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AM Frequency of the week: 1080

cyberdad

cyberdad

This week, the question is "what do you guys hear on 1080"?

For me 24/7, it's WNWI, a semi-local from the southwest Chicago suburbs. 4kw ND day, 3.6kw nights aimed mostly in my direction from about 50 miles away. Signal is fair, and doesn't vary much day or night. WTIC sometimes puts in appearances around sunrise and sunset. Also KRLD, but less frequently.

It doesn't hurt WNWI that my local area is in the nighttime nulls of both WTIC and KRLD, so before WNWI came on, the channel was fairly open. A weak KRLD was the more common of the two blowtorches when both were on night pattern. Also before WNWI came on, 1080 was occupied here during the day by a weak WPOK from Pontiac, IL. That one is long gone, but it was 1kw ND from about 100 miles south of me.
 
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Same thing here in the near north Chicago suburbs. WNWI day & night. I used to hear both WTIC & KRLD occasionally, but not anymore. Thanks for reminding me about WPOK. I had long ago forgotten about that one.
 
Nothing during the daytime. KRLD used to be a regular at night, now it seems like I hear it seldom or never. I don't think I get much on 1080 at night.
 
Here around Columbus, Ohio, not much of anything day or night. I'm 37 now and I swear I remember WTIC having a better signal into this area 20-25 years ago than it does today. You can barely hear it at night, and there is equal or lesser chance of hearing KRLD. I have received KRLD here twice ... once weakly maybe a year or two ago, and one rainy night in January 2007. It was before KRLD switched to night pattern, and it was very loud here around Columbus for a while. I heard this in the car on my way to work, and when I came out a few hours later, KRLD was gone.
 
1080's been pretty good to me here in NE Pennsylvania, though nothing audible is there at midday.

WTIC is the nighttime regular, usually the only thing there despite that casual 2-tower null away from Dallas.

Sunset catches here include WRES from KY, WKBY from VA, WUFO Buffalo, and two from NC (WKGX and WKKE).

KRLD came in on both occasions when WTIC was publicly off for a few hours, once in 2001 and once several years later, In fact, KRLD was so loud on the first occasion that a Long Island pal of mine dismissed any monitoring of it because he thought it was WTIC!

I have 'tape' from KRLD, WKBY and WKGX.
 
Before local Seattle station 1090 KFNQ switched on their IBOC, I was able to receive ESPN stations from Portland OR and Coeur D' Alene ID, in slapback echo, along with an UNID talk station I'm certain is the one in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Now I only get the Portland station if I null out the IBOC (on most of my radios). With the PRD5's selectivity it's a bit better, but still enough remnants of IBOC get through to keep me from DXing the frequency much.
 
In San Antonio it's a barely readable KRLD during the day. At night KRLD comes up pretty strong. In the background I can hear XETUL, Radio Mexiquense, 0.25 kW from Tultitlán, Mexico. If I minimize KRLD as much as possible through nulling, XETUL becomes fairly readable but fades occasionally. One time last fall I heard Radio Cadena Habana in that same semi-null.
 
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