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AM Frequency of the Week: 1570
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Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):
Local EWTN Religious station WISP(formerly WBUX) from Doylestown(around my area).
Local EWTN Religious station WISP(formerly WBUX) from Doylestown(around my area).
To each their own, eh? Long ago there had been some discussion about what stations could be situated on one 'total logged' list. In hobbies* , the criterion, guidelines, -- 'ethics', if you will -- will always vary from person to person. The DX crew of four in SE Queens followed a previously reviewed and sullenly accepted standard by which some of the older DXers conducted themselves -- the Ten Mile Radius.
If you happened to hear a new station outside that 63 square mile area -- too bad; it could not be placed on the sacred Totals List until you heard it within that immutable area. Unofficial curators (some claiming FCC deputization) would pay an occasional visit to DX dens and ask to see logbooks, QSL's, perform a spot DWI or drug test, etc.. We all underwent such vetting. 3 AM Monday mornings was the time of the most frequent raids. I heard tell of some having their logbooks seized, tuning knobs dusted for fingerprints, telephone records scrutinized, earphones analyzed ..... Well, after a while -- heck; we were schoolkids -- we learned how to behave.
1570 is one such frequency here in Anthracite Country of NE PA. There have been detectable reception differences within the approved radius during the day. In Minersville, Ryan Howard's WISP Doylestown is atop the WPGM that's more present here in Frackville. As well, in Minersville, 8 miles southwest, Bucks County's WBCB 1490 is far more readable in the day than the WAZL Hazleton is here ..... In St. Clair, 5 miles to the south, 630's WMAL from DC is atop Scranton's usual WEJL in this spot.
SSS time has brought in MD, VA and upstate NY (Amsterdam's WVTL).
Nothing to report at night here so far.
* As you are sitting in your car -- the only one parked there in a fog-smothered train station at 2AM while FM DXing, try explaining your presence to a cop about the Ten Mile Radius and tropo as you're being proofed. I was lucky one late night when I explained what DXing was ; the cop asked if that was like 2-way radios. I told him, 'Yes! Exactly like that!' He let me off. Gave me fifteen minutes and he'd be back, and didn't want to see me there. Okay, boss. 73.
If you happened to hear a new station outside that 63 square mile area -- too bad; it could not be placed on the sacred Totals List until you heard it within that immutable area. Unofficial curators (some claiming FCC deputization) would pay an occasional visit to DX dens and ask to see logbooks, QSL's, perform a spot DWI or drug test, etc.. We all underwent such vetting. 3 AM Monday mornings was the time of the most frequent raids. I heard tell of some having their logbooks seized, tuning knobs dusted for fingerprints, telephone records scrutinized, earphones analyzed ..... Well, after a while -- heck; we were schoolkids -- we learned how to behave.
1570 is one such frequency here in Anthracite Country of NE PA. There have been detectable reception differences within the approved radius during the day. In Minersville, Ryan Howard's WISP Doylestown is atop the WPGM that's more present here in Frackville. As well, in Minersville, 8 miles southwest, Bucks County's WBCB 1490 is far more readable in the day than the WAZL Hazleton is here ..... In St. Clair, 5 miles to the south, 630's WMAL from DC is atop Scranton's usual WEJL in this spot.
SSS time has brought in MD, VA and upstate NY (Amsterdam's WVTL).
Nothing to report at night here so far.
* As you are sitting in your car -- the only one parked there in a fog-smothered train station at 2AM while FM DXing, try explaining your presence to a cop about the Ten Mile Radius and tropo as you're being proofed. I was lucky one late night when I explained what DXing was ; the cop asked if that was like 2-way radios. I told him, 'Yes! Exactly like that!' He let me off. Gave me fifteen minutes and he'd be back, and didn't want to see me there. Okay, boss. 73.
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: WBGX Harvey, IL with fair signal from their 4 tower array visible driving on I-294 near 157th Street.
Nighttime: mix of stations, but nobody dominating the frequency
DX/RETRO: one of my most productive frequencies DX wise with 28 stations heard. Gone are the days when XERF was blasting in with Wolfman Jack. Gone is also Atlantic Beacon from Turks & Caicos that used to be frequently heard around here. Gone are also the Canadians CKLM, CHLO and CFOR that used to be frequent visitors. Some of the DX highlights include KUXL (Golden Valley, MN), WCLE (Cleveland, TN), WVVW (St. Mary's, WV - DX test), WQTW (Latrobe, PA), WGSR (Fernandina Beach, FL - DX Test). Most recent new log on 1570 is WTRB (Ripley, TN) which was heard in 2021.
Daytime: WBGX Harvey, IL with fair signal from their 4 tower array visible driving on I-294 near 157th Street.
Nighttime: mix of stations, but nobody dominating the frequency
DX/RETRO: one of my most productive frequencies DX wise with 28 stations heard. Gone are the days when XERF was blasting in with Wolfman Jack. Gone is also Atlantic Beacon from Turks & Caicos that used to be frequently heard around here. Gone are also the Canadians CKLM, CHLO and CFOR that used to be frequent visitors. Some of the DX highlights include KUXL (Golden Valley, MN), WCLE (Cleveland, TN), WVVW (St. Mary's, WV - DX test), WQTW (Latrobe, PA), WGSR (Fernandina Beach, FL - DX Test). Most recent new log on 1570 is WTRB (Ripley, TN) which was heard in 2021.
East Tennessee: Days-A whiff of WCLE, Cleveland, TN or WSWV, Pennington Gap, VA
Nights: I did a spot check with the W8BUG Knoxville SDR (just in case the DX police are watching) the other night and heard a succession of stations, one mentioning "Kentuckiana" which would seem to indicate WLRS, New Albany, IN, though it's listed as a Spanish language format (always could be an English as). Also an ad for the AARP of North Carolina, and a couple of others couldn't identify. Nothing really dominant.
Retro/other: I've worked at 2 1570s, WPTW in Piqua, OH and WILO in Frankfort, IN. Both started as daytimers that eventually became fulltime. Both signals clash around Muncie, IN. I remember getting a Southern Gospel station in the morning that would overcome WPTW where I lived while I was working there (a 45 minute commute) in the morning which I thought was in Kentucky.
I missed the Wolfman Jack era on XERF, but it was loud and clear with fire and brimstone preaching during my youth in Western Ohio.
Nights: I did a spot check with the W8BUG Knoxville SDR (just in case the DX police are watching) the other night and heard a succession of stations, one mentioning "Kentuckiana" which would seem to indicate WLRS, New Albany, IN, though it's listed as a Spanish language format (always could be an English as). Also an ad for the AARP of North Carolina, and a couple of others couldn't identify. Nothing really dominant.
Retro/other: I've worked at 2 1570s, WPTW in Piqua, OH and WILO in Frankfort, IN. Both started as daytimers that eventually became fulltime. Both signals clash around Muncie, IN. I remember getting a Southern Gospel station in the morning that would overcome WPTW where I lived while I was working there (a 45 minute commute) in the morning which I thought was in Kentucky.
I missed the Wolfman Jack era on XERF, but it was loud and clear with fire and brimstone preaching during my youth in Western Ohio.
Melbourne FL
XERF Ciudad Acuna COA 1570AM Spanish - Mexican 2017
WVOJ - Fernandina Beach - 1570AM - "Caliente" Spanish – Mexican 2012
WTWB - Auburndale-Lakeland- Florida Talk 1570 News/talk – ABC 2004
South Caicos - The Atlantic Beacon - “24H” English, Spanish - 1991
XERF Ciudad Acuna COA 1570AM Spanish - Mexican 2017
WVOJ - Fernandina Beach - 1570AM - "Caliente" Spanish – Mexican 2012
WTWB - Auburndale-Lakeland- Florida Talk 1570 News/talk – ABC 2004
South Caicos - The Atlantic Beacon - “24H” English, Spanish - 1991
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Daytime: A very weak signal from KXJJ Loveland, CO. 1 kw days, 40 watts night. Fun fact: the station's original call letters were KLOV. We all can probably guess who has those calls now.
Nighttime: XERF. It's not as strong as I might have expected it to be, but it's consistent.
Here's an ad placed in 1987 by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio in the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior, congratulating XERF on its "first anniversary" - in reality, the first anniversary of the government's takeover of the station, which all seemed rather murky just like this copy (sorry about that but some copy machines in 1987 were still pretty awful, especially with anything in a newspaper).
Daytime: A very weak signal from KXJJ Loveland, CO. 1 kw days, 40 watts night. Fun fact: the station's original call letters were KLOV. We all can probably guess who has those calls now.
Nighttime: XERF. It's not as strong as I might have expected it to be, but it's consistent.
Here's an ad placed in 1987 by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio in the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior, congratulating XERF on its "first anniversary" - in reality, the first anniversary of the government's takeover of the station, which all seemed rather murky just like this copy (sorry about that but some copy machines in 1987 were still pretty awful, especially with anything in a newspaper).
West side of Houston TX.
Daytime, slop from local KGOW 1560
Sunset, XERF comes up and dominates through the slop. KLLA in Leesburg LA sometimes surfaces with oldies and I've heard KVLG La Grange TX a few times.
Night, XERF and KGOW slop
Sunrise, as it was at sunset. In the winter, XERF sometimes hangs in there for a couple hours after sunrise.
When I was a teen in Tulsa OK (early 70's), it was all XERF at night with Paul Kallenger "your good neighbor along the way" and religious programs. I also heard the French Canadian a couple of times in the occasional early morning when XERF was off.
Daytime, slop from local KGOW 1560
Sunset, XERF comes up and dominates through the slop. KLLA in Leesburg LA sometimes surfaces with oldies and I've heard KVLG La Grange TX a few times.
Night, XERF and KGOW slop
Sunrise, as it was at sunset. In the winter, XERF sometimes hangs in there for a couple hours after sunrise.
When I was a teen in Tulsa OK (early 70's), it was all XERF at night with Paul Kallenger "your good neighbor along the way" and religious programs. I also heard the French Canadian a couple of times in the occasional early morning when XERF was off.
@ wildthangjim
Way out on Long Island one night I was captivated by this jazzy song I'd never heard, on 1570.
CKLM put a pretty decent night signal the further east you went. So after I heard this cascade of French at the end of the song *, I called them up.
Despite half my ancestry, I speak about as much French as I do Ethiopian. I was hoping whomever answered the phone understood me.
Well, I got 'Bonjour! See kah ale emmm.', and something like 'Trottier ratelle lafleur bourne bathgate desjardins! .....'
'Uh, hello. Do you speak English?' I asked.
'Oh, yeah,' he said. 'What's up? Where you callin' from?' Without breaking stride he sounded like Brooklynese was his native language.
* The live version of 'Ride The Wind' by The Youngbloods was the song, btw.
Way out on Long Island one night I was captivated by this jazzy song I'd never heard, on 1570.
CKLM put a pretty decent night signal the further east you went. So after I heard this cascade of French at the end of the song *, I called them up.
Despite half my ancestry, I speak about as much French as I do Ethiopian. I was hoping whomever answered the phone understood me.
Well, I got 'Bonjour! See kah ale emmm.', and something like 'Trottier ratelle lafleur bourne bathgate desjardins! .....'
'Uh, hello. Do you speak English?' I asked.
'Oh, yeah,' he said. 'What's up? Where you callin' from?' Without breaking stride he sounded like Brooklynese was his native language.
* The live version of 'Ride The Wind' by The Youngbloods was the song, btw.
Hartland, VT, and Meriden, CT:
Nothing days. CJLV Laval, Quebec, dominant at night with French-language MOR/AC oldies.
Nothing days. CJLV Laval, Quebec, dominant at night with French-language MOR/AC oldies.
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Tyler, TX:
Daytime, this is a weak, but steady signal from KPYK Terrell (DFW), that programs Standards.
At night, XERF Ciudad Acuña comes in strong around sunset, and stays that way throughout the wee hours. Other than 730 at Mexico City, 1570 is typically the strongest of the Mexican signals over here beneath the pine curtain.
Daytime, this is a weak, but steady signal from KPYK Terrell (DFW), that programs Standards.
At night, XERF Ciudad Acuña comes in strong around sunset, and stays that way throughout the wee hours. Other than 730 at Mexico City, 1570 is typically the strongest of the Mexican signals over here beneath the pine curtain.
Clifton, New Jersey
Days: Nothing throughout most of the day. Near sunset, I have received WISP Doylestown, PA, WPGM Danville, PA and WVTL Amsterdam, NY depending on propagation.
Nights: I usually get either CJLV Laval, QC or WVTL Amsterdam, NY. I have also received WUBG Methuen, MA, most likely at its daytime power, in the past.
Days: Nothing throughout most of the day. Near sunset, I have received WISP Doylestown, PA, WPGM Danville, PA and WVTL Amsterdam, NY depending on propagation.
Nights: I usually get either CJLV Laval, QC or WVTL Amsterdam, NY. I have also received WUBG Methuen, MA, most likely at its daytime power, in the past.
Canyon Lake, Texas:
I was surprised, but XERF was there during daytime hours. They were at the far edge of their signal.
At night, they have been interesting throughout the years. Depending upon what power they are running, they range from non existent to good with the occasional fades.
I was driving back to the Hill Country in the 80’s and picked them up in Northern Tennessee with a gentleman named “Ramblin Ray” the Cowboy Preacher and he was mad at the Devil.
I simply turned over to FM and 103KDF was playing “Runnin’ With the Devil.” That was much more in my wheelhouse; guess that’s called balance.
I was surprised, but XERF was there during daytime hours. They were at the far edge of their signal.
At night, they have been interesting throughout the years. Depending upon what power they are running, they range from non existent to good with the occasional fades.
I was driving back to the Hill Country in the 80’s and picked them up in Northern Tennessee with a gentleman named “Ramblin Ray” the Cowboy Preacher and he was mad at the Devil.
I simply turned over to FM and 103KDF was playing “Runnin’ With the Devil.” That was much more in my wheelhouse; guess that’s called balance.
Boise Idaho
Night: KCVR Punjabi Radio Lodi, CA mostly alone on the frequency. Occasional XERF during auroral.
Night: KCVR Punjabi Radio Lodi, CA mostly alone on the frequency. Occasional XERF during auroral.
You don't have KBCV Hollister MO in the logbook out there in Boise? I'd figure it would be more common as MO is closer to you than it is from here.
1570 - nothing days from Yakima
nights: KCVR, weak XERF, if conditions are great, KBCV, if conditions are really great, a massive jumble of low-power AMs. WFRL Freeport IL (Country) heard once, KTGE CA also heard in the logs, and have the now-defunct KPRO Riverside CA too. Also have KVAM Loveland CO in the logbook (when it was KPIO). Almost had confirmation of WSCO in WI, but no local ID or ads. This can be one heck of a frequency if the sun isn't burping out flares. Everything is back east except for Lodi and Salinas, so if I can hear CKDO-1580 and KVGB-1590, often 1570 is a jumble with KBCV on top
1570 - nothing days from Yakima
nights: KCVR, weak XERF, if conditions are great, KBCV, if conditions are really great, a massive jumble of low-power AMs. WFRL Freeport IL (Country) heard once, KTGE CA also heard in the logs, and have the now-defunct KPRO Riverside CA too. Also have KVAM Loveland CO in the logbook (when it was KPIO). Almost had confirmation of WSCO in WI, but no local ID or ads. This can be one heck of a frequency if the sun isn't burping out flares. Everything is back east except for Lodi and Salinas, so if I can hear CKDO-1580 and KVGB-1590, often 1570 is a jumble with KBCV on top
This used to be a more lively frequency for me, then ...
... WBGX Harvey, Ill., sitting to my southeast, a three-tower daytimer as WBEE and WMNN, added a fourth tower and went full-time with 1 kW. That threw a blanket over DX on 1570.
Before that, evenings were a jumble, featuring CHLO St. Thomas, Ont.; WSSA Morrow, Ga.; CKLM Montreal; XERF Ciudad Acuna, Mex. (hardly a sure thing even with 250 kW in the 1970s); CFOR Orilla, Ont.; WFUR Grand Rapids and WILO Frankfort, Ind., the latter a 250-watt daytimer heard at signoff.
... WBGX Harvey, Ill., sitting to my southeast, a three-tower daytimer as WBEE and WMNN, added a fourth tower and went full-time with 1 kW. That threw a blanket over DX on 1570.
Before that, evenings were a jumble, featuring CHLO St. Thomas, Ont.; WSSA Morrow, Ga.; CKLM Montreal; XERF Ciudad Acuna, Mex. (hardly a sure thing even with 250 kW in the 1970s); CFOR Orilla, Ont.; WFUR Grand Rapids and WILO Frankfort, Ind., the latter a 250-watt daytimer heard at signoff.
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