near Toledo)

[BRNout]

Old radios from the era had a red triangle at 640 and 1240 indicating where to tune in the event of an emergency. Remember, this was the time when you probably had someone in your neighborhood who had or was thinking about building an underground bomb shelter...

It still fascinates me because that era ended just before I was born.  I actually have a couple of old radios with the triangles at 640 and 1240; also recall an episode of The Twilight Zone that featured announcements from CONELRAD (one family had a bomb shelter, the others didn't - trouble ensues).  Fantastic opportunity to dx, that's for sure!  One can just imagine that, if you got CBK in Cleveland, it must have been audible well south into a place like Oklahoma too.

[schmave]

Old radios from the era had a red triangle at 640 and 1240 indicating where to tune in the event of an emergency. Remember, this was the time when you probably had someone in your neighborhood who had or was thinking about building an underground bomb shelter...

It still fascinates me because that era ended just before I was born.  I actually have a couple of old radios with the triangles at 640 and 1240; also recall an episode of The Twilight Zone that featured announcements from CONELRAD (one family had a bomb shelter, the others didn't - trouble ensues).  Fantastic opportunity to dx, that's for sure!  One can just imagine that, if you got CBK in Cleveland, it must have been audible well south into a place like Oklahoma too.

I was thinking of that exact episode of that show when David mentioned families with bomb shelters. My mother, who grew up in western Ohio in the early 60s, said during Mass the priest sometimes said "pray for Russia."