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800 - 1000: What does your AM band look like at night?

from central NC

800: CKLW Windsor, ON
810: WGY Schenectady, NY
820: WBAP Dallas, TX
830: WTRU Winston-Salem, NC
840: WHAS Louisville, KY
850: WRBZ Raleigh, NC is 20 miles away, sometimes WKNR Cleveland overpowers it
860: WERC Birmingham, AL sometimes
870: WWL New Orleans, LA
880: WCBS New York, NY
890: WLS Chicago, IL
900: CHML Hamilton, ON
910: nothing I ever remember on any regular basis
920: WPCM Burlington, NC, sometimes Country920 Wingham, ON heard "Country920" and mentions of Canada but never an ID
930:
940: WMAC Macon, GA but rarely
950: WPET Greensboro, NC but rarely
960: WFIR Roanoke, VA
970: WGTK Louisville, KY never heard an ID until last night thought it might have been WFLA Tampa until they ID'ed
980: Sportstalk 980 Washington, DC
990: WNOX Knoxville, TN
1000: WMVP Chicago, IL I still miss The Loop though
 
Mckinney, Tx [North OF Dallas]

820 WBAP Dallat, Tx
830 Unidentified News Station
840 WHAS Louisville, KY
850 Newsradio 850 KLA
870 WWL New Orleans
880 a mess of stations. Music Station dominant
890 Unidentified Talk Station
910 Local
920 Talk Station
950 Mix of
970 Heaven 97
980 Unidentified Garble
990 Local
 
From Colchester, CT:

800 - CKLW Windsor, ON
810 - WGY Schenectady, NY (day/night)
820 - mess (used to get WBAP Dallas)
830 - mess (used to get WCCO Minneapolis)
840 - WHAS Louisville, KY
850 - mess (occasionally WEEI Boston)
860 - CJBC Toronto
870 - mess (used to get WWL New Orleans, occasionally WHCU Ithaca, NY)
880 - WCBS New York (day/night)
890 - WLS Chicago
900 - CHML Hamilton, ON
910 - WLAT New Britain, CT (day/night)
920 - mess
930 - WBEN Buffalo, NY
940 - CINW Montreal
950 - WPEN Philadelphia
960 - mess
970 - mess
980 - mess (occasionally WOFX Troy, NY)
990 - WLGZ Rochester, NY
1000 - WMVP Chicago
 
From Northeast Missouri....

800 KXIC Iowa City (DT, have heard Spanish or French at N)
810 WHB Kansas City (DT, was a rockin' powerhouse here when it was KCMO in the L 70's-E 80's 8) *sigh*
810 WGY Schenectady (N, not often anymore)
820 WBAP
830 WCCO
840 WHAS (Most consistent of the high-power 800's)
850 KOA
860 CJBC Toronto (Not that often)
870 WWL (KAAN Bethany, MO DT)
880 WCBS (KRVN Lexington, NE occasionaly)
890 WLS (D & N, but seems weaker than it used to be)
900 KFAL Fulton, MO (DT, garble at N)
910 WSUI Iowa City (DT, garble at N)
920 Garble-crowd out
930 WTAD Quincy, IL (Local)
940 Garble-crowd-out
950 KWOS Jefferson City, MO (DT, garble at N)
960 KMA Shenendoah, IA (occasionally)
970 Garble
980 KMBZ Kansas City (occasionally)
990 WCAZ Carthage, IL (Local DT)
990 CBW Winnipeg
990 WGSO New Orleans (One time)
1000 WMVP Chicago (Maybe once or twice)
 
From Bothell, WA
800 CKOR Penticton, BC (EZ Rock)
810 KGO San Francisco
820 KGNW Seattle (local)
830 mess, rarely any stations
840 KMAX Colfax, WA
850 KHHO Tacoma (rarely KOA Denver as well too)
860 KPAM Portland and IBOC hash
870 mess, some KFLD Pasco
880 KIXI Bellevue/Mercer island (local)
890 mess, sometimes CJDC Dawson Creek, BC
900 CKMO Victoria (rarely KKRT Wenatchee as well)
910 weak KTRO Portland, OR
920 KGTK Olympia and sometimes KXLY Spokane
930 KYAK Yakima
940 KWBY Portland
950 KJR Seattle
960 CFAC Calgary, AB
970 weak KCMD Portland
980 CKNW Vancouver
990 mess, rarely any stations (just like 830)
1000 KOMO (local)
 
In Memphis using nothing special...

800 - splatter from local WMC, though I've heard XEROK and CKLW under it once or twice
810 - WHB fighting with WGY
820 - WBAP
830 - WCCO
840 - WHAS
850 - KOA (weak)
860 - a mess, with Toronto usually dominant, though I've heard a Kansas station there. forgetting the calls!
870 - WWL (usually booming in, though it fades a lot)
880 - WCBS (very weak)
890 - WLS battling something in Spanish
900- spanish (probably Mexico City)
910 - a mess
920 - a mess
930 - another mess, though I have heard WKY
940 - a mess
950 - WWJ fighting Radio Reloj
960 - a mix of stuff
970 - a mix, Louisville usually dominates
980 - usually a christian talk station I've never been able to ID
990 - local KWAM
1000 - splatter, with WMVP underneath
 
From Central Kansas

800 Usually the mexicans, sometimes KOCV from Oklahoma City
810 Not much after WHB goes directional
820 WBAP, usually the strongest of the old 1A's here
830 WCCO, even back in the old days it often got hammered by the combination of WBAP and WHAS
840 WHAS
850 KOA, right behind WBAP in terms of strength
860 KKOW wery weak, off beam from their night DA
870 WWL
880 KRVN weakly after they go directional, very strong here days
890 WLS, not near as strong as in the old days.
900 A mess channel, daytime it's a very weak signal from KSGL, Wichita's 250 watt hash machine
910 A mess after KINA Salina drops to flea power
920
 
Accidentally hit the send button

920 KYFR from Shenandoah, Iowa, weak
930 WKY, strength varies a lot
940 Nothing to speak of
950 Bott Radio's KJRG, which puts a decent signal out for 147 watts at night (20-30 miles, weaker towards Denver though non-directional)
960 A weak signal from KMA
970 A mess of stuff
980 KMBZ from Kansas City
990 CBW from Winnipeg faintly. (there's a local 990 in Russell that with 250 watts and hot ground conductivity days puts out a consistent signal 60 miles, sometimes more)
1000 KTOK, reasonably well most nights.
 
From Pawtucket, RI
810 - WGY Schnectady, NY (daytime poor, nighttime fair)
830 - WCRN Worcester, MA (pretty good day, night fair)
850 - WEEI Boston, MA (good day, fair night)
880 - WCBS New York, NY (fair day, good night)
890 _ WBPS Dedham (day fair, night poor mixed with WLS Chicago, IL)
920 - WHJJ Providence, RI (local)
940- weak WGFP Webster, MA day, fair from Montreal, QU night
950 - WROL Boston, MA (weak day), WPEN Philadelphia (weak at night)
980 - WCAP Lowell, MA (weak day)
990- WALE Providence, RI (local)
1000 - WMVP Chicago, IL (weak at night)
All other frequencies not mentioned are mixed signals day and night
 
LibertyNT said:
Mckinney, Tx [North OF Dallas]

820 WBAP Dallat, Tx
830 Unidentified News Station
840 WHAS Louisville, KY
850 Newsradio 850 KLA
870 WWL New Orleans
880 a mess of stations. Music Station dominant
890 Unidentified Talk Station
910 Local
920 Talk Station
950 Mix of
970 Heaven 97
980 Unidentified Garble
990 Local
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Let me help you with some of the stations.
820 you wrote dallas wrong, LibertyNT.
830 might be WCCO. ???
850 is not KLA. It's KOA from Denver, CO
890 might be WLS Chicago.
 
870 sometimes a station from southern Utah don't know the call letters

Actually, scoobyfan1, it's KFLD Pasco. Your station from Southern Utah is probably KDXU on 890 AM, not 870 AM.

-crainbebo
 
From Clovis (near Fresno) CA.


800 KFPT Bleed over
810 KGO San Francisco
820 static
830 KLAA Los Angeles
840 KMPH Modesto CA.
850 KOA Denver
860 KTRB San Francisco
870 KRLA Los Angeles
880 KKMC Gonzales CA
890 KLFF Arroyo Grande CA
900 KBIF Fresno
910 static
920 KVIN Ceres CA
930 KWRU Bleed over
940 KWRU Fresno
950 KWRU Bleed over
960 KKGN Oakland CA.
970 KHTY Bakersfield CA
980 KEYQ Fresno
990 static
1000 KOMO Seattle
 
From near Cleveland OH:

800: CKLW Windsor day & night
810: day: nothing; night: WGY Schenectady (strong)
820: day: WOSU Columbus; night: WOSU/WBAP Ft. Worth/CHAM Hamilton ON used to be heard but not recently
830: day: WKTX Cortland OH (weak); night: WCCO Minn./WHAS? IBOC slop/WTRU Kernersville NC rarely
840: day: WKNR slop; night: WHAS Louisville
850: day: WKNR Cleveland (local daytime blowtorch); night: WKNR (weak, in nighttime null)/KOA Denver (occasional)/WRBZ Raleigh (rare)
860: day: WKNR slop; night: CJBC Toronto
870: day: nothing; night: WWL New Orleans
880; day: WRFD Columbus; night: WCBS New York (very strong)
890: day: nothing; night: WLS Chicago
900: day: WCER Canton OH; night: CHML Hamilton ON (noisy)
910: nothing days / mess night
920: WEOL slop
930: WEOL Elyria OH (local), WBEN Buffalo heard days on east side of town
940: day: WEOL slop; night: CINW Monteal
950; WWJ Detroit day and night
960: day: WKVX Wooster OH; night: WKVX/WFIR Roanoke
970: day: WFUN Astabula OH; night: mess
980: day: nothing; night: WTEM Washington DC
990: day: nothing; night: mess/CBW Winnipeg occasionally
1000: day: WCCD Parma OH (local); night: WMVP Chicago
 
Wow! That's great that you can get KOA from Denver. Isn't WKNR directional?

-crainbebo
 
There seems to be a particular fascination on this board for KOA, which prompted me to turn on the radio this evening while doing some work on the computer, to see what actually is heard here in Poughkeepsie, NY these days after sunset on 850.

Around 6pm there was a religious station, sounded like "WHAC", must have been WXJC in Alabama with religious programming. It sounded like they were leading up to a full ID at 6:03, when they disappeared abruptly with a power cut.

I heard an ESPN station a bit later, including a promo for the morning show, not sure which station. Around 6:20, I heard another religious station with the Lutheran Hour, likely KFUO St Louis area, a frequent sunset visitor back in the day, as I recall.

Then starting around 6:30, there was KOA with talk, basically dominating the frequency. At times, there'd be a station with religious choral music overtaking KOA. Not sure who that was.

Here in Poughkeepsie, everybody on 850 pretty much nulls me, so there is no dominant regular station at night. I know WEEI makes it in often.

Most of my DXing these days in limited to FM, mostly due to lots of electrical noise on AM and lack of a functioning communications receiver. However, a few weeks ago we had a power outage due to an ice storm, and I immediately noticed the total lack of electrical noise, and so many signals were clearly heard. One frequency that kind of surprised me was 830... WCRN from Worcester, MA was clearly dominating, instead of WCCO. I would have throught that WCRN would have offered more protecton to WCCO, as WEEI does to KOA.

All stations mentioned were heard on a Radio Shack "TRF" (tuned RF) portable, the best AM DXing portable I've ever had. Radio Shack stopped making them years ago!! Audio is not great... no bass, and lack of highs due to narrow bandwidth, but it pulls in the DX quite nicely.
 
That ESPN station is WKNR Cleveland, OH. 50,000 watts daytime, 4,700 watts nighttime.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
870 sometimes a station from southern Utah don't know the call letters

Actually, scoobyfan1, it's KFLD Pasco. Your station from Southern Utah is probably KDXU on 890 AM, not 870 AM.

-crainbebo
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Thank You crainebo, it probably was
 
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