AM Frequency of the week: 1040

[cyberdad]

Far northwest Chicago burbs.....

Day: Splatter from local WNVR (1030)

Night: WHO all alone and strong enough to break through remaining splatter after WNVR powers down from 10KW to 120 watts.

Retro: Before WNVR came on, my location was normally just out of reach for WHO's day signal. Drive for about a half hour west of here, and WHO would be at least semi-reliable on a good radio. That said, I could still sometimes during winter pick up WHO all day long on daytime skywave at my home.

Other Locations: WHO is the one station, at least in my experience, that's at least semi-reliable on portions of both coasts. The same perhaps could also be said for KMOX, but, for whatever reason, I've typically found WHO to be the easier of the two.

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day it is all WNVR splatter. At night WNVR disappears at my location and WHO
Is strong.

Retro: before WNVR came on I could hear WHO during the day on a very good radio. It was weak, but in there during the day. Always strong at night.

 

[gr8oldies]

Pretty simple from East Tennessee:
Local WJBE by day, WHO by night.

Retro: Quincy, IL-WHO day and nightb

 

[joebtsflk1]

In Colorado Springs by day, 1040 KCBR is the excuse for classic hip-hop Blazin' 98.5, which does its best to ignore on-air that 1040 even exists. Give them points for being conscientious about their obligations to WHO: the Friday before DST ended, KCBR had already adjusted its sign-off time to 4:45 PM, sacrificing two hours of "valuable" broadcast time in order to avoid an inadvertent post-sunset stomping on WHO the following Sunday. Not that anyone would notice.....

Retro: WHO was the last AM station on which I could hear myself talk, as a traffic reporter for Learfield's old DM traffic network in the early 2000s.

Insignificant coincidence: the KCBR calls currently used on 1040 here in the Springs were the original calls for the second coming of Des Moines' channel 17 in 1983.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Since all these are sunrise, sunset or nighttime catches, needless to say : nothing much comes in here at noon.

WSKE Everett PA, WSGH NC (9-8-94), WYSL Buffalo and WNJO have been logged at those times.

WHO (since it was on first) remains the nighttime occupant. But one night during what had to've been wonderfully Auroral conditions, The Fox -- WYFX Boynton Beach FL -- was atop 1040, with a melange urban music format.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Houston - blank during daytime. Retro early 80's - I was trying to log a low power Dallas on 1040 from Houston. Try as I might, even with a Hallicrafters SX-88, I could never do it.

 

[MarioMania]

Citrus Heights, CA

Day: Nothing

Night: Nothing - Somtimes WHO creeps in

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Semi-local WCHR, Flemington NJ(religious) both day and night. Sometimes at night, though, it gets slammed by WHO.

 

[KenoGuy]

Kenosha, WI- I can't recall ever hearing anything other than WHO on 1040 at my location. Just a little too far to pull it out during the day, but always there at night.

In the late 80s when local WLIP 1050 got night authorization, it kind of made WHO a little tougher to listen to, especially since they both need about the same antenna positioning at my location. Still a good signal though.

 

[Mr Tony]

The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant (LeSueur, MN)

daytime-faint WHO
nightime-strong WHO

 

[charlestondxman]

1040 daytime here is pretty much nothing. The closest signal is in either Boynton Beach, FL (a very weak signal only by the beach), or in the eastern Atlanta suburb of Conyers. At night, it is WHO usually weak with other foreign stations mixing in. It has a specific hum every night as it tries to get through on the channel.

WHO, along with WBAP, are usually the furthest signals I get every night into Charleston, SC. I’ve heard WHO as far away as NJ at night, and in FL. Probably the closest thing we have to a 48 state clear in 2017.

 

[CADXER]

Here in Wood Dale, IL (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: Unusable during daytime since 1988 when WNVR 1030 signed on the air. Prior to that only WHO heard few times during daytime hours.
Nightime: WHO rules the frequency

DX catches on this frequency: CIOF (Vancouver, BC), CHRS (Lonuevil, PQ), WBZW (Powell, TN), WHBO (Pinellas Park, FL), WJOR (St, Josephs, TN), WJTB (N. Ridgeland, OH). All heard during 1980's when I was very active DXing. Also logged foreign stations Barranquilla, Colombia and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Also at the end of 1980's Cuba used this frequency to broadcast Radio Taino and even Radio Moscow English Service with high powered transmitters. Both easily heard in the Chicago area.

 

[tomservo]

Alabama gulf coast. Daytime, a faint WHBO Pinellas Park, FL (Tampa sports station) if you're near the beach, otherwise nothing. Nights, WHO but not very strong. If I remember correctly, this is one frequency that is often subject to takeover by something Spanish, either Cuba or Mexico or who knows what.

 

[crainbebo]

Nothing daytime, used to get CKST Vancouver when I lived in the Seattle area, but it was very weak compared to CKWX and CHMJ.
Nights here are a mix of CKST (Sports) and WHO Des Moines (News/Talk). Sometimes KXPD Tigard, OR comes in with their China Radio International programming in both English and Chinese.

Wanted - the only one that's possible here on 1040, which I don't have, is KCBR Monument, CO. Some sunrise in the near-future, that classic hip hop will stick out like a sore thumb and I'll ID it. They are 'Blazin' 98.5' with 2KW critical hours and 15KW daytime.

Re CIOF log: They used to be 'Magic 104' with adult contemporary. Of course this was back in the days where AM was still extremely viable for music formats in Canada.

 

[formula72]

South San Jose::::

Daytime:::Nothing

Nighttime:::WHO can be heard, but its extremely difficult to get a lock on. We have a local on 1050 ( KTCT ) which is only 10K watts @ night right now, but soon to be increased to 35K. I expect to lose the ability to catch WHO when this happens, do to splatter.