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AM Frequency of the Week - 1420 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on AM 1420?

Here in Vermilion, OH I get semi-local WHK/Cleveland during the day with a decent signal. At night it's WHK on top of a messy mix of stations.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Days: Mostly splatter from local WRMN (1410 Elgin, IL). Sometimes on a good radio with WRMN nulled, you can hear snatches of either WOC from Davenport, IA or WIMS, Michigan City, IN. Pretty much depends on which direction you're positioning the radio. WIMS (southeast) is usually just a tad easier than WOC (southwest).

Nights: Mess. WOC is "most likely to succeed" and make it to the top....but this still doesn't happen all that often. I've heard KTOE (Mankato, MN - 5kw) a couple of times, perhaps on day pattern.
 
Days - very weak KUJ Walla Walla, WA (News/Talk one hour and CBS Sports the next)
Sunsets is usually KUJ, KITI Centralia with oldies, KRIZ Renton with old R&B (one of the worst AM signals in WA!) and/or KMHS from Coos Bay with mainly 80s-90s country mx.
Nights is KUJ and KITI. Lately it's been the two plus KIGO St. Anthony, ID with SS music which came back on the air after a couple years' absence.

Next wanted 1420s: KSTN Stockton CA, KMOG Payson AZ or KTOE Mankato, MN. XEXX down in Tijuana (if they are still on) is another good possibility for me in the future.

-crainbebo
 
Near north Chicago suburbs, day--WRMN or WIMS depending on which way my antenna is pointing.
At night a mess, but I have heard WHK in the past.
 
crainbebo said:
Next wanted 1420s: KSTN Stockton CA, KMOG Payson AZ or KTOE Mankato, MN. XEXX down in Tijuana (if they are still on) is another good possibility for me in the future.

-crainbebo
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KTOE could be a tough one for you. They don't send much nighttime juice to the west or northwest. Northeast, however, is another matter. They have a monster night signal in Northern Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan.
 
Daytime: if anything, a weak, usually faint WOC Davenport, IA. Nighttime, kind of a mess, but usually an audible KTOE Mankato, MN on top.
 
WHK comes in in the daytime in Southeast Michigan. When you get North of Pontiac, WFLT (legacy call letters WAMM) comes in. WFLT has an amazing signal for 500 watts and a high dial position. It is located in a clay loam creek bed. You can hear it all the way up to Houghton Lake and Oscoda on a good Delco car radio. At night, WHK is the one you usually hear when WFLT is off, and when it signed off at night. Due to a relatively high NIF, many stations have been heard. WIMS, WOC, KTOE on day pattern, and even WPLY Plymouth, WI (whatever their call letters are now) is occasionally heard at dusk. WKPR Kalamazoo could be heard at sunset, but has moved to 1440 now. Due to the 310 degree maximum of WAMM/WFLT and wide beamwidth, much of the pattern to the West and North exceeds the equivalent of 1000 watts. I once heard in in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago just before sunset, but I didn't realize that it was possible then with 500 watts and didn't stick around for the ID. I heard an ID for WPON 1460 Pontiac at the same time and wasn't that surprised since it was 1000 watts nondirectional days at that time. But WAMM/WFLT radiated just as much in that direction as the minimum efficiency WPON did with half the licensed power.
 
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But I wonder about daytime. I could go for them at 4 or 5 in the morning as the sun is coming up in Minnesota and it is still dark here. I get more of a jumble than early in the evening, when I listen toward sunrise, due to all the 5KW, 10KW, 20KW stations coming on the air. KCJB 910 in Minot is one example. I only hear them about two hours to an hour before sunrise and never during the evening or early overnight hours.

-crainbebo
 
The Plymouth, WI 1420 is now WJUB. Format is "nostalgia" music. They have a good signal for a little 500-watt coffeepot. Comfortably listenable for the entire 100+ mile drive from Milwaukee to Green Bay. That's an area where the ground conductivity adjacent to the shore of Lake Michigan is excellent.

Which brings me back to KTOE. Minnesota is a state where much of the state has superb ground conductivity, except for roughly the northeast third....where it's awful. For KTOE, that means their day signal to the west and south is really good. And yes, I'd think it would probably be doable in Washington state right around Mankato sunrise when they ditch the night pattern. Actually, I was going to include that in my earlier post, but for some reason, forgot to.
 
Since moving here to NE PA:

WCOJ Coatesville, downstate PA, is the daytime occupant. Pretty fair signal here. I recall seeing them make a few Philadelphia ratings books back in their full-service days, maybe 0.5 share (but steady). They're now the Catholic network, ETN or EWN.
Gee, I may have to go to confession now for not knowing the name of it.

SRS-SSS catches:

WKCW Warrenton VA (11-16-94),
WACK Herkimer NY (3-5-01),
WCED DuBois PA (3-5-01).

Nighttimes it's usually WHK Cleveland (2-8-95t),
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WCOJ Coatesville PA(Chester County, EWTN religious station)
Night: mess, including a weaker WCOJ and WBSM from New Bedford MA
 
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