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AM Frequency of the Week: 610

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MarioMania

Carmichael, CA

Dayrime: KEAR (Weak) San Francisco, CA
Nighttime: KEAR (Weak) San Francisco,
CA

Vallejo, CA

Day & Night KEAR San Francisco, CA
 
East Tennessee: Tough one with WRJZ on 620. I have heard WTVN, Columbus OH near sunset.
Retro/other: Dayton OH area was a solid WTVN until sunset, then it was gone. WDAF/KFNZ usually was in then, with assorted others, including Roanoke.
 
Tyler, TX yields slop from next door local KTBB.

But...like vampires, there's life at night. KCSP "The Fan" Kansas City comes up at dusk and begins its ascension to the forefront. Right underneath it, a faint but ever-wavering signal from the Gospel sounds of WAGG in B'ham, Alabama. This can alternate between WAGG and a pretty rare appearance by KILT. With KILT downgraded now, I haven't heard them at all. Maybe never will again. There was a Mexican signal from Sabinas at 610, but I've not caught it in some time, if it's even on the air anymore.
 
Denver, CO - Nothing in the daytime; best chance in the nighttime has been KNML Albuquerque, though it’s rather weak.

Special, this week only, from Santa Cruz, CA - 610 KEAR San Francisco, originally KFRC.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually just splatter from WTMJ
Nighttime: KCSP or WTVN

DX/RETRO: Besides KCSP and WTVN I have been noticing KDAL making frequent appearances lately. Others heard in the past include KILT (Houston, TX), WAGG (Birmingham, AL), WIP (Philadelphia, PA), WPLO (Grayson, GA), WRUS (Russelville, KY), CKTB (St. Catharines, ON), CHNC (New Carlisle, PQ), couple Radio Rebelde outlets, XEEL (Fresnillo, Mexico). Also back in 1980's Radio America from Tegucigalpa, Honduras would make an appearance.
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, it's all WTVN all the time. Their tower farm is about nine miles west of me.
Daytime, they blast with an omnidirectional 5,000 watts. Nighttime, they shoot most of their signal almost due north with an ERP of around 20,000 watts in their main lobe, hence the apt Radio Discussions nickname "Radio Free Canada." WTVN is heard better at night in Findlay, Upper Sandusky and Mansfield than in some parts of metro Columbus.
I live in a sweet spot between two deep nulls that fall over Pickerington. About a mile south of me is the one that goes toward Philadelphia to protect WIP.
When I lived in Toledo for college, I heard WIP a few times before WTVN changed pattern. You could actually hear the signal improving, like a balloon filling with the air. Even so, WTVN was and is subject to cancellation in metro Toledo and Cleveland at night.
I've also heard KCSP in the Cincinnati area.
 
Redwood City, on the San Francisco Peninsula:

Day & Night, KEAR San Francisco (xmtr in Berkeley)

Of blessed memory, KFRC "The Big 610" forevermore
 
West side of Houston TX, it's local KILT "Sportsradio 610" 24/7. They have moved transmitter site and lowered power to 2.5kw in the last month or so. Still very strong at my location but probably doesn't get out as well as the previous 5kw setup.
 
610 is Philadelphia here. Night and day, day and night, in the roaring traffic swoon and in the QRM in my noisy room. Cx aren't eased one S-Unit by the affable low end of the dial here in NE PA. It's become too noisy.

Back in Queens NYC decades ago, 610 also was usually blocked by 'WIP'. If you drove east, WIOD often would ride up the waves of the Atlantic at night. For a while, WIOD even carried Islanders hockey games, of all things.
Because of WIP (and no doubt other destinies) months of Q-Tips went for naught in prep trying for the scheduled frequency check of WSNG 610 from CT. I needed this station to complete the CT AM dial. Never heard them -- even when they'd previously been on 1490.
*Did* manage a goodie one Queens night when WIP wasn't on. Off a Zenith table radio (found also amid shelves of Trol, Barbasol and Old Spice bottles in many business places) came a loud, solid WDAF playing cowboy records. They weren't WKBW- or WBZ- loud, but the signal was darned clear and readable for about a half hour. Never heard them again; just that once.

@wildthangjim and others:
Back in Queens I never heard KILT. I got Columbus, and Roanoke, and Alabama, WAYS Charlotte and a few Canades, but never KILT.
 
I had no idea about KILT's move. I wonder how I'd hear it now with League City with a tower farther north as well as less power. It always sounded very good at my home, and even where I lived in Inwood Forest for my first months in Houston although that was out of their main lobe despite being pretty close to the tower farm.
I also did not realize Philadelphia's 610 is no longer WIP. That's how I'll always think of it.
 
Hartland, VT:

WGIR Manchester, NH, news, conservative talk and sports play-by-play, day and night.

Meriden, CT:

Days: WSNG Torrington, conservative talk.
Nights: Mostly WGIR, with WTEL Philadelphia occasionally pushing into the foreground.
 
rosecitymedia said:
Tyler, TX yields slop from next door local KTBB.

But...like vampires, there's life at night. KCSP "The Fan" Kansas City comes up at dusk and begins its ascension to the forefront. Right underneath it, a faint but ever-wavering signal from the Gospel sounds of WAGG in B'ham, Alabama. This can alternate between WAGG and a pretty rare appearance by KILT. With KILT downgraded now, I haven't heard them at all. Maybe never will again. There was a Mexican signal from Sabinas at 610, but I've not caught it in some time, if it's even on the air anymore.
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Boise Idaho
Daytime. KONA Kennewick WA. & KNVU Logan UT. weak & fighting it out. Go 40 miles west and KONA is listenable. East KVNU.
Nighttime. KEAR SFO CA and lately KONA in there. KVNU might be in there.
 
Central Kentucky:
Days: WTVN Columbus with a fair signal.
Nights: Most likely visitor is KCSP-KFNZ (will always be WDAF)
Other: If I head down I 65 towards Bowling Green, WRUS Russellville, will begin to appear a few miles south of Elizabethtown with WTVN underneath. A few more miles south and it's all WRUS. Has a loyal following in that part of the state.
Once while traveling over to SE Missouri, WRUS made it to Sikeston albeit weak...
 
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