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AM Frequency of the Week: 560

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MarioMania

Carmichael, CA

Daytime: KSFO San Fransico (Weak)
Nighttime: KSFO San Francisco (Very Weak) with other Stations

Vallejo, CA

Day & Night KSFO San Francisco
 
Manchester area, UK (558): Panjab Radio, London, an ethnic broadcaster that makes the distance day and night due to its low-band AM spot, the lowest AM station in the UK.

It's had quite a number of incarnations over the years, it started as Spectrum Radio, a multi-ethnic station that ran programming in various languages. As the 2010s wore on and individual ethnic communities got their own dedicated stations rather than a few hours a week on Spectrum, it started to broker its airtime to whoever. For a while, it broadcast a lot of China Radio International, and then Sout al-Khaleej, a live feed of a Qatari state radio station straight from Doha.

In about 2018, it got a format change approved and turned into Love Sport, a London-focused local sports radio station, but in 2019 Love Sport swapped frequencies with Panjab Radio who at the time were on a crappy high-dial AM (1584, now off) covering just part of London, and 558 has been Punjabi ever since. Love Sport shut down altogether in COVID-19.

Way back when Spectrum Radio first signed on in 1990, Radio Caroline on the pirate ship Ross Revenge off the east coast was still using 558 kHz. Spectrum was allocated the frequency as a spoiler to block Caroline in London, but Caroline stayed on the air, so for a period Spectrum had to use a second frequency 990 kHz to be heard.
 
Orange County, TX it's KLVI Beaumont all the time

Retro: Back in the 60's on family trips to Kerrville the kids I hung with for the most part had KLVI on their presets for nighttime listening along with KOMA. When KTSA went directional, it was KLVI
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WIND
Nighttime: WIND

DX/RETRO: anything heard on this frequency is mostly with WIND being off the air. Something that is quite rare these days. They can be partially nulled at my location, but usually it's not enough to produce any results. The only stations that I heard with WIND nulled are two DX tests by WHND (Monroe, MI) and WFIL (Philadelphia, PA). Everything else was heard with WIND off the air: KLVI (Beaumont, TX), KLZ (Denver, CO), KWTO (Springfield, MO), KMON (Great Falls, MT), WQAM (Miami, FL), WJLS (Beckley, WV), WHBQ (Memphis, TN), WMIK (Middlesboro, KY), WEBC (Duluth, MN), WVOC (Columbia, SC), CFOS (Owen Sound, ON), CJKL (Kirkland Lake, ON)
 
Wow -- never heard WIND, either here or back in the frenzied Queens NYC days.
Nor the one in South Carolina.

Here in NEPA it's WFIL in the day. I'm between Pottsville & Hazleton, just outside the red lobe that goes northwest.

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Several Octobers back I heard CJKL from Ontario.

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A 560 mystery remains from one early Queens morning 51 years ago. WFIL wasn't there. And off a Hammarlund HQ-180 at -- I forget by now -- probably 4 AM, a male voice goes 'This .... is KAZL News ....'
The onliest things the station logbook had were CKWL in British Columbia and KLZ (yeah, right. Green) in Denver. Lol -- I have the tape and have sent it to a few pals for their reaction. Nothing yet.

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Up the Hudson near Kingston the gang would spend Easter week un-wintering a house and DXing. We'd hear a mix of a faint WHYN Mass. and a faint WFIL Philly. Real weak. The house was pretty co-linear between the two stations. Someone fit in a 560 daytimer (a WCKL) from the Hudson River town of Catskill and sent it all north into the desirable Albany capitol market. Somewhat recently the owner was in the process was getting annual STA approvals from the FCC to sign on the place once a year, usually on day 364, to comply with regs and show some sign of actual attention and survival. I don't know if he's still at it.
 
Nothing in Pickerington, Ohio day or night that I can recall. If I've ever heard anything, it was extremely weak and forgettable.
I'm probably 50-75 miles too far east, maybe more, to get the last breath of WIND. And I'm roughly that far west of getting the last hint of WFRB from Frostburg, Maryland. That station used to keep me company on the way to visit one of my buddies in Maryland when it would carry the Orioles or even Rush if I stuck around to listen. Great reach even in that ground conductivity.
When I lived in suburban Houston, it was all KLVI all the time. My location west of Galveston Bay and the water path between me and Beaumont helped quite a bit.
 
Denver, CO - Local KLZ, which broadcasts in HD, which is why I didn't bother with 550 kHz last week because the HD hash wipes everything out on 550 and 570, and has tends to have a suppressing effect on 540 and 580.
 
From west Houston TX, it's KLVI Beaumont day and night. I can sometimes hear KLZ Denver in their null when conditions are good. There are sometimes a couple of others mixing in, possibly KWTO or WHBQ, but never an ID.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Splatter from local 570-KLIF.

Nights: KWTO Springfield, MO with conservative talk is the strongest station on the frequency. Nulling KWTO, I can hear KLZ Denver pretty well, also with talk programming. KLVI Newstalk 560 Beaumont is sometimes heard, but not as often. Have also heard R. Rebelde on this frequency.
 
TXPH97 said:
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Splatter from local 570-KLIF.

Nights: KWTO Springfield, MO with conservative talk is the strongest station on the frequency. Nulling KWTO, I can hear KLZ Denver pretty well, also with talk programming. KLVI Newstalk 560 Beaumont is sometimes heard, but not as often. Have also heard R. Rebelde on this frequency.
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KWTO barely gets in most nights in the KC area. I’ve never heard KLZ, even though KOA is strong here some nights.
 
I stayed within sight of WGAN's towers during a trip to Portland in July. I did not get to DX at all, but their towers were easily visible from both my hotel window and while I took walks at night.
 
@ rjoc

Buddy of mine and his bride were slumming for a while on Cape Cod. As is his wont, Vinny (the husband) brought along some nice portable for DX. It's the first thing he packs to go anywhere, I'm told; trips, picnics, ball game, church)

Naturally, the Cape was hit with a blackout shortly after their arrival. Over 45 minutes, he says that he hasn't heard the AM dial so clear and free of noise since the 60s.
One example he mentioned was hearing WHYN 560 from Massachusetts .... then turning the portable 90 degrees and getting your WGAN, crystal.
 
Clifton, New Jersey

Days: I get nothing during the day.

Nights: It's either WFIL Philadelphia, PA or CFOS Owen Sound, ON depending on propagation. I have received Radio Rebelde from Cuba in the past.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: KLVI in Beaumont, TX, can be heard with a listenable signal on my sensitive radios that can off-tune and/or reduce bandwidth - if I aim E/NE. On all of my other radios, it's just slop from KTSA.

Sunset: KLVI comes up a bit stronger in the slop.

Night: KLVI can be heard on more radios with KTSA on night pattern, but bandwidth filtering still helps a lot. If I aim N/S, I can null KLVI a bit, which allows me to hear weak signals from XESRD ("La Tremenda") in Santiago Papsquiaro and XEOC ("Radio Chapultepec") in Mexico City on occasion. Sometimes a weak KLZ in Denver pops up.

Sunrise: WHBQ ("Sports 56") in Memphis can often be heard underneath or mixing with KLVI for a bit after it goes to day power. Occasionally KWTO in Springfield, MO, will do the same thing. XEOC and especially XESRD are stronger at sunrise, as is KLZ, and sometimes the latter two take over before it's back to groundwave and just KLVI with KTSA splatter.

DX/Retro: XEXZ ("Lupe 93.3") in Zacatecas could sometimes be heard at night before it was retired. In addition, XEGIK in Monclova used to be underneath or mixing in with KLVI during the day before it was retired.
 
Central Kentucky:
Days: Nothing
Nights: WNSR " Nashville's Sports Radio" and is a weak but steady signal on 75 watts, night power.
Prior to WNSRs sign on, the most frequent catch was WHBQ.
I've never heard KWTO Springfield Mo. here, despite my best efforts. (I have family there and spent summers there as a kid), although I've logged a Lexington and a couple of Louisville stations in Springfield though.....
 
radiofan2023 said:
KWTO barely gets in most nights in the KC area. I’ve never heard KLZ, even though KOA is strong here some nights.
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I use to get KWTO easily during the day in Topeka KS.
 
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