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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 550 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you get on 550 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a fairly solid signal from WGR/Buffalo, NY during the day. The Lake Erie path really helps here. Go south and west about 20 miles or so and WKRC will take over. At night, it is a jumble of stations with WKRC/Cincinnati, OH mainly on top.
 
Nothing daytime here in Bellevue. In Bothell I had a very weak KARI Blaine, WA (Religious).

Nights I get KOAC Corvallis (NPR) and KARI, plus sometimes KBOW Butte, MT (C&W). I did get KTZN Anchorage, AK one time (ESPN).

-crainbebo
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

KTRS weak under WIND splatter during the day. KTRS also usually on top (and stronger) at night. Have also heard KFYR, WSAU, and WKRC at night and/or sunrise/sunset.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
In Houston, I get 550 KTSA, San Antonio.
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Same here in East Texas near Tyler, KTSA day and night, at a distance of around 250 miles.
 
Located in Western WA.

What I hear is mostly KOAC Corvallis, sometimes KARI Blaine. I've heard other signals over the past month or so but never strong enough to ID.

I have logged KBOW, Butte, MT; CKPG, Prince George, BC; KFYR, Bismarck, ND and KMVI, Wailuku, HI on this frequency in the past.
 
Northern VA,

I get semilocal WSVA Harrisonburg, VA about 70 miles away during the day, and on radios with single conversion, I get am image from a strong, local 1460 station. Nights, it's WGR and I once logged in WAME Statesville, NC with 53 watts of nighttime power.
 
I'm an hour North of Harrisburg,Pa. If I go an hour North I can pick up WGR out of Buffalo, an hour South it's WSVA from Harrisonburg, Va. There used to be a 550 out of Bloomsburg,Pa which carried a hundred miles in each direction.
 
In SW Ohio, 55/WKRC day and night, though (at night) rotating my antenna just right allows me to hear a very faint mix of stations under a strong KRC.
 
Here just east of Columbus, Ohio, it's all WKRC daytime. Only a 4 or 5 at best on a 1-to-10 scale. At night, really nothing but mush (but I've heard a very weak WKRC after dark).
I'll back up Buckeyes2001's assessment of WGR's signal along the lake. Where my girlfriend's family lives, in Conneaut, Ohio, WGR has a very loud signal daytime (right there with WJR and CKLW and, if I remember correctly, stronger than WTAM). I've never had the chance to check 550 after dark up there, or do much DXing at all for that matter.
 
550 here is always WAYR Orange Park, FL daytime. Good 5kw signal that's probably 3rd best AM signal in Jacksonville. WIOZ Pinehurst, NC is the only other 550 I've heard daytime; very weak during winter.

At night, a hodgepodge. Usually not that much, but I've heard WGR here and a few others.
 
In south FL it's mostly slop from WQAM 560. If I hear anything, it's a Rebelde from Cuba.

At night, if anything, it's Rebelde. I have heard WDUN, but never anything else.

cd
 
Between Hazleton and Pottsville PA

@ Benale : Yes, after we moved out here, 550 here was WHLM Bloomsburg for the longest while. They have to've been dark at least 15 years now. I forget if it was three or four towers just off I-80.
It makes sense that a low-powered AM station would 'cook' it were on 550 instead of in the X-band. Perhaps someone with a Rangemaster can tell us. That's quite a ripe, open frequency .......

Several years back, a company applied for a 550 station near the splendid Greenwood Lake community -- the New York State side of this fine lake, half of which is in New Jersey. It is not too far from New York City proper, but most likely would have needed a complicated multi-tower signal -- maybe even a vastly different day and night effect. But nothing came of it.

Anyway, WGR Buffalo is often the late-daytime catch here. From over the horizon it rumbles this way at night almost enough to be considered a car button, even at 200 miles.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Between Hazleton and Pottsville PA

@ Benale : Yes, after we moved out here, 550 here was WHLM Bloomsburg for the longest while. They have to've been dark at least 15 years now. I forget if it was three or four towers just off I-80.
It makes sense that a low-powered AM station would 'cook' it were on 550 instead of in the X-band. Perhaps someone with a Rangemaster can tell us. That's quite a ripe, open frequency .......

Several years back, a company applied for a 550 station near the splendid Greenwood Lake community -- the New York State side of this fine lake, half of which is in New Jersey. It is not too far from New York City proper, but most likely would have needed a complicated multi-tower signal -- maybe even a vastly different day and night effect. But nothing came of it.

Anyway, WGR Buffalo is often the late-daytime catch here. From over the horizon it rumbles this way at night almost enough to be considered a car button, even at 200 miles.
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Way off topic.

Wow, Greenwood Lake brings back memories. A VERY (mid 1950's) long time ago, our family went to visit one of my dad's (work) friends who had moved to Greenwood Lake. The family lived near the Holy Rosary Church. They had a son my age, and a boat. It was a great week, though it would have been an even better week if I had known about DX'ing.
 
KTRS, WKRC WDUN

Daytime is absolutely nothing in Baldwin County, Alabama. I don't recall ever hearing Cuba on this frequency, day or night.

I've heard WDUN in the early evening or early morning, I forget which. And KTRS and WKRC have been ID'd at one time or another with some regularity.
 
Late at night, I'm lately getting something weak behind Radio Colonia (10kw from Colonia del Sacramento), here in Buenos Aires. I can only think it would be BFBS Bush Rincon from (10kw Malvinas Islands), or Radio Sociedade Norte de Minas (5kw Montes Claros, Brazil). Unfortunately I couldn't copy anything of what the male host said since Colonia is such a strong station...
 
Eduardo said:
Late at night, I'm lately getting something weak behind Radio Colonia (10kw from Colonia del Sacramento), here in Buenos Aires. I can only think it would be BFBS Bush Rincon from (10kw Malvinas Islands), or Radio Sociedade Norte de Minas (5kw Montes Claros, Brazil). Unfortunately I couldn't copy anything of what the male host said since Colonia is such a strong station...
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Eduardo,

Glad to have you on board and hear about your observations in Buenos Aires. What's the farthest MW DX you've ever heard down there?

Thanks!
 
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