AM Frequency of the Week - 1620 kHz

[crainbebo]

WMIR should change their calls to WFOC - "We're Full of Crap!"

-crainbebo

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

Days, nothing. Nights, it's WDND South Bend, IN and underneath it, a mix of other stations I haven'
t yet identify them; takes a lot of patience.

 

[BigDave]

In Woodstock Georgia nothing during the Day,WTAW College Station,Texas at Night

 

[cyberdad]

WMIR should change their calls to WFOC - "We're Full of Crap!"

-crainbebo

That would apply to the sales manager, who effectively ran the place. ;D He kept us busy...and profitable....with 16 and 18 minute hours (of ads), even though as far as I could tell, nobody was actually listening. This was 1976. The call letters actually referred to the (absentee) owner's wife....Miriam. The GM was a lady from Milwaukee, who typically showed up once or twice a month. I'm unclear, exactly, what she did....other than occasionally complain about how much I was getting paid. How much was that? Let me put it this way....my next door neighbor was on unemployment and living more comfortably that I was!

 

[Tom Wells]

For the last twenty years the only thing I can get at home on 1620 is that darn W Nuthin Nuthin Nuthin,
with that darn all-trainwrecks, all the time format.

Some airchex below.

1 Mile away from home I get South Bend, In, Omaha Nebraska, or a travel and traffic service 20 miles NW of me, WQVR 256.
Maybe the town of Bensenville info loop.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

From Houston - WTAM from College Station, Texas. Interesting, because it is the only HD-AM left anywhere near Houston. In spite of having a fairly strong signal in the house and car from Cypress, TX, I have never achieved HD lock for more than a second.

WTAW - got it. I did some air checking again in Cypress. Away from power lines, HD does lock - I found some stretches of Tuckerton and Fry with no power lines along the side. Of course, HD is completely wasted on a sports station, but it does lock. The moment you get anywhere near a power line, HD falls out of lock. Since those streets are very much the exception and not the rule, and since power lines caused even local KMIC to drop out of lock when they were fooling around with that nonsense - HD AM is probably not viable in cars that are on side streets near power lines. I bet all the HD cartel's drive tests were on freeways which generally are away from power lines.

Oh - and my tests were with a whip antenna on the car. I don't think those ridiculous shark fins, nubs, and embedded antennas would do very well.

 

[foreverchanges1975]

Right now in Memphis I'm getting Radio Rebelde fighting with WNRP with WTAW underneath.

 

[Darth_vader]

"The CA station is KSMH; WA station is KYIZ."

Yeah, those stations are probably amongst them. Around here, it sounds like there are at least five or six different stations competing with each other, but it's hard to tell.

"K-Dozer Radio, where our Ibiquity System hash will lull you to sleep."

K DiZney [sic] Radio. I'll leave it up to your imagination to figure out what their affiliation is. Although you're really not too far off the mark there, programming-wise, if you've listened to Radio Disney within the last +-12 years or so.

If you just want to beat the anti-Ibiquity dead horse, there's an entire forum on this site that seems to have devolved into just that.

 

[drt]

St. Petersburg, FL Cuba on 1620 day and night; unless I'm w/i a mile of so of WRXB's towers (1590 AM) then it's WRXB splatter. (WRXB is licensed to nearby St. Pete Beach, but the towers are in St. Petersburg).

drt,
st. pete

 

[rbrucecarter5]

K DiZney [sic] Radio. I'll leave it up to your imagination to figure out what their affiliation is. Although you're really not too far off the mark there, programming-wise, if you've listened to Radio Disney within the last +-12 years or so.

Hey - I have friends who are played on there. It is a listenable mix of current top-40 and rising artists. They were playing Taylor Swift before anybody else had heard of her.

At least Radio Disney is playing MUSIC on AM, and not slob sports, left/right wing talk where both sides insult your intelligence, Spanish and other foreign language babbling, preaching, or any number of other useless, repulsive non-music formats.

 

[crainbebo]

K DiZney [sic] Radio. I'll leave it up to your imagination to figure out what their affiliation is. Although you're really not too far off the mark there, programming-wise, if you've listened to Radio Disney within the last +-12 years or so.

Hey - I have friends who are played on there. It is a listenable mix of current top-40 and rising artists. They were playing Taylor Swift before anybody else had heard of her.

At least Radio Disney is playing MUSIC on AM, and not slob sports, left/right wing talk where both sides insult your intelligence, Spanish and other foreign language babbling, preaching, or any number of other useless, repulsive non-music formats.

And it's easy to parallel due to the national format. I can hear at least three each night, KKDZ, KDZR and KMKY. Sometimes KMIK comes in, lesser KWDZ. I have also gotten KDIS (once) and KDDZ (a couple times). No sign of WQEW yet in WA...

-crainbebo

 

[boombox]

Located in Western WA.

Generally all I can hear on 1620 is KYIZ 24 hours a day.

But when their transmitter was down, I heard KSMH, Auburn, CA (EWTN) and another station that was undecipherable... it played music that sounded like Christian pop or something similar (i.e., Pop music style but nothing recognisable), and a female anncr chattering away. The cadence of the talk and music almost sounded like Mexican Spanish -- but just wasn't strong enough to ID it, so it could possibly have been English.