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AM Frequency of the Week - 1420 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on AM 1420?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a fairly solid WHK/Cleveland during the day with a News/Talk format. At night, WHK is there with a number of others underneath including a sports station and an oldies/classic hits type station. The music station played Tom Petty's 'American Girl' followed by Soul Asylum's 'Runaway Train' followed by Jim Croce's 'Time In a Bottle'
 
Northern VA, it's local oldies and classic hits (even adult standards were played) WKCW Warrenton, VA, at nights, it's a mess with WHK on top. I haven't ID others at nights yet.
Buckeyes2001 said:
What can you get on AM 1420?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a fairly solid WHK/Cleveland during the day with a News/Talk format. At night, WHK is there with a number of others underneath including a sports station and an oldies/classic hits type station. The music station played Tom Petty's 'American Girl' followed by Soul Asylum's 'Runaway Train' followed by Jim Croce's 'Time In a Bottle'
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You may have heard WKCW and sports talker WTCR Kenova, WV.
 
1420 here daytime is a constant WAOC St. Augustine. Good signal with ESPN sports. 2180 watts but can be heard all the way up SC coast.

No dominant signal at night.
 
Daytime it's an EXTREMELY weak KRIZ Renton, WA (probably the worst signal in the Northwest) with R&B and soul. Owned by the "Z-Twins" who also own KZIZ 1560 Sumner (Gospel) and KYIZ 1620 Renton (Urban AC The Touch). KITI Centralia, WA is sometimes also in during the daytime in winter.

Nights I get KITI and KUJ Walla Walla, WA. One time only logs were KMHS Coos Bay, OR and KIGO St. Anthony, ID.

-crainbebo
 
From NE NC car radio. 1420 days is a weak WXGM Gloucester, VA. Sunrise/sunset WHK Cleveland, WKCW Warrenton, VA and WCOJ Coatesville, PA.
 
Downstate WCOJ Coatesville, ~ 50 miles SSE, is the midday regular here. Their signal and their programming punctually made the Philadelphia ratings ahead of some actual licensed-to-Philly AMers.

But WCOJ really tucks it in toward us at night. And around sunset, loggings from here have WKCW VA (11-94), WACK NY (3-01) and WCED PA (that same SSS).

WHK Cleveland is usually the one atop most when it's dark out.

I only count 12 loggings on 1420 from Ye Olde Days near JFK Airport, with no 'K' calls and just one 'C' (CKPT from ON).
I haven't counted the other regionals, but on an uneducated guess I'd say 1420 was one of the stingier of those channels for DX, in NYC and PA.
From an old National Radio Club pattern book, WHK appears to be the sovereign station in terms of protection. The other 5000-watters in the country all deferred to WHK's signal.
 
In the daytime, in SE Michigan, it is mainly WHK, with very slight interference from WFLT. As you go 10 miles or so in any direction, WFLT gets much stronger, near Goodison and Pontiac. WFLT is situated in a very conducitve clay deposit in the Thread and Gilkey Creek beds. The conductivity there closely matches or exceeds M-3. With just 500 watts day, and 142 watts night, WFLT has a surprisingly good signal up to places like Houghton Lake, Tawas, Lansing, and Ann Arbor. Before WFLT had PSSA authorization, WHK was usually heard at night, but the signal was no overwhelming like WING or WAKR were on their frequencies. Outside the pattern maximum areas, WHK is usually heard. WIMS, WOC, and even WPLY were occasionally heard near sunset.
 
In Lake County Indiana, I get WIMS Michigan City, IN. At local sunset, the signal is faint, as they must null their signal to the west, to protect WEEF Deerfield, IL.
 
I would also frequently hear WKPR Kalamazoo signing off right after WAMM/WFLT signed off, sometimes while the carrier was still on.

WIMS wouldn't have had to protect WEEF until if became fulltime recently.
 
From Lexington, KY (All-Time Catches on 1420)

Days

WHBN Harrodsburg, KY

Sunrise/Sunset

WEMB Irwin, TN
WTCR Kenova, WV

Nights

WHK Cleveland, OH (Dominant Signal)
WIMS Michigan City, IN
WOC Davenport, IA (Not Heard in Last 20 years)
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Days: Sometimes a very weak, WIMS from Northwest Indiana or WOC from Davenport, IA....even weaker.

Nights: Usually a mess. Sometimes KTOE (Mankato, MN) or WOC on top.
 
Night: Can't tell
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"You can tell me, I'm a doctor." ---Leslie Nielsen, "Airplane"

But seriously, here in East Texas it's only a very weak KFYN from Bonham during the day, since the station down in Lufkin left the air. At night the best chances are sporadic appearances by WOC and on rare occasions, KPEL from Lafayette LA.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WCOJ Coatesville PA(Catholic station with EWTN)
Night: WCOJ and a mess of others, including WHK from Cleveland and WBSM from New Bedford MA
 
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