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AM Frequency of the Week - 1680 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 1680 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a very weak WPRR/Ada, MI if anything during the day. At night, 1680 gets trashed a lot by 1690 WVON's I-BLOCK (which also wrecks 1700 DXing at night) but underneath the rubble it's mostly WPRR mixed with WTTM/Lindenwold, NJ
 
I wonder how difficult it may have been in the days of dialable (as opposed to push-button) radios to promote an AM station at the far end of the dial like 1680 khz?

I guess it could have taken some slick-sounding promotion like......."just twist your dial down to our station" in a voice-over while Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is played in the background.
 
SW Ohio
1680 KHZ

Nights
WPRR Ada (G.R.) MI
WQO76 Dallas TX Airport radio. The first MW extended band station I logged. Haven't heard it in years.

Sunrise
WTTM Lindenwold NJ

Sunset
WRJO Monroe LA
 
Daytime in Monroe, WA it's KNTS Seattle with a Spanish Christian format.

Nights it's a mix of KNTS and KGED Fresno. Nothing else heard, yet. I'd like to get the Monroe LA station one of these days.

-crainbebo
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: Sometimes WPRR in winter on daytime skywave. WTDY on 1670 (Madison, WI) and WRLL on 1690 (Berwyn, IL-Chicago) are audible daytime, but not strong enough to cause any issues.

Night: WPRR
 
SW MO -

daytime - nada.

late evening/night - I've gotten a station from Mississippi that used to play old school jams, but they have since switched to news talk, I don't know the call letters, but I'm pretty sure the frequency is 1680. I liked them a lot better with the music because we simply don't get any music like that around here on the radio.
 
1680 is scattered with Houston Transtar's various traffic and road information transmitters around tow. Besides that, the only station logged is KRJO Monroe, LA. running 1kW at night airing the aforementioned R&B oldies.
 
Daytime in northern VA, zippo, nada.

Nights, it's WTTM Philadelphia with the world ethnic format.

When I was in the central Oregon coast, I've gotten KNTS Seattle at nights, nothing days.
 
location Metro Boston

WTTM - NJ/Philly booms in here after sunset. In the past Ive logged Orlando and Grand Rapids.
 
Using some strategic DXing techniques, I nabbed KGED Fresno and KNTS Seattle last October while they were still on day power - just minutes before they powered down for the night. With those two complete, I've logged all the others on 1680. When conditions are very good at night, there's a TIS station in Davenport, Iowa that can be heard here. WPRR doesn't cause much trouble for me at night.
 
Wow! Awesome catch on KNTS Seattle! Great to have another report from the East Coast of a station I can pick up in the daytime.

-crainbebo
 
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