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AM Frequency of the Week: 1070

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Far NW suburban Chicago....

Days: WTSO from Madison, WI. Fair-weak signal. 10kw but I'm in the null that was originally intended to protect the now-defunct W{BC (Indianapolis).

Nights: WTSO usually on top. KHMO (Hannibal, MO) also surfaces. CHOK (Sarnia, ON) less frequently sneaks in. I've also heard KFTI (Wichita) a few times. KNX used to show up once in a while in a while, but it's probably been at least ten years since I've heard them here.

Retro/Other Location. Nights at my location used to be a three way battle between WTSO, WIBC. and CHOK. That ended when WIBC migrated to FM ad CHOK fixed their DA.

At our Gulf location near Pensacola, 1070 is semi-local 15kw WNVY with a good signal. At night WNVY goes to 28 watts and vanishes. WDIA Memphis) then takes over most of the time.
I have yet to snag KNX.

NOTE: I am going in for outpatient eye surgery this coming Wednesday (1/10) and will likely be unable to post for the next 2-3 weeks. If anyone would like to take over FOTW while I'm visually compromised. Please PM me. Probably also a good idea to cc David.

If I don't hear from any volunteers, I will resume late this month or early next.
 
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DFW, Texas

24/7 is IBOC hash from adjacent channel local 1080-KRLD. At night, I can achieve a slight null on the IBOC hash and hear classic country KFTI Wichita KS with a consistent signal.

However, occasionally KRLD's IBOC is turned off, which allows for some interesting listening. At night, KNX Los Angeles shows up sometimes. I've also heard WAPI Birmingham AL and KHMO Hannibal MO, both with conservative talk, and KOPY Alice TX broadcasting in Spanish. At sunrise, I have heard KNTH Houston (The Answer) and WDIA Memphis with Urban programming.
 
Tyler, TX:

TXPH97 said:
DFW, Texas

24/7 is IBOC hash from adjacent channel local 1080-KRLD. At night, I can achieve a slight null on the IBOC hash and hear classic country KFTI Wichita KS with a consistent signal.

However, occasionally KRLD's IBOC is turned off, which allows for some interesting listening. I've also heard KHMO Hannibal MO with conservative talk, and KOPY Alice TX broadcasting in Spanish.
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What he said. 😂

KRLD's HD tears up 1070 pretty badly, even 90 miles to the east.
 
Denver, CO: Nothing daytime, though, this time of year, KFTI Wichita will come in between 4 and 4:30 pm, when the switch flips and KFTI directs away from Los Angeles. Nighttime, it's almost always KNX.

Retro in Missouri: Occasionally, what was then KFDI Wichita (typically late afternoon in the winter). A few times before Memphis sunset in the winter, WDIA.

Retro in Texas: During my time in Houston, 1070 was KRBE, "Classic Rock 1070". In stereo. Interestingly, when KRBE was on nighttime pattern, you could still hear a little bit of KNX under it.
 
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It's interesting to revisit 1070 after the towers of WIBC/WFNI were felled. Driving by the old site, there's barely a trace of its former existence.

East Tennessee: Days-A weak WFLI, now News/Talk as the attempted reboot of Jet-FLI was unsuccessful. Nights used to be WFLI, although in fact it could it be in early in the day in the winter. WCSZ San Souci SC still comes in close to sunset, but after a spot check last night it appears WCSZ and CHOK are behaving themselves, as both were being widely heard after the Indianapolis shutdown but not a trace of either last night.

Retro/other: Checking the Edinburgh IN SDR right after the closure, one could tell how well WIBC/WFNI was protected during the day. WTSO, Madison, WI would hang in through mid-morning. Nights were a mix of CHOK and WCSZ. WFNI signed back on with low power and still gets to the Edinburgh receiver during the day. I caught KNX on it once.

When I lived in Lafayette, IN, there was only a small lobe pointed toward us. CHOK was blasting the GTO-Good Time Oldies network to us every night (mid-90s). I also caught WAPI at sunset with WIBC on daytime power/pattern.
 
kw - Melbourne FL

1070 - CMAx - Guane - Radio Guama - Spanish – provincial network for Pinar del Rio - 2023

1070 - WKII - Solana-Ft. Myers-Venice ---- Standards – CNN - 2005

1070 - WAPI - Birmingham - Newstalk 1070 - News, talk - 2001
 
cyberdad said:
Far NW suburban Chicago....

Days: WTSO from Madison, WI. Fair-weak signal. 10kw but I'm in the null that was originally intended to protect the now-defunct W{BC (Indianapolis).

Nights: WTSO usually on top. KHMO (Hannibal, MO) also surfaces. CHOK (Sarnia, ON) less frequently sneaks in. I've also heard KFTI (Wichita) a few times. KNX used to show up once in a while in a while, but it's probably been at least ten years since I've heard them here.

Retro/Other Location. Nights at my location used to be a three way battle between WTSO, WIBC. and CHOK. That ended when WIBC migrated to FM ad CHOK fixed their DA.

At our Gulf location near Pensacola, 1070 is semi-local 15kw WNVY with a good signal. At night WNVY goes to 28 watts and vanishes. WDIA Memphis) then takes over most of the time.
I have yet to snag KNX.

NOTE: I am going in for outpatient eye surgery this coming Wednesday (1/10) and will likely be unable to post for the next 2-3 weeks. If anyone would like to take over FOTW while I'm visually compromised. Please PM me. Probably also a good idea to cc David.

If I don't hear from any volunteers, I will resume late this month or early next.
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Best of luck!
 
I haven't seen our semi-local WKOK Sunbury PA show up in past 1070 FsOTW. They are the daytime regular here, 10,000 omni watts due west of this den. Theoretically they should be a rather steady SRS catch for many. Especially with WIBC being history.
Metro Sunbury is a shire on the Susquehanna (an estuary there with actual tides as opposed to being an outright river), and is surrounded by many hills. Perhaps the intervening hills between us and them -- just 17 miles away -- muffles their daytime signal here. This one ear thinks they should be more present. But who knows what SRS skywave can bring to others, eh?
(Long, long ago, WKOK was home on 1240. As recently as a decade or so back, 1240 had a Country station occupying it ; that facility is long-dark.)
A WSCP from upstate NY, north of Syracuse on Lake Ontario, was a SSS catch.
WIBC and CHOK are the other two 1070's in the log here. But indeed ridiculing WKOK's flimsy 1070 daytime omni signal, I was getting Indianapolis's'es 'WFNI' off a cheesy Ford Escort car radio while it was still daylight -- in Shamokin PA, eight miles east of WKOK's omni stick.

@cyberdad :
Somewhere in the ark-ives here is a Pepper-Tanner jingle for WNVY, from that 'Sound of Feeling Good jingle package. Back from when they were on 1230 !
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

It used to be, before WNWI 1080 moved to the area from Valparaiso, Ind., that one could pick up WIBC Indianapolis in the car, and sometimes in the house – with the radio sitting in the right spot. It was the way to keep up with Indy 500 qualifying.

Today, with 1080 bleeding over most of the time, we really have to work to get a hint of WTSO Madison days, or anything nights.

Back in the day, it was WIBC first (only the billboard touting WIBC-FM remains on the transmitter site, which is cluttered with condos now). Nights, it was a nightly fight, albeit without WIBC. KNX Los Angeles dropped in occasionally. CHOK Sarnia, Ont., would say hello (most recently 11/25/2015). WAPI Birmingham, Ala., could be recognized decades ago with the voice of young Eli Gold calling Birmingham Bulls WHA hockey. Along the way, we also picked up KFDI Wichita, WDIA Memphis, WHYZ Greenville, S.C., and most recently KHMO Hannibal, Mo., scraping above the WNWI hash for a few minutes.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Just splatter from KYW 1060 Philadelphia

Nights - Usually a mix of weak unidentifiable signals but last night I heard a Toronto Maple Leafs game fading in and out and was able to identify CHOK in Sarnia Ontario.

Retro - I got a QSL card from WAPI Birmingham AL when I was at Penn State in the late 70's. I miss CBA in Moncton NB.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WTSO Madison, WI weak but there
Nighttime: WTSO or CHOK. Sometimes WCSZ San Souci, SC on top, possibly with day power.

DX/RETRO: KNX is still being heard in the Midwest by DXers. I have not heard them lately, but I don't really try either. Others heard include WIBC (Indianapolis, IN), KFDI (Wichita, KS), KHMO (Hannibal, MO), WDIA (Memphis, TN), WAPI (Birmingham, AL), WNCT (Greenville, NC), WHYZ (Greenville, SC), WEKT (Elkton, KY). My best DX on this frequency without a doubt is CBA (Moncton, New Brunswick) and the Colombian HJAG from Barranquilla.
 
Not much at all these days in Rochester NY. Day used to be WSCP (now WZUN) Pulaski, about 80 miles away at the end of Lake Ontario, but it's been silent for years now. (It's still licensed and "feeding" a translator in Oswego, but what the FCC doesn't know...)

WKOK makes the occasional sunset visit, and nights are usually CHOK now that CBA is long gone.
 
I am not sure I've heard anything day or night around central Ohio since WFNI/WIBC left the air. It was a tough catch at night here anyway because it was beamed southeast.
I will have to check for CHOK. If I've heard it here, it's extremely weak.
 
Canyon Lake, Texas is a dry well during the day. Somewhat surprising with KNTH in Houston and KOPY from Alice both under 200 miles away.

At night KRLD’s IBOC wreaks havoc. KFTI from Wichita has made it through, KNX used to, but it has been several years since I have heard them. I have heard them in Midland-Odessa and San Angelo. Coming back from West Texas, the signal dropped off just east of Junction on I 10.

Back in the late 80’s, I heard them in Illinois (20 miles east of St. Louis at Sunrise) in my 1984 Firebird. I didn’t realize at the time, KNX went out that far.
 
From Aberfoyle ON, CHOK Sarnia is usually very faint. However I was surprised at 5pm with 3 seconds of very clear ID of WLFI popping out of the mud. This morning at 9am some clear good signal from WKOK then back in the mud.
 
Eastern Iowa: nothing daytime. Nighttime is a mix of WTSO Madison, WI, KHMO Hannibal, MO, CHOK Sarnia, ON. Others I've heard include WFNI Indianapolis, WDIA Memphis, and long ago, KNX Los Angeles.
 
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From Aberfoyle ON, CHOK Sarnia is usually very faint. However I was surprised at 5pm with 3 seconds of very clear ID of WLFI popping out of the mud. This morning at 9am some clear good signal from WKOK then back in the mud.
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Sorry I transpose letters a lot these days. Old age. Not WLFI but WFLI Lookout Mountain TN
 
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