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AM Frequency of the week: 1010

cyberdad

cyberdad

So what do you guys hear on 1010?

Here in the Northwest Chicago suburbs, it's all splatter from local WMVP (1000) during the daytime.

At night, WMVP goes directional and sends less signal in my direction. The result is that DXing the first adjacents is no particular problem. There's no station on 1010 strong enough to dominate the channel, but CFRB is usually the most likely to surface. Less often it's WINS. Sunrise/sunset sometimes produces KXEN from suburban Saint Louis or....at least on one or two occasions...WSPT (1kw) from Stevens Point, WI. I also seem to recall hearing KLRA once years ago before they went silent.
 
Same situation here in the near north Chicago burbs. Daytime WMVP splatter. Night CFRB most often, WINS much less often. Around sunset I've heard KXEN a few times.
 
Daytimes here used to bring in a Lewistown station (WTGC). That reception was off a Lafayette HA-600 and a loop.
WCNL from New Hampshire was a 3:30 pm catch not quite two years ago. It MIGHT'VE been one of those mid-winter anomaly jobs.

WINS and CFRB here at night. WINS is the louder.

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One afternoon back in the JFK-Airport DX days, WINS was * off * the crowded NYC dial. In came a faint but steady WSID Baltimore. Here they are today, as WOLB.

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WOLB&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

I can attest to that huge signal down the Chesapeake. In 1963 I got WSID 1010 on a clock radio in Norfolk VA.
 
Just North of ATlanta, its the Former WGUN-Atlanta days, Now known as WTZA with a Hispanic format. AT night its usually 1010-WINS, weak, and mixing with several others.

CFRB makes an appearance in the dead of Winter.
 
CFRB Days, CFRB and frequently WINS Nights. It used to be WITL would be heard in some places in the daytime in SE Michigan. After they moved to a new site a couple of miles away, it seemed like it was even less to the East, and CFRB was heard almost exclusively until WITL signed off permanently. HGR1290, did you hear WITL up by Houghton Lake and Midland back in the old days? It was off the side of the pattern and out of the nulls in that direction.
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - not sure what I'm hearing but it's weak and not very audible (you can hear it in my AM bandscan).

Any guesses?

There are 3 stations on 1010 from California, all 1000 watts and less and they send their signal to the west and southwest.
 
Yes, Whittle Radio could be heard on 1010 back in the 1970's....I cant remember if I heard it up at Higgins...but I don't think so. If I recall, it was not as good as WVIC-730 (directional pointed pretty much my way) and was not as strong as WILS back when it was 5kW day.

I guess I missed that WITL was a DA. I thought it was 1kW ND.
 
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WITL was 500 watts with a three tower in line cardioid with two deep nulls to the East, similar to the old WCFL night pattern but the maximum to the West. It protected the Canadian border to 5 uV/m. Under treaty, CFRB is a Class A station.
 
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That does make sense...I had forgotten that 1010 is a Canadian clear. But yes, WITL was audible in the Tri-Cities area. That got me thinking about poor WCRM-990 in Clare, 250 watts with a 2 tower DA to keep that mighty 250 watts away from the Canadian border. Shaved off to the east.
 
Here around Columbus, Ohio, it's usually WINS and CFRB fighting it out at night. Neither are all that strong. Nothing by day that I can remember.
 
Located in W. Washington...

Daytime, KOMO 1000 splash. Nighttime, KOMO 1000 splash and CBR. Sometimes CBR is strong enough to eliminate the splash, and on rare occasions it can sometimes splash a little on KOMO during silent spots in KOMO's programming, amazingly enough.
 
In Tampa Bay, we actually have a 1010 that's a local, WHFS-AM. It's a buisness formatted station, which is a very bad downgrade from Sports, IMO.
 
Welcome to the board, Jonathan.

I've spent most of the last three Januarys in St. Pete Beach, and I'm looking to hopefully be back for this coming year. I think the reason for the WHFS format flip is probably because the signal overall isn't as competitive as it needs to be throughout the market....despite the 50kw day pattern.
 
Stations like WITL 1010, with 500 watts, beamed right at WCFL 1000, so the 0.5 mV/m contours just miss overlapping, just kind of disappear as they get closer and closer to the more powerful station due to adjacent channel interference. But I'm surprised there aren't more reports from places like Milwaukee for WITL, that were far enough away from WCFL to hear it on a good selective radio for DX. WVIC 730 was similarly up against the post to WGN 720, but WGN was off the side of the DA pattern, and beamed up to the Northeast. I could get WGN just fine even though WVIC had a good signal in my area.
 
I've got KLAT Houston day and night down here. Univision owned "Amor Celestial 1010" 5kW day, 3.6kW en la noche.
 
schmave said:
Ah, good old KLAT. I wasn't even thinking about the Houston/Waco situation on 1010 when I posted.
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It really does make a difference where you are in Houston, doesn't it schmave? Just 19 miles north of my current location, KBBW Waco gave KLAT fits. Here at the new location, nothing but KLAT. As you know, north and west Houston have the biggest issues with KBBW overtaking the local.
 
Daytime it's a weak KBBW. At sunset it gets stronger, and I also start getting KLAT as well as "ESPN Radio" KTNZ in Amarillo.

KBBW disappears when they go to night power, at which time KLAT starts to dominate, although I can null it well enough to hear KTNZ fairly well. Also, XEHL, "Televisa Deportes W," in Zapopan can be heard bubbling under KLAT. It sometimes comes to the fore briefly.

Prior to sunrise it's about the same as night, although when aiming NW I start getting splatter from KCKN (which booms in on 1020), affecting KTNZ. KBBW returns and starts to dominate when it goes to day power.

I've also logged KXEN as well as XEPA "Ke Buena" in Puebla, but only one time each. Also, I've never logged WMOX, but I have heard brief snippets of the Jim Bohannon show on occasion, which I suspect is them.

Back in the late '70s when I was a young DXer, I woke up one Monday morning at 3 a.m. and managed to log both CBR and CFRB on my parents' component receiver (not sure what brand). I've got the QSL cards somewhere. I've yet to hear a trace of either station nowadays.
 
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