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AM Frequency of the week: 1610

cyberdad

cyberdad

X-band time! Here northwest of Chicago......

Days: Local TIS stations periodically have come and gone. At the moment, I'm not hearing anything at my location.

Night: All CHHA (Toronto). Fair signal, at best. But alone and listenable. 1lw on 1610 has no problem making the 400+ hop with nothing of consequence to interfere with it or stop it.
 
Same here during the day, Cyber. A few times I tried to drag some TIS/HAR station from Hazleton to within 10 miles of my 'home' so I could officially count it, but no luck so far. (I usually don't count stations farther than 10 miles from The Den. It's some ancient orthodox DX practice, hi).

CHHA is a regular here at night.

I *did* hear a cool, 'count-able' station one night in the car. It was from Pottsville, which is maybe 8 miles south of here.
I only have it logged, though, as The Talking House, Pottsville. I don't care if it was licensed or not. I heard it, and I'm counting it. Goodness knows, my meagre 'totals' list here in NE PA needs all the help it can get.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs CHHA is the only thing I hear on this frequency at night. I don't remember hearing anything during the day recently.
 
No TISs none of the time in East TN, they're next door on 1620. I'm not positive I've logged CHHA here, but definitely on the Central Indiana SDR, some winter days even in the daytime
 
In Charleston, we have a TIS at Folly Beach that runs 10 watts and basically is just a loop for the City of Folly Beach to have important information.

I’ve heard CHHA here at night several times.
 
Well, daytime and night is the WSDOT TIS (WQBV569) that has been on for many years, based at the WSDOT/WSP office in Union Gap. I can null them out and sometimes hear KHA519 in Naches, and sometimes other TIS stations. I logged one from Stevenson last season but I can't remember the calls.
WQBV569 (and the Pendleton OR NOAA TIS) used to be nighttime regulars in western WA. Keep in mind, 10 watts at 120-180 miles. Daytime there was one in Monroe, another in Woodinville (WPKL360) and Naval Kitsap, along with one at the Kingston WA ferry terminal that were heard weakly.
CHHA Toronto was heard here last December for the first time. Matched the webstream! Caribbean Beacon has been heard twice, maybe, in all the years I've DXed. But it's awesome to hear Melissa Scott at almost 4000 miles away! I'm always looking for an Idaho or Montana HAR, and there are some on 1610 khz.
 
I've heard the Carribean Beacon a few times on my visits to our beach getaway place near Pensacola. Definitely not a regular and usually weak, which frankly, surprises me a little. I may have also heard CHHA down there, but haven't been able to positively ID it.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: used to get a solid KNIG426 TIS from Addison, IL (only 1.5 miles from me), but recently their signal strength dropped drastically and now I get a mix of several TIS stations.
Nightime: CHHA Toronto usually alone with fair signal

DX/RETRO: Carribbean Beacon used to be more common in the past. Hardly heard these days. Another active station on this frequency is XEUACH from Mexico City, which I only heard once back in November 2017. Back in 2000 when the expanded band was just starting to open up, KALT from Atlanta, TX used to be common catch. They are no longer on the air.
 
Here I have heard one TIS which is located at Chief Joseph Dam (a logging in 2013, using a Sony SRF-59 and loop), and CHHA -- although I have not been able to ID CHHA officially. I also have two more UNID TIS's, NOAA stations, probably somewhere in WA state. Those loggings were from 2013 also.

I get a lot of splash from local KYIZ 1620, so any 1610 DXing is usually done with my best radios for selectivity, my DX-398 and PR-D5.

Still haven't heard Melissa Scott on the Caribbean Beacon. Hopefully I'll be able to log it before it goes off air.
 
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