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AM Frequency of the Week: 1140

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake, IL....

Days: Sometimes a very weak 5kw daytimer, WVEL from the Peoria area makes it in past the splatter from WISN (1130).

Nights: WRVA from Richmond VA owns 1140. Usually with a good signal. 50kw with a pattern favorable to my direction. When WRVA fades at sunrise, KXRB (ex-KSOO) from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, sometimes makes it in. Presumably on 10kw day pattern.

Wanted: CHRB from High Level, Alberta. 50 kw, They turn up from time to time on the Arctic Norway and Iceland SDRs. I'm not exactly holding my breath in anticipation of hearing them here....but I can dream, can't I?
 
Pickerington, Ohio ...
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: Always WRVA with a good to booming signal. I did not realize it was directional until several years ago, but like cyberdad their pattern comes straight at me.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime--WLOD, Loudon TN, usually weak and simulcasting WGAP on 1380.
Night--WRVA all the way.

Retro/other: Not much exciting. Sometimes WAWK, Kendallville IN would make it as far as the northside of Dayton, OH. I could get weak signals from WVEL both in Lafayette IN and Quincy IL.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: If anything, it's WVHF in Kentwood, MI.

Critical Hours: WRVA starts coming in pretty early.

Nighttime: Still usually WRVA. There was a time period when KXRB in Sioux Falls was coming in instead, but now it's back to WRVA. I listen in the evening so I don't know what happens after midnight.
 
In west Houston, daytime is KYOK in north suburban Conroe TX with urban gospel and religious programming. After they sign off I've heard KHFX in Cleburne TX "Radio Christo Vive", but dominating the frequency is XEMR in Monterrey, Radio Esperanza. Occasionally I've heard Radio Rebelde from Cuba as well.
 
From Cheyenne WY:
Daytime: Usually nothing, but I did pull CHRB High River during a late afternoon skip last year, w/ legal ID. Haven't heard them since.
Nighttime: Jumbled mess with CHRB possibly in there somewhere.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs..daytime usually nothing. At night all WRVA with a very good signal.
Early morning critical hours is usually KXRB. I have heard WVEL a few times.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Daytime: WSIV / WVEL Pekin, Ill. on occasion.

Night: WRVA Richmond. Like schmave, I didn't know this was directional until I looked at the pattern – last night!

New now (5:10 p.m. CT): WBXR Huntsville, Ala., with a preacher matched to station's stream and fighting it out with WRVA. Presumably on critical hours power of 7,500 watts. No idea how long CH lasts in Huntsville. No. 525.

Other: WVHF Kentwood, Mich., once (2/9/2020, 3:28 p.m.).
 
gr8oldies said:
East Tennessee: Daytime--WLOD, Loudon TN, usually weak and simulcasting WGAP on 1380.
Night--WRVA all the way.

Retro/other: Not much exciting. Sometimes WAWK, Kendallville IN would make it as far as the northside of Dayton, OH. I could get weak signals from WVEL both in Lafayette IN and Quincy IL.
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WGAP is actually on 1400, not 1380.
 
From west central Georgia:
Daytime: WBXR Hazel Green/Huntsville AL (15KW Day/7.5KW CH) Religious with good signal despite distance of almost 200 miles.
Night: Usually empty, occasionally hear Mexican station (XEMR Monterrey MX?); rarely ever hear WRVA due to its directional signal away from me
 
tvnut said:
Night: WRVA Richmond. Like schmave, I didn't know this was directional until I looked at the pattern – last night!
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Add me to the club with you and schmave... I didn't realize that WRVA was directional until only a few years ago. My first reaction was that this explained why WRVA was all but impossible at our beach location on the Gulf. ....But the mystery of the station on 1140 that occasionally pops in at the beach with soft instrumental and light classical music still remains.
 
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 in the past include KXRB (Sioux Fall, SD), KNEI (Waukon, IA), KHFX (Cleburne, TX), WVHF (Kentwood, MI), WLNT (Loudon, TN), WASG (Atmore, AL), WRLV (Sayersville, KY), WBXR (Hazel Green, AL), CHRB (High River, AB), CJRT (Trois -Rivers, PQ), Radio Cadena Habana (Cuba), XEMR (Monterrey, Mexico)
 
KSLD 1140 Soldotna, AK with 10kw full time, non directional from about 350 miles away is pretty audible after dark every night... ranges from barely fair to, most of the time, like a local. I've only heard one station under them, KHTK Sacramento.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Splatter from local 1130 KTMR.

Sunset: Spanish-language Christian stations KHFX in Cleburne, TX, and XEMR in Monterrey come up amongst the splatter. The former is strongest. Aiming E/W-ish, I often hear a weak WBXR in Hazel Green, AL, popping up shortly before it signs off.

Night: KHFX and XEMR still dominate, with the latter sometimes stronger since KHFX drops in power. The KTMR splatter is replaced by splatter from 1130 KWKH. Aiming SE, I often hear a weak Radio Musical Nacional in Santa Clara, Cuba, with classical and jazz music mixing with or under XEMR. Occasionally I'll hear brief fadeups of Cuban stations Radio Mayabeque and (less often) Radio Rebelde.

Sunrise: Very similar to sunset with KHFX and XEMR. Aiming E/W-ish, I can hear KYOK in/out after it signs on for the day.

DX: I sometimes hear a weak classic country station pop up shortly after 7 a.m. CT in the E/W-ish direction. The stream has not matched KXRB or KPWB. Now I'm wondering if it could be WLOD in Loudon, TN, at signon. I'll have to see if it matches that stream the next time I hear it.
 
I'd like to see the WVHF 1140 Kentwood, MI DA Proof of Performances. It always seemed that the signal didn't really get out well almost anywhere. It goes from a 3 tower inline array beamed pretty much West from a well hidden site near Ada, MI, in a flood plain, and it is built on stilts and pylons. Its already in the vast sandbox which, despite what M-3 shows, is nowhere near 8 mS/m. It continues through Ottawa County, which probably is less than 2 mS/m in most areas. Then it hits Lake Michigan, which probably exceeds 8 mS/m. But that also brings in WISN 1130 from the rich loamy soil 20 miles South of Milwaukee, and from there on, gets interference from WISN. With an RF-2200, as I recall, before IBOC, it came in if you can null out WISN.

Probably, further West from WISN, it probably booms in sometimes with Daytime skywave.
 
From SE Michigan near Detroit:

Day: slop from local 1st adjacent WDFN.

Night: Local WDFN slop greatly reduced, WRVA booms in. Solid signal here, there are several syndicated shows I commonly listen to on WRVA during the evening hours.

Other: CHRB occasionally makes an appearance here. Also what I believe is a Cuban station will show up from time to time.
 
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