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AM Frequency of the Week 1130

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40 Miles NW of downtown Chicago...

Day WISN Milwaukee with a good signal. 50kw from a 9 tower array near Union Grove, WI. About 38 miles NE of me. As David and others have noted, WISN moved from 1150 using a very tight array from a 9-tower site to shoehorn it in between two other high power flamethrowers in Minneapolis and Detroit. Major lobe is to the north. Minor lobes to the south and west. Tight nulls to the northwest, southwest and east. (it barely makes it across Lake Michigan.)

Night: WISN powers down to 10kw and tightens the pattern. The result is that it completly vanishes. WBBR is in more often than night, KWKH once in a while. WDFN less likely. I/ve heard CKWH a handful of times, but not recently. I heard Minneapolis (as WDGY) a couple of times when I was still in high school on daytime skywave, but not since,
 
I'm sorry, my post is going to be boring. It's going to be like that for the next couple of weeks, too, thanks to a local station on 1150.

Denver, CO - One of the deadest of frequencies hereabouts. Nothing, day or night. Maybe a little spillover from 1120 KCRN Limon during the day, but that's easily removed.

So I have to turn to my past in central Missouri where, at night, 1120 KMOX is naturally nulled out due to groundwave-skywave cancellation.

1980 & 1985 - What was WDGY Minneapolis, at critical hours (in 1985, received at 3:45 in the afternoon!)
1984 - KWKH Shreveport.
Also 1984 - WSJP Murray, KY with a notation that DA-N had just been added (reception was around 7:30 pm on October 27). Now WBZB and back to being a daytimer.
 
West side of Houston TX, pretty boring...

Days, if anything, a weak KTMR in Edna TX (San Antonio).
Sunset, KWKH is usually dominant with KTMR in there until they sign off for the night.
Night, all KWKH. I once heard WQFX from Gulfport MS, a daytimer on late.
Sunrise, KWKH and KTMR
 
Melbourne FL

1130 WBBR - New York NY - Bloomberg 1130 - Business - very good at night here*....

1130 WWBF - Bartow – Classic hits - daytime (faint signal)

retro
1130 HIRL - Santiago RD - La Mezcla - Merengue//1040 - 2004

* "here is 3 miles west of the Atlantic Ocean & 35 miles south of KSC...."
 
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Not much around Columbus, Ohio either. Sometimes slop from KMOX and WRVA, and I think I have heard WBBR here.
I've never heard Detroit, Milwaukee or Minneapolis here.
Even when I attended college in Toledo, WDFN was noticeably weaker daytime than WWJ, though still very listenable, and much weaker than both WJR and CKLW. It was completely gone at night. I do remember hearing WBBR once or twice in Toledo.
 
15 miles south of Orlando

Days Up until recently WWBF, Bartow FL came in reasonably well. Now you can barely hear them in the background with considerable splash from WVVO 1140. Not sure if WVVO improved or WWBF has gotten weaker.

Nights WBBR, NYC. Usually listenable.
 
East Tennessee: Days-nada. Sunset occasionally WISN.
Nights: A mess containing WBBR, WLBA Gainesville GA(notorious for being on day facilities past sunset), and this evening, a country station and a Classic Hits station, neither of which I just identified as WAMB, The Breeze, Brazil IN.

Retro/other: Dayton, OH area. WEDI, Eaton, OH, part of the WBZI/WKFI/WEDI trimulcast. WEDI was the former one-man Beautiful music WCTM. WCTM was off the air on Sundays, leaving a weak WDFN (or whatever it was).
 
In Northwest WA, CKWX 1130 "City News 1130". They once had a signal that didn't quit up and down the West Coast for decades until KQRR near Portland, OR went on the air.
 
Here in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WISN
Nighttime: WBBR most likely, KWKH, WDFN also quite common

DX/Retro/Other: others heard include KMBR (Bismarck, ND), WDGY (Minneapolis, MN), CKWX (Vancouver, BC), WAMB (Brazil, IN), WBZB (Murray, KY) and the foreigners Radio Rio Mar (Barranquilla, Colombia) and Radio Ideal (Caraballedo, Venezuela). In recent months two Spanish speaking stations have become quite common catches at my location: WYXE (Gallatin, TN) and WLBA (Gainsville, GA).
 
There are just two in the Olde Logg Booke here in NE PA :
WBBR night and day, And once, in the roaring traffic's swoon at sunup, WDFN Detroit. WDFN has been there on other occasions, too, unID (but I know it was them).
Odd to see the steady Florida receptions of WBBR. A DXer a few topics ago noted that, as well. That's KWKH's turf, suggest the c/m's I've seen. And in my one tune there to 1130, on the Gulf (New Port Richey) it was all KWKH overnight.
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Lucked out one overnight back In Queens NYC. 'WNEW' was off one Monday morning and I caught a weak, fady but IDable WDGY with their Top 40. I had idly read somewhere that WDGY's huge North lobe melted some Arctic (and Antarctic?) ice and 12,000 miles later landed in Argentina. T or F?
I mentioned elsewhere that Detroit used to skip OVER WBBR at sunrise, and be heard on Long Island in the car -- often with some fidelity that WBBR engineers might find alarming.
Never heard WISN, in either PA or Queens.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: A weak KWKH Shreveport.
Nights: KWKH is the dominant station, although often not a strong as would be expected. Once in KWKH null, I heard KLEY Wellington KS playing AC and classic hits. Assuming they were on 250w day power. WLBA Gainesville GA with regional Mexican can give KWKH a run for the money when they are on late.
Sunrise: KTMR from the San Antonio area can be heard after sign on with Spanish religion programming.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: WISN Milwaukee, though not a powerhouse even at 50 kW. I recall it being better a few years ago.

Nights: WISN vanishes, replaced by many of the aforementioned suspects. WNEW was easy to identify back when it carried the New York Rangers; now WBBR, the constant business news is likewise easy to ID. Others heard now and again when I paid attention to 1130: WCAR Detroit (don't believe I've heard is as WDFN); WDGY Minneapolis (have not heard as KTLK); KWKH Shreveport; and once or twice KBMR Bismarck, N.D., and WASP Brownsville, Pa. (the latter RIP 7/6/2012).
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Good signal from WBBR Bloomberg Radio NYC.

Nights - Again a good signal from WBBR with some fading. It comes in just as well if not better than non-directional WFAN and WCBS.
 
Springfield, OH:

Day--WEDI, Eaton, a small (250w) local about 40 miles away.
Nite--WBBR, usually pretty good signal, but not top 10 or anything. Have snagged WLBA Gainesville, GA and WISN Milwaukee as well.

Surprisingly, I have not picked up WDFN, Detroit yet. I am gonna shoot for that in the daytime tomorrow.

1120 KMOX and 1140 WRVA are so strong I actually have to fine tune away from them at night sometimes to get 1130 clearly.
 
East-central Iowa: Daytime KILJ Mt. Pleasant, IA. Nighttime is most often KTLK Minneapolis or WBBR New York. Have also heard CKWX Vancouver a couple times. Also KWKH Shreveport rarely.
KWKH is one of my first DX memories as a kid. I heard it and had no idea where it was coming from, but I remembered the frequency and the call letters and eventually found it. I think by that time I had figured out that faraway AM stations could be heard at night, from hearing stations like WJR or WABC.
 
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