• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

AM Frequency of the Week: 1120

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Days: 1120 is splatter from WXES (1110) Chicago, and WISN (1130) Milwaukee.

Nights: All KMOX with one of the best skywave signals at my location

Retro: At my college location in southeast Iowa. KMOX was audible daytime with a weak signal. The signal was much better at night.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: Nothing but quiet fading. I am just beyond the daytime coverage area for KMOX.

Critical Hours: KMOX comes up in strength early before local sunset and is listenable especially in winter. Mornings, KMOX drops off shortly after local sunrise. KETU in Catoosa, Oklahoma is often listenable in mid to late morning critical hours. This station is a 2-tower directional with 7 kW during critical hours with a lobe aimed right at me. At the end of CH, they power up to 10 kW and can be listenable before they fade out. I am about 40 miles beyond their daytime coverage area.

KETU-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

Yet another late morning critical hours log is KCRN, a 2-tower, 50 kW daytimer located licensed to Limon, Colorado. Their transmitter is located further west so they can serve both the Denver and Colorado Springs markets.

KCRN-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

Night: KMOX is highly listenable with a moderate to usually strong signal.

Bob
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

No surprises here. Nothing in the day, KMOX at night. I've never gotten KMOX during the daytime, despite having gotten at least one other St Louis station during the daytime (KTRS 550) which operates at much lower power.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs: daytime nothing but WXES splatter. At night a strong KMOX.
Retro: Back in the day when I used to listen to out of town baseball games at night I used to listen to Harry Caray and Jack Buck
call the Cardinals games on KMOX in the 60s.
Other location: When I'm on the west coast I hear KPNW at night. Often KPNW can be heard in Hawaii at night on one of
the Hawaii SDRs.
 
Last edited:
Here in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: Nothing possible due to WXES splatter just under 3 miles away from me.
Nightime: KMOX owns the frequency.

DX/Retro/etc: the only DX on this frequency are WGGM (Maryville, TN), WKQW (Oil City, PA), and WXJO (Douglasville, GA). All with KMOX partially nulled.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime--the Maryville allocation has had more call letter changes than I have underwear changes, but its currently WTLT and I don't know why it changed from WJMP since it still has the Jump format on a translator. The frequent times its been off, nothing else has been heard in the daytime.
Night----all KMOX, all the time. When our local 1120 has been off it's one of the last out and first in.

Retro/other: When I lived in Quincy IL and worked in Hannibal MO, KMOX would be attenuated in Quincy but just fine in Hannibal. I was told that was because of the bluffs. Iron ore deposits? Beats me. I was told that was why CBS allowed WTAD to become an affiliate. I had noticed particularly WLS coming to life crossing the bridge between Quincy and West Quincy, MO.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Day: nothing, though KMOX starts to sneak in about 15 miles southwest of me.

Critical hours: KMOX is there for about 90 minutes after sunrise and before sunset.

Night: As overnight host John McCormick used to say, "The 50 thousand red-hot watts of KMOX, St. Louis."

I've never heard anything else on 1120.
 
The first catch here in PA was a weak but steady WUST, essentially Washington DC. That was 1994, so I don't recall if they were still on their old 1000 watt omni setup or the new R-L increase to 50,000 (!) directional watts with an improbable SE null. (Back in Queens they could be a semi-regular SSS catch with WNEW 1130 nulled).

One SSS here off a still-eager Zenith barbershop job in the guest bedroom, that widely-heard WKAJ from upstate NY came in nicely. 7-20-14. Wow. Has it really been seven years?

One eve well past sunset, WPRX from Bristol CT (SW of Hartford) was there booming in, probably on their omni day pattern still.

With the moon high in the sky, it's KMOX. I'd hazard an unintelligent guess that, since Cardinals Country goes from just outside of Chicago to just east of Denver, KMOX may have shown in more nighttime 'books', at least in time spent listening, than any station not called WLS.
 
radioman148 said:
When I'm on the west coast I hear KPNW at night. Often KPNW can be heard in Hawaii at night on one of
the Hawaii SDRs.
Click to expand...
I was going to mention KPNW. I also used to hear them pretty much all the way up and down the west coast at night. Usually with a good signal but a few times with KMOX underneath.

At our vacation location on the beach at the Florida-Alabama state line, I used to hear a 1kw daytimer on 1120 from Destin, Florida, about 85 miles to my east. Very weak, which was partially due to a good portion of the path being mostly pure white sand with horrible conductivity, The station has been dark for about five years or so. I don't remember the call letters.
 
South Mississippi:

Day: nothing

Critical hours: usually KMOX, sometimes WTWZ Clinton, MS "The Tradition" with a bluegrass format

Night: KMOX comes in very well. I could occasionally receive the HD signal before they turned it off.
 
Last edited:
Cheyenne, WY Days: KCRN Limon with moderate strength, better in some portions of the afternoon. It does have a unique location east of Denver for sure.

Nights: KMOX St. Louis, not always the strongest, but can fade up like a local occasionally. KFAB can be an adjacent interfereing factor. I would love to grab KANN, but it just hasn't happened yet.
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, nothing daytime and always KMOX at night. One of the best skywave signals out there.
I've heard the daytime signal on I-65 between Indianapolis and West Lafayette. Extremely weak, but there. I've never heard the groundwave signal visiting family in the far western suburbs of Chicago.
 
schmave said:
From Pickerington, Ohio, nothing daytime and always KMOX at night. One of the best skywave signals out there.
I've heard the daytime signal on I-65 between Indianapolis and West Lafayette. Extremely weak, but there. I've never heard the groundwave signal visiting family in the far western suburbs of Chicago.
Click to expand...
You're more likely to hear KTRS-550 in the Lafayette area than KMOX during the day.
 
Definitely got KTRS. No mixing with WKRC as I remember, but that was over nine years ago on a drive to Chicago.
 
schmave said:
Definitely got KTRS. No mixing with WKRC as I remember, but that was over nine years ago on a drive to Chicago.
Click to expand...
At my location, I've never heard WKRC in the daytime. It's also rare, but not entirely impossible, at night.
 
As long as we're OT and talking about 550, have any of you guys in the Chicago area ever snagged WSAU? I have...but only a couple of times, and only at night.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom