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1100-1300: What does your AM band look like in the daytime?

From New Britain, CT, 10 miles southwest of downtown Hartford:

1100- nothing
1110- nothing
1120- WPRX-AM Bristol/New Britain (weak)
1130- WBBR-AM New York City (weak)
1140- nothing
1150- WMRD-AM Middletown (decent)
1160- nothing
1170- WCTF-AM Vernon (weak)
1180- nothing [maybe NYC or Long Island at times?]
1190- nothing
1200- nothing
1210- nothing
1220- WQUN-AM Hamden (weak)
1230- WNEZ-AM Manchester (weak)
1240- WWCO-AM Waterbury (decent)
1250- WARE-AM Ware, MA (weak and directional)
1260- nothing
1270- WSPR-AM Springfield, MA (weak)
1280- nothing
1290- WTMI-AM West Hartford (weak with only a 490 watt signal to work with)
1300- WAVZ-AM New Haven (weak)
 
No WLIB or WADO in New Britain? Or do you only pick them up at night?

-crainbebo
 
KML-224 said:
From New Britain, CT, 10 miles southwest of downtown Hartford:

1100- nothing
1110- nothing
1120- WPRX-AM Bristol/New Britain (weak)
1130- WBBR-AM New York City (weak)
1140- nothing
1150- WMRD-AM Middletown (decent)
1160- nothing
1170- WCTF-AM Vernon (weak)
1180- nothing [maybe NYC or Long Island at times?]
1190- nothing
1200- nothing
1210- nothing
1220- WQUN-AM Hamden (weak)
1230- WNEZ-AM Manchester (weak)
1240- WWCO-AM Waterbury (decent)
1250- WARE-AM Ware, MA (weak and directional)
1260- nothing
1270- WSPR-AM Springfield, MA (weak)
1280- nothing
1290- WTMI-AM West Hartford (weak with only a 490 watt signal to work with)
1300- WAVZ-AM New Haven (weak)
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I'm surprised you don't get 1210 WPHT from Philly.
 
KR4BD said:
From Lexington KY....

Radios used:

1 - Bose car radio
2 - ICOM IC-746 Ham Transceiver with "lotsa wire antenna"

1100 - Usually Nothing, but WTAM Cleveland has been heard very weakly
1110 - WCBR Richmond, KY strong
1120 - Usually nothing but KMOX St. Louis has been heard very weak
1130 - WYXE Gallatin, TN very weak
1140 - usually nothing, but WRLV Salyersville, KY has been heard
1150 - WMST Mt. Sterling, KY very strong
1160 - WDJO Florence, KY very weak
1170 - WDFB Junction City, KY fairly strong
1180 - WVLX Knoxville, TN mixing with local WVLK-590 HARMONIC
1190 - WOWO Ft. Wayne, IN fair
1200 - usually nothing
1210 - WDAO Dayton, OH mixing with WSBI Static, TN
1220 - WSLM Salem, IN fair
1230 - WHIR Danville, IN strong
1240 - WFTM Maysville, KY mixing with WLLV Louisville, KY under WVKY slop
1250 - WVKY Nicholasville, KY strong
1260 - WNXT Portsmouth, OH under WVKY slop
1270 - WXGO Madison, IN weak
1280 - WKYY Lancaster, KY medium
1290 - Usually Nothing but WHIO Dayton, OH has been heard under WLXG slop
1300 - WLXG Lexington, KY LOCAL
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WHIR is in Danville, KY.
 
From Eden, NC...40 miles north of Greensboro:

1100 - static
1110 - WBT Charlotte NC - weak but consistently there
1120 - intermod products
1130 - WCLW Eden NC - Local actually programmed out of a church in Reidsville
1140 - intermod products
1150 - WBAG Burlington NC - weak to moderate signal
1160 - WODY Fieldale VA - weak despite 5000 watts
1170 - WWVA Wheeling WV - Winter mornings and afternoons
1180 - static
1190 - static
1200 - WSML Graham NC - strong signal, simulcasts 600 WSJS Winston-Salem
1210 - intermod products
1220 - WREV Reidsville NC - strong signal, slightly overmodulated, Spanish
1230 - WMFR High Point NC - occasionally weak under WREV's intermod products
1240 - intermod products
1250 - WDVA Danville VA - weak, distorted signal despite 5000 watts
1260 - intermod products
1270 - WHEO Stuart VA - weak but audible most days
1280 - static
1290 - static
1300 - WSYD Mt. Airy NC - weak but audible
 
From James Island, SC, just outside of Charleston

1100 - WCGA Woodbine, GA (now silent), so nothing now
1110 - WBT (varies during winter, comes in well early mornings and late afternoons)
1120 - Nothing usually
1130 - WFXH Hilton Head Island, SC (moderate signal on the coast, New York interferes late afternoons)
1140 - Nothing
1150 - WNDB Daytona Beach (weak usually, but comes in stronger near beach)
1160 - WEWC Callahan, FL (comes in on the beach, good car radios)
1170 - Sometimes, a very weak WQVA Lexington, SC
1180 - Nothing usually, sometimes, a very weak Cuba
1190 - WWIO Saint Mary's GA, Georgia Public Radio (weak, but used to be stronger)
1200 - WMIR Atlantic Beach, SC (very weak signal, heard better by beach, early mornings)
1210 - Nothing (WPHT can come in very faintly on coldest winter days)
1220 - WJAX Jacksonville (one of the weakest Jax AM's here, but can come in stronger by beach)
1230 - Mix of WSOK Savannah and WSBB New Smyrna Beach, FL (on good radios, bad ones catch WTMA intermod)
1240 - WTMA intermod
1250 - WTMA (local news-talk, strongest AM in Charleston)
1260 - Very rarely, a weak WHYM Lake City
1270 - WHGS Hampton, SC (below-average signal, 10kw doesn't do much here, can be heard better S and W of town)
1280 - Nothing
1290 - WTKS Savannah (a strong signal on the coast, any walkman can pick it up)
1300 - Cocoa Beach usually (weaker signal)
 
Somerville, MA just north of Boston

1100 - splash from local WILD, Boston 1090
1110 - very faint oscillation may be WCCM Salem NH (nulled this way), WPMZ E. Providence, RI
1120 - WBNW Concord, MA
1130 - a faint trace at best of WBBR NYC - stronger near dawn/dusk
1140 - splash from local WWDJ, Boston
1150 - WWDJ, Boston
1160 - splash from local WWDJ, Boston
1170 - faint oscillating mix WFPB Orleans MA (Cape Cod), WDIS Norfolk MA
1180 - nothing - WHAM Rochester, NY weak near dawn/dusk
1190 - splash from local WKOX Newton, MA
1200 - WKOX Newton, MA
1210 - splash from local WKOX Newton MA, WPHT Philly behind near dawn/dusk
1220 - very faint oscillation may be WPHX Sanford ME, WSTL Providence, RI
1230 - WESX Nahant, MA
1240 - WOON Woonsocket, RI (very weak)
1250 - WMKI IBOC - used to be weak WKBR (now WGAM) Manchester, NH
1260 - WMKI, Boston
1270 - WMKI IBOC
1280 - WEIM Fitchburg, MA (weak)
1290 - WRNI Providence, RI (weak)
1300 - WJDA Quincy, MA
 
Bull Shoals Lake area, just south of Ark/Mo border...

Home listening impossible, due to two big power lines within 50 feet of my house. And not much doing 1100-1300 during daytime on the stock radio in my '93 Chevvy Beretta. (I've already listed on another post, all the Band-X goodies I've gotten as early as the lunch hour, in both clear and cloudy weather.) But this past Saturday, driving from the lake toward HarrisonAR betwen 11:45 and 12:15, during a period of intermittent heavy thunderstorms, I happened onto 1200 WOAI/San Antonio. Sig was initially very strong (only reason I even noticed it, having volume way down because of annoying QRN), then gradually faded down into the static level. Only time I've noticed any mid-dial DX here at all.
 
From Cedar Rapids, IA:

1100 nothing
1110 KFAB Omaha occasionally, weak
1120 nothing usually, KMOX St. Louis around sunrise/sunset
1130 KILJ Mt. Pleasant, IA (weak)
1140 WJNZ Grand Rapids, MI rarely
1150 KWKY Des Moines
1160 WYLL Chicago occasionally
1170 nothing -- used to hear KJOC Davenport, IA (long story)
1180 nada
1190 ditto
1200 "
1210 nothing
1220 KQMG Independence, IA
1230 lovely mix of WFXN Moline, IL and KFJB Marshalltown, IA
1240 KBIZ Ottumwa, IA
1250 nothing -- or KDNZ Cedar Falls, IA faintly
1260 nothing
1270 WKBF Rock Island, IL
1280 KCOB Newton, IA
1290 nothing
1300 KGLO Mason City, IA faintly
 
charlestondxman said:
From James Island, SC, just outside of Charleston

1100 - WCGA Woodbine, GA (now silent), so nothing now
1110 - WBT (varies during winter, comes in well early mornings and late afternoons)
1120 - Nothing usually
1130 - WFXH Hilton Head Island, SC (moderate signal on the coast, New York interferes late afternoons)
1140 - Nothing
1150 - WNDB Daytona Beach (weak usually, but comes in stronger near beach)
1160 - WEWC Callahan, FL (comes in on the beach, good car radios)
1170 - Sometimes, a very weak WQVA Lexington, SC
1180 - Nothing usually, sometimes, a very weak Cuba
1190 - WWIO Saint Mary's GA, Georgia Public Radio (weak, but used to be stronger)
1200 - WMIR Atlantic Beach, SC (very weak signal, heard better by beach, early mornings)
1210 - Nothing (WPHT can come in very faintly on coldest winter days)
1220 - WJAX Jacksonville (one of the weakest Jax AM's here, but can come in stronger by beach)
1230 - Mix of WSOK Savannah and WSBB New Smyrna Beach, FL (on good radios, bad ones catch WTMA intermod)
1240 - WTMA intermod
1250 - WTMA (local news-talk, strongest AM in Charleston)
1260 - Very rarely, a weak WHYM Lake City
1270 - WHGS Hampton, SC (below-average signal, 10kw doesn't do much here, can be heard better S and W of town)
1280 - Nothing
1290 - WTKS Savannah (a strong signal on the coast, any walkman can pick it up)
1300 - Cocoa Beach usually (weaker signal)
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I was in South Carolina for a vacation this past week, I was in the Isle of Palms and for some reason with my grundig 350 I had trouble picking up AM stations in the hotel room, even if I was by the window with the fan off. I did pick up WCBS, WFAN, WOR, WABC, WINS and a lot of NorthEast Am's at night, but the FM's were coming in real good! I recieved WJRR in Orlando Fl and other stations ranging from Myrtle Beach to Orlando
 
From Poughkeepsie, NY, about 70 miles North of New York City.

1100 - WHLI Hempstead, LI, NY.
1110 - WTBQ Warwick, NY o/ WUPE Pittsfield, MA.
1120 - WPRX Bristol, CT (Spanish)
1130 - WBBR New York City
1140 - --nothing--
1150 - WMRD Middletown, CT
1160 - WABY Mechanicville, NY o/ WVNJ Oakland, NJ
1170 - WWLE Cornwall, NY
1180 - Weak mix of WHAM and unID, both might have been early afternoon skywave (2:30pm)
1190 - WLIB New York City
1200 - WKOX Framingham, MA (very weak Spanish, I think it's WKOX)
1210 - WPHT Philadelphia, PA (quite weak)
1220 - WGNY Newburgh, NY
1230 - WFAS White Plains, NY o/ WHUC Hudson, NY
1240 - WWCO Waterbury, Ct o/jumble
1250 - WMTR Morristown, NJ
1260 - WBNR Beacon, NY
1270 - WDLA Walton, NY
1280 - WADO New York City (Spanish)
1290 - WNBF Binghamton, NY (quite weak)
1300 - WRCR Spring Valley, NY o/WGDJ Rensselaer, NY

All were on Radio Shack "TRF" AM portable radio, except 1150 & 1160 which were on car radio in driveway, as I have terrible electronic noise in the house 1140 - 1160. Also 1180 and 1200 were a bit better in the car, away from the noise.

No real local in this part of the dial... WGNY-1220 and WBNR-1260 are the besrt signals, but still only around 2 mv/m in this area (not city grade).

About the only AM station I listen to regularly is WBBR-1130, and while they're clear during the day, and quite good at night, they really get clobbered by WDFN-1130 Detroit during drive-time in the winter, when WDFN is on day pattern. Is WDFN a pest anywhere else?
 
At my QTH Northwest of Chicago, WDFN sometimes mixes with semi-local WISN when both are on daytime patterns near sunrise or sunset. Bigger pest for WISN here during those times of day is KWKH. At night, all of these are pretty much absent. Even though I'm only about 35 miles from WISN's stick, they go to a really severe 10kw nighttime pattern. WDFN is nowhere to be found, and KWKH's signal is paltry at best.
 
From Grenada, Mississippi. This is with a VW stock radio, underground power lines and engine off.

1110 - WKRA - Holly Springs, MS (cloudy days only)
1120 - WTWZ - Clinton/Jackson, MS (cloudy days only)
1140 - WSAO - Senatobia, MS (cloudy days only)
1180 - WJNT - Pearl/Jackson, MS (weak)
1240 - WGRM - Greenwood, MS (weak)
1260 - WGVM - Greenville, MS (cloudy days only)
1290 - WJBI - Batesville, MS (v. weak)

Riding around town - fuggitaboutit.
 
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