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AM Frequency of the Week - 1130 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 1130 kHz?

In Vermilion, OH 1130 during the day is a solid WDFN/Detroit '1130 the Fan'
At night, it becomes a mixture of WBBR/New York 'Bloomberg Radio' and KWKH/Shreveport, LA amid some IBOC hash from KMOX 1120 and WRVA 1140
 
Daytime is local WCLW - Eden, NC
Nighttime is WBBR - NYC

Later . . .
 
Northern VA,

Daytime--nothing
Nighttime--WBBR and with KWKH mixed in the past. One night I may have had another unidentified country 1130 mixed in with WBBR.
 
Just north of Chicago it's WISN daytime. At night a mix of WBBR, KWKH with WBBR usually on top.
During critical hours it's WDFN and sometimes KFAN.
 
Bothell/Bellevue, WA
Days it's CKWX Vancouver, BC [All News].
Critical hours a VERY strong KPWX Mt. Angel, OR [SS] mixes with CKWX.
Nights it's CKWX only, except for one night in Jan. 2010 where I confirmed KWKH-LA with classic C&W matching the webstream. You better believe I was excited! 1800 mi+.

-crainbebo
 
In East Texas about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, not surprisingly it's KWKH all day. But at night they fall into the deadly cancellation zone, with just a moderate signal and frequent fading. What's more, since they've been running non-directional with reduced power they often fight it out with Mexican station XEYZ Aguascalientes, which is listed as running 2,500 watts, at around 830 miles from here. Sometimes XEYZ is on top for a span of several minutes.
 
Dayton, Ohio, part of the "I" network classic country trimulcast originating at WBZI, Xenia, Ohio, we get WEDI, Eaton, OH on 1130. This is the former one man show owned and run by the late Stanley Coning as WCTM. When WCTM was off on Sundays it was a very weak WDFN. Nighttime is a mix of KWKH and some others.
 
Cleveland OH:

Days: weak WDFN, vanishes with nighttime pattern change
Night: usually WBBR; KWKH sometimes heard in evenings before pattern change.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Day: WISN rules. Almost a city grade signal.

Night: WISN disappears completely. Usually KWKH on top. WBBR and WDFN frequently in the mix. CKWX on occasion lately....mainly cold weather months. KFAN also pops in from time to time. It's not unusual to hear WDFN and sometimes KWKH at sunrise underneath WISN's day pattern.
 
In Bellingham, WA.....

CKWX.

Just a WALL of CKWX.
 
In Durham, North Carolina, 1130 kHz in the daytime belongs to WPYB in Benson, North Carolina, founded in 1961 by broadcaster George Beasley (of Beasley Broadcast Group fame--it was his very first station).

Nighttime, it's Bloomberg Radio 11-3-Oh (WBBR, New York, NY).
 
In Gary, IN I get WISN Milwaukee during the day. Toward Sunset, WISN slowly fades away, & usually completely gone once they switch to their night time pattern. At night, it's usually lots of splatter. If I am lucky to get any station on 1130, it's either KTCN Minneapolis (remembered them as KFAN), KWKH Shreveport, LA (what I usually get), WBBR New York, or on rare occasion, WISN Milwaukee (only got them twice at night).
 
Dave said:
In Gary, IN I get WISN Milwaukee during the day. Toward Sunset, WISN slowly fades away, & usually completely gone once they switch to their night time pattern. At night, it's usually lots of splatter. If I am lucky to get any station on 1130, it's either KTCN Minneapolis (remembered them as KFAN), KWKH Shreveport, LA (what I usually get), WBBR New York, or on rare occasion, WISN Milwaukee (only got them twice at night).
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I am wondering how good is WISN's signal to the north? Are its other nulls as deep as the one toward Chicago?
 
schmave said:
Dave said:
In Gary, IN I get WISN Milwaukee during the day. Toward Sunset, WISN slowly fades away, & usually completely gone once they switch to their night time pattern. At night, it's usually lots of splatter. If I am lucky to get any station on 1130, it's either KTCN Minneapolis (remembered them as KFAN), KWKH Shreveport, LA (what I usually get), WBBR New York, or on rare occasion, WISN Milwaukee (only got them twice at night).
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I am wondering how good is WISN's signal to the north? Are its other nulls as deep as the one toward Chicago?
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I've been up in Northern Wisconsin and WISN comes in pretty well up there. I live about 60 miles south of their towers and I can't hear WISN at night most of the time.
 
schmave said:
I am wondering how good is WISN's signal to the north? Are its other nulls as deep as the one toward Chicago?
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WISN: All nulls all the time! (at least at night)! ;D

David had an interesting post a few months back regarding how the station was engineered when it moved from 1150 in 1965. I'm about 35 miles southwest of the stick, and I usually can't hear it nighttime at all. My brother is about 12 miles south of the stick and the nighttime signal is problematic even there!

Essentially, all the nighttime juice is aimed north, so the nighttime signal is good in Milwaukee proper and points north. I was in the upper peninsula of Michigan about a month ago and the night signal was good up there, too. Although by the time I got to Sault Sainte Marie, it was battling with WDFN.
 
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