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AM Frequency of the Week: 1670

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 miles northwest of Downtown Chicago (Crystal Lake, IL).....

Days: A very weak WOZN from Madison, WI. Distance is about 80 miles to my northwest. Format is sports talk.

Nights: WOZN still weak, but occasionaly with WMGE from suburban Macon, Georgia underneath. CJEU from Montreal less frequently. WMGE can sometimes overtake WOZN at sunrise when it (WMGE) powers up.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WOZN
Nightime: usually WOZN

DX/RETRO: Others heard CJEU (Gatineau, PQ), WMGE (Dry Ranch, GA). At some point WMGE ran on STA basis from Warner Robbins, GA with various calls. I remember hearing them as WRNC. Also back 1996 there was an experimental Army Radio test station broadcasting from Ft. Meade, MD which for the first days called itself KTRK, but later changed to ARMY Radio since KTRK calls were assigned to a TV station in Texas. Apparently they were using 5 kW mobile based (KTRK was supposed to stand for K Truck). It was received fairly well in the Chicago area. I did receive a very nice QSL card from the station. Here is a nice write up about the station: http://www.dxarchive.com/mw/pdf/ktrk_story_mwc_march_1996.pdf

Also driving around in the Chicagoland area there are several IDOT TIS stations that can be received on the car radio.
 
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I remember when the Georgia 1670 was in Warner Robbins. That's a location not far from where the current WMGE is now. I wonder if they might even be using the same stick. And if, memory serves, I also seem to remember that what's now WMGE began broadcasting on the channel before the Madison 1670 came on (as WTDY).

As for CJEU, I seem to remember they were also relatively early to the X-band. If I'm not mistaken, when they first arrived, they had a country music format. (Although I may well be wrong about that.) Finally, as you may already know, Gatineau is a Montreal suburb.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs days are a weak WOZN. At night WOZN not much stronger, but there. WMGE makes it once in awhile. I also have heard CJEU.
 
Here in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, it's WOZN Madison when there's anything at all; rarely days. There's a flutter of something behind it tonight. WOZN is the weakest of the Midwest regulars from 1620-1700.
 
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East Tennessee: Nothing days unless daytime or sunrise/suset skip is bringing something in, and if it is, it's WMGE. Dry Branch, GA, a Black Information Network affiliate. I heard them a couple of weeks ago when we were having a particularly good daytime propagation day. relaying BIN's New York affiliate including local news. I thought I had something from up that way but. realizing there was nothing on 1670 in the NYC area, discovered it was WMGE.

Retro/other: Madison on those cold winter Ohio days.
 
It pays off to leave the radio on overnight. At 6:38 a.m., WMGE Dry Branch, Ga., overrode a decent signal from WOZN Madison, Wis., with a barrage of promos for "Macon's BIN 1670" and a couple of local commercials. AM No. 495, and I wouldn't have parked the radio there except for this forum! Thanks!
 
With some occasional splatter from a weak at my location local KWOD on adjacent 1660 kHz, I only receive a typically weak WOZN on 1670 kHz at night.

Bob
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Nothing.

Sunset: A weak WMGE.

Night: It's mostly WMGE with a weak to fair signal. Sometimes XEANAH in Huixquilucan will pop in briefly, and occasionally there's splatter from 1680 KRJO in Monroe, LA. Aiming to the NW, a weak KHPY in Moreno Valley, CA, can often be heard.

Sunrise: A weak WOZN can be heard under WMGE now and then. KHPY surprisingly has a very decent signal and occasionally takes over even when I aim NE.

DX/RETRO: I've heard CJEU in Gatineau, QC, and KQMS in Redding, CA, just once each. Also, sometimes at night used to hear a weak TIS station in Rutersville, TX, WWG55, that relayed a local NOAA weather station. I believe it has been retired.
 
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Daytime: static and splash from a local on 1680. Night time, first catch ever was KQMS (back then it was KNRO) playing K-PIG, an alt / americana station out of the Bay Area. This was on my GE SR3, and probably my first Xband DX.

In the 2010's I again logged KNRO (Sports) a bunch of times, as well as KHPY Moreno Valley, which usually peeked up behind it. Then KNRO switched to talk and swapped calls with another Redding station, now KQMS. KQMS was my farthest solar eclipse DX, as I heard it clearly on my PR-D5 that August day.

The last 2-3 years I've rarely if ever heard KHPY. Generally it's a grainy KQMS at night.
 
Moses Lake, WA
Day: Nothing
Night: KQMS Redding, CA
 
cyberdad said:
I remember when the Georgia 1670 was in Warner Robbins. That's a location not far from where the current WMGE is now. I wonder if they might even be using the same stick. And if, memory serves, I also seem to remember that what's now WMGE began broadcasting on the channel before the Madison 1670 came on (as WTDY).

As for CJEU, I seem to remember they were also relatively early to the X-band. If I'm not mistaken, when they first arrived, they had a country music format. (Although I may well be wrong about that.) Finally, as you may already know, Gatineau is a Montreal suburb.
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Wasn't this facility the voice of Wild Adventures theme park?
 
State of Connecticut:
Day: N/A
Night: CJEU 1670 Glatineau, QC 475 KM more or less away well most of the night but sometime suffer adjacent interference from WWRU 1660 Jersey City, NJ around 130 KM.
Occasionally I also get a talk format on 1670 maybe from WOZN from Madison, Wisconsin.
 
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