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AM Frequency of the week: 1350

cyberdad

cyberdad

What comes out of your radio when you tune 1350? Here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago daytime it's a true rarity...a blank channel. Although I have heard a very weak WPDR (1kwND) from Portage, WI a couple of times. Presumably daytime skywave. Portage is over 100 miles northwest of me.

Nights: A complete mess. Once in a while KRNT (Des Moines) climbs on top, but usually 1350 sounds like a graveyard channel. I've also heard WOAM (Peoria) and its predecessor stations a few times, but not recently.
 
I cant believe it. In modern times, I have never logged a station on 1350.

I do have a local on 1360, so that is my excuse.

I promise to do better
 
1350 used to be WHMI Howell, MI here in Southeastern, MI. WHMI decided to take the AM off the air. 1350 is now interfered with by WEXL 1340 IBOC sidebands. If you go further North, you can hear WGDN Gladwin, which went from 1000 watts directional to 250 watts nondirectional. You can hear 1350 in Akron, OH when WEXL rarely has the buzz saw off. Oddly enough, much further away WKYO 1360 in Caro and WOBL 1320 Oberlin are more easily tuned than first adjacents to WEXL.

The old WADC/WSLR Akron comes in at night, and the old KRNT Des Moines and old WXCL Peoria have been heard.
 
I once worked at a certain 1350 in South Central Colorado. That station has since lobotomized itself and now runs a fraction of the power they once had. Via a single tower that probably takes up far less acreage. Save, save, save, iHeart!

When my 1350 home/boss was off the air (regular on Monday mornings back then) I'd hear KRNT Des Moines, KABQ Albuquerque, KCKC San Bernardino, WXCL Peoria, WSMB New Orleans, and one time only (but taped) KTOH Lihue, Hawaii...my one and only Hawaiian catch from Colorado.
 
1350 here is a dead frequency. We have a local at 1340 that prevents anything from being heard. Once in a while when the local is on low power or off daytime, I hear Melbourne, FL on the frequency. One time at night I heard Akron here on 1350.
 
Daytime it's a semi-local signal from SportsRadio WOYK in York, PA with NBC Sports Radio programming. At night WOYK fades away and is usually a mush.
 
In my legendary Pennsylvania DX career -- sarcasm ; me with lousy radios and one working ear :) -- WOYK from downstate York is the daytime regular.

One night I * did * manage to hear WINY from Putnam CT, atop the frequency for quite a spell. For some reason I doubt it was from their nighttime 79 watt allotment. They may have been running a few more watts.
Like 4,921 extra watts. No biggie.

WGPL Portsmouth VA (Norfolk) was taped on 10-31-13.
The former WAVY, they used to be all kinds of things back in the JFK Airport DXing days. I think I logged most of them. They were WNIS (news), then something called 135-X or X-135 (top 40) , and a lot of other letters in the alphabet. In virtually downtown Norfolk -- off Tidewater Drive -- you could 'see' WAVY 1350 getting chewed up by other 1350 stations at night. My Uncle Dick, a Navy vet, had an oscilloscope in his garage, and hooked it up for me to otherwise keep me occupied and away from the adult card games.

Wow, though : I find it AMAZING that 1350 is such a blank frequency at night for some modern-day DXers. It seems as though all the 'regionals' pull it in towards one another, except for the occasional WINY, and that results in dead zones.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Wow, though : I find it AMAZING that 1350 is such a blank frequency at night for some modern-day DXers.
Click to expand...

I was thinking the exact same thing, Steve. I had originally presumed the "blank" 1350 was just a quirk of my location. Obviously, I'm not the only one who comes up more or less empty on this channel.
 
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In my part of the St. Louis area, 1350 kHz is a jumble of signals at night. In the daytime WJBD Salem, IL is the dominant signal. In the western suburbs of St. Louis, one can hear KRAP Washington, MO. Owner Brad Hildebrand got the OK for the call letters (formerly known as KSLQ and KWMO) last year.
 
In NW San Antonio, it's nothing but local KCOR in the daytime, and KCOR dominates at night. Occasionally at night, WWWL in New Orleans is barely audible underneath. Also, I've heard a very weak Spanish-language station underneath before sunrise that I have yet to ID.
 
Usually at night (here in the Seattle metro) I get KRLC Lewiston Idaho (classic country). There's a local Tacoma station (KKMO) that's a splatter master, but KRLC still comes through, especially if the radio has good selectivity...

Sometimes a California station also makes an appearance (can't remember the call letters or location, don't have my log handy).
 
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