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AM Frequency of the week: 880

cyberdad

cyberdad

I'm posting this earlier than usual for the coming week due to what for me looks like a very busy Holiday weekend....

Far northwest Chicago suburbs....

Day: Splatter from WLS (890).

Night: The WLS stick is 52 miles to my south-southwest. The signal here is still good, but easily nulled. The result of that is usually a very listenable signal from WCBS. Sometimes CKLQ from Manitoba is on top, but it's more likely to show up underneath WCBS. Bottom line is that CKLQ is present at least as often as not, even though there's supposed to be a rather deep null in my direction. (CKLQ power is 10kw day and night).

Sunrise/Sunset: KRVN is fairly common on their 50kw non-directional day pattern. After going to their nighttime DA, KRVN disappears here, but has a solid signal in most of the Western half of the U.S.

Best wishess to everyone for Easter and Passover. :)
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs during the day it's some WLS splatter which I can mostly null. At critical hours it's WRFD.
Night: WCBS still has a good night signal here. It's always been one of the best East Coast signals and the best NYC for me.
I've also heard KRVN and CKLQ.

Retro: on trips to the West Coast KRVN is strong at night. The last time I heard WCBS on the west coast was the early 80s when KRVN signed off at midnight CST.
 
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Another Chicagoan, near the lakefront:

Pretty simple frequency for me: nothing during the day, and WCBS during the nighttime hours. Probably the strongest of the 5 NYC stations I have picked up here. Have never heard anything else at night, though this is not a frequency I've spent much time on.

Retro: 80's San Francisco northern suburbs. During the day you'd hear KKMC in Gonzales, which is near Santa Cruz. At night it was KRVN, which if I remember correctly came in pretty decently. KKMC was only 1KW at night back then, but it seems to be 10KW now. I wonder if this makes it dominate the frequency at night over at least parts of the Bay Area nowadays.
 
East Tennessee: Days-a weak WPEK, Fairview (Asheville) NC, recently flipping to sports from it's "880 The Revolution" liberal talk format. Sunset-sometimes WRFD, Columbus OH, or WMDB Nashville, TN-notorious for remaining on day power/pattern at night.

Night-mostly WCBS.

Retro/other: Recently had sunset reception of KRVN on the Central Indiana SDR. I occasionally got it in Ohio. It was a sunrise regular in Quincy IL.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
* Daytime: Local WRFD with 23,000 watts. Daytimer only because ...
* Nighttime: WCBS usually comes in booming in with a decent skywave signal as soon as WRFD leaves the air. I'm close enough to WRFD's tower that I never hear WCBS creeping in under it at dusk, but I have heard that in Newark, Ohio, just 25 miles east-northeast of here. I have never heard KRVN here.
Those who want to hear WRFD's programming 24/7 can do so on their translator W283CL (104.5 FM) that signed on a few years back.
 
Orange County, TX Days KJOZ Conroe, TX, Nights mixture of KJOZ, KRVN & on occasion WCBS will pop up from the mess.
 
Days: nothing.
Nights: mostly WCBS, although KRVN shows up underneath quite often now. I've only heard KRVN at all in the last few years. CKLQ Brandon, MB, appears from time to time. Around sunset and sunrise, sometimes WMEQ Eau Claire, WI, will appear.
I still basically enjoy DX, but it's rare these days that I really like any of the programming I hear. WCBS is one of the few nighttime signals I actually like listening to a little bit. (Now that WCBS is carrying New York Mets games, I'm hoping to catch some of that this summer.)
 
West Houston, days it's KJOZ in Conroe TX (~45 miles from here) with a Spanish Tropical format as La Calle. At night KJOZ drops power and is barely audible here and KRVN dominates.
 
Laramie Wyoming.... KRVN, KRVN and KRVN,, sometimes KHAC Tse Bonito, NM around sunrise or sunset... and sometimes overnight if they haven't powered down. I had them DROWNING out KRVN the other night
 
icybluelake said:
Days: nothing.
Nights: mostly WCBS, although KRVN shows up underneath quite often now. I've only heard KRVN at all in the last few years. CKLQ Brandon, MB, appears from time to time. Around sunset and sunrise, sometimes WMEQ Eau Claire, WI, will appear.
I still basically enjoy DX, but it's rare these days that I really like any of the programming I hear. WCBS is one of the few nighttime signals I actually like listening to a little bit. (Now that WCBS is carrying New York Mets games, I'm hoping to catch some of that this summer.)
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Where's here? When I was in NW PA, WCBS came in quite well at night, and RIGHT at sunrise, id get some halfway decent audio from CKLQ most mornings
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing but WLS splatter
Nightime: WCBS and sometimes CKLQ

DX/RETRO: also heard KRVN (Lexington, NE), WMDB (Nashville, TN) and Radio Progreso, Cuba on this frequency.
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - KHCM Honolulu but KRVN easily takes over in the null most of the time and sometimes without having to null out KHCM.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Daytime: A bit of splatter from local 860 KONO.

Sunset: KRVN starts to come up, and KJOZ is sometimes heard weakly underneath.

Night: KONO splatter is gone, but there's now a bit of WWL splatter. KRVN puts in good signal with occasional fading. Aiming more NE, I'll occasionally hear a weak KJOZ. When propagation is very good, I'll hear a very weak WCBS underneath for brief bits. Interestingly, I'm no longer hearing WIJR like I was a month ago.

If I aim E/W, I can pretty much null out KRVN, and later in the night I'll hear KHAC, which has a fair signal with periods of fading. I wonder if they've been been on 10 kW day power at night because at 737 miles that signal seems too good here for 430 watts.

Sunrise: Things are somewhat of a mess. In addition to WWL splatter, I get splatter from 890 KVOZ in Del Mar Hills (near Laredo). KRVN is weaker and KJOZ is stronger. Also, a weak KHAC hangs in there to the west. To the NE/SW I've intermittently been hearing a station playing regional Mexican music. It may be XEEM "La M Mexicana" in Rio Verde, which I've heard more clearly and IDed a few years back.

DX/Retro: Stations I haven't heard in a while include Radio Progreso, XEAAA "Radio Mujer" in Zapopan, and KLRG in Sheridan, AR.
 
tomservo said:
In Central Baldwin County, Alabama:

Daytime: Nothing

Nighttime: Usually just a jumbled mess of unidentifiable stations, although I have heard WCBS at least twice in the last eight years.
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On my latest trip to your part of the world earlier this year, I was hearing mostly Cuba on 880. Maybe being on the beach helped. Sometimes, however, it was WCBS on top or WCBS and Cuba (R. Progreso) mixing.
 
Days:KKMC, Gonzales, California

Nights:KKMC and KCMX Phoenix, Oregon battle it out, and occasionally KRVN, Lexington, Nebraska will sneak in, and overpower both.
 
In St. Louis, daytime is WIJR Highland, IL, and at night, WCBS and WIJR depending on location. It is worth noting the null pattern for WIJR is so tight at night that WCBS puts a solid signal three miles to the north of the WIJR tower.
 
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