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AM Frequency of the week; 1210

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cyberdad

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Northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Days: 1210 is empty except for moderate splatter from WRTO (1200) and to a lesser extent WKRS (1220)

Nights: WPHT with a signal that's usually fair, at best. I'd expect it to be a little stronger than it actually is. Sometimes, KGYN from the Oklahoma panhandle comes through and even gets on top. This is more common around sunrise than during hours of darkness. KOKK from South Dakota also turns up once in a while.

Retro: The now defunct WKNX from Saganaw, MI made it in a few times on daytime skywave.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days: Hash from WRTO 1200, one of the more messy signals in the area.

Nights: A similar deal to Cyberdad's, with WPHT in nightly. In the WCAU era, I'd listen a lot for Flyers hockey and Bill Corsair, one of the funniest hosts I've heard, overnights. WPHT is the fourth set of call letters post-WCAU. Also heard as WOGL, WGMP and WPTS.

Occasional and one-time visitors: WILY Centralia, Ill., on a night test; the late WKNX Saginaw, Mich., on a night test; KGYN Guymon, Okla., in the early morning, and WJNL Kingsley, Mich., one night a year ago December when the automation screwed up.
 
From DFW, Texas:

Days: Nothing

Nighttime: KGYN Guymon, OK is strong with News/Talk. If I null KGYN, I can usually hear KUBR in Spanish from the Texas Rio Grande Valley. At sunrise, I've heard WMPS Memphis with its "Sunny" format.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs days are WRTO splatter. Nights WPHT with a pretty good signal. Was WCAU when I first heard it. Sometimes at night/early morning it's KGYN. I've also heard WKNX and WILY.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: These days just splatter from WRTO.
Nightime: WPHT and KGYN are the two common ones with WPHT being the more reliable one.

DX/RETRO: Prior to WRTO signing on 1200 kHz, I heard WILY (Centralia, IL) during daytime couple of times, but that wasn't common. Other notable DX in the past: KUBR (San Juan, TX), WKNX (Saginaw, MI), WDGR (Dahlonega, GA), WSBI (Static, TN), WDAO (Dayton, OH), WGSF (Arlington, TN), WBIU (Denham Springs, LA), WQLS (Ozark, AL), WJNL (Kinglsley, MI). Few of those stations are no longer on the air. On the foreign front: Radio Coro (Venezuela), Radio Reloj (Colombia) and Radio Reloj, Cuba (heard in January 2021). Also one trans-atlantic DX on the split frequency of 1215kHz: Virgin Radio, England in 1997.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Nothing.
Critical Hours: WJNL in Kingsley, MI sometimes is there.
Nighttime: WPHT Philadelphia is usually there. KGYN in Oklahoma is sometimes in the background, but it's very hard to get an ID and WPHT is normally quite dominant even when KGYN is stronger than usual.
 
Cheyenne, WY
Here's an unusual one:
Daytime: A moderate strength KHAT Laramie
Beginning around critical hours, it's a strong KHAT slowly losing ground to KGYN Guymon.
Nightime: A sometimes strong KGYN is in control. Occasionally, you can hear bouts of something else as well.
 
East Tennessee: Days-a weak WSBI, Static TN
Night---WPHT, with KGYN

Retro/other: West Central Ohio. WDAO dominates Dayton with 1000 watts. I've heard it on the Edinburgh IN SDR, and in Lafayette IN. Probably hearable in East Tennessee but I haven't heard it. I heard WJNL on the Edinburgh SDR during a big daytime skip day.

I can remember WDGR coming on the air in the early 80s, somehow being granted fulltime status, being widely heard and wreaking havoc with then-WCAU. That was corrected and WDGR reverted to daytimer status.
 
South Mississippi:

Day: nothing
Critical hours: WMPS Bartlett, TN "Sunny 103.1", and WTXK Pike Road, AL may have been heard occasionally.
Night: KGYN Guymon, OK "The 5 State Talker" and WPHT also can be heard, but weaker.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Just splatter from local 1200 WOAI. On some radios I get an image of nearby local pest 1350 KCOR.

Sunset: I can reduce the splatter fairly well by off-tuning or filtering. KGYN in OK and KUBR in San Juan, TX, come up, with the former usually stronger. I'm able to null out KGYN somewhat by aiming E-NE.

Night: KUBR is usually stronger than KGYN when they go to their night power/patterns. In the null of KGYN, a weak WPHT in Philly sometimes pops up and mixes with KUBR, especially when propagation is good.

Sunrise: At their day power/patterns, KGYN is stronger and the last to fade.

DX/Retro: On rare occasions in winter I've heard a weak WMPS at sunrise/sunset. Earlier this week at sunrise I heard KHAT in Laramie, WY, for the first time. It was in just briefly, and I've only heard it once since then. I used to hear a weak WLRO in Denham Springs, LA, occasionally at night before it was retired a few years ago.
 
jim-satx said:
From NW San Antonio:
DX/Retro: On rare occasions in winter I've heard a weak WMPS at sunrise/sunset.
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That's impressive!
On my trips to Memphis, WMPS barely makes it to the Mississippi river at night. Their day signal is rather "meh" as well. A far cry as when the WMPS call letters resided on 680.
 
Pickerington, Ohio ...
Daytime: A very weak WDAO.
Nighttime: Always WPHT. It was WOGL playing oldies when I started learning about DXing in the late 80s and early 90s. I remember hearing many Phillies games with the great Harry Kalas as well as Scott Graham, who does a lot of national work nowadays with Westwood One.
 
WKNX had great coverage with 10000 watts with a half wave dogleg three tower array near Bridgeport, MI to protect WCAU. You could hear it quite well all over the Lower Peninsula, except Southwest Michigan. WJNL is the same station, moved to Kingsley, MI. Though it is still licensed as 50000 watts, it has a CP for 10000 watts. It now has a translator on 101.1, which serves Traverse City much better. So 50000 watts in the same sandbox as described by David that WCCW 1310 is now operating from again is probably a waste of power. It never got out well even with 50000 watts. It's only 2500 watts CH. Unless there is a malfunction which leaves it on at Night, it basically is not heard well. I also hear WCAU...WPHT and KGYN Guymon, OK occasionally.
 
In west Houston, I once heard KUBR in the daytime in midwinter, but otherwise, nothing. At sunset, it's KGYN and KUBR, the strongest depending on which way I orient my radio. I've heard WMPS as well. Nights are KGYN and KUBR with KGYN usually the winner.
 
WPHT 1210 here, night and day, and in the roaring traffic swoon.
@ Schmave: Ditto on Kalas and Ashburn. I also enjoyed another fellow who's left us -- Andy Musser. He was the Phillies equive,ant of the Mets' Bob Murphy. .... The neighbour across the street here would drop by our place when his wife chased him out for drinking to much beer. Mike usually would visit when his Phillies were playing my Mets. The fellow came to enjoy just listening to the games off 1210 (not much TV in our house). He'd bring along a 36-pack of Miller and tune around the GE Superadio as if it were a life preserver. He became quite the apprentice DXer, turning the GE to and fro, and even appreciating the advanced azimuth principles of reception.

Retro: When I lived in NE Philly it was right across the river from 1210's tower in NJ. I believe it was in Cinnaminson NJ. When I re-did the dials of a short wave they'd make referencing things a bit easier by putting nice harmonics on 2420, 4840, 9680, et al.

Even worse retro : Back in Queens, in the Sixties, I was tuned one late sunset to 1210 (then WCAU). In one of their pauses I heard a distinct 'WCNT'. Well whaddya know: The Jones log said there was indeed a WCNT, Centralia IL, 1000 watt daytimer.
 
KGYN's the biggie here north of Austin, TX, on 1210.
Interesting nighttime propagation for that station. The signal covers a big chunk of the Rocky Mountain west.
Looks like WPHT is a former clear channel frequency, due to all the other 1210s.


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