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10 kHz MW Frequency of the Week - 1020 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on AM 1020?

For me from Vermilion, OH, it's KDKA/Pittsburgh with a weak signal during the day and at night, KDKA gets clobbered by WBZ's IBLOCK. This makes it the closest 50 kW clear that I can barely get.
 
Northern VA,

Days, it's currently a trace of KDKA, in the summertime, nothing is heard.

Nights, it's KDKA combined with the dumb IBOC noise from WBZ.
 
1020 during the day is absolutely dead in Baldwin County, Alabama, with the nearest station over 400 miles away.

At night it's always KDKA Pittsburgh, but with some Spanish language programming floating in the background. Dunno where it comes from. Sounds more commercial than Cuba, so maybe Mexico or WURN from Miami? It's far too weak to ID under KDKA.
 
being 15 miles from WBZ's towers doesnt help me. However I can null the noise enough with one of my receivers to hear KDKA fairly regularly.
 
The log shows KDKA one night, WKZE in CT in March 1993, and Turks & Caicos in May 1995

(Log also shows Turks & Caicos on 1025 from April 1996. Are they still there, anyone?)
 
I'm also hearing something Spanish underneath KDKA at night. I was thinking WOQI in Puerto Rico, with 280 W nighttime, I don't think it would reach VA at night, and WURN Miami is listed as Spanish talk and I was hearing music in Spanish instead. So that remains a mystery.
 
ddsparxx said:
I'm also hearing something Spanish underneath KDKA at night. I was thinking WOQI in Puerto Rico, with 280 W nighttime, I don't think it would reach VA at night, and WURN Miami is listed as Spanish talk and I was hearing music in Spanish instead. So that remains a mystery.
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I wonder if that was Radio Continente from Venezuela. Here's a clip of their signal from a DXer in Scotland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ERR9GlQ0QE&fmt=18
 
radioman148 said:
Near north Chicago suburbs: Day: a weak WPEO. At night all KDKA.
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Until a local 1030 came on with towers visible from the 2nd floor of my house, it was the same here about 25 miles west of you. WPEO (Peoria) very weak, but almost always there. KDKA still rules at night after the local goes off.
 
In Boise, ID

In Boise, ID

Someone’s around -200hz off 102 in the west.
KCKN Roswell NM

KTNQ Los Angeles

KWIQ Moses Lake WA 2 kw DA-Day 0.44 kw ND-Night
[These two are only 66 miles apart running DA-Day protecting each other ]
KDYK Union Gap WA 4 kw DA-Day 0.40 kw ND-Night

KDKA was heard here in Feb this year.
 
Located in W. WA.

Usually at night it's a mix of KWIQ and KDYK. Also have heard KCKN Roswell NM, when conditions to the south are in. I have KTNQ Los Angeles on the log, haven't heard it lately.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What do you all get on AM 1020?

For me from Vermilion, OH, it's KDKA/Pittsburgh with a weak signal during the day and at night, KDKA gets clobbered by WBZ's IBLOCK. This makes it the closest 50 kW clear that I can barely get.
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If you can get it in Vermillion you're doing good.
I can barely receive it near Somerset, PA, barely 60 miles from their stick.
 
1020 in Memphis is oblitarated by splatter from 1030 WGSF. I have heard KDKA sneak in on ocassion.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Buckeyes2001 said:
What do you all get on AM 1020?

For me from Vermilion, OH, it's KDKA/Pittsburgh with a weak signal during the day and at night, KDKA gets clobbered by WBZ's IBLOCK. This makes it the closest 50 kW clear that I can barely get.
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If you can get it in Vermillion you're doing good.
I can barely receive it near Somerset, PA, barely 60 miles from their stick.
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At night or daytime? KDKA rarely is loud around Columbus, even at night. When KDKA has a chance to boom in here, it's usually being clobbered by WBZ's IBOC.
A few weeks ago when I was on assignment in Canton, KDKA was surprisingly loud.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Buckeyes2001 said:
What do you all get on AM 1020?

For me from Vermilion, OH, it's KDKA/Pittsburgh with a weak signal during the day and at night, KDKA gets clobbered by WBZ's IBLOCK. This makes it the closest 50 kW clear that I can barely get.
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If you can get it in Vermillion you're doing good.
I can barely receive it near Somerset, PA, barely 60 miles from their stick.
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I think the Laurel Highlands may block KDKA in Somerset.
 
1020 in the daytime MAY have KDYK Union Gap, WA in the winter, but usually nothing.

Nights it's KDYK and KWIQ, and rarely KCKN-NM. One time I got CKVH-AB before they went FM.

-crainbebo
 
In Buenos Aires, and depending of the time of the day:
LT10 Radio Universidad Nacional del Litoral from Santa Fe and
Radio Ñandutí, from Asunción (Paraguay).
 
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