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AM Frequency of the Week: 1210

cyberdad

cyberdad

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40 Miles NW of downtown Chicago

Days: Basically empty. Some spatter from WRTO (1200).

Nights: WPHT with a fair signal. KGYN from Oklahoma occasionally underneath. More commonly. KGYN sometimes take s over at sunrise.

Other Location The battle between WPHT and KGYN is a more common occurrence on the gulf near Pensacola. WPHT typically gets the better of it.

Retro: When WKNX a 10kw daytimer out of East Lansing, was operating on 12110, it would typically make the hop to my location via daytime skywave a few times during winter.
 
Denver, CO -
Daytime: AM HD sidebands from local 1220 KLDC.
Nighttime: KLDC drops down to 12 watts, so not much interference there. Usually KGYN in Guymon, OK comes in, but sometimes it has to fight KHAT Laramie, WY - which identifies on-air as "New Country 96.7", referring to its translator K244FN. I've verified reception of KHAT by comparison with its online stream, and also heard the legal ID on the AM signal. Also notable is that KHAT has a CP underway to discontinue nighttime operation (1 kw, DA-N, two towers) while retaining its present daytime operation (10 kW ND). Tonight, KHAT is giving KGYN a run for its money, making me wonder what KHAT's nighttime power level actually is.

Retro: KGYN often came in well in central Missouri before Guymon local sunset and the switchover to DA-N. Never heard Philadelphia.
 
Cyberdad: Shouldn't this week's AM frequency be 1200? 1190 was last week's.
1200 would have been an interesting report for me. 1210, not so much:

Hartland, VT, and Meriden, CT: Nothing days, WPHT Philadelphia nights.
 
Melbourne FL

1210 WNMA - Miami Springs - Spanish & English classic hits - 2023

1210 - WPHT - Philadelphia - Talkradio - 1210 - News, talk - 2023

retro:
1210 CMHT - Cuba - R. Sancti Spiritus - Spanish – pop music - 2001
 
NW WA Weak KMIA, Auburn-Federal Way (Day) a mish-mash at night

I once picked up WOAI in Mount Vernon, WA prior to the sign on of CJRJ Vancouver
 
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There are some 1210 tales to spin here despite WCAU/WPHT Philly traditionally being the regional lounge lizard in three separate Northeast DX locales. I equate their signal with the disposition of a lazy German Shepherd who insists on sleeping on the sofa, gets screamed off and flees, and then goes back onto it when no one is around.
Day and night they're here, 100 miles or so NNW of Philly. Nothing else logged yet.

Back when I lived in PHL, their lone stick was across the Delaware from me in Cinnaminson NJ. It used to put harmonic signals on my Lafayette HA 600 ..... 2420, 4840, 9680, and a few in between to mark off as indelible dial markers on short wave bands.

Only three logs from way back in Queens. One sunset, 'WCAU' paused for a while, as stations often did back when it wasn't mandatory for programmers to fill any available microsecond with something sonic (music, vocals, disclaimers, etc). In the pause came a faint and distant 'WCNT'. That later became WILY, from Centralia Illinois. Never heard KGYN there; some of my DX mates did, though.

And today's WPHT was part of another tale, from a few years ago. But heck -- since '1200' went by so quickly we didn't even see it, the WPHT quirk can wait until next Sunday, in it's proper 1220 slot.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, an extremely weak WDAO from Dayton daytime and always WPHT at night. I fondly remember listening to Harry Kalas many nights via skywave, not to mention a young Scott Graham when he was doing local work with the Phillies.
 
DFW, Texas

Usually nothing during the day. At night KGYN Guymon, OK ("The 5 State Talker") booms in from the Oklahoma panhandle. KUBR San Juan, TX can be heard with Spanish language from the Rio Grande Valley under KGYN. I've heard WPHT Philly exactly once on the car radio with conservative talk under KGYN. At sunrise, WMPS Memphis ("Sunny 1210") with AC occasionally pops in.
 
CTListener said:
Cyberdad: Shouldn't this week's AM frequency be 1200? 1190 was last week's.
1200 would have been an interesting report for me. 1210, not so much:

Hartland, VT, and Meriden, CT: Nothing days, WPHT Philadelphia nights.
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OOPS! Sorry I skipped over 1200. The nurses attending me after outpatient surgery last week were all eye candy and distracted me! My bad. So....I'll leave this thread up and do 1200 next week, then jump to 1220 the week after. Thanks for calling this to my attention.
 
East Tennessee: A whiff of WSBI, Static TN days, WPHT nights.
Retro/other" (Ohio) I remember a station in Dahlonega, GA that erroneously was granted night authorization in the early 80s and was widely I believe I heard this station recently went silent. KGYN was pretty frequent there too in addition to (then) WCAU.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Local WPHT Philadelphia with a HD signal. Yes, a HD signal. At night the HD light flashes on my Sangean receiver but during the day it locks in on HD. Unfortunately it wastes it's 50 kw signal with right wing talk. It carries some College sports like PSU football and basketball, Temple basketball and some spillover sports from fellow Audacy station WIP like MNF and some Sunday Phillies games in September when the Eagles are on WIP.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: These days just splatter from WRTO.
Nighttime: WPHT and KGYN are the two common ones with WPHT being the more reliable one.

DX/RETRO: Prior to WRTO signing on 1200 kHz, I heard WILY (Centralia, IL) during daytime couple of times, but that wasn't common. Other notable DX in the past: KUBR (San Juan, TX), WKNX (Saginaw, MI), WDGR (Dahlonega, GA), WSBI (Static, TN), WDAO (Dayton, OH), WGSF (Arlington, TN), WBIU (Denham Springs, LA), WQLS (Ozark, AL), WJNL (Kinglsley, MI). Few of those stations are no longer on the air. On the foreign front: Radio Coro (Venezuela), Radio Reloj (Colombia) and Radio Reloj, Cuba (heard in January 2021). Also one trans-atlantic DX on the split frequency of 1215kHz: Virgin Radio, England back in 1997.
 
Mountain View, Hawaii

Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - KZOO Honolulu with sometimes another station in the background that I've not been able to ID.

Back in the 70's and early 80's when I visited my brother in northern California, WCAU Philadelphia (now WPHT) could be heard with a weak signal when KGYN signed off late at night.
 
I don't know how I forgot WDAO, Dayton but it was local for me in Dayton, and I've gotten it in Lafayette after sign on and it makes it into Bob Hawkins Central Indiana SDR,
 
CADXER said:
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: These days just splatter from WRTO.
Nighttime: WPHT and KGYN are the two common ones with WPHT being the more reliable one.

DX/RETRO: Prior to WRTO signing on 1200 kHz, I heard WILY (Centralia, IL) during daytime couple of times, but that wasn't common. Other notable DX in the past: KUBR (San Juan, TX), WKNX (Saginaw, MI), WDGR (Dahlonega, GA), WSBI (Static, TN), WDAO (Dayton, OH), WGSF (Arlington, TN), WBIU (Denham Springs, LA), WQLS (Ozark, AL), WJNL (Kinglsley, MI). Few of those stations are no longer on the air. On the foreign front: Radio Coro (Venezuela), Radio Reloj (Colombia) and Radio Reloj, Cuba (heard in January 2021). Also one trans-atlantic DX on the split frequency of 1215kHz: Virgin Radio, England back in 1997.
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Were all those foreign grabs from Wood Dale as well? If so, wow--what is your setup?
 
Virgin Radio on 1215 was during the great TA opening in December of 1997. Virgin Radio and the Cuban (in 2021) were logged in Wood Dale. Venezuela and Colombia from the NW side of Chicago approximately 8 to the east from Wood Dale back in 1980's. All catches using either Kenwood R-2000 or Drake R8 with loop antennas.
 
West side of Houston TX

Daytime, nothing
Sunset, KUBR, KGYN and WMPS are usually always there.
Night, KGYN dominates but KUBR is still in the background and stronger in KGYN's null
Sunrise, same as sunset.

I've tried for WPHT often with no success. In Tulsa OK in the 70's, I was closer to KGYN but their null in the direction of Philadelphia was also in my direction, so then-WCAU was easier, but never strong.
 
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