What do you all get on the graveyard frequency of 1400 kHz? Here in Vermilion, OH during the day it is a weak WMAN/Mansfield, OH with another station underneath it, likely WDTK/Detroit but I haven't confirmed it yet. At night it is a true graveyard mush. One day recently between 9:30 and 10am EST 1400 sounded like it does at night except with WMAN barely discernible.
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AM Frequency of the Week - 1400 kHz
- Thread starter Buckeyes2001
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Dayton area: Nada, zip, nothing but WING splatter days. Graveyard hash at night.
Depending where you are in SE Michigan, you get WSAM, WDTK, or a mix of the two where you can null one or the other one out. When the great power failure of 2003 occurred, it was amazing what a good signal WSAM had, as WDTK was off the air, and there was no electrical noise. It was fun DXing for a few minutes, but then you had to start worrying about what might happen if it went on for a few days.
In East Texas, daytime is KEBE Jacksonville TX; nighttime it's nothing but the usual graveyard stuff drifting in and out, usually unable to identify anything.
At one of my first stations in central Texas on 1400 the nighttime jock sometimes had to monitor off the board only. That's because the 250 watt signal was obliterated just a few miles from the tower by adjacent channel interference from WING, almost a thousand miles away.
borderblaster said:
At one of my first stations in central Texas on 1400 the nighttime jock sometimes had to monitor off the board only. That's because the 250 watt signal was obliterated just a few miles from the tower by adjacent channel interference from WING, almost a thousand miles away.
Schenectady, NY Daytime: weakish WAMC Albany (ex-WABY, call letters it had from 1934-2002... now on AM 1160 I think?), nighttime: barely receive WAMC under the graveyard hash
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Darth_vader
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Day: electrical noise
Night: mess
Night: mess
Scott Fybush said:
Not that it matters that much - we're at 880 Watts during the day at WDNY and power-up to 1KW at night to protect WWWS. When WDNY signed on in 1978, the station was at 1600 KHz, which explains why our antenna height is 76 degrees versus something more optimal for 1400.
The other tidbit on ground conductivity is our neighborhood. We're in a bit of a dead-spot due to the cemetery across the street. Sorry for the bad joke...
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Brian McGlynn
WDNY AM/FM
spunker88 said:
I remember lsitening to WSLB when we would visit relatives in Ogedensburg. I remember hearing "Purple People Eater" on WSLB on a Purple Zenith AM-FM table radio they had!
Other DX memories of Ogdensburg: "WCNY-TV Carthage-Watertown", CJSS-TV 8 from Cornwall, Ontario, Channel 3 and Channel 5 from Syracuse, which came in snowy and of variable signal strength.
Our relatives reportedly had the best TV antenna in Ogdensburg. I never saw it because I was only about 5 at the time of "Purple People Eater" and about 8 the last time I was there, and because the view was obstructed by trees. It was the first antenna with a rotator (an Alliance that was an earlier model similar to the T-45) that I ever played with. The variable resistor in the motor that controls the direction pointer was bad, and the needle would jump to north, confusing me at my young age. I ended up leaving it in the direction of CJSS-TV to the north, while most programs were on WCNY-TV 7 (now WWNY-TV) to the south. My grandmother told me that they were upset that I had turned it. CJSS-TV had a test pattern on when I was watching and they played instrumental music, including "Swingin' Shepherd Blues" by Moe Koffman. I didn't know the name of it until I played it in High School Marching Band a few years later.
Other memory of my trips to Ogdensburg: Passing the CFTO-TV 9 tower near Toronto next to the road we travelled on to get there. I don't know if it was the 401 at the time, though it was under construction, and there were huge traffic jams, and cars overheating and parked in the median.
Days in Bothell/Bellevue, WA it's KITZ Silverdale, WA with a talk format.
GRAVEYARD STATIONS CAUGHT AT NIGHT
former CKGR Golden, BC (AC)
CIOR Princeton, BC (AC)
KART Jerome, ID (Classic Country)
KEDO Longview, WA (News/Fox Sports)
KIHH Eureka, CA (Catholic)
KLCK Goldendale, WA (Oldies)
KNND Cottage Grove, OR (Oldies)
KRPL Moscow, ID (Sports)
-crainbebo
GRAVEYARD STATIONS CAUGHT AT NIGHT
former CKGR Golden, BC (AC)
CIOR Princeton, BC (AC)
KART Jerome, ID (Classic Country)
KEDO Longview, WA (News/Fox Sports)
KIHH Eureka, CA (Catholic)
KLCK Goldendale, WA (Oldies)
KNND Cottage Grove, OR (Oldies)
KRPL Moscow, ID (Sports)
-crainbebo
NE PA (schuylkill County)
Daytime:
The sports station out of Harrisburg, louder than Easton. A third one might be Scranton.
Nighttime:
150 eggs frying.
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Oddly, on this Class IV frequency was where I heard one of my top catches back in the Queens NYC days -- HJAS from Colombia. They were 3000 watts at the time. Huge Aurora. There was Spanish on every GY frequency
Daytime:
The sports station out of Harrisburg, louder than Easton. A third one might be Scranton.
Nighttime:
150 eggs frying.
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Oddly, on this Class IV frequency was where I heard one of my top catches back in the Queens NYC days -- HJAS from Colombia. They were 3000 watts at the time. Huge Aurora. There was Spanish on every GY frequency
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FreddyE1977
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Nothing here. Too close to KQV 1410.
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