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AM Frequency of the Week: 1370

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40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago......

Days:: 1370 is basically blank. In the town where I grew up 11 miles east of here, I could sometimes pick up a weak WLTH from Gary, IN. But my ccurrent location seems to be completely completely out of range

Nights; Usually a a battle in the slop between KDTH (Dubuque. IA) and WSPD (Toledo, OH), WSPD most often gets the better of it. I've also heard WCCN (Neilsville, WI) a few times. Presumably on 5kw ND day power before sunrise.

Wanted: WCOA, Pensacola. I've heard it all over Florida and adjacent areas but never here. Although I know other DXers in the Chicago area have snagged it.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WLTH Gary, IN with fair signal
Nightime: WSPD the most common catch at night. WLTH use to be heard, but since they lost the nighttime site not anymore.

DX/RETRO: In the past this frequency was probably the best bet to hear new Hampshire in the Chicago area. WFEA (Manchester, NH) heard twice. First time was in 1982. Other DX on this frequency include KDTH (Dubuque,IA), KWTL (Grand Forks, ND), KCRV (Caruthersville, MO), WGTC (Bloomington, IN), WDEF (Chattanooga, TN), WLOP (Jesup, GA), WGHN (Grand Haven, MI), WCCN (Neillsville, WI), and two stations thanks to DX Tests: WMGO (Canton, MS) and WCOA (Pensacola, FL). My most recent new catch on 1370 is WLLM Lincoln, Illinois just last week.

Speaking of WLTH they were licensed to broadcast with 1 kW during the day and 0.5 kW during night from two separate transmitter sites which are 2 miles apart. However in 2017 their nighttime site was vandalized and became nonoperational. Since then they were running under a STA during nighttime with 9 watts from the daytime antenna. Earlier this year they were granted a license for that arrangement 1kW day, 0.009 kW night). At the same time 1500 WAKE, Valparaiso, IN was granted a CP to take over the old WLTH nighttime facilities and change the COL to Hobart, Indiana.
 
I hear 2200 mile distant KZSF 1370 San Jose somewhat regularly, not usually too good, but occasionally it comes in real good. KSJX 1500 which is triplexed at the site is a bit more common but not always very good. Also at that site KLOK 1170 isnt too common here at all. (I'm told the transmitter site smells like waffles as the Eggo Waffle factor is at one end of the property)


I have also heard KGEN 1370 Tulare, CA from about 2400 miles away running it's licensed 72 watts. The chief engineer is an acquaintance of mine so I asked him, politely, to verify that KGEN was dropping power as it should

Here's my clip of KGEN 1370, the music is KGEN.. but listen closely, the "La Ley" liner clinches it as KGEN, that's their slogan.

I figured out pretty quickly it was KGEN I had heard because i knew I'd heard that voice and La Ley liner somewhere else. I logged 6KW equivalent Class A KGEN 94.5 from Wyoming.. here's KGEN's legal ID as heard on 94.5 and at about 10 seconds, you'll hear that same La Ley name given
 
East Tennessee: Days----WRGS, Rogersville TN.
Night--a hodge podge of everything, including WSPD.
Retro/other: Most of Ohio was WSPD. I caught the 1370 out of Bloomington IN once in Quincy, IL.
 
Nothing really new on 1370 to write home about. Besides, I live here now, and have for over 20 years.
Logged days: WPAZ from downstate PottsTOWN. They had a pretty good signal in the day next to WPPA 1360 PottsVILLE; they being about 7 miles South of here.
One SSS : WVMR from the delightful COL of Frost, WV. Taped, too. Keeping well.
Nighttimes have allowed the dominant WXXI Rochester NY to occupy 1370.
Although one late SSS I heard a WVLY from Wheeling WV playing the standatrds, // with the 1600 in Wheeling per the ID. And the aforemtnioned WFEA (loud as blazes at times back in Queens NYC) came in on 1-9-96, also with Standards.

Retro reminisce was the ' W- F -E - A .....WEATHERSCOPE, for the tri-cities and the great Northeast!'
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Nothing really new on 1370 to write home about. Besides, I live here now, and have for over 20 years.
Logged days: WPAZ from downstate PottsTOWN. They had a pretty good signal in the day next to WPPA 1360 PottsVILLE; they being about 7 miles South of here.
One SSS : WVMR from the delightful COL of Frost, WV. Taped, too. Keeping well.
Nighttimes have allowed the dominant WXXI Rochester NY to occupy 1370.
Although one late SSS I heard a WVLY from Wheeling WV playing the standatrds, // with the 1600 in Wheeling per the ID. And the aforemtnioned WFEA (loud as blazes at times back in Queens NYC) came in on 1-9-96, also with Standards.

Retro reminisce was the ' W- F -E - A .....WEATHERSCOPE, for the tri-cities and the great Northeast!'
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I wonder what the "tri cities" were. Manchester, Concord and Nashua? I don't think I've ever heard a "tri cities" reference on New England radio -- tri-state for NY, NJ and CT on Connecticut stations, of course, but never tri-cities. But then, I've never lived close enough to Manchester to listen to all of its stations, and the ones I could get from my locations didn't have formats that interested me.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days, it's WLTH Gary, Ind., and it used to be a bit of a tough catch at night, but there. CADXER explains what happened in 2017; now I'll have to try for WAKE on 1500, which would be new.

Nights, WSPD is the most likely to come in. It's been there every overnight the last few days, not continuous above the mush but often enough to be a pest. Others heard on 1370 over the years: WTTS Bloomington, Ind.; KGNO Dodge City, Kan., and KDTH Dubuque, Iowa, most recently at daybreak 7/13/2021.
 
WXXI, two miles south of me, of course.

When we're on our night DA, it's not hard to get into a null by going just a few miles west, at which point it's usually WSPD, though in the early 00s we'd sometimes turn off right at the top of the hour overnight and hear a few of the "daytimers" to our south misbehaving.

For most of this year we're not on the DA while the site gets rebuilt, instead using 1250 watts ND from the one tower still standing. You'd think that might produce more reports from the east and west and fewer from Scandinavia, but I haven't seen much change.
 
In my neck of the woods, central Ohio, it's a very weak WSPD by day and a similarly weak WSPD at night, if the signal gets here through the mush. A decent chunk of that nighttime lobe comes in this direction, but it's by no means a powerful catch.
When I lived in the area, my experiences actually contradicted the Radio Locator map on occasion. I don't remember having many issues hearing it down 75 to Findlay at night, but I would have considerable trouble hearing it in certain spots of Springfield Township and out toward Swanton at night if I was in the area. On campus at the University of Toledo, no issues to the point that I could listen static-free in the stands to their calls of men's basketball games.
 
fybush said:
WXXI, two miles south of me, of course.

When we're on our night DA, it's not hard to get into a null by going just a few miles west, at which point it's usually WSPD, though in the early 00s we'd sometimes turn off right at the top of the hour overnight and hear a few of the "daytimers" to our south misbehaving.

For most of this year we're not on the DA while the site gets rebuilt, instead using 1250 watts ND from the one tower still standing. You'd think that might produce more reports from the east and west and fewer from Scandinavia, but I haven't seen much change.
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I'm told WXXI at least made the Edinburgh IN SDR recently.
 
From the west side of Houston, Texas, a pretty poor frequency for me so far...

Daytime: sometimes in the winter, KJCE Rollingwood TX (Austin area) "Talk Radio 1370", but mostly slop from locals on 1360, 1380
Sunset/night: a jumble, with KJCE and KFRO, eclectic classic hits from Longview, TX sometimes rising to the top.
Sunrise: KFRO is best until KJCE goes to day power
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Slop from local 1360 KMNY adjacent channel.
Sunset/Sunrise: KJCE Austin (Talk).
Nights: Not much, if anything, KJCE Austin, KFRO Longview, TX (Oldies), and sometimes KGNO Dodge City, KS (Classic Country) may rise up occasionally.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Slop from local 1350 KXTN. On my most sensitive radios, I can hear a weak KJCE in Rollingwood amidst the slop.

As with the other frequencies adjacent to 1350 here, off-tuning/filtering is a necessity.

Sunset: KJCE is stronger. On rare occasions, especially in winter, KFRO in Longview will come up.

Night: KFRO and KCRV in Caruthersville, MO (classic country), are in and out with usually weak signals. Occasionally I'll hear a weak Spanish-language talk station that I haven't IDed.

Sunrise: Newish station XECCBI in Huamantla, Tlaxcala, pops up occasionally with "La Más Peligrosa" branding (which is funny because they play romantic pop; peligrosa = dangerous). KFRO is stronger and KGNO is heard when they go to day power. Later KJCE comes up with a good signal in the slop.

DX/Retro: One-time catches include KTPA in Prescott, AZ (now retired) and KAWL in York, NE (sunrise catch). At night I used to hear XEMON in Monterrey, XESV in Morelia, and XEGNK in Nuevo Laredo to varying degrees before they were retired. XEPJ in Guadalajara is supposedly still on the air, but I'm not hearing it these days.
 
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