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MW Frequency of the Week--1060 kHz

Darth_vader said:
Haven't seen one of these on here in a couple weeks, and haven't started one myself before.

What do you get on 1060?

Day: nothing
Night: CKMX in Calgary, AB. I used to listen to it quite often when they still ran AC.
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Phoenix has sports-talker KDUS as a local, transmitting from the southwest side of Tempe (its COL) at 5 kW days and 500 watts nights. Excellent valley-wide coverage during the day, but horrible at night.

At night, they are directional with almost a total null to all compass directions from about 110 to 225 degrees. IBOCrap from KNX overrides their signal in those directions, more than 2 miles away. They are almost totally inaudible in parts of their own city of license! Forget Chandler, Gilbert, and southern Mesa.
 
1060 In North Idaho, CKMX Calgary very strong.
Underneath I'm hearing ABC Nx at top of the hour. Heard a couple times
and believe it to be KGFX, Pierre, SD whose pattern is aimed this way.
Heard @ 6 PM local time & at 5 AM. If/when I positive ID, they have a
place on their website for DXers to report! Unbelievable!
 
NE North Carolina
Midday nothing heard all week.
Sunset is KYW with unid Hispanic probably WXNC Monroe, NC.
Nights is all KYW.

Have heard KYW days but conditions are different this week.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Buckeyes2001 said:
From Vermilion, OH

Daytime: WILB/Canton, OH
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How does WILB do up there after it went 15 kW?
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I was able to pick them up on my car radio the other day, heard their ID and being a Canton station. It wasn't a clear signal but enough that I could make out the ID.
 
From Lexington, KY 1060 Reception:

Daytime:
WJKY Jamestown, KY

Sunrise/Sunset:

WILB Canton, OH
WLNO New Orleans, LA

Night:

KYW Philadelphia, PA
 
Durham, North Carolina...

Daytime is WGSB in Mebane (25 miles west of town on I-85), while nighttime belongs to clear channel KYW in Philadelphia.
 
In upstate NY; Daytime, nothing but splatter from 1050 CHUM Toronto
Nighttime, nothing but KYW; give 'em 22 minutes, they'll give you the world (Yes,
they're modeled on CBS stablemate 1010 WINS in NYC)
 
ALL CKMX here. Sometimes I'll hear a Mexican under it, I have no idea where it is. (Regional Mexican)

-crainbebo
 
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/lo...at=&dx=3&radius=1000&freq=1060&sort=freq&sid=

I set that link to display the 1060's within a 1 000-mile radius of Bothell (98011), to account for favourable skywave conditions. Just off-hand I'd probably say your regional Mexican might be the religious stations KBGN (Caldwell, idaho) or KKVV (Vegas). I'm basing that on the premise that religious stations, at least those I've heard on the west coast, often tend to have a fair amount of programming in Spanish.

Just a guess.
 
The Mexican was caught last year about 6pm on a WEEKNIGHT. So, not KBGN.

-crainbebo
 
40 miles NW of Chicago (Crystal Lake, IL)

Daytime:
WHFB Benton Harbor, MI
WRHL Rochelle, IL (under WHFB)

Critical Hours "skip" approximately 2 hours after sunrise, 2 hours before sunset:

WILB Canton, OH
WLNO New Orleans (sunset)

Night:
KYW Philadelphia (and Critical Hours/sunset)
XEEP Mexico City, DF (overnight only)
CKMX Calgary, AB (and Critical Hours/sunrise)
 
Anyone remember WBMB 1060 West Branch, Michigan? I used to get it with an additional tuned radio frequency stage with a long wire and ground in SE Michigan. It's one of the vanishing AMs of of North Central Lower Michigan. Other vanishing AMs include WHGR 1290 Houghton Lake and WSNQ, originally WATC, 900 Gaylord. The sandy soil attenuated the signal so fast that even 5000 watt stations and 1000 watt stations at the low to middle part of the band were practically gone before you got to the next town. And 250 watt locals? Forget about it.

I've discussed with R. Fry the fact that stations from Southern Michigan whose signal launched in areas of better conductivity would soon overtake those stations on the far side of the local AMs limited signal area. The signals were there but you needed a loop antenna and or preamp to get them at the distances you would expect to get them based on the FCC M-3 Graphs.
 
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