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AM Frequency of the Week: 1110

cyberdad

cyberdad

Busy day tomorrow, so I'm doing this a day earlier than usual.

10 Miles north of Sleeply Hollow, Illinois (and 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago).....

Day: WXES (former WMBI) with a good signal. 4,200 watts from about 35 miles southeast of me.

NightL 1110 is relatively empty, but usually a weak, fade-prone signal from KFAB is in. WBT on rare occasions also makes it in, but is more common around sunrise on non-directional day pattern before KFAB a;so goes non-directional.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: WXES
Critical Hours: Once I got WGNZ in Fairborn, OH before they powered down for the night.
Nighttime: Usually KFAB in Omaha. It is usually has a decent signal, but it is prone to fading. On very rare occasions I get WBT Charlotte.
 
Pretty much the same here in the near north Chicago suburbs: daytime WXES. At night usually KFAB is prone to fading and WBT can be heard during critical hours.
 
In west Houston, daytime is local KTEK with Relevant Radio. After they sign off, KFAB comes in pretty well. Just after my sunset, I've heard KEJL in southeast New Mexico with classic rock "Eagle 100.5, Hobbs' Classic Rock".

XERED used to be equal in strength at night to KFAB here, but I haven't heard them in a while. The latest IRCA Mexican Log says they've been off and on while moving transmitter site.

Once, just after sunrise, KTEK was off the air and I heard KVTT with South Asian music.
 
That busy day makes you early indeed, my friend! But anyways Cheyenne, WY:
Daytime...Nothing except in the Winter when KFAB shows up early in the afternoon.
Nighttime: KFAB Omaha (450 mi) can be quite strong at times, causing adjacent hash (they don't run IBOC, but it sounds like it at times).
I wonder how likely it could be to snag KRDC as it goes to day power.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime---nada, nothing. Very occasionally a very weak WBT if we're having daytime skip. WBT just plain doesn't get here, day or night. Around sunset I'm more likely to catch KFAB.

Night: A hodge podge

Retro/other: WGNZ was my local in Dayton, OH. With towers in Xenia (the original city of license but the COL is now Fairborn and had been for decades), this directional was moved from the west side of town to a cornfield, to make way for Wal-Mart and other businesses. It's gone from 1000 watts to 2500 days. I have heard WGNZ on daytime power at night in the Edinburgh IN and Elida OH SDRs. Really retro, I remember the last Indianapolis area incarnation of WFBM at 1110 in Noblesville. It's been gone since the late 80s.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days: Daytimer WXES (ex-WMBI) Chicago / Addison, reliably dominant.

Pre-WXES sign-on: KFAB Omaha.

Nights: With patterns not favoring Chicago, neither KFAB nor WBT Charlotte is strong. KFAB's a bit more likely on a given night, and, as my area peers note, WBT is more likely on day pattern early mornings while we're sleeping.

One (or few)-timers: WJML Petoskey, Mich., likely 10 kW night power on day pattern on 12/5/2020; WGNZ Fairborn, Ohio, likely 1.7 kW day power during critical hours early morning, earlier this month (10/6/2021).
 
WGNZ keeps coming up in this thread. I've never heard it. But given that it must be getting out reasonably well, you've induced me to try for it. I'll post if/when I snag it.
 
cyberdad said:
WGNZ keeps coming up in this thread. I've never heard it. But given that it must be getting out reasonably well, you've induced me to try for it. I'll post if/when I snag it.
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I think it's been reported in the Chicago area, particularly after WMBI went off.
 
South Mississippi:

Day: nothing
Critical hours: KVTT Mineral Wells, TX(DFW area), and WBT
Night: WBT Charlotte
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WXES, which is the closest AM station to my location at only 2.5 miles away, but thankfully they are only a daytimer.
Nightime: WBT or KFAB

DX/RETRO: As for DX on this frequency, my best catch frequency is WHIM (East Providence, RI) back in 1983 making it my only station heard from Rhode Island. I don't remember, but that log might have been a result of a DX test transmission. Others include KTEK (Alvin, TX), WUNN (Mason, MI), WJML (Petoskey, MI), WKRA (Holly Spring, MS), WKDZ (Cadiz, KY), WBCA (Bay Mitette, AL) during an emergency broadcast, and WTIS (Tampa, FL). WGNZ was heard recently when WMBI/WEXS was completely off air. Foreigners logged are YVQT, Venezuela and XERED, Mexico City.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: KFAB is weak but listenable. Slightly stronger in winter.

Critical Hours: KFAB when on non-directional day pattern. When on night pattern, signal strength varies greatly during critical hours. Other stations logged include: KGFL, a 5 kW non-directional daytimer in Clinton, Arkansas, non-directional daytimer WTIS in Tampa, Florida when they are on 10 kW [my only Florida log] and on one occasion, 50 kW WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina when they were on non-directional day pattern. This was a morning critical hours log.

Night: KFAB but the signal can vary greatly, prone to heavy fading, occasional disappearance. No other stations logged to date.

Bob
 
radioman148 said:
Regarding WBT, their directional signal at night often gets into Europe in winter.
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What is crazy about the directional array of WBT at night is it nulls nearby Gastonia, hence having the 99.3FM signal to fill in the western part of the signal. But usually received nightly in Miami to Boston and beyond on the east coast. One time back in the day (around 1983ish) listened to WBT's evening host Henry Bogan mention their reception was heard in Norway and receiving a cassette from the listener.
 
Ke4kls said:
What is crazy about the directional array of WBT at night is it nulls nearby Gastonia, hence having the 99.3FM signal to fill in the western part of the signal. But usually received nightly in Miami to Boston and beyond on the east coast. One time back in the day (around 1983ish) listened to WBT's evening host Henry Bogan mention their reception was heard in Norway and receiving a cassette from the listener.
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Yes I often hear them on the Iceland SDR.
 
Another anecdote regarding WBT. Around Christmas 1942 during WW2 my father was stationed on a Navy vessel that was being moved from the Atlantic to Pacific theater, heard WBT on the ship's radio from the Panama Canal.
 
While I was in Vallejo

Daytime: Very Weak KLIB Roseville
Nighttime: KRDC Pasadena, CA

In Carmicheal, CA

Day & Night KLIB Roseville
 
1110's loggings here are all from the 90;s, when the dial was quieter and so were the neighboors.

Days was Ryan Howard's local favorite WNAP, 'Gospel Highway Eleven'. They are now defunct-ed, having turned in their license earlier this year, says Wiki.
(Does anyone here remember when they were WNAR in the 60's? I'm a rock and roller, but this little station -- same COL of Norristown -- was a good offbeat MoR listen for me. WNAR was omni, and an easy catch up in Queens with local WHLI nulled.)

Nighttimes it's WBT. 'From Canada to Cuba' was a modest WBT poisitioner at one time.

CKTY occasionally came in at night.

@ Cyberdad, or someone else here: Who sang that Halloween-ish 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' ? I've heard it was by the Monotones, the Silhouettes or the Devotions ......
 
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