Carmichael, CA
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: XEPE Tecate, BN
Vallejo, CA
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: XEPE Tecate, BN
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: XEPE Tecate, BN
Vallejo, CA
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: XEPE Tecate, BN
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AM Frequency of the Week: 1700
- Thread starter MarioMania
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DFW, Texas
Daytime: Local KKLF Richardson, TX with Tejano music.
Nights: KKLF is weaker and nullable. Most heard is KBGG Des Moines, IA with CBS Sports. KVNS Brownsville booms in with Fox Sports when they go to day power at sunrise. Heard WEUP Huntsville, AL once (barely) with urban gospel.
Daytime: Local KKLF Richardson, TX with Tejano music.
Nights: KKLF is weaker and nullable. Most heard is KBGG Des Moines, IA with CBS Sports. KVNS Brownsville booms in with Fox Sports when they go to day power at sunrise. Heard WEUP Huntsville, AL once (barely) with urban gospel.
Melbourne FL
1700 - WJCC - Miami Springs FL - Radio Mega - Kreyol language format - 2023 sunset & night
1700 - WJCC - Miami Springs FL - Radio Mega - Kreyol language format - 2023 sunset & night
Denver, CO - Nothing. I'm surprised the Des Moines station on this channel hasn't come in but I haven't tried for it lately. Local KDMT is adjacent on 1690 but seems pretty well behaved.
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:
Daytime: just splatter from WVON
Nighttime: 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.
Daytime: just splatter from WVON
Nighttime: 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.
I've heard KBGG a handful of times in central Ohio, but I haven't tuned up to 1700 in a long time. I've been slacking on my DXing the past few years, but it's always nice when the season is coming up.
KVNS was a regular visitor when I lived in suburban Houston, to the point that I very rarely heard KKLF. I heard KVNS once daytime when I drove down to the beach in Galveston but it disappeared several miles inland. I have never heard it in Ohio.
KVNS was a regular visitor when I lived in suburban Houston, to the point that I very rarely heard KKLF. I heard KVNS once daytime when I drove down to the beach in Galveston but it disappeared several miles inland. I have never heard it in Ohio.
One logging on file here -- WRCR from Rockland County* NY.
They were a regular sunset catch here in NEPA nine years ago off a cheap Radio Shack-job traveler's radio, playing softer 80's pop at that hour (Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Crowded House, Juice Newton. Not a bad listen, kinda different -- as well as being one you KNOW wouldn't be permanent.
The facility's myth traces back to 1966 or so, when the only full-power radio signal in tiny Rockland was full-service daytimer WRKL 910, COL New City. So some entrepreneur(s) decided that it would be neat to put on a 'rock and roll station' in pretty Rockland County, and got permission to start a 3-tower directional daytimer on 1300 they called WRRC. The license was to Nanuet NY.
The existing signals on 1300 and adjacents forced WRRC's limited 500-watt signal into going northwest. They didn't even cover the heavily-populated Hudson Valley stretch well. I remember taking the signal of Long Island's super-directional WGLI 1290 up the Hudson into Nyack -- and via WGLI's *back lobe*.
I may have the sequence wrong (Scott Fybush would know) but I believe the station calls changed at the same time to WKQW and the COL to 'Spring Valley'.
Operating a 500-watt suburban directional daytimer that itself was shoehorned into its own community on all sides -- by, clockwise, New Haven, Mt. Kisco, Asbury Park NJ, Trenton and even Babylon Long Island -- had to've been a real house of cards. The station became WLIR for a while, when ANOTHER issue-forced daytimer signed on neighboring 1310 in northern NJ. Then it became WRCR.
Those WRCR calls stayed for a while and the powers-that-begat a license to put the thing on 1700. And I recall that vagabond-ing in ITSELF being a tug-of-war as to where to put the lone tower and the COL. At times it was across the Hudson in Westchester County, with a COL of 'Ramapo'. And I see the 1700 is now COL'ed in 'Haverstraw' -- back in Rockland.
I don't even know if this station broadcasts anymore. Try to nab this one around sunset or sunrise before it moves again.
*Here's a map of Rockland County. It's only 200 square miles in a triangle, and too close to NYC proper ever to have, AFAIK, a full-power FM license granted to it. The place is quite lovely, but in places never reached by the 1300 WRRC signal despite its small size. You can see some of the various cities-of-license the facility's journey took.
They were a regular sunset catch here in NEPA nine years ago off a cheap Radio Shack-job traveler's radio, playing softer 80's pop at that hour (Culture Club, Thompson Twins, Crowded House, Juice Newton. Not a bad listen, kinda different -- as well as being one you KNOW wouldn't be permanent.
The facility's myth traces back to 1966 or so, when the only full-power radio signal in tiny Rockland was full-service daytimer WRKL 910, COL New City. So some entrepreneur(s) decided that it would be neat to put on a 'rock and roll station' in pretty Rockland County, and got permission to start a 3-tower directional daytimer on 1300 they called WRRC. The license was to Nanuet NY.
The existing signals on 1300 and adjacents forced WRRC's limited 500-watt signal into going northwest. They didn't even cover the heavily-populated Hudson Valley stretch well. I remember taking the signal of Long Island's super-directional WGLI 1290 up the Hudson into Nyack -- and via WGLI's *back lobe*.
I may have the sequence wrong (Scott Fybush would know) but I believe the station calls changed at the same time to WKQW and the COL to 'Spring Valley'.
Operating a 500-watt suburban directional daytimer that itself was shoehorned into its own community on all sides -- by, clockwise, New Haven, Mt. Kisco, Asbury Park NJ, Trenton and even Babylon Long Island -- had to've been a real house of cards. The station became WLIR for a while, when ANOTHER issue-forced daytimer signed on neighboring 1310 in northern NJ. Then it became WRCR.
Those WRCR calls stayed for a while and the powers-that-begat a license to put the thing on 1700. And I recall that vagabond-ing in ITSELF being a tug-of-war as to where to put the lone tower and the COL. At times it was across the Hudson in Westchester County, with a COL of 'Ramapo'. And I see the 1700 is now COL'ed in 'Haverstraw' -- back in Rockland.
I don't even know if this station broadcasts anymore. Try to nab this one around sunset or sunrise before it moves again.
*Here's a map of Rockland County. It's only 200 square miles in a triangle, and too close to NYC proper ever to have, AFAIK, a full-power FM license granted to it. The place is quite lovely, but in places never reached by the 1300 WRRC signal despite its small size. You can see some of the various cities-of-license the facility's journey took.
Clifton, New Jersey
Days/Nights: I get WRCR Haverstraw, NY with a weak signal. It was originally the expanded band counterpart of 1300 WRCR Spring Valley, NY. There is some detailed history in the post above mine.
DX/Retro: I received several distant stations when WRCR was temporarily off the air in 2019. They include WEUP Huntsville, AL, KBGG Des Moines, IA and KKLF Richardson, TX.
Days/Nights: I get WRCR Haverstraw, NY with a weak signal. It was originally the expanded band counterpart of 1300 WRCR Spring Valley, NY. There is some detailed history in the post above mine.
DX/Retro: I received several distant stations when WRCR was temporarily off the air in 2019. They include WEUP Huntsville, AL, KBGG Des Moines, IA and KKLF Richardson, TX.
From west Houston TX
Daytime nothing
Sunset/night/sunrise, usually both KKLF Richardson TX and KVNS Brownsville TX are there, with dominant one depending on conditions. I've also heard KBGG Des Moines a few times
Down by the beach in Galveston KVNS usually has a good signal day and night.
Daytime nothing
Sunset/night/sunrise, usually both KKLF Richardson TX and KVNS Brownsville TX are there, with dominant one depending on conditions. I've also heard KBGG Des Moines a few times
Down by the beach in Galveston KVNS usually has a good signal day and night.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: Nothing normally. However, KVNS "Fox Sports" in Brownsville, TX, is a regular visitor during winter daytime skywave. KKLF in Richardson, TX, sometimes appears as well during those conditions. I've noticed that KKLF recently switched to new branding - "Radio Visión Latina," which is mostly Christian talk and some music.
Sunset: Both KVNS and KKLF come up.
Night: KKLF is most dominant with KVNS often underneath. Aiming E/W, I occasionally hear a weak XEPE "TUDN" in Tecate, BC, mixing in.
Sunrise: It's KVNS and KKLF battling it out until skywave is gone, with the former often most dominant.
DX/Retro: I've logged KBGG two times at sunset. Also, I've heard WEUP a few times at night and once at sunset.
@MarioMania are you going to start a thread for 1710 next or will it be 530? Also, is there any news on Cyberdad?
Day: Nothing normally. However, KVNS "Fox Sports" in Brownsville, TX, is a regular visitor during winter daytime skywave. KKLF in Richardson, TX, sometimes appears as well during those conditions. I've noticed that KKLF recently switched to new branding - "Radio Visión Latina," which is mostly Christian talk and some music.
Sunset: Both KVNS and KKLF come up.
Night: KKLF is most dominant with KVNS often underneath. Aiming E/W, I occasionally hear a weak XEPE "TUDN" in Tecate, BC, mixing in.
Sunrise: It's KVNS and KKLF battling it out until skywave is gone, with the former often most dominant.
DX/Retro: I've logged KBGG two times at sunset. Also, I've heard WEUP a few times at night and once at sunset.
@MarioMania are you going to start a thread for 1710 next or will it be 530? Also, is there any news on Cyberdad?
It might be a good idea to have 1710 as a thread because there is one licensed TIS station (WQFG689). I may not be the only one who has received it, especially when it operated at 100 watts instead of 10 watts from 2020 until 2023. I'll wait for @MarioMania answer, though.
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