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AM Frequency of the week: 1630:

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: Typically empty, but daytime skywave from KCJJ, Iowa City occasionally turns up. Especially during winter.

Nights: KCJJ usually alone, with a fair-good signal. Sometimes, I can hear stuff underneath. Bit it's always been unidentifiable.

Other Locations: I've heard KCJJ once each (at least that Icould positively identify) on the Iceland and Arctic Norway SDRs.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Day and night, the dulcet automated tones of WQZM859, the Chicago Midway Airport parking barker station with updates on parking and construction around the airport. A 10 watt blowtorch on about a 3-minute loop. Quite a while back, this was on 860, and wiped out at night by CJBC unless you were close to the airport.

Days, it's in the clear. Nights and critical hours, KCJJ is audible and sometimes on top of the frequency. WQZM859 can be nulled to a great degree to enhance KCJJ's clarity.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Nothing

Nighttime: KCJJ Iowa City, with a medium signal, occasionally fading. There's also a Spanish-language station that I can occasionally hear in the background, usually near sunset. At first I thought it might be KRND in Wyoming since it's the only Spanish-language station in the US on 1630, but it didn't match up with their web stream. So it's probably something in Latin America.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs in the daytime it's usually nothing except during winter skywave season then KCJJ comes in a good part of the day.
At night it's KCJJ which I've also picked up on the Arctic receiver. During winter skywave season I can hear Captain Steve Bridges morning show sometimes to it's conclusion.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: until recently the O'Hare International Airport TIS used to dominate the frequency during daytime, however it has been silent the past few months.

Nightime: KCJJ rules 1630 at night. Occasionally KRND will make an appearance.

DX/Retro: besides the O'Hare TIS, the Midway Airport TIS was also heard. Way back in 1990's METRA used to operate bunch of TIS stations as well on this frequency. I would receive the one in Roselle, IL quite well. They are still listed in the FCC database, but I have not heard them in a long time. Other 1630 Xbanders heard are KKGM (Ft. Worth, TX) when they they used to be KNAX, and two stations no longer broadcasting on 1630 kHz, WRDW (Augusta, GA) and KXBT (Vallejo, CA). WRDW left the air in 2019 and KXBT moved back to 1640 kHz where it originally started and is now KDIA.
 
In west Houston, daytimes usually nothing, although I've heard KKGM occasionally in the wintertime. At sunset, it's all KKGM. At night I've logged both KRND and KCJJ underneath KKGM.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime-nada except for residual KCJJ around sunrise and sunset. Nighttime: Either KCJJ or KKGM.

Retro/other: Ohio. KCJJ sunrise and sunset, but some winter days it can stay in all day. Nighttime: KCJJ and maybe KKGM.
 
Nothing days
Nights - usually KRND Fox Farm (Regional Mexican) mixed with XEUT Tijuana BCN (Spanish Cultural/College). After midnight they go to a test tone. KCJJ and KKGM both heard in the past. So basically I have everything logged here now that WRDW went defunct (and never got them, darn it!)
 
Sheesh...I can't seem to shake those typos in the thread title bars. Sorry guys....again!

radioman148 said:
In the near north Chicago suburbs in the daytime it's usually nothing except during winter skywave season then KCJJ comes in a good part of the day.
At night it's KCJJ which I've also picked up on the Arctic receiver. During winter skywave season I can hear Captain Steve Bridges morning show sometimes to it's conclusion.
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Captain Steve can do any shift he wants. He owns the station! As I think I posted before, he was my replacement at the small town Iowa coffee pot where I was working in 1972, I never actually met him, however.
 
cyberdad said:
Sheesh...I can't seem to shake those typos in the thread title bars. Sorry guys....again!


Captain Steve can do any shift he wants. He owns the station! As I think I posted before, he was my replacement at the small town Iowa coffee pot where I was working in 1972, I never actually met him, however.
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Yes I know Steve owns the station. He's had several partners on the morning show on KCJJ since I first heard him in the 90s.
 
Sidebandy reception of the far-right shoutfest waste of electricity that nobody listens to, but used to be The Mighty 'DZR.
 
Laramie, WY: KRND KRND KRND AND KRND.. with a very very very rare splash of KCJJ after dark or KKGM before sunrise.

McGrath, Alaska: XEUT
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Normally there's nothing. During winter daytime skywave KKGM is usually heard.

Sunset: KKGM is in strong. When propagation is good, KRND can pop up to the NW.

Night: It's mostly just KKGM, which is less steady on nighttime power. KCJJ sometimes mixes in and on rare occasions takes over for a bit. Aiming NW I can get a slight partial null of KKGM and occasionally hear KRND and XEUT for brief bits.
 
Nothing, anymore, now that KDZR-in-call-letters-only finally tango-uniformed a couple months (?) ago. With it and KKOV gone, this makes 1520 the highest local active mediumwave frequency in #23.

Actually it's kind of nice having all the 1550 spurs gone from MW/SW. The VDSL seems to be a little happier now too.
 
I didn't know KDZR went off the air. The website is still up like it's still on the air. I suppose KDIA makes its way to the Rose City like a ton of bricks at night now.
 
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