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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 1360 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 1360 AM?

In Vermilion, OH this channel is blank during the daytime and at night it's a virtual graveyard. Tonight I can hear a gospel preacher on one station and another station carrying the Monday Night Football game. This is a frequency I plan on spending more time on.
 
1360 here in Seattle is full of KKMO Tacoma (El Rey SS).

At night I've logged KUIK Hillsboro, OR (News/Talk), KOHU Hermiston, OR (Classic C&W) and one time I had KPXQ near Phoenix with religious programs.

-crainbebo
 
This channel is a semi-local for us in southern Baldwin County, AL: WMOB from Mobile, across Mobile Bay. Well, actually it's almost IN Mobile Bay. WMOB has recently moved to the old WLVV AM site on the Mobile Bay Causeway and both towers are at sea level in the salt marshes at the edge of the bay. This has given them a really nice coverage area thanks to the salt water propagation. I am about 25 air miles from the TX site but hear it day (5 kW) and night now despite them running only 200 watts after dark.

For those interested, here's a Bing bird's eye view and street view of the tower site. You can see what a great AM site this facility is!

This station used to be a little further down the Causeway towards Mobile, but when Austal shipbuilders constructed a warehouse on the adjacent property, the workers assembling the building started getting shocks due to all the RF energy. So the old site had to suspend operations for a long time while the owner found a new facility. I have to wonder why they allowed a metal building to be built so close to a hot AM tower in the first place. Seems like it would take precedence since the tower'd been there since probably the 1940s.
 
In the northern suburbs of Chicago, the frequency is mostly a graveyard at night. However, at times I hear WBRN or, especially lately, WMOB. When WMOB is in, it is sometimes quite strong and in the clear.
 
audioguy said:
In the northern suburbs of Chicago, the frequency is mostly a graveyard at night. However, at times I hear WBRN or, especially lately, WMOB. When WMOB is in, it is sometimes quite strong and in the clear.
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I think you mean WKMI 1360, though I have heard WBRN 1460 in that area also. WKMI is frequently heard at night near Chicago.
 
Schroedinger--

You are correct; it was my mistake. I was actually thinking of WBRN and forgot that they're on 1460 not 1360.

I have only heard WKMI here once. From Kalamazoo I do hear WKZO 590 regularly, day and night, although not always clearly at night.
 
SW Ohio

At least from my home location, it is our local WSAI day & night. A nice free-standing, triangular, three tower array at the transmitter site.

Now broadcasting Fox Sports, but in the past one of America's great Top 40 stations. Huge ratings. Great disc jockeys.

For a brief time in the mid 60's, Dick Purtan worked at WSAI. He called himself Paul Purtan back then. A very funny man, and definitely one of my favorite radio personalities.
 
I wonder if the preacher heard in Vermilion, OH is Brother Stair via 1360 WNAH, Nashville? They have him on from 10PM to 6AM daily.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: WLBK De Kalb, IL. Fair-good.
Night: Mess...WTAQ (Green Bay) most likely to be on top, but that doesn't happen as often as it used to.
 
From NE NC car radio. 1360 days nothing heard. Sunrise/sunset WHBG Harrisonburg, VA and WCHL Chapel Hill, NC. Nights is WSAI Cincinnati, OH.
 
KKTX-Corpus Christi comes in pretty strong in the Rio Grande Valley, especially close to the coast,where the 1000 watter will stop the scan function in my truck from 140 miles away
 
Sometimes KUIK, but usually I have to be using the Selectatenna to hear it faintly. Mostly just a mess of about 27 different stations.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What can you get on 1360 AM?

In Vermilion, OH this channel is blank during the daytime and at night it's a virtual graveyard. Tonight I can hear a gospel preacher on one station and another station carrying the Monday Night Football game. This is a frequency I plan on spending more time on.
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No hint of WWOW from Conneaut? I guess that is a bit of a haul that high on the dial, and Conneaut is a ways northeast of you.
Drove back from visiting my girlfriend's family earlier today - she is from Conneaut originally - and heard a pretty decent signal into metro Cleveland, which pleasantly surprised me (wasn't expecting much, honestly).
 
WWOW also has a pretty decent day signal for about 30-40 miles on the other side of Lake Erie in southwest Ontario as well. A surprise as well....at least a mild one to me, anyway.
 
schmave said:
Buckeyes2001 said:
What can you get on 1360 AM?

In Vermilion, OH this channel is blank during the daytime and at night it's a virtual graveyard. Tonight I can hear a gospel preacher on one station and another station carrying the Monday Night Football game. This is a frequency I plan on spending more time on.
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No hint of WWOW from Conneaut? I guess that is a bit of a haul that high on the dial, and Conneaut is a ways northeast of you.
Drove back from visiting my girlfriend's family earlier today - she is from Conneaut originally - and heard a pretty decent signal into metro Cleveland, which pleasantly surprised me (wasn't expecting much, honestly).
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I have never positively ID'ed WWOW at least here in Vermilion. Going east into Lorain, WDLW on 1380 does wreck havoc with reception of anything on 1360 but I'll try tomorrow and see if I hear oldies on 1360.
 
Here in Coal Country (northeast Pennsylvania) it is WPPA Pottsville -- a ton of brix in the day.

They have five towers, as on a die. In the day they are mildly omni but with an east-west emphasis.
At night, they pull it ALL in towards Cincinnati and Hartford and send their main loop toward the south.

While living in their west null, I'd caught WDRC with them on, late at night. And maybe 15 years ago, Baltimore used to rip 'em up.

In the DAY, I somehow managed a wicked null on WPPA and heard Spanish programming.
 
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