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AM Frequency of the Week: 740

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Days: Almost always blank. Sometimes in Winter I can get a very weak signal from 250-watt WRPQ, Baraboo, WI. About 125 miles northeast of me.

Nights: CFZM with a good signal. On top, but often with other signals underneath. KRMG is the most common. Others are typically unidentifiablre. I've also heard KTRH a couple of times.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually noting. did hear WRPQ and WVLN during daytime long time ago
Nighttime: CFZM dominant. This frequency has always been dominated by Toronto. CBL in the past, CFZM now.

DX/Retro: others heard in the past include KTRH (Houston, TX), KRMG (Tulsa, OK), KVOX (Fargo, ND), WSVQ (Harrogate, TN), WCWY (Tullahoma, TN), CBX (Edmonton, AB) and two foreign ones that are no longer active on 740: Radio Liberacion, Cuba and Radio Maracaibo, Venezela.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: On rare occasion, the last remnants of KRMG, Tulsa. I am just beyond their daytime coverage area. Usually nothing.

Night: Typically sounds like a graveyard channel. On rare occasion, I have logged both KRMG and KRTH, Houston with very weak, fading signals. Usually nothing discernable rises above the mess of signals.

Bob
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: nothing
Nighttime: CFZM Toronto comes in very well. It is the strongest of the Toronto stations and there is relatively little fading.

Retro: 1980's Bay Area. KCBS was a 50,000 watt news station then, and it is a 50,000 watt news station now. I also have KTRH Houston and KBRT Los Angeles listed from that period, but I'm guessing I recorded those on trips to Southern California because KCBS dominates in the northern part of the state.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs: nothing during the day. At night all CFZM with an excellent signal. Before that CBL with the same great signal. I've also heard KRMG several times and a few unidentifiable signals underneath. I have never ID'd KTRH here.
 
Orange County. TX all KTRH all the time. Did manage to snag KRMG a couple times when conditions were right. Might get lucky sometime and get CFZM. Visiting wife's family southeast of Pittsburgh Zoomer Radio is a nighttime regular
 
In west Houston, it's KTRH 24/7, almost impossible to null. I have heard a mix of SS and EE talk in their null during gaps in the programming, possibly XEQN and either/both KRMG and KCMC.

Retro, in the early 70's in Tulsa, I was stuck with powerhouse KRMG. However, they were silent on, I think, Sunday mornings. When they were off, I heard KCBS, KCMC, and CBL. I believe I also heard CBX once.
 
A short list here on 740 in the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days: Once, heard WLVN Olney, Ill., then a 250-watt daytimer (since heard as recently as 2020 overnights, still with 250 watts).

Night: CBL / CFZM Toronto. As MichaelTheZ noted, this is the Toronto powerhouse, with diplexed Radio-Canada O-and-O CJBC 860 just about alongside from the same transmitter. CBC engineering, which I presume still runs the transmitter, rules. CFZM is my overnight choice to doze off to, though the later one goes, the more likely KRMG Tulsa is to bounce in. Houston's KTRH has been a rare visitor. I'm not sure I've heard it since the CBL days, when Toronto signed off after the 2 a.m. ET news.
 
tvnut said:
A short list here on 740 in the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days: Once, heard WLVN Olney, Ill., then a 250-watt daytimer (since heard as recently as 2020 overnights, still with 250 watts).

Night: CBL / CFZM Toronto. As MichaelTheZ noted, this is the Toronto powerhouse, with diplexed Radio-Canada O-and-O CJBC 860 just about alongside from the same transmitter. CBC engineering, which I presume still runs the transmitter, rules.
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Yep! Right off tge 401 freeway about fifteen miles west of dowmtown, Toronto,
 
East Tennessee: Daytime-WCXZ, Harrogate TN, weakly from around 50 miles away, on the TN/KY/VA border. (WNOP, Newport KY looks like it would be a very possible sunrise/sunset catch but haven't heard it)
Night: Generally a tossup between CFZM and KRMG, with CFZM mostly winning out, but sometimes fading so KRMG has a turn.

Retro/other: Ohio, the Central SDR and other places in the region, WNOP, Newport KY has an incredible signal for 2500 watts, easily covering a good part of Western and Southern Ohio, and up into North Central Indiana. Like its next door neighbor WJYM from the north, it has a good directional signal, still better in some directions. Night has always belonged to CBL/CHWO/CFZM. I could get the last breath of CFZM on Lake Erie in Sandusky, OH during the day. Also, in Piqua, OH during the winter when I worked there, sometimes CFZM was an early visitor, 2:30p or so.
 
Daytime here in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, it's a weak WNOP. At night, all CFZM with one of the best skywave signals out there.
I've heard CFZM daytime northeast of Cleveland and it's an easy catch where my in-laws live in Conneaut, Ohio.
When I lived in and near Houston, all KTRH all the time pumping most of its directional signal in and over the city at all hours. I've caught KTRH a few times in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, albeit extremely weakly, and heard its daytime signal as far north as Ennis, Texas. I also caught KTRH many years ago while vacationing in Panama City Beach, but it was weak. Dependably there every night, but weak. Can't imagine it would have been heard much farther east and definitely not much farther north.
 
gr8oldies said:
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. I could get the last breath of CFZM on Lake Erie in Sandusky, OH during the day. Also, in Piqua, OH during the winter when I worked there, sometimes CFZM was an early visitor, 2:30p or so.
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I could always get weak but reliable day signal on CBL/CFZM in and around Cleveland and Akron on a good car radio. "Last gasp "was around Zanesville.
 
Here in the Seattle area:
Daytime: static and some remote splash from KIRO 710 (depending on direction of radio and radio used).

Night time: CBX Edmonton / KCBS San Francisco. Invariably it's a 50/50 mix, some nights one of them (usually CBX) is MIA. Both are weak, with S3 signals being the maximum level usually heard. One night I heard CFZM Toronto on 740 (the same night I also snagged the Toronto news station on 680, amazingly enough), on my Panasonic RF-B45.
 
boombox4 said:
Here in the Seattle area:
Daytime: static and some remote splash from KIRO 710 (depending on direction of radio and radio used).

Night time: CBX Edmonton / KCBS San Francisco. Invariably it's a 50/50 mix, some nights one of them (usually CBX) is MIA. Both are weak, with S3 signals being the maximum level usually heard. One night I heard CFZM Toronto on 740 (the same night I also snagged the Toronto news station on 680, amazingly enough), on my Panasonic RF-B45.
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I'm impressed that you caught CFTR in the Seattle area. Very good!
 
In east-central Iowa: daytime, KMZN Oskaloosa, IA. Nighttime, usually CFZM is holding it down, usually with a strong signal. But I have heard KRMG Tulsa and KNFL Fargo, ND, on occasion in the mix with CFZM.
 
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