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1410 kHz : Your Want Lists for this frequency

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Back in the JFK Airport days of DXing, 1410 was a wonderful regional channel. It was sufficiently 'in between enough' two NYC regionals themselves -- WBNX 1380 and WNJR 1430 -- that a few of us on the stoops in Queens (guys and gals) could get WPOP Hartford and its Joey Reynolds on transistors.

Here now in NE Pennsylvania, with the DX 'totals' log having been set back to 000, my desired daytime catch is WHTG Eatontown, from the Jersey Shore. That appears to be a SRS or SSS catch. The loud semi-local WLSH nearby me, WLSH Lansford, a strict daytimer, can be nulled or nibbled away at times.

Nighttime I'd donate my left channel to hear KQV Pittsburgh. Of the mighty three nighttimers back near JFK, they were the toughest to hear. KQV sent it all southwest in those days. WING Dayton and WPOP both had to be off the air.

So : what spring-planting venture would you folks want to seed on 1410, day or night, to add to your official 'heard' lists?
 
Here in the near north Chicago area I always wanted to hear WPOP, but never did. WING came in a few times at night. During the day it was all WRMN.
 
Biggest one right now is KERI Bakersfield, got away many times and never IDed. And then there's a pair of 500 watt daytime stations in Lompoc and Carmel - KTNK and KRML.
Right now (1 in the morning) it's just CFTE and KMYC echoing away with Coast, and a third station buried under.
 
crainbebo said:
Biggest one right now is KERI Bakersfield, got away many times and never IDed. And then there's a pair of 500 watt daytime stations in Lompoc and Carmel - KTNK and KRML.
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When KERI was KERN and it was 60 years ago,, KERN was a bellwether for good West Coast reception from the eastern and northeastern US.

If it was detected after the rest of the 1410 stations to the East went off on Monday morning, it meant that some of the harder catches... lower power and directional, might be there to catch.

Another one that indicated good reception to the area was KPRO in Riverside. Once after hearing both KERN and KPRO, from Cleveland, OH, I caught a test from KHSJ, a 500 watter on 1320 in Hemet and the sign-off of KWOW 1600 in Pomona!

On another similar occasion, I got the great Top 40 format on KDES in Palm Springs... a station that I can barely hear in the daytime today even though I live in the market!
 
Speaking of KRML, here's an esoteric DXer question. Didn't Clint Eastwood work the Night DJ Shift at KRML in "Play Misty For Me"? I didn't realize it was a Daytimer, at least at the time of the movie, and now except as a PSSA and translator.
 
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WING and KQV would come in together, sometimes adding in WPOP, in the midwest back in the day. In East Tennessee, former local WING can be heard almost every sunrise/sunset and night (even caught it in Nashville at 2pm Central during a day of winter daytime skip), and WHLN, Harlan KY is regular. Most wanted: The new KQV running whatever antenna i's running. I did catcj it on the Central Indiana SDR, but not locally as of yet.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Another one that indicated good reception to the area was KPRO in Riverside. Once after hearing both KERN and KPRO, from Cleveland, OH, I caught a test from KHSJ, a 500 watter on 1320 in Hemet and the sign-off of KWOW 1600 in Pomona!

On another similar occasion, I got the great Top 40 format on KDES in Palm Springs... a station that I can barely hear in the daytime today even though I live in the market!
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KWOW was a very good oldies station in the late 70s and early 80s. I would hear it when I visited Southern California. Never caught it in the midwest.
In the Coachella valley you had to have a really good radio to hear KDES at night east of Palm Desert. They had/have a big null to the east/southeast. If you caught it in Cleveland that was really a great catch!
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Speaking of KRML, here's an esoteric DXer question. Didn't Clint Eastwood work the Night DJ Shift at KRML in "Play Misty For Me"? I didn't realize it was a Daytimer, at least at the time of the movie, and now except as a PSSA and translator.
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Yes that was the calls of the station Clint Eastwood was on in the movie.
 
I spent years trying for CFUN off and on. Mostly on Moday mornings. No success. Especially when semi-local WRMN stayed on past midnight.

My "consolation prize" was sometimes WKBH (now WIZM) from La Crosse, WI. 5kw with a night pattern that didn't favor me. WING was (and still is) the most common skywave signal.
 
My biggest wants are the two Texans I've yet to log: KHCH in Huntsville at 200 miles and KCUL in Marshall at 330 miles, both NE of here. The former (250/87 watts) airs Asian and Spanish Christian talk/music and the latter (500/90 watts) supposedly airs nostalgia programming.
 
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