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AM Frequency of the Week: 1500

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 miles NW of downtown Chicago..... Jumping to the top of the dial for the final stretch of those channels formerly known as "clear".

Days: A weak WPJX. 250 watts with a figure 8 pattern from Zion, IL on the
Wisconsin border at Lake Michigan. Heavy metal format. The result is a weak signal for my location and a strong signal for the fish in Lake Michigan. This station apparently exists only to drive its 250-watt translator.

Nights: WPDX drops to a mighty two watts, and a weak KSTP takes over the channel. WFED occasionally pops in.
 
Denver, CO - Day and night: Spillover from local 1510 KPLS, but, at night, KSTP is strong enough to break through, with its signal strength varying from day to day.

Retro nighttime (mid-Missouri in the 1980s) - KSTP, sometimes in the winter coming in as early as 3:45 pm, an hour before local sunset. I also have a weird notation indicating that I may have received WTOP (now WFED), but the note is labeled "erase this" - which I never did!
 
Avoiding the graveyard frequencies this time around, Cyberdad? I was expecting 1230 this week. OK, here are my 1500s.

Hartland, VT:

Nothing days, WFED Washington nights.

Meriden, CT:

WFIF Milford days with evangelical teaching and preaching mixed with far-right politics. WFED nights.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: KJIM Sherman, TX "America's Memory Maker", good signal at 55 miles NNE.
Nights: KSTP St. Paul, MN with sports talk. Reliably good signal. I have also heard KCLF New Roads, LA on late with urban oldies.
 
West side of Houston TX

Daytime: KANI Wharton TX (~40 miles SW of me) with gospel music. Weak but listenable signal
Sunset: KCLF comes up w/soul music until they go to 18w night power. I also often hear KJIM with nostalgia format. I have heard KMXO Radio Fe Spanish religion in Merkel TX, but not recently. KSTP is in the mix but not dominant. KANI mostly disappears.
Night: usually a jumble with KSTP and XEDF often rising to the top.
 
Central Kentucky:

Days: WKXO Berea. 250 watt Daytimer with a 103.5 FM translator. News/Talk/Sports. For now.

Owned by Wallingford Broadcasting from Richmond.

I used to get WAKY Radcliff/Louisville south past Danville until this pest came along.

Nights: KSTP most of the time.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - A weak WFED from DC.

Nights - A much stronger WFED carrying Nationals, Capitals, and Wizards games plus relaying WTOP 103.5 (their former call letters) with all news programming over night.

Retro - I used to listen to Orioles games on 1500 when they were WTOP for a few years in Rochester NY in the late 70's. It came in better than their Flagship WBAL 1090.
 
KD4YQR said:
Central Kentucky:

Days: WKXO Berea. 250 watt Daytimer with a 103.5 FM translator. News/Talk/Sports. For now.

Owned by Wallingford Broadcasting from Richmond.

I used to get WAKY Radcliff/Louisville south past Danville until this pest came along.

Nights: KSTP most of the time.
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Wallingford also owns WBON-LD-9 in Richmond KY. WBON actually does a nice job with local news for the Richmond area.

I get WFED here in Columbia SC after about 5 pm. Nothing else on 1500.
 
Battenkill50 said:
Melbourne FL

1500 WFED Washington DC Federal News Radio Federal news, sports 2023

1500 WPSO New Port Richdey FL Greek 2013

1500 WSEM Donaldsonville GA Best Country Around //WBBK-AM 2003
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Interesting that WFED and New Port Richey would come up. It could have been 30 years ago on a board like this one an employee of what is now WPSO did an afternoon talk show. He mentioned doing a show on Social Security one December day with WTOP's traffic reports in his headphones.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime-Nada. Critical hours:Often WBRI, Indianapolis. More often WFED.
Nights: Checking in tonight I got a Spanish language station, weak, but alone.
 
IM42A said:
Wallingford also owns WBON-LD-9 in Richmond KY. WBON actually does a nice job with local news for the Richmond area.

I get WFED here in Columbia SC after about 5 pm. Nothing else on 1500.
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I've tried to get WBON here in Anderson County to no avail. It actually looks like a pretty cool indie.
I'm about 30 air miles from Richmond.
But worry not, I get about 75 OTA channels counting the sub channels...
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: these days just WAKE Hobart, IN. They are currently operating under STA from their CP site with 62.5/11 Watts (old WLTH nighttime site). They are relaying WLTH.
Nighttime: normally KSTP but WLQV and WFED also possible

Retro/DX: when I lived in NW side of Chicago WPJX (ex WDDZ, WNIZ, WRJR, WKJA, WTAU, etc.) was a very difficult catch mostly due to severe splash from nearby WOPA (current WEUR) on 1490 kHz. Once I moved to my current location, the reception of WPJX become easier. Other station logged on 1500 kHz is WGEN (Geneseo, IL), KCLF (New Roads, LA), WPMB (Vandalia, IL)
 
KD4YQR said:
I've tried to get WBON here in Anderson County to no avail. It actually looks like a pretty cool indie.
I'm about 30 air miles from Richmond.
But worry not, I get about 75 OTA channels counting the sub channels...
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Any LPTV in Kentucky is going to be a tricky proposition due to the terrain. I feel bad for WBON having to go to the bargain-basement section (AMGTV) for its programming, but I suppose they have to fill their schedule with something, and they are probably not large enough (nor would they have the revenue and profits) to contract independent syndicated programming, movie offerings, and so on, on their own. I've heard of some LPTVs having to resort to Dollar Tree public domain films to have something to air. And WLJC has seven of the larger diginets sewn up, interesting that their main 65.1 channel morphed from an all-religious format into a Cozi TV affiliate with locally originated religious programming (Hour of Harvest, etc.) inserted into the schedule (but then again they have a huge full-power signal on VHF OTA 7 and have become the Lexington market's de facto independent outlet).

WBON might do better if more viewers in the Lexington market still had those huge towers with VHF antennas to pick up Cincinnati 5/9/12 and Louisville 3/11. Sadly, those have almost all been taken down, when I used to go to Lexington as a kid and saw all of that hardware, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I'd bet some enterprising scrap metal dealer made huge bank on that deal --- "now that Lexington has cable, we'll take down that big ugly antenna you had, and haul it off for you for free". I'd love to know what they did with all of those towers.
 
Kenosha, WI Days- WPJX Zion, IL. "Rebel Radio" metal rock. I drive by their 3 little towers most afternoons. This station is a mess; I believe they are feeding the audio off-air from their translator. A couple weeks ago their programming was country; the ID was Buzz Country which matched WMBZ West Bend, WI on their translator's 92.5 frequency. BTW, I don't know if this would help any DXers but they seldom go down to their 2 watt night power.

Nights- KSTP, WLQV, WFED.
 
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