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AM Frequency of the Week - 1570 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 1570 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH that frequency is pretty much dead during the day. Critical hours I can usually hear WHTX/Warren, oh and/or WWCK/Flint, MI usually mixing. Nights it's basically a jumble. Also doesn't help is that WQEW 1560, Radio Disney in New York City uses I-BLOCK which pretty much blankets 1570 at night.
 
Manistee, MI: Usually WSCO, but I did hear an oldies station last night (probably WFRL)
Allendale, MI: All WFUR (they're roughly 10 miles away)
 
Day
nothing

Night
All weak
XERF (not really listenable nowadays)
KCVR Lodi (on the edge of their null)
KPRO Riverside (with their smokin' 190 watts)
40 some years ago a local pirate from a 40' vertical in my back yard.

KCVR is one of those classic stations that's been on the same frequency 1570 with the same call letters since 1946!
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Springfield, IL:

Day: fair to poor signal from WBGZ Alton, IL
Night: haven't checked, wouldn't surprise me if a jumbled mess
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This is exactly what I receive down in St. Louis - WBGZ during the day, and definitely a jumbled mess after sundown.
 
At night I usually hear XERF on a NW-SE bearing, sometimes fair in strength, other times just above the noise level; and maybe half the time CKMW, Winkler MB mixes with it, coming in from the east.

Three or four times a month during fall and winter I'll heard KCVR coming in with Deportes from the south. Why that station comes in well only in now and then is a mystery.

And, finally, just once I heard a religious program (sounded like Vernon McGee) in English coming from the a NW-SE behind XERF.
 
1570 here is absolutely nothing in the daytime, but at night I get a mix of XERF Ciudad Acuna (1700mi), KCVR Lodi, CA (770mi) and CKMW Morden, MB (1100mi or so). Not sure why boiseengineer isn't getting CKMW - it goes off in September however. But he's closer to Morden than I am.

One time I did get a religious broadcast, on a night where conditions were excellent to the east (the night I received WYLL 1160 and Cuba 1180). Either KPIO in Loveland, or KBCV in Hollister, Missouri.

Wish I could get more, like Patrick Martin in Oregon - he received WTRB in TN with 53w one time on 1570. Now THAT'S one I'd like to hear!

-crainbebo
 
Some years ago, 1570 in the Northeast was dominated at night by CKLM Montreal, 50,000 watts with a directional antenna and a French Top 40 format. But the station went under in the 90s. It has since reemerged but as 10,000 watt CFAV, with a French Oldies format. While you can hear some of the Montreal area X-band stations in the Northeast at night, I haven't heard CFAV yet.

And WQEW's IBOC probably would make it difficult to pick up anyway. One winter, in early afternoon, I was hearing 1560 WQEW (then Adult Standards, pre-Disney) while driving between Montreal and Ottawa. But CKLM was off the air then.
 
CKLM was a lot of fun, Gregg, especially back in the early 70's. Their nighttime format could be described as French Progressive Rock. They'd throw on songs like the 9:00 live version of 'Ride The Wind' by the Youngbloods (do not settle for the 7:00 studio version :)

From Long Island NY I called them one night to ask about a song, and the DJ answered the phone in French, of course. Too quick for me, although I did catch the call letters (most of my own grasp of French is long departed, left back in the old neighborhood). I asked if he spoke English, and yeah, he certainly did. He switched it on like *that*! Better than my own!
The tune was 'At The Crossroads', by the pre-glam Mott the Hoople, incidentally.

CKLM had a signal that went from loud as heck to nothing, then real loud again. And it varied from night to night, bizzarely. The reception on Long Island was a lot like that of another 50,000 watter nearby on the dial -- WPTR Albany.

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Daytime here in NEPA, the loud one is semi-local WPGM Danville. In a casual null, WISP Doyestown puts a grumble under then, too.
WISP is the ex-WBUX.

9PM at night, 1570 sounds like a big vat of talking alphabet soup.

I suspect 1570 would be a terrific sunset channel but I haven't fished there in a while, not since moving here to NEPA.
 
CKMW is just not there. Maybe SSS or SRS. Maybe they're still one of the few Canadians that maintain their directional array.
XERF was all alone last night.
 
Here in East Texas during the day it's standards KPYK in Terrell (just east of Dallas) and at night it's a relatively good, steady signal from XERF.

I recall that XERF was off the air for quite a while many years ago, and the frequency was dominated by CFOR Orillia ON. Can't remember if they were running 5 or 10kW at the time, though. Does anyone know when this would have been?
 
jd said:
Here in East Texas during the day it's standards KPYK in Terrell (just east of Dallas) and at night it's a relatively good, steady signal from XERF.

I recall that XERF was off the air for quite a while many years ago, and the frequency was dominated by CFOR Orillia ON. Can't remember if they were running 5 or 10kW at the time, though. Does anyone know when this would have been?
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According to Wikipedia, CFOR (now CICX-FM) was 10kW day and 5kW night on 1570. It moved to FM in 1993 (credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICX-FM)
 
Northern VA, I could a very weak WNST Baltimore area with sports talk; at night, I get a jumbled mess with some very weak music station which I haven't yet identified...sounds like southern gospel or easy listening...maybe WSWV Pennington Gap, VA or even CJLV up in Quebec.
 
Daytime in Ottawa, a very weak signal from CJLV. At nitght they are sometimes there, but it's a mix of others I haven't bothered to identify. CJLV doesn't send anything our way at all, and I have to leave the house with the cc plus to hear it. Add the terk advantage and it's listenable.
 
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