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AM Frequency of the Week 1670

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40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. 20 miles south-southeast of Big Foot IL/WI. A day early this week due to various obligations for Sunday (Translation: Fantasy baseball draft day). Anyway....

Days: WOZN Madison, WI. Weak signal from about 80 miles to my Northwest.

Nights: Usually WOZN, but I'm in their cancellation zone, so the signal isn't much better (if any) than daytime. I've also heard CJEU from Gatineau, Quebec (Ottawa area) a couple times. I've also heard the Macon, GA area1670. But not recently.
 
1670 KHz - WMGE - Dry Branch GA (ex-Warner Robins GA) - BIN 1670 - Black Information Network - 2023

Only one - usually good in the evenings....

kw - Melbourne FL
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Weak WPIW244 broadcasting KEC56 NOAA weather from Farmers Branch (DFW suburb).
Sunset: I have heard WOZN Madison WI (sports talk) occasionally.
Nighttime: XEFCR Reynosa (Focus Radio) is strong. Nulling allows me to hear WMGE Dry Branch, GA (Macon's BIN) when conditions are right.
 
East Tennessee: WMGE Dry Branch GA can often be in around sunset, and even with 1kW, all night.
Retro/other: Ohio: WOZN (or its predecessors) sometimes hanging in all day in the winter
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WOZN
Nighttime: usually WOZN

DX/RETRO: Others heard CJEU (Gatineau, PQ), WMGE (Dry Ranch, GA). At some point WMGE ran on STA basis from Warner Robbins, GA with various calls. I remember hearing them as WRNC. Also back 1996 there was an experimental Army Radio test station broadcasting from Ft. Meade, MD which for the first days called itself KTRK (supposed to stand for K Truck), but later changed to ARMY Radio since KTRK calls were assigned to a TV station in Texas. Apparently they were using 5 kW mobile based transmitter. It was received fairly well in the Chicago area. I did receive a very nice QSL card from the station. Here is a nice write up about the station: http://www.dxarchive.com/mw/pdf/ktrk_story_mwc_march_1996.pdf

Also driving around in the Chicago area there are several IDOT TIS stations that can be received on the car radio.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Daytime: I draw a blank.

Nights: WOZN Madison, Wis., but more often WMGE Dry Branch (Macon), Ga.
 
Where I'm at in the SF East Bay, 1670 is pretty much dead except for a community information station, with the call sign WRHU776.

Day and night, there's usually some noise underneath, and especially at night, it sounds like it could be a distant station trying to break through.

c
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Normally blank, but I have heard XEFCR in Reynosa via daytime skywave a few times.

Sunset/Night/Sunrise: It's all XEFCR ever since the station went on air in November 2021. There is a bit of skywave cancellation occasionally at night, and during the fades I do sometimes hear a very weak WMGE in Dry Branch, GA, underneath.

DX/Retro: In the days before XEFCR, WMGE was a nighttime regular with XEANAH in Huixquilucan sometimes mixing in. Aiming NW, I could often hear a weak KHPY in Moreno Valley, CA. At sunrise, WOZN would occasionally mix in with WMGE, and KHPY usually had a fairly decent signal.

My one-time catches on this frequency include KQMS in Redding, CA, and CJEU in Gatineau, QC. Also, a few times I heard WWG55 in Rutersville, TX, a now-retired TIS that relayed a local NOAA weather station.
 
Shrug. Only CJEU here, at night. Nothing days. The busted Lafayette got me that Gatineau.
Will try for that Wisconsin on the HQ-180 once it's moved and hooked up to the antennae. A null of CJEU would lobe into WI.
The state with the license plate slogan 'Eat Cheese or Die' has to be a tough one for many AM DXers. Back in the JFK Airport DX days, Milwaukee stations seemed to take turns coming in well overnight, but that was well before syndication and bug-zapper-power nighttime licenses.
 
KQMS Redding at night, usually with KSUL (KHPY now) from Moreno Valley, either underneath, competing with it, or overtaking it. Both stations came in better in the past, when MW conditions were overall better.
 
cc333 said:
I'm near SF. In the east bay.

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Understood. I'm near the Seattle-Tacoma metro.

If you're getting Spanish language music on 1670, it's undoubtedly KHPY, Moreno Valley, in SoCal. They're Spanish language praise and religion. If you get new-talk in English (and George Noory overnights), that will be KQMS Redding.

There's a BIN station now in Georgia (WMGE) that I've never heard. But I suppose if you could hear BIN on 1670, it would be them. And another talker in Wisconsin. I don't think I've heard them, either. If I did it was years ago.
 
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