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1560 Vigil For Northeast DXers

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

From an engineer on Allan Sniffen’s NYRMB, the huge 1560 in New York City might return to the air as early as Tuesday February 24th as Family Radio.
That should leave a few decent sunsets, sunrises and overnights to do some last-minute cramming, hi. And those in range of the massive present void might do well to try for a few of those tough 1550’s and 1570’s.

I have a few 1560’s logged the past two days (and need help with one).

2-20 Friday were WKDO Liberty KY and WFSP Kingwood WV, IDs around 7:00PM.
There was also a station called The Blaze, with Fox News, unID. Anyone here within range of The Blaze ?

2-21 Saturday at 6PM was the sign-off from WTNS Coshocton OH. The thing was, fifteen minutes later it was back! It faded up nicely from the pile, with a few of the old-time Country songs. I called them, and asked the girl who answered their 99.something FM if I had heard right. She said yes. Then she said, ‘They’re not supposed to be still on the air,’ and said she’d pass it along.
With the 6:00 ‘sign off’ of WTNS came another sign-off, with a YL’s voice. I have to play the tape back to see if I can ID a COL. My notes say ‘WSEV’, but there are WSBV from VA and WSEZ from Indiana.

1560 beckons, folks, for a few more days!
 
Blaze Radio Network is WFSP Kingwood, WV - they are an oldies station also on 107.7, but take The Blaze during the daytime (Glenn Beck's network).
The other 1560 has to be WSBV South Boston, VA. A few other DXers in the east have caught that one.

-crainbebo
 
So I decided to join the party late this afternoon, about a half hour before sunset. I snagged WNWN from Portage, MI, (Grand Rapids area) 4100 watts with a pattern mostly favorable in my direction. Signal was fair, but on top more often than not. I also think I had the Toledo 1560, but I couldn't positively ID. They run 920 watts ND during critical hours. I've heard Toledo before....but not recently. Grand Rapids was a first-time catch here. Probably because I've never tried for it. 4100 watts making a 160 mile hop to my location at sunset should be easy.

1560 has been a relatively empty frequency here since semi-local WSQR jumped to 1180. WPAD (formerly WDXR) from Paducah, KY used to be very reliable here at night, but you could usually null it and get WQEW with a "so-so" signal. More recently neither has been able to break through with any degree of regularity. I'll try to check out 1560 later tonight to see what might turn up.
 
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@ Crain -- thanks for the info! Just before, via today's SSS vigil, I heard mentions of Preston County for the WFSP reassurance, along with the gal signing off WSBV with the 'South Boston VA' COL.

Previous to that, there was a 'Proclaiming God's praise' ID, and what I heard as 'TSN'. Nothing pops up under that acronym. But after a glance at the Christian Satellite Network page, they list a 1560 in Ohio (WWYC). It's one of only four AM stations in the whole country, amid about 200 total.
Thing was, it was coming in at 4:42 local time here -- the first readable signal of the afternoon. The sun was still pretty high. I'll play back the tape and see if I can hear anything other 'ID-able', but until then I can't officially count it.

And go get em, Cyberdad! As I'd mentioned, this word of WQEW returning perhaps as early as Tuesday came from the NYRMB.
It was over ten years ago on that same forum that word came over about WQEW being off one night for transmitter tests, and a similar DXing frenzy took place.
 
I'm a bit out of WQEW's range for its outage to affect me (I'm more in KNZR territory), but I'm curious what stations might you hear at soon-WFME's transmitter site while they're off? :)
 
I know he isn't in the soon-to-be WFME coverage area, PianoPlyer88, but an actual radio station chief engineer from near Philly got WAGL 1560 -- a pretty big-signalled South Carolina station.

It must be cool to have this tuned broadcast-antenna array on hand to RECEIVE stuff on that frequency. Heck: I think it would be a gas to be one of the 1560 New York engineers tonight, listening to hear the 1560 station from Bakersfield CA, with all the diodes and stuff already tuned to 1560 in a way.
 
Not much turned up for me subsequent to my last post. Nightime 1560 sounded like a "mini graveyard". Sunrise/sunset produced KGOW (not common around here, but heard a few times before). I also heard WNWI again, as well as country music rising on top from time to time around dawn. Couldn't get an ID, but most likely WRIN from Rensaleer Indiana, which normally makes it into the far south Indiana suburbs of Chicago.
 
I thought I'd wake up this thread given I was poking around the Paducah radio dial (the 570 thread...I'd heard of WDXR and WPADwith the 1450 and 1560 switcheroo decades ago, but never WKYX) Anyway, WPAD has a CP to defang itself from B to D, 10 kW-D DA/1 kW-N, ND til Bakersfield sunset)/5 kW N-DA, to 1 kW D, ND, 35 w N, ND, 35 w CH ND. Problems with the array, not worth fixing plus they've got a 250w xlator some 600' above ground.
 
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