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AM Frequency of the week: 1010

Days - Splatter from KDYK
Night - Splatter, and CBR Calgary (CBC R1).
Also logged here - KIQI San Francisco (Spanish News/Talk, logged just a few days ago actually); KCHJ Delano, CA (Regional Mexican), KXPS Thousand Palms, CA (Sports, logged recently), KIHU Tooele (Catholic Religion) and KOOR Milwaukie, OR (now Russian, but used to be Spanish).
Wanted stations - CFRB Toronto, ON; KSIR Brush, CO; KXXT Tolleson, AZ

-crainbebo
 
At our cottage in New Hampshire (100 miles north of Boston on the border of Maine) it's almost always WINS NYC at night. Sometimes CFRB Toronto is underneath but I'm surprised it isn't more of a fight. In NH, I pick up about a dozen Toronto-area signals on a good night... 530, 560, 590, 640, 740, 860, 900, 1010, 1050, 1540, 1580, 1610, 1650, from about 400 miles away. But WINS is usually stronger, either blocking or riding over CFRB most nights. Once in a while CFRB is on top. By day, there's nothing on 1010.
 
CFOS 560 Owen Sound? Never thought of that as the Toronto area, but you can hear it in Northern Michigan and Upstate New York. One of those unusual situations like Scott Fybush has mentioned, like CFCO 630 being heard in Rochester, NY and Fort Wayne, IN.
 
CFOS is definitely not in the Toronto area. You can hear a weak signal in most of the city. Even then WGR 550 bleeds onto it.
 
I've heard CFCO in Washington state. And I am NOT KIDDING! One time on an excellent night in March 2014, I had them with country music well under the other 630s in ID, AB etc. Three song matches to the playlist and an 1875+ mile catch on 6000 watts. This was a with a Grundig G5 and the 3-foot box loop, on the same evening that I logged 1330 KCKM Monahans, TX on a DX Test (3/22/14 I believe).

-crainbebo
 
Daytimes, usually nothing, maybe a faint KUNY Mason City, IA, about 100 miles away. Nighttimes, usually a hash. I've heard a number of stations, most often CFRB. CBR from Calgary shows up occasionally, faintly. 5 to 10 years ago I was often hearing KSIR from Brush, CO booming in (which I suspected meant that they were running their daytime power at night. That hasn't happened in a while. I think I have heard KXEN from St. Louis occasionally. I've never heard WINS.
 
Here in Brandon it's 1010 from Seffner all the time. I think they are still whfs and I think it's like money talk or something. I used to hear this one in Altamonte as well. I did not DX 1010 too much back in Altamonte.
 
In East Tennessee, WKJW, Black Mountain, NC (sister to WKJV-1380, and yes KJV means King James Version) during the day. Nights either WINS or CFRB
 
mimo said:
CFOS is definitely not in the Toronto area. You can hear a weak signal in most of the city. Even then WGR 550 bleeds onto it.
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I had a customer for several years in Midland ON. It took at least two hours to get there from Toronto. And Owen Sound/CFOS is even farther away (heading in essentially the same direction). That said, if I'm DXing in New Hampshire, I'd still consider CFOS as being in the same general neighborhood as Toronto.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
WITL was 500 watts with a three tower in line cardioid with two deep nulls to the East, similar to the old WCFL night pattern but the maximum to the West. It protected the Canadian border to 5 uV/m. Under treaty, CFRB is a Class A station.
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is there any way to find online old directional patterns and coverage area for stations that are now dark or have upgraded facilities/changed frequencies?

Would love to see the following Patters around Michigan/Ontario
540, 630 (1K pattern, I think their day is the same), 690 when it was 1K days only, 710/730 CHYR, 910 (flint), 1010, (stereo..lol) 1050 (at the old location, at 5k daytimer), 1110 (sarnia), 1130 - I heard they have tweaked patterns over the years , especially at night), 1310 (when 1K night), 1430 (mt clemens) 1460 (Pontiac), 1500 (5K night pattern)1510 (Jackson), 1520 (ypsilanti, before they moved to 990) 1600 (1K night pattern) 1320 (pre-upgrade - lansing) 1300 (wood pre-upgrade) 1600 Muskegeon

I do remember and seen 950 and 1270 night patterns before their 2000ish upgrade

s0 many dark and/or upgraded stations
 
Earlier this morning (~1500): CBR; drifty mess in background
 
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