AM Frequency of the week: 1680

[cyberdad]

Almost to the "finish line". This week our stop is 1680.....

Far northwest Chicago Suburbs....

Days: Usually blank. But from time to time in winter it's daytime skywave from the Grand Rapids, Michigan area 1680

Night: Usually a fair-weak signal from Grand Rapids. I think I heard the Florida 1680 a few times when it first came on the air more than a decade or so. Now there's sometimes a weak signal or two underneath Grand Rapids station, but nothing I've been able to identify so far.

 

[radioman148]

Pretty much the same here in the near north Chicago suburbs. Nothing during the day except in winter. I have heard the Michigan station during daytime skywave in winter. At night Michigan and not much else.

 

[crainbebo]

Yakima WA
Day - very weak KNTS Seattle (Spanish Rel)
Night - KNTS and KGED Fresno (Conservative Talk). KRJO Monroe, LA was logged once a few years ago, when they were still classic country, they are now Hot AC 'My FM'.
Any of the other three, all 'W' calls on 1680, are wanted here, but almost impossible with Seattle and Fresno.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

by day? nothing

at night, WPPR Grand Rapids, MI or WTTM Philadelphia, PA

 

[WCJ]

Orange County, TX-Days nothing, Nights KRJO Monroe, LA.

 

[KML0224]

I think there's a station at part of the band from Lexington Park, MD? I only get it (weakly) at night.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

I think there's a station at part of the band from Lexington Park, MD? I only get it (weakly) at night.

WPTX is on 1690

 

[CADXER]

Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: sometimes WPRR Ada, MI but not common
Nightime: usually WPRR, but sometimes KRJO (Monroe, LA) makes it through.

DX/RETRO: WPRR (WDSS, etc.) used to be easier to hear before WVON signed on 1690 with their splatter and IBOC. Also heard in the past WTTM (Princeton, NJ), WOKB (Winter GArden, FL), KNTS (Seattle, WA) and also the other half of the DFW travellers station WPLR660.

 

[kf4rca]

Days its nothing but nights its KRJO. Looks like they might have coast to coast coverage here.

 

[jim-satx]

From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: Normally nothing, but I once logged KRJO via daytime skywave back in December 2016.

Night: KRJO dominates. Occasionally, WOKB in Winter Garden, FL, will pop through with urban gospel music. When propagation is really good, aiming NW I can hear a weak KGED in Fresno, CA, especially around sunrise.

During the six months or so before KRJO's transition to the Hot AC format, they were off air occasionally, and I was able to log WPRR in Ada, MI, one January night in 2016.

I seem to remember KRJO having a less powerful signal here when they were classic country. Back then WOKB came through a lot more often.