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AM Frequency of the Week: 1500
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Just a quick reminder that we try to keep political comments off this board.
When I spent my junior year of high school in Honolulu, 1500 was KUMU 1kw. Top 40. Good little station, but no match for the bigger signals from KORL and KPOI.
Upstate SC - Local WZZQ (Gaffney's Hot FM) and is also on 104.3 (W282AX) both with a range of about 10 miles.
About 10 years ago, this station was on 105.3 (as WAGI - Upstate Power Station) and covered most of the region, rimshot but decent in both Greenville and Charlotte, and though it simulcast on 1500 as well, (daytime only) the callsign was "WEAC" - which I joked as "Weak" !! - and their AM Signal Pretty Much is: doesn't reach more than a few miles beyond city limits.
About 10 years ago, this station was on 105.3 (as WAGI - Upstate Power Station) and covered most of the region, rimshot but decent in both Greenville and Charlotte, and though it simulcast on 1500 as well, (daytime only) the callsign was "WEAC" - which I joked as "Weak" !! - and their AM Signal Pretty Much is: doesn't reach more than a few miles beyond city limits.
Ah ok. Thanks.Just a quick reminder that we try to keep political comments off this board.
'WTOP', weakly in the day since I moved here.
One sunset in 1999 I partied to an old favourite from the old neighbourhood -- WGHT Pompton Lakes NJ.
WFED returns at night.
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Gone are the days (nights) when KSTP used to be a pest back in Queens once WTOP signed off for the Monday Morning recess.. Nowadays KSTP doesn't even make the ratings., unless they don't subscribe or have changed their call letters.
When WGHT signed on as WKER -- 1964? -- they were one of the first stations I'd visit, after going on the hook from school. Back then they had just two towers.
@Battenkill50 : Your Donaldson GA once DX-tested back in the 60's. Might have been different call letters. Widely heard ; I don't know how far west.
And your WPSO NPRichey wanted to hire me when I visited. IIrc, they were WGUL at the time. NPRichey looked nothing like it does today. Looked more like the set of 'High Noon'. But I turned down the job. Florida would have been a tough commute from Long Island.
One sunset in 1999 I partied to an old favourite from the old neighbourhood -- WGHT Pompton Lakes NJ.
WFED returns at night.
* * * * * * *
Gone are the days (nights) when KSTP used to be a pest back in Queens once WTOP signed off for the Monday Morning recess.. Nowadays KSTP doesn't even make the ratings., unless they don't subscribe or have changed their call letters.
When WGHT signed on as WKER -- 1964? -- they were one of the first stations I'd visit, after going on the hook from school. Back then they had just two towers.
@Battenkill50 : Your Donaldson GA once DX-tested back in the 60's. Might have been different call letters. Widely heard ; I don't know how far west.
And your WPSO NPRichey wanted to hire me when I visited. IIrc, they were WGUL at the time. NPRichey looked nothing like it does today. Looked more like the set of 'High Noon'. But I turned down the job. Florida would have been a tough commute from Long Island.
i always remember them as that, what were they before 1989?
East central Iowa: Nothing daytime. KSTP nights. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it isn't, hard to say why. I catch it a lot also during daytime skywave conditions -- it's my go-to station to see if it might be a daytime skywave kind of day.
Prior to that it was top 40 for several years during the 70s.A/C and Talk in 1980 previously it was A/C
KSTP (AM) - Wikipedia
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Thank YOU Sarah,,,,You are always among friends here, and we're looking forward to your contributions!
Wasn't it one of the big Top 40s before that?A/C and Talk in 1980 previously it was A/C
KSTP (AM) - Wikipedia
Yes it was
Seattle-Tacoma metro
Days -- static. Nights -- mostly KSTP, sometimes readable, sometimes a bit grainy in splash from 1490 and 1510. KSJX San Jose with SE Asian programming sometimes comes in on the N-S bearing. Once I heard the Mexico City station, in October 2011, on my boombox + Select-A-Tenna loop. XEDF. It was during Auroral conditions.
Days -- static. Nights -- mostly KSTP, sometimes readable, sometimes a bit grainy in splash from 1490 and 1510. KSJX San Jose with SE Asian programming sometimes comes in on the N-S bearing. Once I heard the Mexico City station, in October 2011, on my boombox + Select-A-Tenna loop. XEDF. It was during Auroral conditions.
Carmichael, CA
Daytime: Nothing
Nightime: Nothing
Vallejo, CA
Daytime: KSJX San Jose with a Weak Signal
Nighttime: KSJX San Jose with a Weak Signal
Daytime: Nothing
Nightime: Nothing
Vallejo, CA
Daytime: KSJX San Jose with a Weak Signal
Nighttime: KSJX San Jose with a Weak Signal
Clifton, New Jersey
Days: I get WGHT Pompton Lakes, NJ, which has a Full Service format, with a decent to good signal. It simulcasts 1110 WTBQ Warwick, NY most of the time.
Nights: I receive WFED "Federal News Network" Washington, DC, which airs News/Talk programming oriented to government employees. Reception varies between decent and good.
Days: I get WGHT Pompton Lakes, NJ, which has a Full Service format, with a decent to good signal. It simulcasts 1110 WTBQ Warwick, NY most of the time.
Nights: I receive WFED "Federal News Network" Washington, DC, which airs News/Talk programming oriented to government employees. Reception varies between decent and good.
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