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AM Frequency of the Week: 600

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cyberdad

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40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: This one's pretty straightforward, WMT with a weak, but listenable signal.

Night: WMT still rules, but weaker to the point of being unlstenable. Other signals usually present, but not in readily identifiable form. Exception was several months back, when WREG was apparently staying on day pattern (on STA) and in with a signal strong enough to overtake WMT.

Sunrise-Sunset. On rare occasions WREG or CKAT.

Retro: R. Moscow English language relay from Cuba.. Present as many nights as not.

Fun Fact: As I've posted previously, WMT is the only daytime signal comfortably listenable on the 360 mile-drive between the Chicago metro area and the Twin Cities.
 
From NW WA state, it is CKSP Vancouver BC days and nights. Signed on in late 2020, 50/20, one null to the S to protect KOGO San Diego and one to the east to protect KGEZ Kalispell MT and points beyond I suppose. Similar nulls in the daytime so even if they "forget" to go to night power I don't think many of you folks back east will get the chance to hear it. "Punjab" radio, serving the huge Indian and S Central Asian diaspora in the Vancouver market.

The 600 frequency was used for many decade in Van City, as I believe a 10/10 ND. Was migrated to FM in the early aughts, and the frequency was dormant for roughly 15 years.
 
From Cheyenne, WY:
I would also say mine is pretty straightforward.

KCOL Wellington (38.6 miles) with a mostly local signal and occasional static, Days and Nights. They kind of null in my direction during the day to protect adjacent KCSR Chadron.

At night, there's a talk station constantly under KCOL, but I haven't identified it. To my suprise, I haven't gotten KSJB's country music signal here, just that talker.

Travel: KCOL has been with me on my trips to Scottsbluff and Estes Park, with a decent signal in either town. KSJB Jamestown is weak, but listenable in Rapid City. (289.3 miles). 5,000 watts in the high plains versus 5,000 watts on the front range, and the plains win by a landslide.
 
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From Pickerington, Ohio, adjacent-channel slop from the oft-discussed WTVN, aka Radio Free Canada!
I'm about eight miles slightly north of due east from their tower farm and just above a deep easterly null to protect Philadelphia. Even so, I don't hear much if anything on 600 even at night other than a very little WTVN slop.
When I lived in the Houston area, WREC was a regular nighttime catch despite being directly next to their local on 610, all-sports KILT.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs days I hear a fair/weak WMT. At night WMT is still in the mix, but barely. I've heard WREC and CKAT.

Retro: I also remember Radio Moscow at night in the early 80s. Some nights very strong especially in winter.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: KTBB Tyler, TX at 120 miles SE with fair to good signal.
Night: Weaker but steady KTBB. Aiming N brings in WMT Cedar Rapids, IA as a regular. Less often heard is WREC Memphis and R. Rebelde.
 
From west Houston, daytime is only slop from local KILT 610. At sunset, the slop diminishes and it's typically KTBB and WREC, but have also heard KROD in El Paso nearer to their sunset. At night, usually KTBB/WREC, but have heard Radio Rebelde at times. I have been unsuccessfully trying to ID WBOB and WMT. Both should be possible, but it's tough given all these stations (excluding Rebelde and KROD) run conservative talk shows.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days: WMT Cedar Rapids, all daytime, every day. I don't know if they're still on a single tower (the WMT night tower was knocked down in the 2020 derecho), but the 5 kW day signal has been a beacon for years.

Nights: It's a mix, sometimes WMT rising to the top (pre-derecho), sometimes not. Others noted over the years: CFCF Montreal (the long-gone first station in Canada, if not North America, picked up once or twice; I've not heard the replacement, CFQR), WREC Memphis, what I had listed as CMKV San German, Cuba (billed at 150 kW, this was the likely Radio Moscow transmitter in the 1970s), CKAT North Bay, Ontario (nowhere near North Bay, the body of water), and WBOB Jacksonville, Fla., on a 9/4/2021 DX test.

Cyberdad mentioned WMT's reach from Chicago to the Twin Cities. It also is listenable to the south. More than once I was driving to Champaign for a late-Saturday Big Ten football game and would listen to the early-slot Iowa football broadcast on WMT all the way into the parking lot. The noise level rose in Champaign, but you could still just get it, and once in the parking lot, it was as good as on the interstate.
 
East Tennessee: Days--a weak WCYP, Murphy NC.
Pre-sunset: Often WBOB, Jacksonville

Night: Usually a hodge-podge, but this evening Radio Rebelde is coming in decently *(it seems a touch auroral).
Retro/other: I've heard WBOB during hurricane coverage when they were on daytime facilities. Also, WBOB did a DX test for us on Sept 4, 2021, which I heard from here and on the Edinburgh IN receiver
Dayton, Ohio: It was always WKLW (now WKYH) in the pre-sunset time period. WSJS,Winston-Salem, NC was a night and morning regular and since it was revived I've heard it on the Edinburgh IN SDR. Now to WMT: I was able to hear it at a somewhat regular listening level in Lafayette IN, and it is the most distant daytime regular on the Edinburgh SDR.
 
The New Chico said:
From NW WA state, it is CKSP Vancouver BC days and nights. Signed on in late 2020, 50/20, one null to the S to protect KOGO San Diego and one to the east to protect KGEZ Kalispell MT and points beyond I suppose. Similar nulls in the daytime so even if they "forget" to go to night power I don't think many of you folks back east will get the chance to hear it. "Punjab" radio, serving the huge Indian and S Central Asian diaspora in the Vancouver market.

The 600 frequency was used for many decade in Van City, as I believe a 10/10 ND. Was migrated to FM in the early aughts, and the frequency was dormant for roughly 15 years.
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I remember the Vancouver 600 as an adult standards station in the early 2000s before it went dark. I believe the calls were CKBD, and the owner was Jim Pattison. Also owner of an outdoor advertising company, among other interests. Easy catch 24/7 on my biz trips to Seattle.
 
schmave said:
When I lived in the Houston area, WREC was a regular nighttime catch despite being directly next to their local on 610, all-sports KILT.
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WREG (WREC or whatever) is a nighttime regular at our vacation location near Pensacola. Sometimes with whatever's left of the 600 in Cuba underneath)
 
radioman148 said:
I was trying to remember how much power they ran from Cuba. Thanks!
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The Radio Moscow relay could be heard easily from Sarasota during the day, starting at 3pm, and once darkness hit, blanketed a good share of the US. Before Radio Moscow began its broadcast day, one of the regular domestic networks ran on 600.
 
cyberdad said:
I remember the Vancouver 600 as an adult standards station in the early 2000s before it went dark. I believe the calls were CKBD, and the owner was Jim Pattison. Also owner of an outdoor advertising company, among other interests. Easy catch 24/7 on my biz trips to Seattle.
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It was indeed Adult Standards as "The Bridge" Final incarnation before heading to FM, first at 100.5, then ultimately 102.7, where it is now a pretty badly performing Alternative station. Pattison has a ton of outdoor advertising, many radio stations and many car dealerships in western Canada. You can see how those businesses might dove tail together pretty nicely!
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WMT, Cedar Rapids, IA
Nightime: fairly open frequency with WMT

DX/RETRO: In 1980's Cuba ruled this frequency at night with their blowtorch (WRTH claimed it was 150 kW) carrying Radio Moscow World Service as well as Radio Rebelde. I remember driving on Lake Shore Drive with Radio Moscow blasting on 600 kHz on my car radio. Today the Radio Rebelde outlet is listed as 50 kW and is still frequent log at night. Other catches include CKAT (North Bay, ON), KSJB (Jamestown, ND), WREC (Memphis, TN), WCHT (Escanaba, MI), WICC (Bridgeport, CT), WCAO (Baltimore, MD, WKLW (Paintsville, KY), WSJS (Winston, NC), and WBOB (Jacksonville, FL with full power during a hurricane in 2017). Barranquilla, Colombia also heard on this frequency in the past.
 
I also received Radio Moscow from Cuba on 600 in my car driving on Lake Shore Drive in the early 80s. They were pretty easy to receive on a car radio back then.
 
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