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AM Frequency of the Week: 940

cyberdad

cyberdad

No typo in the Title Bar this week. No delay in getting this posted. Just four ticks up the dial. We stop at 940. What are you hearing at that spot these days?

Here 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, it's a weak WFAW. 500 watts from about 60 miles northwest of me. I'm in the slight null, which apparently is there to protect the 950 in Chicago.

At night, WFAW adds 50 more watts to a total of 550, and instead of directing a null in my direction, they throw one of two lobes from their figure eight right at me. The result is as better signal via groundwave. Good enough to be on top almost all of the time. Before WFAW came on, CBM from Montreal owned 940 with a pretty good signal. Now, whatever is under WFAW is pretty much unidentifiable.

Sunrise/Sunset have historically produced visits from WCPC in Houston, MS and/or WMIX from Mount Vernon, IL Both disappear entirely at night. (In the case of WCPC, going from 31,000 watts down to 7 watts would tend to explain why that happens. A less frequent sunset visitor used to be Des Moines as the legendary KIOA. KIOA would also be audible once in a while here under CBM.
 
YAKIMA WA

Days - Severe splatter from local KYAK (about 5 miles east on 10kw)
Nights - Still splatter, but not as much with KYAK on 127 watts night. The most common ones are KFIG Fresno (ESPN) and CJGX Yorkton, SK (Country). KWBY Woodburn, OR also used to be common with regional Mexican music, but is not as common anymore. I hear KICE Bend sometimes at sunset with ESPN programming (sometimes an echo on KFIG).

On the want list are several AMs. XEMMM Mexicali (which is always off-frequency), but I haven't confirmed them yet. XEQ Mexico City, on 30KW but never heard here, even though it has been too many times in Europe. KDIL Jerome, are they even on the air? They are one of my wanted Idahos. I would think KMER Kemmerer (240w) and even KPSZ Des Moines could be possible on a significant evening.
 
In the near north Chicago burbs not much heard here during the day. I have heard Des Moines during pre sunrise hours.
At night CBM used to come in strong. I haven't checked lately to see what's there.
 
In Northwest Arkansas -

Daytime - KSWM, Aurora, MO

Nighttime - A mix of stations - One of them is KPSZ, Des Moines

Another is WYLD, New Orleans
 
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crainbebo said:
YAKIMA WA

....even KPSZ Des Moines could be possible on a significant evening.
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Should be. You might also want to try them before sunrise your time when they're on 10kw day power. Even on 5kw at night, they have a good signal to the west and northwest.
 
KPSZ Des Moines is a somewhat reliable visitor in southern Colorado in their last hour of 10 kW day pattern, more so in winter. At night, KIXZ Amarillo sends its main lobe of 1000 watts right at us, so it tends to be on top of a bit of a jumble.
 
In North Georgia its WMAC Days. Critical hours, WCPC MS in in. WKYK is a frequent visitor at night. The first WI station I heard at this location was WFAW-940. Followed by WTMJ and then 1130.
 
Here in the greater Seattle metro I hear KJR-950 splash and usually KFIG Fresno (ESPN) and KWBY Woodburn (regional Mexican music). KWBY's reception is spotty at times, KFIG is usually in every night. Sometimes I hear Yorkton SK. Nothing else that I can remember. I think I logged KICE Bend once with slapback and maybe local spots? Logbook isn't handy. But I think I logged them.
 
In eastern Iowa: KPSZ Des Moines daytime. Nighttime is a mix. Sometimes KPSZ, have also heard CKJX Yorkton, SK, and strangely, WCIT Lima, OH. WCIT is supposedly at 250 watts daytime and a whopping 6 watts at night. I've heard it at night several times in recent times.
Also caught WINZ Miami a couple of years ago. Years ago, I caught CBM Montreal occasionally. 940 has become kind of a strange frequency at night in recent years.
 
Not much on 940 in central Ohio. Daytime, it's a weak WCIT from Lima. Radio Locator says it operates at 250 watts daytime, but holy cow, that's a potent 250 to make it into the Columbus area.
Conversely, 20 miles southwest of Lima in the St. Marys area, I remember WCIT coming in very poorly, similar to how it's heard down here.
Nighttime, I don't think anything stands out.
 
schmave said:
Not much on 940 in central Ohio. Daytime, it's a weak WCIT from Lima. Radio Locator says it operates at 250 watts daytime, but holy cow, that's a potent 250 to make it into the Columbus area.
Conversely, 20 miles southwest of Lima in the St. Marys area, I remember WCIT coming in very poorly, similar to how it's heard down here.
Nighttime, I don't think anything stands out.
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I used to listen to WCIT a lot when I lived just north of Columbus.
Had no idea they were only 250 W.

On 940, not much of anything in Pittsburgh these days. Daytime it used to be
WFGI (originally WESA) at 250 watts from down in the Mon Valley. At night it was
a mix of CINW and occasional blips of WFGI's five-watt night signal.
 
940 is a pretty quiet frequency in the new start-over log here in my retirement DX den.

Daytimes it's this, a semi local: http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WADV&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

We live halfway between Shenandoah and the purple contour. Yet, quite often, religious WADV is
louder than 930 WHLM from the nearer Bloomsburg. The mountains distract a lot of signals.
There is no evidence of WADV at night. I didn;t know they were *on* at night.

Sunsets have brought WKGM from suburban Norfolk VA. One nighttime catch was WMIX from Illinoise. I have 'tape' from those last two. WMIX must've been from when 'CBM' was off the air for that spell.

Otherwise, after dark, and well into the wee hours, it's 940 from Montreal here. Whatever they call themselves now.

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WCPC in Mississippi once ran a test broadcast overnight, sometime in the late Sixties. It was quite widely heard. They used (iIrc) at least two powers/patterns. My buddy got back a QSL. In it, the chief engineer wrote that 'at sunrise, we turn on the big b@$+ard', meaning their daytime power. Funny line. He didn't use the @ or the &, either.
 
940 here is usually mush from our station 30 miles away, WJKB. During Matthew, 950 was off. You could hear Miami's WINZ decently during the day. WMAC Macon dominates at night.
 
Daytime in S.A. is just heavy splatter from local KLUP on 930. There's still a fair amount of splatter at night, which requires off-tuning, narrowing bandwidth, etc.

At night XEQ in Mexico City is the most dominant here. I can usually null it out a bit to hear XERKS in Reynosa. Also, WYLD can occasionally be heard in that partial null. In the past I've heard XEYJ in Nueva Rosita at night, but it's been at least a year.

This past winter I logged two new stations just once: WMAC one sunrise in January and "Hot 105" KCMC in Texarkana, TX, during a sunset in February.

Also, this past Sunday night I logged another new one - WINZ. It was weak and only popping up for brief periods. Propagation to the SE seemed to be very good that night.
 
940 is silent in Montreal, and it's not looking like it's going to come back. They have 5 weeks to commence operations, and have not even begun testing. No call letters issued and stalled negotiations on buying the old CINW site. I do hear CJGX Yorkton from time to time. Most of the time I don't hear anything.
 
WMAZ in the daytime till they drop power/change direction at sundown. Then it's WCPC till they drop power/ change direction for their timezone. Then it a cacophony of Mexican, Cuban stations sometimes with WMAZ popping in for the rest of the night.
 
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