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AM Frequency of the week: 720

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West side of Houston TX

Days, a weak KSAH from San Antonio. At sunset, WGN starts to take over and KSAH mostly disappears when they power down. The rest of the evening is all WGN with a low rumble underneath. Overnight, I've ID'd Radio Católica from Managua, Nicaragua with religious talk in Spanish (MWlist shows them signing off at 0400 UTC but I've heard them later than that). I was also able to hear KDWN's DX test last March before they left the air.

I've heard occasional Spanish language underneath, probably Mexico, but haven't ID'd anything. The IRCA Mexican Log says most of them on 720 have irregular schedules.
 
Sf East Bay:

Daytime: pretty much nothing except splatter from whatever's on 710.

Nighttime: KFIR, depending on my radio's orientation. If I point the nulls north-south, all I hear is static.

Before KDWN went silent in March, I tuned in to witness the event (I had never really listened before because I don't generally listen to conservative talk).

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Sf East Bay:

Daytime: pretty much nothing except splatter from whatever's on 710.
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KFIA from Carmichael (Sacramento). You should be getting a better signal from it than I do since you're a bit closer. I can always get a readable signal on it, even if it is noisy. In any event, there isn't anything on 720 anywhere close to either of us.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Nothing

Nights - WGN. Fair signal in summer. The low frequency allows a lot of static from thunderstorms. Good signal in Winter.
 
In Pickerington, Ohio, the last breath of WGN by day and always WGN at night, usually with the second-best Chicago skywave signal behind WMVP.
I haven't listened to WGN much in recent years because they don't have much that interests me anymore, but I've been on the 720 frequency enough over the years to know that WGCR can be a big pest at critical hours, as @gr8oldies mentioned.
 
Days here -- a quarter inch SW of the 'H' in Hazleton on the map -- is the daytime regular. I have 'em logged as the former WWII.

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Night loggings include a CHTN from Canada, and some loud thing out of Chicago.
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Retro in Queens was even more meagre .... WGN, CMGU (?) Cuba, and two on 725 (Colombia and Surinam).
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I was really disgusted with the 1995 AM dial in Florida at my Folks' retirement village. There were just TWO stations that played the Standards. One of them was full-time at it, a real old-line Standards format, was WRZN Hernando. Their site was closer to Ocala and to the Gulf than to Lady Lake (30 miles away). I suspect only retired AM DXers bothered to pull in their signal. They used to sign off their nighttime 250-watt directional signak at 10 PM.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: It's my local, KSAH "Norteño 720" in Universal City, which is on the northeastern edge of San Antonio.

Sunset: I can null out KSAH a bit by aiming NE/SW. By off-tuning and/or using bandwidth filtering, I can hear a weak XEDE "La Lupe" in Arteaga. Sometimes WGN will mix in for a bit.

Night: The null is better with KSAH on night power/pattern. XEDE is in/out and often has a decent signal. As with sunset, WGN will sometimes mix in briefly.

Sunrise: XEDE is still there and eventually gets wiped out by KSAH.

DX/Retro: One-time loggings include KDWN in Las Vegas, XEJCC in Ciudad Juarez, and XEJAGC in Juan Aldama - all at times when KSAH was off air.
 
Loganville, GA

Days: Usually nothing, sometime UNID noise.
Nights: The station that taught me about DX as a kid, WGN. I could lay in my bed hours after my bedtime listening to WGN on my Radio Shack transistor radio with the volume turned down so my parents couldn't hear it. Chicago to Atlanta with some songs I could hear here and others I couldn't. Of course I discovered many other stations but WGN made me realize that back then, you could almost ID a station by the regional type songs that they mixed in with the regular playlist.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Nothing
Nights: WGN is a consistently strong signal. I have heard Radio Católica (Nicaragua) rarely when conditions are favorable, and KDWN Las Vegas NV on their final DX test.
Sunrise: I have heard XEJCC Ciudad Juárez and KSAH San Antonio going to day power.
 
Rocklin, CA

Daytime: Splatter from KFIA Carmichael
Nighttime: KFIR Sweet Home, OR with a Weak Signal

Vallejo, CA

Daytime: Splatter from KFIA Carmichael
Nighttime: Mosty Nothing, KFIR comes in Real Weak
 
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