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AM Frequency of the Week: 1510

Central Kentucky:

Days: Nothing

Nights: WLAC strong. In the early 70s, during their Top 40 days,they were a nightly regular for me.
Don't ever recall hearing anything else on this frequency.

Ironically, while I can't hear WLAC in the daytime here, I can get a listenable signal from WSM during the day, outside with my GE SR III.(First generation) I often listen to it when I'm out in the yard. On a chair away from the house. A little noisy but it's one of my favorites so I tolerate a little noise.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Daytimer WWHN Joliet is a regular here but doesn't pack the kind of punch you'd think a 1 kW station would, even at 1510. Seems weaker than the WJRC / WCRT days. I wonder how good their radials are. The tower's just north of I-80 west of Briggs.

Nights, it's all WLAC Nashville unless there's a surprise.

Surprises: WAUK Waukesha, Wis. originally with 10 kW days and later with 23 kW in morning drive as WRRD, wiping out WWHN on 10/28/2019. And late on 2/9/2020, KIFG Iowa Falls with a listed 500 watts night tearing into WLAC.
 
@ TVNut.
Gotta ask where or what is Briggs. Is that a road or a community?

(Gas station map nut here since 1st grade and DXer since 6th, lol. It's always casual fun to situate tower sites of stations asbestos I can -- especially those in large metro areas. A good chat pal from an Oldies station room recently moved to Skokie, and there are several metro Chicago maps here in the confusion. Among other things, he and I, of different religions, swap comparisons of things like holidays, diet, observance and such -- culture; communications. Geography and music are other topics. I can rib him now that he lives near the same Highway 41 immortalized in 'Ramblin' Man'. And he moved there from that same Georgia.)
 
US 41 has been a part of my life too. I lived in Libertyville lLL and Springfield TN. within two miles of 41. Worked in Cartersville and Marietta within a thousand feet of 41. I still use US 41 when I 75 is messed up.

Back to the 1510. Low dial position differently gives 650 WSM a big daytime coverage advantage over WLAC. Sometimes when it is a cold winter day (not to often the the temp is below 25 at noon.) 1510 will get "skywave" bounce like it does at night and actually have a good signal daytime signal in North GA.

If you are in the nighttime directional pattern WLAC has a really good signal east of the Mississippi. Use to be good in Texas too.
 
1510 - WQUL in Woodruff SC
(also on 101.7 / W269DM) in the Spartanburg SC area.

Also adjacent splatter from 1500 - WZZQ
in Gaffney (also on 104 3 / W282AX).

Both Stations are Daytime Only &
Both Have a Classic Hits Format.
 
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