AM Frequency of the Week - 560 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

Back to the low end of the dial, what do you all get on 560 AM?

Here in Vermilion, OH I get weak to fair WRDT/Monroe, MI during the day with a religious format. At nights its a jumble of several stations with WIND/Chicago usually on top.

 

[Icangelp]

SW OH

WIND is present most days, and nights.

Days
WIND CHICAGO IL

Nights
WIND CHICAGO IL
WJLS BECKLEY WV

Sunrise & Sunset
WFRB FROSTBURG MD Sunset
WMIK MIDDLESBORO KY Sunrise - A station with a rich and interesting history. http://www.cumberlandgapbroadcasting.com/
WXBT Columbia sc Sunset
KWTO Springfileld MO Sunset Once only.
WOOF Dothan AL Sunset Once only

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

In SE Michigan, you get WRDT, day and if you are close enough, its 13.9 watt night signal. By the time you get to Lansing and points west, you hear WIND. In Northern Lower Michigan, you hear CFOS. At night, various stations have been heard over the years. WIND, WFIL during critical hours on day pattern, WJLS, and before it moved to FM, CJKL are a few that I recall off hand.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

From Houston - KLVI Beaumont, masquerading as a Houston station pretty much 24/7.

 

[ddsparxx]

From northern VA, I get semi-weak WFRB Frostburg, MD located on the west side of the Appalaichans

Nights, it kind of a mess with southern gospel music from WJLS in southern WV, often on top.

 

[pianoplayer88key]

At my house near El Cajon, CA...

Day - KBLU Yuma is possible, but extremely faint. My GE Superadio III is the only radio that can get copyable audio without help from an external antenna.

Night - usually all KSFO San Francisco


At Tulare County Fairgrounds where I am now, daytime it's KSFO, indicating 21 dBu on my PL-398mp, with splatter from 550 KUZZ Bakersfield.

 

[ftballfan]

In both Allendale and Manistee, it's WIND 24/7

 

[crainbebo]

In Monroe, WA it's a very weak KPQ out of Wenatchee in the day, and KPQ and KSFO at night. KMON is also possible, more rarely however.

-crainbebo

 

[gar hi]

From Tampa -

Daytime - A barely audible WQAM between the splatter of WTBN

Nighttime - Mostly WQAM but also sometimes a Spanish speaking station takes over but it's never too strong.

Less than 20 miles west of here daytime at the Gulf, it's very different daytime than here in Tampa.

WQAM is far stronger than it is here and in the background, there are two other stations as well. Never got any ID from either one but their signals are audible enough to often hear exact words.

They have to be from the Gulf coast somewhere and it would be amazing if one of them was KLVI.

 

[tomservo]

From Baldwin County, AL:

I've actually never heard anything identifiable day or night on 560. Days is quiet and nights are a jumble of one or more Spanish stations.

 

[vo1001swl]

Here are the following stations that have been logged from here in Newfoundland on 560

560 khz - WGAN - Portland, Maine 1:45 UTC 9/2/08 (regular on frequency here )

560 khz - CHVO - Carbonear, Newfoundland 22:51 UTC 2/29/08
(moved to FM now )

560 khz - CUBA - R. Rebelde, Moa 3:24UTC 1/23/11 ( second most common heard)

560 khz - WFIL - Philadelphia, PA 9:08 UTC 11/03/12

560 khz - GUYANA - Voice of Guyana, Georgetown 5:02 UTC 11/10/11

560 khz - BRAZIL - Radio Educadora de Marahao ZYH 887 00:10 UTC 3/20/13
(more common lately )

560 khz - COLOMBIA - R. Nacional de Colombia HJGS Tunja 00:48 UTC 3/31/13

 

[schmave]

From Baldwin County, AL:

I've actually never heard anything identifiable day or night on 560. Days is quiet and nights are a jumble of one or more Spanish stations.

560 is much of the same here in central Ohio. Same at night. We're just not in the right location to hear much on that frequency.

 

[Brother]

From St. Louis:

Daytime - nothing, too much splatter from local KTRS/550.

Nighttime - KWTO Springfield, MO is the one true regular here on 560.

Honorable Mentions - WIND Chicago, WHBQ Memphis, KLZ Denver will show up out of nowhere a few times a year; WEBC Duluth, MN is comes in once or twice per winter; WNSR Brentwood, TN (Nashville) has been heard rarely, but more than once; and the one-time-only WFRB Frostburg, MD, at 3:00 am one night in 2009.

 

[dave73]

I only get WIND Chicago from NW Indiana. My home is about 2 miles from their tower site, & they bleed over onto 570 & sometimes 580 (used to never hear WILL-AM from Illinois when Univision ran IBOC on 560, while Salem turned it off).

 

[cyberdad]

Far Northwest suburbs of Chicago, WIND strong 24/7. In their days as "La Tremenda", they'd sometimes sign off at midnight. When they did, it was usually KWTO that came through.

Zach: I used to get WOOF quite regularly in your area. Very weak, but usually reliable. On my last couple of trips, it's been still there, but barely audible. I've also heard KLVI on the beach. Not sure if its doable inland.

 

[1L6E6VHF]

(In the old days, when WQTE was a true daytimer, from Detroit): A fair-to-good WQTE/WHND, with some analog splatter from CBEF and CKWW. At night, the channel would be almost clear, save a very weak WIND.

These days, Detroit Lakeshore: WRDT (Monroe TL) good with some splatter from CKWW by day, a fair WRDT (Royal Oak Twp TL 13.9w) at night.

These days, just north of the OH state line/Toledo city limits: a poor WRDT (Monroe TL) with a lot of its own I-BLOCK noise (the I-BLOCK is stronger that WRDT's analog signal - the DA null is highly effective around 560 but less so in the sidebands where the I-BLOCK is). At night, WRDT (Royal Oak Twp TL) surprisingly audible, though weak, despite 13.9w @ 51 miles. WJLS is the usual source of co-channel noise, with CFOS and even KLVI prettty strong once in awhile. Have not heard WIND down here.

 

[cyberdad]

I used to make the run from Detroit to Cleveland quite regularly in the '90s. Then-WHND "Honey Radio" oldies, the Monroe 560, was audible daytime most of the way, but the audio was horrible. I'd go through stretches where it was completely distorted. There were several dead spots....usually filled by CFOS (which was a great listen with good audio.)

 

[cd637299]

Here are the following stations that have been logged from here in Newfoundland on 560

560 khz - WGAN - Portland, Maine 1:45 UTC 9/2/08 (regular on frequency here )

560 khz - CHVO - Carbonear, Newfoundland 22:51 UTC 2/29/08
(moved to FM now )

560 khz - CUBA - R. Rebelde, Moa 3:24UTC 1/23/11 ( second most common heard)

560 khz - WFIL - Philadelphia, PA 9:08 UTC 11/03/12

560 khz - GUYANA - Voice of Guyana, Georgetown 5:02 UTC 11/10/11

560 khz - BRAZIL - Radio Educadora de Marahao ZYH 887 00:10 UTC 3/20/13
(more common lately )

560 khz - COLOMBIA - R. Nacional de Colombia HJGS Tunja 00:48 UTC 3/31/13

You win the thread!!! Should I even post this.... V V V

Here in south FL it's WQAM, WQAM, and WQAM. There used to be a Jamaican on 560 I'd hear underneath*. There is a Rebelde in Cuba underneath now. I haven't heard anything else in ages.

[*Once, WQAM, new to the all-sports format at the time, was reporting on a prize fight featuring LaLonde--maybe against Buster Douglas, not sure. In the US, they cannot give blow-by-blow accounts; but the Jamaican underneath at the same time WAS giving the blow-by-blow! Like "There's a right by LaLonde, then a left...."]

Jamaica is all-FM now, I believe.

I did hear WQAM faintly in Bermuda in the daytime in June 2005. A proposal to go 50k day/25k night was nixed; if it went through, Bermuda would possibly hear UM Hurricanes sports every day....

cd - Edit: I think WQAM to be quite possible from NF/Lab! Keep trying.....non-directional antenna.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I never thought of looking to see CFOS's predicted service area on R-L. Surprised to see a station that comes in daytime in Northern Lower Michigan, Western New York, part of Pennsylvania, and is also heard in Ohio.

 

[gar hi]

I did hear WQAM faintly in Bermuda in the daytime in June 2005. A proposal to go 50k day/25k night was nixed; if it went through, Bermuda would possibly hear UM Hurricanes sports every day....

When I lived in Jersey and visited my brother at the University of Miami in the early 70s, WQAM 'Q 56' was my favorite station and when I got back home I would spend night after night trying to null WFIL to see if I could hear them in the back ground.

Even at our place down at the shore where WFIL was much weaker, I never heard WQAM at night.

But if I knew then what I know now about the potential of saltwater paths, I would have attempted to hear them during the day at the shore on Long Beach Island. It's the same distance from Miami as Bermuda and it is a 100% ocean path too.