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AM Frequency of the Week - 1250 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on AM 1250?

Here in Vermilion, OH 1250 is pretty much blank during the day save for an extremely weak WDDZ/Pittsburgh if I have the radio turned just right and in a noise-free area. Nights I can get WDDZ stronger but on top of a messy mix of various other signals. WARE/Ware, MA is commonly heard around their sunset just before they switch pattern/power.
 
KDEI out of Port Arthur is 5KW omni day and used to be one the MOR/AC stations in the area...facility has gone down hill...Radio Maria owns it...dont think the Night DA has been proofed after the rebuild caused by one tower falling during Hurricane Rita..it does not cover the north as well as it used to...30 miles north it gets buried in noise...where 30 yrs ago, it covered like a local
 
Days it's a very weak mix of KWSU Pullman and KKDZ Seattle.
Sunset usually KNEU Roosevelt, UT is on top. Very rarely, KCFM Florence, OR.
Late evenings is mostly KWSU, a strong KKDZ, or a 129 watt KNEU, or all 3 coming in.
KLLK Willits, CA also comes in from time to time, I've heard KIKC Forsyth, MT rarely at sunset, and one overnight session brought a 1:00AM PT/3:00AM CT TOH ID for KBRF Fergus Falls, MN on 2200 watts. I have also heard SS coming from straight east before which was likely Kansas City.

-crainbebo
 
A weak version of CW's KDEI Port Arthur "Radio Maria" during the day, nothing at night. It may not send much northward these days, but it certainly makes it west to Houston fairly well. From Bellville, a whole lot of nothing either day or night. I have caught glimpses of ESPN San Antonio 1250 KZDC here and there daytime, but not regularly by any stretch.
 
KDEI's night array is to the south west at night (it is 1KW two tower DA @ night; 5KW omni day).. though the side lobes USED to make it to Beaumont and even the back lobe could cover Orange...but the TOTAL plant across TX 87 has built up SOOO many cracking towers, Im sure the north signal is being redirected south even more....Entergy (the power company) built a MASSIVE substation right in the main lobe and also put TWO HV transmission lines right through the main lobe to the south....each tower is concrete but each pole has a static ground running from the top to the base of the pole for "butt grounding" and lightning protection...and guess how tall each tower is?? right at a 1/4 wave at 1250!!! OOPS..(tried to explain to a HIGH manager in the company who is an friend of mine and he took it the wrong way and got POed at me...eventually I had to show him the issue and make him aware Entergy may have to DETUNE all the poles in the lobe field like TXU, then Dallas Power and Light, did with a HV line down the road from KRLD!)...evidently Little Rock and KC's 1250 are not complaining about the overly ran Hail Mary's ;) so the north null off KDEI is still there (actually is worse now since Beaumont loses 1250 at night...where back in the 70s, it blew into Beaumont at night with its side lobe...as Beaumont is NW of PA and not due north where the null is) With all the extra metal at the plant across the road, Im sure the pattern is NO where near what it should be....but if the main lobe still makes it SW (almost right down Gulfway Drive, which was the main drag in the 50-70s....and is DEAD now...even in the day!!, this is why CC unloaded 1250 a number of years ago....when they got KLVI under their wings, they have no need for 1250....KLVI at 1KW night (under STA) beats the snot out of 1250s signal...
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago...

Days: WSSP, Milwaukee. Weak. 5kw, but nulled in my direction to the south and southwest.

Night: WSSP actually throws a little more juice my way, and used to be reliably on top during its run as WEMP. No more. Now it's just a complete mess. 1250 from Topeka, KS as 5kw WREN used to be an occasional nighttime visitor. The facility subsequently moved to Kansas City, and I haven't heard the successor station (KYYS) since then.
 
Nothing of note in East Tenn.

Dayton brought WCHO in (interesting we did both of WCHO's frequencies this week)...very occasionally WGL days. Pittsburgh often above the hash at night
 
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