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AM Frequency of the week: 1470

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest Chicago burbs....

Days: Next to northing. WMPP in Chicago Heights and its successors are long gone, and they were difficult to here at my locaation, anyway. On very rare occasions, I've caught a whiff or two of WIBD from West Bend, WI. Which is northwest of Milwaukee. Extremely rare, and only in winter.

Nights: A totally different story. WMBD from Peoria, IL is arguably the strongest signal on what used to be called the "regional" channels. Usually it's not just on top, but blows out everything else. Very listenable. During fades, other signals usually surface. WOHO in Toliedo, OH is most likely to succeed.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs:

Very similar to Cyberdad's observations. Daytime basically nothing. At night WMBD with a good signal most of the time.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime, all-conspiracy, all-the-time WBCR, Alcoa TN, your friendly Alex Jones affiliate. Night, WBCR with a mess of others.
 
If you'll forgive the retro-first reminisce ....

Mid-60's, near JFK Airport in Queens one early dawn hour, in was BOOMING WWHY and its pop music from Huntington WV. HUGE signal, for about a half an hour. WWHY was louder than WKBW and as loud as a few of the local NYC regionals. Perhaps it was from off some mid-Autumn anomaly.

Recent 1470 DX here in NE Pennsylvania ....
Daytimes it's the thing from Allentown, whatever their calls and format are now, with all the NAB graduations hung on their wall.
WJDY from DelMarVa was a sunset catch. They used to bomb up the coast onto western Long Island at sunset.
WMMW from Connecticut was a *nighttime* catch from some past early May. I have them taped. WMMW used to be a daytime-only station. Ooops. Did someone forget to change to that new nighttime pattern, hi ?
 
I'm sure the old WOHO, most recently known as WTOD, would love to take the credit but Cumulus took them off the air in the fall of 2016 and turned in the license! The ground system was terrible and management decided it wasn't worth the investment to replace/upgrade.
I interned at then-WLQR in the fall of 1999 when I was a senior at the University of Toledo. They were running an all-sports format at the time as "The Ticket." Pretty directional 1,000-watt pattern favoring the northwest from four towers off I-280 just south of downtown Toledo in Oregon (had to tuck in the signal toward Peoria at night, making for some terrible reception across Toledo's south suburbs). Last time I was in the Toledo area, in June 2017, the towers and offices on Pickle Road were still there.
Anyway ... here in Columbus, nothing on 1470 day or night other than slop from local WBNS on 1460.
 
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schmave said:
I'm sure the old WOHO, most recently known as WTOD, would love to take the credit but Cumulus took them off the air in the fall of 2016 and turned in the license! The ground system was terrible and management decided it wasn't worth the investment to replace/upgrade.
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Well, that would explain why...now that I think about it...it HAS been a while since I've heard WOHO! :) Although I never heard them all that much to begin with, especially because WMBD usually blows out everything else on 1470 around here.

There must be something about those -OHO call letters. At least on AM. KOHO in Honolulu (1170) is now gone as well. Although, I believe the calls have re-surfaced in crainbebo's neighborhood on FM in Washington State. Perhaps their odds of survival will be better on that band!
 
They were in trouble for a long time from what I heard. Signal was out of whack because the ground system had deteriorated and I guess at the end they weren't running full power. Of course, 1,000 watts on 1470 even in the nice ground conductivity of northwest Ohio isn't all that great even on its best day, especially when it had that very directional pattern.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: Same situation as cyberdad and radioman. Did hear WMBD during day on couple occasions, but that's was quite rare.
Nightime: WMBD dominant at night

DX/RETRO: Not much DX done on this frequency. KWSL (Sioux City, IA), WHUT (Anderson, IN), WQSN (Kalamazoo, MI), CHOW (Welland, ON) just to name a few.
 
WKMF/WFNT 1470 was really strong North of Milwaukee around Sunset, at least until power reduction and pattern change. Before Sunset, in the UP it gave WMBD a run for it's money, at least until WBKV/WIBD went fulltime. Shortly after it went to 5000 watts Daytime in 1959, WKMF was heard in New Zealand.
 
from east fringe of Nashville

day WVOL 5kw directional (2 towers)
night WVOL 1kw directional (6 towers - different pattern) just barely audible over the mess
 
Yakima WA
Day - KUTI splatter
Night - Mostly KUTI splatter. I can get a tight null on 1460 and get CJVB Vancouver (Multicultural) and KELA Centralia (News/Talk) mixing. DX logs include XERCN Tijuana (Spanish News/Talk), KBSN Moses Lake (News/Talk), and KIID Sacramento (was Radio Disney, now Punjabi). This is a very tough channel for me.

Wanted
KKTY Douglas WY (I have heard oldies music under KUTI's splatter at sunrise, but it's very weak and only when there isn't a lot of talking on the ESPN feed. 1000 watts)
KUTY Palmdale CA (Regional Mexican, possible during aurora since the channel is somewhat clear to the south)
 
Days:::Really nothing comes through....

Nights:::I have 3 stations fighting it out....
KUTY out of Palmdale / Lancaster is the Strongest
KIID is pretty weak out of Sacramento, but is under KUTY


The honor of the week goes to KELA at 655.5 miles off its single tower, out of Olympia, Washington. This little bad boy is pushing through with only 1KW of power, and I can hear it under the other two ( which are much closer ). If KUTY and KIID were not there, I could listen to KELA on my Sangean PD-R5, albeit with fade of course, all night. Nice job KELA...!!!
 
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