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1570 : Your Most Wanted DX Catch

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

DXing down the dial: In the day, 1570 here in the new digs of NEPA is occupied by the semi-local WPGM, a religious station in Danville that has been a devout operation seemingly since before Biblical times.

On 1570, in have come sunset catches from MD, PA and other places. But I would *like* to log XERF here for the first time.

How about you folks? What station or state would *you* desire to hear on 1570, day or night?
 
In the day, I receive a very weak KLEX on Lexington, MO at 250 watts.

At night, the only station I can ID here on this frequency is XERF. They are sporadic, however. I do monitor this frequency regularly with the hope of a new ID. So far, no luck.

Bob
 
Oh, this is going to be fun. Take XERF and KCVR out, and 1570 is the dream frequency for the west coast. Flea power, low power, east coast, everything.

Probably my most-wanted is WSCO Appleton WI (331 watts night) which has been tentatively logged with NBC Sports. The two in MN, KVTK in SD and WLKD WI are also good targets when conditions are great to the east and XERF isn't strong. Earlier this year I bagged WFRL Freeport IL with 500 watts on this frequency. Very weak WX forecast and country music, but matched the webstream. Boy was I excited to hear them.
 
Y'all can have XERf all you want. Here in Laramie, WY I can hear XERF nightly, sometimes not so great but often at least moderately listenable.
 
I got a good laugh, SomeRadioGuy, out of your 'yall', lol.

Back in Queens NYC, the closest towers to my den and the den of others, were those of WQXR 1560.
50,000 unrepentant watts .
So for some reason, we NEVER heard this 1570 station from way out there on Long Island.

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

Irrespective of what call letters they used, we never could hear them in Queens.
WAPC, WHRF, WRCN ....
Yet, the * other * Riverhead station (from the COL on which a subsequent program director of ours called 'Riverf*ck') was readable in Queens. That was WRIV 1390. A poster to other boards, Bruce Tria, boss of the still-standing WRIV, still sits pretty in his air chair. Bruce's omni WRIV gets out and does its thing,

Last I'd heard, 'Wharf' 1570 still protects NYC's 1560, and sends its signal as east as possible. That 1570 station operated from some clam-shack/potato shed along the perimeter of a drive-in movie site for the longest while.

WHRF / WAPC/ WRCN / WFTU 1570 * would * be my most desirable 1570 catch back in the day if I still lived there.
The devil knows that I'd get this former daytime-only station HERE in Pennsylvania at night with their 500 watts before I'd probably catch them in Queens.
 
That 1570 studio is legendary. When WHRF was sold by Metrocom, which also owned WGMZ in my hometown in Michigan, my next door neighbor was the accountant for WGMZ and corporate accounting director for Metrocom. Mary and Don (not H/W, but I won't give their last names for privacy), the WGMZ engineer, went to Long Island to do a complete inventory of all equipment and studio and office contents of WHRF AM/FM and other Metrocom properties, circa 1969. She related the story of the ramshackle studio, as she always had interesting radio stories. She said it was about the size of a two car garage. She was apparently also involved in the sale of then WPAC-FM Patchogue and WGMZ in Michigan to Long Island based Beck Ross Communications, where 106.1 became WBLI, the FM for WGLI Babylon. (Interestingly, George H. Ross, the Ross of Beck Ross, was Donald Trump's attorney for many years and appeared on The Apprentice. Not to get political...) WGMZ became the FM for WKMF, which had just built a palatial studio, by comparison to WHRF anyway.
 
Just north of Chicago I currently hear a fair/weak signal from WBGX in Harvey, Il. Currently they air a gospel format. A long time ago they
had a very good R&B format. I can't think of a particular station on 1570 that I'd like to hear today, but I'd sure love to turn back the clock and hear Wolfman Jack advertise those baby chicks on XERF.
 
WBEE had a pretty mellow playlist that influenced Top 40 stations to add tracks, as far as I can see from ARSA. Some of those were #1 Top 40s in other markets, that should have caught on nationally. "I'm Gonna Miss You" by The Artistics is one example.
 
radioman148 said:
Just north of Chicago I currently hear a fair/weak signal from WBGX in Harvey, Il. Currently they air a gospel format. A long time ago they
had a very good R&B format. I can't think of a particular station on 1570 that I'd like to hear today, but I'd sure love to turn back the clock and hear Wolfman Jack advertise those baby chicks on XERF.
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WBEE also had Marty Faye, whose other gig was staff announcer, occasional program host, used car pitchman, and interviewer of professional wrestlers on WBKB-TV channel 7. Better known today as WLS-TV.

Back on topic....

My most wanted on 1570 as a teenager were two Canadians that shared the channel with XERF. CFOR and CHLO. I eventually heard both of them. In fact, CHLO had a decent signal in the Chicago area most nights. CFOR was located about an hour and a half by car north of Toronto. CHLO about the same distance west. The result of that setup meant that I was in the null for CFOR. But it still came through once in a while after XERF went to reduced power.
 
My great, late, legally blind buddy Harry (Hugh Heavy) Mankin out of Brooklyn NYC attended Elkins in Chicago to get his chocolate First Phone license, and then immediately went to work at that WBEE 1570. Harris Heathcote Mankin could do ANY format. Truth -- his first major-market gig was doing news for Beautifui-Music WTFM in NYC.

Wow, what memories these AM frequencies hold, eh ?

* * * * * * *

If anyone here desires an air-check of Hugh Heavy, gimme an eMail shout.
 
Can't think of any station in particular I'd want to hear aside from a positive ID on the Hollister, MO station that plays religion. The most I've been able to hear from it was a one or two minute burst, and a weak one at that. I haven't heard anything else on 1570 aside from XERF and KCVR.
 
cyberdad said:
WBEE also had Marty Faye, whose other gig was staff announcer, occasional program host, used car pitchman, and interviewer of professional wrestlers on WBKB-TV channel 7. Better known today as WLS-TV.

Back on topic....

My most wanted on 1570 as a teenager were two Canadians that shared the channel with XERF. CFOR and CHLO. I eventually heard both of them. In fact, CHLO had a decent signal in the Chicago area most nights. CFOR was located about an hour and a half by car north of Toronto. CHLO about the same distance west. The result of that setup meant that I was in the null for CFOR. But it still came through once in a while after XERF went to reduced power.
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Thanks for reminding me of CHLO. It certainly could be heard in the Chicago area and I caught CFOR too.
 
I've worked at 2 1570s, WPTW in Piqua, Ohio and WILO, Frankfort, IN. I'd love to hear either or both at my current QTH in East Tennessee. I have managed to snag Warren, Ohio on winter daytime skip. I seem to have a pipeline into NE Ohio at times.

I don't remember Wolfman Jack on XERF, but I remember the signal, carrying all that fire and brimstone preaching. I have heard today's version of XERF underneath the graveyard-channel-like 1570.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
I got a good laugh, SomeRadioGuy, out of your 'yall', lol.

Back in Queens NYC, the closest towers to my den and the den of others, were those of WQXR 1560.
50,000 unrepentant watts .
So for some reason, we NEVER heard this 1570 station from way out there on Long Island.

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

Irrespective of what call letters they used, we never could hear them in Queens.
WAPC, WHRF, WRCN ....
Yet, the * other * Riverhead station (from the COL on which a subsequent program director of ours called 'Riverf*ck') was readable in Queens. That was WRIV 1390. A poster to other boards, Bruce Tria, boss of the still-standing WRIV, still sits pretty in his air chair. Bruce's omni WRIV gets out and does its thing,

Last I'd heard, 'Wharf' 1570 still protects NYC's 1560, and sends its signal as east as possible. That 1570 station operated from some clam-shack/potato shed along the perimeter of a drive-in movie site for the longest while.

WHRF / WAPC/ WRCN / WFTU 1570 * would * be my most desirable 1570 catch back in the day if I still lived there.
The devil knows that I'd get this former daytime-only station HERE in Pennsylvania at night with their 500 watts before I'd probably catch them in Queens.
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Im a yankee, born and raised, but ive spent alot of time in the deep south and the midwest for work.. so it all blends in
 
CFOR used to be 1000 watts nondirectional at Night. Then it was 5000 watts directional. Used to hear them a lot in SE Michigan, but less than CHLO. CHLO had a great signal on 680 with just 1000 watts with a 4 tower parallelogram. It went West well with DA-1, which puzzled me because it was toward KNBR. The CHLO call letters are now on 530 in Brampton, ON, near Toronto. It runs 1000 watts Day/250 watts Night nondirectional.
 
gr8oldies said:
I've worked at 2 1570s, WPTW in Piqua, Ohio and WILO, Frankfort, IN. I'd love to hear either or both at my current QTH in East Tennessee. I have managed to snag Warren, Ohio on winter daytime skip. I seem to have a pipeline into NE Ohio at times.

I don't remember Wolfman Jack on XERF, but I remember the signal, carrying all that fire and brimstone preaching. I have heard today's version of XERF underneath the graveyard-channel-like 1570.
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It wasn't always easy picking up XERF in the Chicago area, but Wolfman's voice made it easier to ID.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
CFOR used to be 1000 watts nondirectional at Night. Then it was 5000 watts directional. Used to hear them a lot in SE Michigan, but less than CHLO. CHLO had a great signal on 680 with just 1000 watts with a 4 tower parallelogram. It went West well with DA-1, which puzzled me because it was toward KNBR. The CHLO call letters are now on 530 in Brampton, ON, near Toronto. It runs 1000 watts Day/250 watts Night nondirectional.
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I never heard CHLO here on 680. Too much splatter from WMAQ on 670
 
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