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AM Frequency of the week: 1400

cyberdad

cyberdad

Back to the Graveyard this week and 1400. Here northwest of Chicago....

Days: WRJN, from Racine, WI. About 50 miles to my northeast. Weak, but basically alone. If you like talk mixed with oldies served with somewhat muddy audio and a side of occasional splatter from WRMN (1410), you'll want to check out WRJN next time you visit us here in Crystal Lake!

Nights: WRJN disappears into the mess. I have to confess I haven't spent much time on 1400 at night. My lone DX catch of note was KFRU from Columbia, MO. several years back. About 300 miles to my southwest and fairly steady for about a half hour.

Other Location: I've driven I-70 between Denver and Kansas City and Denver a few times. Hays Kansas is roughtly midway between the two cities and home to KAYS on 1400. What can you do with a higher dial position graveyard channel in an open area with fabulous ground conductivity? KAYS is good for about 100 miles daytime in each direction...with a format not unlike WRJN, only with decent audio.
 
East Tennessee: (Knoxville-Sevierville) WGAP, Maryville, TN which simulcasts (and is diplexed with) WKVL-850, as well as WLOD-1140.
Night is a graveyard mess..

Retro/other: Various places in Indiana and Ohio I've lived, WBAT, Marion, IN.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day I hear a fair WRJN. At night it's a true graveyard mess with WRJN falling into the mess of stations.
 
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Across the lunch hour here in NE PA, the regular is WEST from Easton. I haven't heard Harrisburg yet (sports WHGB).
WKEW from NC and WINC from VA were SSS and SRS catches, respectively.
WWIN Baltimore and WPCE Portsmouth VA were nighttime catches, both taped.

A curiosity from the days of the 'DXer formerly known as Steve Green from JFK Airport' was the daytime signal from WSTC Stamford CT. I held them solidly one day in the car pretty well down U.S. 1 in New Jersey, before the internet and Radio-Locator and any reference coverage map. Here indeed is WSTC's daytime portrait: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WSTC&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

I always wondered -- here in NE PA today and from back in the JFK days -- why Easton's WEEX had so much more of a signal than town-rival WEST did. The same effect is true from monitoring on both sides of each's towers over the years. WEEX is even mildly * directional * north-south in the day. Yet they blast into North-Central NJ while WEST did not. WEEX also has the better signal here in NEPA
 
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Kenosha, WI- WRJN, day and night local- about 10 miles north of me. Strong but noisy at night. If I'm in a good place, I can null WRJN and hear WSJM St. Joseph, MI from straight across Lake Michigan. Over the years I have heard quite few stations, including WDUZ Green Bay, WRDB Reedsburg, and, most commonly, WDWS Champaign.

WRJN has 2 translators, 99.9 in Racine and 98.1 in Kenosha. During the day they are pretty local news intensive; other times they mostly play 60s and 70s music. The infamous John Tesh does evenings 6-11.

Generally a pretty good station.
 
KenoGuy;6207221 Generally a pretty good station.[/QUOTE said:
In general, I'd agree. And they've been around forever. I just thought their audio sounds pretty lousy. But that could also have somethin to do with their signal being pretty "ragged" by the time it reaches my location.
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Chatham, IL (near Springfield):

Day: Fair to poor signal from WDWS Champaign, IL, and some slop from WTIM-1410 Taylorville, IL. In parts of the west side of Springfield, I have occasionally caught a very faint WGIL Galesburg, IL trying to punch through.

Night: Mess
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Retro (growing up halfway between Peoria and Galesburg):

Day and Night: WGIL Galesburg (local)
 
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Chatham, IL (near Springfield):

Day: Fair to poor signal from WDWS Champaign, IL, and some slop from WTIM-1410 Taylorville, IL.
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Correction: 1410 in Taylorville is actually WIHM--but it was WTIM from its sign-on ca. 1950 to the late 1990s, when WTIM moved to a new station at 97.3 (it has since moved to another Taylorville-area AM signal at 870, with COL to Assumption, IL).
 
From Orange County, TX: Days mix of KHCB League City, TX, which is one of the few directional GY'er and KAOK, Lake Charles, LA, Nights usual GY mess with unknown Spanish language on top most of the time
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: normally just WRJN Racine, WI although WSJM also heard in the past (back in 1980's)
Nightime: just like any other graveyard frequency a jumbled mess

DX/RETRO: Besides WRJN and WSJM the only other logs are WBAT (Marion, IN), WDUZ (Green bay, WI and KILE (Galveston, TX) during a frequency check broadcast.
 
I've never heard WSJM here, or at least not in identifiable form. Which I guess shouldn't be too surprising since WHFB from Benton Harbor barely makes it to my location, and they're running 5kw ND daytime on 1060. But again, the qualifier..... For one reason or another, I've never spent a lot of time on 1400.
 
Its local WLTA here on 1400 out of Alpharetta GA. They're one of Salem Media's 5 AM's in the Atlanta market. They often simulcast with other Salem AM's. They have their hands full keeping all these going. I call their tech line once a week about dead air, hum, or two programs at one time, etc.
 
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Its local WLTA here on 1400 out of Alpharetta GA. They're one of Salem Media's 5 AM's in the Atlanta market. They often simulcast with other Salem AM's. They have their hands full keeping all these going. I call their tech line once a week about dead air, hum, or two programs at one time, etc.
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Is this because Salem needs more than one signal in their cluster to cover the entire metro, due to Atlanta's notoriously poor ground conductivity? Or is there some other reason. Just wonderin'.

IMHO, when a signal is prone to dead air, humming, or two separate programs running simultaneously, it's a waste of a facility.
 
One of the graveyard experts arrives with his logbook...

Daytime on 1400 is a weak mix of KRSC Othello WA (Spanish Rel) and KLCK Goldendale WA (News/Talk).

Rest of the logs here...
KITZ Silverdale, WA (Talk)
KEDO Longview, WA (Talk/Sports)
KBCH Lincoln City, OR (Adult Standards)
KFJL Central Point, OR (3ABN Religion)
KJDY-AM John Day, OR (Country)
KNND Cottage Grove, OR (Country)
KRPL Moscow, ID (ESPN)
KIHH Eureka, CA (Relevant Radio/Catholic)
KQMS Redding, CA (Fox Sports, was News/Talk when logged in 2014)
KVTO Berkeley, CA (Asian)
KUKI Ukiah, CA (Classic Hits)
KART Jerome, ID (Classic Country)
KSPT Sandpoint, ID (News/Talk)
KXGF Great Falls, MT (Fox Sports)
KNNR Sparks, NV (News/Talk, simulcasting KELY-AM Ely, NV. Was La Mejor, Regional Mexican)
KSRR Provo, UT (Adult Standards - K-Star)
CIOR Princeton, BC (EZ Rock)
CKGR Golden, BC (defunct - EZ Rock)

WANTED ON 1400...
KBCK Deer Lodge, MT (The Buck, classic country. This has been elusive for years now and 375 miles away.)
KRZR Visalia, CA (Power Talk - a decent auroral target but not heard yet.)
CHNL-1 Clearwater, BC (a simulcast of CHNL-610 Kamloops, not heard yet)
KKJL San Luis Obispo, CA (K-Jewel Adult Standards, another Au target)
KODI Cody, WY (News/Talk at 577 miles away. How have I heard KUGR-1490 in Green River, twice now in the past 2 years, but never this elusive one? Not to mention Green River is 90 miles farther than Cody.)
 
AM1400 is located in Georgia's lucrative 6th District. Average income = six figures.
No doubt the ground conductivity is poor here. And all the noise from flatscreens and LED traffic lights doesn't help either. Most stations use a PDM transmitter and run the modulation really hard to overcome the disadvantages.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: A weak KGWU, Catholic radio in Uvalde. It's readable only on my best radios.

Night: KGWU drops to night pattern and is no longer heard. To the NE/SW, I most commonly hear "EZ Rock" KGVL in Greenville. Sometimes I'll also hear KTEM in Temple, KEBE in Jacksonville (TX), KHCB in League City, and XESH in Sabinas Hidalgo.

To the NW/SE, I most commonly hear oldies/standards station KBYG in Big Spring and KUNO "El Patron" in Corpus Christi. Also, I occasionally hear KREW in Plainview and KIUN in Pecos.

I have to note that on most nights and sometimes at sunrise, I'll hear KCYK in Yuma, AZ, for brief bits. That's 973 miles from me and by far my furthest graveyard catch.

Retro/DX: I've logged classic country station KEYE in Perryton, TX, once. Stations I have not heard in a couple of years include Christian pop KVRP in Stamford, sports station KKTK in Texarkana, and sports station KREF in Norman, OK.
 
In Charleston 1400 is hash from our local on 1390. But go inland or closer toward Georgetown you can hear WGTN 1400 from Georgetown, who has a news-talk format. They used to play oldies.

1400 far inland (beyond US 17A) is WCOS from Columbia, now a gospel station. By the beach, you can hear 1400 from Savannah, a sports station.
 
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