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AM Frequency of the Week 1140

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far NW suburban Chicago...

Days: Usually WISN splatter (1130 Milwaukee). Some times in winter WVEL from Pekin. IL (Peoria area) sneaks in with a very weak signal. 5kw daytimer with religious programming.

Nights: WRVA with a solid signal and alone.

Other Location:

On the Gulf at the FL-AL state line daytime I'm hearing a very weak unidentifiable signal, Could b be Destin, FL where a now-defunct 1120 may have migrated. If so, its a 3kww daytimer from about 100 miles to the east of , At night, I'm usually hearing a mystery signal with elevator music and no announcer. Definitely not R. Enciclopedia. No trace of WRVA. My wild guess is perhaps XEMR or XETNA. (which are co-owned).



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Denver, CO -
Day and night: Spillover from local 1150 KNRV. The nearest station on 1140 is KNAB, Burlington, CO, which is near the Colorado border, but looking at the contours, I'd probably have to drive out at least to Limon before I could pick it up.

Retro: From central Missouri in the 1980s - KSOO (Sioux Falls SD) several times; XEMR (Monterey). Earlier, in the 1970s in the St. Louis area, WRVA. But farther west in Missouri, WRVA was a weaker presence.
 
Tyler, TX:

KHFX Cleburne "Radio Esparanza" with Spanish language religious programming during the day. Listenable signal, but certainly not one of the better DFW signals this far east.

At night it's Monterey. Besides the round-the-clock KHFX which doesn't have enough oomph to get over here at night, everything else within several hundred miles of me is a daytimer.
 
Melbourne FL

1140 - WVVO - Orlando - Viva FM - Spanish - salsa - 2023 - fair signal in daytime

retro

1140- WBXR - Hazel Green AL - Christian Radio 1140 - 1759/close - 2005

1140 - WRVA - Richmond - Newsradio 1140 - News, talk – CNN - 2004

1140 - Radio Cadena Habana - Spanish - provincial network - 2003
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Spanish language Christian KHFX Cleburne, TX at 55 miles.
Sunset: KHFX drops to night power and is much weaker. XEMR Monterrey, NL comes up. Heard WBXR Hazel Green, AL with religious programming.
Nights: KHFX and XEMR are consistent. Rarely, I can catch R. Relbelde out of Cuba, WQBA Miami (FIU Panthers football), and recently have heard CHRB High River, AB a few times with Christian programming.
Sunrise: KRMP Oklahoma City at sign on with Urban programming.
 
Boise Idaho
Local KGEM day & night.
Nights (I live in the null towards Calgary) KGEM & CHRB about equal.
Occasionally KHTK Sacramento.
Distant past WRVA was a regular.
 
cyberdad said:
Far NW suburban Chicago...

Days: Usually WISN splatter (1130 Milwaukee). Some times in winter WVEL from Pekin. IL (Peoria area) sneaks in with a very weak signal. 5kw daytimer with religious programming.

Nights: WRVA with a solid signal and alone.

Other Location:

On the Gulf at the FL-AL state line daytime I'm hearing a very weak unidentifiable signal, Could b be Destin, FL where a now-defunct 1120 may have migrated. If so, its a 3kww daytimer from about 100 miles to the east of , At night, I'm usually hearing a mystery signal with elevator music and no announcer. Definitely not R. Enciclopedia. No trace of WRVA. My wild guess is perhaps XEMR or XETNA. (which are co-owned).



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Possibility of Radio Musical Nacional, Cuba //590?
 
Not too exciting.
East Tennessee: Days-A weak WLOD, Loudon TN.
Night-all WRVA all the time.
Retro/other: Western Ohio, a weak WAWK, Kendallville IN days, WRVA nights.
 
Rochester NY:

Daytime is 8 kW WCJW Warsaw, 40 miles SW.

Night is usually all WRVA.
 
Flasback 1140: in the early 60's when I DXed from Ohio, the easiest Puerto Rican stations to log were WIVV 1370 on Vieques Island and WITA-1140 in San Juan. WITA was just 500 watts, but non-directional and its 4 AM EST sign on put it on an open 1140 channel. It was widely heard as the first or second logging from Puerto Rico by DXers all the way into the more northern Midwestern states.

Moving ahead to 1975-1980 when I was manager of that station (with new Call Letters WQII for its name, 11-Q), we were now 10,000 watts but in a very tight directional antenna. I never got any DX reports from the mainland, but lots came from Europe and the Nordic countries.
 
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Here in Kansas, KCXL from Liberty, Missouri - 4,000 watts during the day and 6 watts at night to protect stations such as KWKH (though I’ve never heard that station, even though WWL comes in strong some nights & Shreveport is closer to here than New Orleans).
 
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Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually WISN splatter. WVEL once in a while.
Nighttime: WRVA dominant

DX/RETRO: others heard on this frequency in the past include KXRB (Sioux Fall, SD), KNEI (Waukon, IA), KHFX (Cleburne, TX), WVHF (Kentwood, MI), WLNT (Loudon, TN), WASG (Atmore, AL), WRLV (Sayersville, KY), WBXR (Hazel Green, AL), KGEM (Boise, ID), CHRB (High River, AB), CJRT (Trois -Rivers, PQ), Radio Cadena Habana (Cuba), XEMR (Monterrey, Mexico)
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Major splatter from local WDEL 1150 whose transmitter is just 3 miles to my NE

Nights - Still splatter from WDEL but on a good radio I can hear a signal from WRVA but not well.

Retro - I grew up in West Chester PA 20 miles north of Wilmington and I remember WRVA coming in quite well at night.
 
Kenosha, WI Days- WVHF Kentwood, MI (Grand Rapids suburb). 5000 Watt daytimer pointed west. Not strong, and typically buried under 15-miles-away WISN splatter; you have to be patient to hear this one.

Critical Hours- Have heard KXRB Sioux Falls, SD, WVEL Pekin, IL, KNEI Waukon, IA.

Nights- WRVA all the way.
 
A quite early 'first' logging from here in NE PA ws, of course, WRVA.
I never knew until recently that they were directional 24/7 ; they are always loud, here in PA or back in Queens. But they send a big lobe southeast into Norfolk, sort of a companion along that corridor. I know they're a secondary but solid daytime signal in Norfolk on a clock radio.
Well, at least they were, back in 1963, hi.

WXLZ from some place in Virginia was a taped SSS catch, also long ago.
So was WCJW from upstate NY.
 
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From Aberfoyle ON:
Splatter from CKOC Hamilton ON during the day and WRVA Richmond VA making it through at night.
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I miss CKOC and the oldies. A go-to on biz trips to Toronto. For a couple of years they were fairly regular at my home location near Chicago. But they have been missing for about 4 or 5 years.
 
Springfield, OH.

Day - nothing, closest station is WAWK, 132 miles away, but only 250w.
Dusk, have pulled in WBXR Huntsville a couple times, on both my car radio and SDR.
Night (starting as early as 3PM), WRVA. One of the clearest DX signals I get (top 5). Every night, and with little to no fade most nights.
 
Central Kentucky:

Daytime: Nothing, but if I head down the Mountain Parkway, I can hear WRLV, Salyersville

Nights: WRVA Richmond VA., with a decent signal. Used to listen to WRVA when it was country...
 
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