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AM Frequency of The week: 1400
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From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:
Days, nothing but hints of signals.
This is an old-fashioned mish-mosh at night.
Over the decades, three stations IDed: KFRU Columbia, Mo.; WGIL Galesburg, Ill. (on a February morning); WDWS Champaign, Ill. (at 8:07 on a May morning, so you never know about conditions).
Days, nothing but hints of signals.
This is an old-fashioned mish-mosh at night.
Over the decades, three stations IDed: KFRU Columbia, Mo.; WGIL Galesburg, Ill. (on a February morning); WDWS Champaign, Ill. (at 8:07 on a May morning, so you never know about conditions).
East Tennessee: WGAP, Maryville TN, currently simulcasting aa hodge-podge music format with 850 and both translators (might make that a touch easier to identify. Nights is the usual graveyard mess.
Retro/other: Western Ohio, weak signal from WBAT, Marion, IN, and a mess at night. I checked 1400 one night on the Edinburgh IN SDR and a station carrying Mark Levin came up briefly. Could have been anyone.
Retro/other: Western Ohio, weak signal from WBAT, Marion, IN, and a mess at night. I checked 1400 one night on the Edinburgh IN SDR and a station carrying Mark Levin came up briefly. Could have been anyone.
WPCE, flagship of the former Willis Broadcasting empire, is at 1400 in the Norfolk, Virginia market. It is now being run by a former Willis employee, and its Black gospel music and preaching format has remained largely unchanged for about 45 years.
Good morning
The only station that rises above bedlam on 1400 KHz is around sunset....
WFLL - Fort Lauderdale - Nossa Radio programs.....150 miles south of Melbourne.
It broadcasts in Portuguese (pehaps for a Brazilian audience in South Florida?)
kw - melbourne FL
The only station that rises above bedlam on 1400 KHz is around sunset....
WFLL - Fort Lauderdale - Nossa Radio programs.....150 miles south of Melbourne.
It broadcasts in Portuguese (pehaps for a Brazilian audience in South Florida?)
kw - melbourne FL
From the west side of Houston, it's local KHCB League City (Radio Amistad religion in Spanish) 24/7. I've heard KGVL "EZ Rock 105.9" in Greenville TX (200 miles north, just east of Dallas) a couple of times, but that's it for this frequency.
Western Detroit, MI suburbs:
Days: Local WDTK Detroit-- "The Patriot". ~15 miles. However, one doesn't have to travel very far north out of Detroit to begin receiving WSAM Saginaw "The Bay." From my location they're more-less always present under WDTK. ~80 miles.
Nights: Fuhgeddaboudit! This frequency is a dumpster fire in SE MI š Complete graveyard mash-up.
Days: Local WDTK Detroit-- "The Patriot". ~15 miles. However, one doesn't have to travel very far north out of Detroit to begin receiving WSAM Saginaw "The Bay." From my location they're more-less always present under WDTK. ~80 miles.
Nights: Fuhgeddaboudit! This frequency is a dumpster fire in SE MI š Complete graveyard mash-up.
Nothing in the daytime. Nights are a messy mix, often WGIL Galesburg IL is on top.
Daytimes is a weak but okay signal from a place that's close to being the furthest eastern city in the state -- Easton. So what are their calls? What else? WEST.
various SRS' and SSS's and nighttimes have provided taped ID's from WWIN Baltimore, WKEW North Carolina, WINC Virginia and Cordelia Chase's number 1 car button WPCE.
(Cordelia : Good note about 1400 being Religion for so long. They were REL as WHIH for a while).
My best AM DX catch ever was on 1400, long ago. Too long a story, though.
various SRS' and SSS's and nighttimes have provided taped ID's from WWIN Baltimore, WKEW North Carolina, WINC Virginia and Cordelia Chase's number 1 car button WPCE.
(Cordelia : Good note about 1400 being Religion for so long. They were REL as WHIH for a while).
My best AM DX catch ever was on 1400, long ago. Too long a story, though.
Nights: KIHH Eureka, CA and KVTO Berkley, CA
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: normally just WRJN Racine, WI although WSJM also heard in the past (back in 1980's)
Nightime: just like any other graveyard frequency, a jumbled mess
DX/RETRO: Besides WRJN and WSJM the only other logs are WBAT (Marion, IN), WDUZ (Green Bay, WI and KILE (Galveston, TX) during a frequency check broadcast. I need to spend more time on the "graveyard" frequencies.
Daytime: normally just WRJN Racine, WI although WSJM also heard in the past (back in 1980's)
Nightime: just like any other graveyard frequency, a jumbled mess
DX/RETRO: Besides WRJN and WSJM the only other logs are WBAT (Marion, IN), WDUZ (Green Bay, WI and KILE (Galveston, TX) during a frequency check broadcast. I need to spend more time on the "graveyard" frequencies.
Hartland, VT:
WTSL Hanover, NH, "The Penguin -- The Upper Valley's Chill Hits" -- adult hits with an emphasis on uptempo pop from the '80s through today. Radio-Locator still has this station (which feeds a translator at 97.5) as hip-hop, but this has been its format since late June.
WTSL Hanover, NH, "The Penguin -- The Upper Valley's Chill Hits" -- adult hits with an emphasis on uptempo pop from the '80s through today. Radio-Locator still has this station (which feeds a translator at 97.5) as hip-hop, but this has been its format since late June.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: A very weak KGWU, "Guadalupe Radio Network," in Uvalde. The signal is only intelligible on my very sensitive radios.
Sunset: KHCB in League City and KUNO "El Patron" in Corpus Christi mix in with KGWU. KUNO often has a pretty good signal and can take over at times. Later XESH, "Radio Sabinas," in Sabinas Hidalgo, NL, mixes in. Sometimes KVRP in Stamford mixes in with Christian pop.
Night: XESH is above the mess most often and for the longest stretches. (I wish every station IDed as much as XESH does.) KGVL "EZ Rock" in Greenville and KKTK "Fox Sports" in Texarkana regularly pop up every now and then. Also, I'll occasionally hear KBYG in Big Spring, KIUN in Pecos, KTEM in Temple, and KREF in Norman, OK.
Stations I've IDed only once include KEBE in Jacksonville, KREW in Plainview, and KEYE in Perryton (my furthest in-state catch at 489 miles). My furthest overall catch on 1400 (and on all graveyard frequencies) is KCYK in Yuma, AZ, at 973 miles. I managed to hear it several times in 2016 but never (knowingly) since then.
Sunrise: Similar to sunset, although I have heard KTEM and KIUN a few times.
Day: A very weak KGWU, "Guadalupe Radio Network," in Uvalde. The signal is only intelligible on my very sensitive radios.
Sunset: KHCB in League City and KUNO "El Patron" in Corpus Christi mix in with KGWU. KUNO often has a pretty good signal and can take over at times. Later XESH, "Radio Sabinas," in Sabinas Hidalgo, NL, mixes in. Sometimes KVRP in Stamford mixes in with Christian pop.
Night: XESH is above the mess most often and for the longest stretches. (I wish every station IDed as much as XESH does.) KGVL "EZ Rock" in Greenville and KKTK "Fox Sports" in Texarkana regularly pop up every now and then. Also, I'll occasionally hear KBYG in Big Spring, KIUN in Pecos, KTEM in Temple, and KREF in Norman, OK.
Stations I've IDed only once include KEBE in Jacksonville, KREW in Plainview, and KEYE in Perryton (my furthest in-state catch at 489 miles). My furthest overall catch on 1400 (and on all graveyard frequencies) is KCYK in Yuma, AZ, at 973 miles. I managed to hear it several times in 2016 but never (knowingly) since then.
Sunrise: Similar to sunset, although I have heard KTEM and KIUN a few times.
Here's my audio of KIHH.. and talk about perfect timing to nab them:
1800 miles away or so btw!
WSAM uses a half-wave tower radiator, which generates about twice the effective radiated power of the quarter-wave towers used by most stations on 1400 kHz.
The path distance along 8 mS/m Earth conductivity to the 0.1 mV/m field contour of WSAM is about 67 miles. If they were using a typical 1/4-wave tower, it would be about 58.6 miles.
From an east-facing window in Chicago, near the lake:
Daytime: A weak WQYQ in St Joseph, Michigan.
Nighttime: A jumble.
In my old place, also in Chicago, WGIL in Galesburg, IL was most likely to rise to the top at night. Also, when driving around the area, you can sometimes hear both WQYQ and WRJN in Racine, WI, often alternating from one to the other.
Daytime: A weak WQYQ in St Joseph, Michigan.
Nighttime: A jumble.
In my old place, also in Chicago, WGIL in Galesburg, IL was most likely to rise to the top at night. Also, when driving around the area, you can sometimes hear both WQYQ and WRJN in Racine, WI, often alternating from one to the other.
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