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AM Frequency Of The Week: 1420

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

Can I pick one this week? 1420khz!

From Laramie, Wyoming

After sunrise: KULY Ulysses, KS 340 miles. Somewhat regular after sunrise visitor, but not always very good.
Audio from last December, 2018: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rOHFuewt9gWzU1Gt-xpb_EXRkbdOzoFP/view?usp=sharing

Around sunset/after sunset/on and off all night, KTOE Mankato, MN at 612 miles. This one isn't usually too great but it'll fade up on and off at times and produce 10-30 seconds at a time of pretty listenable content
Audio from October 2018 from some point well after dark: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sHVopSLiztyfzJZ1mVA5hEfec6BjFXO3/view?usp=sharing No question there it's KTOE, eh?:) I'm also a big jingle freak/collector and love hearing stuff like this.

KSTN 1420 Stockton, CA 865 miles. Somewhat regular visitor right around sunrise and after sunrise. Sometimes pretty good, sometimes not. I've had this thing peak as late as just after Stockton sunrise.
Here's a clip from October 2019: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YN_tvQ_QK5iyvXJwTXBTbwpB5Lq0KQGN/view?usp=sharing
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs 1420 is splatter from local WEEF which is not too far from me. On a good radio I can sometimes here WIMS from Michigan City.
At night it's WEEF splatter even though they drop their power to 750 watts. Some WIMS and a mess of other stations.
 
Days: I've heard WIMS only a few times down through the years. They're in an area of horrible ground conductivity of the Lake Michigan sand dunes on the Indiana-Michigan border. WOC is more common....but still rare...via daytime skywave in winter.

Nights: WOC is most likely to rise out of the slop, but not a regular. I've heard KTOE a few times at my home location. But in the northwoods of Minnesota and adjacent parts of Wisconsin KTOE at night roars in.
 
Back in the 1960s, I spent quite a few Thanksgivings in NWC. There was a station with an R & B format on 1420 before Sunset. I didn't hear the ID. I thought that it was WIMS, but I don't know if they ever had that type of programming. Just before that, I heard an ID for WPON 1460 from Pontiac, MI with 1000 watts nondirectional Days. I didn't know at that time that WAMM 1420 in Flint, MI with 500 watts DA-D had an IDF that actually exceeds 1000 watts nondirectional IDF toward NWC. I think a lot of people over the years may have heard WAMM/WFLT as an UNID because they dismissed the possibility that it could be heard with just 500 watts. It had an R & B format until about 1980, when it became MOYL as WFLT for a few years, after which it has been Black Gospel after that, and today.
 
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Orange County, TX=Days a weak but listenable KPEL Lafayette, LA, Nights graveyard like mess with several Spanish language stations one mentioning I "en Monterrey", which could be XEH, but never an ID . At times sunrise will bring in KGNB New Braunfels, TX.
 
Not much of anything in East Tennessee.




WCJ said:
Orange County, TX=Days a weak but listenable KPEL Lafayette, LA, Nights graveyard like mess with several Spanish language stations one mentioning I "en Monterrey", which could be XEH, but never an ID . At times sunrise will bring in KGNB New Braunfels, TX.
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We seem to have another one this week. In Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: WIMS in Michigan City, IN comes in OK.

Nightime: It's normally a jumble. I live in an apartment building which blocks a lot of signal, and if I position my radio correctly I can often pick up WOC in Davenport, IA. It's actually reasonably listenable when I do this. But the jumble returns if I leave my building.

I've also logged WCED in Dubois, PA a couple of times.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WIMS Michigan City, IN
Nightime: open frequency with WOC frequently heard

DX/RETRO: others heard include KTOE (Mankato, MN), WKPR (Kalamazoo, MI), WHK (Cleveland, OH), WVJS (Owensboro, KY), WRCG (Columbus, GA), WFLT (Flint, MI), WHBN (Harrodsburg, KY), and XEEW (Matamoros, Mexico)
 
West Central Georgia

Day: WRCG Columbus GA 5.0kw Day "Urban adult contemporary" Strong

Night: Sometimes WRCG Columbus GA 0.079kw Night
 
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