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AM Frequency of the Week: 1260

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cyberdad

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40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago....

Days: WEKZ from Monroe, WI. Very weak, but audible. 1kw non-directional from 81 miles to my northwest.

Nights: WSDZ from Belleville, IL (St. Louis area) strong and on top with 5kw and a favorable pattern. Sometimes WNDE, 5kw from Indianapolis sneaks in. But this is rare. I've also heard (then-) KGBX from Springfield, MO a few times. But it's been at least 15-20 years.
 
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Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: In the past WWJQ (now WPNW) - Zeeland, MI and WNDE Indianapolis , IN heard, but they are not common
Nightime: Mostly WNDE (Indianapolis, IN), WCCR (Cleveland, OH), or WSDZ (Belleville, IL)

DX/RETRO: Some of the DX catches on this frequency in the past include KDLF (Boone, IA), WCRT (Birmingham, AL), WEKZ (Monroe, WI), WGVM (Greenville, MS), CFRN (Edmonton, AB) and couple DX Test broadcasts: WDKN (Dickson, TN) in 1986 and WNRK (Newark, DE) in 1984. WNRK is no longer on the air and is my one and only log from the state of Delaware.
 
Daytime, usually nothing although I've heard sports KSML in the Lufkin TX area, and UT Austin-based sports (The Horn) KTAE, occasionally in the winter. At sunset it's KTAE usually on top and I've heard XEL Mexico City, KSGF (talk) Springfield MO, and KWSH (country) from Wewoka OK. Rarely I hear KTRC in Santa Fe. At night, it's a jumble with KTAE, KSGF, and XEL sometimes coming to the top.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Hash from local 1270-KFLC.
Nights: KBRH Baton Rouge (Urban blues) and KSGF Springfield MO (News/talk) are the regulars, with KBRH likely on day power. I have also heard, less frequently, KWSH Wewoka OK, KKSA San Angelo TX, and XEL Mexico City.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days, nothing, just a little power line buzz inside and outside, though something would sneak through.

Nights, these three, the first two of which are more likely suspects on a given night: WNDE Indianapolis, WIBV Belleville, Ill. (more recently heard as WSDZ St. Louis), and the rarer WNDR Syracuse, N.Y., not heard since I was using a Radio Shack Patrolman 10 at least 30 years ago.
 
Knoxville, TN. Daytime-nothing. WNOO might sneak in. Night-WNXT, Portsmouth OH has 1000 watts aimed right at me.

Retro-other: Dayton, Ohio and Western Ohio. WNDE days, and I don't remember nights. Lafayette ,IN area was mostly WNDE. I heard WNDE when it was oldies in the 80s in Birmingham, AL, around sunset.
 
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Daytime, usually nothing although I've heard sports KSML in the Lufkin TX area, and UT Austin-based sports (The Horn) KTAE, occasionally in the winter. At sunset it's KTAE usually on top and I've heard XEL Mexico City, KSGF (talk) Springfield MO, and KWSH (country) from Wewoka OK. Rarely I hear KTRC in Santa Fe. At night, it's a jumble with KTAE, KSGF, and XEL sometimes coming to the top.
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Oops, forgot about WBRH, common at night with radio E/W with blues music. It's surprisingly strong here if it's on listed 127w night power.
 
Very little if anything in central Ohio. I heard WNDE on a trip to Dayton back in March, but even there it was pretty weak.
I don't remember hearing that stands out at night.
 
1260 here in NEPA has been steady since the last tme, hi.

Day, nothing.
SSS comes alive. WBUD NJ* and WNRK DE*.
Nights, WNDR Syracuse and WRC from DC.

The two * stations go retro to Queens NYC. We lived co-linear between Trenton and the closer Westport CT and their 1260 WMMM. Trenton pulled in the signal in that direction. I heard them there exactly ONCE.
WNRK, roughly co-linear with us and Trenton, sent nothing toward previous occupant Trenton! None of the four DXers ever heard WNRK.

1260 appears to be a good SSS and SRS frequency here now with the DX setup a lot less noisy.
 
Splatter from KKDZ 1250 Seattle in NW Washington state by day. CFRN Edmonton by night.
 
I happen to visiting Rochester NY right now, and I can report that the situation on 1260 is not all that different from in my home city of Chicago. Namely nothing by day, and WNDE Indianapolis by night. There were a few others in the background but none were strong enough for an ID
 
Northern England (actually on 1260!) - depending on antenna direction, it can be either of:

Smooth Radio, Farndon (Chester) - a network soft AC format also heard widely on various FM licenses
Sabras Radio, Freemen's Common (Leicester) - local South Asian radio for the Leicester area, playing Bollywood and bhangra music with presentation in several languages including Gujarati and Punjabi
 
South Central Kansas:
Prior to the about the early 90s or so, this was KWHK/Hutchinson. Since then, it’s been a blank frequency locally. Haven’t really seen what I can receive at night.

North Iowa:
A weak KDLF/Boone.
 
Nothing during the day (aside from KKDZ Seattle splash). Nights it's usually a fairly strong CFRN Edmonton with ESPN and local (? - I think it's TSN in Canada) sports talk, and KLYC McMinnville OR behind them with Classic hits.

I'm in the SKC region of the Seattle metro.
 
Miss Tuned said:
Northern England (actually on 1260!) - depending on antenna direction, it can be either of:

Smooth Radio, Farndon (Chester) - a network soft AC format also heard widely on various FM licenses
Sabras Radio, Freemen's Common (Leicester) - local South Asian radio for the Leicester area, playing Bollywood and bhangra music with presentation in several languages including Gujarati and Punjabi
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In my limited experience in Northern England (my sister in law is from Manchester), 1260 has mostly been a mix of stations at night with nothing standing out from the pack. I do, however. recall hearing Bollywood, but not having any idea where it was coming from.
 
cyberdad said:
In my limited experience in Northern England (my sister in law is from Manchester), 1260 has mostly been a mix of stations at night with nothing standing out from the pack. I do, however. recall hearing Bollywood, but not having any idea where it was coming from.
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There's a lot less at night nowadays as most of the EU has switched off its AM. 1260 carries a couple of low-power (<10kW) SER Spanish stations which come through at night, but other than those and the 500kW Saudi Arabian there's nothing there. Night-time AM is largely Spain, Romania and Middle East stations so I don't tend to comment on them unless they are particularly interesting.

We have in recent months heard a few new AMs coming and going in various parts of Eastern Europe due to the Ukrainian war, but none on 1260 so off-topic!
 
Miss Tuned said:
We have in recent months heard a few new AMs coming and going in various parts of Eastern Europe due to the Ukrainian war, but none on 1260 so off-topic!
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Sounds like a good topic for a new thread. I, for one, would be interested in learning a little about what night be going on with these.
 
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