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AM Frequency of the Week - 1470 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 1470 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a rather weak WLQR/Toledo during the day. Around critical hours I can usually get WLQR mixed with WFNT/Flint, MI. Nights it's pretty much a mess.
 
I can get a weak KLCL Lake Charles, LA aiming east at night. During the day adjacent local 1480 KLVL Pasadena, TX renders 1470 useless. Haved never been able to log KWRD Henderson, TX, but sure wish I could one day. Even in Bellville I can't pick up a trace of them.
 
I hear KLCL ("Cajun Radio") at night here in East Texas, but I can understand how you haven't able to get KWRD. I'm just over 40 miles miles west of them and owing to their horrible ground conductivity their signal is very weak, despite them running 5kW non-directional. In fact they barely make it to Tyler.
 
In Lake County, Indiana, I get WCFJ Chicago Heights during daytime hours, but splatter at night. I would have to be in South Cook County & parts of Will County Illinois to get WCFJ at night. Even then, they're not always operating 24/7, despite having a 24/7 license (they sign off if they don't broker out all their timeslots).
 
In northern VA, I get quite of slop of WKDV Manassas from its towers about 3 miles away on days on most radios. At night, same thing but a little less splatter. On my best radio (JRC NRD-525) with the LSB mode and nulling out WKDV as must as possible, I logged in WQXL Columbia, SC with 100W at night according to this: http://www.topazdesigns.com/ambc/ with the ID heard. On days with this mode, I can barely hear WBTX Broadway, VA.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: fair signal from WSAN from Allentown PA(sports-talk station)
Night: mess of stations, including WSAN
 
From Monroe, WA it's a weak CJVB Vancouver/KELA Centralia mix during the day, and at night, a mix of KELA and CJVB. KBSN Moses Lake pops up sometimes at sunset, and I once received a very weak KIID Sacramento CA during aurora one time, matching my local Radio Disney.

-crainbebo
 
SW Ohio

Daytime
WGNR Anderson IN A - very weak signal. Of course, I can't help but say that back in the 1970's as WHUT, this was a very well programmed Top 40 station.

Nights
WMBD Peoria IL
WBFC Stanton KY
 
Daytime, depending on which radio I'm using in New Britain, CT: WMMW-AM 1470 of Meriden, CT. I barely get its weak 1,000 watt signal, roughly 7 miles away. I get absolutely nothing from them at night. I honestly don't know what I get at night on that spot, to be honest.

Further complicating matters with 1470 AM? Unless I'm using a good directional antenna, I'll get some washout from WPOP-AM 1410 of Hartford. They're a 5,000 watt station with a transmitter along Cedar Street (CT Route 175) in Newington, CT. I'm closer to that than I am with WMMW-AM. :(
 
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Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Day: Not much of anything. One of the few relatively clear frequencies.

Night: WMBD absolutely owns the channel. Good signal....perhaps the strongest of the former 3-A 5kw fulltime facilities.
 
cyberdad said:
Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Day: Not much of anything. One of the few relatively clear frequencies.

Night: WMBD absolutely owns the channel. Good signal....perhaps the strongest of the former 3-A 5kw fulltime facilities.
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Same thing here in the near north Chicago suburbs.
 
In central IL it's WMBD in Peoria, 5000 watts, night signal is a north/south pattern I believe. It's Peoria's best AM station for local and national news.
 
Detroit:
Day - a very weak WLQR Toledo, with no sign of Flint.
Night - have never IDed anyone on this freq at night - sounds a lot lime 1450.
Monroe Co./Toledo:
Day - a surprisingly weak WLQR (yes, a lot stronger than it is in Detroit)
Night - WLQR in battle with WMBD. In fact, I've been in Toledo proper and have heard WMBD -over- WLQR on the car radio.

I might mention that WLQR has been having some facility problems. They have a CP to move to a new facility, and I believe I read that they are having problems with their ground system at their current Oregon site.
 
1L6E6VHF said:
Detroit:
Day - a very weak WLQR Toledo, with no sign of Flint.
Night - have never IDed anyone on this freq at night - sounds a lot lime 1450.
Monroe Co./Toledo:
Day - a surprisingly weak WLQR (yes, a lot stronger than it is in Detroit)
Night - WLQR in battle with WMBD. In fact, I've been in Toledo proper and have heard WMBD -over- WLQR on the car radio.

I might mention that WLQR has been having some facility problems. They have a CP to move to a new facility, and I believe I read that they are having problems with their ground system at their current Oregon site.
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Back in the 1970s, we stayed one night in Cedar Grove, WI. Although WMBD was heard, I had no problem nulling it out and hearing WKMF 1470, now WFNT 1470 Flint. It seems like I made a recording on my Sony right at pattern and power change time, and continued to hear it a little after the change.

I also remember WIND 560 booming in as well as WMAQ 670 there, and in the Keweenaw Peninsula on a previous night, along with WNUS or WVON on 1390.
 
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