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AM Frequency of the Week: 1240 (a challenge!)

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crainbebo

This week's AM Frequency is a challenging graveyard channel, 1240.

Days in Bothell it was a weak mix of IBOC, KXLE Ellensburg, WA (N/T) and sometimes KGY Olympia, WA (AC?)
Bellevue WA it's IBOC hash days, nights a jumble.
Yakima WA: KXLE Ellensburg, WA and likely KTIX-OR days, jumble night

BOTHELL/BELLEVUE NIGHT LOGS
CJOR Osoyoos, BC (EZ Rock)
KCVL Colville, WA (Country sat-fed)
KEJO Corvallis, OR (Fox Sports)
KGY Olympia, WA (AC I think)
KOFE Saint Maries, ID (Classic Hits)
KQEN Roseburg, OR (N/T)
KRDM Redmond, OR (Regional Mexican)
KTIX Pendelton, OR (ESPN)
KWIK Pocatello, ID (N/T)
KXLE Ellensburg, WA (N/T)

-crainbebo
 
Durham, North Carolina: Never recall getting anything of note at night on 1240 kHz, but during the day this is a somewhat weak WPJL/Raleigh (the original WRAL when it signed on in 1939 at 1210 kHz).
 
Here east of Columbus, Ohio, it's WHIZ from Zanesville with 1,000 watts daytime and 960 watts night. That said, the Radio Locator maps are as gross an exaggeration as I've ever seen for any station. WHIZ gets clobbered about halfway between Columbus and Zanesville by the IBOC hash of WYTS (1230), and that night signal map is nowhere near accurate. You have to be within about 10 miles of Zanesville to hear WHIZ at night, and even then it's a gamble.
 
No doubt Radio-Locator (which is for entertainment purposes only) doesn't count iBoc issues, and the night pattern map would be under optimum conditions (night power/pattern during the day).

Western Ohio...Dayton area, a weak WHBU Anderson, IN if anything. Night just a jumble.
 
Manassas, VA,

Daytime, very weak WJEJ Hagerstown, MD, near the PA border. It's one of the very few, easy listening/adult standards stations in the US. Also, weaker WCEM Cambridge, MD, east of the Chesapeake Bay, with ESPN.
Nighttime, huge graveyard mess.
 
schmave said:
Here east of Columbus, Ohio, it's WHIZ from Zanesville with 1,000 watts daytime and 960 watts night. That said, the Radio Locator maps are as gross an exaggeration as I've ever seen for any station. WHIZ gets clobbered about halfway between Columbus and Zanesville by the IBOC hash of WYTS (1230), and that night signal map is nowhere near accurate. You have to be within about 10 miles of Zanesville to hear WHIZ at night, and even then it's a gamble.
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I've wondered if WHIZ ever has filed a complaint. They ought to. You can hear the buzz underneath its signal 15 miles from Zanesville if not closer.
 
schmave said:
I've wondered if WHIZ ever has filed a complaint. They ought to. You can hear the buzz underneath its signal 15 miles from Zanesville if not closer.
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I doubt if it would have any affect at all. Ask the folks at WYSL Avon NY (Rochester area); they've been complaining about overwhelming interference from adjacent WBZ Boston for years.

Back to the subject, here in East Texas it's KDOK Kilgore during the day, and amidst the nighttime jungle sometimes KTAM from Bryan/College Station works its way through. Late one night I caught a fairly good signal for a while from KWAK Stuttgart AR. (Those are great call letters for the self-proclaimed "Duck-hunting Capital of the World.")
 
Nothing here in Pittsburgh but hash from local WDDZ. It prevents you from hearing
anything, even now that they've shut the IBOC off at night.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago, it's semi-local WSBC with a fair signal daytime. WSDR, Sterling, IL underneath.

Night is all slop all the time. I don't keep logs, but I have hung out on 1240 every now and then down through the years. Nothing remarkable comes to mind, but I do recall WTAX, from Springfield, IL, a couple of times. That's around 200 miles.
 
Daytime-only results from 1240 from here. Depending on the on-job/portable radio locale, it's a louder WIOV Reading plus WV-something Selingsrove. They're both somewhat equidistant and both ESPN sports, which makes for a cool echo if you tilt the radio a certain way.

At night, 1240 sounds like a a million eggs boiling. Some DX might be able to trickle in, but at night the radio fare is usually sports of some sort.

Sports that actually reaches here, hi.
 
Here in SW Florida 1240 is occupied by WFSX with 1,000 watts ND. This station is the oldest AM station in the Fort Myers area. I am not sure of it's original sign on date but I believe it was somewhere back in the 1950's. This station was known for many years as WINK AM but the WINK call letters were moved to the more powerful 1200AM spot about a year ago to coincide withe the new WINK all news format on that station. The WINK calls were moved over to 1200 once before (1999-2003) but then were moved back to 1240 with the various format shifts.

Currently WFSX is one of the three stations in a triple cast along with WFSX 92.5FM and WNOG 1270AM out of Naples. All three stations run Beck, Rush, Hannity and the other usual denizens of right wing talk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFSX_(AM)
 
NW Indiana & the near south suburbs can't get 1240 WSBC, due to 1st adjacent, WJOB on 1230 from Hammond Indiana. I believe you have to be at least somewhere between 63rd & 87th Streets in Chicago's south side to get 1240, as 1240 broadcasts on the north side of Chicago.
 
Most Common KJOP Lemoore CA, then KNRY Monterey CA and KSMX Santa Maria CA.
 
Here in McKinney just north of Dallas
1240 during the day is a weak KVSO Ardmore, OK
At night usually KDOK manages to stay on top of the jumble.
 
In Vermilion, OH during the day 1240 is almost nothing except an occasional hint of one or two stations which I have yet to be able to identify. I'm guessing they are WBBW/Youngstown, OH and WHIZ/Zanesville, OH. A night it is nothing but graveyard slop.
 
Dave said:
NW Indiana & the near south suburbs can't get 1240 WSBC, due to 1st adjacent, WJOB on 1230 from Hammond Indiana. I believe you have to be at least somewhere between 63rd & 87th Streets in Chicago's south side to get 1240, as 1240 broadcasts on the north side of Chicago.
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Believe it or not, I get WSBC in pretty well at night. There is another station (unknown, but obviously some sort of talk station) that tries to interfere at times with WSBC. I get 1230 pretty well during the day, but not too well at night. I am currently listening to WSBC right now. This is near 95th Street and 294, west of Oak Lawn.
 
Day or night I get nothing in Central VA. Lots of hash and Ibuzz at night.
 
For me, a no-brainer: WTAX here in Springfield 24/7--however, I have noticed instances of fluttery nighttime signals in parts of the far west and west-central sides of the city (particularly west of Veterans' Parkway and near Washington Park/Pasfield Golf Course).
 
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