• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

AM Frequency of the Week.....

Status
Not open for further replies.
cyberdad

cyberdad

*Looks like a busy day for me tomorrow, so I'll Post a day earlier than usual.)

Crystal Lake, IL....

Day: Splatter from local 50kw WMVP (1000)

Night: CBW, Winnipeg. Usually with a strong signal from 690 miles. WMVP's night pattern throws somewhat less power in my directtion than the day pattern, so the splatter is only a minor issue. In fact, if anything, CBW splatter on WMVP is more noticeable than the other way around. If I null CBW, I can usually hear what sounds like a weak version of a graveyard channel underneath. Multiple signals, but nothing able to break through. That's exactly what it was like just this morning before sunrise, when I spent about 40 minutes on 990 with CBW nulled,

I'm not sure why CBW does so well here. But for whatever reason, the path between here and Winnipeg seems to often be unusually good. CJOB, CFRY, and CFAM have been at least semi-regulars as of late. And it's a two way street. The big Chicago signals typically have done well on my trips to Winnipeg, as well as on the Winnipeg SDR. Even WIND makes the hop....albeit usually under or mixing with WEBC. Go figure.

Other location: At our beach getaway place near Pensafola, it's usually the 1kw New Orleans 990 by day with a weak signal (Under slop from Pensacola's WRNE/980). Nights are usually WNML from Knoxville with a good signal. I've never heard so much as even a whiff of CBW.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's all WMVP splatter during the day. At night it's usually a very good signal from CBW.
I don't really hear anything else at my location at night.
The reverse is true as many Chicago AMs get into Winnipeg well on the SDR. I've never heard WMVP up there as their
signal is weaker in that direction and CBW is very strong.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Just splatter from WMVP
Nighttime: CBW is the norm. But I can position myself to block CBW with the Chicago buildings and get other stationss. The two I have identified are WNTY in Southington, CT and WNML in Knoxville, TN
 
Hey yoou! Let's do 990.
East Tennesee: The ever-present local WNML 24/7. I heard something in Spanish in a null once but no ID.
Retro/other: WNML can be heard at quite a distance. I've caught it next door to WONE in Dayton, SDRs in Indiana and Michigan, and in the car in Charleston SC. In Indiana, WERK, Muncie IN was at one time Bill Shirk's training ground for Indianapolis and a great little AM. 6 tower directional, daytime only. I could barely get it in Western Ohio. Much better in Frankfort, IN. In fact the PD of WERK shared my aircheck with the PD of WILO/WSHW and that got me that gig.

I don't think I've heard CBW in Tennessee but I have in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.
 
Last edited:
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing but WMVP splatter
Nighttime: usually CBW with good signal

DX/Retro: others heard throughout the years include KNIN (Wichita Falls, TX), KRKS (Denver, CO) during a DX test in 2001, WNOX (Knoxville, TN), WNYR (Rochester, NY), WABX (Clare, MI), WYAT (New Orleans, LA), WEIS (Centre, AL), WWKY (Winchster, KY), WISK (Lawrencville, GA), and the foreign entry XET (Monterey, Mexico)
 
For all of yoos out there from the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

The proximity and angle of WMVP 1000 makes it difficult to null, but CBW Winnipeg can make it through most nights if I work at it.

WNOX Knoxville is also in the log, so far back it was picked up with one of my Radio Shack sets. I’m guessing it was during a WCFL Monday morning silent period.
 
990

Day time: nada

Nights after sunset: KATD Pittsburgh, CA
Mornings before sunrise: KIKI Honolulu

Location: Just east of gods creation nowhere west central interior Alaska.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
990

Day time: nada

Nights after sunset: KATD Pittsburgh, CA
Mornings before sunrise: KIKI Honolulu

Location: Just east of gods creation nowhere west central interior Alaska.
Click to expand...

KATD audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8SgrlnbQn6BFP2b_O85MLXKIeXhWU_N/view?usp=sharing
More KATD: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b_8a4suMKvDmz4SOJbq0fVoU-GFznq_e/view?usp=sharing

KIKI audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iw6Sj48Ol6FLlXPRw_veV7jNNq0qzV69/view?usp=sharing

Did have KTMS Santa Barbara, CA once. Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AfBtcRvjsn7WVcuCsUwvDTYnpRQcuyle/view?usp=sharing (KTMS is the ad with the 805 area code for the web design company

Location: Just east of gods creation nowhere west central interior Alaska.
 
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
KATD audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8SgrlnbQn6BFP2b_O85MLXKIeXhWU_N/view?usp=sharing
More KATD: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b_8a4suMKvDmz4SOJbq0fVoU-GFznq_e/view?usp=sharing

KIKI audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iw6Sj48Ol6FLlXPRw_veV7jNNq0qzV69/view?usp=sharing

Did have KTMS Santa Barbara, CA once. Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AfBtcRvjsn7WVcuCsUwvDTYnpRQcuyle/view?usp=sharing (KTMS is the ad with the 805 area code for the web design company

Location: Just east of gods creation nowhere west central interior Alaska.
Click to expand...
Some of the Alaskans come into Hawaii and vice versa, but we can't get any from either state in the midwest.
 
990 kHz from south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: Nothing but splatter from local 9 kW, non-directional day KMBZ on 980 kHz.

Critical Hours: 2.5 kW, non-directional day, KRMO in Cassville, Missouri.

Day: CBW with a consistently listenable signal, sometimes very strong.

Retro: During critical hours, 1 kW, non-directional daytimer WCAZ in Carthage, Illinois before this station ceased to broadcast on this frequency. On a personal note, my late broadcast engineer father began his career at WCAZ from 1938-40 before he left for a position with WTAD in Quincy.

Bob
 
DXBob said:
Retro: During critical hours, 1 kW, non-directional daytimer WCAZ in Carthage, Illinois before this station ceased to broadcast on this frequency. On a personal note, my late broadcast engineer father began his career at WCAZ from 1938-40 before he left for a position with WTAD in Quincy.

Bob
Click to expand...
Yep....sorry to see that one go. A true pioneer station in a small town that survived nearly 100 years. I listened to it from time to time at my college location in southeast Iowa. For one kw, the signal there was quite good. One thing I remember about WCAZ, a daytimer, is that they signed off at 5pm. Even in summer.
 
In west Houston, days it's slop from local KQUE 980. At sunset, I've heard KFCD up in the DFW area. Nights are mostly XET with SS news/talk with terrible KQUE slop continuing. I should be able to hear KZZB over in Beaumont, but I've never ID'd them. Interesting, Wikipedia tells me that the Big Bopper and George Jones once worked at the Beaumont station.

Back in the 70's in Tulsa I could sometimes hear KNIN, a good Top 40 station in Wichita Falls. That station moved to DFW 20+ years ago and is now KFCD. I remember CBW as being pretty strong into Tulsa, particularly on Monday mornings, my easiest Canadian catch.
 
You probably already know this but JP Richardson aka The Big Bopper, wrote "White Lightning". George Jones recorded it and it became his first #1 hit.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.


Back
Top Bottom