• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

AM Frequency of the Week: 830

cyberdad

cyberdad

Days: Here 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, it's splatter. A "joint effort" compliments of WCPT (820) and WAIT (850).

Night: A very solid WCCO. The trend is for stations to have less robust signals than they did "back in the day". WCCO seems to be an exception. At least here at my home location. It's always been good here, but during the past couple of years, I think it's sounding better than ever. Stronger than "next door neighbors" WBAP and WHAS. The only negative is that once in a while, there'll be something weak and unidentifiable in Spanish underneath.

There's always the possibility that WCCO hasn't really gotten any stronger, but the signals around it may be degraded. I'm not familiar with the immediate surroundings of WBAP and WHAS. But, I've driven by WCCO's stick a few times, and it's in what's still an open area northwest of the Twin Cities.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WEEU Reading PA(a little faint).
Night: also WEEU, but stronger(used to hear WCCO on occasions until WEEU moved here).
 
Near north Chicago suburbs daytime splatter from WCPT, at night all WCCO. Once in awhile I hear a weak spanish language station underneath, but most of the time WCCO is very solid.
 
Bay area, CA: Nothing daytime, KNCO Grass Valley CA most reliable nights. Occasionally KLAA from Orange, CA...or KFLT in Tucson before sunset or those times when they leave their 50kw on at night. WCCO maybe once or twice; that is, if hearing the top-hour CBS news sounder faintly underneath any of the above counts as an ID.
 
NoMoreLurking;61664 65 said:
WCCO maybe once or twice; that is, if hearing the top-hour CBS news sounder faintly underneath any of the above counts as an ID.
Click to expand...

Probably a safe bet. I used to hear WCCO on the west coast from time to time before KLAA and other stuff came on.
 
In Charleston, 830 is usually a dominant religious WTRU from Kernersville, NC with a good nighttime signal. It doesn't come in during the day. It probably would have during the eclipse with clear skies. WCCO is well under them here at night. I rarely get them here.
 
Daytime in San Antonio is nothing but a bit of splatter from local 860 KONO. At night, XELN "La Caliente" in Linares usually dominates. XEITE "Radio Capital" in Mexico City can be heard underneath and sometimes over it. Occasionally WCCO pops in for brief periods, especially when propagation is good. I've also heard XELK "Digital 106.5" in Zacatecas a few times, but it's been a while.

If I aim E/W, I can often hear WFNO "La Fabulosa" in Norco, LA; it's stronger at sunset. Also, a few times I've heard KFLT "Family Life Radio" in Tucson briefly when it goes to day power after my local sunrise.
 
Yakima, WA
Day - nothing
Night - KNCO Grass Valley (News/Talk) pointing south, WCCO Minneapolis (News/Talk) towards the east. Several years ago, CKKY Wainwright AB (Country) was heard almost every night, but they converted to FM.
KUYO Evansville WY (Religion) is commonly heard during fall/winter at Wyoming sunrise. In fact I heard them during the 8/21 total eclipse, around 10:35am PT. KFLT Tucson AZ (Family Life) is a very occasional sunrise log, and even on 50KW they are usually very weak. KLAA Anaheim (Sports) has been heard rarely, mainly during aurora.
Many years ago I heard SS on this frequency. I suspect it was WFNO New Orleans, but couldn't get an ID.

Very little I need on 830 that isn't near-impossible. KHVH Honolulu would be awesome! But that would involve a 1000-foot antenna pointed SW at sunrise, or a trip to Ocean Shores.
 
Last edited:
Daytime: usually nothing. WCCO is audible just slightly north of here, but not in my neighborhood.

Nighttime: WCCO. For the last few years, I got a lot of blasts from what I assume was WFNO. That seems to have subsided. I still suspect they were playing games with their signal.

WCCO is one of the very few nighttime 50Ks that I actually enjoy listening to. It's a sad situation on the nighttime AM dial.
 
Houston daytime, blank. I will have to re-check for WFNO specifically with a better radio, because I should be able to get it. Nighttime, usual jumble. WCCO is very hard to pick out since they started fooling with HD. I still don't know why HD hurts AM so much, but it seems to be a common factor in degradation of signals from former powerhouses. WCCO is only 1070 miles, it should be an easier catch.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
* Daytime: Splatter from local WVSG on 820.
* Nighttime: Usually a solid and quite listenable WCCO with only a little splatter from 820 in my part of town. I remember listening to Twins games on WCCO in my early DX'ing days in the 1990s.
 
I don't know the year when WEEU Reading switched from 850 to 830. It might've been around Y2K.
WEEU is now the daytime occupant on 830. It's the second-loudest AMer here in the day, behind local WPPA 1360.

Sunset and nighttime/9PM catches here have included this odd troika of catches:
WETR NC
WXII NC
WTRU NC.

For all I know, they might be the same facility, with the names changed to protect the guilty. Anyone down that way who can offer some background?

Back in 1994 I have a taped ID from the once-omniverous WCCO.
 
I have caught WEEU here in Ottawa many times in the late afternoon. Usually WCCO is heard at night.
We don't have anything on the frequency in the daytime, but before about 2003, there was a station in Brockville, Ontario that boomed into Ottawa.
 
tomservo said:
Coastal Alabama here. I'm also just catching up, ha ha.

Daytime, a really weak but steady WFNO from New Orleans.

Nights, usually nothing identifiable, or in Spanish. I've heard WCCO once or twice, though.
Click to expand...

Pretty much my experience when I'm on the beach but with WFNO stronger than what you're reporting. Presumably due to the fact that we're right at the waterfront. I also can usually hear WFNO in the mix at night, with WCCO showing up every now and then.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom