10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 1700 kHz

[gar hi]

From Tampa....

Nighttime- KVNS or WJCC or sometimes both at once.

Here's typical nighttime reception here on 1700.
KVNS starts out weak but then comes booming in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1H_pn43AdU


Daytime - Nothing except for a weak WJCC in the winter.

But out on the Gulf only 20 miles away, it's a different story in the daytime.

WJCC has always been present (though very weak) anytime I've been there, even midday in summer.

Not only that, I get co-frequency interference fluttering which makes me think the other station could be KNVS, as there's no other station it could be on 1700.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjDPHQl6owY

 

[schmave]

I'm thinking it'll be winter before I hear it. Not only was it a cool DX target, I enjoy its programming. It's a bookmark on I Heart Radio but that's not the same!

 

[MarioMania]

In Vallejo, CA

Day: Nothing

Night: XEPE Tecate, Baja California/San Diego, CA

 

[Smittian]

Since I'm only 20 miles from Brownsville......you know what station I get on 1700. One of my buttons is set on 1700 ;D

 

[schmave]

Since I'm only 20 miles from Brownsville......you know what station I get on 1700. One of my buttons is set on 1700 ;D

We know all about the great skywave ... how is the groundwave reception down there?

 

[Smittian]

Since I'm only 20 miles from Brownsville......you know what station I get on 1700. One of my buttons is set on 1700 ;D

We know all about the great skywave ... how is the groundwave reception down there?

To the north, I can still get KVNS in Kingsville (120 miles) and Corpus Christi (150 mi) in the daytime. Nighttime in CC, it fades in and out

 

[gar hi]

Another one of our members in Texas says he can hear KVNS daytime near Houston.

The ground conductivity in the Brownsville area and that region is the best it can be for land, so I think that also is part of the reason the saltwater daytiime path is so amazing for a station at that high a frequency.

 

[schmave]

Since I'm only 20 miles from Brownsville......you know what station I get on 1700. One of my buttons is set on 1700 ;D

We know all about the great skywave ... how is the groundwave reception down there?

To the north, I can still get KVNS in Kingsville (120 miles) and Corpus Christi (150 mi) in the daytime. Nighttime in CC, it fades in and out

Wow, pretty impressive for 1700. I honestly figured it'd be a lot worse and there'd be cancellation issues within 15-20 miles at night. One can only wonder how bad this signal would be in a place like Atlanta!

 

[boombox]

XEPE is a regular; KVNS comes in underneath it on really good nights during propagation to the south and east; KBGG I've heard twice, and I once heard a snippet of the comedy station in Dallas.

 

[gar hi]

I was in Orlando during the weekend and didn't think of doing any DXing because I didn't think it would be that different from Tampa.

One night while I couldn't fall asleep, I got out my little Sony Walkman and scanned the AM band.

On 1700, all I could hear was WJCC from south Florida and not the slightest trace of KVNS.

I listened for an hour at least and nothing.

Here in Tampa at night KVNS is always there to some degree and half the time, it's dominating WJCC.

So I'm thinking the proximity if Tampa to the Gulf makes for better skip across the salt water.

Now I can see why many here can't hear KVNS as easily as I can at night in Tampa.

 

[N4GBK]

From NE NC car radio. 1700 WEUP Huntsville, AL heard at sunrise. Nothing else logged.