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What does your AM band look like at night? Part 5 1500-1580

C

crainbebo

Tell me what do you get between 1500 and 1580 kHz at night.
For me in Bothell, WA
1500 Weak KSTP
1510 KGA Spokane, rarely KPIG San Francisco
1520 KGDD and hash from KFBK
1530 KFBK Sacramento
1540 almost nothing but hash from 1530, weak KXPA Bellevue
1550 KKAD Vancouver, WA
1560 KVAN Burbank, WA or KNZR Bakersfield
1570 some spanish from either Lodi or Salinas CA or CKMW
1580 KGAL Lebanon, OR

-crainbebo
 
1500 WFED, Washington, D.C., rarely KSTP underneath
1510 mostly slop, but sometimes WWZN from Boston makes it out under the noise
1520 WWKB Buffalo
1530 WCKY Cincinnati
1540 CHIN Toronto and WDCD
1550 CBE Windsor
1560 WQEW New York
1570 IBOC HASH
1580 CKDO Oshawa
 
From Phoenix, AZ:

1500 - Occasionally KSTP St. Paul/Minneapolis
1510 - KFNN Phoenix mixed with KCKK Denver
1520 - KOKC Oklahoma City
1530 - KFBK Sacramento
1540 - KASA Phoenix mixed with KMPC Los Angeles
1550 - Nothing I can make out (KUAZ Tucson during the day)
1560 - Occasionally KNZR Bakersfield, normally KMIK IBOC hash.
1570 - KMIK hash
1580 - KMIK Phoenix (Radio Disney)
1590 - See 1570
 
Rochester NY:

1500 - WFED Washington
1510 - WLAC Nashville (used to hear CJRS Sherbrooke here, back in the day)
1520 - WWKB Buffalo (daytime, too - actually better in the day because of the skywave/groundwave cancellation that happens here after dark)
1530 - Cincinnati
1540 - KXEL Waterloo IA, CHIN Toronto
1550 - nasty mixing product between nearby 1370/1460 signals; CBE Windsor underneath
1560 - WQEW
1570 - Laval QC, weakly
1580 - CKDO Oshawa ON (daytime, too)
 
From 20 miles north of Chicago:

1500-Sometimes KSTP, rarely WFED, usually not much of either
1510-WLAC
1520-Mostly KOKC, very rarely WWKB
1530-WCKY
1540-KXEL Waterloo, Ia
1550-mess
1560-sometimes WQEW, sometimes WPAD Paducah, Ky--neither one very well
1570-Canada or sometimes XERF
1580-mess
1590-WONX
 
Central Indiana
1500 KTSP-Minneapolis/WTOP (Or whatever it is these Days) Washington
1510 WLAC Nashville
1520 WWKB-Buffalo
1530 WCKY Cincinnati
1540 KXEL Waterloo
1550 WMDH New Castle (Local)
1560 WQEW New York
1570 Nothin
1580 Nothin
 
Northwest of Chicago:

1500: KSTP occasionally. Weak
1510: WLAC solid
1520: Mess...sometimes with what used to be KOMA on top
1530: WCKY...strong before night pattern kicks in (Sacramento, CA sunset). Then fair
1540: KXEL solid
1550: Mess...sometimes CBE on top
1560: Usually WPAD on top of the slop. WQEW occasionally
1570: Mess
1580: Usually CKDO on top of the slop
 
From Fredericksburg, VA
1500 WFED (no longer WTOP) DC
1510 WLAC Nashville
1520 WKBW Buffalo
1530 WCKY Cincinnati
1540 KXEL Waterloo IO
1550 Mess
1560 WQEW Radio Disney NY
1570 mess
1580 WPGC DC
1590 Probably WFTH Richmond, VA with nighttime 19 watts signal according to my AM log book
1600 WWRL NY weak signal
 
from Pittsburgh

1500- varies between ex-WTOP, Washington, DC and KTSP, Minneapolis/St. Paul
1510- WLAC, Nashville, TN (occasionally a bit from the semi-local 1-watt evening
signal of WPGR, Monroeville, PA)
1520- WWKB, Buffalo, NY
1530- WCKY, Cincinnati, OH
1540- varies between CHIN, Toronto, and KXEL, Waterloo, IA (the former usually being in Chinese)
1550- sloppy mix, usually includes CBE, Windsor, and bits of the 4-watt evening signal from
WLFP, Braddock, PA)
1560- WQEW, New York
1570- slop, occasionally WQEW, Latrobe, PA
1580- WPGC, Washington, DC (very strong at critical hours)
 
From Lexington, KY

1500- WLQV Detroit, MI mixing with WWWT Washington, DC and annoying WLAC IBOC Trash
1510- WLAC Nashville, TN
1520- WWKB Buffalo, NY (weak) mixing with annoying WLAC IBOC Trash
1530- WCKY Cincinnati, OH
1540- CHIN Toronto, ON usually over KXEL, Waterloo, IA
1550- WBSC Bennettsville, SC in a mess of other signals
1560- WQEW New York, NY over WPAD Paducah, KY
1570- Big Mix of Weak Stations
1580- WGVN Georgetown, KY with lots of company
 
radioguybroadcasting:

I thought WNTF was a DAYTIME ONLY Station.... At least it was the last time I was in the Orlando area earlier this year.

KR4BD
 
KR4BD said:
radioguybroadcasting:

I thought WNTF was a DAYTIME ONLY Station.... At least it was the last time I was in the Orlando area earlier this year.

KR4BD
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That's what it's LICENSED for.

They operate at full power all night quite often and have been quoted as saying "We have special permission from the FCC" and they sell it as a 24/7 license to clients wanting to lease the station.
 
radioguybroadcasting said:
They operate at full power all night quite often and have been quoted as saying "We have special permission from the FCC"
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Special permission...yeah, right. Tell that to a visiting FCC Field Agent.

From what I saw on the FCC database WNTF does have both pre- and post-sunset authority. The PSRA (for 340 watts until sunrise) starts year round at 6AM but their PSSA only allows them to be on with greatly reduced power (like 25 to 30 watts) as late as 7:30 in the winter, 10:30 in the summer. So it's obvious there's no way they can stay on legally all night, and certainly not with full daytime power.
 
jd said:
radioguybroadcasting said:
They operate at full power all night quite often and have been quoted as saying "We have special permission from the FCC"
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Special permission...yeah, right. Tell that to a visiting FCC Field Agent.

From what I saw on the FCC database WNTF does have both pre- and post-sunset authority. The PSRA (for 340 watts until sunrise) starts year round at 6AM but their PSSA only allows them to be on with greatly reduced power (like 25 to 30 watts) as late as 7:30 in the winter, 10:30 in the summer. So it's obvious there's no way they can stay on legally all night, and certainly not with full daytime power.
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Special Permission, hey that's what the owner's daughter is telling everyone... and trust me, the FCC has been there.. several times.
 
1500-(once local WBZI signs off) KSTP until their sunset and then WFED
1510-WLAC (others in the mix, the Chicago area 1510 until Chicago sunset
1520-KOKC, occ. WWKB
1530-WCKY, some others
1540-KXEL or the Toronto ethnic station
1550-various, heard religious programming there before sunset yesterday
had heard Bennettsville SC on several occasions over the years
1560-WQEW
1570-various, sometimes semi local WPTW
1580-WPGC a couple hours before sunrise and after sunset.
BONUS
1590-WAKR
 
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