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AM Frequency of the week: 1340

It wasn't KRKO, because I was on 1340. It just sounded like that's what they said with all the noise from other stations going on. I do have an SDRPlay, but don't use it a lot. Might be worth it for 1340.

Last night KTOX was strong for several minutes at a time and I was able to clearly hear the call letters. 1340 sounded different than it had the last few nights.
 
cyberdad said:
KRKO is in Everett, Washington. A little to the north of Seattle. It's on 1380. But with 50KW, it shouldn't be impossible to hear at some point in Southern California. Especially if you try for them around sunrise or sunset on non-directional day pattern.

I don't know if you're familiar with SDRs. Software Defined Receivers. These are remote receivers accessible online that you can tune and listen to from any point in the world. Not all of them tune the AM band, but there's a network of a couple hundred that a lot of us on this board like to visit on a fairly regular basis. Especially during winter. One of the most popular is located above the arctic circle in Norway. On that one, KRKO has been widely heard via a polar signal path during the months long arctic night. I myself have snagged KRKO on the arctic SDR at least a half dozen times.

If you're not familar with the SDRs, I'd be happy to send you a link to an interactive map. Then you can just click on whichever ones you want to try. (Note that the Arctic SDR is typically offline during the summer months. There's nothing to hear during the months of 24-hour daylight anyway.
Click to expand...

Unfortunately this site seems to be gone https://sdr.hu/
 
Two recent storms have hit WJOL Joliet, Ill. The first was May 23, knocked them off for much of a day. When WJOL came back on, the signal was weaker, both day and night. The second was the Aug. 10 Derecho that swept the midwest. WJOL was off then as well, but seemed no weaker upon its return. If it's still running 1 kw, the tower is compromised. If the tower is ship-shape, I'm not sure what the power is.

I'm on the fringe of WJOL's coverage area. Daytime is obviously weaker, and at night it went from passable and above the hash to barely above the hash after the May 23 storm. I picked up KICK Springfield, Mo., and WJYI Milwaukee in its absence, and likely could again without much trying.
 
There's nothing on 1340 here during the day but at night, it sounds just like a graveyard station does on the mainland though not as strong a signal.

I figure the stations I can hear are probably from the west coast but no one in particular has ever stood above the roar well enough to ID.

1340 was an interesting frequency where I grew up in New Jersey.

During the day, it was WHAT from Philadelphia but down at the shore it was WMID Atlantic City which was top 40 at the time and they used the same news sounder as WABC New York because they were part of the 'American Contemporary Network'.

Just that little sound brings back such good memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OlpdZYfII

WMID had a good signal on the south shore of Long Island during the daytime and in a YouTube video someone made DXing from the outer banks of North Carolina during the day, they had a good listenable signal there too!

https://youtu.be/zJPU7oYvu4Q?t=325
 
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