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AM Frequnncy of the Week: 1010

cyberdad

cyberdad

40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago....

Days: WMVP (1000) splatter

Nights: As discussed last week, WMVP sends a little less juice to my location. So that opens things up for "the battle of weak signals". Usually either CFRB or WINS ends up on top. But like a contest between two exhausted prizefighters, neither can knock out the other. (For more than a few minutes in most cases).

I've also heard the Stevens Point, WI 1010 WPCN (ex-WSPT) here a few times. Presumably on 1kw day power.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime is all WMVP splatter. At night I usually hear more of CFRB although sometimes WINS mixes in and is briefly on top.
Before sunset I have heard KXEN a couple of times
 
radioman148 said:
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime is all WMVP splatter. At night I usually hear more of CFRB although sometimes WINS mixes in and is briefly on top.
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Yeah.....I was almost going to say I hea4r CFRB a little more often than WINS. But its definitely close. FWIW, CFRB has a really nice signal around Toronto. A tossup between them and CFTR for runner-up to the CFZM/CJBC diplex.
 
cyberdad said:
Yeah.....I was almost going to say I hea4r CFRB a little more often than WINS. But its definitely close. FWIW, CFRB has a really nice signal around Toronto. A tossup between them and CFTR for runner-up to the CFZM/CJBC diplex.
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CFTR was a very good station when I was in Toronto during their rock days. Back to topic, I usually hear CFRB most often although WINS does muscle in sometimes.

Retro: Waaay back in their Top 40 days I used to try to hear WINS, but most often CFRB won out.
 
East Tennessee: Days-WKJV-1380 sister station WKJW, Black Mountain NC. Don't be shocked if you catch either of these stations running day power at night. WTZA, Atlanta can make the trip on those winter days.
Nights--a tossup between WINS and CFRB.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio it could be a tossup between WIOI, New Boston, OH and WCSI, Columbus, IN, both very weak. CFRB can come in as early as 2pm, especially north of town in the winter. Nights will be CFRB more often than not.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL (near NW suburb of Chicago):

Daytime: nothin but WMVP splatter
Nightime: either WINS or CFRB

DX/Retro: others heard o n this frequency include KLRA (Little Rock, AR), KXEN (St. Louis, MO)., WIOI (new Boston, OH), WXYQ (Stevens Point, WI), WFGW (Black Mountain, NC)
 
In the city of Chicago near the lake shore. I normally hear CFRB at night, and nothing during the day. Unlike the other locals from around here I've never heard WINS though I've looked for it. A couple of times I have heard WKJW in Black Mountain NC. Both times it was at night when they should have been running at 47 watts but clearly were not. Most likely they were on their 47 KW daytime pattern.

Retro: Back in the 80s in the Bay Area, KIQI in Sunnyvale would be heard. It was 10 KW and in Spanish then, and it's 10 KW and in Spanish now. So they are nothing if not consistent. They seem to have moved their transmitter to San Francisco though.
 
Orange County, TX, Days KLAT Houston, nights mostly WMOX Meridian, MS with KLAT, KBBW, Waco and unknown Spanish religious.
 
New Britain, CT...southwest of Hartford:

DAYTIME - A very weak WINS-AM from New York City. Unlike WCBS-AM 880, I can barely ever hear it.
NIGHT - A mix of WINS-AM and CFRB-AM from Toronto. WINS-AM wins the battle, but only slightly.
 
Laramie, WY (Southeast corner of the state)

KSIR Fort Morgan, CO by day
KIHU Toeele/SC right before sunrise
CBR CAlgary at night sometimes
Sometimes KXPS Thousand Palms/Palm Springs right before sunset
 
Days here in the new DX digs of NE PA is a weak WINS. I *do* have a WTGC Lewistown PA logged -- tentatively -- but I don't count them because there's no info I can find.
The WINS reception is odd because supposedly they send very little signal this way.

CFRB starts to come in nearing sunset, especially in winter. But there was one near-sunset, probably via the mid-winter anomaly path, when Country WCNL from New Hampshire was on top for a while. I am WAY off the map for this omni station.

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WCNL&service=AM&h=D

The WCNL reception was off a 6-tube Zenith table/barbershop radio in the guest room where I was cleaning. I don't have it taped.
 
Around Columbus, Ohio, I want to say I've heard WIOI at least a couple times but not 100 percent sure. If so, it's extremely weak. Their Radio Locator map doesn't appear to give them much coverage, not altogether surprising for a signal in the middle of the dial in the vastly poorer ground conductivity of southern Ohio (as compared to central, northern and western parts of the state).
At night, it's usually WINS and CFRB fighting it out. Seems to me I've heard WINS more over the years, but its signal is not at all comparable to the other New York 50Ks around here.
1010 also features one of my favorite co-channel situations from when I lived in Houston, between Houston's KLAT and Waco's KBBW.
 
What's apparent here is that WINS and CFRB do battle at night in numerous locations. And, of course, another place where a lot of us have heard them fight it out is on the European SDRs. Including the arctic rig in Norway.

.....And @ radioman: You also mentioned CFTR. Yep, I remember their days as a top 40 station. And a good one at that. At one point during their top 40 run, legendary Chicago jock John Landecker was working there.
 
schmave said:
Around Columbus, Ohio, I want to say I've heard WIOI at least a couple times but not 100 percent sure. If so, it's extremely weak. Their Radio Locator map doesn't appear to give them much coverage, not altogether surprising for a signal in the middle of the dial in the vastly poorer ground conductivity of southern Ohio (as compared to central, northern and western parts of the state).
At night, it's usually WINS and CFRB fighting it out. Seems to me I've heard WINS more over the years, but its signal is not at all comparable to the other New York 50Ks around here.
1010 also features one of my favorite co-channel situations from when I lived in Houston, between Houston's KLAT and Waco's KBBW.
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That could be because it's a 4 tower directional for WINS
 
Mason City, IA:
Day/night- KRNI, our local News & Info affil from IA Public Radio
Central KS:
Day: no immediate local signals (KIND/Independence is about 150 miles southeast of my location and is barely receivable), though last December when I returned to my ol’ stomping grounds, I picked up a mix of KXEN/St. Louis and what I believe was KTNZ/Amarillo.
Night: never really have tried to listen in at night, so not sure if CFRB or CBR booms in.
 
cyberdad said:
What's apparent here is that WINS and CFRB do battle at night in numerous locations. And, of course, another place where a lot of us have heard them fight it out is on the European SDRs. Including the arctic rig in Norway.

.....And @ radioman: You also mentioned CFTR. Yep, I remember their days as a top 40 station. And a good one at that. At one point during their top 40 run, legendary Chicago jock John Landecker was working there.
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Yes both CFRB & WINS can be heard on the European SDRs. @cyberdad, the few times I was in Toronto Landecker wasn't there, but I know he was there in the early 80s.
 
radioman148 said:
Yes both CFRB & WINS can be heard on the European SDRs. @cyberdad, the few times I was in Toronto Landecker wasn't there, but I know he was there in the early 80s.
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When I lived in NW PA, It was all CFRB on 1010.. heck, i could hear them by day most of the time!.. my massive loop and/or longwire sure helped
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: A weak KBBW, 10 kW @ 168 miles from Waco. There's a bit of splatter from semi-local KBIB on 1000.

Sunset: KLAT in Houston comes up, as does KXEN in St. Louis. Aiming NW, I can occasionally hear KTNZ in Amarillo, which switched from ESPN to Catholic radio a couple of years ago.

Night: It's mostly KLAT and XEHL "W Deportes" in Zapopan. XEHL simulcasts 730 XEX, which features U.S. classic hits when not airing sports talk/games. KTNZ and especially KBBW are heard less after going to nighttime power and patterns.

Sunrise: It can get graveyard-like at times, with XEPA "Ke Buena" in Puebla coming into the mix when it goes to daytime power. KLAT is the last to disappear before KBBW goes to day power.

DX/Retro: One October a few years back, I caught a weak KXXT in Tolleson, AZ, at sunset.
 
On 1010 WINS:

Although I haven't been 'home' to my stomping grounds of Queens/Long Island in over ten years ........

..... https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WINS&service=AM&h=D

..... I can vouch for that vast, improbable southwest null, at least via my last visit. In broad daylight, on the Staten Island side of the Verrazzano, WINS's signal began chewing itself into near-electromagnetic and directional incest. Upon hearing the splooshy, almost demonic hashing, my wife said, wincingly, 'Can't you tune them in better?'

It was music to my ears, though. And this listening was in one of the FIVE NYC BOROUGHS.

My question is: why does WINS have to pull in their signal that way in the day? The only pebble in the shoe I can see is WSID Baltimore. They're a wee 1000-watt omni daytimer. Moreover, WINS has four towers. That extra stick should provide them with a little more of a maneuvrable lump to serve one of the five boroughs that they nominally are licensed to serve, right?
 
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