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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 600 kHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 600 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a weak WSOM from Salem, OH during the day and at night a mess of weak sounding stations with nothing identifiable.
 
In Monroe, WA, 600 is mainly CJWW Saskatoon, SK at night. I have also caught KGEZ-MT, KOGO-CA and KCOL-CO on this frequency.

When I was in Bothell, WA - 600 used to be CKBD Vancouver, BC (Adult Standards) before it got shut off in early 2009.

-crainbebo
 
In the downtown St. Petersburg,FL area, 600 is pure and strong IBOC hash during the day from strong local WDAE 620, once the IBOC is turned off at sunset; 600 is Cuba.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl
 
In East Texas near Tyler it's local KTBB during the day, but at night I'm in one of their nulls and the signal is greatly diminished, allowing WREC and Cuba to sneak in.
 
Cuba totalmente in South FL. I've DXed for almost 40 years here, and I think the only US station I heard was WREC----and maybe Jacksonville when it was WPDQ.

In 1980 Radio Moscow was played over one of the Cuban frequencies. It made the Miami Herald. I was stationed in Alaska & Massachusetts during that time. But even in MA, I did hear RM one fall evening, with "The Voice of Cuba" possibly after midnight. Maybe DavidEduardo knows how much power was used back then.

Non-US/Cuba stations I have heard included Radio Libertad HJHJ in Barranquilla, Colombia, and Radio Ya in Nicaragua.

Outside of those, 600 is certainly not one of my best freqs.

cd
 
In the Chicago area it's mainly WMT Cedar Rapids day and night. Used to be very easy to listen to especially in the daytime, but is now nearly drowned out by the IBOC sidebands of WTMJ 620 two channels away. HD radio is rubbish technology!
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago.....

Day: WMT (Cedar Rapids, IA). Weak, but reliable despite WTMJ IBOC on 2nd adjacent 620. I've followed it all the way to downtown Chicago and even northwest Indiana listening to University of Iowa football games. It's also the only station fully audible on the entire drive from Chicago to Minneapolis....nearly 400 miles!

Night: WMT more or less fades into the slop, but is still is on top more often than not.
 
Day-WSNL Flint with WTVN IBOC hiss. WSOM Salem in the background.

Night-Mainly WSNL Flint and WMT Cedar Rapids. Sometimes WCAO Baltimore. Cuba when transmitters are fixed and conditions are hot in that area.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs it's WMT daytime & much weaker at night in a mix. Regarding Radio Moscow in 1980 on 600, I don't know how much power they were running, but they blasted in up here at night.
 
When I was a kid, during the late 70s probably, my best friend told me he and his dad picked up Cuba on 600 (this is in the middle of Cedar Rapids) pre-sunrise on a morning, probably a Sunday, when WMT had gone off the air the night before and not yet returned.

It's no KFYR, but its signal gets out there. I've heard it well into Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, and as a daytime fluke in northeast Ohio.
 
In northen VA, I get a weak WCAO Baltimore.
Nights, it's kind of a mess combined with WCAO and Radio Rebelde with its harsh-sounding audio.
 
Located in W. Washington.

CJWW, Saskatoon comes in from the east, and KGEZ, Kalispell has been heard here once. I also logged KOGO, San Diego once or twice.

CJOR Vancouver B.C. used to be a daytime and nighttime catch. I guess they changed calls during the 1990's, and went off the air in 2009, as Crainbebo mentions. That happened during a lull in my MW DXing. Although I do remember them as "The Bridge".
 
During the day in Pittsburgh it's WSOM from Salem, Ohio.

Used to be able to get it at night too about 15 yrs. ago. Daytime signal is
much weaker than it used to be IMO. They are having transmitter issues I guess.
 
icybluelake said:
When I was a kid, during the late 70s probably, my best friend told me he and his dad picked up Cuba on 600 (this is in the middle of Cedar Rapids) pre-sunrise on a morning, probably a Sunday, when WMT had gone off the air the night before and not yet returned.
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The Cuban relay of R. Moscow English language service on 600 was intended (IIRC) to cover the southeastern U.S. It did that and then some! As Radioman pointed out, it definitely boomed into the Chicago area.
 
Interesting responses… I've lived near the Gulf Coast now for about 3 years and don't recall hearing Cuba on 600 ever. For me, it's WVOG New Orleans during the day, and at night I've definitely heard WREC Memphis and I'm pretty sure I heard but didn't confirm WMT at least once.
 
RE: R. Moscow on 600: I remember it was the Cuban response to Radio Marti. I never heard it, but remember reading about the 600 signal being heard all over the place in the DX press and SW magazines during the 80's.
 
boombox said:
RE: R. Moscow on 600: I remember it was the Cuban response to Radio Marti. I never heard it, but remember reading about the 600 signal being heard all over the place in the DX press and SW magazines during the 80's.
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Yes, used to beam in here in Pittsburgh very strong. Mostly Vladimir Posner droning on and on
in English about how life in this country sucked.
 
Incorrect on the above. This Radio Moscow relay was in 1980; Radio Marti fired up in 1985, and there was no talk about Marti in 1980.

What *did* occur, in the late 1980s, was the use of Radio Taino in Cuba, which used either 1160 or 1180 kHz with possibly 300 kW, as response to Marti. Radio Taino still exists, but only on FM.*

Today, Cuba is using multiple transmitters of Radio Rebelde, on three frequencies---710, 1180, and 1620, to jam broadcasts from U.S. stations whose signals make it to Cuba (Miami's Spanish WAQI Radio Mambi on 710, Radio Marti on 1180, and Radio Republica via Virgin Islands' WDHP on 1620---although I am not sure the last one is still operating---Cuba may not be taking chances).

*Radio Marti uses 94.7 on FM now as well, but only for 2.5 hours a day; when we are in the Florida Keys, Radio Taino uses 94.7 as well, likely to jam Marti, but not much power used.

cd
 
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