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AM Frequency of the Week: 1560

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake, IL....

Days: Sometimes a weak WGLB from Elm Grove, WI. (Milwaukee area). Supposedly 2.5kw with a pattern favorable to me. But apparently "underperforming".

Nights: WFME (NYC) most likely to be on top, but far from a regular.

Retro: At my home location daytime, 1560 was occupied by WSQR before their move to 1180. Signal here, 1kw from Sycamore, IL, was fair. At night, usually it was WDXR from Paducah, KY with a good signal. First with 1kw, then later at 5kw. Some nights WQXR/WQEW would take over.
 
East Tennessee: If I'm getting anything at all during the day, it's winter and it's either WYZD, Dobson, NC, or, a few times a year, WCNW, Fairfield, Ohio (it was interested being in the Gatlinburg area, hearing WCNW drift in with a Gatlinburg tourism commercial was interesting).

Night: It seems there are a bunch of 1560s I've never identified. WFME is in most often but not always.
 
Orange County, TX-KGOW both days and nights, a little weaker at nights. During KGOW fades both KTXZ, West Lake Hills, TX (Austin area) and KEBC Del City, OK have been logged.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

During the daytime the most common is WTOU 'The Touch' from Portage in SW Michigan. It doesn't really come in that well but in the right spots on Lakeshore Drive it's decent enough. I've also gotten WGLB in Milwaukee at some point.

In critical hours, WFME from New York City can come in. Sometimes the signal is quite strong, and other times it's not. Last week one day it seemed a couple of hours before sunset that reception was in daytime mode, until I turned to 1560 where WFME was booming pretty strongly.

During the nighttime hours, WFME can still come in but there are competitors now. I've heard KTUI in Sullivan MO, KLNG in Omaha, and KGOW in Bellaire, TX, broadcasting in Vietnamese. KGOW is the only Texan AM radio station I've ever identified where I am (but I'm no expert DXer). At one time Texas was my "most wanted state" and after many disappointments I finally identified KGOW.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime a very weak WGLB if anything. At night WFME usually rises to the top with some other stations.

Retro: way back.. days used to be a fairly weak WSQR. At night if I turned my radio one way I'd hear WDXR, the other way it was WQXR. More often WDXR was stronger.
 
i forgot all about KGOW. I've heard them a few times around sunrise presumably on day pattern when they were all sport. Signal usually was actually pretty good for a half hour or so. I haven't heard them recently, and I believe they're now running an ethnic format.
 
Keeping with the spirit of the thread:

Not counting the week or so of Feb 2015 when WQEW had signed off and before WFME started up, and lots of people got the proverbial cornucopia of sunset stations that otherwise would never be heard, it's WFME here. Night and day. Day and night. Even in the roaring traffic's boom.

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Well, okay.
Breaking the actual spirit of the OP:
There was one night when I was in my small nautical-decor 'den' with the Lafayette HA 600. The wifester was in the bedroom, reading her book with HER radio also set to the WQEW standards. Her radio was one of those grand 6-tube Zenith barbershop radios.
We both caught Oldies on a station underneath WQEW's more sedate MoR. Nearing the TOH station ID I ran down the hall and told her to tell me what she heard from the Oldies station.
She heard 'Alabama' on her bedside radio ; I heard 'Callahan' on the Lafayette.
We were both right. The Oldies station turned out to be WMRD, Gallatin TN.
 
cyberdad said:
i forgot all about KGOW. I've heard them a few times around sunrise presumably on day pattern when they were all sport. Signal usually was actually pretty good for a half hour or so. I haven't heard them recently, and I believe they're now running an ethnic format.
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I heard KGOW once around 9am local in Manistee, MI
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually nothing, but WGLB was heard in the past
Nightime: WFME most likely visitor

DX/RETRO: another frequent station received on this frequency is KTUI ( Sullivan, MO), with fair signal usually heard right before sign-off. Other stations heard in the past include KQYX (Joplin, MO), KGOW (Bellaire, TX), KLNG (Council Bluff, IA), WCNW (Fairfield, OH), WTOD (Toledo, OH), WSHY (Shelbyville, IL), WAGL (Lancaster, SC), WRIN (Rensselaer, IN), WKDO (Liberty, KY), WNWN (Portage, MI)
 
West Central Georgia

Day: Nothing

Dawn/Dusk: Sometimes catch WLZR Melbourne FL 5.0kW Day only - CBS Sports

Night: A mess, occasionally catch WFME New York, NY
 
Ellensburg WA

Usually a very weak KVAN Burbank WA (Spanish Religion) by day. Sunset will usually bring KZIZ Sumner WA (Punjabi).
Nights are usually KNZR Bakersfield (News/Talk) with a usable signal. Sometimes KVAN mixes, rarely KZIZ. KIQS Willows CA (Regional Mexican) was heard for the first time a couple months ago. KKAA Aberdeen SD (Family Radio) was a one-time catch a few years ago. I think it was on the night I first heard WBCN 1660 Charlotte. KKAA is now silent. If I ever hear Family Radio now it will be WFME.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WFME NYC(very weak) or splatter from local WISP(EWTN Radio) from Doylestown.
Night: WFME(much stronger).
 
Pretty boring here in Houston, with local KGOW's Vietnamese programming 24/7. Their night tower location is 18 miles NW of me.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: A weak to moderate KTXZ, which is a Spanish-language Catholic station in West Lake Hills. During winter daytime skywave, KGOW in Bellaire often mixes in and sometimes takes over.

Sunset: KGOW is dominant with KTXZ mixing in. Underneath I can sometimes hear sports station KEBC in Del City, OK, and classic country KHBR in Hillsboro, TX, before it signs off for the day. Also, XEJPV "Radio Deportiva" will pop up briefly on rare occasions.

Night: KGOW drops to 15 kW and is less strong/stable but still most dominant. I can get a partial null aiming N/S in which I can sometimes hear KEBC and KTXZ as well as XEMAS in Salamanca popping in and out. I've also heard KHBR on nights when it failed to sign off.

Sunrise: KGOW and KTXZ are stronger again, with the former still most dominant. KEBC is also stronger in the partial null, and XEMAS is sometimes in/out as well as KHBR and XEPJV when they sign on for the day.

DX/Retro: I've heard sports station KZQQ in Abilene just once (surprisingly) at sunrise a few years ago.
 
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