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AM Frequency of the Week - 1670 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

Now to try an X-Bander, what can you get on 1670 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is blank during the daytime but by sunset I can hear WPLA/Dry Branch, GA. Into the night the channel is more of a jumble.
 
Palos Township, IL- One of the few frequencies with static (along with 1680) during the day. By static, I mean nothing at all. At night, I get WTDY out of WI. Good reception too. Phil Hendrie is on overnights, as well as Dennis Miller in the evening.
 
Nothing days in Bellevue, WA.

At night I get KNRO Redding, CA (FOX Sports) with a variable, weak to fair signal. KHPY Moreno Valley, CA (SS) makes very rare appearances. I've been trying for WTDY for years to no avail.

-crainbebo
 
S of El Cajon, CA...

• Day, summer
Blank channel or maybe carrier (no audio) from KHPY Moreno Valley on "ordinary" portables. Using a SAT or GE SR3 may bring in a weakly audible KHPY.

• Day, winter
Fair but fading signal from KHPY on portables. On peaks it's almost as strong as a 50kW ND clear's average nighttime signal from about 500-800 miles away.

• Night
KHPY is usually fairly strong, and can sometimes exceed XEPE in signal strength even though 1700 is only 15.6 miles away. They are easily my strongest X-band signal at night, and one of the strongest skywaves on all the band on peaks, eclipsed only by 720 KDWN, 740 KCBS, 840 KXNT, 1530 KFBK and 1580 KMIK, maybe plus 1 or 2 others. The only local groundwaves that are stronger than KHPY's peaks are 600 KOGO, 760 KFMB, 910 KECR, 1130 KSDO, 1170 KCBQ, and maybe 690 XEWW, 1240 KNSN, 1360 KLSD and 1470 XERCN.
KNRO Redding has also made a few appearances, but usually at best it's just maybe a hint of audio modulation underneath and the off-frequency carrier het beating against KHPY.
 
I monitored 1670 on the way to work and got a mix of WPLA, WTDY, and an unknown station where I heard Kermit the Frog's voice "Hi Kermit the Frog here..." I'm guessing that would be a Radio Disney station but which one? This was just before 8AM Eastern Time.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: WTDY, weak

Night: WTDY pretty much drops out (convergence zone). I've heard WPLA a few times emerge from the slop.
 
Located in Western WA.

KNRO Redding comes in fairly regularly, with varying strengths. I first discovered this station when they were "K-PIG" or something like that, a few years ago, they were playing an interesting variety of rock.

KHPY Moreno Valley comes in underneath KNRO sometimes, and usually very weak. I've never gotten any ID or anything close, but can tell from the programming it's Spanish and religious...

....Nothing else but some splash from the local on 1680.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
I monitored 1670 on the way to work and got a mix of WPLA, WTDY, and an unknown station where I heard Kermit the Frog's voice "Hi Kermit the Frog here..." I'm guessing that would be a Radio Disney station but which one? This was just before 8AM Eastern Time.
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Could be CJEU "Radio Enfant Ado" which Google translates to "Radio Child Teen" from Gatineu/Ottawa, ON. This is the station I usually receive on 1670 at night, although its not the strongest. Its not uncommon to hear random bits in English on a French station, sometimes whole songs, or sometimes popular pop culture sound bits like Kermit the Frog for example.
 
From Tampa ....

Nighttime - WPLA Dry Branch, Ga sometimes with another weak station in the background I can not ID.

Daytime - Nothing most of the time but sometimes WPLA (weak) in winter.
 
Depending on how I steer the antennas, it's either WTDY to my west or CJEU to my east. WPLA is also common. On good nights I can usually pull in one of the WQFA538 TIS stations from Des Moines, Iowa. I have yet to log either of the two California stations however.
 
For me it's local CJEU all the time...although they've been off the past couple of days due to some maintenance on CIRA-5 1350, Who shares the same transmitter.

While they're off, it's a faint WTDY
 
kilokat7 said:
On good nights I can usually pull in one of the WQFA538 TIS stations from Des Moines, Iowa.
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WOW! And that's gotta be what, 400 miles at 10w? I can barely pick out WQBV569 Union Gap (120 miles) in the mess, but it's not been heard recently and has been mostly replaced by a threshold of Naval Kitsap Emergency Radio from Bremerton, 15 miles to the West.

-crainbebo
 
For me it is mainly the Pembroke Pines FL TIS, but prior to that in the 1990s, I got the experimental Army station in MD. I believe I still have a QSL paper. If not today's TIS, I think likely only the GA station---if I hear it at all.

Last week on the car radio from Key Largo, the Miami Beach TIS was faintly audible.

cd
 
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