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AM Frequency of the Week: 540

Pretty much exclusively XESURF for me, usually about the same strength day and night. (I have occasionally heard what I suspect was Mexico City in the background at night, but don't remember ever positively IDing it.)
 
Other 540 might be XEWA San Luis Potosi, MX. I've heard it before, it's my second farthest AM at 2129 miles.

540 here in the day is a mix of two stations. One is from Burien and the other is too weak to tell. Either another TIS or CBXQ Ucuelet, BC, a repeater of CBCV Victoria, which veteran DXer Patrick Martin in Seaside, OR catches most days.

540 here at night is CBK Regina, SK. MAN they put out a huge signal! I mentioned XEWA on the top of this post, but I've only heard it once. It was not XESURF, I copied the W Radio webstream to the very weak 540 I was hearing. :)

-crainbebo
 
WLIE/Islip, NY broadcasts a Spanish religious format whose daytime signal in central/eastern CT practically rivals NYC's powerhouses WFAN, WOR & WCBS at 2500 watts. Recently, I could actually hear WLIE faintly at midday in central New Hampshire on a good car radio. At night, it disappears in my part of CT at 220 watts. I remember when Ottawa's classic rocker (on AM!) CJSB used to rule that frequency at night.
 
Hmmm...I'm currently employed at a 540 (TALK 540 KMLB). But this one is in Monroe, LA.
 
Sometimes I get a CHR top 40 station on 540,, Location Unknown, and been there since the mid 90s, maybe longer,,,, No one has ever been able to tell me what this station may be,, its definately a chr,, I last heard it last summer,, most the time 540 is unlegable slop.
 
Almost nothing here in the daytime, just two very, very weak signals from Pittsburgh area's Radio Disney WWCS and adult standards WGOP in Pocomoke, MD, between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, fighting over the 540 spot on the dial, and I am about the halfway between the two stations.

At night it's kind of a mess of weak signals, though I heard WFLF 540 in central FL once earlier this year.
 
Here in SW Michigan we get ESPN from Milwaukee during the daytime, but at night we get CBK from Regina and CBEF from Windsor (French language CBC). I used to listen to CBK all the time in the Chicago area before the Milwaukee station started operating at night... now you can still hear CBK but it's not much fun to listen to...
 
Although 550/WKRC causes some difficulties, I do get several stations on 540 here in SW Ohio.

If conditions are right, WWCS in Cannonsburg PA appears days but it is weak, and depending on the time of year I get the following on SR/SS skip and night.

540 KHZ
Cannonsburg (Pittsburgh) PA
Ft Dodge IA
San Luis Potosi MX
Jackson WI (a reliable but weak night signal)
I don't show it on my new logbook, but I am fairly certain I have heard WFLF in Pine Hills FL and its predecessor, WGTO in Cypress Gardens.
 
From West Michigan within the last two years:

Freq UTC
540 2033 WAUK, Jackson (WI) ESPN Sports
540 2118 WWCS, Canonsburg (PA) Radio Disney
540 0300 KNMX, Las Vegas (NM) w/ high school basketball, presumed day power
540 0059 KWMT, Fort Dodge (IA) c/w music
540 1100 WLIE, Islip (NY) Spanish prg w/ English ID @ TOH
540 1210 CBK-CBC Radio 1, Watrous (SK)
540 1000 WKFN, Clarksville (TN) Slogan: Sports Radio 540 The Fan
540 0500 CBEF-SRC Première Chaîne, Windsor (ON) French programming

The only regular is Milwaukee days and CBK & CBEF nights (with a little Fort Dodge mixed).
 
Here in Tampa on 540, it's WFLF a 50 kw station from Orlando (Pine Hills to be specific).

It's a fairly good signal during the day but varies at night.
 
Here in the far northwestern Chicago suburbs, it's WAUK during the day, with KWMT very faint when Milwaukee is nulled. At night it's a mix of WAUK and CBK. Null one, get the other. Several months ago, KWMT was operating on day power all night for a week or two, and put in a fairly respectable signal. I've also heard XEWA here a few times, as well as WDAK and KMLB (back when it was KNOE).
 
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