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AM Frequency of the Week: 1560

cyberdad

cyberdad

Have to keep it short due to computer\keyboard issues. Norhtwest Suburban Chicago......

Day: 1560 is pretty much blank. Previously, it had been WSQR from Sycamore IL with a fair signal. WSQR is now on 1180.

Night: Mix of weak signals with WFME NYC most likely to break through on top. Formerly, WPAD/WDXR from Paducah, KY at 5kw used to be a nightime regular before they went to 1KW day/35 watts night.
 
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Anyways: Cheyenne, WY
Days... Nothing. This would be a good candidate for a local station, as you could easily directionalize away from KXJJ and KKCL. It appears some engineers tried to put a sign on neighboring 1550 AM a decade ago.
Nightime: A general mix of signals, but oftentimes, KGOW Houston will be in good and alone for a while, despite that directional noght pattern. (They would be about 950 miles away from me)
 
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DFW, Texas

Daytime: Weak KHBR Hillsboro, TX 250 watts daytimer with classic C&W, 70 miles to my south.
Nights, SR, SS: KGOW Houston area dominates this frequency. I did hear WMBH Joplin, MO with WW1 sports once under KGOW.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs; really not anything these days now that WFME previously WQXR has moved their transmitter location and dropped power. At night used to be WDXR/WPAD Paducah, Ky but I don't hear them much anymore.
 
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Anyways: Cheyenne, WY
Days... Nothing. This would be a good candidate for a local station, as you could easily directionalize away from KXJJ and KKCL. It appears some engineers tried to put a sign on neighboring 1550 AM a decade ago.
Nightime: A general mix of signals, but oftentimes, KGOW Houston will be in good and alone for a while, despite that directional noght pattern. (They would be about 950 miles away from me)
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NO, it would require more than one tower,, and wouldnt be worth it.. youre getting close to 1550 near Boulder/Denver
 
Moses Lake, WA DN07

Day: KVAN Burbank, WA with Spanish Christian
Night: KVAN Burbank and KNZR Bakersfield, CA with news/talk. I've logged KZIZ Pacific, WA before, but not recently.
 
Here in west Houston, it's KGOW 24/7. Their night transmitter site is about 18 miles NW of me and sending their signal directly this way. At times in the KGOW null, music, probably KTXZ, is heard. I also get a strong KGOW image of some sort on 650.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: Nada except for winter daytime skip, where a few times a year, WCNW, Fairfield OH will make the trip (once making it to the Smoky Mountains with a commercial for Smoky Mountain vacations.
Night, often a hodge-podge including KGOW. Since WFME popped back on, I get them but weakly. With their normal signal, they were strong but a touch less so than in Ohio.
 
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ThankS. About a half dozen keys are out. Anyone know a fix? I can get by for a couple days until I get home Wed, Fortunately I hae an onscreen keboard. Cumbersome.

KGOW? Have heard it at home, but not recently. , No luck at the beach recently either
 
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A lackluster spot on the dial these days. Previously, WDXR / WPAD Paducah would be here now and again, and often WQXR's distinctive classical format would pop in as well before its pattern change. Once or twice heard New York Nets basketball in the WQEW days, and it came in solidly as WFME as well before the tower site was lost.

Now, it's mostly mush, though I did ID WFME a few weeks ago, which shocked me.

Tonight, there's country music mostly atop the mush, but naturally it fades down when there's a hint of local commercials or an ID.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing
Nightime: used to be WFME, but these days it's most likely KGOW

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). Most recent new station logged is KLTI (Macon, MO) with country music.
 
Days, it used to be WQXR/WFME here in PA. They were one of the more faithful 50,000 watters to come out of NYC. Back in Queens they were the closest station to the den and would put that 650 thing on 650 the way WildThangJim gets one (2 times 455 subtracted from 1560 = 650).

In PA here one night the wife and I monitored Oldies there behind WQXR on separate radios so we could compare the TOH ID, if any. She heard 'Alabama" ; I I heard 'Callahan'. We were both right. It was WMRO Gallatin TN.

But the real 1560 cornucopia arrived during a couple of SSS's in January 2015. WFME was off for a week, and a lot of the stations nabbed by CADXer came in. I taped 'em all here, too: WKDO KY, WFSP WV, WTNS OH, WSBV VA and WCNW OH.

Years before, an earlier WFME SP (or was it WQXR then?) was scheduled and mentioned on the New York Radio Message Board. The only newie was WKIK Leonardtown MD, with their C&W. I posted it and got back a response telling me they were a daytimer. A few moments later the same fellow reposted, saying: 'Son-of-a-Stern. I just heard 'em too! How long has this been going on?'
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: I've heard both WGLB Milwaukee and WTOU in Portage, MI on Lake Shore Drive. Away from there I don't hear much.

Critical Hours: KLNG Council Bluffs can sometimes be heard. I've also heard WCNW in Fairfield OH and KLTI in Macon, Missouri.

Nighttime: Recently KTUI in Sullivan, MO has been the most common. I also sometimes hear KGOW in the Houston area.
 
Ellensburg WA

Take a look at Kyle's (DXSphere) post, add one or two loggings of KIQS Willows CA (Regional Mexican) and a one-time log of KKAA Aberdeen SD (was Family Radio), both logged at night of course, and that's what I've heard on 1560 khz here.
 
Daytime here in central Ohio, nothing and at night, WFME if anything.\
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Here in west Houston, it's KGOW 24/7. Their night transmitter site is about 18 miles NW of me and sending their signal directly this way. At times in the KGOW null, music, probably KTXZ, is heard. I also get a strong KGOW image of some sort on 650.
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KGOW is one catch I've wanted to make here in Ohio for years. It would have to be between our sunset and theirs given the change in pattern and tower location.
When I lived in Houston, they transmitted from the current day location but their night signal was 100 watts from Bellaire. Performed about as well as one would expect with that power on that frequency, but the strong ground conductivity did help a little. On my next visit, I'll be sure to check how far the groundwave makes it at night before there's cancellation.
 
Sure enough....as soon as I comment that I haven't heard KGOW at my location recently, It turns up! A little after 6 am CST This morning with a fair but steady signal and a positive ID.

But wait, there's more. At about 6:15am CST. Along comes KTUI with a positive ID. I remember them mostly as a little coffepot about an hour southwest of St. Louis on I-44. Fraankly, it never crossed my mind that I might one day I'd hear it at my home location more than 300 miles away.
 
South Mississippi:

Day- WSLA Slidell, LA, 1 kw daytimer which airs USA Radio News and talk programs from Genesis Communications Network. At night, they switch to hip hop/R&B on the 93.9 translator.

Night- KGOW Bellaire, TX
 
The main one of KKOV's various upper sidebands.
 
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