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AM Freqency of the Week: 660

Here around Columbus, Ohio, it's always daytimer WXIC from Waverly, 60 miles south, during the day and WFAN at night. I agree with CyberDad that WFAN has the weakest of all the NYC skywave signals.
I've personally heard WFAN as far southwest as I-70 in northwest Maryland. I picked it up during a drive to D.C. several years ago. It was the middle of July, so hardly peak season for groundwave coverage, but it was there. Extremely weak, but there.
On a trip between D.C. and Maine in the summer of 2014, we listened to WFAN as far north as the CT-MA state line on 84 and as far south as the Delaware border on 95. To a Midwesterner like me, the difference in 50K coverage because of poorer ground conductivity was extremely noticeable.
I've heard WFAN on the Rockport, Maine SDR a few times. Faint during the day and blasts at night.
 
schmave said:
. To a Midwesterner like me, the difference in 50K coverage because of poorer ground conductivity was extremely noticeable.
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You're absolutely correct. Check this out for a 10kw non-directional daytime signal on 660. The red zone depicted on the map doesn't even make it to 25 miles. And I can comfortably say from my beach vacations in the area, that if anything, the map is generous!

WXQW-AM Radio Station Coverage Map
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: There's a bit of splatter from local 680 KKYX. On my sensitive radios I can hear a weak KSKY in Balch Springs (near DFW) with XEFZ "ABC Radio" in Monterrey underneath or mixing in.

Sunset: KSKY and XEFZ are stronger amidst the splatter.

Night: KSKY is usually heard the most but fights it out with XEFZ and sometimes XEEY "La Kaliente" in Aguascalientes. Aiming NW/SE I can null them out somewhat, and a weak KTNN is sometimes in for a while with XEDTL "Radio Ciudadana" in Mexico City occasionally popping up.

Sunrise: XEDTL is stronger when it goes to day power, and KTNN has a better and steadier signal once XEDTL fades. KSKY dominates when it goes back to day power.

DX/RETRO: I heard XECPR "Radio Chan Santa Cruz" in Felipe Carrillo Puerto once during a fall evening a few years ago.
 
Same as Mario, for the most part

Days:::Nothing

Nights:: KTNN out of Window rock is the dominate station, with a bit of KGSV mixed in on rare occasions, when KTNN fades or weakens out momentarily.
 
DX Alert: KTNN AM 660 from Window Rock, Arizona is off the air right now so that should open up some DXing opportunities on the West Coast. For me tonight in Carlsbad, California just north of San Diego where KTNN usually dominates, it’s all KGSV from Bakersfield, California with their very noticeable Radio Punjab format. When it fades out, there is something faint in the background with talk, but it is not clear enough to make an ID.

What else are people hearing tonight on 660 AM?
 
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