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AM Frequency of The Week: 1280

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crainbebo

What do you guys get on 1280?

In Bothell, WA
Daytime is KLDY Lacey, WA (ESPN Deportes), extremely weak, and/or KIT Yakima, WA (News/Talk) at a varying signal.
At sunset I have gotten KRVM Eugene, OR (NPR).
Nights I get KIT, once I got KDUX Henderson, NV (News/Talk) probably with 5kw day power and sometimes in the mess I get CJSL Estevan, SK (Country).

-crainbebo
 
From Lexington, KY:

Daytime:
WKYY Lancaster, KY
WGBF Evansville, IN (weak under WKYY)

Night-Time DX Heard Here:
WGBF Evansville, IN
WANS Anderson, SC

Sunrise/Sunset:
WIBB Macon, GA
 
El Cajon, CA...

Day: KFRN Long Beach, CA - fairly weak but easily readable except for QRM from adjacent local 1270 XEAZ, but that can be nulled.
Night: mix. Includes probably Las Vegas, maybe Phoenix (if there's a 1280 there) and/or central Calif coast (if there's one there too). The callsign KDOX does ring a bell, as well...
 
During the day, it's WHVR in Hanover, PA about 75 miles north of me; it sends a pretty good signal to me in northern VA; later in the afternoon it mixes in with WJWK Seaford, DE. WHVR plays country, Southern Gospel and bluegrass and WJWK is Spanish.
 
In Coeur d'Alene, ID on 1280:
local KPTQ Spokane talk babble all day
twilight KIT, Yakima with News, Talk, Information
Also, KZNS, Salt Lake City "The Zone" Sports and occasionally CJSL, SK
with country.
Need to spend more time on 1280 (too busy with GYs!)
 
You've got a knack for picking my locals, crainbebo! 1280 here in Rochester is WHTK, 5 kW DA-N, about two miles south of me - and its night pattern is one big lobe aimed north. On the rare occasions it's been off the air, WADO New York dominates at night, as it does in WHTK's deep nulls. It's been a pretty dead channel by day since CHAM Hamilton moved from 1280 to 820 in the 80s; there was a low-powered 1280 at the Toronto airport (CFYZ) for a few years later on, but it's dead now, too.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: WBIG, Aurora IL (Fair-Weak)
Night: Mess.....sometimes Minneapolis, Evansville, or Fox Cities (WI)
 
SW OH

Day
Nothing

Sunrise/Sunset
WCPM CUMBERLAND KY
I'll try tomorrow

Night
WGBF EVANSVILLE IN - Molst frequently heard
WDNT DAYTON IN
WANS ANDERSON SC
WONW DEFIANCE OH
WNAM Neenah WI
 
Day: KRVM (very, very weak)
Night: mess, KRVM being the most intelligible one
 
Besides catching my typos...one of them being that WDNT is in Dayton TN, I DX'ed 1280 on the way to work today with no I.D.'s.

Several stations would jump up above the threshold, some quite strong, but not long enough.
 
In the LA area:

Day: local KFRN Long Beach, CA
Night: huge mess
 
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