AM Frequencies of the Week - 1100 kHz/1098 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

I've included the second frequency for those who are in the 9 kHz spacing allocation areas.

What do you all get on 1100 kHz or 1098 kHz?

For me in Vermilion, OH, it is WTAM/Cleveland, OH day and night. One night about an hour after sunset back in October of last year I heard another station causing heavy interference to WTAM, possibly WZFG/Fargo, ND still on day power. Others on the Cleveland board have noted co-channel interference on 1100 at night as well on another occasion.

 

[crainbebo]

Bellevue, WA

Daytime-KPTK splatter

Night-mostly KFAX San Francisco, but have also heard KNZZ Grand Junction, CO and KFNX Cave Creek, AZ over the years.

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

Near Chicago, WTAM at night. Once in awhile Fargo around critical hours.

 

[WGU20]

1098 in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Day and night-IRIB Iran 200 KW DA with a lobe in my direction. Very good day and night @250 miles.
Night add:
PBC Pakistan 50 KW DA with a lobe in my direction Good in IRIB null @460 miles.
BSKSA-II Saudi Arabia 100 kW fair under IRIB @1000 Miles

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

Daytime in the summer, nothing.

Nighttime, WTAM

In winter I start to hear WTAM by mid-afternoon or just before sunset.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

1100 kHz:

Day:

Most radios: slight residual slop from XEPRS-1090, with some radios being better than others

Panasonic RQ-SW20: add slop from KSDO-1130

Sony SRF-M37W with modified filter: add slop from KSDO and from KCBQ-1170 (yes, they are that strong - I've heard them up into the 1300s even though this M37W has an aftermarket filter in it)

Critical Hours:

IBOC from KDIS-1110, depending on signal strength & atmospheric conditions and receiver selectivity (with the Tecsuns - PL-380, PL-606 & PL-398mp - less likely to get slop from other stations wiping out the IBOC Schieße than my others)
KWWN-1100 Las Vegas

Night:

KFAX-1100 San Francisco (also sometimes heard critical hours)


May have also tentatively logged KFNX-1100 Cave Creek, AZ, but I don't remember for sure now. (Would like to find a portable / ultralight radio that can get a listenable signal from them midday in summer at solar maximum using only the built-in ferrite, with no slop from the locals.)

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

On 1100 :

Just got off the Grundig G-8 dial with a faint but steady WGPA Allentown PA, a litle before 9AM. They're ~ 35 miles ESE of here. I guess they've been 250 watts omni/daytime since they signed on, in the late Forties.

Once at SRS and once at sunset, WHLI Long Island and their Standards/MoR was coming in, completely over the wee Allentown station in between us. That reception nominally is unusual, since one of WHLI's two casual nulls was engineered to protect Allentown (not Cleveland).
That technical info is from Al Germond, btw. Many here will recognize the name.
WHLI's two sticks are ~ 130 miles from here. No doubt the relative looseness of their null in this direction manages to override the principle despite WHLI, WGPA and we here being quite co-linear. Two-tower directional AM stations seemingly can't get the really corset-ish patterns that three or more towers can achieve.
Over the years, WHLI's daytime signal has been known to make at least seven different ratings books in three different states.

Nighttimes it's WTAM and every now and then a Spanish station.
Word has it that the career of the late Jackson Armstrong got its initial big spotlight when he did nights at 1100 in Cleveland, then known as WKYC. The Wikipedia article about him claims that the signal was so prestigious and that he was such a unique presence back then that Armstrong's show on WKYC affected record sales in Florida!

 

[dave73]

I haven't checked to see what I get on 1100 during the day, but at night, I'm most likely to get WTAM Cleveland, OH from Gary, IN.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

A Wikipedia history of WTAM claims that WTAM was not a trendy change to sports-related letters such as 'team' but were the original call letters of the station.

Ya live and learn. (Or at least I recently did).

Many of us remember them as WKYC and Top 40, and then briefly as KYW, then as WWWE.

 

[tomservo]

I remember 3WE.

1100 is a totally dead frequency for me in the daytime. Nights are usually WTAM.

 

[swfl]

1100 is totally dead here day and night in SW Florida. I remember growing up in NE Ohio listening to 1100 out of Cleveland. 1100 did start out way back when as WTAM then became KYW with the Westinghouse/NBC flip of stations. In the mid 60's Westinghouse brought complaints against NBC on the deal and the KYW calls were returned to Phily with 1100 in Cleveland taking the WKYC calls. NBC felt those calls were close enough to KYW to keep continuity so to speak. In the early 70's the station was sold of to local interests and the calls were changed to WWWE which they held until sometime in the 90's when the WTAM call letters were brought back.

Back in the 60's 1100 was a major player in the Top40 market producing many memorable DJ's many who went on to bigger things in Chicago and other markets. However in the later 60's a newcomer called WIXY/1260 came to be and soon became the TOP40 king in NE Ohio knocking 1100 off it's perch as king.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTAM

 

[foreverchanges1975]

Memphis:

Days nothing
Nights WTAM

 

[RadioFan2J3]

1098 in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Day and night-IRIB Iran 200 KW DA with a lobe in my direction. Very good day and night @250 miles.
Night add:
PBC Pakistan 50 KW DA with a lobe in my direction Good in IRIB null @460 miles.
BSKSA-II Saudi Arabia 100 kW fair under IRIB @1000 Miles

2355UTC, possibly Kandahar on 1098, although it might be KSA, as they are closer to me.

 

[dxingtraveller]

This is my favorite AM signal to DX on, mainly because I'm from Cleveland and enjoy calling my dad from the road on my travels to say I can hear WTAM!

Here in Arlington, VA 1100 is nothing daytime, but a strong WTAM at night with occasional interference from WBT Charlotte. I've picked up WTAM In NYC, Boston, here in DC, and as far south as Orlando though oddly WjR Detroit was stronger. I've listened to WTAM clearly as far west as Nebraska....though I've tried a couple times to pick it up put of Denver without luck. All this was nighttime reception, of course.

During the day I can hear WTAM when I'm out in Winchester, VA which is only 70 west of DC.

BTW to the guy who started this thread...I've been to vermilion many times as I have family there...I really enjoyed the soda fountain on the corner of route 6 and route 60. Good old Americana!

 

[kc0ltv]

WTAM dominates during nights. In fact, I used to listen to Art Bell on either WTAM-1100 or KFAB-1110 because my local station that carried him (560-WEBC) was often interfered with by a Francophone station.

Now they interfere with each other due to their use of HD Radio.

I've also logged WMBI from Chicago and WJML from Petoskey, MI, during daylight hours in the winter.

 

[cyberdad]

Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: Blank. Due to local 5kw (almost) WMBI on 1110, which produces moderate splatter.

Night: WTAM. Usually with a good signal

 

[RadioFan2J3]

1098 in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Day and night-IRIB Iran 200 KW DA with a lobe in my direction. Very good day and night @250 miles.
Night add:
PBC Pakistan 50 KW DA with a lobe in my direction Good in IRIB null @460 miles.
BSKSA-II Saudi Arabia 100 kW fair under IRIB @1000 Miles

2355UTC, possibly Kandahar on 1098, although it might be KSA, as they are closer to me.

1098 during the is the KSA station and after listening again last night, I figure it has to be the SKA station. Khandahar, I think was coming in up under KSA, just strong enough to give some beat on the carrier frequenciy.

 

[wildthangjim]

From Perth Australia on 1098, during the day it's 6MD Radio West in Merredin, Western Australia, with a hot AC format. At night 6MD is still on top, but there is a mess underneath. I expect Indonesia and Thailand, and maybe Taiwan, are there, but haven't positively identified anything yet.

As an aside, kind of nice to hear all the music still on AM down here.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

This is my favorite AM signal to DX on, mainly because I'm from Cleveland and enjoy calling my dad from the road on my travels to say I can hear WTAM!

Here in Arlington, VA 1100 is nothing daytime, but a strong WTAM at night with occasional interference from WBT Charlotte. I've picked up WTAM In NYC, Boston, here in DC, and as far south as Orlando though oddly WjR Detroit was stronger. I've listened to WTAM clearly as far west as Nebraska....though I've tried a couple times to pick it up put of Denver without luck. All this was nighttime reception, of course.

During the day I can hear WTAM when I'm out in Winchester, VA which is only 70 west of DC.

BTW to the guy who started this thread...I've been to vermilion many times as I have family there...I really enjoyed the soda fountain on the corner of route 6 and route 60. Good old Americana!

Very cool! Yes the good 'ol 30s era Soda Fountain in the middle of town. Vermilion just celebrated 175 years as a city last weekend. As far as AM reception, Lake Erie certainly helps with the Canadian signals - many of Toronto's AMs come blasting in even at noon in June.

Also, I've always wondered if WTAM were ever to be off the air at night, what would come in on 1100 in its place?

 

[swfl]

This is my favorite AM signal to DX on, mainly because I'm from Cleveland and enjoy calling my dad from the road on my travels to say I can hear WTAM!

Here in Arlington, VA 1100 is nothing daytime, but a strong WTAM at night with occasional interference from WBT Charlotte. I've picked up WTAM In NYC, Boston, here in DC, and as far south as Orlando though oddly WjR Detroit was stronger. I've listened to WTAM clearly as far west as Nebraska....though I've tried a couple times to pick it up put of Denver without luck. All this was nighttime reception, of course.

During the day I can hear WTAM when I'm out in Winchester, VA which is only 70 west of DC.

BTW to the guy who started this thread...I've been to vermilion many times as I have family there...I really enjoyed the soda fountain on the corner of route 6 and route 60. Good old Americana!

Very cool! Yes the good 'ol 30s era Soda Fountain in the middle of town. Vermilion just celebrated 175 years as a city last weekend. As far as AM reception, Lake Erie certainly helps with the Canadian signals - many of Toronto's AMs come blasting in even at noon in June.

Also, I've always wondered if WTAM were ever to be off the air at night, what would come in on 1100 in its place?

That would be interesting to see what would come in if 1100 ever signed off for anything. I remember back in the 60-70's 1100 did sign off Sunday night/Monday morning for a few hours just as many other stations did back then.

Vermilion is a very nice town. I grew up east of Cleveland near Willoughby which is another neat old town.