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AM Frequency of the Week: 1450

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cyberdad

cyberdad

(I'm here a day earlier this week in deference to Santa Claus. Merry Christmas to everyone here!)

40 miles northwes of downtown Chicago...

Days: WRLL from Cicero, IL (just west of Chicago). Weak, but listenable. Sometimes with stuff in the background. Ussually from WKEI, Kewanee, IL. Once when the Chicago 1450 was off during the transition, I was hearing KFIZ to WFMT as temporariy occupant of the channel. I was hearing KFIZ from Fon Du Lac, WII, Perhaps viia daytime skywave.

Nifght: For some reason, KMRY from Cedar Rapids seems to be most likely to rise to the top. Others heard include WCVS Now WFBM), Springfield, IL, WKEI, WHTC, Holland MI, WDLB, Marshfield, WI.

Retro: CHUC from Coburg, Ontario (about 75 miles east of Toronto used to be the 10,000-watt gorillaon 1450 before they migrated to FM. They were a relatively easy catch around sunset before they powered down.
 
Merry Christmas from Houston!

During the day, it's all slop from local 1460 KBRZ. At sunset it's a mess with KCTI Gonzalez TX (NPR Texas Public Radio), KIKR sports from Beaumont TX, and KSIG Crowley LA (Sunny 95.1 with adult contemporary format) all heard at times. In addition, KWHW in Altus OK is often heard with country music, but that's the only station outside this region that I've ID'ed. Odd that this one station, listed at 668 watts, is so often heard here. At night/morning, it's the same story.
 
East Tennessee: A mix of WLAR, Athens TN and WLAF, Lafollette, TN.
Night is the usual graveyard mess.
Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area, a weak WMOH, Hamilton, Ohio.
Lafayette, IN area. Local WASK. Go to Logansport, IN and WASK can be nulled out in favor of WLYV (or whatever calls) Fort Wayne.

Merry Christmas Cyberdad and team Frequency of the Week!
 
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all from the southwest suburbs of Chicago, where 1450 means ...

Day and night, it's WRLL Cicero with 1 kW. It had also been WCEV on the last share-time operation in the area until WCEV went silent on 1/20/2020. WRLL finally arranged to pick up the air time. Previously, from a different site (I think), it was WVON until moving to 1390, then WFMT for a time.

It's just strong enough here to make finding a signal under a chore (and I never had time to take advantage of the silent period when WCEV signed off). The only outside catch is KLWW Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with 250 watts long ago.
 
I have a local on 1450, KMRY. A very good small-city, very community-oriented station. It used to be my local top 40 when I was a kid, when it was KLWW.
 
KLWW (now KMRY) used to make it during daytime down to my college location at Mount Pleasant (IA), a distance of about 68 miles. Signa was fair, but with stuff audible underneath. I didn't listen to it very much. The closest I had to a LOCAL daytime go-to was KSTT (1170) from Davenport which had a more listenable signal...albeit also 1kw from about the same distance as KLWW.
 
We have a local on 1450, WVAM, Parkersburg, West Virginia, with two FM translators, airing “The True Oldies Channel.” It began as WPAR and is the city’s oldest station. The station cluster’s co-owner began his career there and dearly wanted the original calls, but settled for calls originally found in Allentown, Pa. It went through several formats and calls throughout the years and was purchased from a church that also owns an FM, so they saw no need to keep the AM. Those having to pass the collection plates probably developed carpel tunnel syndrome when funding both.
 
1450 used to be local WPAM Pottsville ( ~ 7 miles S) . They used to be a great Aurora beacon at night when they'd come in solid, as though it were broad daylight. Alack; they went dark over 7 years ago.
Their last imaging had been 'Phoenix 1450', an odd mix of Classic Rock and Grunge.
With the void, I've been unsuccessful at hearing a pretty close un-heard. WYNY is a fairly recent sign-on from Milford PA, on the Delaware a bit south of Port Jervis.

SRS catches have been WCTC New Brunswick NJ (taped ID) and WMAJ State College ...... while SSS'ses have brought in WTHU and WTBO from MD, the latter one taped.
Ha! Using maybe just one or two + or - magnifications, tell me which world country you see in this puzzle (courtesy of nf8m)
 
Wilmington Delaware

Local conservative talk WILM. Transmitter is 3 miles to my S so that is all I hear day and night. This station used to be locally owned and won awards for its local news coverage. Now it is just an anti-Biden mouthpiece 24/7 ironically in Biden's hometown. If you head S from Wilmington you pick up WPGG in Atlantic City which comes in quite well at the Delaware beaches.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: WRLL, a local with a decent signal

Nighttime: I just checked and WRLL is coming in half-decently. I don't know if it's because they've recently moved to being on 24 hrs or it's just my new place gets better reception, but that is what I can hear.

In the past, WRLL was gone at night and you'd get a mishmash. Most likely to rise to the top was KMRY in Cedar Rapids. On other occasions I heard WAOV in Vincennes, IN, WHTC in Holland, MI, and WLEC in Cleveland.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WRLL with fair signal
Nighttime: usual graveyard mess and WRLL with a weak signal

DX/RETRO/ETC: I vaguely remember that back in 1979/1980 WFMT used to be on this frequency. After that the WCEV/WVON frequency sharing commenced. That was at the end of 1980. DX loggings wise before they moved to 1560 I used to hear WPAD (Paducah, KY) on regular basis. Some other DX includes WHTC (Holland, MI), WEZR (Ft. Wayne, IN). Since WCEV going off and before WRLL taking over the frequency on 24 hour basis only two new stations were heard: KMRY (Cedar Rapids, IA) and WASK (Lafayette, IN). This being a "graveyard" frequency, I don't spend too much time DXing it.
 
250 Watt KLAM Cordova about 325 miles away comes in quite well.. and thats all ive ever heard.

Now ive heard Iran's 400kw on 1449 quite a few times
 
wjxn 1450, Jackson, Mississippi began broadcasing in 1945 !!
has been Dark now, since about 1994 or so, Bishop Willis bought it, from Edward St' Pe.
 
KTZR is a local here in southern Arizona. It started out life in 1946 as KCLB/KOPO, owned by Gene Autry.

My 15 minutes of fame was when this station was one of the first early expansions of the Family Life Radio back in the mid-1970's as KFLT.

Soon after the station was up and running, the ministry headquarters was moved here, and has been here ever since.

Before moving here, I was in Ventura County, and was a KVEN local listener.
 
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From DFW, Texas

Daytime: Spillover from local on 1440.
Nights: KIKR Beaumont TX and KCTI Gonzalez TX are the most frequently heard, occasionally rising above the rumble. KCTI is easy to pick out with its NPR format. Only other station ID'ed is KGFF Shawnee, OK.
 
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