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AM Frequency of the Week: 1200

cyberdad

cyberdad

Inadvertently skipped over this one last week, so here goes.... 40 Miles NW of downtown Chicago

Days: WRTO Chicago. 20 kw with a pattern NE and SW. Not exactly favorable to me, but with a very deep null to the SE to protect WOWO. Yer the Signal at my location is still pretty good.

Nights: WRTO drops to 4.5kw aimed straight north. Signal here is somewhat weaker, and the bottom line result is
a battle with WOAI. Aim the radio SE and it's all WRTO. Rotate the radio to the SW and it's all WOAI.
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, nothing daytime. And at night, every time I've checked for the pasts several years, WOAI is barely there if at all. I remember hearing it decently well when I first got into DXing in the early 90s, but it just doesn't seem to make it this far anymore. Maybe I just don't check at the right times.
 
Pretty good fortune here in NE PA with this former clear.
Daytime is a logging from a Williamsport PA, WRKK. I have them listed as 'WRAK', while the WRAK calls are now on 1400. Both are iHeartless stations.
WSML from Graham NC was a SSS catch, eight March's ago.
WAGE from Leesburg VA and WOAI were nighttimers.
* * * * *
A gal I was dating who always made fun of my DXing* and myself were driving in a 1973 Nova one night with the radio on. I was launching into a discussion about the polarized architecture and geographic vibes between the Queens portion of Linden Blvd and the Brooklyn portion.
She: 'Wait a minute, WAIT a minute. Shut up!'
Radio: 'CFGO, Ottawa'.
She: 'Now. You were saying?'
Me: 'That's a new one! I never heard them before!'
She: (Chalks one up in the air) 'You almost DIDN'T, Mister Radio.'

* She'd turn on some car radio to a blaze of pure white-noise static, turn it way up, and say 'You didn't HEAR that?!?!? Boy. That was as clear as day to me.'
(She actually did hear an FM station from Connecticut I never logged, and a TV station from Norfolk during some tropo afternoon.)
 
Bellingham, NW WA- It is CJRJ Vancouver- Spice Radio, Multi-cultural but mainly Punjab language talk and some music. 25kW with a gentle null in my direction to protect San Antonio. Not enough of a null for me to hear anything else, even in the background. Like all of the S Asian stations in the market (I think there are five or six) definitely fun to listen to. Just enough English for me to get a general idea as to what they are talking about. Well, Canadian English, but still...

Towers are 39 miles away,
 
West side of Houston TX

Daytime, WOAI with a good signal.
Sunset, once in December 2022 I was able to null WOAI and ID WFCN Nashville TN w/religious program. There was also someone playing country music (maybe KYOO?) that I couldn't ID.
Nights and sunrise, all WOAI. They're not as strong as I would expect at night. I'm 150 miles east of their transmitter, so maybe some cancellation effect?
 
Denver, CO -
Daytime - nothing (nearby KVCU is on 1190)
Nighttime - usually WOAI, at varying levels of strength
 
near north Chicago suburbs: days WRTO decent signal, night WRTO fights it out with WOAI depending which way I point the radio.
 
Melbourne FL

1200 KHz WOAI -San Antonio TX - Newsradio 1200 -News/talk - nights

retro

1200 WPTK - Pine Island Center FL - Fox Sports Radio 1200 Sports talk (closed in 2019)

1200 WRKK - Hughesville PA - Newstalk Net 1200 News/talk – ABC //1400 2005

1200 WQLS - Ozark AL - AM1200 - Oldies – 2045/close 2001

1200 - CMHT - Cuba - R. Sancti Spiritus - Spanish – pop music 2001
 
The New Chico said:
Bellingham, NW WA- It is CJRJ Vancouver- Spice Radio, Multi-cultural but mainly Punjab language talk and some music. 25kW with a gentle null in my direction to protect San Antonio. Not enough of a null for me to hear anything else, even in the background. Like all of the S Asian stations in the market (I think there are five or six) definitely fun to listen to. Just enough English for me to get a general idea as to what they are talking about. Well, Canadian English, but still...

Towers are 39 miles away,
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Same for me. I'm located on Lulu island in British Columbia, and this station is a flamethrower.
 
If you are on Lulu, so is the transmitter. I think it is off Cambie like at the no. 6 Road. I would imagine it is a flamethrower that close to you!
 
wildthangjim said:
West side of Houston TX

Daytime, WOAI with a good signal.
Sunset, once in December 2022 I was able to null WOAI and ID WFCN Nashville TN w/religious program. There was also someone playing country music (maybe KYOO?) that I couldn't ID.
Nights and sunrise, all WOAI. They're not as strong as I would expect at night. I'm 150 miles east of their transmitter, so maybe some cancellation effect?
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Probably so on the nighttime note. Both places I lived in greater Houston, the Inwood Forest area and then League City, WOAI had a terrible nighttime signal. I figured I was in the cancellation zone. Not sure how far west I had to be for groundwave to take over.
WOAI was a decent listen daytime in both locations. Not overpowering but listenable.
 
The New Chico said:
If you are on Lulu, so is the transmitter. I think it is off Cambie like at the no. 6 Road. I would imagine it is a flamethrower that close to you!
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Yep! Living on Lulu Island is a strange experience. If you scan the AM dial, many of the frequencies are full of the same stations that are broadcasting from the island. I'm not sure if that is multipath reflection, or if the receiver is just overpowered from all of the strong AM's that are only a few miles away. I never experienced anything like this until I moved here.
 
Tyler, TX:

Daytime splatter from next door neighbor KFXR. Then the sun sets, and here comes. WOAI gets as strong as local KTBB, stopping the seek function on any digital tuner. I'm at a distance of just over 300 miles from the Alamo City, but WOAI might be considered a "nighttimer" here in the Rose City.
 
Wilmington Delaware

I normally don't check this frequency due to some splatter from 1210 WPHT but on Tuesday around 11pm I checked and was amazed to hear a weak play by play of the Spurs-Nuggets game which was apparently WOAI. I never remember hearing it before and if it was that is the most distant US AM station I've ever heard from tiny Delaware.
 
Canyon Lake, TX is WOAI 24/7. They have the most consistent day and night signal. I have heard Spanish language cross talk underneath maybe 3 times in all of the years I have lived in Canyon Lake.

Wildthangjim mentioned the cancellation on WOAI; you can hear cancellation as close in as Bandera. The cancellation zones start between Round Rock and Belton to the north; between George West and Alice to the South and between Three Rivers and Mathis to the SE. The cancellation is pretty bad in Corpus Christi.

I have heard WOAI in California and North Carolina at night. WOAI is probably one of the few stations that can still be heard Coast to Coast. I’m not sure if Gar has heard WOAI in Hawaii.
 
Springfield, OH, all in the last 6 months:

Days--nothing yet.
Nights--occasionally grab WOAI, which is my farthest get at about 1075 miles other than Cuba. The first time I heard it was inside my house with a Ccrane, no external antenna. Makes me wonder what I could be getting with a very good receiver/external antenna combo.

Have also pulled in CFGO, Ottawa.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WRTO with their 20/4.5 kW 6-tower array in the Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood
Nighttime: WRTO, but WOAI possible with partial null of WRTO

DX/RETRO: I can get a fairly decent null on WRTO at night at my location, but all I usually hear is WOAI. I remember that when WRTO (WVIV, WLXX, WOPA, WMXA) operated from their original 8-tower array at 103rd and I-94 they were tougher to null despite using lower power. Once they move to their current site in 2010 they became easier to null. Prior to 1988, before WRTO (then WMXA) came on the air, WOIA was the station that ruled the frequency in the Chicago area. Other frequent logs were KFNW (West Fargo, ND), and CFGO (Ottawa, ON). Also heard on this frequency in the 80's/90's were WBCE (Wickliffe, KY), WKOX (Framingham, MA), WAGE (Leesburg, VA). YVOZ (Caracas, Venezuela) is the only foreign station I ever heard on this frequency.
 
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