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AM Frequency of The Week: 1670 (X-BAND)

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crainbebo

What do you get on 1670?

For me, I get
KNRO Redding, CA (Fox Sports)
KHPY Moreno Valley, CA (Spanish Religious)

-crainbebo
 
In the LA area:

Daytime: Most times none, but at times KHPY Moreno Valley, CA
Nighttime: Basically same situation as daytime
 
El Cajon / La Mesa, CA

Night: KHPY Moreno Valley comes in fairly strong.

Day, summer, stock pocket radio with built-in loopstick: nothing

Day, summer, external loop antenna: sometimes a weak KHPY Moreno Valley

Day, winter, stock pocket radio with built-in loopstick: KHPY Moreno Valley, fading in and out ranging from unreadable to armchair copy, fades & peaks are usually relatively slow like a few per hour or so IIRC
 
From Lexington, KY...

1670 is fairly empty here.

Normally, I hear nothing at mid-day, but in the winter, I have heard WTDY Madison, WI ALL DAY long at times fading in and out.

At night...its a fight between WTDY and WPLA from Georgia.
 
Here, it's nothing during the day and the station from Warner Robins, Georgia at night.

I've sometimes listened to see if I can hear one of the California stations at night in the background but so far nothing has come in good enough to ID.

I'd think an x bander from California should have no problem making it to Florida at least now and then.
 
I hear WTDY at night. Im going to have to try in the early evening to see if I can pull in WFSM while its still at 10kw and before WTDY starts to interfere.
 
From West Michigan within the last year or so:

WTDY, easy and usually heard around the clock.
WPLA (former WFSM), a little tougher but not rare.
CJEU, another easy one when they were testing this time last year - not sure if they are currently on the air? I haven't listened to 1670 in a while.

I guess this leaves the two California stations on 1670, but I've given up trying to hear Cali (and Florida) on the x-band.
 
Don't give up.

If KVNS (only .880 kw) is heard in Europe at night, reception of nighttime X banders within the US should be possible. It's all in the timing.

I haven't DXed on the X band as much as I should mainly because I often have some kind of weird interference that makes it too frustrating to listen on many X band frequencies.

1670 is one of those frequencies.
 
This was the X-band allocation for KLAT to alleviate interference with short-spaced KBBW.  The closest X-band station to Houston is WTAW.

Interestingly, it's former FM sister has kept the former calls to this day and the AM actually simulcasted the FM station as a daytime to a mostly AM-only audience when it first signed on almost 50 years ago.

A couple notches up (at 1690 kHz) is Fort Bend County emergency radio, simulcasting NOAA's KGG68 weather radio station during peacetime.
 
Here in Poughkeepsie, NY...

Around 5:45pm on the drive home on the car radio, what I assume to be the new CJEU Gatineau, Que (Ottawa) was on top, doing quite well with songs in French. During deeper fades, what sounded like Sports Talk could be heard, assumed to be WFSM-Dry Branch (Macon), Ga.

Later at home tuning in after 9pm, I found CJEU nicely on top, with nothing else readable.

In the past, I know I've heard Wisconsin, and never California.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Days....WTDY weak. Really not much of an overall improvement from their years on 1480, the fact that they're now ND notwithstanding.

Nights....Usually the Georgia station fighting it out with WTDY
 
KTN Corp said:
A couple notches up (at 1690 kHz) is Fort Bend County emergency radio, simulcasting NOAA's KGG68 weather radio station during peacetime.
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Oops. I just realized that Fort Bend County emergency radio is actually on 1670 kHz instead. (No wonder the frequency sounded familiar.)

So emergency radio took the place of KLAT's X-band allocation in this case (for now).
 
Not to add more confusion to this, but the original allocation for KLAT's X-band operation was 1690. They failed to act on it (a wise choice, as it turned out) and the allocation was deleted from the FCC's plan.
 
Here, 80km south (50 miles) of Ottawa, CJEU (jeu meaning 'play' in French or perhaps the call is used as a shortened form of jeunesse, 'youth'.) weakly makes its presence felt. Currently, however, I've got Madison WI's WTDY coming out on top.

There's a third one in there, presumed GA.

~BG
 
In Lake Geneva, WI (probably not far from cyberdad) WTDY is in solid during the day. Night is mostly a mess of them, GA & some music in the background. The music station's not readable enough to ID, though.
 
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