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AM Frequency of the Week: 1050

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 milea NW of downtown Chicago....
Days: WL{P from Kenosha, WI. 250-watts non-directional from Kenosha. WI. 37 miles to my northeast. Fair-good signal.

Night: WLIP usually vanishes into the slop. Sometimes manages to stay on top. CHUM and/or WDZ (Decatur, IL) sometimes take over. XEG even more rarely.

Other location/retro. At our winter location near Pensacola, XEG is usually on top, but noy alwaysIowa during the late 60s, XEG was in most nights with Wolfman Jack and a pretty good signal. But Wolfman on XERF was better and more reliable.

The ads for live baby chickens were a little easier to follow! :)
 
East Tennessee: Last breath of WFSC, Franklin, NC. Sunrise/sunset is a hodge-podge, as is nights.

Retro/other: Dayton/Western Ohio. Cincinnati's WGRI, (previously WCVX and WTSJ, going back to WZIP. Almost always religious and their short tower is anchored on a bridge. Sometimes CHUM at sunset.
Going way back, I remember top 40 CHUM and Country WHN duking it out on the skywaves (even at our Michigan vacation home. They basically would beat together, one might dominate for a minute. I'd be interested to know where the CHUM/WHN line was during the daytime back then.
 
1050 WROS - Jacksonville - The Rose - Christian (sunrise-sunset) - 2023 - most commonly heard at sunset before it signs off....

retro
1050 WJCM - Sebring FL - The Mighty 10-50 Oldies - 2004 - heard when WIXC 1060 was off during hurricane Frances....

1050 XEQOO - Puerto Morelos QR - Radio Pirata del Caribe - 2100 EST Spanish – pop, PSAs - 2003

1050 XEG - Monterey NL - La Ranchera - 0230 LT Nortena music - 1991

kw -Melbourne FL
 
In Rochester NY, it used to be a pretty solid CHUM by day, but as local WYSL 1040 has increased power (it just went from 20 to 27 kW), it's been harder to get past the sidebands.

At night, it's a mix of CHUM and WEPN.
 
Kenosha, WI- Local WLIP 24/7. 250 Watts ND; from their very good signal, you would never know it. Covers pretty much all of Milwaukee metro to well into Chicago. WLIP went full time in 1987, and pretty much screwed up nighttime DX in the immediate area. I am about 3 miles from their tower and, depending on where I am, I can usually get a fair null with my Tecsun PL-380.

Nights- Over the years I have heard WHN/WEPN New York, WDZ Decatur, IL, CHUM Toronto ON, WJOK Kaukauna, WI, WTKA/WPAG Ann Arbor, MI, and WDVM Eau Claire, WI. I'm sure there are more, but it's been a long time since 1050 was available here as a DX frequency.

I would love to know how many of you have DX'ed WLIP. I've heard it in some pretty far-flung places, usually before sunset.
 
Denver, CO:

Daytime - Not much. KRCN Longmont is next door at 1060 and I would consider it quasi-local.

Nighttime - Usually a back-and-forth between Monterrey's XEG and KTBL from Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM. The latter is simulcasting an active rock format with an FM translator at 94.5, and refers to itself on the air as "The Pit 94.5". "The Pit" is the University of New Mexico's football stadium.

Retro - XEG used to be unavoidable in the Midwest at night as "La Ranchera de Monterrey"...and horribly distorted audio. They seem to have cleaned that up, fortunately.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Splatter from local KYW 1060 Philadelphia. On my car radio I can hear a weak WEPN New York.

Nights - Still splatter from KYW but a stronger WEPN with some occasional mixing with TSN 1050 (CHUM) Toronto.
 
From the Christmas-infused but snowless southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

First, I must be the only person in mid-America who hasn't heard WDZ.

What I have heard, in chronological order: WHN New York (yet to hear as WEPN); WPAG / WTKA Ann Arbor, Mich.; CJIC Sault St. Marie, Ont. (yet to hear as CFYN); CKSB St. Boniface, Man.; XEG Monterrey (with 150 kW); WLIP Kenosha, Wis.; CHUM Toronto; WNES Central City, Ky.; and the newcomer for me, KJBN Little Rock, Ark., probably 190 watt night power after midnight on 1/21/2022.

And to all a good night!
 
tvnut said:
From the Christmas-infused but snowless southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

First, I must be the only person in mid-America who hasn't heard WDZ.

What I have heard, in chronological order: WHN New York (yet to hear as WEPN); WPAG / WTKA Ann Arbor, Mich.; CJIC Sault St. Marie, Ont. (yet to hear as CFYN); CKSB St. Boniface, Man.; XEG Monterrey (with 150 kW); WLIP Kenosha, Wis.; CHUM Toronto; WNES Central City, Ky.; and the newcomer for me, KJBN Little Rock, Ark., probably 190 watt night power after midnight on 1/21/2022.

And to all a good night!
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You won't hear Sault Ste. Marie under any calls. It has been gone from AM completely for decades.
 
Forgot about CKSB. Now long gone from AM, but it used to turn up here from time to time around sunrise... usually with a pretty good signal.
 
Norfolk station La Selecta WVXX can be heard during the daytime in Hampton Roads, Virginia. I don't listen often since I don't understand Spanish, but Wikipedia describes the format as Spanish Tropical.

For decades, 1050 WCMS and sister station 100.5 WCMS-FM played country music. As a kid I thought it was neat that 1050 was almost directly underneath 100.5 on my old knob radio!
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Blank normally, but I did hear XEG in Monterrey once during daytime skywave in 2021.

Sunset: XEG starts coming up with a good signal. Before XEVUC in Nava was retired, I sometimes heard it mixing in at sunset.

Night: XEG is very strong. On rare occasions, regional Mexican XEBCS in La Paz and classic country KVPI in Villa Platte, LA, will pop up briefly underneath when the radio is aimed E/W.

Sunrise: XEBCS is heard more often and with a little better signal (but still under XEG) after it goes to day power. Also, I've heard KVPI under XEG once at sunrise.

DX/Retro: I've heard urban contemporary KGTO in Tulsa, OK, and urban gospel KJBN in Little Rock, AR, twice - both at sunrise on Dec. 30 and 31, 2018. Those are the only times I can remember when other stations actually overtook XEG for a while.

My sole one-time logging on 1050 has been XED in Mexicali, which I briefly heard at night under XEG a couple of years ago.
 
cyberdad said:
40 milea NW of downtown Chicago....
Days: WL{P from Kenosha, WI. 250-watts non-directional from Kenosha. WI. 37 miles to my northeast. Fair-good signal.

Night: WLIP usually vanishes into the slop. Sometimes manages to stay on top. CHUM and/or WDZ (Decatur, IL) sometimes take over. XEG even more rarely.

Other location/retro. At our winter location near Pensacola, XEG is usually on top, but noy alwaysIowa during the late 60s, XEG was in most nights with Wolfman Jack and a pretty good signal. But Wolfman on XERF was better and more reliable.

The ads for live baby chickens were a little easier to follow! :)
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Wolfman was best on XERB but we couldn’t get it in the Midwest.
 
Hartland, VT:

Nothing days, WEPN New York nights. Today around 4 p.m. I found WEPN battling it out with Regional Mexican WBQH Silver Spring, MD.

Meriden, CT:

WEPN day and night.
 
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