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AM Frequency of the Week: 1010

Americans and Canadians both enjoy the same types of radio, look at the Detroit-Windsor market.
I wish that protections would be for listeners and not artificial national borders.
 
Here in my sector of W. Washington it's CBR most of the time, sometimes splattering on local 50KW KOMO. I've heard KCHJ Delano, Calif. a couple times when CBR's down in propagation and conditions are more auroral. I also have a tentative logging from long ago when I heard a "WINS" ID, on a TRF. But it was so long ago I can't find the log sheet to verify my logging. I remember hearing it, though.... but you know how ID's can sort of muddle themselves on the AM band.
 
Daytime in central Maryland it's a weak battle between Baltimore's WOLB (urban talk) and Berkeley Springs, WV's WCST ("Cat Country"). WOLB use to be more dominate before it changed transmitter sites and dropped power.

Nighttime its another signal battle between Toronto news/talker CFRB and New York City's WINS. Sometimes at dawn/dusk I'll catch southern gospel tunes from Asheville, NC area's WKJV with it's 47K daytime power.
 
I recently relocated to less than fifty miles from a fifty kilowatt station on 1010 but smack dab in the middle of its deepest null.
So, this stations signal is very week in the middle of the day (groundwave only), but it fades in and out throughout much of morning and late afternoon, and respectably, which brings me to this question: is it fair to say that stations are less directional or have somewhat different patterns at high takeoff angles than they do along the ground?
 
The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant (LeSueur, MN)

daytime-KRNI Mason City
nightime-a mush of a few stations
 
Daytime - nothing, splatter from KDYK-1020. Sometimes CBR Calgary (CBC Radio One) in the winter.
Nights - Aforementioned CBR, also KCHJ Delano CA (Regional Mexican) when they are nulled. Other logs include KXPS Thousand Palms, CA (Sports), KOOR Milwaukie, OR (Russian), KIQI San Francisco (Radio Unica), and KIHU Tooele, UT (Catholic).

Wanted on 1010: Well, KSIR Brush, CO should be possible at sunrise with their farm news (25KW). Also KXXT Tolleson, AZ (Christian Talk, 15KW sunrise) and someday maybe I'll finally get CFRB Toronto (News/Talk). I know WINS will never make it here, but CFRB would be a great second prize. 740 from Toronto is heard quite often during the winter.
 
schmave said:
Texas posters: Has the battle between KLAT and KBBW changed at all over the past few years? One of the more interesting short-spaced co-channel fights I've ever heard.
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In my 3 weeks of DXing here north of Austin, in the Georgetown, area, I've never heard KLAT.
The other night, when I turned the Grundig Yachtboy, I heard WJXL Jacksonville Beach (sports), then back to a weak KBBW.
Was surprised East Coast Fla. would make it here.
 
That KLAT/KBBW battle is at its peak in the western parts of the Houston metro. Anywhere west, KBBW dominates. It's still tough for me to believe that protections aside, those two stations were permitted to be that close to each other given how well AM signals travel in Texas, but it makes for some fun listening.
 
schmave said:
That KLAT/KBBW battle is at its peak in the western parts of the Houston metro. Anywhere west, KBBW dominates. It's still tough for me to believe that protections aside, those two stations were permitted to be that close to each other given how well AM signals travel in Texas, but it makes for some fun listening.
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The way stations were spaced is sometimes inexplicable.
Look at the 550 AMs in San Antonio, Midland and, adding to the fracas, western Kansas.
A little too close for comfort in Texas, I'd say.

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San Jose, South

Days: 10kW KIQI out of Oakland / Emeryville.

Nights: 500W KIQI, but I also get ( and can listen to ) 50kW CBR out of Calgary, Canada.
 
Hartland, VT
Days: WCNL, Newport, NH, mostly classic country of the 1960s-1990s with a few recents and currents.
Nights: WINS New York overpowering WCNL.

Meriden, CT
WINS day and night.
 
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