AM Frequency of the week: 1070

[schmave]

Reynoldsburg, Ohio ... day and night, it's pretty much nothing if a very weak WFNI doesn't make it here. Nothing is dominant on 1070, but if something is audible, it's usually Indianapolis.
When I lived in Houston, first on the northwest side and then in League City right along the border with Friendswood, it was KNTH at all hours (in both instances, I lived virtually in the middle of their directional lobe at all hours). Very good signal daytime and at least when I lived in League City, it was solid at night as well but not strong enough to overpower next-door neighbor KRLD outside a little slop.
It was and likely still is much weaker in the Katy area because of a daytime null to the southwest. Guessing part or all of Fort Bend County also falls in this null, but I never tried KNTH there so I don't know that for sure.

 

[formula72]

Days..Nothing

Nights...KNX from Los Angeles, is pretty strong up here in Northern California. About as strong as KFI ( AM 640 ) with some fade here and there. If I null KNX, I can hear KFAX, from Victoria, Canada. I wonder if they ( KFAX ) changed there pattern a bit at night to allow a few thousand watts to travel south.

 

[cyberdad]

I wonder if they ( KFAX ) changed there pattern a bit at night to allow a few thousand watts to travel south.

Some Canadian stations....and more than a handful of Americans....are known to be "forgetting" to power down on a frequent basis. IME on the west coast, CFAX seems to usually get out pretty well at night. I've heard it under KNX on several occasions,

 

[rfry]

CFAX is licensed for 24/7 operation using 10 kW tx power into a directional array with the same pattern day & night. Their radiated ERP (in watts) is shown in the graphic below; North is toward the top of the pattern.

 

[JeffSteele]

WDIA
Memphis, Tennessee

https://mywdia.iheart.com/

 

[formula72]

CFAX is licensed for 24/7 operation using 10 kW tx power into a directional array with the same pattern day & night. Their radiated ERP (in watts) is shown in the graphic below; North is toward the top of the pattern.

In all intent and purposes, I should not be able to hear them, but I do.

 

[channel99]

@ Ryan Howard (and others) :

Here is the nighttime map of stations on 1070, courtesy of one NF8M site.

http://nf8m.com/pattern_maps/current/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED/NIGHTTIME-UNLIMITED_1070KHz-1.html

The site, geeky and cool and very 'hobby', might need some maneuvering with the cursor and the up-down keys on the computer to find the desired region or station.

Note both the huge, protected void away from Canada's Moncton.
And WKOK's nighttime 1000 watts sent virtually at Independence Hall.

CBA Moncton was very strong in the Boston area at night. I had one car radio button set to it - not for DX reasons, but to listen to the CBC reporting vs the US broadcasters on major events.

 

[WahooWah]

West central Georgia:

Day: WAPI Birmingham AL news/talk weak signal despite 50,000 watts

Night: Battle between WAPI, WFLI Chattanooga TN oldies and WCSZ Greenville SC Spanish - WAPI usually is on top

Would love to catch KNX but just too much competition on 1070 in the southeast

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

i forget if i answered this

Laramie, WY.

KNX 1070 after dark. .and some nights, all night, very listenable. there are some winter days where KNX is audible all day... maybe barely there at lunch time but its there.

Right before/at sunset, KFTI

 

[asugeorge1]

In all intent and purposes, I should not be able to hear them, but I do.

I have also been perplexed to hear CFAX as far south as Northern California at night. I have heard them overpower KNX as far south as Eureka and that is something that shouldn’t happen, but it does. Same thing happens here where I live in Phoenix, AZ. There is an American pop music station from what I assume is south of the border that sometimes overpowers KNX at night. Not sure what that station is either, but just a few weeks ago I heard “Tom’s Diner” from Suzanne Vega playing fairly strong with no KNX to be seen. ?

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

I have also been perplexed to hear CFAX as far south as Northern California at night. I have heard them overpower KNX as far south as Eureka and that is something that shouldn’t happen, but it does. Same thing happens here where I live in Phoenix, AZ. There is an American pop music station from what I assume is south of the border that sometimes overpowers KNX at night. Not sure what that station is either, but just a few weeks ago I heard “Tom’s Diner” from Suzanne Vega playing fairly strong with no KNX to be seen. ?

I've heard CFAX weakly and briefly ONCE in 9 months in Wyoming

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

On WahooWah's WFLI reception :

More than once, we up near JFK Airport in the Sixties got a kick when they announced their sunset power drop.

It went something like, 'At this time, WFLI Lookout Mountain Tennessee, changes to
its nighttime ........'

They could be quite loud before they'd vanish. Fine-sounding station. I forget if they were Top 40 or R&B at the time, or maybe a mix of both.

* * * * * * *

Odd ... not one single Clear Chan ... oops; I meant iHeart ..... owned station is listed in the Chattanooga book.
WFLI certainly isn't, either. Unless they've changed letters.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

On WahooWah's WFLI reception :

More than once, we up near JFK Airport in the Sixties got a kick when they announced their sunset power drop.

It went something like, 'At this time, WFLI Lookout Mountain Tennessee, changes to
its nighttime ........'

They could be quite loud before they'd vanish. Fine-sounding station. I forget if they were Top 40 or R&B at the time, or maybe a mix of both.

* * * * * * *

Odd ... not one single Clear Chan ... oops; I meant iHeart ..... owned station is listed in the Chattanooga book.
WFLI certainly isn't, either. Unless they've changed letters.

You have to pay to be listed in the ratings book

 

[tomservo]

From Baldwin County, Alabama, near the Gulf of Mexico:

Days: A very weak WNVY Pensacola, with their religious programming.
Nights: More often than note, WAPI Birmingham, which is now just a red-headed stepchild simulcast for 100 kW "Talk 99.5". It's also not unusual to hear WDIA Memphis, TN here instead.

 

[cyberdad]

From Baldwin County, Alabama, near the Gulf of Mexico:
Days: A very weak WNVY Pensacola, with their religious programming.

Where we vacation on the Gulf at the Alabama-Florida state line, WNVY has a fantastic day signal. At night when they power down, WNVY disappears completely, and 1070 sounds pretty much like what you descibed, Although, WDIA seems to be on top a little more often than WAPI.

Speaking of WAPI, I used to do the run 3-4 times a year on I-20 from Birmingham to Jackson, MS on biz trips. WAPI..50kw omni daytime....was barely audible by the time I got to the Mississippi state line. 120 miles by car, IIRC, and probably just 100 miles straight line. Welcome to lousy ground conductivity along with the mountains around B-ham!

 

[seattlesarchiebunker]

Pine Grove, CA:

Daytime: Not a darned thing

Nighttime: Strong KNX starting about an hour before local sunset. If I try to null out KNX, I can pick up CFAX poorly.

Lynnwood, WA:

Daytime: faint CFAX signal

Nighttime: CFAX, can be nulled to pick up a *very faint* KNX signal.

Note that CFAX and CBU 690 were the only Canadian stations on AM I could regularly pick up 24/7 in the north Seattle suburbs. Somewhat unusual as I was near the Puget Sound and apparently those lower mainland stations boom down the sound.

 

[cyberdad]

Pine Grove, CA:
Note that CFAX and CBU 690 were the only Canadian stations on AM I could regularly pick up 24/7 in the north Seattle suburbs. Somewhat unusual as I was near the Puget Sound and apparently those lower mainland stations boom down the sound.

On my business trips to Seattle in the 2000s, I used to be able to pick up those two, along with CKBD (600...now dark), CISL(650) and CKWX (1130). All weak, but listenable 24/7. I'm not sure if CISL is still on, but CKWX definitely is.

In Vancouver and Victoria, most of the big Seattle signals were listenable 24/7. KVI and KTTH were a little "scratchy," but KIRO and KJR could trip the scan function in my rental cars. So could KOMO and 1090 occasionally.