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AM Frequency of the week: 780"

radioman148 said:
On the Kaneohe, Hawaii SDR WBBM is coming in right now 0526Z-- on top of KKOH.
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I heard the same thing earlier tonight on that receiver too.

WBBM was loud and clear with KKOH well in the background for a short time.


And then on 560, there was some station playing country music on top of KSFO.

Then I heard their ID and it was KMON from Great Falls, Montana!
 
It has once just barely but it's usually slightly weaker and can't quite overcome KKOH.

I see that receiver in Oahu has a big external antenna and that's why I was able to also hear Radio Enciclopedia on 530 whereas I still haven't heard that on my PR-D5.
 
Daytime in NW San Antonio: Nothing

Sunset: Both XESFT "La Poderosa" in San Fernando and WBBM come up. Aiming NW, XESFT is heard alone, and aiming NE, WBBM is heard underneath.

Night: When XESFT goes to day power, WBBM dominates, and XESFT is heard underneath. Aiming NW, I can get a fairly good null of WBBM and hear XESFT more clearly.

Interestingly, XESFT appears to go off air about 10:10 p.m. CT every night. There's no sign-off; it just suddenly disappears. Late last Sunday night aiming NW (see the "Post your latest DX" thread), I briefly heard a weak HJFV "Radio Viva" in Pasto, Colombia, which is my first South American catch on AM and furthest AM catch (from the U.S.). I also heard what I believe was KKOH, but it was too weak and intermittent to positively ID.

When monitoring the frequency this past week, I've heard HJFV pop up very weakly a few times, but the signal has never been as good as it was last Sunday, when propagation must've been really great.

Sunrise: Some time before 6 a.m., XESFT reappears and mixes with WBBM.

Retro: I used to hear XEWGR regularly and KCEG on occasion. I know that the latter has been off air for a while. I'm guessing that XEWGR might've transitioned completely to FM because I have not heard a trace of it lately.
 
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Retro: I used to hear XEWGR regularly and KCEG on occasion. I know that the latter has been off air for a while. I'm guessing that XEWGR might've transitioned completely to FM because I have not heard a trace of it lately.
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Now that you mention it, I haven't heard XEWGR recently. I see the Exa website only mentions the FM (although this doesn't mean much, lots of simulcasts ignore the AM these days).

I'd love to ID HJFV. My biggest problem on frequencies like this with multiple Spanish signals is my relatively poor Spanish! If it's only one, I can follow along OK, but mixed SS talk is too much.
 
San Jose, California

Days:: Surprisingly nothing!! KKOH should be coming in, but it does not. All I get is loud static! This is sad, {today} I was able to pick up KFI out of Los Angeles at 2:45pm, but yet, I can not hear an once of KKOH. I can even hear the weaker 5KW KNCO out of Grass Valley. Mario, I'm curious if you can hear KKOH, out their in Carmichael

Nights: KKOH. Not sure what I'm hearing underneath though. Every so often, I can hear modulation. This might be coming from the studio, its self, as I did not hear this modulation when KKOH went of the air many weeks back. This was the same period I was trying to hear WBBM. When the switch was flipped back on, that modulation was there, but when it was flipped off, there was nothing but extreme faint signal from WBBM ( to be fair, they had a vintage nightly radio program going ).
 
Daytime - nothing but nearby splatter from WVNN 770.
Critical Hours - Sometimes I can receive WWOL in Forest City, NC. From my old location in east central Florida, could hear WWOL most afternoons prior to sign off except under certain conditions where WBBM's skywave opens up early.
Nighttime - WBBM
 
WBBM all day and night. It's not always very listenable during the days, but I listen when I can for news. WSCR and WGN are always stronger. Nights, it's usually not the strongest of the Chicago 50k's, but still pretty decent. It's hard to detect how the power change has affected my signal, if at all, it seems to have diminished the volume a little bit. I would add that I have never heard anything but WBBM on 780, ever.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Always and only WBBM Chicago, twice.
Twice? Once for the longstanding (literally) transmitter site in Itasca, along I-290, booming out 50,000 watts 24/7.
Now (since about July 16, 2018) from the KYW/WMAQ/WSCR transmitter site in Bloomingdale on Army Trail Road, booming out 35,000 watts during the day and 42,000 watts at night via a diplex arrangement.
Two transmission sites, two loggings.
 
East Tennessee.....Daytime, the last breath of WWOL, Forest NC.
Night: All WBBM all the time.

Retro/other: It's pretty much been WBBM, a weak one days but stronger nights in Ohio. WWOL gets out around sunset. I once logged the now-defunct YVOD Ecos del Torbes (an easy shortwave catch on 4980) on a non-DX radio, recognizing the "Lo Que Esta Noche Recuerda" theme.
 
In July, WIIN (780) flipped from blues to rhythmic oldies, and is now branded 102-1 The Box. (The blues format has moved to WHJT-HD2.) The station has a new FM translator: W271DF (102.1).

WIIN broadcasts only in the daytime; W271DF broadcasts 24 hours a day.
 
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JeffSteele said:
In July, WIIN (780) flipped from blues to rhythmic oldies, and is now branded 102-1 The Box. (The blues format has moved to WHJT-HD2.) The station has a new FM translator: W271DF (102.1).

WIIN broadcasts only in the daytime; W271DF broadcasts 24 hours a day.
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Wasn't WIIN silent for quite some time? Surfacing only as often as needed to maintain their license. If that's correct, I'm curious as to when they resumed daily operations on AM
 
West Central Georgia - Nothing during the day. Critical hours have heard WWOL Forest City NC, WIIN Ridgeland/Jackson MS and WPTN Cookeville TN "The Eagle" (great station with classic rock and roll). Nights are always a clear signal from WBBM. Seems a little weaker than before, probably due to change in power at broadcasting facilities.
 
WahooWah said:
.... Nights are always a clear signal from WBBM. Seems a little weaker than before, probably due to change in power at broadcasting facilities.
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That might explain it. Personally, I haven't noticed much difference in the WBBM day and night signals, except in fringe areas at the edge of their normal coverage range. When I was in Atlanta 2-3 times every year on biz trips, WBBM was always rock solid. I'm expecting to be back in Georgia in a few months, including some pre-sunrise driving on I-75, so I'll be curious to hear how WBBM sounds.

Sidebar question: How far are you from LaGrange? I used to go through there from time to time on I-85, and I used to work with a guy from there who has an engineering degree from Auburn, I was fortunate to have worked with/for some great people, and he was one of the best.
 
WahooWah said:
West Central Georgia - Nothing during the day. Critical hours have heard WWOL Forest City NC, WIIN Ridgeland/Jackson MS and WPTN Cookeville TN "The Eagle" (great station with classic rock and roll). Nights are always a clear signal from WBBM. Seems a little weaker than before, probably due to change in power at broadcasting facilities.
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Apparently it hasn't effected WBBM's skywave (I wouldn't expect it to) as WBBM still can be heard on SDRs in the Arctic and Hawaii during winter as good as before they moved.
 
radioman148 said:
Apparently it hasn't effected WBBM's skywave (I wouldn't expect it to) as WBBM still can be heard on SDRs in the Arctic and Hawaii during winter as good as before they moved.
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Yep! I should have clarified.... What little I've noticed has basically involved daytime fringe areas. Not very significant, And, of course, at my location about 23 miles from their stick (diplexed with WSCR), WBBM is the same monster it's always been 24/7!
 
cyberdad said:
Yep! I should have clarified.... What little I've noticed has basically involved daytime fringe areas. Not very significant, And, of course, at my location about 23 miles from their stick (diplexed with WSCR), WBBM is the same monster it's always been 24/7!
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Same at my location less than 20 miles from the stick. No change in their groundwave signal which as always is quite strong.
 
cyberdad said:
Wasn't WIIN silent for quite some time? Surfacing only as often as needed to maintain their license. If that's correct, I'm curious as to when they resumed daily operations on AM
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According to FCCdata.org, WIIN had only three periods of silence.

June 8, 2009-May 27, 2010
June 22, 2010-June 13, 2011
June 1, 2014-May 27, 2015
 
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