AM Frequency of the week: 1100

[cyberdad]

Far Northwest environs of "Chicagoland".....

Day: Moderate splatter from WMBI (Chicago. 4.2kw ND daytimer)

Night: WTAM owns 1100 with a really good signal.

Other Location: Go a half hour north of me, and you start hearing WISS ( Berlin, WI. 2,5kw daytimer). I've never heard it here between WMBI splatter and WISS dropping to 1.6kw during critical hours.

Sidebar somewhat OT story: One morning about 15-20 years ago I woke up around 5am in my Belleville, ON hotel room to hear country music on 1100 at around 5:00am Eastern (about an hour before dawn). I immediately thought I had logged a new station....and one with a good signal at that. Well, sure enough, I did get a positive ID. It was WTAM.

Format change????

Then... I remembered what day it was..... April 1!

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime it's WMBI splatter. At night it's all WTAM with usually a very good signal.
A few years ago when there were spring floods in the upper midwest, WZFG from the Fargo, ND area was allowed to run day power at night and gave WTAM a strong battle.

Retro/other: When I first heard Cleveland on 1100 the calls were KYW which originally was in Chicago. Then Cleveland became WKYC, then WWWE, then WTAM. Lots of call letter changes. (Am I forgetting any?) On trips to the west coast KFAX usually dominates. KFAX is one of the strongest night signals I've heard from the mainland in Hawaii.

 

[gr8oldies]

East Tennessee: WTAM probably has the best night signal on the band, and sometimes is available all day on a good winter daytime skip day. Otherwise, the present-day WWWE in the Atlanta market makes it in around sunset. Nightime, it's all WTAM.

Dayton, OH: All WTAM, but as referenced above, WZFG, Dilworth MN was on daytime power/pattern for a few days because of severe flooding and easily made it to Dayton. I also caught it on the Central IN SDR one winter day where the skip stayed in all day.

 

[DXBob]

From the far SW suburbs of Kansas City:

Day: Some local splatter and KKLL, Joplin, MO - a 5 kW non-directional daytimer just makes it in here.

Critical Hours: KKLL is overtaken by WTAM quickly once critical hours begins.

Night: A solid WTAM. One of more dependable skywave signals at my location. They disappear quickly at local sunrise here.

Retro: In high school in the late 60s in Peoria, IL, I regularly listened to the late "Big Jack" evenings on then WKYC on a RCA tabletop radio in my bedroom. "Big Jack" was a fast talking, high energy Top 40 air personality. If you have never heard him, here is a clip: https://youtu.be/hUhtPyObf1A He also had a stint at Top 40 station WIXY in Cleveland before joining WKYC.

 

[radioman148]

From the far SW suburbs of Kansas City:


Retro: In high school in the late 60s in Peoria, IL, I regularly listened to the late "Big Jack" evenings on then WKYC on a RCA tabletop radio in my bedroom. "Big Jack" was a fast talking, high energy Top 40 air personality. If you have never heard him, here is a clip: https://youtu.be/hUhtPyObf1A He also had a stint at Top 40 station WIXY in Cleveland before joining WKYC.

Jack Armstrong was one of the fastest talkers in Top 40 radio. B Mitchell Reed did that too especially in NY on WMCA.
He changed completely when he went to AOR.

 

[DXBob]

Jack Armstrong was one of the fastest talkers in Top 40 radio. B Mitchell Reed did that too especially in NY on WMCA.
He changed completely when he went to AOR.

I have a CD-R of a 1963 board recording made at WMCA. I would say B. Mitchell Reed wins the award as the fastest talker of all-time. Amazing!

Bob

 

[radioman148]

Agreed. He was very fast on “MCA”, not so much on KFWB especially in later years.

 

[EricStein]

During the day: KFNX 1100, Cave Creek, AZ (local). At night: KNZZ (Grand Junction, CO) bleeding over KFNX.

 

[WCJ]

Orange County, TX Days, nothing Nights WTAM

 

[CADXER]

Here in Wood Dale, Illinois (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: Nothing possible due to WMBI on 1110 just under 3 miles away from me.
Nightime: dominant WTAM (ex WWWE)

Other DX on this frequency: KDRY (Alamo Heights, TX), KKLL (Webbb City, MO), WSGI (Springfield, TN), WCGA (Woodbine, GA). Also heard WZFG, Dilworth, MN during an emergency broadcast in 2009. Foreign ones include Barranquilla, Colombia and several Cubans (Radio Taino, etc.)

 

[wildthangjim]

From west Houston, daytime is splatter from locals on 1090 and 1110. At sunset I've heard KDRY in Alamo Heights (San Antonio). Nights are usually WTAM, but I have also heard XETGO, Radio Cañon, in Tlaltenango, Zacatecas, MX (possibly on day power).

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

In NE PA here, with all of my DX totals having been set back to '000', the daytimer is WGPA Bethlehem PA.
Here's their pattern, re Radio-Locator. We're off the map entirely.

One June sunset I caught (and taped) WHLI from Long Island. That's queer, because I've always insisted that WHLI's two-tower daytime only signal was designed to PROTECT WGPA.

During the evenings, it's WWWE, or WKYC, or KYW, or WTAM -- whatever their legal ID is now. They have a nice 50,000 watt omni signal

 

[KeithE4]

During the day: KFNX 1100, Cave Creek, AZ (local). At night: KNZZ (Grand Junction, CO) bleeding over KFNX.

It's KFNX 24/7 in NE Mesa. Very little trace of KNZZ even when I null KFNX.

 

[schmave]

From Reynoldsburg, Ohio, it's always WTAM to a greater or lesser degree, usually lesser.
It's audible here at all hours, roughly 140 miles southwest of the tower. Daytime it's probably 3-4 on a 1-10 scale, and at night it's greatly affected by cancellation. Sometimes the signal sounds excellent, other times it's barely audible.
From my experience, their ring of cancellation starts at roughly 70-75 miles out and goes to maybe about 150.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WGPA Bethlehem PA(very weak due to local WNAP on 1110).
Night: WTAM Cleveland(1100 The Team, ex-WKYC, ex-WWWE).

 

[WahooWah]

West central Georgia:

Night: WTAM

Day: WWWE Atlanta (5000 watts day)