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AM Frequency of the Week: 990

cyberdad

cyberdad

Crystal Lake,iL (Far NW suburban Chicago area).....

Days: Splatter from local WMVP (1000)

Nighta: All CBW from Winnipeg, MB, Usually with a strong signal.

Other Locaation: When we're at Perdido Key (near Pensacola), 990 by day is a weak signal from WGSO;s 500 watts via saltwater path. Under moderate splatter from local WRNE (980)ver at night. CBW. WNML from Knoxville usually takes overat night. CBW is very elusive and normally absent entirely.
 
Denver, CO - Local KRKS, "The Word" (Salem), day and night. Nighttimes are just 380 watts, but on a DA 5½ miles north of me, aimed right at my location. So no hope for CBW here!

Former Oakland, CA location - KATD Pittsburg, CA, day and night, not quite a local and not particularly strong either time, but steady. Simulcasts 1010 KIQI from San Francisco.

Retro - Many winter nights in Missouri spent with CBW Winnipeg, listening to the wealth of programming that the CBC offered, in the days when American public radio was just a whisper of what it is now.
 
kw - Melbourne FL

990 KHz - WTLN - Orlando - AM990 - The Word - Christian – SRN //101.5 2023 - daytime

990 KHz - CMAx - Pinar del Rio, Cuba - Radio Guama - Provincial network - 2023 - nights
 
Tyler TX:

Daytime is a fair to moderate KFCD Farmersville with Spanish language religious. At night, KFCD drops to 920 watts, down from 7k. I can still hear it, although it is extremely weak. Not much else to report from 990. One of the worst settings on the dial for anything of note.
 
If you will, forgive my 990 negligence. The only logs I have here in NE PA are nighttime ones, of a CKIS from Quebec and a WCMF from outside Rochester NY. Heck -- there's not even a 'W' on the list from the 990 in Philadelphia!
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Retro Queens NYC stories: The old WIBG 990 Philadelphia put a really feeble Top 40 signal at us for such a high power back in the day. IIrc, they were 10,000 watts back then. Those old White's Radio Logs didn't have any provision for 'directional'. A Long Island DX pal of ours on vacation with his folks in coastal NC said that WIBG was a ton of bricks there. 'So THAT'S where it all goes!' he informed us
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Motorists headed south through the Carolinas at night (on 301 or I-95) may recall the only listenable Top 40 signal off the car radio being from WNOX 990 Knoxville. That huge SE nighttime lobe of theirs is where all THAT went. Still does, in fact.
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Oddly, and really ; for some reason we'd periodically drive out with a car or two of folks to go to an all-night diner and DX in Port Flippin' Jervis NY. On one annual pilgrimage we explorers wound up parked in a cemetery at 3AM with sacks of French Fries, with coffees and beers, DXing off the car radio. Jervis is 100 miles due North of Philly. So what came in on 990?
What else, lol? I still have it on tape, alone and quite readable. A contest promo announcement that asked for entries to be mailed to WNOX Knoxville Tennessee.
 
East TN: Local WNML. I once heard something in Spanish underneath nut no idea who.
I've heard WNML in Dayton and Charleston SC

Retro/other: Dayton OH: Splatter from WONE. In Western Ohio, I could get a small piece of WERK, the little AM station that could, in Muncie, IN, owned at one time by Bill Shirk, which was a far, team for his WXLW and other Indy stations. The 6-tower, 250 watt pattern protected WONE, WITY and other 980s.and whatever 990s. The calls live on on FM, the station became a non-com with a few watts nondirectional. In the 70s I remember the sign-off "WERK Muncie now pauses 11 hours and 45 minutes for station identification".
CBW did make it into that area at night.
 
Hartland, VT:

Nothing days, religious WDCX Rochester, NY, usually wins the battle at night.

Meriden, CT:

WNTY Southington days with classic hits, WNTY fighting it out with WDCX at night.
 
In north suburban Chicago — same as fellow listeners in this area:
Daytime: splatter from WMVP
Night: CBW usually very strong except for this past week after a solar event. Last night conditions were pretty much back to normal. One of very few big-signal stations with something worth listening to late at night.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

Days, bleedover from WCFL / WLUP / WMVP.

Nights, only two loggings over the decades. CBW Winnipeg, a pretty tough catch here thanks to Winnipeg being pretty much on a line with WMVP. So one must result to tuning to 988 or so, using a narrower bandwidth or to lower sideband, etc., to get decent copy. It's there if I want to work for it. The other logging, back in the Radio Shack receiver days, was WNOX Knoxville. My list doesn't indicate if that was on a Sunday night/Monday morning when WCFL was off, but I wouldn't be surprised.
 
WDCX here in Rochester, of course - but their six-tower site is about 15 miles west of Rochester, and the night pattern is an extremely tight beam pointing east, so it's actually not a really strong night signal at my house on the southeast side of town.

So there's been the occasional logging of CBW (and Montreal, when it was on 990) over the years here.
 
fybush said:
WDCX here in Rochester, of course - but their six-tower site is about 15 miles west of Rochester, and the night pattern is an extremely tight beam pointing east, so it's actually not a really strong night signal at my house on the southeast side of town.

So there's been the occasional logging of CBW (and Montreal, when it was on 990) over the years here.
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Detroit, MI suburbs:

Day: Local WDEO Ypsilanti, MI. ~20 miles.

Night: Monitored 990 KHz from 9-945pm this evening. Stations received:

- WDEO, weak. 20 miles west of me. All but disappears on their night pattern at 250w.

- CBW, good signal if I rotate my loop in its direction.

- WNML Knoxville, TN. CBS Sports radio. This is a new one for me.

- Something else? Music, classic hits. Faded above the slop several times. I heard U2 and Pink Floyd. I checked webstreams and playlists but nothing seems to match..

Equipment: DX Engineering RF-Pro 1B loop (Similar to Wellbrook) in the backyard 150' behind the house, and Sony XDR-S10HDiP receiver.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - Local WNTP 'The Answer' Philadelphia with Conservative Talk. Despite it being 50,000 Watts it is not as strong as fellow Philly 50,000 Watters KYW and WPHT due to its directional signal to the SE.

Nights - Still WNTP with 10,000 Watts but slightly weaker with some backround talk from an unidentified station or stations.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WMVP splatter
Nighttime: CBW Winnipeg dominates at night

DX/RETRO: others heard KNIN (Wichita Falls, TX), KRKS (Denver, CO with a DX test), KFCD (Farmersville, TX), WNML (Knoxville, TN), WNOX (Knoxville, TN), WNYR (Rochester, NY), WABX (Clare, MI), WYAT (New Orleans, LA), WEIS (Centre, AL), WWKY (Winchester, KY), WISK (Lawrencville, GA), WLDX (Fayetter, AL), and XET Monterrey, Mexico, which used to be more common back in 1980's. Most recent new logs on this frequency are WDEO (Ypsilanti, MI) and WITZ (Jasper, IN). Both in 2022.
 
Clifton, New Jersey

Days: Nothing

Nights: At night, it's usually WDCX Rochester, NY. I have received other stations depending on propagation. They include WNTP Philadelphia, PA, WNTY Southington, CT, and WNTI (now WGGI) Somerset, PA.

DX/Flashback: On 4/10/2022, I received WWKY Winchester, KY during their DX Test. I heard morse code and various tones. It was mixing with other stations such as WDCX, WNTP & WNTY that night.
 
Here on the west side of Houston TX, daytimes are all splatter from local 980 KQUE.

Around sunset, KQUE splatter is still a problem but KFCD Farmersville TX comes up with religious programming in Spanish. I've also caught KWAM "Mighty 990" talk from Memphis. At night, mostly KFCD, but I've also heard Radio Guama from Cuba and XET "La T Grande" from Monterrey. In 2022 I also heard WWKY Winchester KY on a DX Test.

Sunrise, KFCD and XET mostly, with KWAM in there sometimes, until KQUE goes to daytime power. For some reason I've never logged WGSO New Orleans or KZZB Beaumont (only 90 miles from me).
 
@MichaelD1972
Lol -- I caught your mention of WGGI in southwest PA, and had a bell go off -- a dull clang from very long ago.
So I went through some old DX tape logs from back in Queens NYC, and found notes of a few snippets off a loud station atop 990 testing one overnight for what seemed to be two hours of embezzled school-morning sleep, with no ID. They played test tones .... sporadic bits of music from only two songs ('Caravan' and 'Harlem Nocturne' by Les and Larry Elgart) .... had lots of dead air accompanied by more test tones plus my yawning impatience ..... and finally IDed.
WVSC, 990, Somerset PA. When they dropped the signal, a faint WIBG from Philly was there. WVSC's equipment test completely buried them for the duration.
July, 1967.
 
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