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AM Frequency of the Week: 1150

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago: 1150 is splatter from local WYLL.

Nights: WHBY from Appleton, WI dominates the channel., A relatively recent development. Used to be CKOC from Hamilton, ON, but they've apparently repaired their "leaky" DA

Retro: Before they moved to 1130 in 1965, WISN from Milwaukee was a nighttime regular on 1150 with a fair signal.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: Semi-local WCRK, Morristown, TN
Sunset: I've gotten both WMST, Mt Sterling KY and WIMA, Lima, OH at the same time.
WCRK gets out, and I've caught it often on the Edinburgh IN SDR.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs, days all splatter from nearby WYLL. At night I sometimes hear WHBY and I used to hear CKOC.

Retro: WISN was hard to hear at my location even at night. I caught them only a couple of times when then WJJD was off at night.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, it's the last remnants of WIMA daytime and, as far as I can tell, just a bunch of jumble at night along with WRVA slop.
I've heard WIMA very weakly here at night, but this was decades ago. It's a local where I have family 20 miles southwest of Lima, albeit with an extremely faint CKOC underneath at night.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: splatter from WYLL
Nightime: WHBY most likely to be heard. CKOC was common in the past but no longer.

DX/RETRO: now that WYLL uses a different site at night 1150 provides a better chance for DX as there is no more splatter. Besides WHBY I was able to hear the following stations on this frequency: KEZQ (N. Little Rock, AR), KDIX (Dickinson, ND), KSEN (Shelby, MT - DX test), WGGH (Marion, IL), WCRK (Morristown, TN), WEAQ (Chipewa Falls, WI), WIMA (Lima, OH). Also couple Canadians (CJRC, CKX) and a Venezuelan (YVMN) that are no longer on the air. The latest new DX on this frequency are WSNW (Seneca, NC) and WMST (Mt. Sterling, KY) during a DX test. Both heard in early 2022.
 
During the day it's KZNE College Station TX with sports. At sunset WJBO Baton Rouge LA overtakes them and dominates through the night. Nulling WJBO, I have also heard KSAL Salina KS.
 
Midday here is a weak WDEL from Del. Despite my 'NEPA' suffix (which is how the place is identified) we're actually closer to the DE state line than we are to the NY state line).
Toward SSS and then nighttimes WDEL gets louder. CKOC (taped) is with them.
One night, omni WMRD from Middletown CT was atop 1150 for a while. They're part of Connecticut's WDRC-WTOR AM network. Their nighttime license says '46 watts'.
On that night ? Yeah, sure.

Retro days near JFK Airport, really retro from when my hair wasn't white yet, WMRD was 'WCNX' and was 1000 watts daytime. There had appeared a construction permit for a new 1150 station in Oyster Bay Long Island.
Oyster Bay is 65 miles from Middletown -- with 30 miles of that distance being salt water on a diagonal across Long Island Sound. Nothing ever came of the Oyster Bay 1150 campaign.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Slop from local 1160-KBDT
Nights: WJBO Baton Rouge E/W and KSAL Salina, KS, N/S both have strong, reliable signals at my location. KNED McAlester, OK is also often heard country music.
 
Just back from a long weekend in the Toronto area. Not much time for radio, but a couple of notes that may be of interest. Especiaially for anyone needing to log these two stations...

CKOC: 1150 Now "Bloomberg Radio.

CHIN: 1540: Running old time radio (English Language) during pre-dawn hours....

Should make these two easier to ID.

Happy Hunting!
 
cyberdad said:
Just back from a long weekend in the Toronto area. Not much time for radio, but a couple of notes that may be of interest. Especiaially for anyone needing to log these two stations...

CKOC: 1150 Now "Bloomberg Radio.
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Are they running a straight-up network feed or is it a Canadian version?
 
cyberdad said:
Just back from a long weekend in the Toronto area. Not much time for radio, but a couple of notes that may be of interest. Especiaially for anyone needing to log these two stations...

CKOC: 1150 Now "Bloomberg Radio.

CHIN: 1540: Running old time radio (English Language) during pre-dawn hours....

Should make these two easier to ID.

Happy Hunting!
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Thanks for the update.
 
In the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: Nothing aside from WYLL 1160 hash, and not a lot of it given the day transmitter is on the other side of the city.

Nights: Now WYLL transmits from southwest of me, but careful tuning and nulling allows 1150 to come to life a bit. WIMA Lima, Ohio, is the most likely catch when the catching is good, but not often alone. Sometimes, including last night, two other stations are underneath. In the past (and these could be among those two), I've gotten CKOC Hamilton (way back when it was a CBC affiliate), CJRC Ottawa (R.I.P.), WJBO Baton Rouge (when it was an NBC affiliate, so pre-1988), and as recently as New Year's Day 2019, a trio of stations: WGGH Marion, Ill., WHBY Kimberly, Wis., and WMST Mount Sterling, Ky. The latter two were new on that morning, and nothing new's popped up since.
 
South Mississippi:

Day: WJBO Baton Rouge - Newsradio 1150 and 98.7
Night: stronger signal from WJBO, and WMST Mount Sterling, KY when they had the DX test
 
ente said:
South Mississippi:

Day: WJBO Baton Rouge - Newsradio 1150 and 98.7
Night: stronger signal from WJBO, and WMST Mount Sterling, KY when they had the DX test
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I keep seeing WJBO coming up in this thread. I can vouch from my own experiences in Louisiana and adjacent nearby parts of the south that this station gets out very well. Definitely listenable 24/7 in an around the south. I've never heard them at or around my home location in the Chicago area, however. Before WHBY effectively took over 1150. it pretty much belonged to CKOC at night for several years.
 
From east central Iowa: daytime usually a faint KWKY Des Moines, IA. Nighttime is usually a mix of WHBY Appleton, WI, KWKY Des Moines, probably some other stuff I haven't IDed, and CKOC Hamilton. I haven't heard CKOC in quite a while so that may be a thing of the past.
 
icybluelake said:
From east central Iowa: daytime usually a faint KWKY Des Moines, IA. Nighttime is usually a mix of WHBY Appleton, WI, KWKY Des Moines, probably some other stuff I haven't IDed, and CKOC Hamilton. I haven't heard CKOC in quite a while so that may be a thing of the past.
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Never say never, but if CKOC isn't a thing of the past, it's certainly become a lot more difficult. As posted previously, I think their night pattern had been "leaking" for several years, and they finally fixed it. I only briefly stepped briefly on 1150 this past weekend when I was in Toronto this past Sunday night. Basically just ong enough to catch the new "Bloomberg" aa. The night signal sounded just fine there. Same as always. Easily penetrating my room on the 18th floor of the 19-story downtown Eaton Centre Marriott. This from a stick about 30 miles away.
 
I’ve stayed at Eaton Centre. Not an AM-friendly spot. What portable do you take on trips? The little clock radio in a hotel room isn’t good for DXing most of the time.
 
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