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AM Frequency of the week: 1410:

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cyberdad

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Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Days: 1410 is WRMN. 1kw ND from 14 miles south of me. Fair-good signal.

Night: WRMN increases to 1.3kw but goes go a somewhat unfavorable pattern (aimed northeast). Still normally listenable. WING (Dayton, OH) sometimes climbs on top. WIZM (La Crosse, WI.) also makes it here occasionally.

Retro: I've heard CKSL from London, ON at my location a few times before they went dark some years back.
 
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Wilmington, Delaware

Semi local news/talk WDOV in Dover DE. Fair reception during the day. It vanishes into a mess after sunset with WPOP Hartford rising to the top of the mess after dark.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days, it's WRMN Elgin, Ill., good enough to pick up with its 1,000 watts but not great.

Nights, WRMN vanishes. In its place is a stew of signals. Those bubbling to the top over the years: WING Dayton, Ohio; KQV Pittsburgh (in its ABC O-and-O days); WIZM LaCrosse, Wis.; WUNI Mobile, Ala., and just last Monday overnight, WHLN Harlan, Ky., with either the advertised 41 watts or the 5,000 it plays with during the day.
 
East Tennessee: The geographically closest 1410 is WVVB, Kingston, TN which only exist for the FM translator for the Crossville cluster. It's more likely to get WHLN, Harlan, KY, especially with some daytime enhancement. Otherwise, WING is almost aa daily visitor, sunrise, sunset and night. KQV's Beautiful Music comes in around sunset...the format makes it easy to spot.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio was always WING, but they are nullible, with little night signal, especially toward Springfield. I have received WING in Nashville on a day of einter daytime skip. At our vacation location in Fremont, Michigan, which w visited in the late 60s, one of my top 40 stations was a fair-to-middlin' signaled WGRD, Grand Rapids. Once WGRD signed off at sunset, WING was right there. Also noted on the Tustin, MI SDR before medium wave was disabled.

On the Edinburgh, IN SDR it's mostly WING but often WHLN, likely 5kW all night.

Hope you're feeling better, Cyberdad and thanks!
 
West side of Houston TX:

Days: Occasionally KHCH Huntsville TX w/Spanish religion but usually nothing
Sunset: KDBS Alexandria LA (ESPN), KLVQ Athens TX (Q94 Hits, classic hits), WNGL Fairhope AL (Catholic radio), and XEBS Mexico City (Bandolera 14-10) have all been heard.
Night: KLVQ, WNGL, XEBS, along with KGSO Wichita KS (sports) have all been heard in the jumble.

Retro: Tulsa in the early 70's, KGSO (then KWBB, a top 40 station) was usually dominant. On early Monday mornings WING was a regular catch with KWBB off.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WRMN with good signal
Night: WRMN weaker and able to null them with a loop. Usually WHLN pops up with their daytime power of 5 kW.

DX/RETRO: DX catches throughout the years include KCLQ (Leavenworth, KS), KQV (Pittsburgh, PA), WIZM (La Crosse, WI), WING (Dayton, OH), WTIM (Taylorville, IL), WXQT (Grand Rapids, MI), WFTE (Lafayette, IN), WLBJ (Bowling Green, KY) WUNI (Mobile, AL), and the Canadian CKSL (London, ON). All those were heard between 1980 - 2000. Most recent new log is WRTZ (Roanoke, VA) in 2021 thanks to Friday night HS Football game.
 
Middays is strict daytimer semi-local WLSH from LansFORD PA ; Oldies 1410 last I'd tuned in. They're sister station to WMGH-FM Tamaqua and I believe program from the same building yet from two tower sites in two different counties.
WDOV is weak and fadey after that (I'm actually closer to Delaware than to the NY border). Lol -- WPOP mixes with them at times, like Anwar gets. But I've managed to discern the two ID's separately.
WELM Elmira NY is a SSS catch.
WING Dayton visits often at night, too. I also caught that widely-heard WLVV from Mobile back in 1995 for a good tape.

Sketchy nighttime notes list 'Tentative CJWI ... same as CFMB?' (Date and sobriety level unknown)
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Normally a weak WRMN in Elgin
Nighttime: A mishmash. Most common are WING in Dayton and WIZM in La Crosse, WI. On other occasions I've logged WSCW Charleston WV, CJWI in Montreal, WRTZ in Roanoke, VA, and WNWZ in Grand Rapids.
 
From northside of DFW:

Daytime: Barely audible KNTX Bowie, TX at 56 miles NW.
Sunset: KLVQ Athens, TX and WCMT Martin, TN occasionally heard.
Nights: Mostly KGSO Wichita, KS with sports talk. Others rarely heard: XEBS Mexico, DF and WNGL Mobile, AL.
 
It's a pretty empty channel here in Rochester these days, as so many of the bigger 1410s that used to hit here at night have downgraded to flea power (KQV, WELM) or gone off completely (CKSL)
 
Daytime: KGRN Grinnell, IA. Nighttime: a stew. Past catches include WIZM LaCrosse, WI, WING Dayton, OH, KQV Pittsburgh, PA, and others.
 
Northern England (1413): Bradford Asian Radio, a fairly new and very poor quality South Asian service, mostly extremely distorted automated music and ads on a loop. The station's ramshackle transmitter site, constructed in 2016, makes the Lumberyard look like a salubrious and well-kept location, and the station is clearly running over its permitted power.

In other areas of England away from this pest of a signal, 1413 at night can often bring in skywave signals from Russian propaganda station Vesti FM, transmitting from the old Soviet radio station in Transnistria, on the border between Moldova and Ukraine.
 
Here around Columbus, Ohio, it's a weak WING by day and nothing but garble at night. I think I heard WING as far east as the Mount Sterling area driving home from a work trip to Cincinnati the last Sunday night of October, but it was in a stretch of commercials and I went back to the Sunday Night Football game before I heard any ID.
(I do find it a humorous coincidence that the 1410 and 102.9 threads are essentially right next to each other, considering their shared history in the Dayton market.)
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Normally blank. I heard KROY in San Saba, TX, once in December 2018 via daytime skywave.

Sunset: I'll usually hear XEBS in Mexico City and classic hits KITE in Victoria, TX. Less often KDBS in Alexandria, LA, and WNGL in Mobile, AL, will show up. On a few occasions I've heard KROY.

Night: Regular visitors are XEBS, WNGL, KGSO in Wichita, and a weak KITE. Occasionally KLVQ in Athens, TX, will pop up.

Sunrise: XEBS is a lot stronger. KGSO is usually there in the background. KITE comes up strong for a while when it goes to day pattern, but XEBS outlasts it.

DX/Retro: I've heard KNTX in Bowie, TX, and XECF in Los Mochis (now retired) just once each. Also, I used to hear XEAS "Fiesta Mexicana" in Nuevo Laredo at sunrise/sunset before it was retired.

My all-time furthest AM catch is the BBC World Service station in Oman on 1413 at 4,234 miles. I logged it in February 2018 from Lapu-Lapu in the Philippines.
 
South Mississippi:

Day: weak signal on WNGL Mobile "Archangel Radio"
Night: WNGL Mobile is usually strongest, along with
WKKP McDonough, GA “Classic Country 100.9 FM and 1410 AM”
WHLN Harlan, KY (adult contemporary)
XEBS Mexico City "Sabrosita" (tropical)
 
In Vancouver BC: CFUN 1410 (from the same tower farm as CKST 1040. A station with a great signal around the area that is pretty much relegated to throwaway programming.
 
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South Mississippi:

Day: weak signal on WNGL Mobile "Archangel Radio"
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At our beach getaway location near Pensacola-Orange Beach. The Mobile 1410 is weak, and seems to be getting weaker every year. That said. It's still alone on the channel.
 
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