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AM Frequency of the Week: 1310

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40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago,,,,

Day: 1310 is WIBA, Madison, WI, 5kw ND, Fair-good signal from 61 miles to my northwest.

Night: WIBA goes directional to the north, but with very small lobes to the southeast and southwest. Apparently just enough to put WIBA on top at night, CIWW from Ottawa, Ontario occasionally sneaks in. For the past few nights, I've also heard a weak signal with oldies, fading in and out. Mostly out. "The Best Oldies", but I haven't been able to ID it.

Other Location. As posted previously, WIBA was in at my three overnight stops in the general vacinity of the north shore of Lake Superior last week. Usually with a pretty good signal. CIWW mostly missing, but I did hear them underneath a couple of times.
 
East Tennessee: Days---WISE, Asheville NC, very weak. Sunrise and sunset can bring WJZA, Decatur GA, and WTLC, Indianapolis, and WDTW, Dearborn MI. I can't confirm WDOC, Prestonsburg, KY but it should be do-able. I'll look for it this season.

Night---the usual hodgepodge, including WTLC.

Retro/other: Western Ohio: Usually WTLC (previously the famous and infamous WIFE. WIFE (AM) never missed a beat when it lost its license and was sold---unlike FM 107.9 which was off the air for several years before the new WTPI signed on.
I never heard WKNR, Dearborn during its top 40 heyday but did under other incarnations.

Lafayette, IN, it was WIFE/WTUX/WTLC but during a time 1310 Indianapolis was off the air, WIBA was no problem at all, sunrise and sunset,
 
Rocklin, CA

Daytime: Splatter from 1320 KIFM ESPN 1320
Nighttime: Jumbo Mess

Vallejo,, CA

Daytime: KMCY Oakland
Nighttime: KMCY Oakland Weak
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WIBA Madison, WI
Nightime: nothing really stands out, WIBA or CIWW most common

DX/RETRO: Some catches in the past include KOKX (Keoukuk, IA), WMLF (Indianapolis, IN), WDOD (Chattanooga, TN), WNIC (Dearborn, MI), WCCW (Traverse City, MI), WDCT (Fairfax, VA), WTTL (Madisonville, KY), CHGB (La Pocatiere, PQ) and La Voz de la Patria, Barranquilla, Colombia. My most recent catch on this frequency happened just this past Friday thanks to high school football game broadcast on WISE (Ashville, NC).
 
Rochester NY....mostly near-local WOKR Canandaigua. At night, CIWW Ottawa, and we used to hear WTLB Utica as well.
 
West Houston daytime is mostly slop from my local on 1320. Around sunset, KAHL San Antonio comes up with nostalgia music, along with KTCK from Dallas and XEAM from Matamoros, depending on radio orientation. I've also heard KZRG news/talk from Joplin MO. At night it's a jumble with KTCK, KAHL, and XEAM all popping up from time to time.
 
A few quick notes on stations mentioned here....

CIWW: Still a good daytime signal in Montreal, 100 miles away. Always tripped my rental cars' scan button Disappeared at night however. As oldies 1310, it was my go-to.

KOKX: Generally a good signal 24/7 at my college location 40 miles away in southeast Iowa. Even at night when they dropped from 1kw to 500 wattws. Marble shooter pattern aimed in my direction was the reason. WIBA usually audible underneath at night.

WDOD. Long gone. Used to absolutely blast into Florida at night. Another case of a favorable pattern. (5kw).
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

With the relocation and increased power of 1300 WRDZ, it's been seven years since I bothered to hang on 1310 (and then it was during a 1300 silent period during ownership transfer). But before that, WIFE Indianapolis, WIBA Madison, Wis., WISE Asheville, N.C., CFGM Richmond Hill, Ont., and lastly, with WRDZ off, CIWW Ottawa were the 1310 catches.
 
Max Media's Money Talk, which features a lot of Bloomberg programming, is on 1310 WGH in Norfolk, Virginia. Up until the early 80s, WGH was the home of American Top 40 and it was the station that all of the kids listened to. Then, FM happened...
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: It's my local, KAHL (which has three FM translators). Interestingly all of its station IDs still feature Pat Rogers, who passed away in 2016. I can get a partial null by aiming NE, which normally just brings in splatter from pest 1350 KXTN. In that null I have heard Dallas's KTCK during winter daytime skywave.

Sunset: KTCK is a regular in the partial null.

Night: KAHL is still strong. The splatter in the null is gone, and KTCK is most dominant. XEVB in Monterrey is in/out. Sometimes I'll hear XETIA in Tonalá pop up. A few nights ago I heard a very weak English language talk station (not matching KZRG's stream) mixing in with ads and possibly a sports game with a "103.5" reference.

Sunrise: It's KTCK and a somewhat stronger XEVB in the null with the splatter returning. The former is last to fade.

DX: I heard KYUL in Scott City, KS, at sunrise once in 2019 when KAHL was off air. I've heard XEAM in Matamoros twice - once briefly prior to sunrise that same year and once at sunset the next year when KAHL was off.
 
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Only a meagre Pisces catch here in PA so far. Two stations -- both SRS, both taped: CIWW and WSSJ Camden NJ.
No copout. Somewhat-local 1300 Hazleton, 18 mi NE, is no excuse; they send very little here at night.
Back in the good ol' JFK Airport days -- I was raised near there when it was called 'Idlewild International' -- 1310 plus bracketed 1300 and 1320 were over-shoehorned with stations around the clock.
Oddly, of the 16 I have logged on 1310, not one of them was previously posteds WISE, WDOD, WTIK or WIBA.
 
jim-satx said:
From NW San Antonio:

Night: KAHL is still strong. The splatter in the null is gone, and KTCK is most dominant. XEVB in Monterrey is in/out. Sometimes I'll hear XETIA in Tonalá pop up. A few nights ago I heard a very weak English language talk station (not matching KZRG's stream) mixing in with ads and possibly a sports game with a "103.5" reference.

Sunrise: It's KTCK and a somewhat stronger XEVB in the null with the splatter returning. The former is last to fade.

DX: I heard KYUL in Scott City, KS, at sunrise once in 2019 when KAHL was off air. I've heard XEAM in Matamoros twice - once briefly prior to sunrise that same year and once at sunset the next year when KAHL was off.
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I'm hearing XEAM on the Rio Grande Valley SDR, ID'ing as La Lider 13-10, La Radio de Matamoros. They seem to be running music, ID's, and government PSA's. I wonder if they're stronger over here due to the water path. I'll have to check at sunset/sunrise to confirm I'm still getting them and trying to catch XEVB. It's hard to keep track of the Mexican stations...
 
KMKY Oakland, CA and KLIX Boise, ID are my regular 1310 logs here at night,. KZXR Prosser, WA shows up sometimes
 
In the '60s I used to listen to WGH Newport News. One of the better top-40 stations, IMO. Two of its DJs were almost household words in Hampton Roads: Dick Lamb and Gene Loving. They co-hosted a show on WAVY/10 called "Disc-O-Ten" and Lamb later had a daytime talk show on WTKR/3.
 
@ BPatrick ........ Many is the day spent here, on vacation with the folks in Norfolk and back when the Navy had wooden ships, in Tidewater.
The fave was WNOR. At times they would come in nicely overnight back in Queens, with WITH Baltimore. And there was a Baltimore jock named Gene Creasy who worked at WGH for a while.
One day at SSS, WGH came up the coast to us, playing the great summer tune I only heard ONCE on the radio -- 'Summer Means Fun', by Bruce and Terry. Oddly, that happier-than-heck song was written by the same guy who wrote 'Eve Of Destruction' !
73!
 
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