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AM Frequency of the Week - 1580 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 1580 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a weak WVKO/Columbus, OH during the day with Gospel music. Nights are pretty much a jumble.
 
In Houston daytime - it is a mystery radio China affiliate. Fairly weak.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago:

Day: Blank. This was pretty much the case before, WKKD in Aurora, IL was purchased and shut down. The signal here was extremely weak.

Night: Usually CKDO, fair.
 
From NE NC. 1580 days is either blank or a weak WJFK Morningside, MD (ex WPGC and many more) depending on conditions. Nights CKDO is a regular visitor.
 
To clarify my original post, if I'm not in the right spot, it's a jumbled mess of electrical noise. Otherwise, CKDO is there with a halfway decent signal at night.
 
Northern VA,

I get a good signal of WJFK Morningside, MD (just east of DC) on days. Nights, it's a mess combined with CKDO. Sometimes I hear a faint, unidentified 1580 with gospel music, possibly WVKO at night.
 
Nothing very much of anything in the day here, between Hazleton and Pottsville PA. Sunset is when things start to pop.

To the log here are
WPGC (5-24-94),
CBJ (5-25-94),
WSHE (11-22-94t) -- some Aurora afoot, probably
WNZT PA (2-15-95),
WZKY (11-6-96),
WLIM (3-11-99) -- car radio, depot parking lot!
WVKO OH (3-11-99).

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In Ye Olde Days on Long Island, it was possible to hear each succeeding time zone daylighter sign off. Once, we took the sequence clear to an ID from KDAY Santa Monica. CBJ had a terrible signal most of the time.
 
1580 is nothing at day and night mainly KGAL.

I get an SS station (likely KBLA but no ID yet) and also get an occasional KMIK Phoenix at night with Disney.

-crainbebo
 
a couple miles south of El Cajon, CA…

Daytime: a very faint KBLA Santa Monica, running Spanish religion. they're right at the noise floor, or just barely above, on my Tecsuns and Sonys. My GE SR3 can bring in a weak but listenable signal.

Nighttime:
KMIK Tempe / Phoenix is a good contender for my strongest skywave, frequently clocking in at 55-58 dBu on my Tecsuns, sometimes hitting 62-64, using only the built-in ferrite antenna.
KBLA can also be frequently heard, especially on the weekends when I suspect they leave their day pattern up all night. When this happens, KMIK and KBLA mix and/or fight for top spot.
I've also heard a third Spanish now and then underneath, which I suspect is XEDM.
Several times recently I've also heard snippets of sports buried under Disney around local sunset - any idea who that could be?

Also daytime in winter, KMIK often appears, sometimes wiping out KBLA.
 
pianoplayer88key said:
Several times recently I've also heard snippets of sports buried under Disney around local sunset - any idea who that could be?
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One possibility is KREL Colorado Springs (10,000 watts day, 140 night) non-directional. It's ESPN, with the slogan "The Game." Maybe they could have been late reducing power, or the night signal has been getting out your way especially well.
 
Located in W. WA state.

At night mainly KGAL Lebanon OR, with KMIK sometimes beneath it. I've also heard the Spanish station in back of the two, no ID on it yet.

In the 1980's I logged XEDM Hermosillo, and think I may have also heard it last Spring (2012).
 
boombox said:
Located in W. WA state.

At night mainly KGAL Lebanon OR, with KMIK sometimes beneath it. I've also heard the Spanish station in back of the two, no ID on it yet.

In the 1980's I logged XEDM Hermosillo, and think I may have also heard it last Spring (2012).
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My SS was probably KBLA Santa Monica, but I've never received an ID from it. Just people blabbing in SS without an ID.

-crainbebo
 
During the day it is WCCF (standing for Cape Coral Florida, which it is just north of) but transmitting out of Punta Gorda FL, roughly 33 miles NNW of my location. It's a rather weak, non-directional station of 1250 watts daytime, with consistently mediocre audio quality. At night it's only just barely in there with a jumble of other stations, fading deeply in and out of audibility, because of staying non-directional but dropping power to only 110 watts.
 
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