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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 1230 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

Halloween's almost here = good time to visit the graveyard...

What can you get on 1230 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a fairly good signal from WCWA/Toledo, OH with sports. By sunset it gets clobbered by other 1230s and at night gets lost in the graveyard.
 
1230....First graveyard stop!

Far Northwest Suburbs of Chicago....

DAY: WCLO, Janesville, WI. Fair with WJOB (Hammond, IN) underneath.

Night: Usual graveyard slop.
 
1230 in Bellevue, WA

Days it's KWYZ Everett with a fair signal.

Nights I've logged the following.
KWG Stockton, CA (most farthest)
KORT Grangeville, ID
KVAS Astoria, OR
KBNH Burns, OR
KRYN Gresham, OR
KCUP Toledo, OR
KOZI Chelan, WA
KWYZ Everett, WA
KDYM Sunnyside, WA
KSBN Spokane, WA

-crainbebo
 
Baldwin County, Alabama

Day: Nothing
Night: Nothing

Well, that's not entirely true. WDWR in Pensacola is on this frequency, but at 1 kW and at over 30 miles away, with our terrible ground conductivity, it's only a faint weak whisper here. I've never ID'd anything at night on this frequency.
 
In Bellingham, WA, a weak KWYZ, Everett by day (once heard KWG, Stockton, CA through the nighttime soup. Probably my farthest EVER nighttime GY DX)
 
In Houston:
KQUE
Day-weak
Night-weaker if not listenable

Other than that, the usual jumbled slop you would expect from this frequency. At one time, it was a huge Top 40 as KNUZ in the 1950s and 1960s. I spent about eight years there during the 1970s and some of the 1980s.
 
NE NC car radio. 1230 WJOI Norfolk, VA days. Do not try gy freqs on car radio at critical hours or nights.
 
Here in Austin during the day it's a decent signal from KWTX in Waco, about a hundred miles up the road. That's thanks to the good ground conductivity in this area. At night it's hard to pick anything out of the jumble.
 
Bongwater said:
In Bellingham, WA, a weak KWYZ, Everett by day (once heard KWG, Stockton, CA through the nighttime soup. Probably my farthest EVER nighttime GY DX)
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Didn't you get KYPA that one time? I remember you posting that somewhere here.

-crainbebo
 
Here in Thornville, Ohio, it's all WYTS from Columbus by day. Decent signal with 1,000 watts from 30 miles west. I can usually pick the faintest trace of its signal up at night, but it starts to get clobbered by skywave within 15 miles from the tower.
WYTS has fights to contend with daytime to the southwest, south and north from stations in Cincinnati, Ironton and Toledo respectively. 1230 is a pretty crowded frequency in this state.
 
Northern VA,

semi-weak WFVA Fredericksburg, VA to the south. At nights it's typical graveyard mess, except last year, I logged in WHCO Sparta, IL 664 miles away during one night.
 
crainbebo said:
Bongwater said:
In Bellingham, WA, a weak KWYZ, Everett by day (once heard KWG, Stockton, CA through the nighttime soup. Probably my farthest EVER nighttime GY DX)
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Didn't you get KYPA that one time? I remember you posting that somewhere here.

-crainbebo
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You're right. I forgot about that
 
In all my years of DX, KYPA has NEVER popped up, even in severe Aurora. Must be KWYZ's fault...

-crainbebo
 
A midday spin of the GE Superadio II here in NEPA will bring in WKBO Harrisburg (Christian Contemporary and the loudest), or WBPZ Lock Haven (second in signal), or WEEX Easton (weakest).
1230 is the GY channel with the weakest signals here, though.

WEEX, incidentally, used to put a wonderful signal the other way, well into northern NJ and metro NYC outreaches, back in their Country days -- much better than fellow Easton GYer WEST on 1400. I haven't been in that part of NJ for quite a while ; maybe someone from there can say if that's still the case. It was one of the loudest stations on a crowded dial.

I haven't actually done much nighttime DXing here. But a check of the Sixties logbook from western Long Island shows that at one point I had logged all the Pennsylvania stations on the frequency. Those all would have been nighttime catches.

1230 would be a wonderful indicator for Auroral activity if there were a closer station to here. Our semi-local WPAM 1450 was such a pilot, but they're dark now. So it looks as though second choice WAZL Hazleton 1490, is 'it' now by default. In the olden daze, 1230 WFAS White Plains had been a terrific indicator of the Great Lights.
 
As long as I'm in Lake County Indiana, or northwestern Porter County in Indiana, or near the Illinois/Indiana line, I get WJOB Hammond, IN both day & night. Once in Chicago, it slowly gets hammered by 1240 WSBC in Chicago. At night, it's graveyard slop if not within WJOB's Grade A coverage area.
 
Warminster PA(Philadelphia area):

Daytime: semi-local WEEX from Easton PA("ESPN Radio 1230")
Night: who knows? Possibly WEEX or WCMC from Wildwood NJ
 
Western Washington state:

Night time catches on 1230 have been KWYZ, Everett, WA; KRDR, Gresham, OR (now has different calls); KJSK, Talent, OR and CJNL, Merritt, BC. Haven't seriously monitored the frequency lately, but when I have tuned it I mostly hear KWYZ and a bunch of other sigs mixing in with it.
 
Where I live in southern Pittsburgh, nothing. It gets blown away by the IBOC from WDZZ 1250.

Drive a bit north or west and you can begin to hear WBVP, Beaver Falls, PA.
 
We have a local WDBZ on 1230.

Although at night it hardly makes it to my location, I've never heard anything else on the frequency.
 
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