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AM Frequency of the Week: 1060

cyberdad

cyberdad

Up one more notch this week with a stop at 1060. What have you guys been hearing there lately?

Here 40 or so miles northwest of downtown Chicago during the daytime it's normally a weak WHFB from Benton Harbor, Michigan. I don't know all of the "gory details", but this station appears to have had a rather uneven history...including at least one significant period when it went dark. I remember it as a 1kw ND daytimer when I was a teenager. Now it's 5kw ND (2.5kw CH), with low-power night service. The thing that sticks in my mind, however, is that the station doesn't sound any stronger whatsoever at 5kw than it did when it was 1kw.

Could that have something to do with the fact that extreme southwest lower Michigan is basically sand dune with horrid ground conductivity, while the lake (bottom) and the adjacent area on the Illinois and Wisconsin shore has good conductivity? I have no idea. At any rate during the day, when WHFB has been off, I sometimes would get a wiff of WRHL from Rochelle, IL. That's 500 watts day about 40 miles to my west-southwest. There's a serious null to the east, so I almost never hear it.

Nights, it's generally all KYW with a good signal. If I null it, I can occasionally hear XEEP. Not all of the time, but not exactly rare, either. "Back in the day" WNOE was a fairly frequent visitor around sunset and sometime would sneak in night.
 
About 20 miles or so north of Chicago WHFB is stronger here and is what I hear during the day. At night it's usually all
KYW. However, I do hear XEEP once in awhile especially during auroras.
Back in the day WNOE was a regular visitor this time of year and came in quite strong for about an hour or so before they dropped power at sunset. I heard them a few times after the power drop, but their signal before the pattern change in the fall and early winter was very good.
 
As bad as the KTCT-1050 signal is, it still swamps this frequency. At least they aren't running HD lately. When they did, 1060 was hopeless. CKMX is the only thing in my logbook for 1060, though there are a couple of Nevada stations that seem like they should reach the Bay Area.
 
Day and night here it's KYW Philly.
Occasionally at night they get chewed up by the station that plays operas and never identifies.

One bright sunrise, the clock radio went off and I listened for a time check from KYW. I got the time check, allright. Only it was from that Boston station, on probably their critical-hours pattern. Their format was business radio at the time.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Day and night here it's KYW Philly.
Occasionally at night they get chewed up by the station that plays operas and never identifies.
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Operas? That actually sounds like it could be XEEP, which primarily programs cultural and educational content.
 
In north Georgia its WKNG, King Country from Tallapoosa GA during the day. At night, its a mess of cheaters along with KYW in the mix.
 
@ HGR1290: We were down at my Folks place in Florida on a vacation. They lived in the relatively-new Villages, between Ocala and Leesburg. I was on the lawn in a beach chair with a drink just about sunset and waving around a barefoot GR SR II.

Despite a few indifferent fades with nothing else IDable, KYW was coming in. The wife, with her usual perfect timing, comes out just as they IDed. She's originally from outside Phiily.

'You came all the way down here with that nice radio just to hear THEM?' she asks.

I don't think many girls understand DX,
 
In Charleston it is KYW at night, every night with differing strengths. 1060 daytime is a weak signal from Titusville, FL. It used to be much stronger, but it isn't anymore.

I was just N of Atlantic City a few days ago, and KYW was coming in pretty well, but with a lot of interference because of distance.
 
During the day in S.A., it's a weak but listenable KFIT, a gospel daytimer in Lockhart, TX.

XEEP in Mexico City and XERDO (La Raza) in Valle Hermosa are regularly heard at night, with the latter being most dominant. There's also a bit of splatter from the powerful XEG on 1050.

At sunrise I've heard KRCN in Longmont, CO, a few times. Also, I can usually hear KXPL in El Paso, TX, when it signs on for the day. It mixes with XERDO until skywave is gone.
 
Back before they went off the air, in the Daytime, with a tuned inductive antenna or preamp with a long wire, you could hear a very weak WBMB 1060 West Branch, MI, about 90 miles away with 1 kW in bad conductivity. Near Sunset, you could occasionally hear WHFB, but because KYW is East of me, usually it was strong before Sunset. Also heard WNOE around Sunset occasionally, and a few others occasionally that I would have to look up. The Delco in the car wouldn't even pick up WBMB. It was probably in the 25 uV/m range. KYW almost always comes in at Night.
 
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In Northwest Arkansas -

Daytime - (Late afternoon, at least) - I may hear KRCN, Longmont, CO

Nighttime - A mix of stations - One of them is KFIT, Lockhart, TX

I may also hear KRCN in the mix at night. (I originally heard that station in the early morning hours)
 
Daytime..Nothing

Nights...CKMX out of Calgary, Canada. This station is over 1020 miles from me, and comes in pretty darn good ( even in doors ).
 
Yakima, WA
Days - usually nothing summer, winter usually brings CKMX Calgary (Comedy) in all day, sometimes mixing with KBGN Caldwell (Religion).
Nights - CKMX, often mixing with KFOY Sparks, NV (La Mexicana) on 500 watts. There are occasional nights where I can pull XEEP Mexico City (Radio Educacion) out of the jumble, usually through a parallel of their webstream.
Other stations caught include KDYL South Salt Lake, UT (relaying China Radio International), KDUS Tempe AZ (NBC Sports), KGFX Pierre, SD (Classic Country), KRCN Longmont, CO (heard when they were part of the 'Radio Colorado Network' and airing business talk, now Catholic), and KKVV Las Vegas NV once at sunrise during aurora (Christian Talk).

Wanted on 1060...
KTNS Oakhurst, CA. Apparently they are 'La Maquina Musical', Regional Mexican, and 5000 watts day. This should be easy, yet I've tried for years for KTNS and never heard them.
XERDO Matamoros, TAM. La Raza, 2.5KW nighttime but heard several times over the past couple years by a friend up in British Columbia. I've heard Regional Mexican music way down in the pile when cx are good toward the SE, but they have always faded before I could get a confirmation.
KYW Philadelphia, PA. Maybe in my dreams. But being out here on the west coast, I'm always hoping for a Philadelphia or New York station to come through. A couple years ago I confirmed both WGY-810 and KDKA-1020.
 
1060 is usually KDUS in Tempe here in San Diego at night. The 1060 in Northern California (KPAY) used to be there occasionally, before the 1050 in The Bay Area bought it out so that the 1050 could increase power. Once I was up early on a school day, when I was in college, and WNOE was coming in pretty well. I only heard NOE once!
 
Orange County, TX Days WLNO, ex-WNOE New Orleans and nights they are the most reliable along with XEEP
 
Addendum to my 2016 comment: WHFB, Benton Harbor, MI has been a frequent flier running day power at night. Heard on the Edinburgh IN SDR, with KYW off the air and behind KYW.
 
gr8oldies said:
Addendum to my 2016 comment: WHFB, Benton Harbor, MI has been a frequent flier running day power at night. Heard on the Edinburgh IN SDR, with KYW off the air and behind KYW.
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I heard something trashing KYW a couple of nights ago. I guess now I know what it probably was. If memory serves, this isn't WHFB's first go-round as "frequent flyer" at night.
 
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