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AM Frequency of the Week: 1160

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cyberdad

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40 miles NW of downtown Chicago,,,

Continuing our series pf channels formerly designated as "clears". Most simple one yet for me Days and nights, all WYLL all the time, Strong daytime weaker at night when 50kw pattern sends just 31kw in
my direction.

Retro: When Chicago's 1160 was daytimer WJJD, KSL would be present as often as not. WJJD cwould stay on until Salt Lake City sunset,
 
East Tennessee: Days-nothing. Critical hours: WCFO, East Point, GA. Nights: A hodge-podge including WYLL, possibly WCVX, something in Spanish and who knows?
Retro/other: West Central Ohio was WJJD in the 80s, with KSL after Salt Lake City sundown. KSL is kind of a distant memory in the eastern part of the country now.
 
Denver, CO -
Daytime - spillover from local 1150 KNRV.
Nighttime - KSL usually makes it in, despite sidebands from KNRV, though it's not as strong as I expected it would be. Usually a 3 kHz bandwidth is good enough to ensure that I can hear KSL. It's nice to hear a station doing its own programming at night, complete with live local newscasts.
 
Melbourne FL

1160 WRLZ - St. Cloud FL - Spanish- Christian - faint signal in the daytime

1160 WMET - Gaithersburg MD - DC - Catholic - EWTN - around sunset

others around sunset in past years

1160 - WCFO - East Point GA - Newstalk 1160 - News, talk - 2008

1160 - WAMB - Donelson TN - 1160-WAMB - Standards - 2003

1160 - Caribbean R. Lighthouse - Antigua - with “Junto Dominicano” - 2001

1160 - HIBE - Santiago RD - Radiolandia - Spanish – noticias - 2001
 
West central Georgia
Day - WCFO East Point/Atlanta GA with Catholic programming and a weak signal
Night - Usually just a mess, but sometimes hear WYLL Chicago for a few moments or KCRT Nashville, both with religious programming. Have also heard KVCE Dallas, WWQT Tryon NC, WYDU Fayetteville NC and WRLZ St. Cloud/Orlando FL.
 
Tyler, TX:

KBDT (standing for Big D's Talk) Highland Park, TX. Good signal from the now "Radio Saigon", and why not? Since the old KVIL 1150 was shifted up to 1160, it's directional lobe is pointed right at me. Not the strongest DFW signal here, given WBAP and KRLD exist, but darn close.
 
WahooWah said:
West central Georgia
Day - WCFO East Point/Atlanta GA with Catholic programming and a weak signal
Night - Usually just a mess, but sometimes hear WYLL Chicago for a few moments or KCRT Nashville, both with religious programming. Have also heard KVCE Dallas, WWQT Tryon NC, WYDU Fayetteville NC and WRLZ St. Cloud/Orlando FL.
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WCRT Nashville, sorry
 
Fairly flourishing frequency 1160 here is, despite the absence of KSL. That void seems to be somewhat widespread here among the Easterners. Way long ago it was WJJD Chicago for a while in the evening, then it was KSL and its 'sound of the Noveau Bell'. But ever since the FCC delighted in granting people permission to turn 1160 into yet, say, another 1070, Utah remains a 'needed' state for many on the 'W' side of the Mississippi.
Daytime 1160 regular here USED to be WYNS from Lehighton, a semi-local, directional full-timer that long ago used to be a daytimer on 1150. They are not listed anymore as existing. They just vanished. Those great 60's calls are now those of some Ohio FM station.
A somewhat recent SRS catch was WCCS, out near Pittsburgh, nice, taped ID.
With one exception, nighttimes it has been Chicago mostly atop . The one exception was when a good pal of mine was CE of WVNJ Oakland NJ. He was consigned to try and put 50,000 watts legally through Times Square, but with a costal NJ also on 1160 and having their own signal woes. he only could get a directional 20,000 watts through NYC. As it was, the station used to blast through Westchester County NY -- showing nicely when ratings for there were available -- and all the way out to Eastern Long Island. Map here from Radio-Locator:

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Well, I got a call from him one night ; he knowing that I was in range of Lehighton's WYNS. He sked how 1160 was sounding. Well, with him having turned the 4-tower WVNJ pattern around, the Standards were well atop 1160 for a good while of nice 'tape'. No WYNS was in evidence. WVNJ" was coming in just swell, like slow-toss softball lob pitching, over WYNS.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Fairly flourishing frequency 1160 here is, despite the absence of KSL. That void seems to be somewhat widespread here among the Easterners. Way long ago it was WJJD Chicago for a while in the evening, then it was KSL and its 'sound of the Noveau Bell'.
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Nauvoo - a city in Illinois where the Mormons settled for a while after being chased out of Missouri before being chased out yet again.
 
Boise Idaho
Daytime when perennial hash monster 1140 KGEM is off a weak KSL.
Nights KSL.
KGEM is getting a new transmitter so I hope it cleans up A LOT.
I swear I've heard that Mexican recently even though it's listed as inactive. Would give KSL a good beating until 7 or 8 PM each evening.
Way back when Cuba still had working Russian transmitters they'd cover KSL sometimes.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: From a squarish four-tower array in Des Plaines just off I-294, it's the 50 kW of WYLL (nee WJJD, WSCR and briefly WXRT).

Nights: From a six-tower site in Lockport just off I-355, it's the more directional 50 kW of WYLL. Depending on where you are in the Chicago area, you might have a shot at KSL, which had been a nighttime regular until 1982, when WJJD started night coverage with 2,500 watts.

The Voice of Cuba, with 100 kW or more, was an 1160 pest for a few years when I'd have preferred a clearer signal from KSL, "CBS for Western America."
 
tvnut said:
The Voice of Cuba, with 100 kW or more, was an 1160 pest for a few years when I'd have preferred a clearer signal from KSL, "CBS for Western America."
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That was when Radio Swan and later, Radio Americas, was on 1160 and 1165 aiming anti-Castro messages at Cuba. Widely heard and easily QSLed from the "Gibraltar Steamship Company" in downtown Miami.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Day and Night - Horrible splatter from very local WDEL 1150 makes 1160 a meaningless frequency here. I can see the red lights flashing from the top of their transmitters from my apartment at night.
 
In the Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, usually I don't get anything on this frequency during the daytime, but a long time ago, there was once a station out of Lehighton that can be heard in my area. It was an Oldies station called WYNS during the 90's, but then flipped to country and classic country until they returned to Oldies as "Kool 1160". Then years later, they simulcasted sports radio WEEX out of Allentown, and then flipped to religious rebroadcasting WBYN 107.5 from Boyertown, then back to the WEEX sports simulcast. Finally, they simulcasted WEEU 830 out of Reading before signing off for good. Today, the only station that I could get during "critical" hours was WVNJ out of New Jersey playing Christian radio.

At nights, it's a mixture of WYLL from Chicago and WCCS out of the Pittsburgh area. It is WCCS that is a clear winner than the former because sometimes, it comes in stronger at times.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: WYLL from the Des Plaines, IL site using only 2 of the 4-tower array
Nighttime: WYLL from the Lockport, IL site - slightly weaker, but still dominating the frequency

DX catches: KSL (Salt Lake City, UT) dominant when WJJD used to sign off at night. Other heard on this frequency are WAMB (Donelson, TN), KCTO (Cleveland, MO), WCVX (Florence, KY). In the 80's Cuba used a reported 300 kW transmitter from La Julia broadcasting Voice of Cuba/Radio Taino.

Retro: In between WJJD and WYLL this frequency was also used by WSCR with sports talk programming (1997-2000). WSCR left 1160 sometimes in August 2000 and the frequency was used simulcasting WXRT FM 93.1 until CBS sold it to Salem, which turned it into WYLL.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime is strong local KBDT with Vietnamese programming. Nighttime KBDT is not as strong with some 1170-KTSB IBOC hash noticeable. KSL sometimes sneaks in if I partially null KBDT. According to Radio Locator, KBDT uses separate transmitting sites for day vs. night. Day site is to my west with major lobe pointed at me. Night site is to my southeast with a null in my direction.
 
West side of Houston TX

Daytime, usually nothing but have occasionally heard KRDY, Relevant Radio from San Antonio
Sunset, KRDY mixes with KBDT, Radio Saigon in Dallas
Nights, a jumble of KRDY and KBDT, both sending night signals more or less in my direction. I have heard KSL a few times but not recently.

There's not much on 1160 in this part of the world outside of the SA/DFW stations.
 
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