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AM Frequency of the week: 1170

cyberdad

cyberdad

40 or so miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Day: Splatter from WYLL (1160) and slightly less splatter from WSQR (1180 from Sycamore, IL).

Night: Still some splatter from WYLL (WSQR powers down to ONE watt and disappears). Being in the nulls for both WWVA and KFAQ results in 1170 being a fairly empty channel. A very weak WWVA is the more likely of the two blowtorches to surface. KJOC....or whatever the successor of KSTT calls itself....is also a rare visitor. I;ve also heard the Waukon, Iowa 1170
Retro/Other location: For a few years earlier this decade, the Davenport 1170 was here nightly. Obvious pattern leak or perhaps an STA. Signal was usually weak, but strong enough to easily be on top.

During my college days in southeast Iowa, KSTT was a daytime go-to for me. 1kw from 70 miles away with an unfavorable pattern. But with fabulous ground conductivity and nothing on the dial to block it, the result was a weak, but very listenable signal. At night, KSTT aimed its entire killowatt north from an 8-tower site and blasted into the Wisconsin and Minnesota north woods.

(KSTT was known for alums who went on to bigger and better things. Bobby Rich is one who comes to mind. David may be familiar with him from his time in Los Angeles. I once borrowed a few dozen LP's and 45s from him (as KSTT PD) for use on a "Million Dollar oldies weekend" on our college radio station.)
 
KSTT was a great Top 40 station but I rarely received it unless I was in the Quad Cities area passing through. I could not receive the station in either Peoria or Macomb, IL during the day in that earlier era. The current listing has the station with a 6 tower directional at night.

From the far SW suburbs of KC:

Day: A very weak KFAQ, Tulsa, 50 kW non-directional day. Some splatter from KCTO, Cleveland, MO on 1160 kHz.

Critical Hours: A listenable KFAQ until they switch to their nighttime pattern.

Night: KFAQ on occasion, as they are directional largely west at night. Usually, just a mess of unidentifiable signals.

Bob
 
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Chicago near the lakeshore:

Nothing during the day. At night if I can hear anything it's usually WWVA Wheeling WV or KFAQ Tulsa OK. I'd say WWVA is more likely near sunset and KFAQ is more likely later on, possibly due to the fact WWVA is to my east and KFAQ to my west.

Also I've had two one-time night station IDs, KOWZ in Waseca, MN and KBOB in Davenport, IA.
 
Days::::50KW KLOK...Vietnamese programming

Nights:::9KW KLOK...Vietnamese programming, so powerful I can hear the hum from the transmitter. I doubt they drop power from 50KW at night anyways. No way am I getting KFAQ through that modulation.
 
formula72 said:
Days::::50KW KLOK...Vietnamese programming

Nights:::9KW KLOK...Vietnamese programming, so powerful I can hear the hum from the transmitter. I doubt they drop power from 50KW at night anyways. No way am I getting KFAQ through that modulation.
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KLOK is listed as and i heard them this past winter with south asian indian type programming.. big difference from vietnamese.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs: Day it's all WYLL splatter. I am too close to their day facility to hear anything else. At night WYLL moves to their other facility and I can null it somewhat. I usually hear a weak WWVA most of the time. I have heard Davenport a few times and KFAQ less often.

Other location: At night KFAQ can sometimes be heard in Hawaii. When I was there about 10 years ago I heard KFAQ on my rental car radio at night.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime---nothing unless WWVA is in early or KFAQ makes it in before sunset. Night--usually WWVA. During the time WWVA was operating with a longwire after the derecho toppled their towers, the signal did make it here.
 
Moses Lake, WA

Daytime: Nothing really
Critical hours: KPUG Bellingham, WA
Nighttime: KLOK San Jose, CA (sometimes). Most of the time, however, 1170 is blocked by KSL's IBOC sideband.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: just splatter from WYLL
Nightime: WWVA or KFAQ

DX/Retro: others heard include KKZX (Davenport, IA), WLKE (Waupun, WI), WCXN (Claremont, NC), WDEk (lexington, SC) and HJNW (Cartagen, Colombia)
 
WWVA barely in the Daytime. Stonger at Night. Have heard. I have heard WFDL Waupun, WI in Northern Michigan during Daytime Skywave. KFAQ heard late CH and near Tulsa LSS.
 
In west Houston, days is slop from local on 1180. Occasionally I can hear Spanish, maybe XERT in Reynosa. At sunset, KFAQ comes up and is dominant, again with Spanish underneath.

When I lived in Perth Western Australia a few years ago, 1170 was an interesting frequency. Clear during the day, at sunset, 2CH Magic, with adult contemporary music (5kw in Sydney ~2,000 miles) was strong, the only station on the frequency in Australia. Pre-2014 nights were a mix of a 600kw CNR-1 from China, sometimes mixing with VOA from the Philippines. Both were silent by 2014 and 2CH was the only thing to come out of the jumble of signals. At sunrise in Perth, Sydney and SE Asia were in daylight and the 800kw station from Abu Dhabi (~5,500 miles away) was usually audible. It was Radio Sawa (US government Arabic service) pre-2014, but switched to Arabic Koranic chanting and talk.
 
From Laramie, WY:

By day, nothing
around sunset, maybe a real crappy weak noisy KJJD Windsor once in a while...
KFAQ Tulsa at night
 
wildthangjim said:
In west Houston, days is slop from local on 1180. Occasionally I can hear Spanish, maybe XERT in Reynosa. At sunset, KFAQ comes up and is dominant, again with Spanish underneath.

When I lived in Perth Western Australia a few years ago, 1170 was an interesting frequency. Clear during the day, at sunset, 2CH Magic, with adult contemporary music (5kw in Sydney ~2,000 miles) was strong, the only station on the frequency in Australia.
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I listen to 2CH online on a semi-regular basis. It's now basically 60s-70s oldies with really good audio on Tune-in. The music mix is similar to Chicago's meTV-FM, but with live jocks. You can find it on Tune in. I've also heard 2CH via nighttime skywave on at least one Australian SDR, but offhand I don't recall which one. I do remember it being all alone with a good signal.
 
cyberdad said:
I listen to 2CH online on a semi-regular basis. It's now basically 60s-70s oldies with really good audio on Tune-in. The music mix is similar to Chicago's meTV-FM, but with live jocks. You can find it on Tune in. I've also heard 2CH via nighttime skywave on at least one Australian SDR, but offhand I don't recall which one. I do remember it being all alone with a good signal.
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Sounds like a station I want to listen to. I'll have to check it out.
 
West Central Georgia

Day - Very weak WGMP Montgomery AL 10,000 watts Sports

Night - Not much. Occasionally catch WWVA or KFAQ. I think I'm in between both their coverage areas.
 
I always wonderd why KLOK could broadcast 9kw at night but KCBQ cant there at 2.9kw and all I here under-neath KCBQ is KLOK.
 
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