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AM Frequency of the Week: 1070
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From west Houston, TX, it's local KNTH 24/7 w/conservative talk, "The Answer". Their night pattern is directed right at me. I've noted them off once since I've lived here, for just a few minutes one evening at sunset in 2021. I heard news/talk KWEL from Midland TX and KFTI.
North Pickens GA. WFLI Lookout Mountain (Chattanooga) days. Nights: several signals battling with no one winning.
No worries. Welcome to the board, Hank.
I've never heard WFLI here in the Chicago area. But at our beach
getaway spot on the Gulf near Pensacola, WFLI sometimes comes in and trashes the regular there, WDIA.
Thanks cyberdad, in the late fifties, early sixties I was an avid AM DXer on my Teletone 156 tube AC/batteries portable. I had school notebooks filled with all the different stations that came in at nights. There were only 3 stations in Sudbury during the day. Now I've come full circle and am reliving the old days with the new technologies and having fun in my new/old hobby.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: Just a faint flutter from KOPY in Alice, TX. A few times I've heard KOPY with a weak but listenable signal via daytime skywave.
Sunset: Aiming NE, I can hear WDIA in Memphis and KNTH in Houston in and out. To the NW, KOPY is heard, and KWEL later mixes in with news/talk. Also, KFTI in Wichita comes up and can be heard in/out in either of those directions. As my fellow Texas DXers have noted, IBOC from 1080 KRLD eventually emerges and fills the frequency with hash. I can usually null it out by aiming NW, but it sometimes creeps up in that direction as well.
Night: The KRLD IBOC is consistently bad. When it fades/lessens, I can hear KFTI and occasionally KHMO in Hannibal, MO, and KNTH. Nulling out the IBOC by aiming NW brings KWEL until its late signoff and KFTI on occasion. KNX and KOPY sometimes come up, especially the former.
Sunrise: In the NW IBOC null, KNX is often in with a very decent signal. KNTH and KOPY mix in every now and then. Later when IBOC starts to fade, KFTI and WDIA will start to appear for a while. KWEL is usually in at sign-on and is the last to fade.
DX/Retro: I've heard WNVY in Cantonment, FL, just once. Also, XESP "Radio Noticias" in Tlaquepaque was a regular visitor at night and sunrise before being retired. I thought I'd heard the Cuban station in Guane a few times at night, but I can only find it listed once in my logs.
Day: Just a faint flutter from KOPY in Alice, TX. A few times I've heard KOPY with a weak but listenable signal via daytime skywave.
Sunset: Aiming NE, I can hear WDIA in Memphis and KNTH in Houston in and out. To the NW, KOPY is heard, and KWEL later mixes in with news/talk. Also, KFTI in Wichita comes up and can be heard in/out in either of those directions. As my fellow Texas DXers have noted, IBOC from 1080 KRLD eventually emerges and fills the frequency with hash. I can usually null it out by aiming NW, but it sometimes creeps up in that direction as well.
Night: The KRLD IBOC is consistently bad. When it fades/lessens, I can hear KFTI and occasionally KHMO in Hannibal, MO, and KNTH. Nulling out the IBOC by aiming NW brings KWEL until its late signoff and KFTI on occasion. KNX and KOPY sometimes come up, especially the former.
Sunrise: In the NW IBOC null, KNX is often in with a very decent signal. KNTH and KOPY mix in every now and then. Later when IBOC starts to fade, KFTI and WDIA will start to appear for a while. KWEL is usually in at sign-on and is the last to fade.
DX/Retro: I've heard WNVY in Cantonment, FL, just once. Also, XESP "Radio Noticias" in Tlaquepaque was a regular visitor at night and sunrise before being retired. I thought I'd heard the Cuban station in Guane a few times at night, but I can only find it listed once in my logs.
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Clifton, New Jersey
Days: I can get daytime-only WKMB "1070 WKMB" Stirling, NJ, which airs Gospel music. Reception is usually weak.
Nights: It's usually CHOK "103.9 FM & 1070 AM" Sarina, ON, which airs Country music.
DX/Retro: On 11/01/2021, I received WCSZ "La Jefa 94.9 FM & 1070 AM" Sans Souci, SC. On 6/02/2022, I received WKOK "Newsradio 1070 WKOK" Sunbury, PA. On 12/08/2022, I received WNCT "Beach, Boogie, & Blues Radio" Greenville, NC.
Days: I can get daytime-only WKMB "1070 WKMB" Stirling, NJ, which airs Gospel music. Reception is usually weak.
Nights: It's usually CHOK "103.9 FM & 1070 AM" Sarina, ON, which airs Country music.
DX/Retro: On 11/01/2021, I received WCSZ "La Jefa 94.9 FM & 1070 AM" Sans Souci, SC. On 6/02/2022, I received WKOK "Newsradio 1070 WKOK" Sunbury, PA. On 12/08/2022, I received WNCT "Beach, Boogie, & Blues Radio" Greenville, NC.
@MichaelD1972
That WKMB in Stirling NJ has been a curious little station for decades. They were sort of fitted in the nulls of two 50,000 watters that protected each other (KYW 1060 and WHN 1050). Of course, back in those days they were 'Stirling Country'. I venture that from the top of their stick -- give or take a Watchung Mountain -- you could have been able to see to the tops of NYC's 1050 array. They couldn't be much more than 18 miles apart, at any rate.
WKMB was never a problem to hear where our gaggle of DXers lived. That was near the top of the letter 'k' in New York on this map.
KYW 1060 was not a factor for us hearing the faintish but steady WKMB ; no sideband hash. And 1050 wasn't a direct enough adjacent for splash, even on the old Zenith console I was using then,.
That WKMB in Stirling NJ has been a curious little station for decades. They were sort of fitted in the nulls of two 50,000 watters that protected each other (KYW 1060 and WHN 1050). Of course, back in those days they were 'Stirling Country'. I venture that from the top of their stick -- give or take a Watchung Mountain -- you could have been able to see to the tops of NYC's 1050 array. They couldn't be much more than 18 miles apart, at any rate.
WKMB was never a problem to hear where our gaggle of DXers lived. That was near the top of the letter 'k' in New York on this map.
In the Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, during the daytime it's WKOK, a News/Talk station from Sunbury with a decent to almost strong signal with a very good radio. At nights, it's CHOK from Sarnia, Canada, playing country music. That signal is interfering with other stations on the same frequency, all of which I don't even recognize.
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