AM frequency of the week 1520 khz

[cyberdad]

In east central Iowa, nothing much during the daytime. Nighttime is a mess here also, with KRHW Sikeston, MO more audible than anything else. Pretty sure I have heard KOLM Rochester, MN at night, but it may have been during critical hours.

During the years I was in southeast Iowa, KOLM was a regular pre-sunset visitor before they signed off and/or before KOMA blew them away.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Another 'K-Big Blister' here ...... if a certain chief engineer is aboard.

As the CE of WCHE 1520 West Chester PA at the time, he once made mention that WKBW punctually gave poor little 250-watt WCHE a hammering at sunset and sunrise.

There also was a now-dark daytimer on 1520 not that much farther South from WCHE ; calls were WVOB, from Bel Air MD. I doubt their livelihood around sunset could have been much easier.

In 1981 a buddy of mine and I were driving around in north Jersey and hearing the close-by rock-and-roller WRAN 1510 getting avalanched by WKBW. Fair enough, you might say, considering the mismatch in wattage. Thing was, we were driving through the geographical city limits of Dover at the time of this carnage.
Dover was WRAN's city of license !

 

[Icangelp]

Two winters back I was in St. Clair working, and tuning around the GE SR II on a late afternoon break. Going up the dial there were local WPPA 1360, then the fainter WLSH 1410. the local WPAM 1450, then .....

What ?!?!? Did Pottsville out on a new station?
WWKB it was, of course. It was louder than anything on the dial.

NE PA logs since moving in have been pretty neat. 't' means taped ID.

WWKBW, of course
WTRI Maryland (1-8-96t) Local WMBT 1530 was off after a blizzard
WTHE Long Island (4-01-03t), then
WCHE Chester PA (4-01-03t) at sunset,
WARR (12-13-11t) also sunset, with KB somewhat nulled.

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I was the only one out of the four DXers back in the 'near-Kennedy-Airport' years
to've heard Oregon. WKBW was off one overnight, and so was KOMA. A faint
KYMN from Oregon City stayed aloft long enough for a few IDs.
The punch line from that night was that my buddy, four blocks away, was on the next frequency (1510) and got heard 2NA from New South Wales!
That must have been one monster night for a lot of DXers.

And on other nights with 'KB off, we'd sometimes get Radio Caroline.

That was on heck of a legendary night!

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Here in Vermilion, OH pretty much a weak WJMP/Kent, OH with news/talk during the day and WWKB/Buffalo at night. From what I understand there's a 2 MW station on 1521 in Saudi Arabia so 1520 is a good frequency to listen for HETs from that signal.

 

[boombox4]

Here in my section of W. Washington it's KXDD Portland and KKXA Everett. On rare occasions the OKC station comes through (KOKC, used to be KOMA when I first logged it). Only definitely heard it once, though, since KXA fired up its transmitter a few years ago.