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AM Frequency of the Week: 700

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake, IL

Days: On a good radio in an open area, 700 is a very weak WLW from Cinncinnati.

Nights: WLW booms in here with one of the strongest skywave signals at this location. I honestly can't remember the last time, if ever, that I've heard anythng on 700...even if nulled,... Although I'm sure others have.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's all WLW. During the day on a decent radio it's on the weak side but there. At night it's very strong.

Other: About 10 years ago I was in Puerto Rico for a weeks vacation. At night signals varied from the midwest and east, but one constant was WLW every night with a good signal.
Also when I'm in Southern California it's usually KALL with a good signal at night and often comes in well before sunset in winter.
 
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Other: About 10 years ago I was in Puerto Rico for a weeks vacation. At night signals varied from the midwest and east, but one constant was WLW every night with a good signal.
Also when I'm in Southern California it's usually KALL with a good signal at night and often comes in well before sunset in winter.
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My experiences are somewhat similar. At our beach vacay spot near Pensacola, WLW usually blasts in at night. Albeit sometime with unidentifiable Spanish underneath, On my trips up and down the west coast, KALL rules.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: weak WLW
Nightime: strong WLW

DX/RETRO: 700 is the frequency with the least stations heard. Only three. Besides WLW, KSHE Wylie, TX makes an appearance once in a while during auroral conditions. The other station is Radio Mundial (TGHR), Guatemala City which was heard in 1982. They are no longer on the air.
 
Central Louisiana

Daytime: Nothing

Sunset, night, and sunrise, a healthy WLW Cincinnati. I have tried unsuccessfully to tune KSHE near Dallas and KSEV near Houston. They are not that far from me, but they beam in the opposite direction.
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: In the right situations I can pick up WLW, but it's inconsistent. It will come in and out as I'm driving. It's the farthest station I can pick up without skywave during the daytime.

Nighttime: WLW completely.

Retro: In 80s SF Bay Area, KFAM in Salt Lake City could be heard, playing "beautiful music" (sometimes less charitably called elevator music), and in AM Stereo no less. It would appear that the station has since then undergone various transformations and now is the ESPN station KALL, now broadcasting at 50 KW by day and 10 KW by night.
 
In the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Day: WLW is just barely there at times on a portable radio outside. Before renovations, there was a spot by a radiator that WLW would come in well, the radiator acting as the antenna. In my car, it'll be audible at times.

Night: WLW without a hitch. And the only station I've heard on 700. Other one-station frequencies: 660, 780 (though two transmitter sites for WBBM), 890, 1100, 1120, 1390, 1490, 1680 and 1690. I'm near the 1390/1690 towers and never hang out on 1490. I should.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: Nothing but splatter from 10 kW KCMO on 710 kHz.

Night: WLW, usually strong enough to overcome splatter from 5 kW at night KCMO. The KCMO transmitter site is 35 miles NE of my location. WLW is consistently listenable here every night, albeit with some occasional KCMO splatter.

Bob
 
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East Tennessee: A weak WLW during the day, and a strong WLW at night. When KHSE, Wylie TX is misbehaving, I can get them under and occasionally even with WLW. There was a period of a week when we had auroral conditions and I was up to take my grandson to the bus stop. For that week WLW was completely gone and KHSE was dominant.

Retro/other: WLW has been there everywhere I've lived, especially Dayton, Ohio. There was a Friday night where WLW was off for maintenance and the Dothan AL ran a test, which I heard. I have heard the last breath of WLW in the daytime just west of Madison, WI.
 
DXBob said:
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: Nothing but splatter from 10 kW KCMO on 710 kHz.

The KCMO transmitter site is 35 miles NE of my location.

Bob
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Yep....I've driven by it (when it was WHB), not too far from the airport. I remember that the towers seemed short for 710. But whether or not I recall correctly, That signal really got out, even at nighttime 5kw. Up and dowwn I-35 from Texas to Canada.
 
cyberdad said:
Yep....I've driven by it (when it was WHB), not too far from the airport. I remember that the towers seemed short for 710. But whether or not I recall correctly, That signal really got out, even at nighttime 5kw. Up and dowwn I-35 from Texas to Canada.
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I could get that signals (as oldies WHB at least days) in the clear in Hannibal and Quincy during the short time I was there. KCMO, then a pre-Rush News-Talker on 810, came in well during the day as well
 
gr8oldies said:
I could get that signals (as oldies WHB at least days) in the clear in Hannibal and Quincy during the short time I was there. KCMO, then a pre-Rush News-Talker on 810, came in well during the day as well
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My late grandfather had a farm halfway between Macomb and Quincy, IL. During the 1960s, both WHB and KCMO were quite listenable there during the day. As was WDAF [now KCSP] on 610 kHz. I could also receive WIBW on 580 hKz.

Bob
 
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