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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 1460 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 1460 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a very weak WABQ/Painesville, OH with slight slop from WLEC 1450. At night its a mish mash of stations but I heard a gospel station from Marshall, NC around 9 PM eastern time
 
In Manassas, VA, I get a huge signal from WKDV, its towers a few miles away from me. Which is why I rather not have radios with single conversion. On such radios, I get the 550 image from this station.
 
In Bellevue, WA days it's local KARR Kirkland, WA with Family Radio.

Nights it's KARR mixed with KUTI/Yakima, WA, ESPN. One time I did get KCKX Stayton, OR with Mex. music, with only about 20w at 200 miles. That same night Oregon stations were coming in like they were down the street, pegging the signal strength meter on KPNW and KOAC.

Buckeyes: That 1460 is WHBK Marshall, NC with 5kw-D/139w-N.

-crainbebo
 
The main one here is WTKT Harrisburg PA, a sports station. In the day, WTKT is omni, and fifty miles off, and really should come in louder, I think. (Omni WHP 580 is in the same place and they are a monster here)

I've idly tried for the 1460 in Tunkhannock PA, and their oldies, the past few years. They're a shoehorn, located northwest of Scranton and beamed largely east. I haven't pulled them in here yet, although I did hear them one afternoon in nearby Hazleton. It's just a matter of time before I log them here the same way, as they // the programming on the affiliate 730 from Nanticoke.

But about a year ago, DXing while on a paint job in St. Clair PA, I did manage a wicked-arse late morning null of local 1450 WPAM -- you can see their tower from the roof of where I was -- and got WIFI 1460 from New Jersey.

These regional channels remain very compelling.
 
Monitored 1460 for a bit just now and heard several stations coming in at once, one of them was playing Paul Simon's "Slip Slidin' Away" at 6:45pm ET then later around 7pm heard Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's "Young Girl". (I'm guessing that was WBUC/Buckhannon, WV as I also heard an ad for something in WV) Heard another station briefly fade up which was a Catholic religious station (likely WHIC/Rochester, NY). Around 5:15pm I did hear WBNS/Columbus, OH with the Ohio State game.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Day: WJTI, West Allis WI, (Milwaukee suburb) weak. This is the former WRAC from Racine, which was also weak.

Night: Mess. "Back in the Day", the former KSO from Des Moines (now KXNO) was the regular around here. Still hear them on top once in a while, but only very rarely. I've also heard WBNS from Columbus, OH a few times. WKAM from Goshen, IN even more rarely.
 
WJCP North Vernon,IN in the day and a jumbled mess when it's dark 30 miles south of Indianapolis.
 
NE NC car radio. Days nothing. Sunrise/sunset WTKT Harrisburg, PA and WBNS Columbus, OH.
 
Here in Thornville, Ohio, all WBNS by day and a jumble at night. If anything it's an oldies station (guess the one from Pennsylvania mentioned earlier). WBNS is extremely effective at pulling in its signal to the east and west at night. I've never once heard it here after dark, about 25 miles east of its tower.
 
Maybe WKDV in Manassas, VA? (ddsparxx lives near the towers by the way)

-crainbebo
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Last night and tonight I can hear a station playing Spanish music on 1460 just above the slop from here in Vermilion, OH
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I think you heard WKDV...I once heard it in western NC at night last year or so.
 
WKDV is an odd one. I can't hear them approaching from the South on I-95 until I get to around Quantico, day or night. Go North and they sometimes can be heard until you get to near Baltimore, and other times, just barely past Alexandria. Passing to their West on US29 you can't hear them until you are almost at 28 going into Manassas.

I haven't looked at their maps, but the direction of their signal must be really sharply headed to the Northeast.

On a side note, I live not far Northwest of Richmond Va. I am also not far from Charlottesville. A couple months ago I was in Steubenville, OH and both 1140 WRVA and 1070 WINA were booming into there like I was next door, but at home both are nearly gone at night.
 
I'm not an expert on AM towers but I think the oddness of WKDV may be have to do with having 5 towers and the daytime coverage area. I noticed that the middle tower is the tallest. The Radio-locator site shows the station's daytime coverage shaped kind of like a Goldfish cracker, with the fish's mouth toward west-northwest direction.

When I was at the Outer Banks recently, I hardly heard WKDV day or night.
 
Crystal Lake, IL

Daytime: WJTI West Allis, WI
Sunset/Sunrise: KHOJ St. Charles, MO
WBOG Tomah, WI
WIXN Dixon, IL
Nighttime: KXNO Des Moines
WBNS Columbus, OH
WBRN Big Rapids, MI
WKAM Goshen, IN
 
ddsparxx said:
I'm not an expert on AM towers but I think the oddness of WKDV may be have to do with having 5 towers and the daytime coverage area. I noticed that the middle tower is the tallest. The Radio-locator site shows the station's daytime coverage shaped kind of like a Goldfish cracker, with the fish's mouth toward west-northwest direction.

When I was at the Outer Banks recently, I hardly heard WKDV day or night.
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I've driven by their towers many times over the last year, and always enjoyed the vinyl sided broadcast house........ ;D

That said, I know that site has been transmitting forever and if memory serves me correctly that was the old WPRW site. Not dead certain on that, but again, going strictly on memory. If that is the case, I'd be the ground system is as old as the hills and probably works as good as you'd expect for its age.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WIFI, Florence NJ(fair signal; formerly WJJZ in Mt. Holly NJ)
Night: mess of stations, including WBNS Columbus OH
 
nocomradio said:
ddsparxx said:
I'm not an expert on AM towers but I think the oddness of WKDV may be have to do with having 5 towers and the daytime coverage area. I noticed that the middle tower is the tallest. The Radio-locator site shows the station's daytime coverage shaped kind of like a Goldfish cracker, with the fish's mouth toward west-northwest direction.

When I was at the Outer Banks recently, I hardly heard WKDV day or night.
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I've driven by their towers many times over the last year, and always enjoyed the vinyl sided broadcast house........ ;D

That said, I know that site has been transmitting forever and if memory serves me correctly that was the old WPRW site. Not dead certain on that, but again, going strictly on memory. If that is the case, I'd be the ground system is as old as the hills and probably works as good as you'd expect for its age.
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I remembered WPRW...but I don't know if that building was its site. I did, however, remember that back in the early 90s WKDV programmed a kiddie format (W KiDs V according to Wikipedia) from something called Radio Aahs, before becoming Spanish. I was living in Fairfax Co. at that time. Between WPRW and the old WKDV I don't know what previous formats as I was attending college classes.
 
Albany, NY - Radio Disney affiliate WDDY, which has been running the format for 10 years as of 2012... prior to that it was WGNA-AM running a simulcast of 107.7 FM and before that, WOKO
 
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