AM Frequency of the Week: 1000

[wildthangjim]

In west Houston, local KLAT 1010 slop is heard in the daytime. At sunset, XEOY starts to come in. I've also caught WYBT and KTOK. At night a jumble, with XEOY usually on top.

Retro in Tulsa in the 70's, KTOK was weakly heard in the daytime but was nonexistent at night (presume I was in their null toward WCFL, plus maybe skywave cancellation). XEOY was dominant. I heard KOMO a few times on Monday mornings when XEOY was off. I think I heard WCFL once or twice but it was very rare.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Old WCFL Antenna and Pattern Details.

https://www.fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=73303&appid=166574&tabs=4946

 

[cyberdad]

I don't remember how WCFL did in Quincy, IL/Hannibal MO area but I remember WLS sounding similar to how it did in the St. Marys Ohio area because of that excellent ground conductivity

Splatter from the now-defunct WCAZ (990), would have been a daytime issue in Quncy. Not so much of an issue in Hannibal. The WCFL issue would have been weaker than WLS at both locations....especially at night.

 

[MarioMania]

Carmichael, CA

Daytime: Splatter from KATD
Nighttime: KOMO Seattle

 

[MichaelTheZ]

Chicago by the lakeshore:

Day & Night: WMVP comes in at "so strong that there's no point looking for anything else" levels. I was actually somewhat surprised that the transmitter was as far away as Downers Grove.

Retro: 80's Bay Area: KOMO Seattle came in consistently, strongly enough to listen to.

 

[gr8oldies]

I remember WHTH, Heath (Newark) Ohio being a 1000 watt daytimer before moving to full time on 790. Never DXed it though

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Chicago by the lakeshore:

Day & Night: WMVP comes in at "so strong that there's no point looking for anything else" levels. I was actually somewhat surprised that the transmitter was as far away as Downers Grove.

Retro: 80's Bay Area: KOMO Seattle came in consistently, strongly enough to listen to.

Glen Clark measured WCFL/WMVP at 50 mV/m downtown. Very strong, but not overwhelming.

The Audio Prism Story

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www.thebdr.net

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I remember WHTH, Heath (Newark) Ohio being a 1000 watt daytimer before moving to full time on 790. Never DXed it though

I've heard a very weak WCCD 1000 Parma, OH, 500 watts Daytime, no PSSA, and was surprised there was a 1000 that close to WMVP.

 

[cyberdad]

Glen Clark measured WCFL/WMVP at 50 mV/m downtown. Very strong, but not overwhelming.

I worked for a couple of years during the '70s out of a downtown Chicago office building (kitty corner from (then-) Sears Tower. WCFL was the only one of the local AM blowtorches that was listenable there without any "hiss".

 

[radioman148]

I've heard a very weak WCCD 1000 Parma, OH, 500 watts Daytime, no PSSA, and was surprised there was a 1000 that close to WMVP.

They're directional to the east. I doubt they're any bother to WMVP as long as they stay on daytime only.

 

[cyberdad]

I've heard a very weak WCCD 1000 Parma, OH, 500 watts Daytime, no PSSA, and was surprised there was a 1000 that close to WMVP.

Parma is a southern suburb of Cleveland. Going west, WCCD barely makes it out of the metro area. At least that was my experience from my business travels to Ohio. But going east on I-90, it was audible, if not comfortably listenable, almost all the way to Erie, PA. As for WCFL/WMVP, I'd usually lose it Along the Ohio Turnpike somewhere between the Ohio-Indiana state line and Toledo.

 

[radioman148]

I realize this isn't AM 1000, but many years ago WMAQ used to make it to the western suburbs of Cleveland via groundwave. With todays noise levels that's not possible.

 

[gr8oldies]

I realize this isn't AM 1000, but many years ago WMAQ used to make it to the western suburbs of Cleveland via groundwave. With todays noise levels that's not possible.

I was able to get the last breath of WGN in Vermillion, Ohio on Lake Erie about 10 years ago.

 

[radioman148]

I was able to get the last breath of WGN in Vermillion, Ohio on Lake Erie about 10 years ago.

Yes both stations used to make it that far on a good car radio during the day.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I could get WCFL with my 100 foot long wire in central Genesee County in the Daytime. Only when someone turned on a dimmer switch or TV was there much noise. The TV didn't bother it much at round an 8 kHz heterodyne. You could hear it driving up US 23 and I-75 on a Delco Radio in the Daytime. At Night, it could reach 10 mV/m, and could be heard sometimes on a Crystal Radio with the long wire when stronger signals were off the air past 12:00 AM-1:00 AM. You could also hear WOWO 1190 on the Crystal Radio sometimes.

 

[cyberdad]

I realize this isn't AM 1000, but many years ago WMAQ used to make it to the western suburbs of Cleveland via groundwave. With todays noise levels that's not possible.

Okay, I'll bite/veer off topic.... WMAQ/WSCR's day signal makes it into Canada. Cross the Detroit River via bridge or tunnel into Canada. Then make your way to the 401 freeway, and you've got WSCR for about a half on a decent car radio hour en-route to Toronto before splatter from CFTR (680) makes 670 unlistenable.

(Don't forget to bring your compass. You have travel SOUTH across the Detroit river to get from the U.S. into Canada!)

 

[radioman148]

Okay, I'll bite/veer off topic.... WMAQ/WSCR's day signal makes it into Canada. Cross the Detroit River via bridge or tunnel into Canada. Then make your way to the 401 freeway, and you've got WSCR for about a half on a decent car radio hour en-route to Toronto before splatter from CFTR (680) makes 670 unlistenable.

(Don't forget to bring your compass. You have travel SOUTH across the Detroit river to get from the U.S. into Canada!)

I think I was able to hear WMAQ/WSCR to around Chatham, Ontario.

 

[cyberdad]

I think I was able to hear WMAQ/WSCR to around Chatham, Ontario.

I wouldn't doubt it. Especially on a good day with a good radio. The terrain between Detroit and Chatham is about 45 miles of mostly flat farmland with good ground conductivity.

 

[schmave]

Parma is a southern suburb of Cleveland. Going west, WCCD barely makes it out of the metro area. At least that was my experience from my business travels to Ohio. But going east on I-90, it was audible, if not comfortably listenable, almost all the way to Erie, PA. As for WCFL/WMVP, I'd usually lose it Along the Ohio Turnpike somewhere between the Ohio-Indiana state line and Toledo.

That echoes my experience. I used to have a notably harder time picking up the Chicago flamethrowers in Toledo during the day than in Bowling Green or Findlay, but because of the frequency 1000 always was the weakest by far if it came in at all.
Nighttime, they all blasted.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Okay, I'll bite/veer off topic.... WMAQ/WSCR's day signal makes it into Canada. Cross the Detroit River via bridge or tunnel into Canada. Then make your way to the 401 freeway, and you've got WSCR for about a half on a decent car radio hour en-route to Toronto before splatter from CFTR (680) makes 670 unlistenable.

(Don't forget to bring your compass. You have travel SOUTH across the Detroit river to get from the U.S. into Canada!)

Not only that, but parts of Canada are further South in Latitude than parts of California. Specifically, The Pelee Peninsula and Pelee Island in Lake Erie. The Norther Border of California is at 42 00 00 Degrees Latitude, with some early surveying error. The historic CHYR/CJSP tower is at the Northern end of the Pelee Peninsula at 42 00 36 N 82 33 47 W.