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AM Frequency of the Week: 1060

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Crystal Lake, IL.....

Days: A very weak WHFB from Benton Harbor, MI. WRHL from Rochelle, IL is actually closer. But I'm in their deep null to the east and have never heard them here.

Nights: Normally all KYW. Usually with a good signal. A couple of years ago, WHFB was running 5kw day power all night and was strong enough to overtake KYW. I've also heard Mexico City (as XEEP) a few times.

Other Location: Beach 23 miSW of Pensacola. 50kw WLNO from New Orleans. Fair signal. Weaker than it was dueing its days as WNOE. At night WLNO drops to 5kw with a tight pattern aimed mostly northwest and Mexico City takes over. I've only heard KYW a handful of times,
 
Denver, CO:

Days: KRCN, Longmont, CO, NE of Boulder. A local 50 kw signal but not overpowering. Basically an EWTN (Catholic) repeater.

Nights: KRCN has flea power at night (111 watts) from a different site and sometimes doesn't appear to be on the air at all. When it's on, I can get it at night fairly steadily but it's also easy to null out. What I get here aside from KRCN is mush.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days, and nights when they stay on by accident, WHFB Benton Harbor, Mich., 5 kW.

Nights, KYW Phiadelphia.

Along the way: WNOE New Orleans, XEEP Mexico City and WKNG Tallapoosa, Ga., on day power overnight on 3/14/2021. Oh, and one other: WQMV Waverly, Tenn., first heard at 1061.8, way off frequency, on 12/7/2021, then on 1060 when things were fixed.

History lesson: KYW was Chicago's first station, debuting on 11/11/2021 from the Chicago Opera House, a joint venture of Westinghouse and Commonwealth Edison, whose tycoon owner Samuel Insull also fancied opera. It stayed in Chicago until 1934, when Westinghouse moved it to Philadelphia by FCC decree to balance the number of clear-channel stations by region (KYW was the fifth such outlet in Chicago, along with WMAQ, WGN, WBBM and WLS). Westinghouse sold the transmitter site on Army Trail Road to RCA, which used it for WMAQ. WSCR still transmits from the same building (along with relocated WBBM).
 
kw - Melbourne FL

1060 - WIXC - Titusville FL - Sportstalk 1060 - Fox Sports Radio - 2023 (30 miles north of Melbourne...)

1060 - KYW - Philadelphia PA ---- All news (when WIXC is off) - 2023

1060 - CMGW - Jovellanos, Cuba - Radio Veintiseis - 0220 EDT - Spanish - 2010
 
I realized I should have done a retro thing here, too, since I had plenty of activity on this channel in Missouri.

1980 - KLMO, Longmont, CO (now KRCN) (in Columbia at critical hours) (10 kw at the time)
1980 - WNOE, New Orleans (in Columbia)
1984 - also WNOE (in Columbia)
1984 - WKKQ, Hibbing, MN (in Columbia at critical hours)
1980 - KHYM, Gilmer, TX (in Columbia at critical hours)
1980 - XEEP, Radio Educación, Mexico City (in Columbia)
1984 - also XEEP (in O'Fallon)
Also noted as "Frequently received" in Missouri: KYW
 
If there were such a market as 'Pottsville-Shenandoah' or 'Schuylkill County PA' or 'The Land Time Forgot' in these parts, the guess here is that KYW would show respectfully well in the 'southeast' part of the book.
Even though there isn't any southeast corner in the odd-shaped county. Since one of KYW's 24-7-52 lobes is atop 1060 'round the clock even into the 'northwest' part of Schuylkill, places closer to Philly -- Deer Lake, Orwigsburg, Port Clinton, Schuylkill Haven, Cressona -- would use KYW as a news source. It's louder there, plus there is no other all-newser in the area. It'd be the highest-rated AM station on the list, albeit with maybe a 0.5 or 0.7 share. Maybe the ONLY AM station to show.
One bright sunshiney morning, off a Zenith bedside table radio, I awoke to 1060's weather and traffic. The names of the roadways were making little sense though. The station turned out to be what was then 'WBIV' Natick MA, just west of Boston, most likely on a critical hours pattern that they once had about 12 years ago.
The onliest other catch on 1060 here, never IDed, isn't even a logged 'catch' fttb. I gave up on 'em. Had to be either XEEP or Cuba. All I ever got at times was classical music. No talking.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
If there were such a market as 'Pottsville-Shenandoah' or 'Schuylkill County PA' or 'The Land Time Forgot' in these parts, the guess here is that KYW would show respectfully well in the 'southeast' part of the book.
Even though there isn't any southeast corner in the odd-shaped county. Since one of KYW's 24-7-52 lobes is atop 1060 'round the clock even into the 'northwest' part of Schuylkill, places closer to Philly -- Deer Lake, Orwigsburg, Port Clinton, Schuylkill Haven, Cressona -- would use KYW as a news source. It's louder there, plus there is no other all-newser in the area. It'd be the highest-rated AM station on the list, albeit with maybe a 0.5 or 0.7 share. Maybe the ONLY AM station to show.
One bright sunshiney morning, off a Zenith bedside table radio, I awoke to 1060's weather and traffic. The names of the roadways were making little sense though. The station turned out to be what was then 'WBIV' Natick MA, just west of Boston, most likely on a critical hours pattern that they once had about 12 years ago.
The onliest other catch on 1060 here, never IDed, isn't even a logged 'catch' fttb. I gave up on 'em. Had to be either XEEP or Cuba. All I ever got at times was classical music. No talking.
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East Tennessee: Days, WNPC, Newport TN weakly
Critical hours: KYW, but also caught a religious station (Canton OH?)
Night: All KYW.
 
Tyler, TX:

Like 690, this is another emptiness caused by the now deceased City Councilman Jerry Russell. Was, in its final breath, 1060 KOFY Gilmer with Gospel. Decent signal here, but now the very reason for the daylight void.

At night was WLNO New Orleans, with a fairly strong signal. Very comparable in atrength to NO's 1280. WLNO has been missing at night here for what seems like an eternity, leaving 1060 to a distant Spanish language signal that evades my efforts to identify it.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Local All News KYW Philadelphia with a good signal.

Nights - KYW but there is some occasional splatter from WEPN on 1050.

Retro - When CJRP in Quebec was still broadcasting you could hear it in the backround on late winter afternoons before they cut their power from 50KW to 10KW.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs: days WHFB good signal, nights all KYW good signal. New Orleans used to be A good listen as WNOE especially in fall. Don’t hear it much as WLNO. Have heard Mexico City a few times.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Nothing
Nights: Spanish fair to poor. I've ID'ed both XERDO Matamoros, TA and XECPAE Mexico DF, over the past couple of years. Nulling the XE, used to yield WLNO New Orleans, but not so much lately. One-time logging of KGFX Pierre, SD when it faded up out of nowhere with a legal ID under XERDO in Nov. 2021. I have tried many times to hear KYW, to no avail.
 
anwar said:
Wilmington Delaware
The onliest other catch on 1060 here, never IDed, isn't even a logged 'catch' fttb. I gave up on 'em. Had to be either XEEP or Cuba. All I ever got at times was classical music. No talking.
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Sounds like XEEP to me, Classical music overnight and no announcer, New Management seemed to be continuing at least some if the same, last time I heard them last June on the Gulf, Cuba's R. Nacional runs classical music 24.7 on 590.
 
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Nulling the XE, used to yield WLNO New Orleans, but not so much lately.
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You won't hear it for awhile, if ever again. Lost all 6 towers in one of the hurricanes. It's been operating with STA, non-directional @ 70 watts for a couple of years. At least that's what was requested. Word is it's off the air altogether. WLNO has been on the ropes for a couple decades. It may very well end up in the scrap bin before all is said and done.
 
rosecitymedia said:
You won't hear it for awhile, if ever again. Lost all 6 towers in one of the hurricanes. It's been operating with STA, non-directional @ 70 watts for a couple of years. At least that's what was requested. Word is it's off the air altogether. WLNO has been on the ropes for a couple decades. It may very well end up in the scrap bin before all is said and done.
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Back in the late 1980's when it was WNOE, it occasionally could be heard on I 20 west of Atlanta pre-sunrise. During the 1970's when I was stationed at Kessler AFB Biloxi MS, twice (student then instructor/tudor) it was a really good signal and IMHO a really decent top 40 Chicken Rock Hybrid.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WHFB with weak signal
Nighttime: usually KYW with good signal. XECPAE (ex XEEP) Radio Educacion is quite common with KYW nulled

DX/RETRO: others heard on 1060 include KHYM (Gilmer, TX), KFIL (Preston, MN), WLNO (New Orleans, LA), WKKQ (Hibbing, MN), WILB (Canton, OH), WQMV (Waverly, TN), WKRE (Monroe, NC), WQOM (Boston, MA), WKNG (Talapoosa, GA), WRHL (Rochelle, IL) and the now silent CKMX (Calgary, AB) with their comedy format. Th most recent new log on this frequency is XERDO, Matamoros, Mexico in 2021. It has been heard several times since, few times mixing with XECPAE.
 
In the Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, it's KYW Newsradio all day and night. It can be easily heard with a decent signal on a very good radio during the daytime.
 
East-central Iowa: nothing daytime. Nighttime is usually KYW. But not always! I've also caught XEEP Mexico City quite a bit, CKMX Calgary, WLNO New Orleans, and WRHL Rochelle, IL. WRHL gets out remarkably well at least in my direction. I don't quite understand it. I suspect they are sometimes running day power at night because they're licensed for only 50 watts at night, yet only 250 watts daytime. So you never know. But this station often shows up in daytime skywave conditions, a little over 125 miles east of me.
 
Springfield, OH
Day - WILB Canton, OH, 145 miles
Nite - like most, KYW a very consistent grab, and clear for long stretches. 456 miles. Have gotten it as early as 3PM EST.
 
Central Kentucky:

Days: A very weak WJKY Russell Springs/Jamestown.
Has a translator at 106.5
Last I heard they were running a "Jack FM" format

Nights: KYW with a decent signal most nights.
 
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