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AM Frequency of the Week - 1160 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 1160 kHz?

Here in Vermilion, it is usually 2 very weak signals, WCXI/Fenton, MI and WCVX/Florence, KY during the day. At night pretty much a mess. I do sometimes hear WYLL/Chicago just after sunrise.
 
In northern VA, I get WMET Gaithersburg, MD days with a strong, local 50 kW signal
Nights, it practically no WMET despite its 1.5 kW signal. I get a mix of several others, including WOBM in NJ, Chicago's WYLL and I may have heard KSL Salt Lake City last year but I could not confirm or prove that I heard it.
 
Just WYLL, but I can null them out pretty well if I try. Unfortunately what is left is just a bunch of mumble-jumble like any regional channel. But I remember when 1160 was a clear frequency and I could get KSL just about any night.
 
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During the day - a very weak radio Disney out of San Antonio. Night - mixture of stuff.
 
A county away from where Lehighton is here, it's WBYN in the day. I still think of them as WYNS and their full-service music days. That ended some time in the late 90's iIrc. WYNS did a fabulous job the Saturday of that March 1993 blizzard, for example ; a marooned but bright staff having some gallows humor fun and keeping everything flowing, music, info and all, as best they could.
(Anyone remember the days when WYNS was on 1150 ?)

The log here says 'WJJD' on September 6 1994 ..... WCCS Homer City PA (one sunrise) ..... and WVNJ from NJ, when they were experimenting with sending their signal every which way and which came in one NIGHT.

Someone might be able to help with an 1160 ID that sounded like 'WKDN Morkenson'. I can't narrow that one down.

No KSL yet here in NE PA. Perhaps it's just a matter of time, conditions, etc. Ironic that 150 miles EAST of here, on Long Island, they were often atop and alone. But that's decades ago.
Do they still have the 'Sound of the Novel Bell' to mark the hour?
 
Here in Washington, it's nothing in the day and KSL Salt Lake City, UT at night. Back in February, I made one of my biggest logs of the year by getting WYLL Chicago, IL under KSL with the 3-foot loop and capacitor. Came in OK but never faded up on top of UT, even though I did get some IDs and Chicago mentions!

-crainbebo

P.S.: rbrucecarter - have you gotten KSL down there in Houston? Or does the Mexicans take it over?
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Someone might be able to help with an 1160 ID that sounded like 'WKDN Morkenson'. I can't narrow that one down.
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There's WSKW in Skowhegan, ME with classic country. Maybe if you caught them just after they switched to 10kW day power this is what you heard. From the 1160 listings I could find this one seems to be the closest match.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

WYLL 24/7. Its a two-site operation. The day site is about 30 miles southeast of me. Night site is about 50 miles south-southeast. Both signals are very good, but at night I can hear stuff underneath. Other than KSL a couple of times, I haven't been able to get any IDs.

Back before WYLL went to the nighttime site and 50kw fulltime, the entire operation was from what's now the day site. Then the signal disappeared, and the 1160 from Nashville (as WAMB) was the most frequent visitor, with KSL as a semi-regular.
 
Day: Very weak KSL @283 miles.
Evening: KSL & a Pacific time zone Mexican until 8PM MT (Mexican daytimers 7pm sigh-off) decient signal!
Night: KSL. Generally lots of fading.
Past: Cuba totally destroying them.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs it's WYLL day & night, but at night I can null WYLL & sometimes still hear KSL underneath.
Many years ago when Chicago's 1160 was WJJD they would signoff at Salt Lake City sunset. Back then KSL was an easy & regular catch in the Chicago area.
 
Yes, in south FL as well, 1160 is bizarre. Nothing in the day; it's like a soft-graveyard freq at night.

KSL used to be a snap in the 1970s. I've heard it in the last 10 years I think, but I don't try much.
I may have heard Bermuda w/ BBCWS in the 1980s.
It was confirmed that I heard WOBM in NJ once late 80s to early 90s, "The Jersey Shore's......."
Oh yes and in the 1980s, Cuba used it for Radio Taino when it was totally bilingual. Taino is FM-only now.

cd
 
boiseengineer said:
Day: Very weak KSL @283 miles.
Evening: KSL & a Pacific time zone Mexican until 8PM MT (Mexican daytimers 7pm sigh-off) decient signal!
Night: KSL. Generally lots of fading.
Past: Cuba totally destroying them.
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Perhaps the Pacific time MX station was XEQIN San Quintin, BCN. They air indigenous programming aimed at the migrant workers from provinces like Oaxaca and Puebla. They air not only SS, but Mixtec, and Zapotec indigenous programs as well.

-crainbebo
 
Warminster PA(Philadelphia area):

Daytime: WOBM Lakewood NJ(fair signal).
Night: WYLL Chicago or WCCS Homer City PA(near Pittsburgh). Never got KSL here.
 
Located in W. WA.

Daytime, 1150 KKNW splash.

Nighttime, KSL and someone's IBOC. I've heard WYLL twice, although I was never able to ID them with certainty. Female host, talking about God, almost heard a mention of Chicago. KSL at the time was weaker than usual. Since then I keep an ear peeled for voices behind KSL.
 
Boom! For some reason, WYLL was off the air in the early morning hours. Upon discovering this, I immediately turned the radio to the west and listened intently for KSL. Sure enough around 4 am local time (north Chicago suburbs), there they were complete with ID. I am impressed! This is my first time hearing KSL in many years since WYLL (and its predecessors) were allowed to remain on the air all night. KSL faded up and down for a while and there were some other stations in the mix, but I didn't try to ID them.
 
The Herd Jepko "Night Cap" Show that ran on KSL for years got regular calls from the east coast, Alaska and Hawaii.
Even occasional calls from Europe & S. America on the "International" line.
Lots of lonely people talking about their cats & grandkids.

And DXers.
 
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