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AM Frequency of the Week - 910 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 910 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH I get a moderate WFDF/Farmington Hills, MI during the day with Radio Disney. At night it's kind of a mess with WFDF on top.

The title should read "AM Frequency of the Week - 910 kHz" Doesnt seem to be a way to edit that.
 
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Located in W. Washington.

Days I don't hear anything but static. Sometimes during winter on late mornings I can hear the station in Vancouver WA, which used to be KKSN, but now is KMTT, CBS Sports.

Nights it's always a mix of KMTT and CKDQ Drumheller, Alberta. On rare occasions I hear KNEW Oakland. Extremely rare occasions I heard the station in Salt Lake City (now KWDZ Disney).
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Days (with perfect conditions), a very weak WSUI...5kw from the University of Iowa at Iowa city. Last week, I was driving a rental car with a really good AM radio, and had a perfectly listenable signal on WSUI. A feat matched only occasionally by my GE Superadio....outdoors!

Nights: Usually a mess. Sometimes KLCN from Blytheville, Arkansas around sunset on day power.
 
In Knoxville, it's WJCW in Johnson City, which I have heard in Ohio
Dayton, Ohio, it's WPFB, currently relaying WNKN when they bother being on the air at all.
 
cyberdad said:
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Days (with perfect conditions), a very weak WSUI...5kw from the University of Iowa at Iowa city. Last week, I was driving a rental car with a really good AM radio, and had a perfectly listenable signal on WSUI. A feat matched only occasionally by my GE Superadio....outdoors!

Nights: Usually a mess. Sometimes KLCN from Blytheville, Arkansas around sunset on day power.
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WSUI within 30 miles of Chicago...ol' soo-ey had some legs that day, or rather your radios had some good arms to catch the piggie! Back in the day, this was another station where I could hear myself talk as a part-time student announcer. Most of the time, it was better described as "hear myself snore" as I would lay my head down on the desk, set the alarm on my watch to go off in 55 minutes just in time to give top-of-hour IDs. Another exciting tale of my momentous career!

Night pattern WSUI did well to the north, as it was a regular visitor in the Twin Cities and I remember picking it up during a stay in Bayfield WI on the shores of Lake Superior. That was back when WSUI was still using the vintage self-supporters with their 3 tower in-line DA just beyond the west edge of the UI campus.
Today their xmtr is about 10 miles south of Iowa City.

One more story about WSUI: it was notable in the area as the last station I remember that had a hetrodyne whistle when you tuned a radio to 910 kHz. You knew you were on center frequency when the whistle descended down beyond a low hum to become almost subaudible. Seems like that was still the case in the late 80s.
 
joebtsflk1 said:
WSUI within 30 miles of Chicago...ol' soo-ey had some legs that day, or rather your radios had some good arms to catch the piggie!
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I think it had had more to do with the "arms" I was using. Hyundai Sonata rental car. Really good AM radio in terms of sensitivity and selectivity. But HORRIBLE audio on AM....very muddy. I was traveling north to south on Illinois State Highway 47 and had the WSUI signal most of the way from where I live (about 18 miles south of the Wisconsin state line) almost all the way to Champaign. About 130 miles. 8:30am-noon CDT.

Apologies for the veer, but along the way, I also had WMT along with snatches of WHO and WOI. Most impressive of all was KWMT. When I tuned to 540 not long after leaving my driveway, KWMT was clearly audible under WAUK. About 50-60 miles south on route 47, KWMT had rendered WAUK completely unlistenable by mixing with it. Normally here where I live, you can only hear KWMT daytime with a really good radio and WAUK nulled. I had never previously heard it under WAUK in a car radio.
 
910 days - nothing
Sunset - usually CKDQ Drumheller, AB or KMTT Vancouver, WA
Nights - a real mix of CKDQ Drumheller and KMTT Vancouver, along with KKSF Oakland "Talk 910" and the back-to-air KWDZ Salt Lake City with showtunes/TV and movie themes. An SS station has also been noted at times, probably XEAO Mexicali, but no ID noted yet.
I'll sometimes hear KCJB Minot, ND in the early mornings. Christian music also noted early AMs as well maybe KPOF Denver, CO but again, too weak to get an ID.
910 is the home of KURY Brookings and that's one of only 6 OR stations I need to clear the state. I've already cleared my state of WA.

-crainbebo
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Cyberdad, could you hear WGTO at all on 910 in that car?
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Not that I could identify.

WSUI seemed to be alone....but there was noise as often as not. I was also getting a listenable signal during the first part of my trip from WOKY (Milwaukee) on 920, which was always possible back in their top 40 days, but not so much now. Further south on 920, WBAA showed up (as is usual).
 
Here it is WTM 910, one of our locals, from North Charleston. It has 500 watts, but a very good signal, since the transmitter is on a marsh near the water. When you get more than 10 miles from the transmitter during sunrise/sunset or at night, WOLI Spartanburg tries to cut in.
 
In Port Alexander, AK 910 is what I guess is CKDQ Alberta? "Q-Country 91". Fairly strong nighttime skywave signal without much fading but nothing during the day.
 
Yes. That is Drumheller, Alberta. About 950 miles from Port Alexander, AK.
 
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