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AM Frequency of The Week: 1570

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crainbebo

What do you get on 1570?

I have gotten from Bothell, WA these stations on 1570:

KCVR Lodi, CA (Spanish Adult Hits)
XERF Ciudad Acuna, Coahulia (SS News/Music)
CKMW Morden, MB (Country)

It looks like I have gotten three countries, one station each on 1570. Weird concept, but true!

-crainbebo
 
In the LA area... mainly IBOC/splatter from local KBLA 1580.
 
Logged from West Michigan within the last year or so:

WNDA, New Albany (IN) "WNDA New Albany" TOH ID faintly heard
WBGX, Harvey (IL) w/ gospel mx
WFLR, Dundee (NY) //96.9 FM
WILO, Frankfort (IN) TOH ID mention //94.1 FM
WFUR, Grand Rapids (MI) Slogan: Christian Radio, religious mx
WWCK, Flint (MI) Slogan: supertalk1570.com
KVTK, Vermillion (SD) TENT w/ Wayne State College Wildcats basketball halftime show
 
east Mt. Helix, CA (east of La Mesa)...

Day - nothing
Critical Hours - KPRO Riverside, CA
Night - XERF, or IBOC hash from 1580 KMiK Tempe, AZ (which itself often comes in as strong as some locals)
 
Far northwestern Chicago....

WFRL (Freeport, IL), and WBGX (Harvey, IL) duke it out during the day.

At night it's a mess. Used to be XERF and the two Canadians, CFOR (Orillia, ON), and a station From St. Thomas, ON....which is between Toronto and Detroit. I forget the calls. The Canadians are long gone, and whatever is left of XERF is buried in the slop.
 
No fun monitoring 1570 anymore....but like the above poster, when I DXed AM seriously in the 1970s, besides XERF being a monster signal, at the rarest times, Canadians showed up (this is in south Florida).

CKLM Laval/Montreal (when they ran 50 kW) was the most common....later it was CFOR & CHLO in Ontario, and in 1985 it was CKLQ Brandon, Manitoba, which went to 880 not long after I caught it.

There was also the short-lived Atlantic Beacon from Turks & Caicos in the mid 1980s.

Today, not worth the trouble!

cd
 
I've worked at 2 1570s. WPTW in Piqua OH and WILO in Frankfort. From Dayton it was WPTW days and a mess at night, sometimes including XERF. There was also a gospel station early mornings from KY or TN
 
Very faint reception of Baltimore's sports talk WNST about 60 miles away. The owner is called "Nasty 1570 LLC" according to Radio-Locator and the station's slogan is "We Never Stop Talking."
 
1570 CHLO St. Thomas (south of London)

It used to have an awesome signal on 680 with just 1000 watts DA-1/U3. They gave up 680 so CHFI...CFTR could eventually go to 50000 watts. When there were no 1570s operating in the US at night, you could hear CHLO all over. I heard it in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in July, 1970. Of course CFOR came in with its omni 1000 watt night signal in a lot of places also.

WWCK has a decent signal in my area daytime. I think they finally replaced the old tube transmitter that was always blowing drivers out and running at effectively reduced power.
 
Here in the Boston area, we have a 1570 on the North Shore - WNSH-AM - that is strong during the day, but at night they have turn the power way down to the point one cannot pick them up more than a few miles from their transmitter. CJLV from Laval, Quebec, usually shows up at night, and it's fun little country station to listen to. I even added them as one of my stations on my Wi-Fi radio. Beyond that, I haven't been able to positively ID anything else.
 
Mainly sideband slop from KKAD and a mess of other unintelligible noises.
 
cd637299 said:
No fun monitoring 1570 anymore....but like the above poster, when I DXed AM seriously in the 1970s, besides XERF being a monster signal, at the rarest times, Canadians showed up (this is in south Florida).
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I recall a great surprise I had when discovering XERF off due to some technical failure and getting Nanaimo, BC, at my location in Cleveland, OH. Never repeated that one.
 
During the day, WNDA in Clarksville, IN.
Caught WCLE Cleveland TN on the way to work thanks to sunset skip.

Back in the day, it was XERF, CFOR & CHLO.

I used to buy all my goat glands mail order from XERF. After a few years I started to walk on all fours, so I stopped adding the glands to my Whreaded Wheat.
 
CHLO....that's the one I couldn't think of. It was more common here in Northern Illinois than CFOR, but neither was an unusual catch....especially when XERF was absent. And, of course, there were no U.S. stations on the channel.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Nothing listenable here. A few miles to the east, a staticy signal from WANR/1570 "Fox Sports 1570" Warren OH.
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Same here in Columbus. Never have heard a trace of XERF here; remember hearing it blanket Houston every night.
 
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