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AM Frequency of the week: 1120

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake, IL....40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago,

Days: 1120 is squeezed between splatter from WMBI from Chicago on 1110 and WISN from Milwaukee on 1130.

Nights: WMBI and WISN disappear and the 800-pound gorilla, KMOX, roars in. Easily one of the strongest and most reliable skywave signals around here.

I'm pretty comfortable in assuming that KMOX is probably present via daytime skywave here from time to time....especially in winter. But given the presence of good signals on both first adjacents, I've never heard it, Not that I've spent much time trying.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime it's all WMBI splatter and some from WISN also. At night all KMOX with a strong signal.
I've never heard KMOX during the day because WMBI is so close.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
* Daytime: Nothing.
* Nighttime: All KMOX, all the time. As in the Chicago area, KMOX is a skywave monster here.
I've heard KMOX daytime along I-65 between Indianapolis and Chicago, but it was very weak. Don't think I've ever heard it during the day around Chicagoland, even down around Joliet or Naperville where it might be most likely to be heard.
 
schmave said:
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
* Daytime: Nothing.
* Nighttime: All KMOX, all the time. As in the Chicago area, KMOX is a skywave monster here.
I've heard KMOX daytime along I-65 between Indianapolis and Chicago, but it was very weak. Don't think I've ever heard it during the day around Chicagoland, even down around Joliet or Naperville where it might be most likely to be heard.
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When you get just south of Joliet on I-55 you can start hearing KMOX during the day.-
 
Laramie, WY (SE corner of the state)

KCRN 1120 Limon, CO can be heard at some level all day, sometimes good, sometimes note.

At night, a fair signal from KMOX
 
Daytime here is a very weak signal from a station near Camp Lejeune in NC, WSME. It used to be an oldies station a couple of years ago.

Nighttime it is KMOX almost all the time. I’ve even heard it as late as 9:30am in the winter in Charleston.
 
From 25 miles SW of downtown KC:

Day: Nothing in the summer but fading, a weak KMOX in winter. I am 241 miles from the transmitter site.

Critical Hours: All KMOX. Comes in early in the evening before sunset, stays listenable in the morning past sunrise.

Night: A strong KMOX that gets stronger about two hours after sunset. No adjacent channel splatter. At night, I can listen to the station inside a brick exterior building on a table radio. A powerhouse!

Bob
 
West central Georgia

Day: WXJO Douglasville/Atlanta GA 10,000 watts day only R&B Weak

Night: KMOX very strong, one of the best-received 50,000 watt stations on the dial here despite the distance

Other Catches: WKCE Maryville TN
 
In some manner, during my 'downbeat' DX career phase here in PA, I've managed to hear more 1120 stations from here than I'd heard in the fevered Queens NYC DX orgies.

Four from here ; three from Queens, lol.

Back when the dial noise was clearer, WUST from Washington/Bethesda/Arbitron would be weak but steady. I actually live closer to the MD border than to the NY border, even though everyone here considers this 'Coal Country Northeast PA'.

KMOX is the nighttime occupant, of course. I enjoyed keeping score on looseleaf from KMOX when my Mets play the Cardinals, with the St. Looie play-by-play voices.

But some station from outside Hartford CT -- WPRX 1120 -- came in one night. I have them taped, too. Someone must've forgotten to throw the nighttime pattern switch. Ahem.

And -- thanks to a tip or two from this forum -- I caught a WKAJ one night, from upstate New York. Wow, did I attack that lure like a dog goes after ham. I didn't get them taped, though.
 
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Steve Green NEPA said:
In some manner, during my 'downbeat' DX career phase here in PA, I've managed to hear more 1120 stations from here than I'd heard in the fevered Queens NYC DX orgies.

Four from here ; three from Queens, lol.

Back when the dial noise was clearer, WUST from Washington/Bethesda/Arbitron would be weak but steady. I actually live closer to the MD border than to the NY border, even though everyone here considers this 'Coal Country Northeast PA'.

KMOX is the nighttime occupant, of course. I enjoyed keeping score on looseleaf from KMOX when my Mets play the Cardinals, with the St. Looie play-by-play voices.

But some station from outside Hartford CT -- WPRX 1120 -- came in one night. I have them taped, too. Someone must've forgotten to throw the nighttime pattern switch. Ahem.

And -- thanks to a tip or two from this forum -- I caught a WKAJ one night, from upstate New York. Wow, did I attack that lure like a dog goes after ham. I didn't get them taped, though.
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You probably remember back in the 60's and 70's Ondas del Lago in Maracaibo, Venezuela was a frequent visitor to the Northeast when conditions were aurora. For some reason, the station's signal deteriorated going into the late 80's and 90's and did not seem to get the same number of reports.
 
Great times, David E !

As you no doubt recall, there was a lefthanded postalworker DXer out of Brooklyn, Ernie Cooper, who probably had logged and QSL'ed as many Venezuelan stations as he'd logged domestic stations. 'Hefty Blooper' was the Authority on station reception from Venezuela. 'ERC' had a bit of that salt-water reception to help him along, of course. But why deny anyone who had such geographic fortuitiveness?.
I, a DXing nebbish, called him at his home twice about 2AM with a few catches I was hearing, so he'd get to log them as well. One was the 570 thing from Tampa ; one was WQBS 630 from Puerto Rico -- GREAT jingle package. Both times, Ernie let his phone bounce and clonk off the wall as he rushed in to 'catch' them.

Fun era, David. Thx for the memories!
 
Here in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: Nothing possible due to WMBI on 1110 splatter just under 3 miles away from me.
Nightime: KMOX owns the frequency.

DX/Retro/etc: the only DX catches on this frequency are WGGM Maryville, TN (1985) and WKQW oil City, PA (1987), both with KMOX partially nulled.
 
Mason City, IA:
Daytime- a very weak to non existent ‘MOX.
Nighttime-‘MOX blasts in throughout the night.

Central KS:
Daytime- also a weak to non existent ‘MOX, though during the winter, it’s come in just fine without issue.
Nighttime-Same as in Iowa.
 
ksradiogeek said:
Mason City, IA:
Daytime- a very weak to non existent ‘MOX.
Nighttime-‘MOX blasts in throughout the night.

Central KS:
Daytime- also a weak to non existent ‘MOX, though during the winter, it’s come in just fine without issue.
Nighttime-Same as in Iowa.
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Where are you at in the wide state of Kansas? Salina or even further west? Great ground conductivity where you reside most likely. I cannot receive KMOX in Overland Park in the day during the summer, only in winter.

Bob
 
We're getting back into the AM routine, so I will get right into it...

Days is usually nothing. In winter sometimes KANN Roy UT (SOS Radio) or KPNW Eugene (News/Talk) come in weakly.
Nights is usually a mix of KPNW and KANN. KZSJ San Jose with their Vietnamese format often makes it in during aurora, on just 150 flamethrowing watts. I haven't heard KMOX St. Louis (News/Talk) in a few years at least.
 
During the day, I get 5KW KZSJ out of South Gilroy. Not very strong, but strong enough to listen to.

Nights, 50KW KPNW out of Eugene, Oregon comes in the strongest. I can hear another station below it, but its to faint. Its most likely 150 watt KZSJ. I do wish I could get KMOX, but I don't think that's possible.
 
formula72 said:
During the day, I get 5KW KZSJ out of South Gilroy. Not very strong, but strong enough to listen to.

Nights, 50KW KPNW out of Eugene, Oregon comes in the strongest. I can hear another station below it, but its to faint. Its most likely 150 watt KZSJ. I do wish I could get KMOX, but I don't think that's possible.
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Keep trying for KMOX later in the fall and winter. At your location you should be able to null KPNW and have a better chance at getting KMOX.
 
radioman148 said:
Keep trying for KMOX later in the fall and winter. At your location you should be able to null KPNW and have a better chance at getting KMOX.
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Yep....IME, KMOX in NorCal is not exactly easy, but occasionally doable with KPNW nulled. Especially in winter.
 
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