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AM Frequency of the Week:1320

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cyberdad

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Crystal Lake, IL.....

Not a lot to talk about for me with 1320.....

Days: Usually 1320 is blank. Although occasionally in winter, a weak WKAN from Kankakee, IL can be audible (barely). 1kw non-directional from 95 miles.

Nights: 1320 sounds very much like a graveyard channel. I've spent at least 20 minutes multiple nights this past week looking for something to rise to the top, but nothing ever did. Or at least nothing for long enough to ID. "Back in the day," WILS (Lansing, MI) used to be a nighttime regular here, But now, my guess is that it's usually not strong enough to emerge from the mess. I've also heard WFHR (Wisconsin Rapids, WI) and CJMR (Suburban Toronto), but not recently.

Sunrise/Sunset: Often WILS quite strong before they go to night power/pattern.
 
Not much here in Houston either. My local KXYZ is very strong w/Black Info Network programming. Once I heard them on open carrier and I was able to ID KNCB in Vivian LA running Texas Rangers baseball. That's it for this frequency.

Back in the early 70's in Tulsa KWHN was on top. On Monday mornings when they were off, WILS was a regular catch. Back then, I heard (and QSL'd) quite a few of those midwestern regional stations. Those were the days...
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

WKAN Kankakee, Ill., is a daytime regular and more difficult at 500 watts night, though usually there, with its 3-tower directional pattern, aiming mostly southwest. There's enough coming my way for a signal, though it can be overwhelmed.

Sunrise, WILS Lansing, Mich., wins the frequency for 30-45 minutes.

Others heard over the years: WKPQ/WJAS Pittsburgh, KXYZ Houston, and CFGM Richmond Hill, Ont., which is now on 1310.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, it's semi-local WLOH from about 15 miles to my southeast in Lancaster with country as "The Wolf." 500 watts daytime, and when they drop to 16 watts at night they completely disappear even in parts of Lancaster itself. When their tower was along U.S. 33 on the northwest side of Lancaster, even with the night signal they did better in most of Fairfield County.
I don't know when their tower moved east of Lancaster, but it was sometime in the late 1990s.
Fully aware of their AM signal deficiencies, WLOH has a translator at 104.5 as well as a network of translators for neighboring counties in Logan, Somerset and Circleville.
 
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Part 2 (apologies I am mobile).Retro/other. Dayton and Western Ohio. WCVG, Covington KY (The one time all Elvis station).
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I remember the Elvis format from one of my business trips to Cincinnati. Interesting attempt to make ssmething of a non-competitive signal.
 
As Cyberdad says, not too much by which to pop open even a can of Schlitz here.

The daytime regular is WTKZ Allentown (I *think* that's their calls now).
SSS was WJJS Virginia.
Nighttime loggings are WJAS Pittsburgh and WLEE Richmond.
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Ah, for those old days near JFK in Queens.
Eastern PA alone had three log-able stations, in Allentown, Gettysburg and Scranton.
Waterbury CT had one, coastal SSS Maryland had one, and Jacksonville had WVOJ AN.
Best out of 22 total was probably KXYZ out of Houston.
 
Two interesting stations....

Hartland, VT:
A weak fringe signal from WCVR Randolph, "North Country 1320," a country/Americana/folk/bluegrass hybrid playing hardly any mainstream artists.

Meriden, CT:
WATR Waterbury (the station Steve Green refers to in the above post), a throwback of a station with a full-service format: news, talk, oldies ... even storm-related school closings when no other station I know of is still reading them on-air.
 
In St. Louis during the day is Christian KSIV. At night it's a jumble. I've gotten KXYZ as far back as their Top-40 days, and occasionally the Toronto country station that was on 1320 years ago.

In better days, 1320 in St. Louis was home to KXLW (R&B) until 1975, then AOR KADI-AM from 1975-78, Top-40 KKOJ from 1978-9, a return to KADI-AM as an oldies station, and then AC before selling to Bott in 1982.
 
Rocklin, CA

Daytime: KIFM Sacramento, ESPN 1320
Nighttime: KIFM Sacramento Weak

Vallejo, CA

Splatter from KMKY 1310 Oakland
Nighttime: KIFM Very Weak
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually WKAN but WILS possible depending on the loop antenna orientation (both weak)
Nightime: nothing really stands out these days, WILS and CFGM were common in the past

DX/RETRO: Not much to report as far as DX is concerned: KXYZ (Houston, TX), WJAS (Pittsburgh, PA), WHIA (Griffin, GA). Also KSIV (Clayton, MO) during a DX test. My most recent DX logs on this frequency are WMSR (Manchester, TN) in 2021 and WBRT (Bardstown, KY) with high school football game 10 days ago.
 
I used to hear WJAS in Lancaster, Ohio at times over WLOH, the station I mentioned above. When I worked in Lancaster, I was about four miles from their tower situated just outside town to the east.
 
Lots of mentions of WJAS and KXYZ here. I've heard each station in other locations many years ago, but not recentlly. And I've heard either one here. Although I confess, I haven't spent much time on 1320. I beleive WJAS and KXYZ were once owned by NBC and ABC respectively.
 
I noticed last night that WKAN Kankakee wasn't nearly as strong as it once was here in the southwest Chicago suburbs, getting wiped out more often than not. And right now, it seems weaker than in the past, with some co-channel flutter from another station (maybe WLIS). Perhaps an example of a deteriorating ground system? I know the longtime local owners sold out to a semi-local group some years ago, and WKAN now has an FM translator on 101.3, which may be considered more important.
 
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I noticed last night that WKAN Kankakee wasn't nearly as strong as it once was here in the southwest Chicago suburbs, getting wiped out more often than not. And right now, it seems weaker than in the past, with some co-channel flutter from another station (maybe WLIS). Perhaps an example of a deteriorating ground system? I know the longtime local owners sold out to a semi-local group some years ago, and WKAN now has an FM translator on 101.3, which may be considered more important.
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The last time I was down there about 3-4 years ago, I noticed there was quite a bit of development going on. If the ground system is deteriorating, that certainly wouldn't help matters.
 
cyberdad said:
Lots of mentions of WJAS and KXYZ here. I've heard each station in other locations many years ago, but not recentlly. And I've heard either one here. Although I confess, I haven't spent much time on 1320. I beleive WJAS and KXYZ were once owned by NBC and ABC respectively.
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Correct! NBC owned WJAS (briefly called WAMP) from 1957-1972, buying the AM-FM combo after the NBC-Westinghouse affiliation split. ABC bought KXYZ-AM-FM in 1968 and kept its beautiful music format, selling in the late 1970s.
 
It was never a powerhouse for me gr8, but during the years when I worked in Lancaster and wanted to hear a local high school game on WLOH, more often than not WJAS was the station that would cause issues to a signal that was virtually useless anyway after dark!
 
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