Your Single Most-Craved Station on Each Frequency ? From 1600 down. One Choice.

[Steve Green NEPA]

Thanks to permission from Cyberdad, I got clearance to ask an oblique AM DX question. Maybe once a week for two years, hi.

Sticking to the traditional 540-1600 band for you veteran DXers: What one station would you give your left earphone cup to log on 1600 ?

Back in Queens NYC, my desire was WAAM Ann Arbor. I had 20 catches logged on 1600, but none of them was them. Days and most nights, local WWRL used to send their signal directly down the throats of Flatbush Avenue residents and at fringe people like us, too. But when they were off ... hee-hee-hee.

Out here in NE Pennsylvania, I guess I'd enjoy logging one of those Ohio stations (if they're still on).

The elusive 1600 catch you folks pursue ?

 

[radioman148]

I'll have to think a little bit about this one. What I can say is that I used to hear WWRL here in Northern Illinois even though they sent most of their night signal away from me.
Back in the 70s & 80s I would've loved to hear the 1600 in Pomona, Ca. (forgot their calls at that time.) They played a nice mix of Rock & Roll oldies for awhile.

Good topic Steve!

 

[crainbebo]

KGYM Cedar Rapids. This 5KW station points NW at night and should be heard in the dead of winter. I've heard WRPN WI on 1600, but never this closer one.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

It's odd, Crain, that back when the Cedar Raoids station was KCRG, I actually caught them in Queens. I get the idea that WWRL might'be been off that overnight, hi.

http://nf8m.com/pattern_maps/current/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED_1600KHz-1.html

Note the huge signal void in several states on that map. So when WWRL and WBOS Boston were off, things from the midwest had no choice but to come in if the radio was sensitive enough. KATZ was another such 'default' catch. Like KCRG, the KATZ signal was quite weak but loggably present.

I'm @$$uming that the huge signal gap on 1600 in those half-dozen states is because of WAKR 1590. They cover a lot of ground at night. Someone here who knows more than I do (probably 115% of the posters) can say if that first-adjacent protection is the reason.

 

[gr8oldies]

Great topic! I worked at one of those Ohio 1600s (WULM) and we'd get the occasional report from somewhere in Michigan. When I lived in Ohio, there were several regular catches---KATZ, WWRL, WMQM to name a few. In Tennessee there are several different ones, including auroral reception of KLEB. I wold probably like to "DX home" and catch WULM, WARU (Peru IN) or WAAM.

 

[davideduardo]

When DXing from NE Ohio in the late 50's and early 60's, I really wanted to hear KASH in Oregon. I guess I liked the call letters.

An odd regular occurrence on auroral evenings was 500 watt WKWF from Key West, FL and I verified KWOW in Pomona on a test. The frequency was so much like short wave that most of the eastern and midwestern fulltimers were heard.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Probably the best time to hear WAAM was right after LSS in NYC for the half hour or so that it was on Daytime pattern. I would imagine that out a ways on Long Island, but before you got to WLNG's signal, would have been a good spot. There's a large minor lobe to the East. The Big RL was quite common in Michigan, and is still heard quite a bit. I guess that when they would sign off at WAAM, WWRL came in on the off air monitor. After the 50 kW NYC stations, WWRL was the 9th most common log. The 10th was WADO, with the old 5 kW Night pattern with the 1 kW shallow nulls.

 

[radioman148]

When DXing from NE Ohio in the late 50's and early 60's, I really wanted to hear KASH in Oregon. I guess I liked the call letters.

An odd regular occurrence on auroral evenings was 500 watt WKWF from Key West, FL and I verified KWOW in Pomona on a test. The frequency was so much like short wave that most of the eastern and midwestern fulltimers were heard.

I never could catch KWOW in the Chicago area although I tried many times.

 

[DXBob]

Regardless of where I have lived in the Midwest [Peoria, Macomb, Madison, Milwaukee, Overland Park], I have always wanted to log KATZ in Saint Louis at night on 1600 kHz. At night, they are an 8 tower directional with many nulls at 3.5 kW. In fact, as many times as I have tried, I have never ID'd any station on this frequency at night. Just the chaos from many signals received at once.

Bob

 

[cyberdad]

Thanks to permission from Cyberdad, I got clearance to ask an oblique AM DX question. Maybe once a week for two years, hi.

Oh c'mon Steve....nobody requires permission from me for anything. Especially the guys here. And MOST especially a guy with a combination radio and can opener! That particular marvel of science should entitle its owner to a lifetime free pass for any topic on this board! Also, as i told you in my PM to you, this is a great topic. I glad you thought of it!

On topic 1600. I guess, I'd say KATZ. I think I may have heard it here at home only once. I've tried for it a bunch of times, I've heard it in multiple locations in my travels, but it's been very elusive around here. WRPN in Ripon, WI is another one. They have a pretty respectable 5kw signal, buy they're nulled in my direction day and night.

 

[boombox4]

Any station from Georgia, Florida, New York, or Massachusetts. Any one of the NYC blowtorches before they go off the air would be cool.