AM Frequency of the week: 1510

[cyberdad]

Let's go back up the dial this week and stop near the top....although not quite as near the top as it once was. What are you guys hearing these days on 1510?

Here in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago daytime, I can usually get a very weak WWHN from Joliet, IL. 1kw ND days from about 65 miles away. WRRD from Waukesha, WI (west of Milwaukee) is a 23KW daytimer about the same distance away, but I'm squarely in the deepest part of their null. The result is that I never hear even a trace of it.

Nights, it's all WLAC. Not exactly a monster, but generally always reliable with a good signal. Of course that one was a "go-to" back in the days when John R. was hosting overnights. The only other station I recall hearing on 1510 with any certainty....and I've heard it a couple of times...is little 500-watt coffeepot, KTTT out of Columbus, Nebraska before their local sunset sign off.

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago suburbs my reception on this frequency is similar to Cyberdad. Days it's a weak WWHN and at night WLAC reliable. Way back in its top 40 days I used to try to get WMEX from Boston, but I never succeeded.

 

[charlestondxman]

1510 in Charleston, SC is a steady WWBC from Cocoa, FL in the daytime. Nighttime is WLAC, one of the strongest clears usually in this region. There's some nights where it is as strong as some of the local AMs. I've heard WLAC as early as 4pm ET in the winter, and there are probably some days in December/January where you can hear them all day here.

 

[schmave]

Here in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, 1510 daytime is a very weak WLGN from Logan, about 40 miles southeast. 1,000 watts at the top of the dial and situated right about where ground conductivity starts to fall off from the solid quality of central Ohio into, well, what we all know about Appalachian ground conductivity.
Nighttime it's always WLAC, generally quite strong. Oddly enough, Radio Locator indicates they have something of a null in my general direction. You could never tell. Back during the winter when WLAC came in early, I sometimes listened to Dave Ramsey on WLAC because no station around here carries his show anymore.

 

[cyberdad]

In the near north Chicago suburbs my reception on this frequency is similar to Cyberdad. Days it's a weak WWHN and at night WLAC reliable. Way back in its top 40 days I used to try to get WMEX from Boston, but I never succeeded.

Have you ever heard WRRD? They really don't send much of that 23kw signal south, but you should be getting a little more "juice" than my location in the middle of their sharp null. They used to run ESPN Deportes. I'm not sure if they still have that format, but I'm pretty certain they're still Spanish. Which should make them a little easier to ID.

(Back in the late '70s when I worked for Ed Walters at WYEN, the Waukesha 1510 was our sister station. Which Ed never seemed to quite know what to do with. Just about all of us on staff had to run up there for one errand or another at various times. Aside from the then-10kw transmitter, I would describe the place as "ramshackle"....to be charitable!)

 

[radioman148]

Have you ever heard WRRD? They really don't send much of that 23kw signal south, but you should be getting a little more "juice" than my location in the middle of their sharp null. They used to run ESPN Deportes. I'm not sure if they still have that format, but I'm pretty certain they're still Spanish. Which should make them a little easier to ID.!)

Yes I have quite a long time ago, but I have not tried recently. I will attempt to give it a listen one of these days again.

 

[gr8oldies]

East Tennessee-I don't normally get WLAC days, but in the winter, its daytime appearance is an indicator of midday skip. At night it's generally all WLAC, with the occasional WWHN

 

[cyberdad]

East Tennessee-I don't normally get WLAC days, but in the winter, its daytime appearance is an indicator of midday skip. At night it's generally all WLAC, with the occasional WWHN

I should've mentioned that I've heard WLAC from time to time in winter on daytime skywave. Same goes for their "neighbors" KSTP. WCKY, KXEL....and even, but less commonly, WSM.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Springfield, IL (car radio):

Day: weak WLRB Macomb, IL; with an even weaker WQQW Highland, IL in the background in the southeast parts of city. Also some faint slop from 1520-WHOW Clinton, IL.

Night: WLAC

 

[jim-satx]

Here in NW S.A. thre's only static during the day. At sunset, XEQI "La Radio Alternativa" in Monterrey comes up, and it sometimes fakes me out since it plays both English and Spanish pop/rock. Also at sunset, a weak KROB in Robstown pops up occasionally with conjunto music. Daytimer KAGC "Christian Family Radio" in Bryan often makes a weak but decent showing around this time.

At night, XEQI dominates, and a weak WLAC can be heard in its partial null.

Around sunrise, I can usually get daytimer sports talker KMND in Midland in the null of XEQI. Also, a couple of times I've logged another daytimer sports station, KBED in Nederland, TX.

KROB and KAGC are only 138 and 150 miles from me, respectively, but I don't get them in the daytime because their lobes are pointed away from me.

 

[paulsonj72]

To bump up an old thread I used to work at a small market radio station with the 1510 AM frequency. KMSD out of Milbank SD. An oldies station that has only rectnly in the past few years gone to 24 hours a day broadcasting.