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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 1610 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 1610 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is blank during the day except once in a while a trace of CHHA/Toronto which comes in stronger around sunset and into the night with a varying signal.
 
I cannot WAIT to hear the responses here! This is a great frequency!

In Bothell, WA days I would get a weak WPKL360 from Woodinville, WA which is a TIS. Bellevue, WA days it's the Naval Kitsap TIS from Bremerton. In Edmonds, WA it was a mix of Naval Kitsap and WPUJ642 from the Kingston, WA ferry terminal (across the water).

Nights is a different story. Most nights I get a very weak, but big jumble of stations. I have pulled WQBV569 Union Gap, WA out of the jumble at night (~120 miles) since I can recognize the computerized woman voice. Other times I get the NWR TIS from Pendleton, OR in the jumble with weak forecasts. One time I DID get the Caribbean Beacon in Anguilla with a very poor signal. It // 6090 (or in other terms, matched the 6.090 khz SW broadcast). Distance on that was 3800 miles!
I've also heard a tentative WPKV296 from Toppenish, WA on this frequency. It was weak, but I think I did hear "Toppenish" in the multi-station weak jumble one night.
At the Hampton Inn in Gresham, OR, the only thing I got on 1610 was WQCA312, a local TIS in Gresham, repeating NOAA Weather Radio.

-crainbebo
 
I heard the Caribbean Beacon on 1610 for the first time in 1981, and I was quite shocked at the time....I think I wrote them to ask if it was even legal! I believe they had more local-oriented programming, and not the satellite they have now.

In the day, it's either the Miami Int'l Airport station or the TIS in Sunrise FL. My workplace is very close to the MIA, so it's no problem.

About 20 years ago (before the Airport station moved to 1610), I caught the Anastasia S.R.A. (State Recreation Area) station....I had to look it up on a map! It's near St Augustine FL. That's about 300 miles :)

The Lord works that way!

cd
 
Wasn't there supposed to be a few X-Band stations on that frequency? I seem to remember seeing a listing for a station in Witchita Falls, TX but I'm not sure if it was ever on the air, or if it left. Anyone want to fill me in on that one? AFAIK I don't recall hearing any actual broadcast stations on that frequency except for the Carribean Beacon which was Bro. Gene Scott. the last time I heard it. and an occasional flea power travelers info station. I do recall several years ago hearing the Lake Pontchutrain Bridge tis from New Orleans 200 miles away, not sure of the frequency. And I the Dallas airport was on two frequencies that used to come in strong before the band filled up
 
Was Dallas' airport using 1610 at one time? If so I think I logged it but I don't remember the frequency, and the timeframe would have been about 10 years ago when I lived up in Birmingham. Down on the coast in Darwin's waiting room it's just a jumble and I don't think I've ever picked out anything specific.
 
1640 and 1680 for Dallas. 1680 is still on, 1640 long gone. 1640 was heard all over the country until more stations came on and ruined the reception.

-crainbebo
 
flytrap said:
Wasn't there supposed to be a few X-Band stations on that frequency? I seem to remember seeing a listing for a station in Witchita Falls, TX but I'm not sure if it was ever on the air, or if it left. Anyone want to fill me in on that one?
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Don't recall seeing anything a Wichita Falls allotment on 1610 but a Texas station did make the final cut: KALT Atlanta, near Texarkana. It's long gone, having operated only briefly (and apparently for a while with an expired license). The call letters were deleted in 2005.

I always found it interesting that only one station in the whole country was allotted for operation on 1610. A number of X-banders came and went and many were never built, as can be noted on this "revised" allotment plan from 1997:

http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Databases/documents_collection/da97-537.pdf
 
From NE NC days 1610 is Outer Banks weather heard when it is quiet. Sunrise sunset hear Spanish. Not able to ID. Sometimes it has an echo like there are two stations simulcasting. Car radio.
 
crainbebo said:
1640 and 1680 for Dallas. 1680 is still on, 1640 long gone. 1640 was heard all over the country until more stations came on and ruined the reception.

-crainbebo
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I heard both of those around 1996. Wish I recorded them. A now-deceased DXer in Hawaii's Big Island bagged them too!

cd
 
Here in East Texas there's nothing during the day on 1610. At night I've never been able to receive the Canadian stations, but I can usually hear a weak XEUACH "Radio Chapingo" from Texcoco (Estado de México). At 250 watts, it's not a bad catch at all.
 
jd said:
Here in East Texas there's nothing during the day on 1610. At night I've never been able to receive the Canadian stations, but I can usually hear a weak XEUACH "Radio Chapingo" from Texcoco (Estado de México). At 250 watts, it's not a bad catch at all.
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Do you happen to know if there are any more Mexican stations on 1610? This evening I was right on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama and heard Spanish language programming. Sounded like fairly contemporary music with adverts or PSAs between songs. I'd be shocked if it were a 250 watt station I was hearing.

It was the first time I can remember hear anything down here on this frequency, and it's paired with a mystery oldies station on 680 that I heard very clearly for about 10 minutes, but never got an ID of any kind on.
 
As to an X-bander on 1610, there was only KALT Atlanta TX about 10 years ago....long gone.

cd
 
In central Maryland;

Daytime: Local TIS station from Ft Detrick rebroadcasting NOAA Weather Radio.

Nighttime: Same, though if I can deeply null the TIS station a little bit of the foreign language stations from Canada. Never got a positive ID of which one.
 
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