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AM Frequency of the Week: 1200
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From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...
In the beginning, there was WOAI San Antonio, which enjoys the distinction of having been the last clear-channel station to have its frequency all to itself – according to the White's Radio Log I started with in the early 1970s.
In these parts, what is now WRTO started as WMXA, has also been WOPA, WLXX and WVIV along the way, and has a transmitter in Chicago's West Pullman district after previously been located nearby at I-94 and 103rd Street. The new location also meant a signal boost day (from 5 kW to 20 kW) and night (from 1 kW to 4.5 kW). Day and night patterns are different.
I'm near enough so WRTO is hard to null, but if I really work at it, hints of WOAI come through.
Once upon a time in the early 1980s, a pirate showed up here, identifying as KDF677 Addison, Ill. and boasting 100-watt power and as "WLS-owned." Heard it one night and never again.
In the beginning, there was WOAI San Antonio, which enjoys the distinction of having been the last clear-channel station to have its frequency all to itself – according to the White's Radio Log I started with in the early 1970s.
In these parts, what is now WRTO started as WMXA, has also been WOPA, WLXX and WVIV along the way, and has a transmitter in Chicago's West Pullman district after previously been located nearby at I-94 and 103rd Street. The new location also meant a signal boost day (from 5 kW to 20 kW) and night (from 1 kW to 4.5 kW). Day and night patterns are different.
I'm near enough so WRTO is hard to null, but if I really work at it, hints of WOAI come through.
Once upon a time in the early 1980s, a pirate showed up here, identifying as KDF677 Addison, Ill. and boasting 100-watt power and as "WLS-owned." Heard it one night and never again.
East-central Iowa: nothing daytime, nighttime is WOAI or WRTO or both.
It's WOAI, day and night, with its tower about 30 miles SE of me.
If I aim N-NE/S-SW at night, I get a small partial null of WOAI with occasional skywave/groundwave cancellation. I used to hear a weak XECPAC in Jalpan de Serra, Querétaro, in that null fairly often at night and sunrise; however, I'm not hearing it at all these days.
I've heard Nashville daytimer WFCN twice in the null when it was on at night, and now with XECPAC missing, I'm finding I can hear it with a faint signal for a bit when it signs on for the day.
Also, I logged a very weak KYOO in Bolivar, MO, at sunset in the null twice in December 2020; one of those times I heard a station ID.
If I aim N-NE/S-SW at night, I get a small partial null of WOAI with occasional skywave/groundwave cancellation. I used to hear a weak XECPAC in Jalpan de Serra, Querétaro, in that null fairly often at night and sunrise; however, I'm not hearing it at all these days.
I've heard Nashville daytimer WFCN twice in the null when it was on at night, and now with XECPAC missing, I'm finding I can hear it with a faint signal for a bit when it signs on for the day.
Also, I logged a very weak KYOO in Bolivar, MO, at sunset in the null twice in December 2020; one of those times I heard a station ID.
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Carmichael, CA
Daytime: splatter from KRPU Rocklin
Nighttime: splatter from KRPU Rocklin
Vallejo, CA
Daytime: KYAA Soquel, CA Weak
Nighttime: KYAA Soquel, CA Veay Weak
Daytime: splatter from KRPU Rocklin
Nighttime: splatter from KRPU Rocklin
Vallejo, CA
Daytime: KYAA Soquel, CA Weak
Nighttime: KYAA Soquel, CA Veay Weak
Clifton, New Jersey
Days: Nothing
Nights: It's usually WXKS "Talk 1200" Newton, MA, which airs News/Talk programming. I have received other stations depending on propagation. They include CFGO Ottawa, ON, WTLA North Syracuse, NY, WUZZ New Castle, PA and WOAI San Antonio, TX.
Days: Nothing
Nights: It's usually WXKS "Talk 1200" Newton, MA, which airs News/Talk programming. I have received other stations depending on propagation. They include CFGO Ottawa, ON, WTLA North Syracuse, NY, WUZZ New Castle, PA and WOAI San Antonio, TX.
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