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AM Frequency of the week: 1670

cyberdad

cyberdad

Only four more weeks to go before we get to the top of the dial. Now, next up for this week is 1670. Here in far Northwest suburban Chicago....

Days: 1670 is WOZN from Madison, WI. About 85 miles to my northwest. The signal is very weak, but with nothing to interfere with it, it's still listenable.

Nights: WOZN frequently disappears, and there's not much to replace it. If not WOZN on top, it's either CJEU (Montreal) or WMGE (Macon, GA). In that order.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day on a very good radio I can hear a faint WOZN. In the winter it's usually a bit stronger.
At night a mixture of WOZN, Macon, Ga or Montreal, but none of them are strong.
 
radioman148 said:
In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day on a very good radio I can hear a faint WOZN. In the winter it's usually a bit stronger.
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I was wondering if you were hearing WOZN at your location. The signal is much better not far northwest of me (Woodstock, Harvard...that area), then it begins fading fairly rapidly.

WOZN had its origins as WISC/WISM/WTDY on 1480. It was as WTDY that it made the move to 1670. The day signal isn't really any better than the 5kw on 1480, except to the south and southeast, where their null was eliminated. As you may know, WISM had a very successful run as a top 40 station in the 60s and early 70s. I say "very successful" because every time I was in Madison and able to tune in, they were running at least 21 minutes per hour of ads! (because of the null, I was never able to hear even a whiff of it here at home).
 
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cyberdad said:
I was wondering if you were hearing WOZN at your location. The signal is much better not far northwest of me (Woodstock, Harvard...that area), then it begins fading fairly rapidly.
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I have to be listening on a very good radio to hear a whiff of it during the day.

cyberdad said:
WOZN had its origins as WISC/WISM/WTDY on 1480. It was as WTDY that it made the move to 1670. The day signal isn't really any better than the 5kw on 1480, except to the south and southeast, where their null was eliminated. As you may know, WISM had a very successful run as a top 40 station in the 60s and early 70s. I say "very successful" because every time I was in Madison and able to tune in, they were running at least 21 minutes per hour of ads! (because of the null, I was never able to hear even a whiff of it here at home).
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I used to get a kick out of Madison's WISM and Milwaukee's WISN. Different formats, but very similar call signs.
 
Pretty much a toss-up between Dry Branch GA and Madison WI at various times of the day.
When I lived in Ohio, Madison (whatever calls and incarnation it was, I think WTDY) was sometimes in all day in the winter
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WOZN
Nightime: usually WOZN

DX/RETRO: Others heard CJEU (Gatineau, PQ), WMGE (Dry Ranch, GA), WRNC (Warner Robbins, GA). Couple IDOT TIS's also heard. Also back 1996 there was special test Army Radio test station with calls KTRK from Ft. Meade, MD that made it to the Chicago area.
 
Yakima WA
Days - nothing
Night - a mix of KQMS Redding CA (News/Talk) and a very weak KHPY Moreno Valley, CA (Spanish Rel). Heard WOZN Madison WI once, 11/22/16.
CJEU and WMGE would both be awesome to hear.
 
I heard KHPY on the Maui SDR recently at night. Good signal, too. Not as strong as KDIA-1640 or XEPE-1700. I think KQMS was under them, but very weak.
 
Nothing by day at all.

Night, Sometimes WOZN Madison WY or CJEU 1680 Gattineau/Ottawa... CJEU is a bit rare and WOZN isnt usually too strong.. and this is with a 300 foot long wire and signal amplifier.
 
Daytime in San Antonio is nothing.

Nighttime, WMGE is a regular, and WOZN pops up briefly on rare occasions. I've heard CJEU just once, in late winter 2016

Also, I sometimes hear a weak WWG55 in Rutersville, TX, which is a NOAA weather station that also broadcasts on 162.55 MHz.

Prior to sunrise, aiming NW I can hear KHPY, and it often has a suprisingly decent signal. In addition, I can usually hear a weak XEANAH, Radio Anáhuac, in Huixquilucan, playing English-language hit pop. I've sometimes heard it at night as well, but the station doesn't seem to be on the air regularly, despite the website showing a full schedule.

Hoping to hear KQMS one day.
 
The only skywave station in the southeast which never, ever has any QRM under it is WMGE,
licensed to a suburb of Macon, GA. They air the Black Information Network fulltime
 
Located near Seattle.

Daytime = static and splash from a local on 1680. Nighttime it's usually KQMS Redding, with sometimes KHPY in back of them.

My best DX was during the Solar Eclipse in 2017, I heard KQMS during the peak of the eclipse on my PR-D5. That was cool. It was a nice August day, too.
 
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