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AM Frequency of the week: 1700

cyberdad

cyberdad

We made it! End of the road at the top end of the dial, 1700.

Here in the far northwest reaches of Chicago suburbia....

Days: Usually blank. No significant splatter from semi-local WVON. Sometimes in winter, however, KBBG (Des Moines) comes in and stays for most, if not ll, of the day.

Nights: KBGG is on top, if not alone, with a fair-good signal. Sometimes I can hear either Huntsville or Miami underneath.

Retro: When it first came on before KBGG was on the channel, the Miami 1700 was a semi-regular. And typically the easiest Florida catch.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs what I hear is similar to Cyberdad. During the day usually nothing except in winter when KBGG comes in often.
I also heard Miami regularly at night when it was all alone on the channel. Sometimes I still hear it under KBGG.
 
Day - nothing
Night - XEPE Tijuana BCN (ESPN), in good conditions I'll hear KKLF Richardson TX (Banda 13, mix of SS and EE music). KVNS Brownsville TX (Fox Sports) is rarer than they used to be. KBGG Des Moines (CBS Sports) is very rare. I've yet to log the other three on 1700 (and WRCR is silent). I have also heard the TIS from Issaquah, WA (WQHR733) from old QTHs in Bellevue and Bothell. I actually never put it into my overall logs, so I now have 761 AMs instead of 760.
 
The onliest log on 1700 here is also the most recent -- WRCR, from Rockland County NY. They're about 35 miles NNW of the Umpire State Building.

It was one late sunset, a few March's back, off my new $25 (marked WAY down) Radio Shack AM/FM/SW travellers's radio. Even by reading the manual I'll be darned if I can find the model number or name. 'Tune It' seems to be the closest designation that makes sense.

The reception setting was kinda cool and nostalgic out there at the patio table. We had drinks and coffee and were tuned into this thing that looks like a larger transistor radio, enjoying *music* on the AM band as it got dark.
 
East TN: Most common is WEUP (which back in the day I heard fairly often near sunset in Ohio). Also, KVNS, Brownsville and WJCC, Miami Springs
 
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - XEPE with KVNS in the background sometimes but I haven't listened in a while, so I went outside to check 1700 just now and it's a Spanish station playing music.

It's a very good signal too and not a trace of any other station in the background!

KKLF?
 
Orange County, TX -days nothing, nights KVNS & KKLF fight it out with one station being to my south & the other to the north and nulling is ineffective.
 
hawaiigar said:
Daytime - nothing

Nighttime - XEPE with KVNS in the background sometimes but I haven't listened in a while, so I went outside to check 1700 just now and it's a Spanish station playing music.

It's a very good signal too and not a trace of any other station in the background!

KKLF?
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When I visited Hawaii 8 years ago it was XEPE all alone, but now I don’t know.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: usually just splatter from WVON, or weak KBGG.
Nightime: normally KBGG but others (KVNS, WEUP, WJCC) pop in once in a while

DX/RETRO: besides KBGG, KVNS, WEUP and WJCC also heard KKLF (Richardson, TX) and it's predecessors KTBK/KDSX (Sherman-Denison, TX). Managed to hear XEPE on two occasions in recent years, both times right before Chicago sunrise. Also heard US Special Operations station back in February of 2000 with training PSA's.
 
From central Ohio, if I hear anything on 1700, it's KBGG. I've never heard KVNS here once, despite it being caught much, much farther to my north and east (like Scandinavia). When I lived in Houston, back when KVNS was running its oldies format, it was a blaster every night.
On Memorial Day 2009, I drove down to the Galveston beach to DX in the late afternoon. Not surprisingly for being right on the Gulf and despite its high frequency and the almost 300-mile path, KVNS was blasting in. It faded roughly five miles inland only to return later that night with the usual skywave strength.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Normally nothing, but I've heard both KVNS and KKLF via daytime skywave in winter.

Sunset: KKLF and KVNS start coming up. Occasionally I'll hear a weak KBGG mixing in before it drops to night power.

Night: KKLF comes up fairly strong and at times causes splatter on 1690. KVNS is the second strongest. If I aim NW, I can get a partial null and often hear a weak XEPE underneath/mixing in. XEPE will come to the fore at times when propagation is good.

This past Wednesday and Thursday, KKLF was off air, and I managed to log WEUP in Huntsville, AL, for the first time. It was in and out with a weak signal under KVNS. Now that KKLF is back on, I no longer hear WEUP at all.
 
When I was in New Hampshire several years ago, I got KBGG from Des Moines one night. Quite surprising since I was only getting the 50,000 watt Chicago stations weakly, and here was a 1,000 watt station several hundred miles further away, coming in well enough to hear CBS Sports programming. Of course, when only a handful of stations are broadcasting on a frequency, that really helps. Especially with no other station anywhere within a thousand miles.

Then when WRCR Ramapo NY was on the air from the NYC suburbs, I could hear it sometimes at night and even an hour to so after sunrise in New Hampshire. Of course, now that it is off the air, searching for a new transmitter location for about a year, who knows if it will ever come back? The last time I tried to pull in KBGG, even with WRCR off the air, I did not have any luck.
 
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