The most reliable sunrise and sunset skip stations at your location

[Icangelp]

We all know and love those times between night and dawn and day and night, especially when they coincide with driving to work or home. Who needs music, news, sports or political talk, when you can hear a preacher making a pitch for your hard earned money on WCPC in Houston, Mississippi?

What stations seem to always be there just before sunrise and sunset in your city, then disappear like your last girlfriend? Heck, what stations do you try to catch?

S/W Ohio:

Sunrise: (I'll have to check my logbook when I get home)
640 WHLO
850 KOA Denver, CO
990 CBW Winnipeg
1170 WWVA Wheeling WV


Sunset:
540 WAUK Jackson WI
640 WXSM Blountsville TN
680 WPTF Raleigh NC
720 WCGR Pisgah Forest NC
780 WWOL Forest City NC
810 WSJC Magee MS - Not much anymore
820 WWBA Largo FL - Only at certain times during the year
830 WTRU Kernersville NC
850 WKNR Cleveland
920 WGKA Atlanta - Not so much anymore.
940 WCPC Houston MS - Been checking it out for many years. It used to be a real small town station.
1010 News/Talk 1010 Toronto, ON Can
1030 WNVR Vernon Hills IL
1090 WBAL Baltimore
1110 WBT Charlotte
1550 WIGN Bristol TN
1580 WHFS Morningside MD - Forever remembered as WPGC

 

[QCA USA 1]

I'll try to remember what all I have picked up here in East Moline, IL (Quad Cities USA):

This is only a partial list, material may later be added at any time-

810: WHB (formerly KCMO) Kansas City, MO, sometimes mixed in with WGY Schenectady, NY
880: KRVN Lexington, NE, sometimes mixed with WCBS New York, NY
950: KOEL Oelwein, IA over or underneath (depending on signal strength) WDLM splatter
1000: Some station to the west, either KTOK Oklahoma City, OK (SW) or KXRB Sioux Falls, SD (NW); I don't believe I have ever heard KOMO Seattle and both of the listed stations on this channel power down and/or directionalize at night; otherwise WMVP Chicago is the only station I ever get on 1000 kHz; day or night. Improved reception from WMVP's only slightly directional daytime signal is also quite possible during SR and SS skip and it has even happened that way on several occasions as well.
1020: mix of KDKA Pittsburgh, PA and WPEO Peoria, IL (as long as the latter is still on the air; WPEO is a daytimer)
1090: mix of KAAY Little Rock, AR and KNWS Waterloo, IA (as long as the latter is still on the air; KNWS is a daytimer)
1100: WTAM Cleveland, OH (have yet to hear anything else on this channel; I know it's possible)
1110: mix of WMBI Chicago, IL and KFAB Omaha, NE (haven't heard WBT Charlotte, NC yet)
1130: mix of KFAN Minneapolis, MN and KWKH Shreveport, LA
1170: Normally KJOC Davenport, IA (local); however, in the distant background, I have occasionally heard KFAQ (fomerly KVOO) Tulsa, OK and WWVA Wheeling, WV or a mixture of both at various times and/or if KJOC was ever off the air for maintenance or transmitter problems. As these two stations protect each other at night as they are former class I-B clear channel stations, normally both KFAQ and WWVA disappear at night after both are on their directional night facilities. KJOC protects both KFAQ and WWVA with an extremely directional antenna pattern aimed exclusively to the north at night and thows off deep nulls to the east, west, and southwest.
1290: WIRL Peoria, IL
1300: KGLO Mason City, IA
1330: KWLO Waterloo, IA
1370: KDTH Dubuque, IA
1440: WROK Rockford, IL
1470: WMBD Peoria, IL, KWSL Sioux City, IA, WBKV West Bend, WI, and KWAY Waverly, IA (the last one powers down at night from 1 kW day to 61 watts; however, on a few occasions I have even heard KWAY at night as well as SR and SS skip; possibly as a result of someone at KWAY either doing transmitter testing or forgetting to flip the switch to night power, the latter of which is illegal)
1650: KYHN Fort Smith, AR mixed in with KCNZ Cedar Falls, IA (the latter is a regular here 24/7 although very weak in the daytime)
1700: KBGG Des Moines, IA

 

[Icangelp]

A few more
Sunrise
950 WWJ Detroit (Sunset also)
I'm sure there would be several more, but I tend to listen to local news in the AM drive.

Sunset
640 WCRV Collierville TN
1130 WISN (Sunrise & Sunset)

Probably quite a few in the 1230 - 1490 zone, but they tend fade in an out very rapidly, so I don't DX those frequencies while I'm driving.

 

[gr8oldies]

600 WKLW WV before WTVN turned on IBOC
650 WSM
740 CKZM, often by 2pm in winter
770 WABC, not so much anymore but in the top 40 days they were in by 4pm in winter
940 WCPC,what a signal for a small Miss. town.
WMAZ, Macon GA often an hour or so after sunrise
1010 CFRB or WINS
1030 WBZ have heard in winter at noon
1050 CHUM
1160 WYLL over and under WQRT
1380 WKJV, (King James Version), TN
1560 Radio Disney NY
1580 WPGC with their various formats always first in, last out from the east

 

[crainbebo]

Sunrise winters
590 KQNT Spokane, WA to about 10:30AM
610 KONA Pasco, WA to about 10AM
620: KPOJ Portland, OR to about Noon, with a short break for lunch, then back at about 1:15PM
700: sometimes KXLX Airway Heights, WA but rarely, usually KGRV Winston, OR at sunrise
720: KFIR Sweet Home, OR
750: KXL all day
1030: KDUN Reedsport, OR all day wiping out KMAS Shelton
1060: KBGN Caldwell, ID
1080: KFXX Portland, OR
1160: KSL heard at 11AM
1190: KEX ALL DAY
1280: KIT Yakima has been fighting lately
1380: before KRKO went I-BLOCK and put up their 50kw tower, I could get a country station from Ontario, OR
1440: KMED Medford
1510: KGA
1530: KFBK
1580: KGAL Lebanon to 10:30AM
1690: KFSG Roseville, CA has popped up from time to time

Sunrise summers
720: KFIR Sweet Home, OR
750: KXL Portland, OR
1160: KSL Salt Lake City to 7AM
1180: KOFI Kalispell, MT to about 7:15AM
1190: KEX Portland, good to about 9AM, fair to about 9:45, poor to 11AM, gone after that
1510: KGA Spokane to about 9AM
1520: KGDD Oregon City, OR good to 9:30AM, fair to 10:45AM, poor to 11:30, gone after that
1530: KFBK Sacramento to about 9:15AM

Sunset
570: KCFJ Alturas, CA is a sunset catch here
610: CKYL Peace River, AB also
620: CKRM Regina, SK sunset, verified today
680: KOMW Omak, WA
700: KGRV Winston, OR
750: KERR Polson, MT to night power change, very weak under KXL after that
790: CFCW Camrose, AB verified last Saturday
910: CKDQ Drumheller, AB
930: Edmonton, AB, but comes in at night STRONG winters!
940: CJGX Yorkton, SK
1010: KIHU Tooele, UT
1290: KOUU Pocatello, ID
1520: sometimes KVTA out of California
1530: once caught WCKY Cincinatti OH!
1570: Lodi, CA comes in about an hour before sunset
1700: XEPE Tecate, Baja California, Mexico in about 45 minutes before sunset, but very weak

-crainbebo

 

[boiseengineer]

Strong, reliable, regular post-sunrise and pre-sunset stations that disappear at night in Boise.
Partial list:

650 KSTE CA
670 KMZQ NV (Very noticeable under KBOI's 54 mV/m at my location)
770 CHQR AB
820 KUTR UT (KGNW not a regular here)
860 KPAM OR(Was KTRB before the move to SFO)
1000 KOMO WA
1010 KIHU UT
1030 KDUN OR
1080 KFXX OR
1170 KLOK CA
1190 KEX OR
1290 KOUU ID
1300 KKOL WA
1380 KRKO WA (covers semi-local KSRV most morning & afternoons,
Especially since they're running NDA under an STA)
1420 KIGO ID (They have not been heard for quite a while. Maybe the ol’ Continental 317 died)
1550 KKAD OR / KMRI UT / KRPI WA / KXEX CA etc... (fight it out 'till way into the day)

 

[kenrayc]

this is only a partial list from Clovis CA.

KOA 850 runs from 90 minutes before sunset and is on 1 hour after sunrise.
KOMO 1000 runs about 1 hour before sunset to 1 hour after sunrise.
KSL 1160 is good about 90 minutes before sunset and about a hour after sunrise.
KCBC 770 from Riverbank CA is a daytime station that become KKOB as soon as the sunsets.
there are more and i'll log them later.

Most strong stations from LA and San Francisco are avalaible all of the time KNBR, KGO, KFI, KCBS, KNX, and KSFO.