What do you all get on 1380 AM? Here in Vermilion, OH (35 miles west of Cleveland), 1380 during the day is a solid WDLW/Lorain "Kool Kat Oldies 1380". At night, they reduce power to 57 watts and thus 1380 becomes a jumble of stations. WDLW can be heard going west through Lorain to just about the Vermilion city limits before it becomes unlistenable at night.
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AM Frequency of the Week - 1380 kHz
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Dayton area...WKJG Fort Wayne. A little further north where I grew up, it had a reasonable signal as top 40 WMEE (now on FM) but the pattern change made it disapear at night. In the 70s from there I'd get weak signals from then-WLCY Tampa and WAOK, Atlanta
In St. Petersburg, 1380 is WMMI- Disney radio, 5,000 watts day and 5,000 watts night-directional at night. Their towers are in extreme n.e. St. Petersburg on the southern most causeway connecting Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Their signal used to be much better, but development has encroached nearby and some of the marshes have been filled and their signal isn't as strong as it used to be. I'm in the southern lobe, so the night time reception of WMMI (past call letters have included WTSP, WLCY, WNSI and WRBQ). is strong, but to the north and especially north Tampa the signal is full of interference and static at night.
drt,
st. petersburg,fl
Their signal used to be much better, but development has encroached nearby and some of the marshes have been filled and their signal isn't as strong as it used to be. I'm in the southern lobe, so the night time reception of WMMI (past call letters have included WTSP, WLCY, WNSI and WRBQ). is strong, but to the north and especially north Tampa the signal is full of interference and static at night.
drt,
st. petersburg,fl
At home in Rochester NY, 1380 is mostly sideband splat from my local WXXI 1370 (but I can't complain - I work there 
When we're off the air, it's mostly CKPC Brantford ON; I used to hear CKLC Kingston ON as well, before it moved to FM. NYC and Richmond are occasional visitors, too.
At the moment, I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it's all local WKJG.
When we're off the air, it's mostly CKPC Brantford ON; I used to hear CKLC Kingston ON as well, before it moved to FM. NYC and Richmond are occasional visitors, too.
At the moment, I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it's all local WKJG.
Far Northwest Suburban Chicago....
Day: WBEL, Beloit, WI. Fair.
Night: WBEL sends its 5kw north and disappears completely into the slop. Back in the '60s, KWK from St. Louis was a regular nighttime visitor, but I haven't heard the St. Louis 1380 around here for ages.
Also in the late '60s, I spent numerous pre-dawn Mondays trying to snag KPOI from Honolulu. The station....studios and stick....were about three blocks from where I lived during my junior year of high school. I never did pull it off. (But I'm guessing David Eduardo might have!)
Finally, where we typically spend a few weeks each year at the beach near Pensacola on the Florida-Alabama state line....the Tampa-St. Pete 1380 (ex-WLCY) easily makes the daytime hop across the Gulf of Mexico. Pulling it out from semi-local WCOA on 1370 not a problem.
Day: WBEL, Beloit, WI. Fair.
Night: WBEL sends its 5kw north and disappears completely into the slop. Back in the '60s, KWK from St. Louis was a regular nighttime visitor, but I haven't heard the St. Louis 1380 around here for ages.
Also in the late '60s, I spent numerous pre-dawn Mondays trying to snag KPOI from Honolulu. The station....studios and stick....were about three blocks from where I lived during my junior year of high school. I never did pull it off. (But I'm guessing David Eduardo might have!)
Finally, where we typically spend a few weeks each year at the beach near Pensacola on the Florida-Alabama state line....the Tampa-St. Pete 1380 (ex-WLCY) easily makes the daytime hop across the Gulf of Mexico. Pulling it out from semi-local WCOA on 1370 not a problem.
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KLPZ - Parker, Arizona at 58 watts nights - here in Pasadena
1380 from St. Pete has always been an interesting frequency for me.
When I first moved down to Tampa, I lived near USF which is about 10 miles northeast of downtown Tampa and while the then WRBQ had a strong local signal during the day, it was very weak when they switched to a directional pattern at night.
Their nighttime signal sounded exactly like some distant station you'd be dxing from a great distance with other stations in the mix as well.
What made it more interesting was the time I was visiting my parents up in New Jersey and I heard WRBQ 1380 with a good signal in stereo on my little Sony AM Stereo Walkman after sunset for a short time.
They had not yet switched to their directional pattern being that sunset was a little later down where they were but I knew when they switched patterns because the signal suddenly vanished.
It seemed interesting how their signal I heard for that brief time way up north in New Jersey was stronger than their signal is at night in northeast Tampa.
I now live in the Town 'N Country section of Tampa which is about 10 miles northwest of downtown and WWMI 1380 has as much of a strong local signal at night as it does during the day.
When I first moved down to Tampa, I lived near USF which is about 10 miles northeast of downtown Tampa and while the then WRBQ had a strong local signal during the day, it was very weak when they switched to a directional pattern at night.
Their nighttime signal sounded exactly like some distant station you'd be dxing from a great distance with other stations in the mix as well.
What made it more interesting was the time I was visiting my parents up in New Jersey and I heard WRBQ 1380 with a good signal in stereo on my little Sony AM Stereo Walkman after sunset for a short time.
They had not yet switched to their directional pattern being that sunset was a little later down where they were but I knew when they switched patterns because the signal suddenly vanished.
It seemed interesting how their signal I heard for that brief time way up north in New Jersey was stronger than their signal is at night in northeast Tampa.
I now live in the Town 'N Country section of Tampa which is about 10 miles northwest of downtown and WWMI 1380 has as much of a strong local signal at night as it does during the day.
When I was in Sarasota in 1980 WLCY was strong day and night
In Dover NH I get a weak local WMYF from Portsmouth NH during the day, and a mess at night. Their current format is sports, recently flipping from "Music Of Your Life". Growing up on the seacoast may years ago I can remember listening to 1380 as WBBX-AM. (They ran the no school announcements during snowstorms!)
KCNW in Fairway Kansas (suburb of Kansas City Missouri) dominates 1380 all day with various types of unusual religious programming at 2500 watts daytime. But almost disappears at night when it drops to 29 watts into a mix of other unidentified stations.
Forgot about WKJV which hath been heard in Dayton around sunset-eth
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