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AM Frequency of the week - 1070 KHz

30 miles north of Chicago it's mostly WTSO. However, sometimes I hear Indianapolis underneath.
At sunrise I hear Sarnia, Ont, & sometimes Wichita & Birmingham. At night sometimes KNX & very rarely WDIA.
 
1070 From Lexington KY:

Daytime:

WFNI Indianapolis (It Will ALWAYS BE WIBC to me, however)

Nighttime:

WFNI Indianapolis, IN
CHOK Sarnia, ON

Sunrise/Sunset (A Very Fertile Frequecy at Sunrise/Sunset)

WTSO Madison, WI
WDIA Memphis, TN
WFLI Lookout Mtn, TN
WEKT Elkton, KY
WAPI Birmingham, AL
WKOK Sunbury, PA
WIWA Beckley, WV
 
Daytime in Rochester NY, it's mostly WSCP 1070 Sandy Creek/Pulaski, north of Syracuse. WKOK Sunbury PA is a frequent sunset visitor, and then it's mostly CHOK Sarnia at night now that CBA is gone.
 
Northern VA:

Days, I get a distant news/talker WINA from Charlottesville, VA about 80 miles SW of me.

Around sunset, I sometimes get WKOK up in Sunbury, PA and WNCT down in NC.

At night it's WFNI in Indianapolis. I once had the WFNI calls displayed on my Sony XDR-F1HD during the night.
When I was in Oregon, I get KNX every night but nothing during the day.
 
Warminster PA:

Daytime: splatter from KYW, sometimes WKMB from North Jersey.
Night: Used to hear CBA from Moncton before they went dark.
Now, mostly WIBC from Indy. Never got KNX.
 
Daytime here in East Texas it's a weak signal from KNTH Houston, if the IBOC from KRLD can be fought off. Nighttime, KLIO Wichita usually has a solid signal, but WDIA sometimes slips in for a while before before sunrise.
 
Sunny Southwest Ohio

Day
WFNI Indianapolis - "Radio Indiana, WIBC"/"Wib C" & in the past, home of Easy Gwynn, Dick Summer, Bouncin' Bill Baker, Jim Shelton and his "Pick-A-Pocket" show, and the World's Greatest Farm Director...Harry Andrews.

Night
WFNI Indianapolis - Usually there.
CHOK Sarnia - Spotty

Sunrise/Sunset
WAPI Birmingham AL
WFLI Lookout Mountain TN
WIWA/WBKW Beckley WV
WDIA Memphis TN - Only once.
WTWK Plattsburgh NY - Only once. Didn't ID, but doing Bloomberg
 
Between Pottsville and Hazleton PA here.

For some reason, WKOK Sunbury PA is the daytime regular. Yet they don't seem to push as far as they should at 10,000 watts omni. On the car radio, KYW 1060 is just as loud.

WKOK's nighttime pattern is bizarre -- aimed basically right at KYW in Philly even though KYW was on the adjacent long before WKOK was. WKOK's nighttime pattern appears to send some juice our way, but you'd never know it. We once drove in back of their towers at night -- I think only three of the five are lit -- and it was like driving behind WOKV/WAPE's on 690 on Florida. Complete electromagnetic chaos.

Back in the Sixties, WKOK was on 1240. They'd come in somewhat regularly at sunset near JFK airport, and once at night with WGBB on. There's a 1240 now in Selinsgrove, south by a few miles from Sunbury, on the west bank of the Susquehanna. I don't believe that the tower is the same one off which WKOK used to broadcast.

Indianapolis, Sarnia, North Carolina are all frequent visitors at sunset. I got all of them one sunset on the car radio -- in Shamokin.
 
Far Northwest Suburban Chicago.....

Day: WTSO.Fair/Weak....WFNI sometimes underneath. I'm about 70 miles from the WTSO 10kw stick, but in the null that protects Indy.

Night: WTSO, WFNI, and CHOK are the usuals. None of which is able to regularly dominate the channel. Every now-and-then visitors include KFDI (or whatever Wichita now calls itself), WDIA, WKOK, or WFLI. KNX also sometimes makes it....usually pre-dawn.

Sidebar story.... One clear night two years ago, I was on a nearly empty flight from San Francisco to Chicago Midway. I grabbed a window seat in the back, pulled out my SRF 37 Walkman and started DX-ing. (I have several airline pilot friends who live near me...ALL of whom have told me this is NOT a safety issue for them).

Anyway, KNX was easily the strongest station on the dial for the entire distance over the rockies and through the great plains. About three hours of flying. Then after we passed Omaha, it started rapidly fading. By the Mississippi River it was totally lost in the slop.
 
40 miles NW of O'Hare airport (SE McHenry County)

WTSO Madison, WI (daytime)
WFNI Indianapolis, IN (daytime; former WIBC, under WTSO)
KHMO Hannibal, MO
KLIO Wichita, KS (former KFDI)
WAPI Birmingham, AL
KNX Los Angeles, CA (occasionally a few hours before local sunrise)
CHOK Sarnia, ON
WDIA Memphis, TN
 
NE North Carolina Days: 1070 WNCT Greenville, NC
Critical hours: WKOK Sunbury, PA , WFNI Indianapolis.
Nights is a mess. Will listen some more.

Interesting phenomenon heard on 1070. I'll post it in another thread.
 
1070 AM from Vermilion, OH

Daytime: Moderate signal strength of CHOK/Sarnia, ON (Country station which also broadcasts on 103.9 FM from Sarnia)
Night: A jumble of multiple stations with no one station standing out
 
RyanHoward said:
Warminster PA:

Daytime: splatter from KYW, sometimes WKMB from North Jersey.
Night: Used to hear CBA from Moncton before they went dark.
Now, mostly WIBC from Indy. Never got KNX.
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Correction. That's WFNI from Indy. I believe I also heard WKOK from here.
 
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