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AM Frequency of the Week 1110

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cyberdad

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Crystal Lake, IL....

Days" 1110 is WXES, Chicago (Spanish religion) with a good signal.

Nights: Relatively empty. Sometimes KFAB. Even less commonly WBT. Both of these are more likely to be present sunrise or sunset,

Retro: Now-defunct CKTY, Sarnia, ON was fairly often present at night.

Other Location: Where I am this month 23 miles SW of Pensacola directly on the Gulf, a very weak KTIS from Tampa via saltwater path. 10kw ND with tropical music, I seriouly doubt that this signal is audible more than a mile or so inland. At night after KTIS sign off, WBT takes over with a fair signal at best.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: WXES (nee WMBI), with a 5 kw transmitter in Addison.

Nights (but more likely before day to night pattern changes): KFAB Omaha, which mostly vanishes at pattern change. WBT Charlotte once in a blue moon.

Extras: WJML Petoskey, Mich., after midnight on 12/5/2020; WGNZ Fairborn, Ohio (near Dayton), after sunrise 10/6/2021 likely running 1.7 kW CH pattern with then-WMBI absent.
 
Rochester NY: daytime is a weak WSFW, 1000 watts ND about 50 miles east in Seneca Falls. Night is usually all WBT, but KFAB was heard here a couple of times this winter. WUPE from Pittsfield MA is a frequent sunset visitor.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Semi-local KVTT Mineral Wells, TX with Asian programming. Have also heard them on at night on many occasions.

Nights: KFAB Omaha, NE with consistently strong signal. XERED Mexico DF can often be heard under KFAB, sometimes strong, with EE pop music. One-time night catches, WTIS Tampa, FL on late in KFAB null with Spanish // web, and KRDC Pasadena, CA in KFAB null with Lakers basketball and "ESPN 710" IDs.

Sunset: I have heard KEJL Humble City, NM with local ads and 100.5 ID.

Sunrise: Heard KTEK Alvin, TX with Relevant Radio Houston, WBT Charlotte, NC with local weather as they went to day power, and XEWR Ciudad Juárez with Cristo Rey Radio IDs.
 
From Pickerington, Ohio ... a solid WGNZ daytime and not much to replace it at night. If WBT makes it here, it's extremely weak next to WTAM and the flamethrower that is KMOX.
WGNZ occasionally puts minimal slop onto WTAM daytime around here.
 
Daytime 1110 here used to be WNAP 'Gospel Highway 11' from Norristown PA, a city on the Schuylkill about 15 miles NW of Philadelphia. Decades ago as 500 (?) watt omni WNAR they were steady-audible in Queens NYC near JFK Airport in a fairly easy null of WHLI, Nice MoR station. When they became WNAP they raised power (and I believe went directional), They're not on the air anymore.
Nighttimes gave me the only two others here in PA : CKTY from June '94, and the 'Canada to Cuba' signal of WBT. I hear tell that WBT's nighttime NW null is weak in parts of Charlotte proper.
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WUPE from Pittsfield Mass, seems like a good pursuit one twilight, as does the delightful WTBQ NY, near Greenwood Lake. Those two were regulars back in Queens, along with 'ZAM 11' from Norfolk and a few others.
 
Denver, CO -
Daytime: Nothing.
Nighttime: KFAB Omaha dominates. iHeart cookie-cutter talk.

Retro (central Missouri) - A little more interesting at night, nestled as I was between the KFAB and WBT nulls. The Columbia location also naturally nulled out St. Louis's KMOX at 1120 since there was severe groundwave-skywave phase cancellation for KMOX there. Call letters listed below may not be current:

In January 1982: KFAB in the daytime right after 1 pm in Columbia, Mo.
Also in January 1982: XERED from Mexico City.
October 1984: WBT.
November 1984: KGFL Clinton, AR; sign-off of KPAL Pineville, LA (now KTTP).
January 24, 1985 between 3-4 am: KFAB, running tests in stereo, switching in and out of DA.
 
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From west Houston TX

Daytime is local KTEK with Relevant Radio

At sunset, KFAB comes in after KTEK goes off for the night. KVTT in the DFW area is heard at times if they're still on (which seems to happen fairly often). KEJL in New Mexico is usually there w/rock "The Eagle 100.5" and XERED is in the mix at times.

Nights, it's KFAB and XERED dominating. I have also heard WTIS in Tampa on late a couple of times.

At sunrise, before KTEK signs on, I hear KFAB and XERED mostly, KVTT if they're already on, and I've heard WBT a few times, presumably after they've gone to daytime pattern.

Back in the early 70's, I learned about the AM DX hobby from KFAB. I sent them a letter telling them I had heard them and enclosed with the QSL they sent back was a letter from IRCA inviting me to join.
 
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15 miles south of Orlando.

Day WTIS Tampa. Weak, but OK in the car

Night WBT, Charlotte, NC. Strong pretty much every night.
 
Hartland, VT:

Heard (presumed) WMVX Salem, NH, and WPMZ, East Providence, RI, dueling with similar-sounding old-school tropical music around 3:30 p.m., no IDs heard. Two hours later, one of those stations was dominating the frequency; same music, plenty of reverb on the DJ's voice. Unfortunately, the daytimer disappeared promptly at 5:45, thwarting my attempts to ID it. WBT Charlotte then inherited the frequency.

Looking at the just-for-fun contour maps at radio-locator, I'm pretty sure my 5:30 logging was WMVX, which pushes a lot of its signal to the northwest. As for the earlier two-station mash-up, I'm kind of surprised that I'd hear WPMZ at all, given its signal pattern, but none of the other 1110s that might come in here at 3:30 have Spanish-language programming.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Nothing

Nights - WBT Charlotte NC with a good signal. It is consistently one of the strongest night time signals and splatters on adjacent WTAM and KMOX.

Retro - as Steve Green NEPA mentioned above now dark daytimer WNAR Norristown PA came in quite well with Gospel Music.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WXES, which is the closest AM station to my location at only 2.5 miles away, but thankfully they are only a daytimer.
Nighttime: WBT or KFAB

DX/RETRO: As for DX on this frequency, my best catch frequency is WHIM (East Providence, RI) back in 1983 making it my only station heard from Rhode Island. I don't remember, but that log might have been a result of a DX test transmission. Others include KTEK (Alvin, TX), WUNN (Mason, MI), WJML (Petoskey, MI), WKRA (Holly Spring, MS), WKDZ (Cadiz, KY), WBCA (Bay Mitette, AL) during an emergency broadcast, and WTIS (Tampa, FL). WGNZ was heard recently when WMBI/WXES was completely off air. Foreigners logged are YVQT, Venezuela and XERED, Mexico City. Most recent new log on this frequency is WSLV, Ardmore, TN heard in October 2023.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Daytime 1110 here used to be WNAP 'Gospel Highway 11' from Norristown PA, a city on the Schuylkill about 15 miles NW of Philadelphia. Decades ago as 500 (?) watt omni WNAR they were steady-audible in Queens NYC near JFK Airport in a fairly easy null of WHLI, Nice MoR station. When they became WNAP they raised power (and I believe went directional), They're not on the air anymore.
Nighttimes gave me the only two others here in PA : CKTY from June '94, and the 'Canada to Cuba' signal of WBT. I hear tell that WBT's nighttime NW null is weak in parts of Charlotte proper.
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WUPE from Pittsfield Mass, seems like a good pursuit one twilight, as does the delightful WTBQ NY, near Greenwood Lake. Those two were regulars back in Queens, along with 'ZAM 11' from Norfolk and a few others.
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The WBT night null to the W and SW of Charlotte is one of those where the city grew out to include the null over the years. It is a hard null and indeed I can report that the station vanishes in the western areas like Gastonia. Which was no big deal once upon a time, but certainly is now. Fortunately they were able to grab a class C3 licensed to Chester SC (99.3) which does a fine job of covering the W and SW areas of the metro. They did their own AM Revitalization years before that became a thing.
 
East Tennessee: Not much. Blank during the day, with the last breath of WBT possibly overcoming the noise toward sunset.Night: Really nothing. WBT totally excludes us.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area: WGNZ (formerly WMMX...those calls now on Dayton's WMMX.) and WELX, originally licensed to Xenia. The towers were just west of Xenia until development caused the 3 towers to be moved (or rebuilt) in a field just south of town. WGNZ has been known to be on full power at night. I've heard it on the Central Indiana rig.
 
I've heard WBT, KFAB, WJML, WUNN, WMBI, WGNZ, and not sure about CKTY.

I was probably one of the first people to hear WJML, when they were still doing Proof of Performance measurements. It was late Fall, 1966, and they were concerned, expressing that on the air, about going out to Beaver Island in a boat the next day to do measurements, which I figured out later were Proofs of the DA. It was a regularly heard pre Sunset CH for many years. It's currently on STA resumption of programming doing a repeated all Grateful Dead track rotation while a sale is considered. So if you hear that format on 1110, that's what it is. The nulls are equivalent to about 2400 watts equivalent, so it gets out pretty well, even in the nulls.
 
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Springfield, OH, using CCrane CCRadio-SWP or Airspy SDR with a small active loop antenna.

Days--strong local WGNZ, Fairborn, OH. Not powerful, but 15 miles from transmitter. Luckily it goes to night power, so...
Dusk--couple logs of KFAB, Omaha, NE.
Night--WBT is usually there, though not super strong like some of the other big ones (WRVA, WCBS, WHO, WBZ, etc).
 
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