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AM Frequency of the Week 1120
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East Tennessee: There's not that much on 1120 in this part of the country, but when it bothers being on the air, there's local WTLT, feeding a translator on 97.1. In its absence, nothing until KMOX fades in. I MIGHT gotten a have a whiff of Urban WHOG, Hobson City, AL last week with the local off and some critical hours enhancement. Nights is all KMOX.
Retro/other: When I lived in Quincy IL and worked in Hannibal, KMOX's daytime signal was somewhat attenuated, supposedly by the bluffs, but strong in Hannibal. For what it's worth.
Retro/other: When I lived in Quincy IL and worked in Hannibal, KMOX's daytime signal was somewhat attenuated, supposedly by the bluffs, but strong in Hannibal. For what it's worth.
Denver, CO:
Daytime: KCRN Limon, CO - though targeted at Colorado Springs, with a translator there, the 50 kw two-tower DA to the west also gets reasonable coverage of Denver. It's part of the Kansas City-based Catholic Radio Network. Strictly daytime-only, because of....
Nighttime: KMOX. More about that after the next sentence.
In my former Oakland, CA location: A faint KZSJ from San Martin (the far southern edge of the Bay Area market), in Vietnamese, during the daytime; KPNW Eugene, OR at night.
Retro and Personal History: I went to high school in the St. Louis area. It's impossible to overstate how influential a station KMOX was, under the leadership for Robert Hyland. For people in my age group, it was the go-to station for school closing information on snow days. During two long newspaper strikes in the St. Louis in the 1970s, it filled the resulting gaps in news coverage. Into the 1980s it maintained a reputation for steady, credible, reliable news coverage and informative talk programming under the title "At Your Service". It's still pretty good today, though there have been compromises over the years, starting with picking up Rush Limbaugh's program in 1994. That was quite controversial at the time, and my personal opinion is that KMOX shouldn't have done it. Leaving that aside, I can also note that my voice was heard on KMOX during the 1980s. The station that I worked for at the time produced a weekly religious-news program for the Missouri Council of Churches. The producer and usual anchor was a Columbia minister who had worked in radio. When he wasn't available, I would fill in for him. The show was fed to the Missouri Network, and separately to KMOX, where it aired on Sunday mornings. That's how my voice ended up on the mighty KMOX. Eventually, the program was transitioned to KMOX and longtime producer and reporter Fred Bodimer. Disclaimer: Fred and I both went to the University of Missouri; Fred was a couple of years after me and we were acquainted with one another; he's been with KMOX since 1982 and is still there.
The KMOX call letters still send a little tingle down my spine. It has had such an awesome heritage.
Daytime: KCRN Limon, CO - though targeted at Colorado Springs, with a translator there, the 50 kw two-tower DA to the west also gets reasonable coverage of Denver. It's part of the Kansas City-based Catholic Radio Network. Strictly daytime-only, because of....
Nighttime: KMOX. More about that after the next sentence.
In my former Oakland, CA location: A faint KZSJ from San Martin (the far southern edge of the Bay Area market), in Vietnamese, during the daytime; KPNW Eugene, OR at night.
Retro and Personal History: I went to high school in the St. Louis area. It's impossible to overstate how influential a station KMOX was, under the leadership for Robert Hyland. For people in my age group, it was the go-to station for school closing information on snow days. During two long newspaper strikes in the St. Louis in the 1970s, it filled the resulting gaps in news coverage. Into the 1980s it maintained a reputation for steady, credible, reliable news coverage and informative talk programming under the title "At Your Service". It's still pretty good today, though there have been compromises over the years, starting with picking up Rush Limbaugh's program in 1994. That was quite controversial at the time, and my personal opinion is that KMOX shouldn't have done it. Leaving that aside, I can also note that my voice was heard on KMOX during the 1980s. The station that I worked for at the time produced a weekly religious-news program for the Missouri Council of Churches. The producer and usual anchor was a Columbia minister who had worked in radio. When he wasn't available, I would fill in for him. The show was fed to the Missouri Network, and separately to KMOX, where it aired on Sunday mornings. That's how my voice ended up on the mighty KMOX. Eventually, the program was transitioned to KMOX and longtime producer and reporter Fred Bodimer. Disclaimer: Fred and I both went to the University of Missouri; Fred was a couple of years after me and we were acquainted with one another; he's been with KMOX since 1982 and is still there.
The KMOX call letters still send a little tingle down my spine. It has had such an awesome heritage.
Clifton, New Jersey
Days: Nothing but splatter from WBBR "Bloomberg Eleven-Three-O" New York, NY.
Nights: It's usually KMOX "The Voice of St. Louis" St. Louis, MO with some splatter from WBBR depending on the radio and the bandwidth setting. I have received other stations depending on propagation. They include WPRX Bristol, CT, WKAJ Saint Johnsville, NY and WBNW Concord, MA.
Days: Nothing but splatter from WBBR "Bloomberg Eleven-Three-O" New York, NY.
Nights: It's usually KMOX "The Voice of St. Louis" St. Louis, MO with some splatter from WBBR depending on the radio and the bandwidth setting. I have received other stations depending on propagation. They include WPRX Bristol, CT, WKAJ Saint Johnsville, NY and WBNW Concord, MA.
Melbourne FL
Most commonly heard (nights): 1120 - KMOX - St. Louis MO - Voice of St. Louis - News, talk – CBS 2023
Retro: 1120 - CMBH - Artemisa CU - Radio Cadena Habana - Spanish - 2003
Most commonly heard (nights): 1120 - KMOX - St. Louis MO - Voice of St. Louis - News, talk – CBS 2023
Retro: 1120 - CMBH - Artemisa CU - Radio Cadena Habana - Spanish - 2003
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:
Days: I have to drive a few miles south but can get a faint daytime signal from KMOX, 237 miles away in Pontoon Beach, Ill., at mid-day.
Critical hours: KMOX starts rolling in about an hour before sunset and hangs around until about an hour after sunrise. When I worked an early-morning shift in the 1990s, I'd get to the office about when it played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at 5:25 a.m.
Nights: All KMOX, all the time, except for, as I believe I'm on the outside edge of it's cancellation zone, occasional phasing of what longtime (31 years!) overnight host John McCormick, the self-styled "man who walks and talks at midnight," called "the 50 thousand red-hot watts of KMOX, St. Louis" at the top of the hour leading into CBS News.
Once upon a time: One evening in January 2022, when KMOX was in a fade, arrived here the usually-daytime signal of KTXW Manor, Tex., near Austin, 5,600 watts riding rampant over the Mighty 'MOX for a bit.
Days: I have to drive a few miles south but can get a faint daytime signal from KMOX, 237 miles away in Pontoon Beach, Ill., at mid-day.
Critical hours: KMOX starts rolling in about an hour before sunset and hangs around until about an hour after sunrise. When I worked an early-morning shift in the 1990s, I'd get to the office about when it played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at 5:25 a.m.
Nights: All KMOX, all the time, except for, as I believe I'm on the outside edge of it's cancellation zone, occasional phasing of what longtime (31 years!) overnight host John McCormick, the self-styled "man who walks and talks at midnight," called "the 50 thousand red-hot watts of KMOX, St. Louis" at the top of the hour leading into CBS News.
Once upon a time: One evening in January 2022, when KMOX was in a fade, arrived here the usually-daytime signal of KTXW Manor, Tex., near Austin, 5,600 watts riding rampant over the Mighty 'MOX for a bit.
: Retro/Other Should have mentioned.....
At my college location in SE Iowa it was a weak KMOX by day and strong at night, Here where I am this month on the Gulf, KMOX is fair-strong at night. Always reliable.
Ever since I moved out to here from Queens NYC, through quietude and noisetude, the midday station here is WUST from Washington DC. They're directional, but fairly omni North to spots, including toward us. I believe I first logged them before they boosted their power way up.
WKQW Oil City PA was a SRS catch a few months ago. Just got a nice ID, no idea of format.
WPRX from metro Hartford was atop everything one night, one of the first 1120 loggings here upon unpacking. And thanks to a tip here on this forum, that upstate NY WKAJ was a nice Christmas present for the log, back cattycorner here in town off the GE SR 2.
Otherwise, it's the unavoidable KMOX at all other times..
WKQW Oil City PA was a SRS catch a few months ago. Just got a nice ID, no idea of format.
WPRX from metro Hartford was atop everything one night, one of the first 1120 loggings here upon unpacking. And thanks to a tip here on this forum, that upstate NY WKAJ was a nice Christmas present for the log, back cattycorner here in town off the GE SR 2.
Otherwise, it's the unavoidable KMOX at all other times..
Here in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: Nothing possible due to WXES splatter just under 3 miles away from me.
Nighttime: KMOX owns the frequency.
DX/Retro: the only DX on this frequency are WGGM (Maryville, TN), WKQW (Oil City, PA), and WXJO (Douglasville, GA). All with KMOX partially nulled. My 5th log on this frequency and the latest one is KTXW Manor, Texas heard in KKMOX null in January of 2022.
Daytime: Nothing possible due to WXES splatter just under 3 miles away from me.
Nighttime: KMOX owns the frequency.
DX/Retro: the only DX on this frequency are WGGM (Maryville, TN), WKQW (Oil City, PA), and WXJO (Douglasville, GA). All with KMOX partially nulled. My 5th log on this frequency and the latest one is KTXW Manor, Texas heard in KKMOX null in January of 2022.
In Pickerington, Ohio, nothing daytime and all KMOX, all the time at night. When I think consistently strong 50K flamethrowers, KMOX is right there with the likes of WBZ, WMVP, WGN and WSM among others.
I've heard an extremely weak KMOX daytime along I-65 around Lafayette, Indiana. I am not sure I've ever tried from west suburban Chicago, where my relatives who still live in the area year-round reside. If I could hear it anywhere in the Chicagoland area, it would probably be south/southwest of Naperville where it gets more rural.
I've heard an extremely weak KMOX daytime along I-65 around Lafayette, Indiana. I am not sure I've ever tried from west suburban Chicago, where my relatives who still live in the area year-round reside. If I could hear it anywhere in the Chicagoland area, it would probably be south/southwest of Naperville where it gets more rural.
KMOX is weak to non-existent in Lafayette during the day, but KTRS rocks on 550, starting to mix with WKRC around Frankfort.
This observation is at least 25 years old, but I'll note that KSD (as I think of it) on 550 put in a stronger signal in Columbia, Mo., about 130 miles away from the various Illinois transmitter sites for St. Louis stations, than KMOX at 1120. I could get a faint signal for 550 in Kansas City on the other side of the state. (Where I lived at the time was walking distance to the Kansas border.) That's a distance of around 260 miles.
Gotta love those low frequencies!
Gotta love those low frequencies!
Wilmington Delaware
Days - WUST Washington DC with Black Information Network programming is barely audible on my car radio. Its' 50,000 W signal goes directionally to the SE missing me for the most part.
Nights - KMOX but not with the powerful signal that most folks have posted so far. It is squeezed in between stronger WBT and WBBR and puts in a fair signal. It is always there but not real impressive.
Days - WUST Washington DC with Black Information Network programming is barely audible on my car radio. Its' 50,000 W signal goes directionally to the SE missing me for the most part.
Nights - KMOX but not with the powerful signal that most folks have posted so far. It is squeezed in between stronger WBT and WBBR and puts in a fair signal. It is always there but not real impressive.
What’s now KTRS is audible daytime here in the southwest suburbs of Chicago with WIND nulled, and sometimes without a null. Nights, the frequency can be a dog’s dinner. The same is true of KYFI 630, thought I haven’t listened to it regularly since it was KSDK and carried the Blues.
Near north Chicago suburbs: days WXES splatter,
Night all KMOX with a very good signal
Night all KMOX with a very good signal
Boise Idaho
Day hash from 1140 KGEM
Night hash from 1140 KGEM
KANN Roy Utah
Then KMOX. KPNW Eugene OR under them.
Day hash from 1140 KGEM
Night hash from 1140 KGEM
KANN Roy Utah
Then KMOX. KPNW Eugene OR under them.
Here in Kansas, daytime nothing, nighttime KMOX strongly sometimes.
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