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AM Frequency of the Week: 1040

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake, IL....

Days: Splatter from local WNVR (1030) 10kw from 3 miles NW of me,,,and aimed right at me.

Nights; All WHO all the time, Usually with a good signal.

Other Location: Beach 23 mi SW of Pensacola. Very weak WHBO from Tampa makes the hop across the gulf. At night, WHBO usually mixes with Cuba. WHO makes it in as often as not and sometimes manages to get on top.
 
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Clifton, New Jersey

Days: Nothing but splatter from WEPN "1050 ESPN" New York, NY.

Nights: It's WHO "Newsradio 1040" Des Moines, IA with splatter from WEPN even at the lowest bandwidth setting. That's how strong the WEPN splatter is.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: nothing. I've not noticed a hint of WHO, surprisingly, at 302 miles. Even with 50 kW, 1040 at that distance is too far compared to the 5 kW of WMT 600 at 201 miles.

Nights: WHO Des Moines is reliable most all the time.

The three others on 1040 over the years are an eclectic mix: HJAI Barranquilla, Colombia, 2,228 miles with 15 kW under auroral conditions in the 1970s; CKST Vancouver, BC, on 50 kW day power and/or pattern from 1,771 miles overnight on 9/16/2020, under WHO and fighting hard with the TSN sports talk format; and WLCR Mount Washington, Ky., with 1.5 kW on 10/4/2021 during morning drive.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing except for splatter from WNVR
Nighttime: WHO with solid signal

DX/RETRO: DX catches include WBZW (Powell, TN), WHBO (Pinellas Park, FL), WJOR (St. Jospeh, TN), WJTB (N. Ridgeville, OH), WPBS (Conyers, GA), WYSL (Avon, NY), WSGH (Lewisville, NC), CIOF/CKST (Vancouver, BC), CHRS (Longuevil, PQ), HJAI Radio Tropical (Barranquilla, Colombia), HION Radio Centro (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). Most recent new log on 1040 was KGGR (Dallas, TX) in 2021.

Back in 1987 Cuba used this frequency for their tourist station Radio Taino and also as a relay for Radio Moscow World Service with high powered transmitters. Both easily heard in the Chicago area. I remember articles in newspapers from that era with complaints by WHO about the Cuban interference.
 
Daytime at Denver, CO:
Distant reception of KPPF Monument (Colorado Springs). "Power Talk 1040", the usual unbalanced stuff. Today around 1 pm there was something else on the channel trying to chew into it, most likely WHO.

Nighttime at Denver:
WHO at varying strengths. As I mentioned last week, it's sometimes strong enough to spill over onto 1030 KTWO; sometimes KTWO is strong enough to spill into WHO.
 
Boise Idaho
Day nothing
Night WHO and a very weak KXPD Tigard OR. Used to have a weak Vancouver BC. Vancouver became much stronger in the last year or so before they went silent.
 
Tyler, TX:

Daytime is DFW's only remaining Gospel outlet KGGR Dallas. Fair signal, what you'd expect from 3.3 kW @ a distance of 100 miles. Critical hours, KGGR drops to 2.8kW (I think it is) and it weakens the signal here some, but still listenable (for folks like us, anyway).

Night time is WHO Des Moines, IA. All night, every night. I've picked up some Spanish language rumblings pestering WHO from underneath, but nothing I've ever been able to positively identify. I figured it was skywave from Mexico. Hadn't thought about it possibly being from Cuba.
 
East Tennessee: Local WJBE, which pretty much runs distortion. (the 99.7 translator sounds fine. If it's off, WPBS, Conyers, GA can make it in sunrise/sunset. I've caught on the Edinburgh IN SDR.
Night: WHO.,
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: Nothing.
Nighttime: WHO in Des Moines. It comes in solidly but less solidly than some other 50 KW stations at similar or greater distances. On other occasions I've heard WLCR in Mt Washington, KY and WPBS in Conyers, GA.
 
CADXER said:
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing except for splatter from WNVR
Nighttime: WHO with solid signal

DX/RETRO: DX catches include WBZW (Powell, TN), WHBO (Pinellas Park, FL), WJOR (St. Jospeh, TN), WJTB (N. Ridgeville, OH), WPBS (Conyers, GA), WYSL (Avon, NY), WSGH (Lewisville, NC), CIOF/CKST (Vancouver, BC), CHRS (Longuevil, PQ), HJAI Radio Tropical (Barranquilla, Colombia), HION Radio Centro (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). Most recent new log on 1040 was KGGR (Dallas, TX) in 2021.

Back in 1987 Cuba used this frequency for their tourist station Radio Taino and also as a relay for Radio Moscow World Service with high powered transmitters. Both easily heard in the Chicago area. I remember articles in newspapers from that era with complaints by WHO about the Cuban interference.
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KGGR has been on the air wayyyyy longer than 2021. I want to say 1990.
 
In west Houston TX, nothing in the daytime. Around sunset, WHO and KGGR come up. Once KGGR goes off, WHO is usually strong. In WHO's null, I've also heard WHBO Pinellas Park FL and Radio Mayabeque from Cuba. At night, it's all WHO, with Cuba often there in their null. Before sunrise I've heard WPBS Conyers GA when they come on with Vietnamese programming.
 
cyberdad said:
Crystal Lake, IL....

Days: Splatter from local WNVR (1030) 10kw from 3 miles NW of me,,,and aimed right at me.

Nights; All WHO all the time, Usually with a good signal.

Other Location: Beach 23 mi SW of Pensacola. Very weak WHBO from Tampa makes the hop across the gulf. At night, WHBO usually mixes with Cuba. WHO makes it in as often as not and sometimes manages to get on top.
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Near north Chicago suburbs: days some splash from WNVR, nights WHO with a good signal. Sometimes in winter I can catch it with some daytime sky wave.
 
An apparently now-silent WSKE was the first 1040 logging here 6-12-93) after our move from Long Island. Probably daytime ; an old station guide has them as10,000 watts omni, Everett PA, Southcentral PA.
Nowadays days, it's WCHR from New Jersey on top. They signed on in the late 90's as an extension speaker of sorts for Michael D's 1050 ESPN barnacle, and send enough of their 15,000 directional watts this way to be a readable regular. They're logged here as 'WNJE'.
WSGH from North Carolina (west of Winston-Salem) and WYSL from upstate Avon NY (Doorbell Capitol of the World? :- ) were sunset nabs. Odd ; they shoehorn a lot of day watts (27,000) and C.H. watts (10,000) in places but not much at all toward this way.
WHO always predominates nigthttimes. But one awkward night in Sept 1994, no doubt distinctly Auroral, a few of us left my noisy apartment and were walking around waving a shiny new GE SR 2 to-and-fro trying to ID some Urban music station on 1040. We were doing this, apparently feeling inattentive, or immune and/or otherwise clueless, as police units were investigating the robbery of a house across the street!
We never even got approached, let alone questioned. I guess the cops knew when communications was vital, or disregarded us and the radio as ridiculously too brazen for the moment. The station was a goodie, though -- WYFX Boynton Beach. 'The Fox'.
 
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Wilmington Delaware

Days - Weak signal from WCHR Flemington NJ with Christian Programming.

Nights - Usually a fair to good signal from WHO. However, tonight Radio Mayabeque from Cuba is coming in at equal strength and is in the clear when I turn the radio S.
 
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KGGR has been on the air wayyyyy longer than 2021. I want to say 1990.
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That's when Jack Mortensen bought it, changing the calla to KGGR. Said to stand for "Great Gospel Radio". As I'm sure you know, the facility itself dates back to the late 1940s.
 
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