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AM Frequency of the week: 1060

cyberdad

cyberdad

Sorry I'm late to the party this week. I was busy "Celebrating America" during the long weekend with friends and fam.

Anyway here back at the ranch on the far northwest fringe of the Chicago metro.....

Day: 1060 is a very weak WHFB from Benton Harbor, MI. Back in the 70s, IIRC they went from 1kw to 5kw, which did next to nothing for them in terms of improving their signal at my location. I'm actually closer to the 1060 in Rochelle, IL. But their 500-watt signal is severely nulled in my direction (east-northeast).

Night: KYW is normally in with a good signal and alone. But with KYW nulled, XEEP is sometimes audible.

Other Locations: At our beach getaway place near Pensacola, KYW is almost always absent and XEEP is one of the most reliable Mexican signals.

Closer to home,CKMX is widely heard on occasions around the Midwest, but elusive for me at my home location. I've heard them at various points nearby however.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WHFB with weak signal
Nightime: usually KYW with good signal. XEEP Radio Educacion is quite common with KYW nulled

DX/RETRO: others heard on 1060 include KHYM (Gilmer, TX), KFIL (Preston, MN), WLNO (New Orleans, LA), WKKQ (Hibbing, MN), WILB (Canton, OH), WQMV (Waverly, TN), WKRE (Monroe, NC), WQOM (Boston, MA) and CKMX (Calgary, AB) with their comedy format.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
WHFB should be pretty good along the Lakeshore, if they are running full power. Can't be the DA, they are nondirectional!

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WHFB&service=AM&h=D
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Being near the lakeshore I can confirm that. WHFB comes in quite well during the daytime and at night it's KYW.

A few nights ago I was hearing WHFB even at night. It wasn't as strong as KYW but you could hear it decently under KYW, enough to get an ID. On radio-locator.com it's listed at 1.3 W at night. What's going on here? Are they just operating at critical hours or daylight power at night? (this was way after sunset). I have observed this phenomenon with several other stations too. On the same nights I was hearing WHFB I also heard KOWZ on 1170 from a very different direction when officially they were operating at 5 watts.
 
Mason City, IA:
Daytime-a very weak KFIL/Chatfield, MN
Nighttime-splatter, have never really been able to receive KYW

Central KS:
Daytime-splatter from KFTI next door
Nighttime-KFTI splatter plus XEEP
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs, daytime is WHFB with a fair signal. It used to be better years ago. At night KYW is usually strong and solid. When I null KYW I usually hear XEEP.

Retro: When I first heard Philly on 1060 the calls were WRCV. I think KYW moved in around 1965. Also in the fall and winter WNOE (now WLNO) was easily heard in the midwest until they cut their power and changed patterns at New Orleans sunset. I have not heard WLNO in recent years.
 
Forgot all about WLNO. As WNOE, every so often they'd apparently forget to go to night pattern, and they'd mix with....or overcome....KYW here at my home location.

On the beach near P-cola they'd put in a good signal 24/7....and for a few seasons, they even had Cubs games. Now, as WLNO, the day signal is still fair-good, But at night they get very week, and XEEP usually clobbers them.
 
cyberdad said:
Forgot all about WLNO. As WNOE, every so often they'd apparently forget to go to night pattern, and they'd mix with....or overcome....KYW here at my home location.

On the beach near P-cola they'd put in a good signal 24/7....and for a few seasons, they even had Cubs games. Now, as WLNO, the day signal is still fair-good, But at night they get very week, and XEEP usually clobbers them.
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Has their transmitting site been altered since they were WNOE?
 
East Tennessee: Daytime-Local to parts of the area, WNPC, Newport TN which mostly exists to feed a translator
Night-KYW but when it's auroral, WLNO.

Retro-other: Nothing really comes to mind in Ohio during the daytime, but KYW definitely at night. I've caught WHFB, Benton Harbor MI apparently running full power when KYW was off on Bob Hawkins' Central Indiana SDR
 
Daytime, usually nothing, or a very weak KFIL from Preston, MN. I've also heard WRHL from Rochelle, IL, about 130 miles east, a 250 watt operation that shows up surprisingly often. Probably daytime skywave, but it's frequent enough to be rather puzzling.
Nighttime is usually KYW. I've also heard XEEP from Mexico City and CKMX Calgary. WLNO I haven't heard for years, but it used to be an occasional visitor a long time ago when it was WNOE. Probably for the reason cyberdad suggested -- for a long time, I actually thought WNOE was a 50kW day-and-night operation. I've also heard WRHL at night, with all of 50 watts.
 
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Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
* Daytime: Nothing
* Nighttime: Always KYW, usually with a listenable to very good signal.
 
So is XEEP the station that gives KYW -- 100 miles SSE of me -- fits on the car radio at night? Whatever that station is, improbable music and all, never identifies. How does one ID a station that never ID's ?!?!?
I only have them listed on my 'heard' log because that's who everyone says they are. Quite a signal, if they are they.

KYW is here day and night atop 1060. Word is that they were heard in Hawaii on occasion. Considering the curvature of the globe plus their pattern, why not?

One morning here in PA, with the sun already outside and the Zenith table radio scolding me to get my A out of B, there was the usual news/weather/traffic on 1060. But it wasn't KYW. It was that thing out of Natick Massachusetts. Betcher bippy I became wide-eyed. I forget what their call letters were at the time. They might have been on their critical hours pattern at the moment. But I was hearing traffic and weather and time for Boston, not Philly.

I never ever heard that Natick station back in the JFK Airport-area DX days. But they were atop the frequency that morning on the bedroom-table radio here in NEPA. No sign of KYW.
 
From the far SW suburbs of Kansas City:

Day: Nothing, totally quiet. There is a station in Springfield, MO but I have not heard them as yet.

Critical Hours: KYW, XEEP [winter critical hours], WLNO - New Orleans, KRCN - Longmont, CO

Nighttime: KYW, XEEP. At times, neither station can be heard.

Bob
 
In west Houston, during the day I can sometimes hear XERDO "La Raza" from Matamoros, but usually it's overwhelmed by local 1050 KCHN slop. Nearing sunset, I can hear WLNO, but at night XEEP dominates. I have not ID'ed KYW yet from here.

In Tulsa in the 70's, WNOE dominated the frequency, with KYW heard in its null. I also recall CKMX being heard on a Monday morning with WNOE off. I don't remember XEEP back then.
 
Days...KTNS from Oakhurst, but the signal is so faint its almost not there, but I could hear it. This one, I had to work for, just to hear something. Thanks to my Sangean PR-D5, I was able to snag it ( albeit with the volume all the way up ).

Night..CKMX from Calgary Canada. It comes and goes, but its there. During the winter time, its got a pretty good signal in these parts.
 
No 1060 in the Bay...I was scrolling through the dial last night when I came upon a very weak signal. I tried tuning it in, and to my surprise, it was playing stand-up comedy. I had never heard this station before. I immediately took out my phone and looked up the frequency: CKMX, a 50 Kw out of Calgary. What a find! I know y'all already know about it, but still, the excitement!
 
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