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AM Frequency of the Week: 1700

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest suburban Chicago area.....

Days: Usually empty.

Nights: KBGG (Des Moines, IA) is usually reliable and alone with a fair signal. This morning about twq hours before local sunrise, however, KBGG was weaker than normal with a Spanish language station underneath. I never caught an ID, but my guess is KKLF from suburban Dallas.

Retro: One of my first X-band catches was the Miami area 1700 (now WJCC). Weak and only an occasional visitor.

And with that, we reach the end of our series of "regional, GY, and X-band frequencies". Next week, unless someone has another idea, we'll go back and revisit what used to be known as "clear" channels, beginning with 530 (where else should we put that one?) and ending at 1580.

So after you post in this thread, start checking the lower end of your dial, and I'll see ya'll here next week! :)
 
In the near north Chicago area it's pretty much the same here. KBGG is heard mostly at night, but sometimes I hear it via daytime skywave. In the earlier years of the X-band I heard the 1700 from Miami also.
 
East Tennessee: days-mostly blank unless WEUP makes it in. WEUP is the standard sunset catch. Nights, most predominant is WJCC, Miami.
 
Here in Overland Park, Kansas, it is exclusively KBGG especially during critical hours. In winter, they are at times listenable during the day.

Bob
 
DXBob said:
Here in Overland Park, Kansas, it is exclusively KBGG especially during critical hours. In winter, they are at times listenable during the day.

Bob
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the distance between Des Moines and Overland Park is about 175 or so miles....what seems to me to be the middle of the "sweet spot" for daytime skywave on the upper end of the AM band. I'm a little farther than that from Des Moines, and rarely hear KBGG in the day, as opposed to KCJJ and KCNZ, which are relatively common.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Quiet during the day, and KBGG Des Moines at night and sometimes during critical hours. I too have heard the Spanish-language music in the background a number of times, and yesterday evening it was especially clear. But I couldn't find anything online to compare it with and I don't speak Spanish, so I haven't been able to go anywhere with it.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago, only two entries on 1700, where splatter from 1690 can be a problem even with my Sony ICF-2010 unless I go to narrow or sideband mode:
KBGG Des Moines, 1 kw night, first IDed 12/26/2017 (mainly because I never bothered with 1700);
and KKLF Richardson, Tex., 1 kw night, 3/7/2019 late night with KBGG faded down.

And on 1710, caught a whiff of WQFG689 with Covid info the other night, but no ID; attempts to match against SDRs in New Jersey weren't successful thanks to untimely fadeouts before I faded out myself. We will try again.
 
cyberdad said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the distance between Des Moines and Overland Park is about 175 or so miles....what seems to me to be the middle of the "sweet spot" for daytime skywave on the upper end of the AM band. I'm a little farther than that from Des Moines, and rarely hear KBGG in the day, as opposed to KCJJ and KCNZ, which are relatively common.
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189.6 miles, to be precise. Actually, I am surprised I do not hear KBGG more often in the winter at midday than I do.

Bob
 
In west Houston, KKLF is usually dominant starting at sunset, with KVNS underneath. In midwinter, I can occasionally hear both stations during the day as well (distance is 240 miles for KKLF, 290 mostly salt water path miles for KVNS).
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually just splatter from WVON. KBGG heard few times though.
Nightime: normally KBGG but others (KVNS, WEUP, WJCC) pop in once in a while

DX/RETRO: Also heard KKLF (Richardson, TX) and it's predecessors KTBK/KDSX (Sherman-Denison, TX). Managed to hear XEPE (Tecate, Mexico) on two occasions in recent years with ESPN programming. Both times right before Chicago sunrise. In 2000 heard US Special Operations station with training PSA's. Unknown location. One station that I am still trying to log on this frequency is WRCR Ramapo, NY.
 
Orange County, TX Hard to null either KVNS, Brownsville, TX or KKLF Richardson, TX as I'm between both and they are in a N-S direction. When conditions are right I've heard WEUP Huntsville, AL, WJCC Miami Springs, FL, KBGG Des Moines, IA and a Spanish language signal that I'm unable to understand. I'm thinking that it could be XECSIT from Tonachi, Chihuahua, MX as it's the closest to my QTH. I don't think it could be XEPE Baja, CA.
 
WCJ said:
Orange County, TX Hard to null either KVNS, Brownsville, TX or KKLF Richardson, TX as I'm between both and they are in a N-S direction. When conditions are right I've heard WEUP Huntsville, AL, WJCC Miami Springs, FL, KBGG Des Moines, IA and a Spanish language signal that I'm unable to understand. I'm thinking that it could be XECSIT from Tonachi, Chihuahua, MX as it's the closest to my QTH. I don't think it could be XEPE Baja, CA.
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Well, it looks like I need to spend more time on this frequency!
 
wildthangjim said:
In west Houston, KKLF is usually dominant starting at sunset, with KVNS underneath. In midwinter, I can occasionally hear both stations during the day as well (distance is 240 miles for KKLF, 290 mostly salt water path miles for KVNS).
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When I lived in League City years ago, it usually was the reverse for me. KVNS was dominant every single night, but occasionally I'd hear KKLF. KVNS was audible daytime as well once you got closer to the Gulf, because of the salt water path and despite the high frequency, but I don't remember hearing it during the day where I lived right on the League City-Friendswood border. During the winter, yes, I'd hear it occasionally during the day weakly and it blasted in at night.
Up here in my native Ohio, I've never heard KVNS. I haven't checked 1700 in years, at least since KVNS ditched the oldies format, but I remember it always being KBGG.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Another normally blank frequency. During daytime skywave, KKLF is a regular visitor and KVNS an occasionally one.

Sunset: KKLF dominates, and a weak KBGG can often be heard underneath. KVNS eventually starts mixing in, and on rare occasions WEUP will pop up.

Night: It's a battle between KKLF and KVNS. Aiming NW, I can hear XEPE in and out.

Sunrise: Similar to nighttime with XEPE noticeably stronger.
 
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