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AM Frequency of the Week: 1590
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Tyler, TX:
The battle of the week/weak is featured on 1590 here, with KEKR Mexia (Waco), KBJT Fordyce, AR. and KMIC Houston duking it out with feeble punches that just can't score a knockout on their glass-jawed opponents. One moment it's classic country, then a fade away to the conservative viewpoints of KBJT, and the next a Mexican preacher suddenly starts hollering at me from inside my receiver to send him money to add me to his prayers.
Sunrise and sunset are predominantly KMIC. Don't let a Wikipedia article fool you. It's Spanish-language preaching and occasionally music, in case you're on the search of it for your logs. At night, KMIC falls off into the jumble, and that's what 1590 stays through the night. I've logged KWEY Weatherford, OK. slipping in, the three aforementioned, and the gospel sounds of KPRT coming from Kansas City.
The battle of the week/weak is featured on 1590 here, with KEKR Mexia (Waco), KBJT Fordyce, AR. and KMIC Houston duking it out with feeble punches that just can't score a knockout on their glass-jawed opponents. One moment it's classic country, then a fade away to the conservative viewpoints of KBJT, and the next a Mexican preacher suddenly starts hollering at me from inside my receiver to send him money to add me to his prayers.
Sunrise and sunset are predominantly KMIC. Don't let a Wikipedia article fool you. It's Spanish-language preaching and occasionally music, in case you're on the search of it for your logs. At night, KMIC falls off into the jumble, and that's what 1590 stays through the night. I've logged KWEY Weatherford, OK. slipping in, the three aforementioned, and the gospel sounds of KPRT coming from Kansas City.
Central Kentucky:
WLBN Lebanon, home of the famous Makers Mark distillery.
WLBN has an oldies format and a 106.5 translator.
Last time I heard it the audio quality wasn't the most stellar.
Original calls were WLSK, LebanonSpringfieldKentucky..(Springfield is next closest town to Lebanon)
WLBN Lebanon, home of the famous Makers Mark distillery.
WLBN has an oldies format and a 106.5 translator.
Last time I heard it the audio quality wasn't the most stellar.
Original calls were WLSK, LebanonSpringfieldKentucky..(Springfield is next closest town to Lebanon)
Denver, CO -
Spillover from local 1600 KEPN.
Retro - Sometime during the early 1970s, picked up WAKR (Akron) in the northwest suburbs of St. Louis. In Kansas City (where I lived in the 1990s), this was the home of KPRT, originally KPRS, one of the earliest black-owned radio stations, purchased by the Twin City Advertising Agency in 1952, moving it from the suburb of Olathe, Kansas, and eventually controlled by the Carter family of Kansas City. Contrary to popular belief locally, the KPRS call letters were on the station from its very beginnings in Olathe. After the purchase, KPRS was silent for a few months while the station moved to Kansas City. KPRS resumed broadcasting on November 1, 1952. It became KPRT in November 1974; the original call letters live on through KPRS(FM), also owned by the Carter Broadcast Group.
Spillover from local 1600 KEPN.
Retro - Sometime during the early 1970s, picked up WAKR (Akron) in the northwest suburbs of St. Louis. In Kansas City (where I lived in the 1990s), this was the home of KPRT, originally KPRS, one of the earliest black-owned radio stations, purchased by the Twin City Advertising Agency in 1952, moving it from the suburb of Olathe, Kansas, and eventually controlled by the Carter family of Kansas City. Contrary to popular belief locally, the KPRS call letters were on the station from its very beginnings in Olathe. After the purchase, KPRS was silent for a few months while the station moved to Kansas City. KPRS resumed broadcasting on November 1, 1952. It became KPRT in November 1974; the original call letters live on through KPRS(FM), also owned by the Carter Broadcast Group.
Once upon a time in Chicago, if you weren't near Evanston, you had to work a bit to catch WLTD 1590 from that lakefront university town. Same held when it was known as WNMP and WONX. Then a wheeler-dealer bought it, plus WKKD 1580 and WMCW and WCGO 1590 to get electronic elbow room and upgraded the 1 kW signal to 10 kW days, 2.5 kW nights, moving the WCGO calls over. The audio is overmodulated at times and the programs make me snore, but the signal is better, so there's that.
Otherwise, 1590 has yielded the following: WNTS Indianapolis; WAKR Akron, Ohio; WTVB Coldwater, Mich.; WAIK Galesburg, Ill. (silent as of 1/14/2019); and unsleeping daytimer WCSL Cherryville, N.C., blasting out its 10 kW at 3:15 one morning in Feb. 2021.
Otherwise, 1590 has yielded the following: WNTS Indianapolis; WAKR Akron, Ohio; WTVB Coldwater, Mich.; WAIK Galesburg, Ill. (silent as of 1/14/2019); and unsleeping daytimer WCSL Cherryville, N.C., blasting out its 10 kW at 3:15 one morning in Feb. 2021.
When I lived in Chicago, the WONX transmitter site was next to the site of a sewage treatment plant off McCormick near Howard. I referred to WONX as "The Voice of the McCormick Sewer Plant". It actually wasn't a bad station; mostly ethnic programming serving a variety of communities. Saturday mornings were given over to Argentine tangos!
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: WCGO with good signal from their 4-tower array on McCormick Blvd in Skokie, IL. The W240EH (FM 95.9) translator is located on one of the towers.
Nighttime: WCGO with WAKR or WNTS sometimes making it through. WCGO at night can be nulled to produce some DX.
DX/RETRO: other catches include WAWA (West Allis, WI), WIXK (New Richmond, WI), WSWW (Platteville, WI), WGBW (Denmark, WI), WCCL (Jackson, MS), WAIK (Galesburg, IL), WTVB (Coldwater, MI), WJSO (Johnson City TN), WALG (Albany, GA). Most recent new log on this frequency is WPIW Mt. Vernon, IN heard in January 2024.
Daytime: WCGO with good signal from their 4-tower array on McCormick Blvd in Skokie, IL. The W240EH (FM 95.9) translator is located on one of the towers.
Nighttime: WCGO with WAKR or WNTS sometimes making it through. WCGO at night can be nulled to produce some DX.
DX/RETRO: other catches include WAWA (West Allis, WI), WIXK (New Richmond, WI), WSWW (Platteville, WI), WGBW (Denmark, WI), WCCL (Jackson, MS), WAIK (Galesburg, IL), WTVB (Coldwater, MI), WJSO (Johnson City TN), WALG (Albany, GA). Most recent new log on this frequency is WPIW Mt. Vernon, IN heard in January 2024.
The first AM station I worked at was WDBL 1590 Springfield TN. I say AM because I worked on the old WDBL FM 94.3 a couple of nights before I made it to the "big time" AM signal Saturday afternoons during remotes at tire stores and car dealers.
Near north Chicago suburbs all WCGO and the tower site is the same
Melbourne FL
1590 - WPSL - Port St. Lucie FL - Talk of the treasure coast -News/talk (around sunset)
1590 - WPSL - Port St. Lucie FL - Talk of the treasure coast -News/talk (around sunset)
From west Houston TX, it's local KMIC 24/7. As @rosecitymedia mentioned, their Wikipedia article is wrong - they're currently running Radio Aleluya Christian talk and music in Spanish.
When KMIC has been off (a couple of times due to weather), I've heard KGAS Carthage TX w/ESPN Radio, KEKR Mexia TX w/classic country, and KELP El Paso TX w/Christian talk in English.
When KMIC has been off (a couple of times due to weather), I've heard KGAS Carthage TX w/ESPN Radio, KEKR Mexia TX w/classic country, and KELP El Paso TX w/Christian talk in English.
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WAKR from Akron, Ohio once came in well at night in much of the Midwest. But that is no longer the case.
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I'm about 65 miles to the west of KGAS, yet have never received a signal from it. In contrast, K279CF does reach here on occasion and will mix with K279CI from Longview, which is not particularly strong here, either. I have no issues picking up a weak signal from KMHT in Marshall, just down the dial, but nothing from Carthage.
Nice catch, wildthang.
I'm not usually able to hear anything on 1590 because I have a local on 1600 whose transmitter is about three miles from my house and it comes in like a freight train. A few years ago it was off the air for a week or two, and the only thing I really heard on 1590 was WCGO.
Thanks. I heard them when KMIC was off the air during the "big freeze" of February 2021. Strange that you're not able to hear them.
Here in Kansas, KPRT days and nights
@Battenkill50
First-ever paid vacation I'd driven to Florida to see some relocated buddies, and was quite taken with the Tampa Bay AM dial. 1590 St. Petersburg was R&B then, WRXB, a great listen. 1000 watts directional, daytime only.
On a nothing-special Philco 6-transistor radio at NIGHT, KYOK Houston and their R&B used to come right across the Gulf into Clearwater, a neat Soul segue.
Locally here, a 1000-watt daytimer, WMIM Mt. Carmel PA was a good listen, too. They were a soft A/C - Chicken Rock station, then about the time they got their nighttime * 17 watts * became satellite Standards (terrific music, but too tight a playlist, a sleepwalked presentation). That pittance night license is such a jinx for so many former daylighters. I'm 10 miles east of where they used to be, and at niight would get WAKR instead, and WFTH once (forgot to genuflect and power down, eh, my son?), and a few SSS catches. WMIM went dark over 15 years ago.
Have to recall the story about the poster who was driving in a downpour one night near Chester PA and caught a red sign that said 'WAWA' but couldn't find a WAWA on his radio. Here's why not.
First-ever paid vacation I'd driven to Florida to see some relocated buddies, and was quite taken with the Tampa Bay AM dial. 1590 St. Petersburg was R&B then, WRXB, a great listen. 1000 watts directional, daytime only.
On a nothing-special Philco 6-transistor radio at NIGHT, KYOK Houston and their R&B used to come right across the Gulf into Clearwater, a neat Soul segue.
Locally here, a 1000-watt daytimer, WMIM Mt. Carmel PA was a good listen, too. They were a soft A/C - Chicken Rock station, then about the time they got their nighttime * 17 watts * became satellite Standards (terrific music, but too tight a playlist, a sleepwalked presentation). That pittance night license is such a jinx for so many former daylighters. I'm 10 miles east of where they used to be, and at niight would get WAKR instead, and WFTH once (forgot to genuflect and power down, eh, my son?), and a few SSS catches. WMIM went dark over 15 years ago.
Have to recall the story about the poster who was driving in a downpour one night near Chester PA and caught a red sign that said 'WAWA' but couldn't find a WAWA on his radio. Here's why not.
Wilmington Delaware
Day and Night - Strong signal from WPWA Chester PA just 7 miles to my NE with Christian Hispanic programming. This station has had numerous format flips over the years and my favorite was then were WCZN 'Your Country Cuzin' back in the mid 80's when Country was more mainstream with artists like Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle.
Day and Night - Strong signal from WPWA Chester PA just 7 miles to my NE with Christian Hispanic programming. This station has had numerous format flips over the years and my favorite was then were WCZN 'Your Country Cuzin' back in the mid 80's when Country was more mainstream with artists like Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle.
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