10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 890 kHz

[cyberdad]

I'm even getting WLS 24/7 on my ipod since I added a batch of Anita Kerr and PAMS series 18 jingles! ;D

 

[K4WRF]

I'm even getting WLS 24/7 on my ipod since I added a batch of Anita Kerr and PAMS series 18 jingles! ;D

On your iPod indeed... It's just a passing fad!!!
LMOAO!!!

All the best..
wh

 

[cyberdad]

Thanks, Watt. I couldn't resist. And I've got to say.... listening to playlists where the songs go with the jingles that were on the air with them is quite a kick!

 

[N4GBK]

From NE NC. Days is 890 WHNC Henderson, NC. Sunset have heard WKNV Fairlawn, VA. Nights is all WLS with some Spanish in the background some nights.

 

[cyberdad]

From NE NC. Days is 890 WHNC Henderson, NC. Sunset have heard WKNV Fairlawn, VA. Nights is all WLS with some Spanish in the background some nights.

Your Spanish is almost certainly R. Progreso from Cuba. Their 890 stick puts a good signal into much of the southeast at night.

 

[boiseengineer]

KYWN 890 Meridian is ID'ing in SS only as "KYWN Boise, Nampa Caldwell, Meridian,..."

Well, they did get the city of license in there eventually.

Still running 24/7 with probably 500 watts non-directional so they shoudl be widely heard.

 

[drt]

S.E. St. Petersburg, a very inaudible Radio Progresso mid day and then toward sunset, a stronger Radio Progresso and at night a very strong Radio Progresso; I can very seldom even hear WLS in the background, but sometimes it does happen where WLS can be heard in the background and even rarer still is when I can actually hear WLS as the dominant station.

When I can hear WLS as the dominant station on 890, I figure that Radio Progresso 890 is having a problem or maybe power outage.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

 

[audioguy]

Here in the north burbs of Chicago I can null WLS in the daytime pretty easily and hear fading caused by NVIS. At night I can also null them out and hear other stuff underneath but generally not well enough to ID.

I happened to check 890 from SW Michigan overnight last weekend (about 150 miles from home) and was surprised to find that WLS was virtually inaudible at that particular moment. During the day they come in with a fair signal-- listenable but not strong. Anyway there was a modestly strong station playing country music in its place but I did not hang around long enough to ID it.

 

[cyberdad]

When I can hear WLS as the dominant station on 890, I figure that Radio Progresso 890 is having a problem or maybe power outage.

When I was down there in January, it was almost always R. Progreso at night....with a good signal. But WLS broke through a few times. I don't think R. Progreso was ever off when I was listening to the channel. Just fades.

 

[BigDave]

During the day it's WJTP and at night WLS

 

[schmave]

Here in Columbus, Ohio, slop from daytimer WRFD on 880 during the days, and usually WLS at night. It suffers from the same Spanish-language inteference as in many other areas, but most nights it is quite listenable.

 

[drt]

Here in Columbus, Ohio, slop from daytimer WRFD on 880 during the days, and usually WLS at night. It suffers from the same Spanish-language inteference as in many other areas, but most nights it is quite listenable.

I'm surprised, but guess I shouldn't be that even in the Columbus area that the Cuban 890 would sometimes interfere with WLS.

I attend a reunion each year (held in different cities) and in October of 2011 the reunion was in Gatlinburg,TN and I was pleasantly surprised to receive not only a sold 890 WLS (although the Cuban would be weakly heard in the background sometimes)...... but the reunion in October 2012 held in Baton Rouge, things weren't as good for WLS, it was dominant most evenings but the Cuban 890 was giving it a battle.

This years reunion will be in Canton,OH in late September and I would expect to receive or hope to receive a sold WLS signal there.

Here in St. Petersburg,FL anytime Cuba is struck by a stong tropical storm or hurricane where there are massive power outages, I try to take advantage of those conditions to dx the Chicago and NYC stations, being that Radio Progresso and Radio Reloj stations are either off the air or on reduced power during those times.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

 

[cyberdad]

I get into Canton, OH once or twice a year, and indeed, WLS is usually pretty solid nighttime there. In the daytime, you should hear a few other out of town blowtorches with a good radio....including CFTR, WLW, CFZM, WJR, CKLW, KDKA, and WWVA.

 

[schmave]

Here in Columbus, Ohio, slop from daytimer WRFD on 880 during the days, and usually WLS at night. It suffers from the same Spanish-language inteference as in many other areas, but most nights it is quite listenable.

I'm surprised, but guess I shouldn't be that even in the Columbus area that the Cuban 890 would sometimes interfere with WLS.

It doesn't seem as bad as it used to be. WCBS and WLS both stopped the scan on my car radio last night, and many nights I've been able to hear Coast to Coast AM on WLS better in my apartment than on local WTVN (I'm about three miles east of the eastern edge of the main nighttime lobe and on the northern edge of a very deep null).
Daytime, you have to be an hour northwest of Columbus anyway, maybe farther, to begin to hear WLS under WRFD slop. I've never checked exactly where it starts to break through, but will at some point.

 

[drt]

I believe where the reunion is, will be the McKinley Grand Hotel in downtown Canton, or maybe I have the name mixed up and it's on McKinney Blvd? Although I seem to have seen Main St on the map; but right now I don't have the info packet handy.

I would not have guessed that I would be able to receive Zoomer radio 740 during the day; I will have my Sangean PR-D5 and most likely the Grundig Satelite 750......... I had both in Baton Rouge; wouldn't forget those, even though I did manage to leave a bag at home that had all my underwear and socks! (Thankfully I got in early enough to locate a nearby Target)....... but I would never leave the radios behind!

I'm hoping to have a room where I can dx from; last year in Baton Rouge, I basically had to do most of my dx'ing from the rental car, the reception in the hotel was so bad. Cyberdad or someone advised me to try to get a room away from any elevators; the funny thing is last year I wasn't near the elevators at all, but the electical interference was bad even with the radios placed against the windows.

I'm familiar with Columbus radio, being that both of my parents are from Columbus and there are still many cousins, aunts, uncles etc, in Westerville, Dublin, Columbus etc. I believe Grove City is in the null of WTVN? I know WTVN 610 comes in well in northern Ohio at night but not very well a few miles south of Columbus.

Cyberdad, does KDKA come in well in Canton, or does the IBOC buzz from WBZ wipe out 1020?

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

 

[gar hi]

I miss the old days when WLS ruled the frequency at night here in Florida and in stereo!

Even earlier when I was growing up in New Jersey, WLS was my favorite nighttime station.

AM radio will never be the same since it went from top 40 to talk.

 

[radioman148]

I miss the old days when WLS ruled the frequency at night here in Florida and in stereo!

Even earlier when I was growing up in New Jersey, WLS was my favorite nighttime station.

AM radio will never be the same since it went from top 40 to talk.

WLS had a gangbuster signal during it's rock years. We used to visit New Orleans fairly often in the 60s & 70s since my uncle lived there.
My cousin and some of his friends had a button set to WLS on their car radios. When they were out at night WLS came in like a local.
No interference from Cuba or anywhere else in those days.

 

[schmave]

I believe where the reunion is, will be the McKinley Grand Hotel in downtown Canton, or maybe I have the name mixed up and it's on McKinney Blvd? Although I seem to have seen Main St on the map; but right now I don't have the info packet handy.

I would not have guessed that I would be able to receive Zoomer radio 740 during the day; I will have my Sangean PR-D5 and most likely the Grundig Satelite 750......... I had both in Baton Rouge; wouldn't forget those, even though I did manage to leave a bag at home that had all my underwear and socks! (Thankfully I got in early enough to locate a nearby Target)....... but I would never leave the radios behind!

I'm hoping to have a room where I can dx from; last year in Baton Rouge, I basically had to do most of my dx'ing from the rental car, the reception in the hotel was so bad. Cyberdad or someone advised me to try to get a room away from any elevators; the funny thing is last year I wasn't near the elevators at all, but the electical interference was bad even with the radios placed against the windows.

I'm familiar with Columbus radio, being that both of my parents are from Columbus and there are still many cousins, aunts, uncles etc, in Westerville, Dublin, Columbus etc. I believe Grove City is in the null of WTVN? I know WTVN 610 comes in well in northern Ohio at night but not very well a few miles south of Columbus.

Cyberdad, does KDKA come in well in Canton, or does the IBOC buzz from WBZ wipe out 1020?

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

It is in one of WTVN's nulls, but 610 is still quite listenable in most of Grove City just because of the proximity to the towers. WTVN has a wicked southwest-bound null that does knock it out heading toward Cincinnati. I've had great difficulty hearing it even within sight of the towers coming up 71 until I'm almost to Ohio 665 (Exit 97, only four miles south of 270).
Some of Grove City also falls directly in the Dallas-bound null of WVSG, ex-WOSU, on 820 AM (to protect WBAP). 610 has some impressive nulls at night, but I'd argue that 820's is even more impressive. You can be within two miles of the six-tower array, seeing the two lines of three in the distance, and barely be able to hear WVSG. It's not weak enough to hear WBAP that close, but still.

 

[robotique]

just west of Boston MA

WAMG all day and night with SS/Tropical. I'm in the thick of their pattern.
WLS at night with WAMG nulled (which I can only accomplish with one of my many radios)

 

[drt]

Thanks for the info Schmave, don't even know if I will have time to make it into Columbus; about the closest to Columbus I will probably get to is Thornville; with these reunions, there is usually a pretty tight schedule and sometimes not even much time to dx; although last year I made an excuse to leave one of the dinners early, saying I had to go back to my room for a few items and then hurriedly went to the parking lot and got into the rental car for about 10 minutes of dx'ing and then back to the dinner.

It's hard to imagine all these stations with nulls of any type to the south, since here in the St. Pete area, no stations have nulls to the south.

One (WWBA 820) has a null to the w.n.w.; but most of the nulls are to the north, northwest or northeast.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl