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AM Frequency of the Week: 1380:

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From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days – The only way to get WBEL is via the Sony ICF-2010, on narrow bandwidth, with the Tecsun loop. Even then it's weak but legible.

Nights – WKJG Fort Wayne was the one that broke through the overnight hash in the last week; previously heard as WMEE and WQRK. Others over the years: WAOK Atlanta; KHWK Winona, Minn.; KSFN St. Louis; WMUR Central City / Greenville, Ky. (at 2 a.m., and more likely running 500 watts than the listed 23-watt nighttime power); and KQKD Redfield, S.D. on a 2022 midnight DX test, after which I heard WBEL for the first time.

All this while about 6 miles from the 1390 WGRB transmitter, and no hash from it.
 
@ CT Listener ..... or someone .....
I know there was a WOWW 1380 there, and I'm trying to determine if my memory back then was worse than what it is now.
So, was there ever an 860 in Naugatock?
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
@ CT Listener ..... or someone .....
I know there was a WOWW 1380 there, and I'm trying to determine if my memory back then was worse than what it is now.
So, was there ever an 860 in Naugatock?
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I remember listening to WNVR 1380 in Naugatuck in the '80s. I don't remember it as WOWW, but I never listened to it much. It went dark sometime in the '90s, I believe. WNVR's claim to fame was as one of the stations on Chris Berman's resume before he joined ESPN, which went on the air with a lot of small-time Connecticut talent in featured roles.

As for 860, you may be thinking of WSBS in Great Barrington, MA. I could receive that station in the daytime when I lived in Meriden and it's still on the air with an old-fashioned-sounding full-service talk and music format.
 
Interesting...I posted something to this thread last night and it's missing today. It is also missing from the list of my postings under my username. I noticed there were two threads for 1380 originally - did the other one (apparently the one that I posted to) get deleted rather than combined w/this one?
 
wildthangjim said:
Interesting...I posted something to this thread last night and it's missing today. It is also missing from the list of my postings under my username. I noticed there were two threads for 1380 originally - did the other one (apparently the one that I posted to) get deleted rather than combined w/this one?
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Same here
 
WWMI - St. Petersburg FL - Relevant Radio - Catholic format - 120 miles west of Melbourne....
Evenings and nights
ex-WLCY (top 40 in 1970s), later Radio Disney....

kw - Melbourne FL - waiting for Nicole to pass thru....
 
wildthangjim said:
Interesting...I posted something to this thread last night and it's missing today. It is also missing from the list of my postings under my username. I noticed there were two threads for 1380 originally - did the other one (apparently the one that I posted to) get deleted rather than combined w/this one?
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I had some power and computer issues at my location this past weekend and.....long`story short....It looked like my 1380 post failed. So I posted again, and I later discovered that we now had two threads. I asked Frank to merge them. Which he did. But apparently something else went wrong and both disappeared. I'll try to post 1390 a day or two early if I can. Anyway, for now, this is still the active 1380 thread,

Apologies,

Jack (cyberdad)
 
cyberdad said:
I had some power and computer issues at my location this past weekend and.....long`story short....It looked like my 1380 post failed. So I posted again, and I later discovered that we now had two threads. I asked Frank to merge them. Which he did. But apparently something else went wrong and both disappeared. I'll try to post 1390 a day or two early if I can. Anyway, for now, this is still the active 1380 thread,

Apologies,

Jack (cyberdad)
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No worries, I was wondering if I'd dreamed that post :))
 
cyberdad said:
I had some power and computer issues at my location this past weekend and.....long`story short....It looked like my 1380 post failed. So I posted again, and I later discovered that we now had two threads. I asked Frank to merge them. Which he did. But apparently something else went wrong and both disappeared. I'll try to post 1390 a day or two early if I can. Anyway, for now, this is still the active 1380 thread,

Apologies,

Jack (cyberdad)
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No problem, I enjoy the threads and thanks for all you do!
 
Briefly once again...
East Tennessee....WYSH, Clinton TN and/or WKJV, Black Mountain TN. WKJV at times can be widely heard at sunset or with day power at night. Night--add WAOK, Atlanta to the mix.
Retro/other: WMEE, Fort Wayne was one of our top 40 stations in Western Ohio (previously and now again WKJG). When it disappeared at sunset, we got WLCY, Tampa, WAOK Atlanta and WBEL, South Beloit. I sometimes heard a Baton Rouge station between Fort Wayne's and Baton Rouge's sunset.
 
In St. Louis, KXFN. Long, long ago that was KWK. In 1978 Doubleday resurrected that station after five years off the air, using the FM sounding "13.8" to identify their dial position. That station just changed hands from Relevant Radio to the Luthern Church Missouri Synod.
 
@ Battenkill 50 :
Back in Queens NYC, late 60's, where four of us DXers hung out, WLCY 1380 was just about a Sunday morning SRS regular.
NYC locals WBNX and WAWZ shared time ; WAWZ being weaker in signal. But on some Sunday mornings they'd sign on late. REAL late, too. And with the other 1380 fuzz and obscurity -- lots of SRS stations -- there would be WLCY, atop it all.
It certainly wasn't water-path signal ; just maybe their omni day signal.
 
In the NW part of the NW, it's Classic Hits KRKO Everett WA day and night. 50kW but they send a ton of that out to sea. (Probably lots more listeners on the 250w FM flamethrower anyway.)
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: normally weak WBEL
Nightime: nothing really stands out at night. KXFN St. Louis most likely catch. As mentioned by spiritof67 KXFN was sold recently and the new owners will move the KFUO AM 850 programming to this frequency. Not sure what will happen to KFUO.

DX/RETRO: other DX include WKJG (Ft. Wayne, IN), WAOK (Atlanta, GA), WFCL (Clintonville, WI), WKJV (Ashville, NC), WMJR (Nicholasville, KY), WYSH (Clinton, TN), KOTA (Rapid City, SD), KHWK (Winona, MN), and Canadian CKLC (Kingston, ON) which is no longer on the air. My latest logs on this frequency are KQKD Redfield, ND during a DX test and XECO, Barrio Zapotla, Mexico. Both heard in 2022.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Semi-local KWMF in Pleasanton, TX, with Spanish-language Catholic programming.

Sunset: Aiming E/W, I can null out KWMF fairly well and hear KRCM in Shenandoah, TX, in/out. Aiming more N/S, classic hits KBWD in Brownwood occasionally comes up.

Night: KWMF disappears when it goes to night power. To the N/S, XECO "Romántica 1380" in Mexico City dominates. KKRX "The Ticket" in Lawton, OK, sometimes comes up when XECO fades. To the E/W, KRCM and KHEY "Fox Sports" in El Paso are in/out. Every now and then KBWD will pop up.

Sunrise: XECO still dominates to the N/S, and KRCM and KHEY are stronger when they go to day power.

DX/Retro: I heard urban gospel station KZTS in North Little Rock, AR, once around sunset in January 2020. Also, I heard WPYR in Baton Rouge once at sunset about seven years ago.
 
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