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AM Frequency of the Week, Week 2: 1600

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Last week we did 540, now we'll go to the other side of the dial and try 1600.

During the daytime, KPNP in Watertown, MN dominates with Hmong-language programming. The transmitter is over 100 miles from here (I think) but is heard regularly here.

At night, KCRG in Cedar Rapids (333 miles) dominates. I've also heard WAAM in Ann Arbor, MI on this channel.
 
Semi-local 500-watt WMCW dominates daytime here northwest of Chicago. At night it gets lost in the slop. Nighttime, WAAM occasionally ends up on top, KCRG less frequently.
 
cyberdad said:
Semi-local 500-watt WMCW dominates daytime here northwest of Chicago. At night it gets lost in the slop. Nighttime, WAAM occasionally ends up on top, KCRG less frequently.
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Plano TX, suburb of Dallas:
Local KRVA daytime, badly degraded and mixed with other stations nighttime.
 
WWRL is the dominant one here, sometimes there's a spanish station. Other notables I've heard are KCRG Cedar
Rapids, KLEM down in southern Louisiana and WCGO. There's a 1600 in Carrington Minnesota I've also heard. KATZ (as it was known) in St. Louis. Nothing else stands out right now.
 
I used to work at a 1600 and its an interesting frequency. Even 20 miles away on full daytime power it was possible to get WMQM in St. Louis through about 9am and again around sunset. After we dropped to our slammin' 35 watts of raw savage nighttime power, I'd get something in Spanish (we once did a sports show at a local eatery, at our studios it sounded like our sports guys were doing the show from a Mexican restaurant).
WWRL was pretty regular early mornings.
 
From Coldwater, MI:

Not much on 1600 because of a 5kw D/1kw N local on 1590. In the nighttime hours, it can be nulled to the point of minimal splatter on 1600. But the only three stations i've been able to ID are..

WWRL- New York, NY
WAAM- Ann Arbor, MI
WCGO- Chicago Heights, IL
 
new orleans station on 1600 need to ID
(day)

at night, it's typically mexican.
 
robfwb said:
new orleans station on 1600 need to ID (day)
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Here's your station, Rob, but it's south of there in Golden Meadow LA: www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KLEB&service=AM&status=L&hours=D It's 5000 day (CP for 7500) and 250 night.

Years ago, before a Dallas area station (now KRVA) moved from McKinney to Plano and later to Cockrell Hill with nighttime service, I could hear the somewhat legendary KATZ from St. Louis. As Bruce mentioned earlier 1600 is a jumbled mess when you get more than a few miles from the KRVA towers just southeast of downtown Dallas. Don't bother with the Radio-Locator coverage map. It's grossly overestimated.
 
I get nothing worth listening to on 1600 in central MA.
In SW Fla (about 1/2 between sarasota and Ft. Myers) I get 1600 out of Key West a 500 watt station that gets here via the salt water path. Probably 200 mi as the seagull flies. I listen to it quite a bit. But you have to be within 3 mi or so of the Gulf to get it well enough to listen/enjoy. But then again, that's where a lot of the people are.
I've been trying to get the 1600 out of Golden Meadow, LA. I've heard other programming besides Key West's sports talk on 1600 but not long enough to ID. I guess If I sat in the car for 30 min or so (yeah) I'd get an ID.
 
WUNR Brookline-Boston, MA is a local here (Spanish and other ethnic), but directional.

It probably gets a lot of fish in the ocean once it's past the Boston neighborhoods. To the west, it's gone not even twenty miles west of the city. Then, you get WWRL and other stuff mixing in.
 
This is all I have ever logged daytime, at my location 35 miles south of Chicago, on AM 1600:

Code: 
WCGO 1600 AM Chicago Heights IL USA Big Band, Adult Contemporary (fairly strong daytime local)
WMCW 1600 AM Harvard     IL USA Adult Contemporary, Variety 
WMHG 1600 AM Muskegon    MI USA (was Big Band, went silent 01/2008)

At night there are probably a dozen skywavers obliterating 1600, but I've never had the patience to try to listen through the muck to ID any of them. Well, except for WCGO Chicago Heights, which only has a 23-watt nighttime signal, but recently did some tower work that allows me to get them -- slightly.
 
I've heard Peru IN a time or two here in the Dayton area as well. I remember 1600 from key West making that ling haul into Sarasota when I was there in 1980.
 
MW_FM_DT_DXer said:
I get a mixture of Spanish-speaking stations on 1600 at night. My Spanish is very good; I just haven't identified them yet.
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Same here in eastern Kentucky,which always seems odd. My Spanish is limited to "Mas cerveza,por favor" though.
 
Let's see, at daytime I can pick up KOHI from Scappoose, OR (west of Portland) very weakly. By that I mean, to the point of having to turn the radio's volume up literally all the way in order to hear it. At night I get a lot of splattering off of KKAD on 1550 (Music Of Your Life) the transmitter towers of which, truth be told, I live about eight miles south of!

Switching my radio into narrowband mode clears this up somewhat and I end up hearing an odd mash-up of Spanish music, country/western (probably from KOHI) and political talk. I have not been able to completely identify any of those stations.
 
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