AM Frequency of the Week - 1030 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you all get on 1030 kHz?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a weak WUFL/Sterling Heights, MI which gets stomped on pretty bad by local WJTB 1040 here. At night it's all WBZ (R.I.P. Bruce Bradley)

 

[MarioMania]

About KDKA's IBOC, Does it interfere with WBZ?

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

WWGB Indian Head, MD, southeast of DC, a 50 kW daytimer with Spanish religion. Nights, it's always WBZ with sometimes a little bit of I-BLOCK from KDKA. WBZ's I-BLOCK seems to somewhat interfere with KDKA at night.

 

[crainbebo]

MONROE WA
On 1030, days it's KMAS Shelton, WA (News/Talk).

Nights I usually get KTWO Casper, WY (News/Talk), with a bit of KMAS and KDUN Reedsport, OR underneath.

If I dream hard enough late at night I can get WBZ wiping out KTWO, but, you know... ;D

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs it's WNVR during the day & a solid WBZ at night.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Houston daytime is KCTA Corpus Christi - almost like a local. Nighttime is a jumble of stations. Hard to pick anything out.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

About KDKA's IBOC, Does it interfere with WBZ?

I think I'm in that cancellation area where KDKA's night signal is never strong here so that makes them all the more susceptible to getting trashed by WBZ's I-BLOCK but I've never heard KDKA's I-BLOCK trash WBZ.

 

[schmave]

About KDKA's IBOC, Does it interfere with WBZ?

I think I'm in that cancellation area where KDKA's night signal is never strong here so that makes them all the more susceptible to getting trashed by WBZ's I-BLOCK but I've never heard KDKA's I-BLOCK trash WBZ.

Exact same from Columbus.

 

[MarioMania]

So KDKA's 50,000 Watts signal points away for your are in ohio..

How does it fare well in the East, If WBZ IBOC running

KDKA operates on a clear channel and broadcasts a news/talk radio format. News and spoken word programming has been a central feature of its programming from its beginning. The station's 50 kilowatt (or 50,000 watt) signal can be heard throughout central and western Pennsylvania, along with portions of Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Virginia and Kentucky, and the Canadian province of Ontario during the day. At night, it reaches much of the eastern half of North America.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

I will say this about WBZ - they used to put a good signal over Texas at night. If you could null Casper, they were very listenable. Since they added IBOC - not a trace of them any more. Only a jumble of signals here in Houston at night.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

From between Hazleton and Pottsville PA ....

DX Present :
In the log are WBZ (what a surprise) and that thing from near Washington DC from when they were known as 'WNTL'.
Near SSS, whenever I tune in 1030 and hear a foreign language, it's probably the station nowadays known as WWGB.

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WWGB&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

When I lived in Philadelphia, WBZ, near SSS but still very much daytime, often was louder on the car radio than the Philly-licensed KYW 1060 along 'The Boulevard', going northeast.

DX Past, on Long Island :
WBZ and something called XEQT from Mexico City

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

I almost forgot .....

Thank you, Buckeye, for the 'salut' to Bruce Bradley. Memories of him on WBZ in 1963, playing 'My Little Girl' by Bobby Vee and the Crickets, are some of my earliest DX memories.

 

[kilokat7]

One of my most memorable catches was hearing a faint top of the hour ID by KDUN Reedsport, OR. earlier in the year (WBZ was tightly nulled at the time). I heard KDUN just moments before their nighttime pattern change while they were still on 50kw NDA.

WBZ is very strong here at night. During the day it's WNVR or WUFL depending on how I "aim" the antennas. All total and under various conditions, I've pulled the following out of 1030, sorted closest to most distant:

WNVR Vernon Hills, IL
WUFL Sterling Heights, MI
WCTS Maplewood, MN
WBGS Point Pleasant, WV
WQSE White Bluff, TN is what I usually hear at night when I phase out WBZ, playing southern gospel music
KCWJ Blue Springs, MO
WWGB Indian Head, MD
WEBS Calhoun, GA
KFAY Farmington, AR
WBZ Boston, MA
KBUF Holcomb, KS can be heard often around sunrise
KTWO Casper, WY can be heard often during the winter just before they change pattern at night
KCTA Corpus Christi, TX another one that sometimes makes it here just before they change pattern at night
XEYC Ciudad Juárez
XELJ Lagos de Moreno, 1761 miles
XEQR México D.F, 1806 miles heard a few times when conditions are favoring the South
KDUN Reedsport, OR, 1884 miles heard just once

For DX, 1030 has been an amazing frequency here!

 

[cyberdad]

Near north Chicago suburbs it's WNVR during the day & a solid WBZ at night.

Same here about 30 miles west of you. I'm within visual sight of WNVR's stick, so that takes care of things in the daytime. At night WBZ remains one of the more reliable skywaves. I have heard KCTA here a couple of times around sunrise.

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs it's WNVR during the day & a solid WBZ at night.

Same here about 30 miles west of you. I'm within visual sight of WNVR's stick, so that takes care of things in the daytime. At night WBZ remains one of the more reliable skywaves. I have heard KCTA here a couple of times around sunrise.

I have also heard KCTA several times around sunrise along with the Mexico City 1030 a few times in the past.

 

[dave73]

From Lake County, IN, I get a faint signal of WNVR Vernon Hills, IL. At local sunset, WBZ hammers on WNVR until WNVR switches to their nighttime power, which is either 120 watts, or 210 watts.

 

[schmave]

So KDKA's 50,000 Watts signal points away for your are in ohio..

KDKA isn't directional, but its signal is just bad in this region. Groundwave barely makes it 30-40 miles at night before cancellation picks up (that's from eyewitness reports, not mine), and I am about 190 miles west of their stick and it usually is very weak at night. This goes back several years.
WBZ has always peeled paint in this part of the Midwest, anyway. With IBOC, it takes out KDKA and WHO most nights.

 

[cyberdad]

From Lake County, IN, I get a faint signal of WNVR Vernon Hills, IL. At local sunset, WBZ hammers on WNVR until WNVR switches to their nighttime power, which is either 120 watts, or 210 watts.

I have heard WNVR on night power. It's a pretty lousy signal, and basically aimed away from the areas they're trying to cover (so they can protect WBZ). I'm pretty comfortable in saying their night signal comes nowhere near their COL, Vernon Hills. Let alone Chicago. I can hear WBZ under it, and I'm two miles from the stick, west of Crystal Lake.

But the fact of the matter is they're almost always off at night. I'm not sure what the deal is with that. Perhaps someone else here would know.

 

[boiseengineer]

In Boise ID

Last time I heard WBZ was when KTWO almost burned down in the 90's (?) and they were off the air or running really low power for months. Anyone remember that?

Normally it's
KTWO
KDUN (even at night they give KTWO a fit).
Very weak KMAS somtimes.
Mexican (XESDD?)

 

[jd]

I have heard WNVR on night power. It's a pretty lousy signal, and basically aimed away from the areas they're trying to cover (so they can protect WBZ). I'm pretty comfortable in saying their night signal comes nowhere near their COL, Vernon Hills. Let alone Chicago. I can hear WBZ under it, and I'm two miles from the stick, west of Crystal Lake.

But the fact of the matter is they're almost always off at night. I'm not sure what the deal is with that. Perhaps someone else here would know.

Here's what I found: WNVR filed an STA request last month so they could repair some damage done by "a series of storms": https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101559719&formid=911&fac_num=52910

Apparently they're still operating non-directional with 25% of their licensed power for each level---day, critical hours and night.