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AM Frequency of the week: 1220

I have been hearing things like what you describe like WKRS in the UP on Daytime Skywave, KenoGuy. Do you know Kent and Chris, the engineers for many of the Milwaukee stations? I was in SE WI for 2 1/2 weeks during a family emergency. Too much to do except see TV antennas, broadcast towers and tower lights while traveling. One evening at dusk I went to Kohl's in Kenosha to return something for a family member. You are the one who answered my question on the two towers along I-94 that look like an AM DA, I think.

Back when it was still Adult Standards, I heard WLIP 1050 in SE MI at Night sometimes, KenoGuy. Usually it's WTKA and CHUM that come in, but with just Talk type formats it's hard to distinguish something like WLIP now.
 
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1220 in the SF Bay Area is mostly KDOW, Salem's business (Dow, get it?) station licensed to Palo Alto. They've tried to get 50kw for that facility but I believe the CP expired a few years ago. With their present 145w nighttime signal KDOW gets plenty of interference throughout the market, mostly from KHTS in Southern California. KDOW and KHTS are all I've heard on 1220, but that's because I haven't tried all that hard to fish out other stations that must be in the mix.
 
In central MD;

Average to weak signal from Fall Church, VA's WFAX in the DC area. Mostly syndicated and brokered Christian programming.

At night usually Cleveland's WHKW dominates. Sadly the same format as WFAX, I don't often sit on this frequency to DX.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WKRS (Waukegan, IL) fair signal being 27 miles away from my location.
Nightime: WHKW usually heard, but easily nulled with a loop antenna.

DX catches/Other: WLPO (La Salle, IL) heard few time during daytime with WKRS nulled, or when WKRS was off air like last year when their transmitter was flooded. Other DX catches: KZYM (Cape Girardeau, MO), KVSA (Mc Gee, AR), KZEE (Weatherford, TX), WTCN (Stillwater, MN), WSLM (Salem, IN), CJRB (Boisevan, MB). Foreign AM DX on this frequency is mostly XEB (Mexico City), but also heard HJVN (Barranquilla, Colombia), and my best DX catch on this frequency: Radio Globo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) in October, 2012.
 
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1220 is blank during the day in S.A.

At night XEB is dominant and has a pretty strong signal at times. Sometimes KMVL, an adult standards station in Madisonville, TX (halfway between DFW and Houston), will bubble up and poke through.
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That station intermittently comes here, north of Austin, too.

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Also, I heard a weak KOFO in Ottawa, KS, once just prior to sunset; it was airing a local basketball pre-game show.
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Will have to look for that one. It was a local signal when I lived in the Kansas City area.
 
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