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Monitoring 1240 at night video - can you pick out anything here?

Buckeyes2001 said:
I made a clip of 1240 AM as heard around 10pm Eastern time in Vermilion, OH with the radio orientated NNW/SSE. Can you pick out any stations out of the mush?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYUjLOueE&fmt=18
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Well....No.

Graveyard frequencies are just big, LOUD, buzzing ROARS. You might hear something in the murk. In 1995, I once picked up an ID on 1340 kHz for KLOO Corvallis, OR in Lynnwood, WA and a nearly complete "Make The World Go Away" Eddy Arnold before it faded back into the soup. Another was KRPL, Moscow, ID (1400 kHz) in downtown Seattle (with some crap from KITZ, Silverdale, WA) in 1999.

But it's too rare to get a complete ID and location, especially with a LOT of these stations running Coast To Coast AM....I usually don't bother with graveyarders anymore.
 
I do good with graveyards as well, but I think that's because I live in the Northwest and not the East Coast where 100 stations pile on each other, on every frequency, all night.

Last night I got a complete ID for 1450 KONP Port Angeles, a common station. I've received a TON of graveyard logs. I usually tune my radio to wide mode, about 3 or 4khz away, since it takes away some of the slop. Sometimes it can be helped (would have never gotten 1340 KTSN Elko, NV without it), sometimes it really doesn't (one east-enhancing night, the only GY ID I got, even with sound blocking headphones, was 1240 KTIX Pendleton, OR, another regular.) Best to try at TOH, or around :05-:07 when stations are doing weather forecasts before tossing it back to Coast to Coast, etc.

I think I received ESPN once on 1230 on a Global Tuners node in Connecticut. Mind you, that also was a 100-station mess. Likely WEEX in PA.

-crainbebo
 
I couldn't discern a thing, unfortunately.
The only 1240 I am familiar with is WHIZ in Zanesville, Ohio. Last night at the time you posted this, they would have been carrying the Reds-Diamondbacks game. They have really nice groundwave coverage within about 10-15 miles of Zanesville, even at night, but they drop off fast beyond that. I live about 25 miles west of Zanesville and never have heard them here at night. Of course, here in Thornville, Ohio I am right about where the ground conductivity starts to fall off noticeably as you head into eastern Ohio.
I am located about halfway between 1,000-watt stations on 1230 (WYTS from Columbus) and 1240. I have heard 1230 through the mush, albeit VERY weakly, at night here and during the day they come in noticeably better than WHIZ (6 out of 10 whereas WHIZ is 4-4.5 of 10 at best with noticeable WYTS slop). Again, I've never heard trace one of WHIZ here at night and have tried several times to do so.
 
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