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AM Frequency of the Week: 1010

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Far northwestern suburbs of Chicago.....

Days: 1010 is splatter from local WMVP, Chicago

Nights: Flip a coin,. Sometimes WINS (New York). Sometime CFRB (Toronto). Lately CFRB has been getting the better of it, but that's not saying much. That's because these days 1010 is usually a typical mess of weak and unidentifiable signals. WPCN from Stevens Point, WI sometimes forgets to power down and sneaks in on 1kw ND day power. At least I doubt they're making the hop with their authorized ten watts night power.
 
KIQI 1010 San Francisco here in central Alaska at night in the late fall through early Spring. Sometimes good, sometimes not..... but havent heard anything else I can log for sure
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
KIQI 1010 San Francisco here in central Alaska at night in the late fall through early Spring. Sometimes good, sometimes not..... but havent heard anything else I can log for sure
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They turn up at least occasionally on the Hawaii (Oahu) SDR at night, and I think Gar has heard them barefoot at his location on the Big Island.
 
WINS-AM 1010 of New York City struggles to come in here in central Connecticut. Their transmitter is in northern New Jersey. It mixes with CFRB-AM 1010 of Toronto at night. I've always had much better results with WCBS-AM 880 of New York City, thanks to them being in the High Island section of the Bronx, right on the water.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime-WKJW, Black Mountain, NC moderately even with their 50kW.

Night: WINS sometimes, otherwise a hodge-podge of everything.

Retro/other: Ohio, either the last breath of WCSI. Columbus IN or WIOI, New Boston, OH. Some winter days CFRB would make an early appearance.
WKJW, like sister King James Version station, WKJV-1380, occasionally doesn't power down and I've heard it on Farmington Hills MI and Cleveland SDRs (Edinburgh has a local 1010 in WCSI).
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs: daytime is WMVP splatter. At night I hear CFRB and sometimes WINS although usually CFRB gets the better of it. Sometimes at afternoon critical hours I get KXEN St Louis.
 
NW Arkansas:

Day: KXEN St. Louis, MO or KRNI Mason City, IA

Night: WINS New York City, NY and/or CFRB Toronto, ON
WJXL Jacksonville, FL or KTNZ Amarillo, TX or KSIR Brush, CO
 
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From the SW suburbs of Chicago, not a lot over the years thanks to proximity to WCFL / WMVP:

Most nights: WINS New York and CFRB Toronto, perennially fighting it out. Back when WCFL had Sunday night silent periods, CFRB seemed to be dominant.

One-timer way back: CBR Calgary.
 
Used to hear a mix of WITL and CFRB Daytime into Genesee County. WITL was strong when they moved to Pine Tree Rd. from Collins Rd. in the 1960s and did nondirectional Proofs. WITL turned in their license because they could only get 13 watts Night because of CFRB. WINS and to a lesser degree CFRB Nights. Puzzled about why WINS is nearly as strong the last decade or so toward SE Michigan as the Nondirectional WFAN, WABC, and WCBS.

WITL Antenna Parameters Archived from Canadian Database. Multiplicative 1:2:1 three tower binomial Cardioid Pattern to the West, maximum at 290 degrees.

 
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WINS-AM 1010 of New York City struggles to come in here in central Connecticut. Their transmitter is in northern New Jersey. It mixes with CFRB-AM 1010 of Toronto at night. I've always had much better results with WCBS-AM 880 of New York City, thanks to them being in the High Island section of the Bronx, right on the water.
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WCBS (and WFAN, diplexed with it) is non-directional. WINS is directional east-southeast.
 
From near Detroit, MI--

Days: Weak CFRB.
Nights: Mashup of CFRB and WINS.

I've also received WCSI once or twice here. As Schroedingers Cat mentioned WINS seems to be much stronger here in MI than their night pattern suggests they should be.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: nothing
Nightime: CFRB or WINS

DX/Retro: others heard in the past include KXEN (St. Louis, MO), WIOI New Boston, OH), WXYQ (Stevens Point, WI), WKJW (Black Mountain, NC), WJXL (Jacksonville Beach, FL), WHIN (Gallatin, TN), KLRA (Little Rock, AR)
 
From west Houston, it's local KLAT 24/7 with sports in Spanish "TUDN Radio". They reduce from 5 to 3.8kw at night but they're directional right at me from about 8 miles away. I've not heard anything else on this frequency since I moved here. Heading north from here, you can null KLAT and hear KBBW with Christian talk.

Retro: Tulsa in the early 70's, I could hear KLRA Little Rock in the daytime. At sunset, KXEN would boom in just before sign-off, with KLRA taking over after sunset. I could also hear CBR sometimes in the wintertime. I did hear CFRB and WINS on early Monday mornings.
 
Near Annapolis, MD,

Daytime: Baltimore's WOLB with urban talk/oldies.

Nighttime: Greatly reduced WOLB (drops to 30 watts) getting beat up by WINS and CFRB.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: A very weak KCHI, 250 w non-directional in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Critical Hours: The fun DXing time on this frequency at my location. At one time of another, I have logged KDJW, Amarillo, Texas, KRNI, Cedar Falls, Iowa, KXEN, St. Louis, Missouri, KSIR, Brush, Colorado and WMOX, Meridian, Mississippi when these stations have been on daytime power and pattern.

Night: Usually nothing, much like a graveyard channel. I have logged CFRB twice during the winter months.

Bob
 
KRNI (ex-KSMN) is actually located in Mason City, Iowa. It's a satellite of KUNI (FM) which is the University of Northern Iowa's NPR radio station, KUNI 91.5 FM. The University (and 100kw KUNI) are located in Cedar Falls. That's probably the COL you were hearing when you logged KSMN. KUNI, incidentally, has one of the best FM signals in Iowa. 100kw from a tall TV tower IIRC. In addition to KRNI, they feed three FM translators.
 
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