KYND 1520 here in the Houston area is currently off the air, apparently due to damage from the storms we had over the weekend.
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AM Frequency of the Week: 1520
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KKXA Everett, WA with KOKC under it sometimes.. and sometimes, KOKC completely on top
As you'd expect 60 miles east of Buffalo, it's all WWKB here in Rochester. But it's not as strong as it used to be, and it was never all that strong. At night we're in the cancellation zone between groundwave and skywave, and by day the signal is anemic in a way that strongly suggests it's not at a full 50.
Central Kentucky:
Days: Nothing
Nights: Usually splatter from WLAC and WCKY
I have never heard WKBW or it's current WWKB Buffalo, here. It would've been nice back in the day...
Likewise, I have never heard KOMA or the current KOKC Oklahoma City here either, until....the April 8th Eclipse.
At 3PM, I got a positive TOH ID "1520 KOKC Oklahoma City" Crystal clear. For a whopping 30 seconds, then...gone....
Days: Nothing
Nights: Usually splatter from WLAC and WCKY
I have never heard WKBW or it's current WWKB Buffalo, here. It would've been nice back in the day...
Likewise, I have never heard KOMA or the current KOKC Oklahoma City here either, until....the April 8th Eclipse.
At 3PM, I got a positive TOH ID "1520 KOKC Oklahoma City" Crystal clear. For a whopping 30 seconds, then...gone....
It was back on this morning, but the signal was weaker than usual. Not sure if that was due to propagation or lower power.
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...
It started here with WKBW rather than KOMA. I recall hearing Buffalo Bills games before sunset on late Sunday afternoons. Then, whamo! The pattern changed and Oklahoma City came wafting in. Same now with WWKB and KOKC, of course.
Also caught here, KMPL Sikeston, Mo., and again as KRHW more recently; KOLM Rochester, Minn. with CBS Sports Network chatter; and WHOW Clinton, Ill., including midday on 12/30/2023 with my Elantra's excellent radio.
It started here with WKBW rather than KOMA. I recall hearing Buffalo Bills games before sunset on late Sunday afternoons. Then, whamo! The pattern changed and Oklahoma City came wafting in. Same now with WWKB and KOKC, of course.
Also caught here, KMPL Sikeston, Mo., and again as KRHW more recently; KOLM Rochester, Minn. with CBS Sports Network chatter; and WHOW Clinton, Ill., including midday on 12/30/2023 with my Elantra's excellent radio.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: Normally blank. During winter daytime skywave events, I've heard KYND in Cypress, TX, several times and KOKC in Oklahoma City a few times.
Sunset: KYND comes up first, followed by KOKC. Classic country KRHW in Sikeston, MO, sometimes mixes in with KOKC and will briefly come to the fore on rare occasions.
Night: KOKC is most dominant, but as some of you guys have noted, it's weaker at night now with its newish 50 kW directional pattern than it used to be. KRHW used to be heard weakly underneath KOKC occasionally, but now it regularly mixes in and sometimes dominates for a while.
Sunrise: KYND is heard when it signs on, and it sometimes covers KOKC, which takes over again as it goes to its ND pattern and is eventually the last to fade.
DX/Retro: I've heard a weak WXYB with Greek music in Indian Rocks Beach, FL, twice. My one-time loggings are XEART in Jojutla de Juárez (retired), KFXZ in Lafayette, LA, and WEXY in Wilton Manors, FL (presumably on day power).
Has anyone ever heard KQQB in Stockdale, TX? It's a daytimer that's about 50 miles SE of me. The only time I ever heard it was several years ago when the station had the same owner as KYND and it was running ads all day for a few months offering the station for sale.
Day: Normally blank. During winter daytime skywave events, I've heard KYND in Cypress, TX, several times and KOKC in Oklahoma City a few times.
Sunset: KYND comes up first, followed by KOKC. Classic country KRHW in Sikeston, MO, sometimes mixes in with KOKC and will briefly come to the fore on rare occasions.
Night: KOKC is most dominant, but as some of you guys have noted, it's weaker at night now with its newish 50 kW directional pattern than it used to be. KRHW used to be heard weakly underneath KOKC occasionally, but now it regularly mixes in and sometimes dominates for a while.
Sunrise: KYND is heard when it signs on, and it sometimes covers KOKC, which takes over again as it goes to its ND pattern and is eventually the last to fade.
DX/Retro: I've heard a weak WXYB with Greek music in Indian Rocks Beach, FL, twice. My one-time loggings are XEART in Jojutla de Juárez (retired), KFXZ in Lafayette, LA, and WEXY in Wilton Manors, FL (presumably on day power).
Has anyone ever heard KQQB in Stockdale, TX? It's a daytimer that's about 50 miles SE of me. The only time I ever heard it was several years ago when the station had the same owner as KYND and it was running ads all day for a few months offering the station for sale.
I’ve never heard KQQB in Houston. KYND was off the air for a bit a few years ago and no KQQB then either (maybe silent at the same time?)
I could rarely get buffalo in the Chicago area. For me it was usually Okc.
Back in the '60s there were four stations in Ohio on 1520 and two in Indiana. Five daytimers, and the 6th was a directional 250 watts at night.
Back in Queens then, another shoehorned 1520 trio came in at unlikely times : WCHE West Chester PA was the usual catch ; WVOB Bel Air MD and WSLT Ocean City NB were one-timers.
Oops. Make that Ocean City NJ.
They were all daytimers. And WSLT was a directional one. All three were within 70 miles of each other in a way. They and our 10,000 watt Queens semi-local daytimer WTHE Mineola all used to get tsunami-d into the the Atlantic well before sunset by 'KB. I heard that Joey Reynolds at WKBW once said goodnight to people in Mineola.
On the flip of that same, odd coin : when WKBW wasn't gangbusters at sunset or sunrise, they often weren't there at ALL. One bright morning in Queens, with the sun up and the birds coughing, a faint but undeniable WTGR Myrtle Beach , Tiger Radio, was all-by-itself for about half an hour. Coulda been an Aurora thing. Probably was. And the WARR I caught in much the same S-2 fashion here in NEPA at sunset might've been under the same conditions.
Well, may you all have a safe, beautiful and Auroral weekend! 73s!
Back in Queens then, another shoehorned 1520 trio came in at unlikely times : WCHE West Chester PA was the usual catch ; WVOB Bel Air MD and WSLT Ocean City NB were one-timers.
Oops. Make that Ocean City NJ.
They were all daytimers. And WSLT was a directional one. All three were within 70 miles of each other in a way. They and our 10,000 watt Queens semi-local daytimer WTHE Mineola all used to get tsunami-d into the the Atlantic well before sunset by 'KB. I heard that Joey Reynolds at WKBW once said goodnight to people in Mineola.
On the flip of that same, odd coin : when WKBW wasn't gangbusters at sunset or sunrise, they often weren't there at ALL. One bright morning in Queens, with the sun up and the birds coughing, a faint but undeniable WTGR Myrtle Beach , Tiger Radio, was all-by-itself for about half an hour. Coulda been an Aurora thing. Probably was. And the WARR I caught in much the same S-2 fashion here in NEPA at sunset might've been under the same conditions.
Well, may you all have a safe, beautiful and Auroral weekend! 73s!
In the Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, daytimes, usually nothing, or sometimes (probably?)WCHE from West Chester comes in with a faint signal. Nights, it's always WWKB from Buffalo. Used to be WKBW in the old days, playing top 40 music before switching its call letters and their format to talk and country. At one time, during the late 90's or around the turn of the century, when they were airing the old "One-On-One Sports" format, they were running a religious show at 10:30pm-1am, followed by a truckin' country show called "The Road Gang" overnights. WWKB carries the minor league Triple-A Buffalo Bisons baseball during the summer.
For a short time in the early-to-mid 2000's, they were an oldies station known as "KB Radio 1520".
For a short time in the early-to-mid 2000's, they were an oldies station known as "KB Radio 1520".
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