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AM Frequency of the Week 710

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cyberdad

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Far northwest suburban Chicago.....

Days: Splatter from local blowtorch WGN (50kw on 720).

Nights: With WGN nulled, usually WOR sneaks through the splatter with a fair signal. Have also heard WDSM (Duluth, MN) on 10kw omni day pattern, KCMO from Kansas City and KEEL from Shreveport, LA. All three very rare

Retro: As WHB, the Kansas City 710 was a daytime go-to for me at my college location in southeast Iowa. 10 KW with an unfavorable pattern, but with WGN nulled. WHB was fully listenable. At night it dropped to 5kw with a tighter pattern and disappeared. The WHB calls now reside on 810 in Kansas City. Sometimes I think that frequency swaps in Kansas City are almost as popular there as their (justifiably) falmous barbecue!

The KC 710 night signal booms into Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, nearby area of western Ontario. But still one of my best catches on 710 up there was KIRO in Kenora, ON on day power/pattern before Seattle sunset.

Fast forward to current time, and 710 when we visit the Gulf near Pensacola is WNTM from Mobile. 1kw omni via a land path with poor conductivity. The result where we stay 45 miles away is a fair signal with Cuba's R. Rebelde underneath. At night WNTM goes directional and disappears. The "Rebe;lde Chorus" takes over 710 with a potent signal....or more correctly dignals...and plenty of echos.
 
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710 - WAQI - Miami - R. Mambi - La Grande - News, talk in Spanish - 2023

710 - Radio Rebelde Cadena Nacional - in Spanish DS1 2023 (several transmitters) - 2023

710 - WOR - New York - Voice of New York - Talk & information - 2023

kw - Melbourne FL
 
Current location in Oakland, CA, day and night: KFIA Carmichael, CA (Sacramento). Programs nothing that I'm particularly interested in.

Historically: I used to live in Kansas City, back when the big station on 710 was WHB, and in stereo until 1993. Quite a bit before that, I grew up in different places, among them Centerville, Iowa and Columbia, Missouri. WHB was receivable during the daytime both places. The WHB (now KCMO) nighttime pattern was another of those north-south figure-8s (similar to 810 in KC and 680 in St. Joe). The daytime signal in Centerville was a little stronger than it was in Columbia. In Centerville as a kid, I listened to WHB a lot even though KIOA had a stronger, less noisy signal. WHB had more of a "big city" sound.

The WHB (now KCMO) transmitter site is in the very northeast corner of the Clay County portion of Kansas City. Even though it's in the city, it's remote and surrounded by farmland. If you know where to look, you can see the five towers as Interstate 435 rounds the bend between being an east-west freeway and a north-south freeway.
 
15 miles south of Orlando

Daytime - WAQI, Miami weak

Nights - a mess. Usually Cuba, on rare occasions, WOR will sneak in underneath.
 
cyberdad said:
The WHB calls now reside on 810 in Kansas City. Sometimes I think that frequency swaps in Kansas City are almost as popular there as their (justifiably) falmous barbecue!
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That's actually the only frequency swap I can think of. The situation with KXXR in 1992 comes close, but that traffic was one-way (i.e. the 107.3 format was not moved to 106.5, though the previous format on 107.3 was country format and the new format on 106.5 was country, but ownership and programming was different). Everything else I can think of in recent years was a move of call letters. On AM, the WDAF calls migrated to FM to make room for the all-sports format that's now KCSP. KPRS replaced the KPRS-FM calls on FM in the 1970s, with the AM becoming KPRT. The KXTR calls migrated from FM to AM and are now out of the market altogether; KUDL is parked in Sacramento; KCKN made two round trips between Kansas City, Kansas and Roswell, New Mexico; KCCV moved from 1510 to 760, selling off 1510 in the process.

WHB's original post-NARBA frequency was 880. For a period in 1929, according to the FCC history cards, WHB was assigned to broadcast on 710 before it was reassigned to 860, which became 880 after NARBA.
 
From the west side of Houston TX...

Daytime, nothing but slop from local KSEV 700. At sunset, KEEL is pretty strong, with Radio Rebelde usually audible in their null. I've heard other Spanish language underneath, presumably one/both Mexicans, but on same bearing as KEEL haven't been able to pull them out. KGNC starts coming in after sunset, mixing w/KEEL and Rebelde. I sometimes hear KCMO, but not regularly. At sunrise, KGNC is very strong with their ag news format. I've never heard KURV, down in the Rio Grande Valley, which has a strong null in my direction.

In Tulsa in the early 70's, the excellent WHB "World's Happiest Broadcasters" was usually fair/good during the daytime, but not so good at night with multiple stations competing on the frequency (including KEEL, also a top 40 music station back then)
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, WLW slop by day and a moderately strong WOR at night. Sometimes it's strong enough to put a little slop onto WLW, but I swear it's not as strong as it was 20 or 30 years ago.
 
Hartland, VT, and Meriden, CT:

WOR New York, day and night. WOR and WABC are the strongest NYC daytime signals here in Hartland, but in Meriden both are in the second tier behind WCBS and WFAN.
 
Rochester NY: day used to be CJRN from Niagara Falls until it left AM, and now it's an empty channel. WOR at night, of course.
 
East Tennessee (Knoxville/Sevierville) -Daytime- until recently, it was a weak WEKC, Williamsburg, KY, which after snafus with their license and some silent periods, finally lost its license. Some years ago (late 90s) I was in Florence, KY and had WEKC fairly strong near sunset, enough to throw some splatter on WLW. Night--usually a battle between New York and Cuba, with the Rebelde Chorus usually winning over WOR. I've caught WAQI once or twice.

Retro/other: Dayton/Western Ohio.
I remember a station licensed to Blacksburg-Christiansburg VA (I think WQBX) being a regular sunset catch in the 80s. This station became WFNR and is off the air for good.
Even as close to WLW as I was, they could still be nulled enough to squeeze WOR at night. I remember listening to Joe Franklin's nostalgia show on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
@cyberdad in my brief Quincy/Hannibal days, what was then WHB was reasonably strong with an oldies format. KCMO was talk at the time on 810, and had about the same signal strength.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: slop from WGN just couple mile away from me
Nighttime: WOR with fair signal or one or more of the Radio Rebelde outlets

DX/RETRO: KEEL (Shreveport, lA), WPTR (Paris, TN), WDSM (Superior, WI), WFNR (Blacksburg, VA), WEKC (Williamsburg, KY) are some of the other DX on this frequency. Also the now closed CKVM (Ville-Marie, Quebec). As for Radio Rebelde, the past couple months they are more common than WOR when I tune to 710 kHz. MWLIST lists 7 different Radio Rebelde outlets, including two with 200 kW transmitters (Chambas and Marti), but I really doubt they are using such powers these days. More likely in the 50 kW range. Most recent catches on 710 are WYJV (Smyrna, TN) and WAQI (Miami, FL) both heard in 2022. WAQI, Radio Mambi made several appearances since then.
 
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As for Radio Rebelde, the past couple months they are more common than WOR when I tune to 710 kHz. MWLIST lists 7 different Radio Rebelde outlets, including two with 200 kW transmitters (Chambas and Marti), but I really doubt they are using such powers these days. More likely in the 50 kW range.
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WRTH for this year indicates 11 stations on 710. The operation of the 300 kw ones is actually very likely as 710 is used to block Radio Mambí from Miami, which they dislike much more even than Radio Martí.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days: WGN 720 bleedover.

Nights: Usually WOR, sometimes weakly, sometimes strongly. In the old days, to catch WOR with Jean Shepard was a treat, and difficult to get with my radios at the time.

Others: Radio Rebelde, maybe from Marti, maybe from Chambas, maybe elsewhere, first noted on 11/21/2020 while listening to Rutgers-Michigan football on WOR. Since then, two other 710s, both early in the morning: WDSM Superior, Wis.; KGNC Amarillo, Tex.

Excelsior!
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days: A good signal from WOR. It is the strongest of the 50KW signals from NYC because of its' directional signal.

Nights : WOR has the worst signal of the 50KW signals from NYC. It is constantly overrun by Radio Rebelde.
 
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Orange County, TX Days & nights a weak KEEL. Nights KEEL, KCMO & Cuba all in the mix
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Near north Chicago suburbs: days all WGN slop, nights Mostly WOR but not as good as it used to be. Other stations I hear at night or around sunset are KCMO, KEEL, Duluth, and Cuba at night.
 
From DFW, Texas

Days: Spillover from local 700-KHSE.
Nights: KGNC Amarillo and KCMO Kansas City are both equally strong, I can get each one clearly be pointing the radio NE or NW, accordingly. Sometimes I can hear R. Rebelde under each. At sunrise I have occasionally heard KEEL Shreveport and XEMP Mexico DF.
 
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