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AM Frequency of the Week - 1290 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 1290 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH, during the daytime, it is mainly a weak CJBK/London, ON 'NewsTalk 1290'

Nighttime: WHIO/Dayton, OH (with varying strength and other stations underneath) once they switch to night pattern

Sunrise: WDZY/Colonial Heights, VA (Radio Disney)
WNBF/Binghamton, NY 'NewsRadio 1290'
 
One of my worst channels here in suburban Rochester NY. It was all splat from first-adjacent WHTK 1280 a mile away even before WHTK added IBOC.

On the rare occasions when I can get around WHTK, it's either CJBK or WNBF.
 
12 noon here, Schuylkill County PA, GE Superadio II :

All alone is a steady WNBF from Binghamton NY, 87 miles as the crow freezes.
Odd, they say 'News-talk WNBF', yet they're going into a BKB game between Cincinnati and Georgia. Must be a slow Saturday for topical talk, aside from Rush Limbaugh being a slut.

There's some splash from semis WKZN Hazleton 1300 and from WBWX Berwick 1280, both of which are a lot closer. But I only get the slop when I turn the PC monitor OFF!

At night, this nowadays-casual DXer hears Canada.

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From the glory days of midday DXing in the 60's from Laurelton (Southeastern Queens NYC), a good null of WADO 1280 NYC would bring in the great top 40 1290 WGLI from out on Long Island. But at the 'peak' of WGLI's signal, WTUX from Wilmington Delaware always would be there, under WGLI, with their Beautiful Music.

Overnights back then, WICE from Providence RI was the usual 1290 occupant.

I trust that this info tremendously will help your regional research, Buckeye :-X
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Days: Weak WMCS, Milwaukee

Nights: WIRL (Peoria) usually on top with a good signal. Omaha sometimes in the mix, Dayton less frequently.

(For those unfamiliar, WIRL was one of the better small-market top 40 stations during that format's "golden age". Their big signal didn't hurt matters.)
 
Northern VA,

days, very weak Richmond-Petersburg area's Radio Disney WDZY; its transmitter is well south of Richmond, just north of Petersburg according to the R-L map. Nights it's a mess of station with WHIO Dayton, OH on top.
 
SW Ohio
Casual DXer
Sangean PR-D5 Internal antenna
Car Radio
Drake R8B + Wellbrook 1530+, and Wellbrook ALA 100

DAY
WHIO DAYTON OH

NIGHT
WBTG Sheffield AL Running day power?
WKTS SAVANNAH GA

SUNSET
WCBL BENTON KY
WVOW LOGAN WV
 
SE Michigan

Daytime-Usually CJBK London near Lake St. Clair, and WLBY Saline to the west and toward Flint. I never used to hear 5000 Watt DA-N WHGR Houghton Lake until I got to about Saginaw. WHGR is off now, cannibalized by the WOOD 1300 upgrade to 20000 watts. When WCCW 1310 filed an application for 50000 watts daytime recently, they measured extended WOOD radials, and it looked like 1290 would still have fit in Houghton Lake, possibly with 1000 watts, but maybe more with more measured radials.

Night-Usually WHIO Dayton, frequently WIRL Playing In Peoria, and sometimes WNBF Binghamton.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
All alone is a steady WNBF from Binghamton NY, 87 miles as the crow freezes.
Odd, they say 'News-talk WNBF', yet they're going into a BKB game between Cincinnati and Georgia. Must be a slow Saturday for topical talk, aside from Rush Limbaugh being a slut.

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The part about Rush Limbaugh cracked me up and if you search 'Rush Limbaugh's Demand' on YouTube, you'll find a video of him which supports that claim.

I would have to null out CJBK and try to pull in WHIO during the day in order to hear Rush Limbaugh on this frequency. I was getting WHIO around 5PM EST from Vermilion, OH today though. Will have to try this frequency more during the day.
 
From Tampa ...

Daytime - Something very weak there but not even close to audible with 1250 WHNZ splatter.

Nighttime - WJNO West Palm Beach fading in and out.
 
Even with a local on 1290 (WHIO), Dayton I've been able to hear several stations underneath it while it is on night pattern, and a couple of times when they've been off the air. One reason that it's News talk 1290 AND NOW 95.7 FM; the signal is hard to get in much of the metro without interference for the important morning drive news block.

WDZY is pretty common and sometimes I've heard it on day power/pattern before they're supposed to in the morning. For several years, WKLB Manchester KY had a typo on their license that gave them full power authorization at 5:45am in December. This wreaked havoc on WHIO in December. That's been corrected. I've heard Benton, KY and Peoria (which had pattern issues of it's own a couple of years ago). Also WHKY Hickory, NC.

From the Gatlinburg, TN area, I've heard WDZY, WHKY and WHIO (latter before pattern change). During extreme daytime DX conditions I've heard WHIO just outside of Nashville.
 
Bellevue, WA

Days nothing
Sunset KOUU Pocatello, ID (Country), sometimes KUMA Pendelton, OR (News/Talk)
Nights it's KUMA, KPAY Chico, CA (News/Talk), KGVO Missoula, MT (N/T) and sometimes CFRW Winnipeg, MB (sports).

-crainbebo
 
Durham, North Carolina:

Daytime: WXKL in Sanford, NC (about 40 miles south on US 15-501) mixed with interference from local second-adjacent WTIK (1310 kHz).

Nighttime: Received WHKY in Hickory, NC a few times..nothing else distinguishable.
 
Here in east Kansas I get a weak Omaha signal during the day and a mix with Peoria at sunrise, sunset and at night, with Peoria often the winner.
 
I also seem to rememober hearing KOIL 1290 in Omaha, at least when still on day pattern after local sunset in SE Michigan. I guess it's KKAR now. I also seem to remember a young person saying "KOIL Cares When It Counts", but it may have been on someone else's aircheck compilation. I assume it was for some public service anouncement or charity sponsorship.
 
borderblaster said:
Even with a local on 1290 (WHIO), Dayton I've been able to hear several stations underneath it while it is on night pattern, and a couple of times when they've been off the air. One reason that it's News talk 1290 AND NOW 95.7 FM; the signal is hard to get in much of the metro without interference for the important morning drive news block.
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1290 is all WHIO here around Columbus daytime. It's complete jumble at night. I used to try to catch it back when they carried Reds games (mostly because that was an easy identifier) and never heard even a trace of it at night.
The reason I bolded the portion above is because that's still the slogan after 5 1/2 years of the simulcast. ::)
 
Anytime I reference it, on Facebook or anywhere, I always use the AND NOW 95.7Fm part. Check 1290 around sunrise/sunset, you should be able to pull WDZY and maybe Manchester KY from Columbus.
 
1290 from Lexington, KY:

Daytime:

-Slop from Local WLXG-1300
-In WLXG null (or when they are off the air),
there's a mix of WHIO Dayton, OH and WKLB Manchester, KY

Nighttime/DX:

WHIO Dayton, OH
WHKY Hickory, NC
WIRL Peoria, IL
WTKS Savanah, GA

Sunrise/Sunset:

KUOA Siloam Springs, AR
WCBL Benton, KY
WDZY Colonial Hts, VA
WVOW Logan WV
 
In East Texas a little west of Tyler, it's a weak KIVY in Crockett TX. At night they're gone and usually replaced by KKAR from Omaha. This evening, however, I caught KOWB Laramie (Wyoming!) with a solid signal. That's the first I recall hearing that one...apparently still on day pattern with 5,000 watts, about 845 miles away.
 
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