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AM Frequency of the Week: 1210

cyberdad

cyberdad

Let's take a look at one of the former I-A clears. What are you guys hearing these days (and in days gone by) on 1210.

Here, 40-odd miles northwest of downtown Chicago during the daytime, the channel is essentially blank....sandwiched between moderate splatter from 20kw WRTO, Chicago and far less splatter from 1kw WKRS in Waukegan, IL. Both are directional, with neither pattern particularly favorable for me (especially WKRS on 1220). Before WRTO came on, sometimes I could catch the now-defunct WKNX from Saginaw, MI on daytime skywave during winter.

Night, it's all WPHT. Signal is only fair most of the time, but still very reliable. Sunrise/sunset sometime produces KKOK from South Dakota, and less frequently KGYN from Oklahoma.
 
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Similar situation here in the near north Chicago burbs. WRTO splatter is stronger here during the day. At night WPHT with a usually good signal. Only once or twice have I heard KGYN.
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - KZOO Honolulu.

No luck so far hearing WPHT. There's a lot of background noise on that frequency.


In the 70's, I was able to hear the old 1210 WCAU very late at night in California when the station in Oklahoma signed off the air.


And where I grew up in New Jersey, 1210 WCAU was so close that I could hear it on my record player that didn't even have a radio with it.
 
cyberdad said:
... Before WRTO came on, sometimes I could catch the now-defunct WKNX from Saginaw, MI on daytime skywave during winter.
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That 1210 kHz assignment moved to Kingsley, MI as WJNL, a 50 kW non-D daytimer. Seems like their daytime skywave might make it to the Chicago area at times.
 
rfry said:
That 1210 kHz assignment moved to Kingsley, MI as WJNL, a 50 kW non-D daytimer. Seems like their daytime skywave might make it to the Chicago area at times.
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It probably does, Rich. I just haven't heard it myself. Lack of trying on my part. I'll make it a point to see if I can snag it, and report when (or if) I do. I have heard it on a car radio in the Milwaukee area, which is only 90 minutes (or less) from here.
 
Daytime is nothing but an image of my 3-mile-away nemesis, 1350 KCOR - even on my best radios.

After sunset when the image is gone, KGYN can be heard with a fairly decent signal if I off-tune a bit to avoid WOAI splatter. KUBR, a Spanish Christian station in San Juan, TX (near McAllen) can usually be heard underneath, and it will occasionally take over.

A few times I've heard a weak WLRO, Fox Sports, in Denham Springs, LA, popping up.
 
Here in Columbus, Ohio, if anything it's a very weak WDAO out of Dayton during the day and all WPHT by night. (It'll always be WOGL to me purely because that's what it was in my early DXing days.)
 
schmave said:
Here in Columbus, Ohio, if anything it's a very weak WDAO out of Dayton during the day and all WPHT by night. (It'll always be WOGL to me purely because that's what it was in my early DXing days.)
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To some of us old (folks), it'll always be WCAU. :)
 
1210 here in Charleston is completely dead daytime. Closest station is a daytimer in NE Georgia or Miami which is very directional (that I've never heard).

Nighttime is WPHT every night, usually very good. WPHT is one of the first signals I started DXing around 1998-1999. I remember when Harry Kalas called Phillies games on the radio.
 
Does anyone ever hear WMPS in Bartlett, TN? I heard it once in Jasper, TX, back in December 2014. They were playing Buck Owens' "Act Naturally" and IDed with "Sunny 1210." It was before sunset, so they were running 10 kW. I hope to catch it in S.A. some day.
 
jim-satx said:
Does anyone ever hear WMPS in Bartlett, TN? I heard it once in Jasper, TX, back in December 2014. They were playing Buck Owens' "Act Naturally" and IDed with "Sunny 1210." It was before sunset, so they were running 10 kW. I hope to catch it in S.A. some day.
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I've tried a few times for it here in the Chicago area. but have never heard it. During the past few years for my stays in Memphis, I've been in the suburbs east of town. The night signal out there is fair-good. But barely makes it to downtown (and the Mississippi River). I lose it after a couple of miles on I-40/I-55 into Arkansas. The day signal doesn't favor my direction (at home), either.
 
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