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AM Frequency of the Week: 700

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MarioMania

Carmichael, CA

Daytime: Splatter from 710 Carmichael, CA
Nighttime: Splatter from 710 Carmichael, CA/KALL (Weak) North SLC, UT

Vallejo, CA

Daytime: Splatter from 710 Carmichael, CA
Nighttime: KALL (Weak) North SLC, UT
 
Nothing on 700 in the day.

Shortly after moving out here, a SSS catch (taped, too) was a WWTL from somewhere in MD northwest of DC. Here's the entertaining Radio-Locator map. I'm just north of the circle for Pottsville PA.

WDMV-AM Radio Station Coverage Map

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12 years ago at SSS was most the recent catch. That was the delightful-chuckle WTUB from Athol Massachusetts, mid-state up north. Goofy calls over the years. Seemingly different ones every three years. Among others, they'd been WJOE, WFAT, uh, WPNS, and are now listed as Oldies -- WQVD. At 2500 watts omni they could be a SRS catch for several to the west in a WLW null.

WLW at night.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

WLW Cincinnati is a 24-hour catch if I work at it. Also my test for a car radio; if I can pick it up in my neighborhood it's a sensitive AM radio. Nights, it bombs in.

Once early in 2022, KSEV Tomball, Tex., gave WLW an overnight fight when it stayed on its 15 kW day power. Otherwise, it's all WLW on 700.
 
KHSE Wylie (DFW) in Tyler, with South Asian "Radio Caravan" programming days. Moderate signal.

Nights are WLW Cincinnati. Never once have I heard a thing from Tomball's KSEV, day or night.
 
East Tennessee: Days-the last breath of WLW.
Nights-WLW. Occasionally KHSE, Wylie TX when it stays on day facilities and is heard underneath, or sometimes even with WLW. Several years ago we had a week of auroral conditions. Several mornings in a row WLW was gone and KHSE was there.
Retro/other: I caught the Dothan, AL daytimer running a test while WLW was off for maintenance one night in the 90s.
 
Denver, CO - Not a danged thing, except spillover from local 710 KNUS.

I lived in Houston before KSEV came along, so I don't know anything about that.
 
gr8oldies said:
East Tennessee: Days-the last breath of WLW.
Nights-WLW. Occasionally KHSE, Wylie TX when it stays on day facilities and is heard underneath, or sometimes even with WLW. Several years ago we had a week of auroral conditions. Several mornings in a row WLW was gone and KHSE was there.
Retro/other: I caught the Dothan, AL daytimer running a test while WLW was off for maintenance one night in the 90s.
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Back in January 2022, what had to be KHSE was still on day pattern after around 6 p.m. or so. It was not wrecking reception of WLW in the Columbus area, but it was enough to be a considerable annoyance with crosstalk underneath. Lasted for 15-20 minutes or so and then disappeared.
The same thing happened to me about 15 years ago out around Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus. I was never able to identify the other signal, but *that* made WLW an almost impossible listen for a short period one early evening.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: sometimes weak WLW
Nighttime: solid WLW

DX/RETRO: 700 along with 650 is the frequency with the least stations heard. Only four. Besides WLW, KSHE Wylie, TX makes an appearance once in a while, mostly during auroral conditions. The other station is Radio Mundial (TGHR), Guatemala City which was heard in 1982. They are no longer on the air. The most recent new catch on 700 kHz is HJCX Cali, Colombia which was heard in 2021.
 
Wonderfully written article on the 500,000 watt version of WLW.


As a kid DXer in the 60's I recall reading current DX club talk of WLW having once been something like that 500 million kilowatts plus some yak about a TEST. Does anyone here remember that 1960's period; that scuttlebutt and what became of it all?
 
Boise Idaho
Daytime weak but readable KALL
Nights Mostly KALL, or KXLX hard to tell sometimes . Also KGRV and CJLI. Maybe KMBX too.
 
schmave said:
Back in January 2022, what had to be KHSE was still on day pattern after around 6 p.m. or so. It was not wrecking reception of WLW in the Columbus area, but it was enough to be a considerable annoyance with crosstalk underneath. Lasted for 15-20 minutes or so and then disappeared.
The same thing happened to me about 15 years ago out around Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus. I was never able to identify the other signal, but *that* made WLW an almost impossible listen for a short period one early evening.
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KHSE has been heard under WLW as close in as the Edinburgh IN SDR.
 
From the west side of Houston TX...I'm 30 miles south of KSEV's towers, so they're dominant 24/7. At night I can usually hear WLW underneath. I haven't heard KHSE, probably directional away from me.
 
wildthangjim said:
I haven't heard KHSE, probably directional away from me.
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Ever seen the Schwartzenegger classic "Total Recall", wildthang? The KHSE pattern is Mary, the three-breasted prostitute, aiming her voluptuous melons directly toward Sherman, Paris, and Decatur. It has some very brutal nulls in it, even within the Metroplex. A blowtorch in Allen, Plano, and Melissa, but in McKinney there's a very sudden and noticeable drop-off for a good 8-10 mile stretch in and around town.

It is indeed highly directional away from you, pulling everything it can from the coast and lobbing it directly towards OKC. On a good day, you can hear KHSE daytime in central Oklahoma. I don't think I've ever heard KSEV much north of Huntsville.
 
Clifton, New Jersey

During the day, I get mostly splatter from 710 WOR New York, NY. At night, it's WLW Cincinnati, OH with some splatter from WOR.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: KSEV in Tomball, TX, 186 miles to the E/NE, is weak but listenable on a senstive radio away from RFI.

Sunset: KSEV strengthens, and KHSE in Wylie comes up underneath with South Asian music/talk. If I aim W/NW, I can null KSEV a bit and hear KSEV better.

Night: WLW is dominant once KSEV drops to night power/pattern. It's often not very strong, and there is sometimes splatter from KEEL and/or KGNC on 710. Weak snatches of KHSE and XEDKR in Guadalajara are occasionally heard under WLW. At rare times, the latter stations will come to the fore briefly. KSEV is hardly ever heard.

Sunrise: WLW starts to fade and KSEV emerges again. XEETCH in Etchojoa appears with talk and music in indigenous dialects when it signs on for the day. It can sometimes dominate for a while. Later, KHSE occasionally has a more steady signal when it's at day power and I null out KSEV.

DX/Retro: I've heard sports station KALL in N. Salt Lake City just once several years ago. Also, I used to hear XEGD "La Poderosa" in Hidalgo del Parral at sunrise and occasionally at night. According to the latest IRCA Mexican Log, it's no longer licensed.

I'm going to miss these frequency of the week threads. I don't think they're played out at all.
 
KSEV comes in here on the northeast side of Austin, TX, but it's very weak. WLW is usually dominant, but not always.
 
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