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1490 -- Your Most Wanted Station

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Perhaps this week's desire (1490) might be your 'closest unheard', eh?

Here's mine: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WDLC&service=AM

WDLC / Port Jervis is in a hole. They have train tracks and two rivers and, naturally as such, are surrounded by mountains. Both my DX locales, here and retro, are off that map. I heard them *once* in Queens NYC. I've never heard them here in NE PA. Local semi-local 1490 WAZL is in the way during the day, and to null them is to null co-linear WDLC.

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I dated a gal from Brooklyn NYC who started her commercial radio career at WDLC. For all I know, with her driving up to Jervis for a weekend air shift, she may have ENDED her radio career there.

So, folks: What is your most-wanted 1490 station ? Present or past ?
 
I've logged plenty on 1490khz, but KLZN Susanville CA is probably my most-wanted. A Fox Sports station with 870 watts of power, the 1240 KSUE has been heard a gazillion times but 1490 has nary a peep. I've logged stations further down in California, like KOWL!
Second most-wanted, probably KBLF Red Bluff CA with their Adult Standards format.
 
For 1490, my "most wanted" was definitely WLCX. An excellent little top 40 station from La Crosse, WI. My girlfriend (now wife) went to school there.

La Crosse was/is a self-contained radio market with no strong outside signals, so WLCX was the only game in town for top 40. I never have heard WLCX...or its successors....here at home. But I did catch nearly a half hour of WLCX one night when I was in Minneapolis. Only a little more than 100 miles away, but definitely skywave. La Crosse is in an area of poor ground conductivity, and the lkw WLCX day signal was only audible for about 30 miles....if that.
 
Knoxville TN: 1490 and other graveyarders are going to be difficult to pick one "most wanted" from, but first, I'll go with "anything but local WITA". There are a few very close unheards, one only 2 hours away in Crossville, WCSV and another even closer, WFXY, Middlesboro, KY. Either would be doable if WITA kicked off the air one day. Otherwise, I'm DXing home, maybe WKBV, Richmond IN or WMRN, Marion, OH.
 
Here in Bremerton, WA, Spanish religious station 1490 KBRO "La Familia" blasts in from a park that's only 3-4 blocks from our house.... Used to have problems with our phone lines long ago, and it's only 1,000 watts....
 
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