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AM Frequency of the Week - 1490 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on the high-end graveyard channel 1490 kHz?

In Vermilion, OH 1490 is WERE/Cleveland, OH with a news/talk format. Their signal varies somewhat from moderately weak to moderately strong. Sunsets it seems to come in a bit stronger but with other 1490s underneath and into the night it's pretty much a graveyard jumble with WERE occasionally noticeable on top.
 
WBTA Batavia is semi-local to me, about 30 miles away. It dominates the frequency by day. At night, it's the usual graveyard mush and you never know what will pop out from night to night.
 
Not sure if they are still on, but KOGN in Ogden, Utah was one of two stations that went silent, then came back on while looking for a buyer. KNFL, 1470 in Tremonton had to go silent a while back, due to costs of maintaining a rented transmitter site, but KOGN was broadcasting Spanish under a sort-of LMA agreement, while someone determined if they'd like to purchase it.

Might be a catch for somebody DX'ing. I think it's a daytimer-only.
 
In Houston, it is KHVL Huntsville - extremely weak but about the only oldies outlet for the entire city.
 
Northern VA, satellite-fed adult standards WCVA Culpeper, VA about 35 miles away, somewhat weak, and talker WARK Hagerstown about 50 miles to the north, very weak. At night, it's a big mess.
 
On 1490 days I get KBRO Bremerton, and night I get KBRO mixing with the usual graveyard jumble.

List of graveyarders caught on 1490 here
KBZY Salem, OR [Oldies/News]
KEYG Grand Coulee, WA [Country]
KLOG Kelso, WA [Oldies]
KRKZ Forks, WA [Country, when they were KBIS]
KSKR Roseburg, WA [Sports]
KSYC Yreka, CA [Jefferson Public Radio]. Farthest catch on 1490.
possibly KTEL Walla Walla, have to go back through logs
KWOK Hoquiam, WA [ESPN]
KYNR Toppenish, WA [Native American/Variety]

-crainbebo
 
WCVA Culpeper, VA daytime. Nights are just hash and IBOC buzz when they go to their flea-power. Never gotten anything else on that frequency even during strong CME's.
 
crainbebo said:
KSKR Roseburg, WA [Sports]
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Do you mean Roseburg, OR? KSKR is there. I was near Roseburg, OR several years ago and it was a classic country station at that time, and I think it used to be KQEN back then.
 
Sorry, I meant Oregon. It's now Fox Sports. KQEN is 1240 News/Talk in Roseburg, also caught here.

-crainbebo
 
1490 is a difficult frequency here in lower Alabama by the coast. During the day if you can null out WABB on 1480 from Mobile it's sports talk "The Champ" WXBD Biloxi, but very weak. This same format is simulcast on 1640 and 96.7 in Biloxi so you hear it everywhere, lol.

There's also a semi-nearby sports talker "The Ticket" WTKE in Milton, Florida but I've never logged them despite the relative close distance.

At night it's a jumbled mess, as expected.
 
Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Day: WGEZ Beloit, WI on top with a fair signal. WPNA Oak Park, IL weak underneath (Oak Park is a close-in western suburb of Chicago). Null these two "just right" and you can sometimes hear WZOE Princeton, IL.

Night: All graveyard slop, all the time.
 
In NW Indiana (usually around Gary), I get a faint signal of WPNA Oak Park, IL during the daytime. At night, too much interference from other 1490's.
 
In Thornville, Ohio, it's a weak jumble between WMRN from Marion and WBEX from Chillicothe, two 500-watt stations 90 miles apart.
 
SW Ohio

Really haven't spent time on this frequency.

Days
WKBV Richmond IN - Weak.

Sunset
WBEX Chillicothe OH - I was in my car and on the east side of Cincinnati.
 
I live within semi-local range of WAZL Hazleton (oldies). So by day it is they here.
Incidentally, the town was named long ago, after the hazel tree'd main drag. A clerk somewhere misspelled it. And the newer name stuck!
WAZL also carries -- and this can be a treat -- the Tampa Bay Rays games. Manager Joe Maddon is from Hazleton. It can be real chilly here in April. So to hear ads for places on Gulf To Bay Boulevard or on Dale Mabry is a nice touch.
As well : Being one of the six graveyarders ..... when WAZL is fade-free and clear at night, it's Aurora Party Time.

I often work in areas farther south and west of our house, so when I haul along the portable, I can null WAZL and hear WBCB Fairless Hills. That's where my wife was raised. And in one other workplace, I can hear WTPA Lancaster under WAZL.

At night, as Scott Fybush suggests, it's potluck.

@ Buckeye : You must remember when WERE were the call letters of 1300. They often were a nighttime regular on Western Long Island.

@ N4GBK : Ditto for 1490 Hampton. It wasn't unusual for them to water-ski to Western Long Island. In the 60's they were WVEC, sort of an MoR like so many stations in Tidewater at the time. Isn't there a WVEC-TV there, or do I mis-remember?
 
Hello Steve Green. Yes WVEC TV 13. ABC for Hampton Roads, VA and NE NC. Digital 41. Used to be WVEC AM FM TV.
 
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