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AM Frequency of the Week 1660

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cyberdad

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Far Northwest suburban Chicago....

Days: 1660 is usually blank. Sometimes WPRR from the Grand Rapids area sneaks in on daytime skywave. Not as common as other X band daytime skywave visitors for some reason. When WPRR DOES make an appearance during daylight hours, the signal is usually quite weak.

Nights: Normally all WPRR with a good signal.

Retro: The New Jersey 1660 was one of the first X band signals to sign on, and I did hear it a few times. Not recently, however. I've also heard the Kansas City 1660 a few times. But also not recently.
 
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East Tennessee: I used to get the Charlotte NC station where the WBCN calls were warehoused weakly during the day and at night with various formats. Otherwise WTOU in Michigan with WCNZ Marco Island at night.
Retro/other: Most of us logged New Jersey with the sign on of WEDJ, Elizabeth, NJ, which eventually went with the Radio Aahs children's network (Radio Disney later?).
I'm on the Central Indiana SDR hearing a weak WTOU and one of the ESPN stations. I've heard the present-day WWRU in Jersey City on this receiver on a winter day.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days: I'll get nothing and like it.

Nights: A quartet of stations have come through. First was WBCN Charlotte, N.C., in the middle of the night in 2015. Interesting to me because WBCN was the call sign of an old Chicago station that shared time with and eventually was gobbled up by WENR, itself gobbled up by WLS. But I digress.

Three other visitors: KQWB West Fargo, N.D. early on a November morning in 2017; WQLR Kalamazoo, Mich., early on a November morning in 2018 (and more recently as WTOU); and KWOD Kansas City, Mo., on a December night in 2020.

Right now: KWOD is ruling the roost.
 
Question for the group: Has anyone heard the supposed station on 1665 in Ittoqqotoormiit, Greenland? I just tried the two westernmost SDRs in Iceland and there was nothing.
 
Rocklin, CA

Daytime: Nothing
Nighttimt: KBRE Merced With a Weak Signal

Vallejo, CA

Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: KBRE Merced with a Fringe Signal
 
Good morning

This is the current station that on from sunset until sunrise

1660 - WCNZ - Marco Island - Relevant Radio - Catholic programs - parallel to WMYR Fort Myers 1410

Past logging....
1660 WWRU - lizabeth NJ - Radio Unica - Spanish – CRU - 1999

kw - Melbourne FL
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: local TIS's from Palatine, Skokie or Lisle are possible at my location depending on the loop antenna orientation.
Nighttime: WTOU most likely

DX/RETRO: WJDM used to rule the frequency. They are now WWRU, but not longer very common. KXTR (Kansas City, KS) used to be an interesting catch with classical music programming before switching to sports and changing calls to KWOD. Also heard KXOL (Brigham City, UT), KRZI (ex-KAXY - Waco, TX), WFNA (Charlotte, NC). WMIB (Marco Island, FL) logged thanks to a specially arranged DX test in 2001, but also heard with new calls WCNZ. In 1999 WD2X experimental station in Cincinnati, OH was received in the Chicago area. Have been trying for WGIT Casanovas, Puerto Rico, but no luck yet. Another target is KBRE Merced, CA but that's probably not very likely to be heard in Chicago area.
 
Forgot all about KXOL. In the early days of the X-band I used to hear it all up and down the West Coast when I was out there. Also heard KXOL once in my room at the Hilton Hotel in Oak Lawn, IL around that same time frame when our son was in a nearby hotel for some surgery. This was when they were running an oldies format.
 
From west Houston:

Daytime: nothing usually but have heard KRZI Waco TX once or twice in the wintertime
Sunset/night: KRZI is dominant, but have heard KWOD mixing in
Sunrise: KRZI and KWOD, presumably when they go to day power

Pretty poor frequency for me. I would think I would have heard WCNZ Marco Island FL at some point but haven't caught them yet.
 
cyberdad said:
Forgot all about KXOL. In the early days of the X-band I used to hear it all up and down the West Coast when I was out there. Also heard KXOL once in my room at the Hilton Hotel in Oak Lawn, IL around that same time frame when our son was in a nearby hotel for some surgery. This was when they were running an oldies format.
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Sadly, KXOL's license was cancelled in 2014.
 
From Bellingham WA
Most of the time, nothing, but...
Winter early mornings around sunrise and evenings around sunset do get a pretty listenable KBRE Merced CA. This on a stock VW car radio, but then again it is an exceptional modern car radio.

Retro-did hear the North Dakota station once, early in the AM. They were obviously already on day power while still night where I was. Have not captured it since. Never did copy the Utah one.
 
cyberdad said:
Far Northwest suburban Chicago....

Days: 1660 is usually blank. Sometimes WPRR from the Grand Rapids area sneaks in on daytime skywave. Not as common as other X band daytime skywave visitors for some reason. When WPRR DOES make an appearance during daylight hours, the signal is usually quite weak.

Nights: Normally all WPRR with a good signal.

Retro: The New Jersey 1660 was one of the first X band signals to sign on, and I did hear it a few times. Not recently, however. I've also heard the Kansas City 1660 a few times. But also not recently.
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I thought WPRR was 1680 - I remember hearing it weakly a few times when I was in the South Bend/Michiana area for a few months, it was a liberal talk format of some kind at the time. The radio I had with me was European and wouldn't tune the X-Band (or 10kHz AM spacings - WGN 720 was one of the few things it could actually get!), so I only ever heard it in the car. These X-Band signals are horrible for groundwave but behave almost like HF when the sun sets - they are of course pretty close to the "Top Band" 160m ham band.

Nothing on any of these frequencies where I live now!
 
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From NW San Antonio

Day: KRZI is fairly common in winter. Otherwise, nothing.

Sunset: KRZI comes up pretty well. KWOD in KC emerges a little later.

Night: KRZI and KWOD mix with each other and take turns dominating. If I aim NW/SE, I’ll sometimes hear a weak WCNZ “Relevant Radio” in Marco Island, FL, underneath them. On rare occasions when propagation is favorable, WGIT in Puerto Rico will pop up in that partial null.

Sunrise: It’s KRZI and KWOD with splatter from 1670 XEFCR.

DX/Retro: My one time loggings include KQWB in W. Fargo, ND, when it was “Willie Country” (sunrise); KBRE “The Bear” in Merced, CA (sunrise); WBCN back when it played southern rock (night - now retired); and KXOL “La Raza” (sunrise - now retired).
 
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I thought WPRR was 1680 - I remember hearing it weakly a few times when I was in the South Bend/Michiana area for a few months, it was a liberal talk format of some kind at the time.
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Yikes! My bad! And yes, actually 1660 is now WTOU. Same general area of southwest Michigan. Or at least the same TV market. My thanks to tvnut for also chiming in. For whatever reason 1680 is usually the stronger signal here. More on that in just a couple of weeks.
 
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