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AM Frequency of the week: 1410

cyberdad

cyberdad

Back to what used to be called "regional" channels for June. Starting with 1410. Here far northwest suburban Chicago area.....

Days: Semi-local WRMN with a good signal. 1kw ND from about 16 miles due south of me.

Nights: WRMN bumps up to 1,300 watts and goes to a NE-SW oriented figure eight. I'm on the western edge of the NE lobe. The result is a slightly weaker signal, but still good enough for WRMN to remain comfortably on top of the audible slop in the background.

Most commonly heard with WRMN nulled is WING. But I wouldn't call it a regular. I've also heard WIZM (La Crosse, WI), but their 5kw night pattern doesn't favor my location, so it's quite rare.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs WRMN has a pretty good signal during the day. At night it gets somewhat weaker and there's a lot of slop underneath. Nothing particular stands out although I have heard WING, but not in a long time.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: Not always but frequently (especially winter) WHLN, Harlan KY. Nighttime: WHLN (which often doesn't power down) and WING. Also have recieved WING around sunrsie and sunset and with winter daytime skip.

Retro/other: I caught WING on daytme skip on an incredible daytime skip day in January just outside Nashville TN. I've lived in and out of WING's pattern. Where I grew up it wasn't uncommon to get WING. KQV and WPOP all together. WING made it to our family's vacation destination in Fremont, MI after WGRD signed off in the late 60s. ALso lived in and near Lafayete, IN where WAZY/WCFY and whatever other call leters were on that frequency.
 
From about 20 miles NE of here, WLSH Lansford (said lans-FORRD) is the daytime regular. They are mildly directional SW-NE .... two towers .... 5000 watts .... strict daytimer .... the occasional inheritors of whatever format big-sister FM WMGH Tamaqua wants to discard. Despite being largely automated, 'Oldies 1410' is a fine station and a good companion on the occasional paint or ceiling job. I'd seen them pop up in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton book, from back when the Arb listed all the 12+ results.
They get chewed up near SSS by WDOV in Delaware and sometimes by WELM Elmira NY.
Night-shift catches here have been WPOP Hartford, WLVV Mobile, WING from Dayton, and CJWI from Canada.
 
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Orange County, TX - Days a weak KDBS Alexandria, LA; Nights WNGL Mobile, AL along with Spanish language underneath that sometimes over takes them.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WRMN with good signal
Nightime: WRMN but weaker and nullable

DX/RETRO: logged few stations on this frequency despite WRMN. KCLQ (Leavenworth, KS), KQV (pittsburgh, PA), WIZM (Lac rosse, WI), WING (Dayton, OH), WTIM (Taylorville, IL), WXQT (Grand Rapids, MI), WFTE (Lafayette, IN), WLBJ (Bowling Green, KY) WUNI (Mobile, AL), WHLN (Harlan, KY), and the Canadian CKSL (London, ON)
 
Daytime around Columbus, Ohio, it's WING from Dayton. Weak in the east suburbs where I live, considerably better on the west side of town. It's completely gone at night, as like WONE and WHIO, it shoots most of its power north up I-75.
 
Found that out the hard way a few years ago. I remember once in college when I was calling Toledo women's basketball games, we were busing back from Miami during an important OSU men's basketball game and while I was able to hear WING in Oxford, I lost it for a few miles on 70 in northwest Montgomery County before it came blazing back in.
 
CADXER said:
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WRMN with good signal
Nightime: WRMN but weaker and nullable

DX/RETRO: WLBJ (Bowling Green, KY)
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I had forgotten about WLBJ. Definitely a "retro" for me. I used to hear it from time to time when WRMN was a daytimer. Has to have been at least 30 years....or probably even more.
 
Chatham, IL (outside Springfield):

Day, early morning, and evening: Semi-local WIHM Taylorville, IL (formerly news/talk WTIM, which moved in the 90s to 97.3 then a few years ago to a new AM station at 870). WIHM is now EWTN radio, as it's been since its '90s sale.

Night: Haven't checked, most likely slop
 
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