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AM Frequency of the week: 1320

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwestern "Chicagoland".....

Days: 1320 is usually blank for me. Once in a while, I can get a whiff of WKAN from Kankakee, IL....1kw mon-drectioonal from about 90 miles south-southeast of me.

Nights: WKAN drops to 500 watts directional and disppears. WILS (Lansing, MI) used to be fairly regular around here. Not so much lately at 1kw night with a pattern that doesn't favor me. BUT, when they flip to 25kw day power at sunrise, they blast right in. Aside from that, 1320 at night is usually a mix of weak and unidentifiable signals.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime nothing but WKTA splatter as I'm only a few miles from their towers. At night WKTA is still there, but not as overwhelming. When WKTA is off daytime which is rare, I've heard a weak WKAN. I have heard WILS at night especially before sunrise.
 
From Smith County, Texas, 5 miles NW of Tyler: a sideband of local 1330 KGLD Tyler during the daylight. At night, KGLD drops to 77 watts, which renders it unlistenable at my place, but opens up 1320 next door for mainstream rock KNCB Vivian, Louisiana "K-Rock 104", with its monster 57 watt night power to produce a weak, but listenable signal here.
 
West Central Georgia:

Days: WHIE Griffin GA 5000/83 Country Music with weak signal

Nights: Mostly hear WDDV Venice FL 5000/1000 with Oldies music
 
Chicago near the lakeshore:

Daytime it's WILS in Lansing. This one has a little better staying power than most E Michigan stations as one goes inland... it is listenable for a couple of miles. South of the city I can sometimes hear a faint WKAN in Kankakee, IL if I'm out of range of WILS.

Nighttime it tends to be a jumble. If something rises to the top it's likely to be WJAS in Pittsburgh. The only other ID I've ever made is KELO in Sioux Falls, SD.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WKAN or WILS depending on the loop antenna orientation (both weak)
Nightime: nothing really stands out these days, WILS and CFGM were common in the past

DX/RETRO: Not much to report as far as DX is concerned: KXYZ (Houston, TX), WJAS (Pittsburgh, PA), WHIA (Griffin, GA). Also KSIV (Clayton, MO) during a DX test.
 
Picayune, MS:
WRJW Picayune (country) 5kw day/75w night. Very strong signal at all times, the only station that I don't need to turn the radio to receive.
 
Last I checked at the dials here in NE Pennsylvania, Allentown was the midday occupant on 1320. Formerly WKAP, they're listed now as WTKZ.
'WJAS' Pittsburgh was the stubborn nighttime lounge lizard.
Sunset catches have been WLEE Richmond (formerly WEET), and WJJS from Lynchburg VA.
I doubt there's merely minimal truth at this point to any rumors about tearing down WLEE's tower or renaming Lynchburg.

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The old DX days on 1320 in Queens NYC were ridiculous. I count 23 loggings from those days -- right next to share-timer locals WEVD and WPOW on 1330. Those two had frequent absences you usually expect from stations with different xmtr sites who had to make way for the other.
And 1320 was a real shoe-horned channel in the 60's. Scranton, Allentown and Gettysburg all were full-timers in Eastern PA alone. Add to that confusion full-timer WATR Waterbury CT and water-path daytimer WICO from Maryland -- Wy-COMM - ih - KOE County MD -- and you never knew what was going to come in, day or night.

The aforementioned WILS was L&C one MM on a DX TEST broadcast. I'm guessing that either KXYZ Houston or WUNO San Juan was my best catch. What a strange frequency 1320 was in those days.
 
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Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
Daytime: Always WLOH from Lancaster, about 20 miles to my southeast. 500 watts, so not powerful, but still the only thing on the channel.
Nighttime: Jumble. WLOH barely is audible more than five miles from its tower, and the last time I checked the channel nothing stood out.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Last I checked at the dials here in NE Pennsylvania, Allentown was the midday occupant on 1320. Formerly WKAP, they're listed now as WTKZ.
'WJAS' Pittsburgh was the stubborn nighttime lounge lizard.
Sunset catches have been WLEE Richmond (formerly WEET), and WJJS from Lynchburg VA.
I doubt there's merely minimal truth at this point to any rumors about tearing down WLEE's tower or renaming Lynchburg.

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The old DX days on 1320 in Queens NYC were ridiculous. I count 23 loggings from those days -- right next to share-timer locals WEVD and WPOW on 1330. Those two had frequent absences you usually expect from stations with different xmtr sites who had to make way for the other.
And 1320 was a real shoe-horned channel in the 60's. Scranton, Allentown and Gettysburg all were full-timers in Eastern PA alone. Add to that confusion full-timer WATR Waterbury CT and water-path daytimer WICO from Maryland -- Wy-COMM - ih - KOE County MD -- and you never knew what was going to come in, day or night.

The aforementioned WILS was L&C one MM on a DX TEST broadcast. I'm guessing that either KXYZ Houston or WUNO San Juan was my best catch. What a strange frequency 1320 was in those days.
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KXYZ was a helluva catch in NYC
 
I heard KXYZ once near ORD, on my relatives' Panasonic Table Radio. Good Radio. Real nice. The controls were smooth, they turned "like butter". I was tuning around, and just happened to hear "on KXYZ Houston". Then went into the TOH ABC Newscast.
 
In west Houston, it's local KXYZ 24/7 with multicultural programming. They seem to be in Spanish at night, but also have Chinese/Vietnamese at times. Since I moved here, I've heard nothing else on the frequency.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I heard KXYZ once near ORD, on my relatives' Panasonic Table Radio. Good Radio. Real nice. The controls were smooth, they turned "like butter". I was tuning around, and just happened to hear "on KXYZ Houston". Then went into the TOH ABC Newscast.
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Never caught it here. Perhaps I didn't try hard enough.
 
radioman148 said:
Never caught it here. Perhaps I didn't try hard enough.
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I never heard KXYZ here either. Another one that's been fairly widely heard...but not by me...ia WJAS. My excuse...and I'm sticking to it...is that I never tried hard enough. :)
 
I don't remember why I was tuned to 1320. It was in between the Sunset there and the Sunset in Houston, so at the time it would have been 5000 watts nondirectional. It may have been I was trying to hear WILS on their old Night pattern, or WKAN 1320, or WKAN's sister station at the time, WTRX 1330, right after WEAW 1330 signed off.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I don't remember why I was tuned to 1320. It was in between the Sunset there and the Sunset in Houston, so at the time it would have been 5000 watts nondirectional. It may have been I was trying to hear WILS on their old Night pattern, or WKAN 1320, or WKAN's sister station at the time, WTRX 1330, right after WEAW 1330 signed off.
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A lot of critical hour catches of certain stations at specific times of the year were more common then. WNOE in Nov, Dec, & early January in the midwest and WBAL in early winter both before sunset and pattern changes come to mind.
 
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