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10 kHz AM Frequency of the Week - 970 kHz

The other impressive thing about WQAM daytime in St. John's is that what I'd expect to hear there on 560, if anything, via groundwave would be WGAN from Portland, ME.
 
Gar, I think someone already beat that.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24696.html - several paragraphs down ...
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That means 560 KSFO could possibly be heard in Hawaii daytime with a similar reciever (although it may be a couple hundred miles more).

That would mean KFI or KNBR, though a little higher on the band but a lot stronger, could also be heard.

But my brother lives on the big island and I once asked him to see if he could get any of the big California stations daytime on the beach and he could not. He was using a Grundig G3.
 
gar fla said:
Gar, I think someone already beat that.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24696.html - several paragraphs down ...
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That means 560 KSFO could possibly be heard in Hawaii daytime with a similar reciever (although it may be a couple hundred miles more).

That would mean KFI or KNBR, though a little higher on the band but a lot stronger, could also be heard.

But my brother lives on the big island and I once asked him to see if he could get any of the big California stations daytime on the beach and he could not. He was using a Grundig G3.
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I think transmitter proximity to the water path would be a huge factor. From the post I linked, WQAM is IN Biscayne Bay, with a direct outlet toward the Atlantic. KNBR is also on the SF Bay, but on the wrong side of the peninsula. KFI is inland some distance, such that I'm guessing depending on which direction you're going in the Pacific, KNX could be a bit stronger in some places, being closer to the coast.
 
Brand new on the board. Here in NW St Johns county it's WNNR with Spanish programming during the day. It's transmitter is about 20 miles from me. WFLA will at times sound like a clear channel at night.
 
JaxRadioFan said:
Brand new on the board. Here in NW St Johns county it's WNNR with Spanish programming during the day. It's transmitter is about 20 miles from me. WFLA will at times sound like a clear channel at night.
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Welcome to the site, JaxRadioFan! We have lots of interesting topics here to discuss. Feel free to give your input on anything you'd like or start a new one too!
 
cyberdad said:
joebtsflk1 said:
That KQAQ in Austin MN sure has a shoe-horned 5 kW day pattern looking at it via Radio Locator...does the squeeze play between Duluth and Madison
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I'm guessing that the pattern is a tough one to maintain, given that you sometimes hear KQAQ in places where you probably shouldn't, Here northwest of Chicago it should be pretty much invisible. But on nights when it does come in, it tends to own the channel, and it also tends to be in for consecutive nights, then vanish entirely. Then it seems to re-surface at some point in the future just as quickly as it had vanished....and once again as "top dog".

I'm not sure if KQAQ is obliged to protect Duluth. My guess is that they're protecting a 5kw 980 in Minneapolis (which is also very directional).
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I hadn't thought of the 980 in the Twin Cities. There is also WDAY in Fargo, ND, 5k on 970, with a rather directional signal as well.
 
JaxRadioFan said:
Brand new on the board. Here in NW St Johns county it's WNNR with Spanish programming during the day. It's transmitter is about 20 miles from me. WFLA will at times sound like a clear channel at night.
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Welcome to the board! It's great to have another DXer from Florida here.

I'm in Tampa only a couple miles from WFLA's towers and I always wondered how far north they can be heard in the US at night.

And if you have a good portable radio, you should one day go th the Jacksonville beaches midday and see how many AM stations you will be able to get from Miami to well up the coast north of you.
 
Thanks Buckeye and gar. I've been a fan of DX'ing and radio for as long as I can remember. Being just 15 minutes from the beach, I have had plenty of opportunities to do some AM and FM DX there. Don't laugh but my current radio I am using is a DX-400 from Radio Shack that I bought in 1984. I was able to bring it back to life this past summer and with a Grundig AM loop, I've gotten plenty of new catches.
 
Jax....

Allow me to add my own welcome as well. I'll look forward to hear what you and the DX-400 come up with. A DX-375 of similar vintage is among the radios I use. It's all but totally useless for anything but DX-ing the AM band. (But it still performs it's lone remaining function quite well!)
 
My reception of WFLA 970 AM, here near downtown St. Pete is different than Gar-Fla's, even though I'm probably only about 18 miles s.s.w. of GarFla as the crow flies.

Up until 2202 or 2003 when WFLA 970 changed their directional array, they were a solid 10 day and night (on a scale of 1 - 10)l even during the summer time thunderstorms, their signal overrode the static...... but then they aimed toward the south day and night and now for nearly the last 10 years, they aim their signal eastward).

Now, it's about a 7 during the day, the signal still being listenable and about an 8.5 at night, when there is a slight lobe to the south.

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When I'm in eastern Hernando county, near Webster, FL, they are about a 4 during the day and about a 2.5 at night with a lot of fading in and out.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl
 
In the South Hills of Pittsburgh, it's local WBGG 970 ESPN.
The night signal is less than adequate however. I can frequently
hear oldies music bleeding thru the background, which is probably
coming from WATH in Athens, Ohio.
 
Haven't been on here for a few days because Firefox has been warning that this site is spreading malware. Has anybody else seen that message?

Anyway, I did catch a new one, on 970 at that. WJMX, 970, Florence, SC. 10 KW D, 3 KW N, DA-N, 3 towers. I think this is my first South Carolina station. It must have been on daytime ND power because the nighttime pattern sends nothing towards Chicago.
 
audioguy said:
Haven't been on here for a few days because Firefox has been warning that this site is spreading malware. Has anybody else seen that message?

Anyway, I did catch a new one, on 970 at that. WJMX, 970, Florence, SC. 10 KW D, 3 KW N, DA-N, 3 towers. I think this is my first South Carolina station. It must have been on daytime ND power because the nighttime pattern sends nothing towards Chicago.
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I got the same message and I use Firefox also.
 
As far as the malware messages, the site administrators are aware of the erroneous messages and are working with Google and Firefox to resolve the problem.

This is addressed In the ask radio-discussions thread.

drt
 
Late to the thread but...

Monroe, WA: I get nothing in the daytime, and at night usually get KUFO Portland, OR (News/Talk) and KTTO Spokane (EWTN). Less common I'll get KBUL Billings, MT. I've also heard KFTA Rupert, ID (Regional Mexican) and KESP Modesto, CA (ESPN, during an aurora opening), so five stations have been caught on this frequency.

-crainbebo
 
Well, here in San Jose I'm picking out a few stations on a very noisy band, but a couple of stations stand out.

900 watt KKRK out of Rupert, Idaho, on two towers, format... Balanced Rock. Impressive signal for a station under 1k Watts ( unless they are on day power ). Its very weak, but I can clearly hear the stations music before it fades into the noise for a minute, then back again. That's almost 570 miles point to point, in a straight line.

The other station is KUFO "Freedom 970" out of Portland Oregon on two towers, pumping out 5 Kw. Also very weak, and barely discernible through the noise.
 
I think I mentioned on another 970 thread that WAKE Valparaiso tried to move to 970 with 250 watts. I think some of the other nearby stations questioned their measured conductivities and they rejected the application. It was probably WSBT and WNTD and WKHM that questioned it.
 
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