AM Frequency of the Week: 1200

[cyberdad]

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

Days: WRTO (Chicago) with a good signal

Nights: WRTO drops from 20KW to 4.5KW, but my location is on the edge of the major lobe to the north, so the signal is almost as good as the daytime. Meanwhile, WOAI is pretty much of the equal of WRTO in strength. Null either one and hear the other all alone.

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago suburbs, pretty much the same as Cyberdad: During the day WRTO with a good signal. At night I can usually hear WOAI underneath WRTO. If I null WRTO, then WOAI is stronger. What is interesting to me is that WRTO has a null to the east on their day pattern so they don't interfere with WOWO on 1190. At night that null loosens up.

 

[DXBob]

At 25 miles SW of downtown Kansas City:

Day: Nothing, open channel.

Critical Hours: WOAI, no other stations logged.

Night: All WOAI, strong and listenable.

Bob

 

[icybluelake]

Daytime nothing. Nighttime somewhat unpredictable these days. WOAI used to be constant, but not anymore. WRTO is often there, but not regularly either. I've had CFGO Ottawa on occasion in the past but not recently.

 

[gr8oldies]

East Tennessee: Daytime-nada. Night: All WOAI, all the time.
Retro/other: Ohio, same thing. Lafayette IN area, WRTO around sunrise and sunset

 

[cyberdad]

At 25 miles SW of downtown Kansas City:

Day: Nothing, open channel.

Critical Hours: WOAI, no other stations logged.

Night: All WOAI, strong and listenable.

Bob

i remember an 1190 in Kansas City. Now long gone. IIEC, they were 1kw fulltime with a tight night pattern to protect WOWO and KEX. I stand to be corrected (as always), but I think it was nostalgia/standards and the call letters were KJLA. Given the good ground conductivity in the area, that killowatt was enough to put a decent signal into most of at least the close-in Kansas City metro.

 

[Route66Fan]

From Carrollton, MO:
Daytime: Nothing.
Nighttime: WOAI, San Antonio, TX.

i remember an 1190 in Kansas City. Now long gone. IIEC, they were 1kw fulltime with a tight night pattern to protect WOWO and KEX. I stand to be corrected (as always), but I think it was nostalgia/standards and the call letters were KJLA. Given the good ground conductivity in the area, that killowatt was enough to put a decent signal into most of at least the close-in Kansas City metro.

Their callsign was, indeed, KJLA (From 1978-1992.) & they did have a nostalgia/standards format (From 1981-1992.)
That station is technically still on the air, but with a different callsign, frequency & format. (They moved to 1340AM in 1997.)
http://kcradio.robzerwekh.com/1190.html
http://kcradio.robzerwekh.com/1340.html
I have a audiotape somewhere with (I think.) an unscoped recording of 1190AM in Kansas City, MO from 1989 (When it was still KJLA & still carring the nostalgia/standards format, that I had gotten from a flea market, but I can't find it right now.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

When this retiree used to be awake at the crack of Noon here in my new NE PA digs, WRAK Williamsport PA used to come in, off the wonderful Lafayette HA 600.
Faint. Steady.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WRKK&service=AM&h=D
We are a little north of Pottsville. But that HA-600 c o o k e d !

In some fashion I've accidentally logged two sunset stations -- WAGE from Virginia, and WSML from North Carolina.
WSML was from March 1st 2016.
Geez, I have to listen more at sunset here if I wanna try to keep up with Crain's AM totals, hi.

WOAI has been the only nighttime log here.

Green

402 new AM logs here in NE PA, with the odometer having been set back to 000.
41 FM loggings.
Now THAT'S almost a DXer, hi

 

[WahooWah]

West Central Georgia:

Day: Nothing

Critical Hours: have heard WJXY Atlantic Beach SC 6.5 kW Day Gospel

Night: WOAI is a regular but not a strong signal

 

[WCJ]

Orange County, TX-Days nothing, Nights, it's all WOAI.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

i remember an 1190 in Kansas City. Now long gone. IIEC, they were 1kw fulltime with a tight night pattern to protect WOWO and KEX. I stand to be corrected (as always), but I think it was nostalgia/standards and the call letters were KJLA. Given the good ground conductivity in the area, that killowatt was enough to put a decent signal into most of at least the close-in Kansas City metro.

Not long gone. They are 5kw Non directional days and 500W/4 towers night running a catholic format

Coverage map:
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=kdmr&x=0&y=0&sr=Y&s=C

 

[DXBob]

Not long gone. They are 5kw Non directional days and 500W/4 towers night running a catholic format

Coverage map:
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=kdmr&x=0&y=0&sr=Y&s=C

This is absolutely correct. The KDMR daytime signal on 1190 is strong at my location but at night, they are usually overtaken by other signals including WOWO - Fort Wayne and KFXR - Dallas when both stations are 50 kW during critical hours. At night, I have yet to ID a signal beyond a weak and fading KDMR. Other signals are present.

Bob

 

[radioman148]

When this retiree used to be awake at the crack of Noon here in my new NE PA digs, WRAK Williamsport PA used to come in, off the wonderful Lafayette HA 600.
Faint. Steady.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WRKK&service=AM&h=D
We are a little north of Pottsville. But that HA-600 c o o k e d !

In some fashion I've accidentally logged two sunset stations -- WAGE from Virginia, and WSML from North Carolina.
WSML was from March 1st 2016.
Geez, I have to listen more at sunset here if I wanna try to keep up with Crain's AM totals, hi.

WOAI has been the only nighttime log here.

Green

402 new AM logs here in NE PA, with the odometer having been set back to 000.
41 FM loggings.
Now THAT'S almost a DXer, hi

Hey Steve,

How many logs did you have in NY before you reset the odometer? I used to keep track of my logs too back in the day, but they are long gone now.

 

[cyberdad]

Not long gone. ]

I learn something every day on this board. I could've sworn the KC 1190 was history. And I seem to clearly remember it being off the last time I was in town. But that was more than five years ago. Maybe it had been off for a time, then resurfaced. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else. Or maybe I'm just flat-out wrong!

Whatever, its my bad! And I also apologize for veering into 1190 on the 1200 thread. When Bob noted that 1200 is a fairly open channel, It occurred to me that splatter from 1190 might have at some point affected1200.

(I need a vacation....or something! )

 

[CADXER]

Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WRTO with their 20kW transmitter from their 6-tower array in the Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood
Nightime: WRTO, but WOAI possible with partial null of WRTO

DX/RETRO: Prior to 1988 before WMXA came on the air, WOIA was the station that ruled the frequency in the Chicago area. Other frequent visitors were KFNW (West Fargo, ND), and CFGO (Ottawa, ON). Also heard on this frequency in the 80's/90's were WBCE (Wickliffe, KY), WKOX (Framingham, MA), WAGE (Leesburg, VA). YVOZ (Caracas, Venezuela) the only foreign station I ever heard on this frequency.

 

[DXBob]

I learn something every day on this board. I could've sworn the KC 1190 was history. And I seem to clearly remember it being off the last time I was in town. But that was more than five years ago. Maybe it had been off for a time, then resurfaced. Maybe I'm confusing it with something else. Or maybe I'm just flat-out wrong!

Whatever, its my bad! And I also apologize for veering into 1190 on the 1200 thread. When Bob noted that 1200 is a fairly open channel, It occurred to me that splatter from 1190 might have at some point affected1200.

(I need a vacation....or something! )

A couple of points here to make you feel better. A number of years ago [last decade] they were off the air for a time after they were purchased by new ownership which upgraded the physical plant and received approval for the 5 kW non-directional daytime signal. I neglected to mention "some splatter from KDMR on 1190" in this thread. You are hereby redeemed!

Bob

 

[wildthangjim]

Orange County, TX-Days nothing, Nights, it's all WOAI.

Here in west Houston, WOAI is strong day and somewhat weaker at night, but always on top. I think I'm about 100 miles closer than you are to San Antonio, but a bit surprised you can't get WOAI in the daytime.

I'm ~150 miles from WOAI's tower, so would the relative weakness at night be due to cancellation at that distance?

I've heard possible Spanish under WOAI at night but have not ID'ed anything else on this frequency.

 

[cyberdad]

A couple of points here to make you feel better. A number of years ago [last decade] they were off the air for a time after they were purchased by new ownership which upgraded the physical plant and received approval for the 5 kW non-directional daytime signal. I neglected to mention "some splatter from KDMR on 1190" in this thread. You are hereby redeemed!

Bob

Well, sort of maybe. Thanks Bob.

I used to go to an event every year in Overland Park. Haven't been back since. The last of those events was ten or more years ago, So I'm thinking it could well have been when they were off. Again, thanks for making me feel slightly less dumb that I felt earlier in the day.,,LOL!

 

[boombox4]

Here at night it's usually CJRJ Vancouver with their South Asian programming. Sometimes it blasts in, other times it's weaker -- even though it's only about 120 air miles away.

Beneath it WOAI can be heard on good nights, usually IDable because of Coast to Coast. On rare occasions a WOAI ID can also be heard.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: usually splatter from local 1210 WPHT.
Night: WOAI occasionally.