AM Frequency of the week: 1640

[cyberdad]

25 Miles southeast of Chemung, IL.

.....If you don't know where that is, another way to describe my location is 40+ miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: 1640 is a weak WSJP....ex-WKSH....Catholic radio from Sussex, WI. (Milwaukee area).

Nights: 1640 is probably the most quiet x-band channel. WSJP is weaker, but still audible (as opposed to listenable). I can usually hear one or two very weak signals underneath, but I haven't been able to ID them.

Retro/Other location: On my trips to the West Coast when KDIA came on 1640, it was very listenable at night for me up and down the entire coast from San Diego to Vancouver.

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago suburbs I also hear WSJP with a weak signal. At night WSJP still weak and not much else to identify.

Retro: As has been previously discussed KDIA had a decent night signal here before other stations entered the expanded band.

 

[gr8oldies]

WSJP makes it to East Tennessee at times. In Western Ohio it would hang in all day on some winter days.

 

[crainbebo]

1640 daytime, if anything, is a very weak KDZR Lake Oswego OR ('The Patriot').
Nights is KDZR, KDIA Vallejo CA ('The Light'), and KBJA Sandy UT ('K-Talk', which airs a lot of brokered shows and Alex Jones) slobbering all over each other.

Wanted - ANY of the other three X-Banders in the U.S. are well wanted. Especially Enid OK which is closest to me (about 1400 miles).

 

[WCJ]

Orange County, TX, Days nothing, Nights WTNI Biloxi, MS and KZLS Enid, OK when each other are nulled.

 

[CADXER]

Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WSJP with weak signal
Nightime: mostly WSJP, but WTNI and KZLS sometimes make it through

DX/RETRO: as mentioned above KDIA used to be an easy catch in the past. Back in late 1990's there were two Dallas Ft. Worth Airport TIS stations (WPLR660) on 1640 kHz and 1680 kHz that really got out well. Both were received in the Chicago area with good signals. Not sure if they are still in operation, but they are certainly no longer heard around here. Also back in 1997 there used to be a pirate going by the name Radio Zero that I heard on couple occasions.

 

[crainbebo]

The DFW airport TIS stations were heard coast to coast when the X-Band was nearly empty. Patrick Martin in Oregon QSLed them in the late '90s. My farthest TIS is in the 200 mile range (the NOAA TIS near Eugene OR on 1660). No Montana, Idaho or California ones heard yet, but 1610 is tough with a local WSDOT HAR.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

The reams of two 1640 logs from here in NE PA are both nighttime.
KDIA and the widely-heard DFW station.

I have the 1640 one logged as WQO767. though, CA DXer. And the 1680 one as WQA767. Were they WPLR 660 before or after those license-plate calls, pls ?

 

[KenoGuy]

Kenosha, WI- Daytime- WSJP Sussex (semi-local) with an OK signal, but has never been what I would expect for 10KW @ 40 miles
Nighttime- WSJP not good, usually mixing with WTNI
I, too, used to get the DFW TIS stations. I seem to recall one broadcast departures and one arrivals.
Also KDIA was heard regularly here.

 

[CADXER]

The reams of two 1640 logs from here in NE PA are both nighttime.
KDIA and the widely-heard DFW station.

I have the 1640 one logged as WQO767. though, CA DXer. And the 1680 one as WQA767. Were they WPLR 660 before or after those license-plate calls, pls ?

Back in late 1990's they were WQO(A)767 and I logged and QSLed them as such. These days they are licensed as WPLR660 according to FCC http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1236825

Not sure when the calls changed.

 

[kf4rca]

Daytime its dead. Nights its WTNI Biloxi sports talk.