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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 920 kHz

cyberdad said:
Wow! Hard to believe it's been CKCY has been off, but I''m sure that's accurate. In WOKY's top-40 heyday, CKCY was the most frequent pest here in the far northwest Chicago suburban area.

In college in the late 1960s in southeast Iowa, I used to regularly try for WOKY....which I did snag a few times. But mostly CKCY owned the channel. My best luck with WOKY came early Monday mornings when CKCY was usually off.
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I used to hear stations out that way when locals would sign off. If you got into a WFDF null, you could hear WOKY within five miles of WFDF in the daytime on a Delco car radio. When WKMF went off on Monday morning, I would hear KSO 1460 from Des Moines, and when WWJ went off I would hear KLIK in Jefferson City on 950. Oddly enough, the owner of KLIK lived just a few miles away in Michigan and I once related that story to him. I would actually listen to the end of American Top 40 on KLIK.
 
"For the record" housekeeping....

I meant to say "hard to believe it's been 20 years since CKCY has been off"

Along the lines of Schoedinger's Cat's last post, I used to look forward to Midnight Sunday nights "back in the day" when WKBW and WCKY would go off and "open the door" for a couple of hours of KOMA top 40 here in the Chicago area.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Was CKCY heard in the distant past? Or are you thinking of CKNX? CKCY went off in 1992. Along with WMMN, it was somewhat a regular. CKCY went off at about the same time as CFYN 1050. They made a deal that both would turn off their AMs. Now that they could have FM translators, I wonder if they are questioning their decision.
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Yes that was long, long ago...CKCY was a frequent visitor as I recall in the NW suburbs of Chicago...in the 70's and 80's, that is! ...I should be indicating on my posts the stations that no longer exist...what I'm usually listing is what I've ever received (historically) on a particular frequency of the week ...sorry, I don't want anyone looking for stations that are no longer on the air!
 
cyberdad said:
"For the record" housekeeping....

I meant to say "hard to believe it's been 20 years since CKCY has been off"

Along the lines of Schoedinger's Cat's last post, I used to look forward to Midnight Sunday nights "back in the day" when WKBW and WCKY would go off and "open the door" for a couple of hours of KOMA top 40 here in the Chicago area.
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For me in the Chicago area I used to get KOMA better than WKBW which was usually the weaker one.
I used to enjoy those early Monday mornings when WMAQ signed off and I could hear KNBR well without the splatter.
 
radioman148 said:
For me in the Chicago area I used to get KOMA better than WKBW which was usually the weaker one.
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Yeah, where I was (Wauconda), WKBW was the weaker of the two. Usually in the background but strong enough to be a pest...along with splatter from WLAC and WCKY. But after midnight Sunday, KOMA became a very easy listen.

For that matter, so was WOKY! :)
 
Sorry to bring on an old topic, but here in the Greater Buenos Aires I get Radio Nacional de Paraguay (100kw from Asunción) daily at night, sometimes with good quality, but with strong QRM from adyacent Radio La Red from Buenos Aires on 910. When I was a few days in Santa Fe, the signal was even clearer since La Red was much weaker and couldn't jam it.
 
Eduardo....

No need for apology. I think I speak for all the regulars on the DX board when I say updates to older threads are always welcome....as is participation from members outside North America. Welcome to the conversation and feel free to participate and contribute as much as you like. :)
 
In Houston, it's KYST with a variety of Hispanic programming. 5KW day and 1KW night DA-2. Actually, the coverage was better when it was a 1KW daytimer as KTLW. (KTLW was the 1st radio station where I worked on the air in 1972.)

During that time, KARK (which is now KARN) came in very good after we signed off at local Little Rock sunset. KTLW always signed off 15 minutes earlier than the Houston daytimers.

Today, as KYST, the signal is good in the daytime, however, the night time has a lot of interference, depending you are located in Houston. On Houston's west side, I can null out KYST and receive 930 KLUP in San Antonio right before sunset. At sunset, KLUP goes directional with 1KW and, of course, disappears.
 
From east central Iowa: That frequency is kind of a struggle since I'm right next to WSUI Iowa City on 910, a 5,000 watt signal from 20 miles from me. But CFRY Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, is a regular at night time. I've also heard KDHL Fairbault, MN, on occasion but not recently. I don't think I've ever heard KYFR, from Shenandoah, IA or WOKY Milwaukee, since their signals are primarily directed elsewhere at night.
 
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