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AM Frequency of the week: 940

cyberdad

cyberdad

Skipping past three "regional" channels to a stop this week at 940. Far northwest Chicago suburbs....

Days: WFAW from Fort Atkinson, WI, 500 watts from about 60 miles northwest of my location. Pattern doesn't favor me, but the result is still a weak day signal that's always reliable.

Night: WFAW goes to 550 watts and a northwest-southeast oriented "figure eight" pattern. This is aimed right at me, so WFAW becomes strong enough to be on top of the channel most of the time. Before this setup. CBM from Montreal had one of the better night signals in these parts. After CBM migrated to FM, their successors (when on) haven't done as well.

Retro/Other Location: When it was 50kw, WCPC from Houston, MS used to frequently boom in around sunset. Now at 31kw, not so much. WMIX from Mount Vernon, IL was...and still is....also an occasional sunrise/sunset visitor. They run 5kw aimed mostly north-south.

During my college days in Iowa, KIOA from Des Moines was a regular top-40 listen for me. 10kw with a "marble shooter" pattern aimed west. My location was a little over 100 miles to the southeast, but given Iowa's fabulous ground conductivity, KIOA was still very listenable. The 5kw night pattern was more severe, but sent a "spike" in my direction, so it was a 24/7 go-to. Despite occasional intrusions from CBM. Here at my home location, KIOA occasionally turned up at sunset while still on day pattern. Less often at night, I have yet to hear the current occupant of Des Moines 940 (KPSZ) here. As for KIOA, they're still rockin' today on 93.3 FM.
 
cyberdad said:
Skipping past three "regional" channels to a stop this week at 940. Far northwest Chicago suburbs....

Days: WFAW from Fort Atkinson, WI, 500 watts from about 60 miles northwest of my location. Pattern doesn't favor me, but the result is still a weak day signal that's always reliable.

Night: WFAW goes to 550 watts and a northwest-southeast oriented "figure eight" pattern. This is aimed right at me, so WFAW becomes strong enough to be on top of the channel most of the time. Before this setup. CBM from Montreal had one of the better night signals in these parts. After CBM migrated to FM, their successors (when on) haven't done as well.

Retro/Other Location: When it was 50kw, WCPC from Houston, MS used to frequently boom in around sunset. Now at 31kw, not so much. WMIX from Mount Vernon, IL was...and still is....also an occasional sunrise/sunset visitor. They run 5kw aimed mostly north-south.

During my college days in Iowa, KIOA from Des Moines was a regular top-40 listen for me. 10kw with a "marble shooter" pattern aimed west. My location was a little over 100 miles to the southeast, but given Iowa's fabulous ground conductivity, KIOA was still very listenable. The 5kw night pattern was more severe, but sent a "spike" in my direction, so it was a 24/7 go-to. Despite occasional intrusions from CBM. Here at my home location, KIOA occasionally turned up at sunset while still on day pattern. Less often at night, I have yet to hear the current occupant of Des Moines 940 (KPSZ) here. As for KIOA, they're still rockin' today on 93.3 FM.
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Mason City, Iowa checking in.

Can get KPSZ pretty clear during the day, mostly hash at night.
 
Also from (eastern) Iowa:

KPSZ Des Moines daytime.
Nighttime is an interesting mix. Rarely do I hear strong signals. Sometimes KPSZ is there, sometimes not, and occasionally (really, rarely) CJGX from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. I am not clear about whether the 940 station from Montreal is off or on these days. But that station used to come in well on occasion here, though I don't think it was ever very consistently present.
I've had interesting catches over the years including WINZ Miami, WYLD New Orleans, and WCIT from Lima, Ohio, which is supposed to be running only 6 watts at night, which if that were the case would be the most interesting catch of all.
 
icybluelake said:
Also from (eastern) Iowa:

I've had interesting catches over the years including WINZ Miami, WYLD New Orleans, and WCIT from Lima, Ohio, which is supposed to be running only 6 watts at night, which if that were the case would be the most interesting catch of all.
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I've tried for WINZ many times, but without success. I'd think it would be doable here, at least on day pattern, but I've never been "right place/right time".

WYLD an interesting case. I can hear it pretty well daytime at our beach getaway location near Pensacola. At night, it's still present, but usually under XEQ (Mexico City). More interesting has been driving around New Orleans at night. It's been years, so maybe things have been fixed, but the WYLD night signal in the city seemed to have more holes in it than Swiss cheese! Frequently every block or two, WYLD would drop out and something else would break through!

WTIX had a similar but much milder version of the problem on 690 with R. Progreso (Cuba) as the culprit
 
ksradiogeek said:
Mason City, Iowa checking in.

Can get KPSZ pretty clear during the day, mostly hash at night.
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Go west, young man.

As KIOA, the night signal was problematic even as nearby as Ames. But as you go west on U.S. 18 the signal starts to become listenable.

In college for a couple of years, I dated a girl from Rockwell City, Iowa....not all that far southwest of where you are. And definitely farther north than Ames. KIOA was just fine there 24/7. I know from my own experience, as well as from KIOA being her favorite station. Day and night.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs: Daytime a very weak WFAW. At night WFAW gets a bit stronger. I've heard WCIT a couple of times.

Retro: CBM used to have a very good signal most nights. I snagged KIOA once or twice. I also used to try for WINZ, but never heard it here.
 
East Tennessee: Days-WECO, weakly making it in from Walland, TN
Night----I'm not sure.

Retro/other: I can remember WCPC, Houston MS blasting in just before sunset in Ohio. WCIT, Lima was semi-local in the part of West Central Ohio I grew up with, and I certainly remember, and listened to, CBM back in the day. I caught WMIX from there once.
 
Laramie, WY (SE Corner of the state)

KVSH Valentine, NE right after sunrise and sometimes right before sunset. Sometimes KIXZ right after sunrise.

sunset is usually KSPZ Des moines, IA and pretty good at that and sometimes CJGX Yorkton, Sask
 
Here in NE PA, the daytime regular is a fairly loud WADV Lebanon. Gospel/religious. Depending on the terrain, they're often as loud as the closer WHLM 930 from Bloomsberg. Here's WADV.

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WADV&service=AM&h=D

We live on the purple contour between Shenandoah and Pottsville. Long ago, the station used to be licensed to Charleroi, with the calls WESA.

A sunset logging (taped, too!) was WKGM from Virginia.

Nights it's whatever Canada has to send down this way from Montreal.One night I did get the aforementioned WMIX from Illinois. Memory is fuzzy as to whether that was a test DX broadcast or not. Them I have taped, too.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WFAW
Nightime: used to be CBM, these days it just depends on propagation

DX/RETRO: CBM and also XEQ Mexico City used to be common at night. Others heard on this frequency KIOA (Des Moines, IA), KVSH (Valentine, NE), WCSY (South Haven, MI), WECO (Wartburg, TN), WCPC (Houston, TX), WMIX (Mt. Vernon, IL), WMAC (macon, GA), CJGX (Yorkoton, ON), CINW (Montreal, PQ), Radio Relo, Cuba
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: a very weak WADV from Lebanon PA, or splatter from local 950 WKDN(Family Radio, ex-WPEN)..
Night: used to hear CBM Montreal(later CINW, now dark) all the time. Nowadays, who knows?
 
Around Columbus, Ohio, it's a very weak WCIT from Lima. I've heard them around here despite they're running just 250 watts, albeit a directional 250 that shoots northwest and southeast in the general directions of Columbus and Fort Wayne.
In the area southwest of Lima where gr8 grew up and I still have relatives, WCIT doesn't come in well at all despite being just 20 miles from their tower.
They have all of six watts at night with the same northwest-southeast pattern.
 
(Going off of my screen name, since I’m originally from Central Kansas):

When I was last home in December, I received what I believe was KVSH from Valentine, NE, despite the close proximity to KJRG in Newton (30 miles straight north).
 
In CO...KPSZ Des Moines tends to be a regular visitor late winter afternoons, fighting with Amarillo and sometimes winning. Nights, usually Amarillo.
 
joebtsflk1 said:
In CO...KPSZ Des Moines tends to be a regular visitor late winter afternoons, fighting with Amarillo and sometimes winning. Nights, usually Amarillo.
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At night here in Laramie, WY .. the Des moines station usually wins.. and some nights, its quite good
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: Heavy splatter from 5 kW local 930 KLUP

Sunset: XEQ starts to come up.

Night: KLUP drops to 1 kW, but there's still a fair amount of splatter. XEQ dominates. Underneath I'll occasionally hear a weak KTFS "Gospel Radio 105.9" in Texarkana, TX. If I aim more SE, XERKS in Reynosa sometimes mixes in with Spanish-language Christian music/talk.

Sunrise: XEQ is still dominant, but XERKS is stronger.

DX/Retro: Back in 2016 I logged a very weak WINZ one September night. I've also logged WMAC in Macon, GA, and KSWM in Aurora, MS, once each at sunrise.

I used to hear WYLD mixing in at night, but I'm not hearing it at all lately. I'm no longer hearing XEYJ in Nueva Rosita, either; it has probably migrated to FM.
 
In west Houston, days are only slop from local 950 KPRC. At sunset, the slop diminishes a bit and XEQ comes up quickly. I've also heard gospel music but hard to determine whether I'm hearing KTFS or WYLD due to XEQ and the slop.

Back in the 70's in Tulsa, WCPC and WYLD (then r&b IIRC) were regulars at sunset.
 
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