AM Frequency of the Week - 1060 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What can you all get on AM 1060?

At my location of Vermilion, OH I get semi-local WILB/Canton, OH during the day with a Catholic religious format. At night It's all KYW/Philadelphia and their I-BLOCK. I can get occasional HD locks for seconds at a time at night from KYW.

 

[spiritof67]

In the St. Louis area, WMCL McLeansboro, IL is what is heard in the daytime. At night, it is usually KYW. Many years ago, I recall hearing WNOE New Orleans on a fairly regular basis at night. When Hurricane Babe was a threat to the Louisiana coast in 1977, the station was on their day pattern (critical hours) during the storm.

 

[radioman148]

Here in the near north Chicago suburbs WHFB has a pretty solid daytime signal. At night KYW dominates with one of the strongest signals from the east coast. In the fall and winter months New Orleans (WNOE) back in the day, would come in pretty well at sunset before they would reduce power and change pattern.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

KYW both day and night.

 

[Radiodx65]

Day....50K....KRCN......Longmont, CO...Business Talk

 

[cyberdad]

Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

DAY: WHFB, Benton Harbor, MI, fair-weak, but comfortably on top of WRHL, Rochelle, IL. WRHL is the closer to me of the two, but nulled in my direction.

NIGHT: KYW, good and typically all alone. Back in the day, WNOE used to make the hop up to here from time to time....usually around sunset/sunrise, but sometimes even during the night.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

KYW, by about 100 miles SSE of here, is the day-and-night station. I've had the middle car-button set to them in the 20 years worth of all the car radios I've owned since moving here. I hear tell that they were heard in Hawaii, which sort of makes sense when looking at their pattern and projecting it on a world globe.

One morning though, mostly daylight, in came that station from Boston with THEIR morning news show on the nice Zenith 6-tuber next to the bed. It completely overrode KYW (like, thoroughly inaudible) and fooled me for a few minutes. I don't have them counted by call letters, just 'Boston, 1060'. I remember they had a 'B' in them someplace.

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

I'd swear that they once had a critical-hours pattern as well, at one time. R-L doesn't have one assigned to 'WQOM' now, though, nor is there a power assigned to any critical-hours power, naturally. Perhaps I'd heard WQOM on that signal.

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Can someone in the northeast can tell me what the station I frequently hear at night is, frequently giving KYW the occasional hassle? I hear classical music at times, and mild easy-listening music in a foreign language. Is this Mexico or Cuba? They never identify, and never
.... quite
..... override
KYW long enough to make a guess.

 

[Icangelp]

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Can someone in the northeast can tell me what the station I frequently hear at night is, frequently giving KYW the occasional hassle? I hear classical music at times, and mild easy-listening music in a foreign language. Is this Mexico or Cuba? They never identify, and never
.... quite
..... override
KYW long enough to make a guess.

I've never logged the Cuban on 1060, however, I've never made an effort to do so either. They seem to be the main possibility.

I'll listen tonight at sunset and later on.

Of course, someone else may already have the answer.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

A historical report ---- Am I the only one who remembers a New Orleans AM on 1060 - WNOE? In the 60's and 70's, they were a regular visitor in Houston during the day, and strong enough on the beach at Galveston to be enjoyable. I even remember getting them in the winter in Abilene, TX - they were a monster!

 

[radioman148]

A historical report ---- Am I the only one who remembers a New Orleans AM on 1060 - WNOE? In the 60's and 70's, they were a regular visitor in Houston during the day, and strong enough on the beach at Galveston to be enjoyable. I even remember getting them in the winter in Abilene, TX - they were a monster!

As stated earlier on this thread, WNOE used to make it into the Chicago area around sunset in the fall & winter months, sometimes pretty strong.

 

[icybluelake]

In Cedar Rapids, IA, daytimes nothing. A faint hint of KFIL Preston, MN or WRHL Rochelle, IL.

Nighttimes, KYW is pretty reliable and often fairly strong, making it easy to hear how the Schuylkill Expressway is doing at all hours of the night. A while back, late at night, I heard KRCN Longmont, CO, almost 800 miles away. Probably not at the 111 watts they are supposed to be running at night.

 

[deepstblu]

Here in the near north Chicago suburbs WHFB has a pretty solid daytime signal. At night KYW dominates with one of the strongest signals from the east coast. In the fall and winter months New Orleans (WNOE) back in the day, would come in pretty well at sunset before they would reduce power and change pattern.

You guys in the Midwest might get KYW better than I do from only 30-some miles away...in precisely the wrong direction to be covered by their pattern. Around Trenton NJ, in the car they have one of those scratchy signals that can get lost for a little bit when you go around a corner or hit the wrong spot. In the house they are basically unlistenable by day, sometimes better at night.

 

[ContinuousWave]

WNOE is now WLNO and still 50KW North day (DA-2) but only 5KW night and a sharp NW pattern....so should still blow into the Midwest at critical hours..unless something happened to the array due to Katrina....

 

[Icangelp]

WNOE is now WLNO and still 50KW North day (DA-2) but only 5KW night and a sharp NW pattern....so should still blow into the Midwest at critical hours..unless something happened to the array due to Katrina....

Sadly, WNOE/WLNO is dark, with little prospect of returning to the air.

 

[kenglish]

AM-1060, KDYL, South Salt Lake. Running China Radio International programming.
(Used to be KRSP-AM, for all us older folks who remember rock and roll on AM.)

 

[cyberdad]

Sadly, WNOE/WLNO is dark, with little prospect of returning to the air.

Always sorry to hear when a station goes dark, but the loss of a 50kw former powerhouse is especially sad. From my own experiences on the gulf, I have to wonder if they were running at less than full authorized power during their most recent years.

 

[radioman148]

Sadly, WNOE/WLNO is dark, with little prospect of returning to the air.

That is a shock as I had no idea that they were off the air. Another indication of the sad state of AM radio. Do you think they will be bought out?

 

[gar hi]

Wow, I didn't know WLNO is off the air.

While I wasn't a fan of their format, they were a daytime powerhouse (almost local sounding) out at the Gulf and a trace of their signal could even be heard daytime in Tampa in between all the usual static.

At night, 1060 is dominated by the Cuban station but once in a while, KYW is listenable in the background. That's very rare, though.

Back when I first moved here, KYW was easily heard most nights.

 

[dualux]

Unfortunately here in Austin,Texas, 1060-AM KFIT, licensed to nearby Lockhart, Texas is a radio station that consistently violates FCC rules and stays on the air well into the night at full power even though it is a daytimer that is required to sign off at local sunset. Why the FCC doesn't fine them, I don't know. This has been going on for over a year now, every night. That being the case, all we hear at night in our city is the illegal daytimer at 1060.

 

[boombox4]

Here in the metro Seattle area it's CKMX Calgary at night, with a local strength signal most nights.

If CKMX is missing or weak, it's either an aurora (time to aim the antenna N-S) or miserable conditions (time to turn the radio off).

On rare occasions I've heard and UNID talk station on an E-W bearing, but never was able to ID it.

Had a tentative logging of KGFX Pierre SD once.