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AM Frequency of the week - 1200 Khz

From El Cajon, CA:

Day - depending on the radio, severe desense and/or splatter from local 1170 KCBQ (50kW @ 9.3 mi N, ~ 112.5 kW ERP toward me, ground conductivity ~ 8 mS/m), along with a little slop from semi-local 1210 KPRZ.

Night - often KYAA Soquel or WOAI San Antonio, with KYAA usually being heard more frequently.
 
WOAI barely makes it up to Columbus anymore. In town itself, it's almost impossible to hear it because of a local ODOT/weather station on 1200.
 
Nothing, except for some slop from strong, local WCRW 1190 Leesburg, VA; a new station recently signed on. At night, mess including the IBOC from WPHT 1210.
 
From Warminster PA:
Daytime: splatter from WPHT, and that's all.
Night: usually a Virginia station(forget the calls); WOAI occasionally.
 
Schenectady, NY: Pretty empty, with an occasional WTLA/Syracuse showing up in the day on a good radio (or 1190 WSDE Cobleskill splatter on bad radios)... at night I might get WTLA stronger (WSDE is only 2 watts or so at night), but I've never heard WOAI in San Antonio (the namesake of Clear Channel :))
 
South and east of Pittsburgh:

Daytime, WKST-1200, Forever Broadcasting news/talk 5,000-watter out of New Castle, PA. It's next to WANB-1210 out of Waynesburg but a digital tuner can bring in both in McKeesport.

Nighttime, WKST is a 1,000-watter that veers north so one does not get it in Pittsburgh. Usually my scan goes past 1200 to Salem's WHKW-1220 out of Cleveland.

Has some interesting trivia going for it. It once had a sister TV station, WKST-45 (now WYTV-33 in Youngstown, Ohio). In Pittsburgh, Clear Channel has WKST-FM 96.1, also called Kiss 96.1, a Top 40 outlet.

More at http://www.wkst.com/node
 
1200 is usually all WOAI at night here in Lexington, KY. However, in recent years, I-NOISE from WOWO-1190 and WPHT-1210 has really destroyed the reception of this once SOLID Texas signal into Central KY.

During the Day, I can clearly hear WNBL-1200 from Huntington, WV over a very weak WAMB from Nashville, TN

Both of the above stations (WNBL & WAMB) are NOT supposed to reach Lexington during the day according to the Radio-Locator maps, but they clearly do. Now, I see the frequency may become really cluttered up as there TWO Daytime CPs which will each cover Lexington...

They are:

KELE-1200 from Ripley, OH Note: This station is currently located in Mountain Grove, MO on 1360!
WGRK-1200 from Jeffersonville(Louisville), KY Note: This station is currently in Greensburg, KY on 1540!

Others I've logged...

1200 kHz stations heard DXing (mostly Sunrise/Sunset times) are: WXIT, KFNW, WCHB & WKST
 
Here in SW Florida 1200AM is WINK-AM which provides all news programing during the day with some talk programs at night and on the weekends. This station has gone through a number of changes over the years since it first signed on in 1986. The following is the Wikipedia information on this station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINK_(AM)

It operates with 10,000 watts DT and I,000 watts NT. They do have a CP on file to increase their DT power up to 50,000 watts.
 
If this thread was posted 35 years ago, every answer would be "only WOAI"! :D

cd
 
In Bothell/Bellevue it's CJRJ Vancouver, BC with Bollywood music. The Big WOAI San Antonio is very occasional and usually quite weak. Once heard KYAA Soquel, CA as well when they ran the Indian format a year or so ago.

-crainbebo
 
Was looking at my AM log of my catches from Alaska (near Anchorage, 1978-80)....WOAI was among them; my distance shows as 3,300 air miles.

Over about two years of attempting AM DXing there, I only logged about 125 stations on AM. Sometimes there are no stations at all, sometimes many. Of course, over summer, forget it, for the most part!

cd
 
CD, how much different are typical conditions in Alaska over summer, at least south of the Arctic Circle, compared to places like Southern California? I can understand trans-Equatorial-and-0°-Meridian DX being very difficult in Barrow, for example, but what about farther south like Nome, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau, or wherever it was you were?

Here in El Cajon, CA (near San Diego) using a pocket radio I can hear something on pretty much every channel nightly from 530 to 1700 even in summer.
 
tfcwings said:
CD, how much different are typical conditions in Alaska over summer, at least south of the Arctic Circle, compared to places like Southern California? I can understand trans-Equatorial-and-0°-Meridian DX being very difficult in Barrow, for example, but what about farther south like Nome, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau, or wherever it was you were?

Here in El Cajon, CA (near San Diego) using a pocket radio I can hear something on pretty much every channel nightly from 530 to 1700 even in summer.
Click to expand...

This was over 30 years ago, so I really don't remember much about how conditions were....keep in mind that summers have loooooong periods of daylight. I was still learning things like how signals to the west (like Japan) came in better nearing local sunrise (because it's still dark across the path).

ISTR catching 1260 Edmonton once around 3:30pm, but that had to be near a wintertime when things were already dark in Edmonton.

I just assumed (because it was so long ago, and I forget now) that there was no DX to be had in summer, except during the darkness, of which there may have been only 4 hours a day in June.

The biggest letdown was that the Superadio was still in the planning stages. I had Radio Shack's long-range AM-only receiver (which really wasn't that great, compared to the Supe)...and as I recall, the best AM radio for DXn to me was my Delco car radio!!

Having said that, I do think that WOAI came in on my Shack radio. Also I got a QSL card from JOKR 954 Tokyo after sending a report (only that certain US hits played, which I listed, as I sure don't know Japanese) after listening into a cold January night in 1979, on the Shack!

Too OT I know...back to our thread.

cd
 
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