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AM Frequency of the Week: 1460

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest suburban Chicago...

Days: 1460 is pretty much empty aeound here these days. "Back in the day, 1460 used to be a weak WRAC, a 500-watt daytime from Racine, WI. WRAC was eventually replaced by WJTI, 1kw with a directional daytime pattern, which is basically inaudible at my location, even though it's aimed south.

Night: 1460 is usually KXNO, 5kw with a favorable pattern from Des Moines, Iowa. Sometimes mixing with a Spanish station, I havent been able to ID that one, but my best guess is WKAM from Goshen, IN.

KXNO is the former KSO, which had a good run as a top 40 station until the mid '60s.
 
Around sunset and thru the evening....

1460 KHz - WQOP - Jacksonville FL - Queen of Peace Radio - Catholic – EWTN - 200 miles north of Melbourne

sometimes before sunset - WQXM - Bartow FL - "Ritmo" (Spanish)

kw - Melbourne FL - 30 miles south of KSC....
 
Happy new year from the southwest suburbs of Chicago, where ...

... days, 1460 is a dud. Never received WRAC and yet to hear WJTI. No hint of anything on 1460 at noon.

Nights, my quartet of logs features KSO / KXNO Des Moines; WBNS Columbus, Ohio; CJCY Guelph, Ont.; and the most recent, KXPN Kearney, Neb., likely running 5 kw rather than the nighttime 56 watts, on the evening of 10/11/2020.
 
Happy new year from the west side of Houston, TX:

Daytime, local KBRZ Sangeet Radio with South Asian programs. They dominate until their power reduction at sunset but are still on top at night unless nulled. At sunset and at night, I've heard KCWM in Hondo TX (classic country) and KCLE Burleson TX (Vietnamese). At night and at sunrise I've heard WXOK Baton Rouge LA ("Heaven 95.7 and 1460" gospel programming).
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WJTI with their Spanish language programming
Nightime: usually KXNO, WBNS

DX/RETRO: also heard WKAM (Goshen, IN), WBRN (Big Rapids, MI), WCMB (Harrisburg, PA), WROY (Carmi, IL), WPRW (Manasas, VA).

As for WJTI until 2009 they were licensed to Racine, Wisconsin and using various calls (WWEG,WBZN,WHBT,WRKR,WBJX). In 2009 they changed their city of license to West Ellis, Wisconsin. At the same time they moved their transmitter from Racine, Wisconsin to Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin.
 
Lol -- just this morning I re-learned how to operate and set some cheesy GPX AM-FM alarm clock radio, fused now to the 1460 racket so I can spend SRS'ses listening for the elusive and closest-unheard WGMM Tunkhannock PA.
Even off the car radio days here it's WTKT Harrisburg's omni 5K and its (groan) all-sports stuff. It got a well-deserved 0.5 share last rating book.
At SSS and atop at nights is Rochester.
That little GPX clock rx *did* get me a Rhode Island daytime station a few months' back, so ya never know.
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(We're right between the 'n' in Shamokin and the 'T' in Tamaqua.)
 
Most nights 1460 is ESPN Yakima (KUTI) at varying strengths, sometimes with a regional Mexican station behind (probably the station out of Santa Rosa).
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, it's local all-sports WBNS. They became the market's first all-sports station back in 1994 and continue the format today, although as essentially an all-ESPN outlet and largely forgotten AM sibling to WBNS-FM "97.1 The Fan."
They're 5,000 watts omnidirectional from the east side of Columbus, off Barnett Road between Livingston and Main, with one of the few remaining Blaw-Knox towers. They go directional north-south at night, largely missing the west side of town. I have trouble getting them in suburbs such as Dublin and Hilliard, and going due east they're completely buried maybe 15 miles from the tower.
Their nighttime signal problems are the big reason 97.1 simulcasted all football and most men's basketball games even in its days as an MOR, oldies and AC outlet before going all-sports in 2009.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: In certain locations you can pick up a weak WKAM in Goshen, Indiana. I've tried for WJTI but never logged it.

Nighttime: A mix, but KNXO Des Moines is the most likely. On other occasions I've heard WBNS in Columbus OH, WBRN in Big Rapids MI, and WROY in Carmi, IL.
 
East Tennessee: Days—-a boatload of nothing. Sunset will bring WBNS, Columbus. Night is a hodgepodge. Retro/other. Weak signals from WBNS from Dayton, sometimes WJCP or whatever North Vernon’s calls are this week. This facility, as WOCH, was the first station I ever interviewed at.
 
I am pretty sure I've heard WKAM in central Ohio before, although I don't think I should have. Several years ago I had to work a high school football game north of Columbus and as I drove back in, a station with a Spanish-language format was wrecking WBNS in an area its nighttime directional pattern favors. WBNS did not pull on top of this other station until I was well within metro Columbus, and by that point it still was taking a fair amount of interference given that by that time, I was driving into their eastbound null.
Haven't heard the other station since.
 
CJOY, the 10kw fulltime occupant of 1460 from Guelph, Ontario was mentioned in this thread earlier (and may have been removed). That one has been on my "wanted list" for a long time with no luck for me in snagging it. The problem has to do with both day and night patterns being aimed north with a deep null towards my location in the Chicago area. The result is that the day signal is good for about 125 miles to the resort area to the north, but barely listenable around the Toronto airport about 50 miles east. The signal to the south and west, if anything, was even worse. On my September road trip north of Lake Superior, CJOY sounded like a local at a couple of my overnight stops, Thunder Bay and especially Kapuskasing. But it disappears before you reach the Toronto metro.

Before I retired, I had a couple of pretty good customers in the nearby area (software companies), and frequently stayed in a hotel nearly across the street from the CJOY transmitter site. Three not particularly tall towers.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: It's a weak classic country KCWM in Hondo, TX, which used to put in a stronger signal here before its transmitter was damaged by a tornado in 2021. I have heard KCLE in Burleson, TX, with its Vietnamese programming during winter daytime skywave.

Sunset: KCWM is stronger. KBRZ in Missouri City, TX, comes up, as does urban gospel WXOK in Port Allen, LA, with the former most dominant.

Night: To the north, I hear KKOY "My Country" in Chanute, KS, fairly often. Occasionally KXNO in Des Moines will pop up. Aiming more northwest, KBZO in Lubbock with Spanish-language sports is a regular. To the east/west, XEYC "Grupo Fórmula" in Chihuahua and KBRZ are occasional visitors.

Sunrise: Daytimer KZUE "La Tremenda" in Reno, OK, is dominant when it signs on. Both KCLE and WXOK return at day power/pattern. KBRZ usually dominates when it goes to day power.

DX/Retro: I've heard KTKC "Radio Amistad" in Springhill, LA, just once. Rare catches include newstalk KZNT in Colorado Springs and KHOJ in St. Charles, MO, with Catholic programming.
 
From San Jose, California

Days...10kW KION out of Salinas----weak signal.

Nights..10kW KION again, still weak, with other stations fading in and out.
 
From DFW, Texas:

1460 KBRZ TX Missouri City 11/22/2021 1715 Asian music weak with occasional fade up
1460 XEYC Chih Ciudad Juárez 11/26/2021 2337 Fair with fading // stream
1460 WXOK LA Port Allen 11/26/2021 2350 Urban gospel very weak under XEYC with KBRZ and KXNO nulled // stream
1460 KHOJ MO St. Charles 12/4/2021 1600 Family drama/radio play, TOH ID KHOJ St. Charles Mo. EWTN, good // stream
1460 KZUE OK El Reno 12/7/2021 2210 Spanish music fading in/out // stream
1460 KXNO IA Des Moines 12/18/2021 2000 TOH ID KXNO, Fox Sports. Rising to good then fading out.
1460 KCLE TX Burleson 1/20/2022 1400 Vietnamse music and news at TOH, strong
1460 KKOY KS Chanute 10/28/2022 0140 Classic country, fair to poor on top. ID "My Country"
1460 KBZO TX Lubbock 12/10/2022 2150 TUDN Spanish Sports, fair with fading w/KXNO and WXOK.
 
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