1110 - 1310: WHAT DOES YOUR AM BAND LOOK LIKE AT NIGHT?

[cyberdad]

My scan is pretty much identical to two years ago, with a couple of minor exceptions....

(Far northwest suburban Chicago)

1130: I wouldn't go so far as to call it a semi-regular, but CKWX now pops up here from time to time. Usually within an hour or two of dawn.

1220: CJRL (Kenora, ON) has "left the building" and gone to FM. Only 1kw ND at night and over 600 miles away, but they managed to cut through the slop on more than a few occasions. Kenora is in Far western Ontario....about 125 miles east of Winnipeg, IIRC.

Stormy....who's a few miles east of me....also reported hearing semi-local WKRS (Waukegan, IL). There here with a so-so daytime signal (and WLPO underneath), but I've never been able to pull them out of the mess at night. Usually nighttime 1220 around here is a dogfight, with WHKW is the most likely station to bubble to the top....and XEB identifiable every now and then.

 

[LKidd]

McPherson, KS

1110 - KFAB (also weak daytime signal)
1120 - KMOX
1130 - KWKH weak signal
1140 - blank
1150 - KSAL (in night NIF contour)
1160 - KSL
1170 - KFAQ (not as strong as in the KVOO days in my opinion)
1180 - usually blank, sometimes Omaha (In the old days WHAM if the skywave was good)
1190 - mess
1200 - WOAI
1210 - On occasion KGYN, but VERY rarely. (Have never heard Philadelphia)
1220 - mess
1230 - mess
1240 - mess
1250 - occasionally KC spanish station
1260 - mess
1270 - mess
1280 - mess
1290 - usually mess, sometimes KKAR
1300 - mess
1310 - mess

 

[crainbebo]

LKidd, how's the reception with West Coast stuff? Have you gotten KFI/KNX before, or any other West Coast stuff?

-crainbebo

 

[cyberdad]

LKidd, how's the reception with West Coast stuff? Have you gotten KFI/KNX before, or any other West Coast stuff?

-crainbebo

I'm curious about this one myself. At least as regards KNX. They tend to get into the plains states fairly easily, but there's a 1070 nearby in Wichita.

 

[radioman148]

LKidd, how's the reception with West Coast stuff? Have you gotten KFI/KNX before, or any other West Coast stuff?

-crainbebo

I'm curious about this one myself. At least as regards KNX. They tend to get into the plains states fairly easily, but there's a 1070 nearby in Wichita.

I believe the 1070 in Wichita has a tight north/south pattern at night. I've heard KNX many times in the Chicago area right before local sunrise sometimes with the Wichita station in there also. Don't know if they were on day pattern yet.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

From Coal Country Pennsy ..... We're between Hazleton and Pottsville.

GE Superadio II, no external antenna. Or flourescent lights. Tuned in a little after midnight.

1110 is WBT, dead-even with next door Cleveland
1120 KMOX solid, and what sounds Spanish underneath, steady but weak
1130 WBBR (which is better in the day) plus some conga music
1140 WRVA ton of brix
1150 Regional chaos ; some music underneath perhaps WDEL. Does anyone else here remember when 1150 was clear to the West Coast except for Mexico in the mid-60's ?!?!?
1160 Almost as bad as 1150. I've heard both PA stations and WVNJ New Jersey here at night. Nice knowing you, KSL.
1170 WWVA, with a bit of a grumble from what sounds like two stations from different bearings. One is English
1180 WHAM, getting stomped by loud Spanish. I don't think it's South America
1190 WLIB. Wow, WOWO used to be brix here.
1200 Sounds like a 1963 regional. Maybe six suspects, all of them talk.
1210 WPHT. Only time something else comes in is when I'm trying to listen to Mets-Phillies there
1220 Cleveland, even tho we're in a small null. A grumble of others
1230 'Love's Theme" ?!?!? Gotta be kidding me. UnID in the mess
1240 Modern Country atop 149 others. Might be Selinsgrove, on the Susqhueanna
1250 Sounds like the usual Disney kiddie-porn atop a few others. That's Pittsburgh.
1260 Two Fox News stations with a vast echo pause. One prevails: WWRC Washingto DC.
1270 Nothing on top. Daytime WLBR really pulls it in toward here at night
1280 WADO NYC. The sports screaming under is probably WFBS Berwick -- 20 miles away but 164 watts now
1290 CJBK Talk, nothing with them
1300 WJZ Sports, Baltimore. Loud gospel station under 'em. Might be Trenton NJ but I don't think so
1310 Canada news, on top a jumble of others, including a Spanish station.

 

[cyberdad]

I believe the 1070 in Wichita has a tight north/south pattern at night. I've heard KNX many times in the Chicago area right before local sunrise sometimes with the Wichita station in there also. Don't know if they were on day pattern yet.

Which would put LKidd in a main lobe....but only 1kw (I had been thinking 5kw).

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

In the less noisy zones of the Northern Lower Peninsula, there are some interesting situations on some frequencies.

1110 Groundwave QRP WJML with WBT skywave
1120 KMOX
1130 WDFN and WISN mainly
1140 WRVA
1160 WYLL
1170 WWVA
1180 WHAM
1190 WOWO
1200 WCHB
1210 WPHT
1220 WHKW
1250 WSSP WGL WDDZ WNEM
1270 WMKT Groundwave and WXYT
1290 WHIO and WIRL mainly
1300 WOOD WRDZ and WJMO mainly
1310 WCCW and WDTW mainly

 

[LKidd]

To answer questions...

As far as KFI, it was a regular catch here until the 640 at Norman, OK (a one time daytimer which went full time in the 80's) fired up. Still can catch it at night on occasion.

With 1070, the Wichita station (now KLIO, the long time KFDI-AM) runs 1kw on a north-south DA at night, with VERY tight nulls going east and west from the line of a 3-tower DA on the north edge of town. The lobes on pattern go slightly to the west of due north and slightly more than that east of due south. Where I live I can pick up 1070 from Wichita at night easily, but it's possible to rotate a radio in such a way that you can null out Wichita and pick up KNX. (McPherson's Main Street is 17 miles west of the north-south road that runs on the west side of what is now KLIO's transmitter site. FYI, i'm on the north edge of their city grade day signal at 10 kw, an example of what hot ground conductivity can do for you. (Their city grade day contour goes out a bit further than a that of a full blast C FM operating at maximum allowable facilities.)