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AM Frequency of the Week: 970

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cyberdad

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Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Days: WHA from Madison WI (University of Wisconsin NPR station). Fair signal from about 85 miles to my northwest.

Nights: WHA powers down to 51 watts and vanishes into a jumble. Most likely to rise to the top is WMAY from S[ringfield, IL. All 500 watts of it. But with a lobe in my direction. KQAQ from Austin, MN sometimes also sneaks in. jus

Other Location/Retro: I just finished a week at our beach location near Pensacola. 970 there daytime is WFLA. One of several very weak but audible signals from the Tampa Bay area.

At my college location during the late 60s in Iowa KAKC from Tulsa would sometimes be in with a listenable signal. Always a good listen.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WHA Madison, WI with fair signal
Nightime: WMAY most likely catch

DX/RETRO: DX wise this frequency has been quite good over the years for me with around 20 different stations heard. Some highlights include KJLT (No Platte, NE), KCF (Tulsa, OK), KXTP (Superior, WI), KHVN Forth Worth, TX), WTKN (Pittsburgh, PA), WDAY (Fargo, ND), WFUN (Ashtabula, OH), WWRK (Florence, SC), WRCS (Ahoskie, NC) during DX test as well as XEJ Ciudad Juarez, Mexico), HJME (Maicao, Colombia), and TIRI (Alajuelito, Costa Rica)
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Local KHVN with Black Information Network (ex-Urban Gospel).
Nights: KHVN is weaker and slightly nullable. KIXL Del Valle, TX (Austin area) is often heard and sometimes overtakes KHVN. Also, XEJ Ciudad Juárez, Chih. is sometimes heard.
Sunrise: XERFR Ciudad de México, D.F (R. Formula) surfaces.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime: WHA fair/weak. At night most often I've heard WMAY and Pittsburgh. Back when I first hear it the calls were WWSW. I've also heard WDAY once or twice.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: WYSE, Canon GA, very weak.
Night: Generally WGTK, Louisville rises above the din .

Retro/other: Dayton, OH,. A weak WGTK (WAVF), day
 
Daytimes (and most of the time to be honest) it's slop from local 980 KQUE. Around sunset, KEXL Del Valle TX is usually on top, and have heard KHVN once or twice. XERFR Radio Formula in Mexico City is usually there as well. I've heard XEJ closer to their sunset. At night and mornings, XERFR is usually dominant.
 
Happy 4th, everyone!

From Cheyenne Wyoming:
Days: I can recieve an extremely faint KJLT North Platte on 970 AM.

Nights: Sometimes, I'll get an okay signal from KBUL in Billings. I thought I had recieved WDAY once during sunrise skip, but I can't find it at the moment.

Travel:
Speaking of KBUL, it is weak, but listenable in Cody, WY.
 
Here in PA, the daytimer is WBLF Bellefonte, pretty near the center of the state.. Quite faint. 1000 omni day. Oldies, last I'd heard.

SSS is a jumble. Sounds like 1400. Should be an okay DX site at that time, though. With two battery-outfitted radios now, and a LOT less QRM, 970 should be prettty near the top of the priority list.

Nights have brought in WWSW Pittsburgh, CBZ Frederickton NB and WWDJ Hackensack, all marked as 't' -- meaning on tape someplace in the confusion.

Also on this list as an UnID is 'WINF', also on tape, hi
 
ZantennaG1 said:
Happy 4th, everyone!

From Cheyenne Wyoming:
Days: I can recieve an extremely faint KJLT North Platte on 970 AM.
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Another 970 in an area with fantastic ground conductivity and a fabulous signal. I've tracked KJLT pretty much the entire length of I-80 through Nebraska. Which is about 400 miles. And then on into Wyoming.

And a happy 4th back at you...as well as to the rest of our group!
 
Northwest WA: Daytime nothing, nighttime KUFO.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, it's a very weak WATH from Athens, about 60 miles southeast.
Offhand, I don't remember hearing anything else on the channel day or night. The 900s are a lot of jumble in general for me at night.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Daytimes, I can get WHA Madison easily in my car. In the house, whatever gadgets I have in the office prevent reception.

Nights, it's a jumble. In order, I've gotten WWSW Pittsburgh (and again as WBGG), CKCH Hull, Que.; WAVE Louisville (and again as WGTK), WDAY Fargo, N.D.; and WFUN Ashtabula, Ohio on 12/30/2019.
 
New DX catch for me on 970 before sunrise this morning. WZAM from Ishpeming in Michigan's upper Peninsula. Alone and on top. Given the strength of the signal, I'm guessing 5kw day power. as opposed to 62 watt night power. (Both non-directional.) My mileage calculator is down at the moment, but I;ll guess roughly 250 miles.
 
Daytime, usually nothing. Unless there are daytime skywave-like conditions, in which case WHA might well show up. Nighttime, usually WGTK Louisville, or KQAQ Austin, MN.
 
15 miles south of Orlando. Daytime WFLA Tampa weak, it always has strange audio coming in underneath it. Nighttime is a mess occasionally WFLA.
 
icybluelake said:
Daytime, usually nothing. Unless there are daytime skywave-like conditions, in which case WHA might well show up. Nighttime, usually WGTK Louisville, or KQAQ Austin, MN.
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I lived briefly in Winona Minnesota during early 1971. Nearly 100 miles east of Austin. KQAQ had a good day signal there, which sort of surprised me. Reason being, the ground conductivity around Winona is ptetty awful. However, about 10-15 miles west of Winona, the glaciated area along the Mississipi River stops, and you're in deep, rich, flat, black earth farm country. And a clear land path for KQAQ and other signals from the west. Of course, in the case of KQAQ, it's a moot point when they power down at night and disappear.
 
cyberdad said:
I lived briefly in Winona Minnesota during early 1971. Nearly 100 miles east of Austin. KQAQ had a good day signal there, which sort of surprised me. Reason being, the ground conductivity around Winona is ptetty awful. However, about 10-15 miles west of Winona, the glaciated area along the Mississipi River stops, and you're in deep, rich, flat, black earth farm country. And a clear land path for KQAQ and other signals from the west. Of course, in the case of KQAQ, it's a moot point when they power down at night and disappear.
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Did you ever drive through the Root River valley around Rushford and Houston, MN? If my memory serves, that area is like a black hole of ground conductivity where few stations are even listenable. Remarkable if I’m remember correctly.
 
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