10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 1500 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you get on 1500 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH, 1500 is a fuzzy WLQV/Detroit, MI with a religious format and a signal that is nulled towards the south. At night it's a jumble of stations including WLQV

 

[pianoplayer88key]

~ 1.5 mi S of El Cajon, CA
using various radios & antennas, best of which would be something like Tecsun PL-398mp, GE Superradio III, Select-A-Tenna, utility pole groundwire, metal fence

Day: pretty much nada. I've seen a TIS listed for Qualcomm Stadium (about 8 mi W of me) on 1500, but can't hear them. (I think I've heard their carrier with no modulation some time ago, but don't recall recently hearing it.)

Night: often KSJX San Jose, with KSTP St. Paul making frequent appearances. Both very weak. I think 1500 is probably the "quietest" (weakest average signal) frequency (of those that have stations in North America) on the dial here after 1610 and 530.

 

[N4GBK]

NE NC car radio. 1500 WFED Washington, DC is heard when it is quiet. Regular day in winter. Sometimes in summer. Nothing else heard on 1500.

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

WFED in DC day and night. At this location, I have never gotten anything else.

 

[tomservo]

There's nothing that stands out at night, and by day this is also completely dead. But I think once or twice around sunset I've logged WQMS Quitman, MS, right before signoff.

 

[jd]

In East Texas near Tyler during the day it's a very weak KJIM from Sherman, about 65 miles north of Dallas. At night it's a mix of KSTP and XEDF Mexico City, neither of which are exceptional signals.

 

[dave73]

During the daytime, I get daytimer WAKE Valparaiso, IN. At night, it's splatter in most of Lake County Indiana, due to WAKE broadcasting at 25 watts at night. I used to get KSTP St Paul, MN at night when WAKE signed off. Not now with WAKE being allowed to broadcast at night on a signal that only goes 5 miles outside of the Valparaiso city limits, & at least into most of Lake County Indiana, you hear KSTP & WAKE fighting for dominance.

 

[crainbebo]

Bellevue, WA

Day-nothing
Night-usually a weak KSTP St. Paul, MN [1400 mi E]. Sometimes nip & tuck with KSJX San Jose, CA [700 mi S]. Frequency is very quiet at night.

-crainbebo

 

[foreverchanges1975]

Memphis, TN

days and nights. NOTHING.

 

[cyberdad]

Far Northwest Suburban Chicago....

Day: WPJX, Zion, IL. Weak

Night: A weak KSTP, if anything. I've heard Washington a couple of times....as WTOP previously and now WFED. 1500 is also relatively quiet around here at night.

 

[BigDave]

Nothing during the day,a mess a night with sometimes 1500 WFED out of Washington DC coming in :

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Nothing during the day,a mess a night with sometimes 1500 WFED out of Washington DC coming in :

Do you ever get a harmonic from WSB? Around Cincinnati, WLW can be heard on 1400.

 

[rfry]

>Around Cincinnati, WLW can be heard on 1400.

This could result from one or both of these issues:

• Front-end overload in the receiver, which receiver generates WLW harmonics internally.
  
• Rectification, harmonic generation, and re-radiation of the WLW signal on those frequencies by poorly bonded electrical conductors near the receiver.
  
  
  
  

 

[BigDave]

Nothing during the day,a mess a night with sometimes 1500 WFED out of Washington DC coming in :

Do you ever get a harmonic from WSB? Around Cincinnati, WLW can be heard on 1400.

I've never gotten that

 

[boombox]

Western WA state.

Nothing during the day, and at night KSTP sometimes comes in at varying strengths through the KGA-1510 splash. KSJX will sometimes appear later on.

Any other station on that frequency has been rare.

 

[Bongwater]

1500 used to be CKAY Duncan, BC before switching to FM (CJSU 89.7) In spite of being way up on the coast of Vancouver Island, they used to put a pretty good signal into Puget Sound.

With NOTHING anywhere on 1500 for a 1000+ miles, KSTP is a fairly easy catch in Puget Sound at night (albeit usually a weak one.)

 

[cyberdad]

On my just-concluded road trip, I had KSTP nightly in Banff, Vancouver, Victoria, and Portland. Generally weak, but stronger in Banff. 1500 turned into the "mystery channel" with non-sports English language talk fading in and out in Nor-Cal (Santa Rosa), then Spanish in the Southern California desert later in the week.