10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 590 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What can you guys get on 590 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a fair signal from CJCL/Toronto during the day with sports sometimes mixing with WKZO/Kalamazoo, MI. At night CJCL is usually on top with other weak signals underneath including WKZO.

 

[fybush]

CJCL owns the channel here in suburban Rochester, NY, day and night. 'Twas not ever thus; CJCL has been much stronger here in the last few years than it ever used to be, which leads me to suspect that the nulls on its complex nine-tower array aren't hitting where they're supposed to hit. (It may also be that the gradual deterioration of the signal at WARM in Scranton has reduced the interference level on 590 up here.)

 

[KR4BD]

590 in Lexington, KY

Daytime: LOCAL WVLK owns the frequency

Nighttime: I live in one of WVLK's many sharp nighttime nulls making the frequency very DX-able.
I've heard:
KXSP (formerly WOW) Omaha, NE
WKZO Kalamazoo, MI
WDND Atlanta, GA

 

[crainbebo]

590 in Bellevue is nothing in the daytime, but at night it's a mix of KUGN Eugene [News/Talk] and KQNT Spokane [also News/Talk]. KID Idaho Falls makes rare appearances as well, but it's hard to get past KUGN and KQNT. There's no null for BOTH!

-crainbebo

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

I get very weak WLES in Richmond, with only 600W days and a Christian talk format.
Sunrise/sunset, I logged in WVLK in KY, and WKZO in MI
Nights, it's a mush with the Cuban classical 590 often on top.

 

[danikayser84]

Albany, NY - WROW is the only thing I get day and night, and they are running an Adult Standards/Soft AC format (formerly on 100.9 until 2010), which does well for an AM station Never caught WROW off the air, AFAIK

 

[drt]

Zipcode 33701 - St. Petersburg,FL 590 is the classical music station out of Cuba both day and night.

When in Albany in September 2010,it was stictly WROW 590 and no matter how hard I tried, I could not hear the Cuban 590 in the background. (Was in downtown Albany - Crowne Plaza) but driving around the area day and night, not a trace of Cuba or anything else in the background. (what a relief it was not to hear Cuban stations all across the AM band day and night!)

drt
st. petersburg,fl

 

[BigDave]

WDWD Radio Disney out of Atlanta

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs it's WKZO during the day (fair) at night weak WKZO & Omaha.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WARM Scranton(fair to weak signal).
Night: Boston(was WEEI, now I forget what it is) to go with WARM.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Very interesting daytime frequency in Houston. As expected, KLBJ AM 590 from Austin, very strong. But underneath it, and also strong, is XEFD, Rio Bravo, 300 miles away, another 5kW regional. Bad frequency assignment by the Mexicans if you ask me. The US has a similar situation on 550 with a 5kW regional in San Antonio - KTSA, and another 5kW regional in Midland on 550 - KCRS. But the US makes it work by requiring KCRS to have a sharp null towards San Antonio. So effective, that even 60 miles SE from Midland, KTSA still dominates the frequency. Not so with KLBJ and XEFD. I haven't tried nulling KLBJ while in Austin yet, but I bet XEFD would be there.

 

[crainbebo]

590 Boston is now WEZE.

-crainbebo

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: WARM Scranton(fair to weak signal).
Night: Boston(was WEEI, now I forget what it is) to go with WARM.

 

[tomservo]

Here in Baldwin County, Alabama (Mobile suburbs) it's sports radio WDIZ out of Panama City. Especially near the beach, it puts out a pretty good signal during the day. At night, I have never ID'd anything that I can remember.

 

[cyberdad]

Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Day: WKZO weak

Night: Usually KXSP on top. Not as reliable as it used to be as WOW.

 

[drt]

Here in Baldwin County, Alabama (Mobile suburbs) it's sports radio WDIZ out of Panama City. Especially near the beach, it puts out a pretty good signal during the day. At night, I have never ID'd anything that I can remember.

Hi Zach and perhaps even Cyberdad and anyone else who spends time on the Gulf between Mobile and the Florida Panhandle, are you able to hear the Cuban Classical station on 590 at all underneath WDIZ?

I would have thought with the waterpath over the Gulf it would be detectable, but of course if WDIZ's signal in that area is strong, that might not be possible unless WDIX is off the air for one reason or another.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

 

[tomservo]

Here in Baldwin County, Alabama (Mobile suburbs) it's sports radio WDIZ out of Panama City. Especially near the beach, it puts out a pretty good signal during the day. At night, I have never ID'd anything that I can remember.

Hi Zach and perhaps even Cyberdad and anyone else who spends time on the Gulf between Mobile and the Florida Panhandle, are you able to hear the Cuban Classical station on 590 at all underneath WDIZ?

I would have thought with the waterpath over the Gulf it would be detectable, but of course if WDIZ's signal in that area is strong, that might not be possible unless WDIX is off the air for one reason or another.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

I don't hear any trace of it during the day, but I'll listen for it next time I'm down on the beach with a good radio.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

Very interesting daytime frequency in Houston. As expected, KLBJ AM 590 from Austin, very strong. But underneath it, and also strong, is XEFD, Rio Bravo, 300 miles away, another 5kW regional. Bad frequency assignment by the Mexicans if you ask me. ... I haven't tried nulling KLBJ while in Austin yet, but I bet XEFD would be there.

What happens when you take your radios to a place where KLBJ's & XEFD's groundwave signals are equal strength?

In San Diego, CA, 5kW ND XEKT Tecate and 5kW DA KLTX Long Beach compete on 1390. Both are Spanish - KLTX is religious as Radio Nueva Vida (simulcast locally on 1130 KSDO, 6.3 mi from my house, which gives Disney flagship 1110 KDIS some tough competition on some radios), and XEKT is news/talk as La Super Estacion.
This is XEKT & KLTX on 1390 with the barefoot/stock SRF-59 at Pacific Beach just NW of Mission Bay (within a couple miles of Sea World) in the early afternoon last December. How does KLBJ vs XEFD compare?
(At my house ~ 2 mi S of El Cajon, XEKT totally owns the frequeny daytime, although when they were off during the blackout in September last year, KLTX was faintly there.)

As for 590, at my house 600 KOGO's IBOC pretty much owns the frequency. (KOGO is 7.7 mi W of me and clocks in at about 67-69 dBu on my PL-606 and PL-398mp.) With a good radio and EXTREMELY careful nulling (off by ~ 0.1 mm or 0.02° and no dice), however, it is possible to get a faint signal from talker 590 KTIE San Bernardino in the daytime.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

What happens when you take your radios to a place where KLBJ's & XEFD's groundwave signals are equal strength?

They would mix equally. But the interesting thing is - where exactly would that be? Based on what I hear in Houston, it probably wouldn't be that far South of San Antonio. I think XEFD has a better transmission chain or something.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

What happens when you take your radios to a place where KLBJ's & XEFD's groundwave signals are equal strength?

They would mix equally. But the interesting thing is - where exactly would that be? Based on what I hear in Houston, it probably wouldn't be that far South of San Antonio. I think XEFD has a better transmission chain or something.

I figured as much I was just wondering how the signal strengths in the mix would compare to the link (in my previous post) of 1390 XEKT and KLTX mixing on the barefoot SRF-59.

 

[schmave]

What happens when you take your radios to a place where KLBJ's & XEFD's groundwave signals are equal strength?

They would mix equally. But the interesting thing is - where exactly would that be? Based on what I hear in Houston, it probably wouldn't be that far South of San Antonio. I think XEFD has a better transmission chain or something.

I read on here three or four years ago that you could hear XEFD under KLBJ as close as 60 miles south of Austin. I made several trips from Houston out to San Antonio, Austin and San Marcos when I lived in Houston from 2007-09 and missed the opportunity to listen. But I heard the signals mix several times outside my office off Westheimer and Gessner in west Houston.