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AM Frequency of the Week: 1060

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40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: A weak WHFB from Benton Harbor, MI. Other side of Lake Michigan from Chicago. 89 miles east of my location. 5kw ND.

There's also a 1060 50 miles southwest of me, WRHL from Rochelle, IL 250 watts, but directional with a deep null in my direction. So I never hear them here. I've also never heard them on night power (50 watts)

Nights; Traditionally, all KYW. Usually alone with a fair-good signal. But in recent months, KYW has been mixing with KYW, and sometimes on top of it. Just a wild guess on my part, but I'm going to presume they're not on one-watt night power. Without WHFB present, I've heard XEEP from Mexico City a fewe times.

Other Location: On the Gulf near Pensacola, it's the New Orleans 1060 by day, XEEP by night.

Retro: As WNOE, the New Orleans 1060 would occasionally turn up here at night and/or around sunset. I have not heard any of their successors in recent years.

Wanted: CKMX (Calgary, AB). I've heard them a few times as close as Iowa and Wisconsin But not here at home.....yet!
 
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In the near north Chicago suburbs: daytime WHFB with a fair signal. At night WHFB "usually" disappears and it's all KYW with a good signal. I have heard XEEP at times in the past on the weak side.

Retro: Years ago WNOE would come in particularly in the late fall and early winter just before sunset and power and pattern change. I do not hear WLNO.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Day: WHFB Benton Harbor, from back when they were a 1 kW station carrying Michigan football (and advertising said carriage in the Chicago Tribune) to now.

Night: KYW Philadelphia. A hint of WHFB at times, sometimes more than a hint. Also picked up WNOE New Orleans on occasion. No sign of the current WLNO yet, but I don't hang on 1060 like I used to. (Their weekend sports updates were tremendous once upon a time.) Other: XEEP Mexico City at least once way back, and on 3/14/2021, WKNG Tallapoosa, Ga., with 5 kW day power in the middle of the night. All I know is, Tallapoosa would be a heck of a postmark.
 
From Cheyenne, WY:
Daytime is KRCN Logmont, CO with moderate to high strength,
Nightime is generally KCMX (Funny 1060) out of Calgary. (My only other Calgary is CFAC 960).

On the road, I grabbed KGFX Pierre, SD from Rapid City, and I hope to grab it from Cheyenne someday. Congrats to those who have already
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: WHFB in Benton Harbor, MI, with a decent signal.

Critical Hours: Still WHFB. But I've gotten WILB in Canton, Ohio, which is a 15KW daytimer, before they went off for the night.

Nighttime: Used to be just KYW in Philadelpha. But since WHFB managed to make that 1 watt so amazingly powerful, they both come in. KYW is probably the stronger of the two where I am.
 
In west Houston, during the day usually slop from local 1050 and 1070. Sometimes in the winter, I can hear a weak XERDO from Matamoros. Around sunset XERDO is still there and XEEP starts mixing in. Sometimes WLNO is in the mix as well. At night it's typically XERDO and XEEP mixing on top.

Down on the beach in Galveston, in the daytime I've heard WLNO and XERDO at ~equal strength and WLNO is more present there at night.

In Tulsa in the early 70's WNOE's top 40 format was on top with KYW possible in their null. Both WNOE and their sister KNOE 540 in Monroe, LA (also top 40) dominated their frequencies.
 
East Tennessee: Days--WNPC, Newport which is there to be the "base" of a translator.
Night---Usually KYW, sometimes WLNO, especially with auroral conditions.

Retro/other: On Bob Hawkins' Edinburgh IN, I've caught WHFB, Benton Harbor MI several times under and over KYW. Also picked up WILB, Canton on a daytime skip day last year.
 
In the NYC area, we never get KYW. It is clearly nulled away from NYC due to 1050 WEPN. For a 50,000 watt Class A clear channel station, KYW has no presence in New York or its NJ suburbs, even though Philadelphia is only 90 miles from Midtown Manhattan. It's even hard to hear KYW in Trenton NJ, 30 miles to the northeast. It does come in fairly well day and night in Allentown PA. But that's directly north of Philadelphia.

The oddity is I sometimes at night catch a weak KYW in New Hampshire, which always puzzles me. If it is nulled away from NYC, how can I hear it in NH? The signal has to go through the air above NYC to reach NH. I also heard it weakly in Nova Scotia once.
 
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In the NYC area, we never get KYW. It is clearly nulled away from NYC due to 1050 WEPN. For a 50,000 watt Class A clear channel station, KYW has no presence in New York or its NJ suburbs, even though Philadelphia is only 90 miles from Midtown Manhattan. It's even hard to hear KYW in Trenton NJ, 30 miles to the northeast. It does come in fairly well day and night in Allentown PA. But that's directly north of Philadelphia.

The oddity is I sometimes at night catch a weak KYW in New Hampshire, which always puzzles me. If it is nulled away from NYC, how can I hear it in NH? The signal has to go through the air above NYC to reach NH. I also heard it weakly in Nova Scotia once.
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I'm guessing the skywave characteristics differ from groundwave and allow you to hear KYW in places you may not expect.
Others on this board can explain it much better.
 
Gregg. said:
In the NYC area, we never get KYW. It is clearly nulled away from NYC due to 1050 WEPN. For a 50,000 watt Class A clear channel station, KYW has no presence in New York or its NJ suburbs, even though Philadelphia is only 90 miles from Midtown Manhattan. It's even hard to hear KYW in Trenton NJ, 30 miles to the northeast. It does come in fairly well day and night in Allentown PA. But that's directly north of Philadelphia.

The oddity is I sometimes at night catch a weak KYW in New Hampshire, which always puzzles me. If it is nulled away from NYC, how can I hear it in NH? The signal has to go through the air above NYC to reach NH. I also heard it weakly in Nova Scotia once.
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I have no idea if this has anything to do with what you're describing, but I'll throw it out there anyway....
There used to be a 1060 in Quebec City. It's long gone (to FM, IIRC). But my understanding is that silent Canadian stations still keep old protections in force, per international agreement. I don't know if KYW would be obligated to protect Quebec City, if it ever was in the first place. And even if it was/is, to what extent, if any, might that play into the KYW's pattern.
 
Tonight in Loganville, GA. KYW fighting it out with an X that I couldn't ID. Something else underneath that sounded like an infomercial. Southern accent, so I'd say either GA, NC or SC.
 
Gregg. said:
In the NYC area, we never get KYW. It is clearly nulled away from NYC due to 1050 WEPN. For a 50,000 watt Class A clear channel station, KYW has no presence in New York or its NJ suburbs, even though Philadelphia is only 90 miles from Midtown Manhattan. It's even hard to hear KYW in Trenton NJ, 30 miles to the northeast. It does come in fairly well day and night in Allentown PA. But that's directly north of Philadelphia.

The oddity is I sometimes at night catch a weak KYW in New Hampshire, which always puzzles me. If it is nulled away from NYC, how can I hear it in NH? The signal has to go through the air above NYC to reach NH. I also heard it weakly in Nova Scotia once.
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The main reason I can think of is a "skip zone". Skywave, on average, does not go below 100 miles, and the groundwave is nulled enough that it doesn't fill in for you.
 
cyberdad said:
40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: A weak WHFB from Benton Harbor, MI. Other side of Lake Michigan from Chicago. 89 miles east of my location. 5kw ND.

There's also a 1060 50 miles southwest of me, WRHL from Rochelle, IL 250 watts, but directional with a deep null in my direction. So I never hear them here. I've also never heard them on night power (50 watts)

Nights; Traditionally, all KYW. Usually alone with a fair-good signal. But in recent months, KYW has been mixing with KYW, and sometimes on top of it. Just a wild guess on my part, but I'm going to presume they're not on one-watt night power. Without WHFB present, I've heard XEEP from Mexico City a fewe times.

Other Location: On the Gulf near Pensacola, it's the New Orleans 1060 by day, XEEP by night.

Retro: As WNOE, the New Orleans 1060 would occasionally turn up here at night and/or around sunset. I have not heard any of their successors in recent years.

Wanted: CKMX (Calgary, AB). I've heard them a few times as close as Iowa and Wisconsin But not here at home.....yet!
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WNOL is down to one tower. The 7 tower DA under WNOE is gone. Latest attempt to get the night licensed get nixed by the FCC. 1060 asked for 250w omni, FCC said treaty with Mexico would only allow 10 to 15watts omni at night.
 
For a short time, WBMB 1060 1000 watts nondirectional Daytime only operated from West Branch, MI. The station was located on a sandy hill and didn't get out very well. They were receivable in Genesee County with a longwire or tuned loop antenna, probably being in the 25 uV/m ground wave range. That was the strongest ground wave there on 1060 in History. They got an FM on 105.5 and decided the AM wasn't worth keeping on. That FM has also struggled over the years, with long silent periods. At Night, occasionally WNOE near Sunset and a very strong directional signal from KYW at Night.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WHFB with weak signal
Nightime: usually KYW with good signal. XEEP Radio Educacion is quite common with KYW nulled

DX/RETRO: others heard on 1060 include KHYM (Gilmer, TX), KFIL (Preston, MN), WLNO (New Orleans, LA), WKKQ (Hibbing, MN), WILB (Canton, OH), WQMV (Waverly, TN), WKRE (Monroe, NC), WQOM (Boston, MA), WKNG (Talapoosa, GA) and CKMX (Calgary, AB) with their comedy format.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: A very weak KFIT, which is a gospel music daytimer, in Lockhart, TX.

Sunset: KFIT is stronger and XECPAE (formerly XEEP) starts to come up. XERDO in Valle Hermosa and WLNO also show up every now and then.

Night: XECPAE dominates but is subject to long fades in which XERDO can take over. Aiming E/W, I can get a fairly decent null of XECPAE, in which WLNO can be heard more often and KYW and Radio 26 in Cuba pop up weakly for brief bits.

Sunrise: XECPAE is still strongest, but WLNO and XERDO start to mix in more often. KFIT mixes in when it signs on.

DX/Retro: I’ve heard CKMX in Calgary and KRCN in Longmont, CO, once each at sunrise. Also, I used to hear KXPL in El Paso at its sign-on, but it has been silent for a while.
 
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