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AM Frequency of the week: 1140

cyberdad

cyberdad

Busy Sunday on tap for me. Not sure exactly "how busy", so I'll jump in a little early with 1140. At my location in the far northwest Chicago metro....

Days: Mostly splatter from WISN (1130), On a couple of rare occasions with WISN off (or on night pattern for whatever reason), I've heard WVEL. A 5kw non directional daytimer from the Peoria area,

Night: All WRVA, which usually has a good signal here thanks to a pattern which favors this area. Once in a while, I'd hear Sioux Falls, South Dakota underneath (ex-KSOO), but not recently.

Other Location: At our beach getaway spot on the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, 1140 is an interesting frequency. WRVA is almost always absent at night, and a music station comes in which I haven't been able to identify. Mostly tropical instrumental music without breaks or announcers. And then, sometimes it's not present at all.

When I used to go to Stuttgart, Germany every year on business trips, there was a nearby AFRTS station on 1143. I'm not sure how far away it was or what power they were using, but it was strong enough to put a fair signal 24/7 into my high rise steel and concrete hotel. I never heard it at night through the slop on the channel elsewhere in Europe or in London. (The main AFRTS blowtorch in Germany was on 873. That one came in like a local in England).
 
Laramie, WY

Right before sunset: KZMQ Greybull/Cody, WY
After dark: sometimes KHTK Sacramento or CHRB High River, AB
Right before/at/after sunrise, CHRB
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs, days: underneath some WISN splatter a weak WVEL. At night it's all WRVA with a strong signal.
I've heard Sioux City a few times, but not in awhile.
 
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Days>>>> 50Kw KHTK...Out of Sacramento ( Sports )

Nights>>>>Same as days...KHTK dominates with sports broadcasting, and power output is holding steady at 50Kw. This is certainly "not" a KNBR flamethrower as KHTK's signal is directional ( mainly west, with a north and south pattern ). I do hear other stations trying to push in underneath, but haven't pegged them yet.
 
East Tennessee: Days-A weak WLOD, Loudon, TN.
Night: All WRVA, some of the Cubans at times as well

Retro/other: Dayton, OH A weak WAWK, Kendallville, IN by day, WRVA by night
Lafayette IN: WVEL, Pekin IL very weakly by day, WRVA at night
 
Chicago by the lakefront:

During the day I can pick up WVHF near Grand Rapids. It's one of a relatively large number of Western Michigan stations which you can pick up well enough to get an ID if you're close enough to the lake and there isn't interference from local stations.

At night it's mainly WRVA if I'm out and about or in my car. In my apartment however, WRVA gets blocked by the building and as a result I can sometimes pick up KXRB in Sioux Falls, SD.
 
From 25 miles SW of Kansas City:

Day: KCXL, Liberty, MO. 4 kW Non-directional [This station has very poor audio quality]

Critical Hours: KCXL

Night: KCXL reduces power to 6 watts. I cannot receive them. Otherwise, I have not ID'd other stations present in the chaos, yet.

Bob
 
From Baldwin County, Alabama, near the Gulf of Mexico:

Days: Nothing. Allegedly-reportedly there's an 1140 that is supposed to be operating out of Destin, FL, but I've never heard it on the air. The format is/was Standards.

Nights: Nothing.
 
West Central Georgia:

Day: WBXR Hazel Green/Huntsville AL religious programming - weak but clear - tremendous 15K watts daytime signal - 194 miles away despite poor ground conductivity

Night: Nothing most of the time. Almost never receive WRVA despite nf8m map that says I should. Occasionally pick up XEMR 50K from Monterrey MX
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio: Nothing daytime, all WRVA at night. It's been among the consistently loudest 50Ks here on a regular basis (along with KMOX, WMVP and often WGN ... not counting WLW since it's a semi-local) ever since I can remember DXing, which I began around 1990.
Occasionally I'd listen to Big John Trimble when he was on late at night. Memorable experience to be sure.
Driving to Gaithersburg, Maryland back in June to visit one of my best friends, I was able to pick up WRVA groundwave in freaking Pennsylvania on the Turnpike maybe 30 miles west of Breezewood. I was astonished. Checked back occasionally in the final few hours of my trip and it continued to pop up, stronger as I approached the D.C. suburbs.
(The radio in that rental car was by far the best I've ever had for AM. I was picking up WLW and WTAM well outside the range I expected them to be listenable daytime, as in far western Maryland.)
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually WISN splatter. WVEL once in a while
Nightime: WRVA dominant

DX/RETRO: others heard on this frequency include KXRB Isioux Fall, SD), KNEI (Waukon, IA), KHFX Icleburne, TX), WKWM (Kentwood, MI), WLNT (Loudon, TN), WASG (Atmore, AL), WRLV (Sayersville, KY), CHRB (High River, AB), CJRT ITrois -Rivers, PQ), Radio Cadena Habama (Cuba), XEMR (Monterrey, Mexico)
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: Just splatter from local daytimer 1130 KTMR.

Sunset: KHFX in Cleburne, TX, comes up amidst the splatter with Spanish-language Christian preaching.

Night: Although KTMR signs off, I get some splatter from 1130 KWKH in Shreveport, which blasts into here. KHFX is still there but weaker after going to night power/pattern, and XEMR in Monterrey mixes in and usually dominates.

Aiming southwest, I'll occasionally hear a weak Radio Musical Nacional from Cuba under XEMR; they most often play classical music.

Sunrise: XEMR and KFHX are still mixing with each other. Aiming east, I can sometimes briefly hear a very weak KYOK in Conroe, TX, after it signs on for the day.
 
Daytime 1140 in Charleston is nothing except during the coldest winter days when a great radio can maybe get WRVA. WRVA has decent range into Hampton Roads daytime. When they had HD, they could be heard into Virginia Beach daytime in HD.

It struggles as close as Emporia, 40-50 miles to the south.
 
@ Charleston .....

When I was a kid (a few semesters ago) our family of four vacationed for two straight years at the cousins' place in Norfolk VA for a week, just off Tidewater Drive. Cousin Dick was a Navy lifer and had some flippin' Navy-surplus OSCILLOSCOPE in his garage. He'd hook me and it up with the radio he had there to get me out of everyone's hair to DX while the adults played cards and drank screwdrivers and highballs.

I brought along my bedroom clock radio both years. It was a GE clock radio -- the EXACT one as on top of the Cunningham rerfigerator in Happy Days. I could just look at it and tell if it was tuned to 780 or 790, or 1410 or 1430.

Anyhow, the enjoyable Norfolk AM dial on that little beast during the day went .... if memory serves .....

560 -- a faintish WGAI from Elizabeth City NC
740 -- WMBG from Willimsburg VA, to the NNW
790 -- LOCAL WTAR and their MoR
850 -- LOCAL WRAP and there R&B
1050 - WCMS, Daytimer, country
1140 -- the aforementioned * WRVA * like a local

.....and so on up the dial. The great WNOR 1230, fellow locals WTYD 1270, WGH 1310, WAVY 1350, WHIH 1400 .....

But WRVA indeed was present. On a cheesy clock radio, everyday, in Norfolk.
 
In west Houston, daytime is a weak signal from semi-local KYOK in Conroe TX with R&B-based Christian music and talk (MWList shows them inactive, but I'm listening to them right now). At sunset, it's a mix of KHFX in Cleburne TX and XEMR Monterrey. Last winter XEMR was always on top but KHFX seems stronger at the moment.
 
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