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AM Frequency of the Week - 1200 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 1200 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a rather weak WCHB/Detroit during the day with Urban talk/news and at night it's mostly WOAI but and in a mess which gets clobbered badly by the I-BLOCK of WPHT 1210 from Philly. Tonight I'm hearing a station playing Spanish music on 1200 on top of several other stations.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What can you all get on 1200 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a rather weak WCHB/Detroit during the day with Urban talk/news and at night it's mostly WOAI but and in a mess which gets clobbered badly by the I-BLOCK of WPHT 1210 from Philly. Tonight I'm hearing a station playing Spanish music on 1200 on top of several other stations.
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Wondering if 1200 WINK which airs regional Mexican music didn't power down at 5:45PM, they are 50,000 watts day and 1,000 watts day.

In St. Pete it's 1200 WINK during the day and WOAI- San Antonio TX at night.
 
I've logged 12 different stations in the last 7 years, because it's a dead frequency locally.

What I actually get on any regular basis, from central Virginia, is WMIR (11 watts, 280 miles) or WOAI (1330 miles), night reception. Most of the rest have come at sunrise/sunset.

WPHT (212 miles) can be a problem, but IBOC in general has seemed much less intrusive in the last year or so.
 
In Gary, IN, I get WRTO during the day on their 20kw daytime power (on 4 of 6 towers), while at night, it's splatter with WRTO trying to override WOAI San Antonio, but not always successful, at 4.5kw at night on all 6 towers. Before they were forced onto their current site, their old site on 103rd Street & I-94 in Chicago, it was an 8 tower site, with 10kw days on 4 towers, & 1kw at night on all 8 towers, & the furthest WRTO reached was Hammond, IN, before WOAI knocked out WRTO. WRTO must protect both WOAI to the SW, & 1190 WOWO Fort Wayne to the ESE.
 
In Houston it's all WOAI at night, and a weak WOAI during the day.
 
purpledevil said:
In Houston it's all WOAI at night, and a weak WOAI during the day.
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I don't know which part of Houston you are in, but WOAI is strong at static free during the day at my West Houston location. Almost like a local. It punches into the building where I work with a listenable signal, too. Amazing in the car --- sometimes I wish they would turn on the HD just one time to see if I could get a lock. I am convinced I would.
 
Daytime - CJRJ Vancouver, BC

Nights - CJRJ, sometimes mixed with WOAI San Antonio, TX especially on the big loop antenna. Have also heard KYAA Soquel, CA with the former South Asian format. (And I think I heard them once or twice with the Immaculate Heart Radio format).

-crainbebo
 
SW Ohio
Nights WOAI, usually with a very poor signal.

All others at Sunrise, except CFGO which was at night.
WAMB Lebanon/Nashville TN
WKST New Castle PA
WXIT Blowing Rock NC
WMIR Atlantic Beach SC
CFGO Ottawa ON CAN
WINK Pine Island Center FL
WEMM Huntington WV
 
I remember from Jackson, Michigan, nights were WOAI with a really good signal (25 years ago). On the East coast of Florida, nights were WOAI with a pretty good signal (1990 to 2000). I have also heard them in the early afternoon via skywave in Arizona, probably along I-10 (40 years ago).
 
Daytime: scratch from 1190 KEX
Nights: Mostly scratch from 1190 KEX but when conditions are good I and pull out CJRJ in the null of KEX.
 
In the early 1980s when I lived on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, I could pull in WOAI at night from time to time.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Days: WRTO Fair-Good
Nights: WOAI usually also Fair-Good with WRTO underneath.

I spent part of last week in Texas.....Houston/San Antonio/Dallas. I wasn't all that impressed overall with WOAI's day signal, but I agree that coming out of Houston going west on the Katy Freeway it was clear and very listenable in the urban/suburban environment. At least on a good car radio.
 
Totally agree with CyberDad on the previous post. WOAI always came in decently well when I worked out on Gessner Road, near Westheimer and the Beltway, some years ago. West of Katy on I-10, it was even better.
Nighttime was a different story. Whether I lived in northwest Houston or League City, WOAI was never a powerhouse. I always figured Houston fell into the convergence zone. A cousin who lives in metro Dallas who used to depend on WOAI for Phil Hendrie was never impressed with the night signal either, and he lives (and lived then) north of 1190's nighttime lobe in the Richardson area.
Here in central Ohio, WOAI's signal at night is garbage. Nothing close to what it used to be.
 
Boise:
Sunrise/Sunset Skip it's usually KFNW Fargo ND and KYAA Soquel CA.
Don't remember hearing KOLJ Layton UT even though they should audible in Boise. On the air?
Nights WOAI, KYAA and last night a surprise appearance of CJRJ.
 
Northern VA, I get nothing on days; just slop on strong local WCRW 1190; nights it's I-BLOCK from WPHT 1210 almost blocking any signal from WOAI. I sometimes heard WOAI here. Before the IBOC, I often get WOAI here in VA at nights. And I remember back on the windy, cloudy, rainy Oregon coast I've heard once heard WOAI there at night; usually it's KYAA that boisengineer mentioned.
 
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