AM Frequency of the Week - 1430 kHz (with bonus)

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you get on 1430 AM? Here in Vermilion, OH, 1430 is a fairly weak WFOB/Fostoria, OH with sports talk. At night it becomes a jumble with nothing really standing out.

Bonus - For those who have DX'ed the longwave frequencies, what have you received on them? (153 kHz - 279 kHz)

 

[stormy01]

Near Crystal Lake, IL (far NW suburb of Chicago)

Daytime:
WEEF Highland Park, IL (sometimes heard at night)
WCMY Ottawa, IL (under WEEF, nulled)

Sunrise/Sunset:
WBEV Beaver Dam, WI

Nighttime:
WXNT Indianapolis, IN
KZQZ St. Louis, MO (also former WIL)
CKYC Toronto (also former CJCL)

* sometimes heard at night as well in the jumble...

 

[crainbebo]

On 1430, I get KBRC Mt. Vernon, WA weakly during the day, and a mix of KYKN Keizer, OR, KBRC and KCLK Lewiston, ID at night.

The only time I've gotten something (not a beacon) on LW was a very weak carrier on 162 once. Might have been France, but it was only a very weak carrier.

-crainbebo

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs it's WEEF Highland Park during the day & at night sometimes St Louis.

 

[Icangelp]

SW Ohio
I am a sporadic, infrequent DXer, mostly during early AM & PM rush hour drives.

1430 KHZ
Daytime
WXNT Indianapolis - Very weak when there.

Sunset
WDIC Clinchko VA
CHKT Toronto ON - Chinese. Barely above the threshhold, but has been in the mix lately.
WPLN Madison (Nashville) TN - Public radio.
WCLT Newark OH

Night
I've not camped on this frequency at night.


Longwave
Drake R8B with Wellbrook 1530+ with antenna rotator.
These are all logs beginning with the winter of 2009.

153 Nothing
162 France Allouis - France Inter. One of the two most frequently logged LW stations.
171 Nothing
180 Nothing
183 Europe 1
189 Iceland - Very rare. Last time I heard it was 2009.
198 UK - BBC
207 I swear I heard Morroco, but I did not get an I.D. and the signal strength was so low, I couldn't make out the language.
209 Nothing
216 Monaco - RMC
225 Poland
234 Luxemboug - RTL
243 Nothing
252 Ireland - My other semi-reliable regular.
252 I have heard another station in the mix. I presume it is Algeria.
261 Heard a het on occasion.
270 Heard a het on occassion.

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

Weak WNAV Annapolis, MD on days, Toronto CKYC on nights.

On longwave, just only the Moroccan 171 and a Morse code signal on 216. This is only with an indoor antenna. (I am usually at work at evenings)

 

[Bongwater]

In Bellingham, WA, it's a fair-strong KBRC Mount Vernon by day - especially when their ground is well saturated .

I used to get KLO out of Odgen, UT LOUDLY at night in Puget Sound. Did they directionalize? I haven't heard them in years......

 

[boiseengineer]

Protecting KYKN US OR KEIZER & KCLK US WA ASOTIN
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1362802-110983.pdf

 

[crainbebo]

Have tried for KLO for at least a year now, but KCLK and KYKN's patterns block it from reaching here.

-crainbebo

 

[Kansas Guy]

In northeast Kansas:

Daytime - KAOL with club music from Carrollton Missouri (unusual programming for AM)

Dawn and Dusk - KZQZ St. Louis MO with cool oldies is strongest
occasional visits from KRGI Grand Island Nebraska news/talk
and WPLN Nashville TN public radio
and KCOH Houston TX talk radio

Evenings - KZQZ and KTBZ Tulsa OK Fox sports can be heard occasionally amid the noise

 

[fybush]

From Rochester NY, it's mostly CHKT (note correct calls) from Toronto, though its 50 kW from the Toronto Islands is aimed almost entirely north and not much signal gets over the lake to the southeast towards me. WENE Endicott/Binghamton is an occasional visitor as well.

 

[schmave]

From Thornville, Ohio, it's WCLT from Newark 24/7. Their tower is about 10 miles due north of me. At night, WCLT is clearly audible amid jumble.

 

[borderblaster]

Dayton area WXNT and sometimes WCLT in the eastern part of the area/

Nighttime recently I've heard KZQZ St. Louis very loud, think they were on day pattern at night.

Have never had a longwave radio

 

[Jim In Vt]

On 1430 I hear 2 stations both very very weak. Had one
fade up enough to guess it could be CHKT Toronto (Chinese) & the
other has not faded up enough to hear much of anything. (Could be Binghamton?)

I have a Sangean radio that will do long wave but hardly hear anything there.
I probably need to give this more effort.

73's!

Jim

 

[RadioDaze]

Durham, North Carolina:

Daytime: WRXO, Roxboro, NC (considerably weak to be 30 miles up US 501 in the county next door).

Nighttime: garble

 

[jd]

East Texas just west of Tyler: daytime it's KEES Gladewater with a weak signal despite their 5,000 watts at around 40 miles away. At night with their highly directional 1,000 watts they're completely gone here, overridden by KTBZ, which is about 250 miles to the north of them. Nighttime reception of KEES just a few miles from the station has long been compromised by KTBZ in Longview as well as Gladewater; things got worse in the critical hours when the Tulsa station went to 25,000 watts daytime. It isn't pretty.

 

[RyanHoward]

From Warminster PA(Philadelphia area):

Daytime: Newark NJ(forget the calls), or splatter from local WNPV(1440)
Night: mess of stations, including CHKT in Toronto(ex-CKFH, ex-CJCL)

 

[Lawppy]

Coldwater, MI-

Daytime-
WION- Ionia, MI- Variety- I-1430/92.7
WFOB- Fostoria, OH- News/Talk

Skywave-
WPLN- Nashville, TN- Public Radio

Night-
CHKT- Toronto, ON- Ethnic- Fairchild Radio
KZQZ- Saint Louis, MO- Oldies- (with very awesome old-school jingles)

 

[cyberdad]

I'm only a few miles from Stormy, so my experience is similar to his. Mostly WEEF during the day and St. Louis at night. Indianapolis sometimes schleps in on top. I've never personally heard Toronto, but "back in the day", Tulsa used to show up from time to time (as KELI).

 

[n2wds]

Wellsville, NY

Days: a very weak almost nonexistent WENE
Mainly CKHT at local sunrise and sunset.
Nights: a mess