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AM Frequency of the Week 1700

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cyberdad

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Crystal Lake, IL.....

Days: 1700 is normally blank. I have no memory of daytime skywave on this channel, but I;m sure it happens.

Nights: KBGG Des Moines, Iowa. Most nights it's a fair signal, sometimes better, sometimes weaker, I've also heard WJCC from Miami, but not recently.

Retro: I used to get a harmonic from local WAIT, which transmitted on 850 from a three-tower array about two miles from my house. They're now silent...and, of course, so is the harmonic.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago...

With 1690 WVON blaring away a few miles from me, pickings are slim, but under really good conditions, I've managed KBGG Des Moines in Dec. 2017 (and maybe since; I generally don't note relogs); KKLF Richardson, Tex., in March 2019; and thanks to WVON running a silent carrier earlier on March 11 of this year, WEUP Huntsville, Ala., properly on its 10 kW day power. So I'm halfway home for U.S. stations on 1700.
 
West Houston TX

Days, nothing, but once heard KVNS in midwinter. Down in Galveston on the beach, KVNS is semi-local strength during the day.
Sunset and night, KKLF is generally on top but not as strong as they used to be. KVNS is also there with KKLF nulled. I heard KBGG once during our big freeze of 2021 when KKLF was off the air.
 
1700 - WJCC - Miami Springs - Radio Mega - Kreyol - 2023 - only logging on this frequency

and an out of band logging - perhaps an attempt to evade Cuban jamming

1710 - Radio Marti - Spanish to Cuba parallel to 6030 KHz in 1999

kw - Melbourne FL
 
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Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: just splatter from WVON
Nightime: normally KBGG but others (KVNS, WEUP, WJCC) pop in once in a while

DX/RETRO: Also heard KKLF (Richardson, TX) and it's predecessors KTBK/KDSX (Sherman-Denison, TX). Managed to hear XEPE (Tecate, Mexico) on two occasions in recent years with ESPN programming. Both times right before Chicago sunrise. In 2000 heard US Special Operations station with training PSA's. Unknown location. One station that I am still trying to log on this frequency is WRCR Haverstraw, NY.
 
If anything here in Ohio, it's KBGG. I've heard it at both fair strength and strong.
I used to enjoy KVNS with its oldies format when I lived in suburban Houston. @wildthangjim's reception report echoed my experiences from the League City/Friendswood area. I sometimes listened via stream after I moved back to Ohio until the format change, but I've never heard it over the air up here. I thought I would at least once given the DX reports from overseas.
 
One recent 1700 log, plus one mystery one.
WRCR from Rockland County NY was a SSS and evening log, but I don;t see them listed at all on the nf8m pages (night or day). Both Radio-Locator and FCCinfo.com, however, do include them. Most recent I heard was that they want to move the stick back across the Hudson, to Haverstraw, their COL.
The 'mystery' 1700 one popped up quite recently, randomly, as a short mP3 on an old thumb-drive while I was, naturally, looking for something else in the piles. I've been looking for it since, hi. But from what I remember, it was a nighttime test, with the call letters (?) K1-something, maybe a K1X. It was a loud but choppy test with OC and music switching on and off. The fellow at the mike gave the calls, and said simply 'Warren' as the COL. Compromised memory suggests Warren NJ. But there is also a Warren, Pennsylvania.
Anyone here remember that? Hadda be in the early- or mid-90's. A guide will give me twice as many stations on 1700 as I have now.
 
WRCR nights & critical hours; daytime nada, unless I go to one of our parking lots that uses 1700 to announce trains.
 
WRCR, which is still limiting their audio bandwidth to 5 kHz, even though they haven't used IBOC since they moved transmitter sites.
 
Tyler, TX:

Daytime yields a fair to moderate KKLF Richardson from DFW. Tejano formatted "Radio Jalapeño". At night, KKLF is in a constant battle with Fox Sports KVNS Brownsville, and KKLF is typically on the losing end of the fight. KBGG, in Iowa, makes an appearance from time to time, but not regularly.
 
When I'm in New Hampshire, WRCR comes in during the morning hours before the sun is too high. And according to Radio-Locator.com, WRCR's transmitter is off U.S. Route 202 in Mount Ivy, Rockland County.

Before WRCR took the 1700 frequency, I picked up a weak KBGG Des Moines a few times at night in NH. I was able to identify it because it was running CBS Sports Radio programming.
 
Tonight in Loganville, GA ~30 miles E of ATL. Was hearing a very weak foreign language that I didn't understand with a lot of laughter from the broadcaster. Matched it to the WJCC stream. I have no idea what language (possibly Haitian?) or what the dude was talking about but it was apparently hilarious to him.
 
Daytime: pretty much nothing

Nighttime: Some really loud Spanish-language station blasting everywhere up and down the state (confirmed via various KiwiSDRs). Anyone know what station it is?

c
 
Rocklin, CA

Daytime: Nothin just splatter from KFSG Roseville
Nightime: just splatter from KFSG Roseville little bit of XEPE Baja California

Vallejo, CA

Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: XEPE Baja California

cc333 said:
Daytime: pretty much nothing

Nighttime: Some really loud Spanish-language station blasting everywhere up and down the state (confirmed via various KiwiSDRs). Anyone know what station it is?

c
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That's XEPE Baja California
 
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