1060 AM radio

[Dondd]

Tonight, just after sunset, in darkness here in central Texas, received 1060 from somewhere.
It's Christian teaching, but I don't recognize the speaker.

Looking over the closed 1060 Frequency of the Week thread, I see it could be this station:

-KRCN, Longmont, CO, a 50,000 signal and EWTN (Catholic) repeater.

This may be a distant possibility:

-WILB Canton OH, 15,000-watt Catholic radio daytimer.

Will listen at TOH to see if can ID the station, but it may disappear, as it did last time.

**UPDATE... Went to compare to the Longmont station's livestreams, but station had faded and now a Mexican is dominating (weakly).

 

[Dondd]

Otherwise, this is what I usually receive on 1060 here in central Texas northeast of Austin:

Nights
XECPAE Mexico City (Ejercito De Oriente, DF)
763 miles

Days:
1060 KTSN Lockhart, TX

 

[Gregg.]

1060 is an unusual clear channel frequency. XECPAE Mexico City and KYW Philadelphia are the two Class A stations. Mexico City used to be XEEP but now it's part of the Radio Educación network. It's 100,000 watts days but only 20,000 watts nights. I wonder why XECPAE reduces its nighttime power so much, even though it's Class A? Most of the other Class A stations in Mexico pack much more punch at night, even if they share a frequency with an American or Canadian Class A station. Mexico City and Philadelphia are nearly 2,500 miles apart.

Then you have KYW Philadelphia. Even though it's a 50,000 watt clear channel station, it has a tortured directional pattern. It can't put much signal to the southwest to protect Mexico City. But it can't put much signal to the northeast either, to protect a 50,000 watt NYC station only one channel away. Imagine that 1050 WEPN (originally WHN) was allowed to go 50,000 watts, only 90 miles away from Class A 1060 KYW?

Drive around Philadelphia and hit the scan button on your car's AM radio. It stops at many NYC frequencies, 660, 710, 770, 820, 880, etc. But if you drive around the NYC area, your car radio won't even hear a peep at 1060, let alone have the scanner stop there.

 

[Dondd]

Confirmed tonight, very weak signal but enough to match with web stream, it's 1060 KRCN, Longmont, CO, a 50,000 watts day, 111 watt at night.
Am assuming it was on its day signal, 50k watts, 6:10 p.m. CT, Mountain Time sunset.

What other stations do you hear on 1060?

 

[schmave]

In central Ohio, WILB by day and KYW at various strengths at night.
I'm about 100 miles and change from Canton so I've heard WILB at moderate strength down here, but I've never listened. I would have been pretty impressed if that skywave made it all the way down to Austin before they left the air for the evening.
KYW is really strong some nights and much less than that at other times. The other night when I was driving around and wanted to get the local Philly perspective after that plane crash, WPHT was the far more listenable option.

 

[Dondd]

I don't think that Ohio station would come in down here, either.
I've never received KYW, but keep trying.

There's a daytimer here on 1060, KTSN, Lockhart, Texas, Sun Radio, but it isn't strong (2000 watts) and I don't often hear it pre-dawn or early evening.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@Gregg.

In the Olde Days, as grammar school kid DXers back in Queens NYC (near JFK Airport), 1060 was the last AM frequency that two of us finally were to log a station. Tuned to local 1050 one night on my buddy's family Pilot Hi-Fi console, we tried the 'band spread' control on it, and it, well, did *something*. Perhaps it turned the long console's antenna.
In came a clear WRCV. Those were the calls of 1060 KYW at the time.

Philly and NYC are fairly close for huge markets, and short-spaced viv a vis AM and FMs go ...... regionals like 560-570 ..... 610-620 ...... a station each on 1480 ..... FMs each on 100.3 and 101.1...... and big AMs like 990-1010, nearby 1570 and WFME 1560, and 1050-1060.
I don't know how or when the KYW-WEPN agreement came to be arranged. But in one of the two northeast KYW nulls there went on a station in NJ decades ago -- still there; WKMB -- on 1070.

I lived in Northeast PHL for a few years. It was not uncommon to be driving through there -- 'The Northeast' on Route 1 near sunset -- and hear WBZ Boston like a ton of tea, much louder than KYW every time. And that reception was well within the actual city limits of Philadelphia.

 

[John B]

KYW is pretty regular is the SW Burbs of Chicago, especially in the winter months.

 

[Jean Luc]

1060 is an unusual clear channel frequency. XECPAE Mexico City and KYW Philadelphia are the two Class A stations. Mexico City used to be XEEP but now it's part of the Radio Educación network. It's 100,000 watts days but only 20,000 watts nights. I wonder why XECPAE reduces its nighttime power so much, even though it's Class A? Most of the other Class A stations in Mexico pack much more punch at night, even if they share a frequency with an American or Canadian Class A station. Mexico City and Philadelphia are nearly 2,500 miles apart.

Then you have KYW Philadelphia. Even though it's a 50,000 watt clear channel station, it has a tortured directional pattern. It can't put much signal to the southwest to protect Mexico City. But it can't put much signal to the northeast either, to protect a 50,000 watt NYC station only one channel away. Imagine that 1050 WEPN (originally WHN) was allowed to go 50,000 watts, only 90 miles away from Class A 1060 KYW?

Drive around Philadelphia and hit the scan button on your car's AM radio. It stops at many NYC frequencies, 660, 710, 770, 820, 880, etc. But if you drive around the NYC area, your car radio won't even hear a peep at 1060, let alone have the scanner stop there.

KYW doesn't even have a good AM signal into Bucks County.

 

[gr8oldies]

WILB made the Edinburgh IN SDR during the daytime once that I observed.

WHFB, Benton Harbor, MI still often runs day power at night with a Classic Hits format.