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AM Frequency of the week: 1460

cyberdad

cyberdad

"Regional" channels for the next three weeks. Starting today with 1460....

Days: A very weak WJTI from West Allis, WI (Milwaukee). 1kw aimed south along the Lake Michigan.

Nights: WJTI drops to 240 watts, aims in the opposite direction (north) and disappears. KXNO, Des Moines, is most likely to rise to the top. I've also heard WBNS from Columbus, OH, and WKAM from Goshen, IN.

Retro: In the 1960s, Des Moines (as KSO) was a top-40 go to for me. With the channel less crowded and legendary jock (and Des Moines native), Dic Youngs holding down evenings, it was a great listen. Then somebody got the bright idea of turning KSO into a beautiful music station. But keeping "Youngsie" and top 40 going between 7pm and midnight. Weird! "The Old Youngster" shortly thereafter began his 40-plus year run on KIOA.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
Always local WBNS, transmitting from about six miles due west of me off a classic Blaw-Knox tower. Crystal clear with 5,000 watts daytime, much less so at night with a north-south 1,000-watt pattern. Even this close, crosstalk can be heard underneath the signal although WBNS is still strong enough that nothing under it is intelligible. As close as two miles west of me, no crosstalk ... 10 miles east, WBNS is pretty much buried. This is the reason WBNS-FM has carried Ohio State football and men's basketball broadcasts for decades, even before it went all-sports in 2009 and took the flagship designation from 1460 ... in many areas of the metro at night, especially the fast-growing areas to the north and west, 1460 has a terrible signal.
One September night about four years ago, a Spanish-language station was clearly on day pattern as late as 11 p.m. and murdering WBNS to within a few miles of is tower. Posters here at the time speculated that it was either WKAM or WKDV out of Manassas, Virginia.
 
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Near north Chicago suburbs: Day: weak WJTI. At night KXNO most likely with WBNS from time to time.

Retro: In the 60s I also used to listen to KSO sometimes at night for Top 40. It was fun to listen to back then.
 
I used to hear an oldies station faintly on 1460 when I DXd from up in Toledo in the late 90s. Oddly, I only heard WBNS once up there even though the pattern is favorable in that direction. The oldies were a much more regular catch. If I ever heard a call sign, I forgot it long ago.
 
schmave said:
I used to hear an oldies station faintly on 1460 when I DXd from up in Toledo in the late 90s. Oddly, I only heard WBNS once up there even though the pattern is favorable in that direction. The oldies were a much more regular catch. If I ever heard a call sign, I forgot it long ago.
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The oldies station would likely be the now-defunct WPON from Pontiac/Walled Lake
 
Interesting, thanks! Never heard of that station. It was never a strong signal, like I said, but it was there more than anything else. Given WBNS' pattern, it feasibly could be heard in that part of Ohio every night, and it might very well be further to the east.
 
Orange County, TX Days nothing, Nights WXOK, Port Allen, LA when they "forget" to power down to 290W
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WJTI
Nightime: usually KXNO, WBNS

DX/RETRO: also heard WKAM (Goishen, IN), WBRN (Big Rapids, MI), WCMB (Harrisburg, PA), WROY (Carmi, IL), WPRW (Manasas, VA) on this frequency.
 
On the log here in the more modern, noisier DX days in Northeast PA are
Daytime: Harrisburg, sports radio.
Sunrise: WIFI from NJ and WGNA Albany NY (taped).
Sunset: WBUC from WV
Nights is usually Rochester NY atop.

I so desire my closest unheard, Grrr.
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WZMF&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

My den is near the 'v' in the word 'coverage' at the bottom. The pursuit continues. Perhaps one velvet sunrise I'll catch them.

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During the retro days of the 60's and 70's near JFK Airport in Queens NYC (when we were all retro) I count 20 stations in The Olde Log. The best was KDON Salinas CA. The BIGGEST pain in the biscuit, though, was WJJZ Mt. Holly NJ. But I got a good tape of them one early afternoon, after nulling semi-local WVOX New Rochelle NY down to a feeble whisper.




1460 Harrisburg, WIFI (5-1-12), WGNA (8-2-94t), WWWG Rochester (8-2-94), WBUC 11-14-13 SSS)
 
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Days its WXEM a Hispanic format station out of Buford GA. Buford is about 50 miles NE of Atlanta. Nights its a jumble.
 
I live only 20 miles from WKHZ in Easton, MD but since I live in their null I get their Spanish religious programming awfully weak. Turn the radio and I get Harrisburg's WTKT sports talk around 100 miles away!

Night is usually a mush, have heard Manassas, VA's WKDV regional Mexican programming in the evenings.
 
DXingRadio said:
I live only 20 miles from WKHZ in Easton, MD but since I live in their null I get their Spanish religious programming awfully weak. .
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My sister lived in Easton for more than 20 years. Nice town, although she and her husband just moved to an even nicer one in Florida. Anyway she lived about two miles from WKHZ's stick. So....that signal overpowered a chunk of the dial at her QTH 24/7. The used to run MOYL Nostalgia off the bird the last couple of times I was out there. (Which was a while ago.)
 
cyberdad said:
My sister lived in Easton for more than 20 years. Nice town, although she and her husband just moved to an even nicer one in Florida. Anyway she lived about two miles from WKHZ's stick. So....that signal overpowered a chunk of the dial at her QTH 24/7. The used to run MOYL Nostalgia off the bird the last couple of times I was out there. (Which was a while ago.)
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It used to be sister station to WCEI until 2010 when it was sold. Then it ran the "KHZ Network" with pop tunes until 2 years ago when it was leased to a Spanish language operator. On top of the null its been under continuous STA's for as long as I can remember, so even less power coming my way!
 
It's amazing how the shoehorning of a few of those stations passed FCC muster back then. Especially at night. That station in Easton must have problems with the Manassas station, big time. Back in the late 70's days of the National Radio Club pattern book I couldn't believe those two stations could co-exist.

Throw into the mix the Dumfries-Triangle 1480 station, WPWC, in the same region, west of the Chesapeake. Their towers must've been 5 feet west of I-95 when I drove south (a Country station at the time). They were the loudest thing on the car radio.

That upper dial sure was jammed along the stretch between Balt and DC and farther south. 1460, 1480, 1500, 1530, 1540, 1550*, 1560, 1570, 1580, 1590 and 1600.

* 1550 was Elkton MD, a bit northeast of Baltimore.
 
Days::::KION serving the Monterey - Salinas - Santa Cruz market with 10KW off 4 towers:::Signal strength is a bit weak, especially with home RFI, but receivable.

I'm just under 39 miles from the towers ( straight line ).

Nights::KION, much better signal
 
In what must be sort of a throw back to the "old days" reception of my youth, I get KUTI Yakima faintly but steadily in the day and better at night. My local 1460, KARR Kirkland WA has been off the air for a couple of years now on continuing STAs. And there isn't another 1460 within 500 miles (there is a 15 watt signal down in Oregon at night, but have never heard it.) LOS to Yakima is 111 miles, over the Cascade range. Ground conductivity I am told by those in the know is "really poor." But goes to show how well something can still carry when there is nothing else on the frequency. There's a lot of noise coming from 1450 at times or it would really be pristine.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
It's amazing how the shoehorning of a few of those stations passed FCC muster back then. Especially at night. That station in Easton must have problems with the Manassas station, big time. Back in the late 70's days of the National Radio Club pattern book I couldn't believe those two stations could co-exist.

Throw into the mix the Dumfries-Triangle 1480 station, WPWC, in the same region, west of the Chesapeake. Their towers must've been 5 feet west of I-95 when I drove south (a Country station at the time). They were the loudest thing on the car radio.

That upper dial sure was jammed along the stretch between Balt and DC and farther south. 1460, 1480, 1500, 1530, 1540, 1550*, 1560, 1570, 1580, 1590 and 1600.

* 1550 was Elkton MD, a bit northeast of Baltimore.
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My favorite is Glen Burnie's AM 1590 WFBR, 1,000 watts 24/7 and 7 towers to squeeze it in there! Signal goes up and down sharply at least 4 times driving on I-97, those nulls.
 
cyberdad said:
Retro: In the 1960s, Des Moines (as KSO) was a top-40 go to for me. With the channel less crowded and legendary jock (and Des Moines native), Dic Youngs holding down evenings, it was a great listen. Then somebody got the bright idea of turning KSO into a beautiful music station. But keeping "Youngsie" and top 40 going between 7pm and midnight. Weird! "The Old Youngster" shortly thereafter began his 40-plus year run on KIOA.
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KSO later became a legendary Des Moines country station from 1974-1989.
 
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