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AM Frequency of the Week - 1330 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 1330 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH, under the slop from local WOBL 1320 in Oberlin, OH, I get a mix of WELW/Willoughby, OH with talk and WFIN/Findlay, OH also talk. At night when these stations reduce power the frequency becomes a jumble with less WOBL slop and nothing standing out.
 
In suburban Rochester NY, it's a pretty vacant channel by day (so much so that we almost got a semi-local here, in the form of the never-built CP for WMJQ 1330 Ontario NY). At night it's as likely to be WWRV from NYC as anything else, but it's not a channel where anything much dominates.
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago......

Day....WNTA Rockford, IL fighting it out with WKTA Evanston, IL. No winner here!

Night... No winner here among those two either. They both vanish into the slop! "Back in the day" (60s), KFH from Wichita used to be fairly regular, but it's been years since I've heard the 1330 from Kansas.
 
Durham, North Carolina (if you're far enough away from the local WTIK 1310 kHz transmitter site just north of I-85)

Daytime: WBTM, Danville, Va.

Nighttime: WYRD, Greenville, S.C.
 
In Memphis it's nothing but splatter from local 1340 WLOK. The tower is about 2 miles south of where I live.
 
In Foley, Alabama, it's a pretty strong day signal from 1330 WEBY in Pensacola. WEBY is a two site operation and the night site is even further away than the day site, so there's nothing on 1330 but noise at night, even in Pensacola-proper.
 
In East Texas southwest of Tyler during the day it's KGLD Tyler. At night they drop to fleapower, barely making it to the south city limits, and KNSS Wichita replaces them with a generally dependable signal. (Still not used to those calls, after the heritage KFH was relegated to 1240 AM).
 
Eastern Michigan-WTRX
Western Michigan and Central Upper Peninsula-WHBL
Extreme Southwestern Michigan-WKTA
Extreme Southeastern Michigan-WFIN.
WEXL IBOC sidebands often are a problem in Southeastern Michigan.

There is a low interference level, with nothing dominating at night. This extends to Illinois, Ohio and New York to protect five 1330s from the Twin Cities to New York City.
 
Northern VA,
Days: weak WRAA Luray, VA with a classic country format.
Sunrise/sunset: WEBO Owego, NY, WBTM Danville, VA and WESR Olney, VA.
Noghts, a mess.
 
It depends on where I'm at if I get anything on 1330. I usually get a faint signal of WKTA Evanston, IL from Gary, IN during the day. I get lots of splatter at night. Their night signal barely goes a few blocks from the transmission site in Northbrook, IL. When I worked up in the northern suburbs of Chicago back around early 2003, I barely heard WKTA in Wheeling, IL. It's barely heard in the COL at night.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What can you get on 1330 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH, under the slop from local WOBL 1320 in Oberlin, OH, I get a mix of WELW/Willoughby, OH with talk and WFIN/Findlay, OH also talk. At night when these stations reduce power the frequency becomes a jumble with less WOBL slop and nothing standing out.
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WELW is a great little radio station. It has been on the air since the mid 60's and although it has gone through several owners over the years it has always been locally owned and operated and still is to this day. It originally was a daytimer with 500 watts. Now a days it operates 24/7 with a whole 42 watts at night but it does serve it's community well which is something not seen much anymore. They proved local talk programs, local high school sports along with other local programing. Another thing it has always been known for is it's polka programing. As far back as I can remember there has always been come polka programing on WELW at certain times of day. It is truly a blast from the past, a station that actually serves it's community free from the big corporate giants.
 
KKPZ. I can think of probably 1 000 better uses for this frequency, but I guess this is just how it has to be.
 
From NE NC car radio. 1330 WESR Onley, VA and WANG Havelock, NC days. Nothing logged nights.
 
swfl said:
WELW is a great little radio station. It has been on the air since the mid 60's and although it has gone through several owners over the years it has always been locally owned and operated and still is to this day. It originally was a daytimer with 500 watts. Now a days it operates 24/7 with a whole 42 watts at night but it does serve it's community well which is something not seen much anymore. They proved local talk programs, local high school sports along with other local programing. Another thing it has always been known for is it's polka programing. As far back as I can remember there has always been come polka programing on WELW at certain times of day. It is truly a blast from the past, a station that actually serves it's community free from the big corporate giants.
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+1 I used to get into Cleveland several times a year on business trips, and stayed in the eastern suburbs, which is where I discovered this great, refreshing little station. Was....and still is....a hoot. And a treat!
 
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