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AM Frequency of the week; 1150

cyberdad

cyberdad

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone! The week we have a "regional frequency before we go to the final remaing four "1-A clears", then onto the locals and more regionals. So this week, it's 1150. Here in the far northwest Chicago suburbs......

Days; Basically splatter from local WYLL (1160), a 50KW directional behemoth.

Nights: WYLL is slightly weaker here and splatter is less of an issue. For a period of about five years or so, CKOC was the most likely station to climb on top of the mess, but that all stopped a couple of years ago, when CKOC apparently fixed their pattern and restored their null in this direction. Nowadays, WHBY is fairly reliable on top of the channel.

Retro: Before what amounted to a significant realignment of southeastern Wisconsin AM frequencies in 1965, WISN (Milwaulee) was on 1150. The were running 5kw with the same pattern day and night, protecting (then) WJJD/1160. The result at my location (12 miles east of where I live now) was that WISN couldn't usually break through the WJJD splatter during their hours of operation. But when WJJD signed off at Salt Lake City sunset, WISN reliably came through and was typically on top of 1150 with a fair signal.

Also, there was a nice little 500-watt top-40 daytimer, WJRL, on 1150 in Rockford, IL. About 30 miles west of my (current location), but since they also were protecting WJJD (and WISN) with a highly directional pattern, I could never hear them. I was probably about 10-15 miles beyond their ability to penetrate the WJJD splatter.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs WYLL splatters all over 1150 during the day. I'm not too far from their daytime site.
At night they are not as strong, but still strong enough to splatter on 1150. I also used to hear CKOC sometimes at night.

Retro: WISN and WJRL were never factors at my home location due to my close proximity to WJJD's towers.
Even at night I don't recall hearing WISN unless I traveled north.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
 
In SE TX at my QTH days - KBPO Port Neches, TX 500/63 with Spanish Christian, nights - WJBO Baton Rouge, LA 15K/5K News/Talk.
 
Knoxville-Sevierville TN. Semi local WCRK, Morristown TN by day. Pretty much a hodge podge at night. Theoretically with WCRK nulled or off the air, WGOW, Chattanooga should be possible but I've never heard them.

Central Indiana SDR: Daytime either WMST, Mt Sterling KY or WIMA, Lima, OH. Also have caught WCRK on the receiver.





WCJ said:
In SE TX at my QTH days - KBPO Port Neches, TX 500/63 with Spanish Christian, nights - WJBO Baton Rouge, LA 15K/5K News/Talk.
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Daytime here, nothing. WDEL Delaware comes in sometimes around SSS.
Nighttimes, I've logged CKOC and the ('oops; forgot the switch') WMRD from Middletown CT.

Being between 1130 and 1190 back in the JFK Airport DX days, friendly 1150 coughed up 19 loggings. The Middletown CT station was known as WCNX then, a 1000-watt omni daytimer and a weak but steady tenant in the day. A couple of PA's and VA's and WV's were sunset regulars. Two stations from FL were heard during Auroral cx.
But the Crackerjack prize came one Monday morning overnight. KIIS Los Angeles came in pretty clearly on a DX Test. Even when they dropped from 5000 watts to 1000 watts, they were still there.
At the time, the MM occupant overnight was a Mexican station ; I forget the calls.

Side note: Back in the late Sixties, someone filed for a construction permit for an 1150 station in Oyster Bay (north shore of Long Island). Nothing came of it.
 
Daytime: a distant but listenable KWKY Des Moines, IA.
Nighttime: Mostly KWKY, but also appearances from WHBY Appleton, WI, KSAL Salina, KS, and CKOC Hamilton.
Retro: I don't remember what I heard on this frequency! It was probably a gap between WRVA and WYLL/KSL that I never paid much attention to. I know I've heard CKOC occasionally over the years but never very consistently that I can remember. It hasn't gone away altogether and I don't notice hearing it less than I used to, despite any changes to their nighttime pattern; it's just that I don't remember this one too well.
 
icybluelake said:
Daytime: I know I've heard CKOC occasionally over the years but never very consistently that I can remember. It hasn't gone away altogether and I don't notice hearing it less than I used to, despite any changes to their nighttime pattern; it's just that I don't remember this one too well.
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When it was one of the last oldies holdouts out there, CKOC was pretty easy to identify. Now that they've flipped to sports, probably not so much. But at my location, the fact is I'm now normally hearing WHBY. That wasn't the case when CKOC was a music station, although WHBY did break through from time to time on most nights.
 
Here around Columbus, daytime it's WIMA from Lima. Decent signal around Dublin and Hilliard (the northwest suburbs from Lima), but it drops off quickly as you get farther east and south.
I haven't heard it around here at night in years. I remember it sneaking through back in the 90s on occasion, although it usually got pummeled by WRVA slop. They send enough of a lobe to the southeast that it can be heard down to around Marysville, about 55 miles out.
In St. Marys, Ohio at night, WIMA still has a decent signal but CKOC is usually in the background. Not loud, but enough to make its presence known.
 
Down here on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, it's a pretty reliable mix of WJBO Baton Rouge and WJRD Tuscaloosa. Some nights I'll get 4-5 minutes of one, then a minute of mush, then 4-5 minutes of the other, all night long. I kind of wish it was all WJRD since they play Scott Shannon's True Oldies format, and we have nothing like that down here anymore.
 
SF Bay Area, CA - 1150 is relatively blank daytime unless KHTK-1140 slop invades. Memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall a Santa Rosa station on 1150 which isn't there any more. When the sun starts to dip in the sky a strong KEIB from LA takes over, and is dominant in the darkness. KAGO Klamath Falls has been an infrequent visitor here. I believe I heard the Seattle area's KKNW once. Question - how did a channel like this with a (former) 5KW maximum get stuck between several channels with higher powered (semi) clears? I could ask the same of 790, and probably others.
 
NoMoreLurking said:
Question - how did a channel like this with a (former) 5KW maximum get stuck between several channels with higher powered (semi) clears? I could ask the same of 790, and probably others.
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I've wondered this myself. And then you've got 940...a (semi) clear in the midst of a bunch of (what used to be called) "regionals".
 
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