AM Frequency of the Week: 1680

[MarioMania]

Carmichael, CA

Daytime: Splatter from KFSG 1690 Roseville
Nighttime: KGED Fresno with weak signal

Vallejo, CA

Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: KGED Fresno with a weak signal

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Two nighttime catches came first, then a daytimer, on 1680.
The widely-heard DFW Airport station on this frequency (like its 1640 sibling) must've gone coast-to-coast more easily than any 'clears' of the same time. 50,000 watters like KMOX, WHO, the Chicago ones, WOAI et al had some of their signals compromised by then. I don't recall seeing what the power those two DFW stations were running. Can someone refresh my QRN-addled memory?
WTIR from Winter Garden FL, a suburb just west of Orlando, came in a few times; first logged 10-16-01.
The day catch was WTTM from NJ, in 2015, clearer around SSS. To my scant knowledge they're not associated with the old and now-dark WTTM Trenton on 920. 'Lindenwold' is a curious choice for a COL; for this obvious X-Band shoe-horning into the Philly market, southeast of Center City Philly by some 15 miles. The stick is 5 miles north of Lindenwold and the main signal covers lots of Philadelphia proper. The brighter DXers will know more than I about how these unlikely and seemingly random COLs get selected. The process might have to do with the number of stations already in one place.

(The night catches were off a Lafayette HA-600a. The day catch off some Radio Shack-Job Travel Radio.)

 

[Mark Roberts]

Denver, CO -
Nothing, maybe a little spillover from 1690 KDMT Arvada (transmitter site south of Lakewood).

 

[gr8oldies]

East Tennessee: Days, usually nothing but winters can bring KRJO, Monroe LA or WPRR, Ada, MI (home of Amway). Nights would be either but Monroe dominates.

 

[CADXER]

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

Daytime: WPRR Ada, MI heard in the past but not very common
Nighttime: usually WPRR, but sometimes KRJO (Monroe, LA) makes it through.

DX/RETRO: Also heard in the past WTTM (Princeton, NJ), WOKB (Winter Garden, FL), KNTS (Seattle, WA) and also the other half of the DFW travelers station WPLR660. WTTM now as Lindenwold COL was heard recently.

 

[wildthangjim]

From west Houston TX

Daytime, nothing
Sunset and night, KRJO (99.7 The Legend classic country) dominates, occasionally WOKB Winter Park FL makes an appearance in the KRJO null w/urban Christian music
Sunrise, KRJO, with WOKB often strong after they go to day power

 

[MichaelD1972]

Clifton, New Jersey

Days: I can get WTTM "La Unika" Lindenwold, NJ mainly during critical hours. It airs Spanish-language programming.

Nights: It's usually WTTM Lindenwold, NJ. Sometimes, I get WPRR Ada, MI. The station identifies itself as "102.5 The Ride", the dial positions of its FM translator. I once received WOKB Winter Garden, FL on 05/18/2022.

 

[WCJ]

Orange County, TX Days nothing, Nights most of the time KRJO, Monroe, LA with WOKB Winter Garden, FL sneaking in

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@WCJ and others
Just a note for those out of that Orlando area.
WOKB 1680, previously WTIR on the X-Band, were the calls of a station back in 1959, two years after it first had signed on, and also licensed to Winter Garden, as a 5000-watt directional AM daytimer. Quite possibly the same building and, considering the frequency, the same tower site as the current WLAA Winter Garden -- the old 1600 directional site. Both WOKB 1680 and WLAA 1600 are now omni.
Orlando and Florida folks can fill in more, I'm sure.

 

[jim-satx]

From NW San Antonio:

Day: Normally blank. One time back in 2018 I heard KRJO in Monroe, LA, during daytime skywave.

Sunset: It's KRJO at a pretty good signal level.

Night: KRJO is fairly steady with occasional brief fades, and 1670 XEFCR intrudes a bit with splatter at times. On rare occasions KGED in Fresno, CA, will come up weakly if I am NW and null out KRJO.

Sunrise: KRJO is still there with more XEFCR splatter. KGED is sometimes stronger in the null.

DX/Retro: I've heard WPRR in Ada, MI, just once. This past Sunday, I heard KNTS in Seattle for about 15 minutes around 6:30 a.m. It was airing Punjabi prayer chanting that matched the station's stream. I've never heard it before or since then, and it's my furthest U.S. state logging at 1,781 miles.

WOKB used to pop in and out regularly in the KRJO NW/SE null, but there's been no trace of it here in recent years.

Bak in 2023 I heard an urban music station mixing with KRJO for a few months. I thought it was WPRR because the format matched, but the stream never did. I later found some postings about the station on HF Underground that stated it was a pirate in a Canadian border state that was overtaking WPRR for a DXer in Minnesota.

 

[tvnut]

From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

1680 is one of my few single-station AM frequencies. WPPR Ada, Mich., has the honor here. My other single-station freqs: 660 (WNBC/WFAN), 780 (two sites for WBBM, though, and soon to be a third), 890 (WLS), 1390 (WNUS/WVON/WGCI/WGRB) and 1490 (WOPA/WBMX/WPNA/WBUR).

 

[TXPH97]

DFW, Texas

Daytime: Nothing
Nights: KRJO is the usual, but is quite weak. Also heard -

KRJO	LA	Monroe	Classic country // stream
WPRR	MI	Ada	"You're listening to 102.5 FM 1680 AM The Ride, WPRR". Fair with mod music, no KRJO.
WOKB	FL	Winter Garden	Urban gospel // stream, very weak in KRJO fade.

 

[kevtronics]

Somebody on 1680 is playing non-stop 1980s R&B music, with no IDs or commercials, not even a top-of-hour legal ID. It's not WTTM (I hear their Spanish music in the background). The music is Anita Baker, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, etc. I even heard Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time". Can anybody confirm whether this is WPRR or WOKB?

 

[cc333]

Somebody on 1680 is playing non-stop 1980s R&B music, with no IDs or commercials, not even a top-of-hour legal ID. It's not WTTM (I hear their Spanish music in the background). The music is Anita Baker, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, etc. I even heard Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time". Can anybody confirm whether this is WPRR or WOKB?

Could be a Part 15-er?

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