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AM Frequency of the week: 1110

cyberdad

cyberdad

What are you guys hearing on 1110 these days.....

Here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago daytime it's a good signal from 4.2 kw ND WMBI. Chicago is the COL, but the stick is in west-northwest suburban Addison. That helps them with coverage in most suburban areas. Not so much in the city or on the Indiana side of the metro. Still, the signal at my location is not quite what it was when they were at 5kw. Not sure why they made the drop. WMBI is a daytimer, broadcasting religious programming in Spanish.

Nights: WMBI signs off and 1110 becomes fairly empty, due be being in the nulls of both WBT and KFAB. Each of them surfaces from time to time, but these two are more common around sunrise and sunset. Especially KFAB. Adjacents WTAM and KMOX on 1100 and 1120 respectively both have good skywave signals here, so the resultant splatter doesn't help matters at night.
 
North Houston: Days, Class D, KTEK Alvin operating at 2.5kW. Nights, I've never heard anything other than KFAB from up in Omaha. Have to mention the Dallas daytime blowtorch KVTT Mineral Wells, as they typically sign on the 50kW rig before KTEK begins their broadcast day.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's WMBI by day & at night a very weak KFAB most often. WBT comes in pre-sunrise when they change pattern.
 
WBT and KFAB at the predictable times. Recently, I heard WJML Petoskey, MI, WGNZ Fairborn, OH, and WMBI Chicago, IL right before signoff and power down times, the same night. Usually, WBT is what you hear at night in areas outside the Class D groundwaves of other stations on 1110.
 
One of the quietest channels on the AM band here (southeast corner of Michigan).

Used to have CKJD from Sarnia, with country. I think they left the AM band about 20 years ago.

Back in the day, I would listen to WBT in the early evening to listen to their music in stereo (they were using Kahn). They would change pattern at Omaha sunset, and nearly all of the night the channel would be nearly vacant with KFAB and WBT protecting each other.

At least one time I heard KFAB in presunrise morning, as they were allowed (back then) to go to their day pattern at Charlotte sunrise.

I don't know if either of these stations does extended day pattern time or not nowadays.

I never did add XERED to my log, and it was not for lack of trying.
 
Nothing all day. If anything maybe a very weak KFAB, but not worth trying to listen.

Similar situation at night. KFAB shows up occasionally. I can't recall ever having heard WBT here. Splatter from WTAM and KMOX pretty much takes care of the rest.
 
Here around Columbus, Ohio, it's always WGNZ from Fairborn, Ohio (transmitter in Xenia) daytime. They have a solid signal, then disappear at night and not much else comes in. Usually 1110 ends up being covered by IBOC interference from KMOX.
When I went to check the proper call letters for WGNZ, I found out they run two watts at night. Might as well not even be on the air.
 
Usually nothing days, just an occasional very weak WBT which seldom comes in at night. KFAB around sunset.
I don't think WGNZ up in Ohio actually runs that 2 watts at night. It wouldn't even get out of the cornfield the towers are in.
 
I wish I'd have known this when I was driving through Xenia for work a few months back! I drove right by the towers on 35 and didn't realize it.
 
Days - WGNZ Xenia with a weak signal.

WBT Charlotte - Around sunrise and sunset.
KFAB Omaha - Sunrise sometimes, after WBT fades.
WTOF Bay Minette AL - At sunset.

I'm situated in a spot where I should be able to add a few more daytimers at sunrise/sunset.
 
Located in W. Washington.

Nights it's KBND Bend OR, and KFAB sometimes in with Nebraska news, spots, etc. And slapback echo on Coast To Coast when propagation is in.
 
I was just rereading this thread, and a memory from the 1960's surfaced in my brain.

In the early sixties, I would spend a few summertime weeks in SoCal with my uncle and his family. Unless my cousins' parents insisted otherwise, the radio was always tuned to 1110/KRLA.

When I got back to Indianapolis, I decided to check my WRTH and saw KRLA was 50 KW. I can't tell you how many hours I had my Trans Oceanic tuned to 1110 in hopes of hearing KRLA. I had no idea there was such a thing as a directional antenna.

:rolleyes:
 
I don't think that WRTH was very accurate about the DA details or power levels in most of the 1960s, and I don't think the lower power US stations under 10 kW were available until the late 1960s. I remember that WRTH showed WJBK 1500 and WCAR 1130 as just 50 kW in what I think was the 1967 Edition. The two character hours and DA code was a great improvement, one that is better in some ways than the FCC designations. The FCC redefined what was DA-1 and DA-2, and the confusion continued on some of the WRTH listings as U3 and U4. SRDS would also allow stations with similar patterns day and night, like the major lobe decreased with the power but the minor lobes were kept about the same IDF with the pattern change, to say that they were the same pattern day and night.
 
Daytime in NW San Antonio is nothing but splatter from local KRDY at 1100. Nighttime things get interesting. The KRDY splatter is still there, but if I tune up a bit, KVTT can be heard at sunset (as well as sunrise). After KVTT sign-off, KFAB shows up pretty steadily all night. In the null of KFAB, classic rock KEJL in Hobbs, NM, sometimes shows up until their sunset sign-off. After that, XEWR - Radio Guadalupana in Juarez - can be heard fading in and out until their 0400 UT sign off. I've also heard XERED, Radio Red, at sunrise.

There's also an urban gospel music station that competes with XEWR but is usually weaker. It seems to be east of me but could be NE - hard to tell with KFAB in that direction. I've listened to the station for hours and logged many songs (Charles Butler, Angela Spivey, Keith Wonderboy Johnson, etc.), but they never seem to ID. They run generic ads (GEICO, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Proactiv+) and have occasional shout-outs to various pastors, but unfortunately I've never heard their names clearly.

I have heard them give slogans, though, mostly "Your #1 Inspiration Station" and "Giving You Gospel Music 24 x 7." The station doesn't seem to match any TuneIn or iHeart streams of gospel stations or other 1110 stations. For a while I thought it might be KTTP in Pineville, LA, which doesn't have a stream, but that's a daytime-only station. Anyone know what this might be?
 
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Could be WBIB in AL, or WKRA in MS. Both are 1000 watts, daytime only.

As for me in Yakima, 1110 is usually nothing but a faint KBND Bend, OR (threshold quality) in the daytime.
Sunsets - KBND dominates with a little bit of KRPA Oak Harbor, WA (now they are simulcasting KWLE Anacortes)
Night - KBND, with some KFAB Omaha, NE under.
One timer - KDIS Pasadena with Radio Disney, heard one night in 2011 (and not ever since).

Would love to hear KLIB CA, KAGV AK, or KVTT TX if they leave 50KW running into the night.

-crainbebo
 
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I think I've solved the urban gospel station mystery. KTTP in Pineville, LA, lists themselves as home to the Rejoice! Musical Soulfood satellite network. KTTP doesn't have a webstream, but the Rejoice! MSF stream matches what I'm hearing. Also, there's no other 1110 on that network that I can find. There is a rejoice1110.com website, but it's for an Internet-only radio station with a Dallas address, and their stream that has never matched this station.

What's confusing is that KTTP is listed as a day timer by the FCC; however, it's got to be them, and the E/NE orientation matches.

Since I started trying to figure all this out, I snagged a new station near sunrise the other day - WTOF in Bay Minette, AL. At first I thought it might be this station, but it's a southern gospel / preaching format.

Speaking of KVTT, I hope you do get to hear them, crainebebo. If you're ever able to catch them at sunrise sign on, you'll hear prayer chanting. When I first heard them last year, the chanting fooled me for a while into thinking I was receiving a station in the Middle East. :rolleyes:
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I don't think that WRTH was very accurate about the DA details or power levels in most of the 1960s,
Click to expand...

Sort of reminds me of the old White's Radio Log. No DA or night power information. And me, the junior high school kid wondering why I could never hear all these 50KW "blowtorches".
 
Days:::Nothing

Nights:::KRDC ( formerly KDIS ) Radio Disney out of Los Angeles. Sadly, this is a very weak station for a 20KW powerhouse. I have noticed the primary pattern is westward out to the pacific ocean, and not north and south. What a complete waste!!!
 
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