AM Frequency of the Week - 1490 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

Since Halloween is this Friday let's head to the graveyard again. What can you get on 1490 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH I can get either WERE/Cleveland, OH or WMRN/Marion, OH during the day depending on radio/antenna orientation. At night it's the usual graveyard mush and I haven't been able to pick anything out on this channel.

 

[cyberdad]

I was posting 1510 as frequency of the week when this came in. And since I don't know how to go about deleting and thus deferring to Buckeyes, I guess this week we have a "two-fer" FOTW.

Appropriately enough, here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago, during the daytime I also get a "two-fer" on 1490. Two stations, each about 40 miles away. WPNA in Oak Park, IL, and WGEZ in Beloit, Wisconsin. For whatever reason, WGEZ is the slightly stronger of the two stations...even through it's a few miles farther away.

Night: The usual graveyard mess, except on at least one occasion last winter during auroral conditions, it was all WGEZ.

 

[gr8oldies]

In Knoxville, it's WITA (local) day and night, but shaky in some parts of town at night. At one time this was top 40 "W149"

 

[ContinuousWave]

I was posting 1510 as frequency of the week when this came in. And since I don't know how to go about deleting and thus deferring to Buckeyes, I guess this week we have a "two-fer" FOTW.

Appropriately enough, here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago, during the daytime I also get a "two-fer" on 1490. Two stations, each about 40 miles away. WPNA in Oak Park, IL, and WGEZ in Beloit, Wisconsin. For whatever reason, WGEZ is the slightly stronger of the two stations...even through it's a few miles farther away.

Night: The usual graveyard mess, except on at least one occasion last winter during auroral conditions, it was all WGEZ.

Checking the FCC database, WPNA has a RMS Theoretical of 241.4 mV/meter though their tower is taller (102 degrees)...WGEZ RMS Theoretical is 300.95 mV/meter with a 79.6 deg tall tower...so they must have better ground conductivity..

 

[cyberdad]

Checking the FCC database, WPNA has a RMS Theoretical of 241.4 mV/meter though their tower is taller (102 degrees)...WGEZ RMS Theoretical is 300.95 mV/meter with a 79.6 deg tall tower...so they must have better ground conductivity..

I stand to be corrected, as always. But my guess is the difference in signal strength may have more to do with very dense urban setting surrounding WPNA's site versus the mostly rural area around WGEZ. I also think that the "basic" ground conductivity around each of the two sites is pretty much equal. Which is to say "good".

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Springfield, IL:

Mostly a weak mess all day (especially at night), with WQQX East St. Louis the most common. Occasionally some background "cameos" by WDAN Danville, IL; KBUR Burlington, IA; and WZOE Princeton, IL.

 

[crainbebo]

Days it's KYNR Toppenish and nights I can hear them as well (They run a mix of adult hits-like music, and Yakama Indian chanting)
There is a null NE/SW that gives off the usual graveyard mess.

HEARD AT NIGHT
KBRO Bremerton, WA ESPN Deportes
KFKB Forks, WA Country
KEYG Grand Coulee, WA Country
CJSN Shanavon, SK County
KSYC Yreka, CA NPR
KCID Caldwell ID Spanish Christian
KBKR Baker, OR News Talk
KSKR Roseburg, OR CBS Sports
KBZY Salem, OR Oldies/News Talk
KWOK Hoquiam WA ESPN
KLOG Kelso WA Sports
KTEL Walla Walla WA Sports

-crainbebo