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AM Frequency of the week - 1450

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Buckeyes2001

What do you receive on 1450 AM?
Here, it is WLEC "The Home of Timeless Favorites" during the day. At night, the station almost gets lost in the jumble of co-channel interference.
 
WJPA-AM in Washington, PA during the day. Fairly strong too as it is just 25 miles away.
At night though it disappears into the slop, just like your station.
 
Manassas, VA,

WOL in DC (the station has only 3 letters in its calls) about 35 miles away, very weak combined with a large amount of slop from WKDV 1460 about 3 miles away. At night, it's a jumbled mess with less WKDV slop.
 
SW Ohio
1450
Graveyards are not my thing, but here goes.

Days
WMOH Hamilton, OH...You would think with call letters like WMOH, the station's COL would be Middletown, Ohio, a city right next door to Hamilton, but it isn't. I'm sure there is a story behind it.

Sunrise, Sunset
WATA Boone, NC
WLYV Fort Wayne - Recently & back when it was a very good Top 40 station.

Night
WLMR Chattanooga TN - When it was WMOC
WDXR Paducah KY - Also when the call letters & station was assigned to 1560 and 1 kw DA-1.
 
1450 in North Idaho:
KBFI Bonners Ferry ID 74 miles dominates with news/talk (northernmost
AM station in IDaho)
KCLX Colfax, WA 61 miles only heard once with country format
KGRZ Missoula, MT 150 miles once, with Sports
KEZJ Twin Falls, ID 376 miles, parallels 730 Boise with NPR & Jazz (ID thru
the parallel logging)
 
Here in Phoenix, Arizona, this is one of the worst frequencies to catch a signal on. During the day, it's unlistenable thanks to the co-channel interference from our favorite Goldmine, 1440 KAZG. Sunrise and sunset can be interesting, though, because it all depends on when the lamp timer kicks in over at the Lumberyard. When KAZG is off the air, you can pick-up a really weak KNOT from Prescott broadcasting under the "fun oldies" moniker. Caught up in the mess is Cool 1450 KWFM from Tucson, which also broadcasts a true oldies format. I don't know too much about KWFM, but with call letters like that, you'd think they would be on the FM dial! ::)

At night, 1450 is a true graveyard. There's sometimes a Mexican station that breaks through and I have caught, on occasion, KNOT riding the minimal sky wave from Prescott. Have never caught KWFM at night, though. A shame too since we don't have an oldies station broadcasting at night here in Phoenix. :-[
 
From Tampa:

Day - WSDV Sarasota and a pretty good signal because of my location in the western part of Tampa and much of the signal travels on the bay.

Night - WSDV too but much weaker sounding. Slight chatter of other stations can be heard very faintly off in the background.
 
Slop from local WHIC 1460; when it's off (which it is, fairly often), it's the great graveyard mush of the northeast. CHUC in Cobourg, Ontario used to be fairly regular here on 1450 until it moved to FM.
 
Just S of Charleston, SC:

Local WQNT at 1450, which is a sports station, affiliated with Fox Sports, but with lots of regional programs. Used to be Headline News, talk, and before that, was WUJM with a standards format.

Around the beaches, you can sometimes pick up hints of Daytona Beach and Myrtle Beach on 1450, but you have to null the local out and wait for the right moment.
 
Nothing really, here.

Too far north for WJER/1450 Dover-New Philadelphia OH, too far southeast for WLEC/1450 Sandusky OH, too far west for slop from WHKZ/1440 Warren OH.

BTW, someone mentioned KWFM in Tucson...that JUST flipped to all-comedy radio, running the 24/7 Comedy satellite feed.
 
Icangelp said:
WMOH Hamilton, OH...You would think with call letters like WMOH, the station's COL would be Middletown, Ohio, a city right next door to Hamilton, but it isn't. I'm sure there is a story behind it.
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The call-letters stand for: Middletown...Oxford...Hamilton. Three cities in Butler County, Ohio where the station is licensed.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Daytime: WRLL fair-weak with KFIZ (Fon Du Lac, WI) underneath. That's right...a Wisconsin station with call letters beginning with a "K". And on a graveyard channel, no less!

Night: The usual graveyard mess. CHUC used to be fairly regular here on top of things....especially around sunset. The 10-thousand watt gorilla in the room!

But as Scott Fybush pointed out, they've now migrated to FM.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Icangelp said:
WMOH Hamilton, OH...You would think with call letters like WMOH, the station's COL would be Middletown, Ohio, a city right next door to Hamilton, but it isn't. I'm sure there is a story behind it.
Click to expand...

The call-letters stand for: Middletown...Oxford...Hamilton. Three cities in Butler County, Ohio where the station is licensed.
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Thanks. I've wondered about that one since the mid 1960's when I heard WMOH in my home town of Indianapolis. Not all the time, mind you. :)
 
In this nook of Northeast PA, it's The Phoenix 1450, WPAM Pottsville, a rarity inasmuch as they play classic rock in mono.

At a paint job in St. Clair PA, about 2 miles from their tower, I managed a wicked null on them and got some DX on 1460 and 1440.

Where I live, a half an hour northeast of them, they're usually a grumble at night, just enough to be considered the main signal. When they're loud and clear, though, that means 'Aurora'.

They were off in the aftermath of the 3-13-93 blizzard, and WCTC New Brunswick NJ was there in the day. Sometimes at sunset WMAJ from State College PA was there. (Back when they were WMAJ, that is ; they're now WQWK)
 
Like GARFLA, WSDV City Island, Sarasota is it day and night on 1450. I'm guessing that I'm about 15 - 17 miles closer to City Island than GarFla. During the day it doesn't matter which way I turn the radio (the same model GarFla has - the Sangean PR-D5) WSDV comes in well during the day, but at night, I have to have it in the just the right position to null out all the graveyard interference; but even if I don't null out the other stations, WSVD is still dominant and listenable, with the other graveyards faintly in the background.

My location is about 3 blocks from Tampa Bay on the fringe of downtown St. Petersburg and most, if not all the path is over water. (I'm about 28.4 air miles from WSDV's tower on City Island, next to Mote Marine)

drt
st. petersburg
 
StveGreenPA said:
In this nook of Northeast PA, it's The Phoenix 1450, WPAM Pottsville, a rarity inasmuch as they play classic rock in mono.
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Thanks for turning me on to this station. They do have a website and they do stream!
What I wouldn't give for some AM down in my corner of PA to run with this format (such as the
late, lamented WZUM)
 
NE North Carolina today at 12:00 noon. WENJ Atlantic City, NJ. Car radio. Local sports talk for south Jersey. ESPN affiliate. Been listening to slop on 1450 for days. Finally ID'd someone.
 
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