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AM Frequency Of The Week-1310

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Schroedingers Cat

From 1963 to 1972, in SE Michigan and Northern Michigan at Night, it was WKNR, Keener 13, Dearborn/Detroit. Now it is WDTW. You could get it in Chicago during Critical Hours sometimes, on their two tower Day Pattern.

In Northern Michigan Days, it is was WCCW 1310.

WCCW 1310 has the land they have their towers on up for sale. It has been 15000 watts Day and 7500 watts Night with three towers Day and four towers Night. They had a Construction Permit for 50000 watts Daytime with three towers, but it was never built. It is not clear whether they plan to turn the license in, or if they will move the TL back to the original location (WCCW-FM 107.5 is still on that tower), or to the WTCM (AM) 580 location in some fashion, which is now 50000/1100 DA-2. They don't have a translator-yet.

I thought David might be interested if he didn't already know.
 
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A rather historical dial position in my neck of the woods, as well. Cumulus owned sports station KTCK Dallas, "Sports Radio 1310 & 96.7 The Ticket" 25kW days/5kW nights, is the former WRR, owned by the City of Dallas, and which dates back to as early as 1920, serving as an emergency radio broadcast for Dallas police and fire, even broadcasting nightly reports of prison escapees, and sought after suspects law enforcement were wanting to arrest. WRR received a limited commercial license in August 1921, and was officially licensed on March 13, 1922. My reception from 90 miles east is fair to weak on a daily and nightly basis.
 
I've never heard WKNR or its successors here at my location 40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago. I certainly would've liked to have heard the legendary "Keener" at some point, but it never happened for me. And, not surprisingly, I never heard it in my college years in southeast Iowa, where semi-local KOKX had a nighttime pattern with 1kw aimed right at me.i

Otherrwise for me at my location.....

Days: WIBA from Madison, WI is 5kw non-directional from about 80 miles to my northwest. The result is a weak, but still listenable signal.

Nights: WIBA's night pattern doesn't favor me, but it's still usually on top. CIWW and the Indianapolis 1310 (ex-WIFE) in that order are most likely to intrude.

Other location: On my biz trips to Ottawa in the 90s and 2000s, CIWW as "Oldies 1310" was my usual go-to. With 50kw and a somewhat favorable pattern, CIWW was also very listenable daytime in Montreal...a little more than 100 miles away.
 
I was waiting for Cyberdad since he is the official purveyor of the AM Freq of the week.

I don't think I've ever heard WKNR or any 1310 from the Detroit area here in the near north Chicago suburbs.
During the daytime I hear basically nothing on this frequency. At critical hours I have heard WIBA a few times and at night the old WISH or whatever it is now. This has not been one of the better frequencies for me.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime---A weak WISE, Asheville NC
Night: Mix of WISE, WJZA Decatur GA and some others (via Knoxville-Oak Ridge SDR)

Retro/other: Never had the pleasure of hearing Keener 13 in their top 40 days, although CKLW was like a local in West Central Ohio during the day. WIFE (not WTLC) predominated there, and if I was getting anything in Dayton, OH it was them during the day.

When I lived in Indiana, for a time 1310 in Indianapolis was off the air completely (by contrast it never missed a beat when it lost its license and a new owner instantly picked it up), and Madison made it in before sunset.
 
Day and night here its WJZA. Normally their night power of 31W wouldn't make it out this far, but most likely they stay on 2.5 KW day power, even at night.
Last I heard their tower was in a MARTA (rapid rail) parking lot and was scheduled to be moved.
They were off the air for a while but STILL managed to show up in the ratings. Unbelievable!
 
Though there are three omni daytime stations here in Pennsylvania, I haven't heard any of them. I suppose downstate WGSA Ephrata ('EFF- frittuh') would be the weak-ish regular if they were still operating, but they may have turned off their fusebox before I moved here.

One sunrise I heard CIWW, I suspect from Canada, mixing with WSSJ Camden NJ*. WSSJ was an easy ID because of their jingle.
Jingle. Singular. '♫ Double-you .... essss .... essss ..... jayyyyyy ♫'
Both of those stations I have on tape.

Besides, local Hazleton on 1300 is a little splashy here in the middays.

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New Jersey, despite its wonderful, far-ranging variety of terrain, accents and lifestyles, is smaller in area than 19 U.S. counties. An old gag went, 'Oh. You're from Jersey? Which exit?' Yet for decades, the state had two OMNI stations on 1310. Well, sometime in the 70's, a new station, WPRJ, signed on to -- what else? -- 1310. Here's their day pattern.

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

So New Jersey now has three 1310 stations packed into the place -- two of them omni. Wow, was WPRJ a tough one to hear through all the 1310 commotion back in Queens. (We all DXed from the spot where the 'k' in 'New York' is.) Water-path Asbury Park NJ and the closer Mt Kisco were the daytime regulars, and there were 14 others IDed from various dayparts. As you might presume, the lone reception I got of WPRJ was one sunset.
The QSL I got from them mentioned that a factor in limiting their coverage area design was (?) WOOD 1300 from Michigan!
 
radioman148 said:
I was waiting for Cyberdad since he is the official purveyor of the AM Freq of the week.
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Perfectly okay with me to have someone else stepping in and doing the purveying. A couple of weeks ago, things were prettgy quiet with 1280. Now this week, we wind up with a "two-fer". I'm definitely cool with the latter.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WIBA Madison, WI
Nightime: nothing really stands out

DX/RETRO: Some catches in the past include KOKX (Keoukuk, IA), WMLF (Indianapolis, IN), WDOD (Chattanooga, TN), WNIC (Dearborn, MI), CIWW (Ottawa, ON), CHGB (La Pocatiere, PQ) and La Voz de la Patria, Barranquilla, Colombia
 
A tornado knocked down some of the six WKNR/WNIC...WDTW towers around 1980. They were on 1250 watts nondirectional for a while, and it was heard far and wide at Night, and better than it ever had been heard at Night on the East side of Detroit.

There have been no fewer than 10 sets of call letters over the years. FCCinfo.com/REC only shows seven of those. WDTW and WKNR have been used twice. The others were WKMH, WKNR, and WWKR, since 850 in Cleveland had already taken WKNR. Since there was no historical connection to Keener 13, I could never understand why. Maybe Ted Alexander thought they were cool call letters?
 
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Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: It's pretty empty. I haven't heard WIBA during the day where I am, so I must be just out range.

Nighttime: The most common for me is the latest Indianapolis station WTLC. They now call themselves "Praise Indy" and true to their name are often heard blessing the city of Indianapolis. Second most likely is WIBA in Madison, and I've heard CIWW in Ottawa at least once.
 
West Central Georgia:

Days: Decent signal from WPCH West Point GA 1000/25 Fox Sports "The Game"

Nights: WISE Asheville NC 5000/1000 Fox Sports
Also catch WJZA Decatur/Atlanta GA 2500/31 Smooth Jazz
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
A tornado knocked down some of the six WKNR/WNIC...WDTW towers around 1980. They were on 1250 watts nondirectional for a while, and it was heard far and wide at Night, and better than it ever had been heard at Night on the East side of Detroit.

There have been no fewer than 10 sets of call letters over the years. FCCinfo.com/REC only shows seven of those. WDTW and WKNR have been used twice. The others were WKMH, WKNR, and WWKR, since 850 in Cleveland had already taken WKNR. Since there was no historical connection to Keener 13, I could never understand why. Maybe Ted Alexander thought they were cool call letters?
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At night, whats is the power thrown towards Grosse Pointe from these towers? I bet less than 1,000 watts, maybe even less than 500. The station falls off a cliff as you are driving east on I-94.
Deep Null
 
In west Houston, days are mostly splatter from local KXYZ 1320. At sunset, KAHL from San Antonio mixes with KTCK Dallas. At night, it's mostly KTCK.
 
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Orange County, TX-Days KEZM Sulphur, LA, Nights KTCK Dallas both sports
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KEZM is operating at reduced power and a temporary tower due to loss of its DA tower site a number of years ago. Bruce Merchant who owns it, has tried to relicense it at other locations at his original 500w day and night and even 500 D/250N but the FCC wont because of signal overlap with 1320 KXYZ out of Pasadena/Houston in SWAMP lands south of Sulphur...as if there is anyone there listening...Bruce continues to file STAs to keep the station on air. He is running 250D and reduced power at night into a single antenna. Whether he can get it licensed is another issue.
 
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