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AM Frequency of the Week - 560 kHz

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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....
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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.
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Hearing the late Ken Malden's voice "Q! A! M!" threw me for a loop when I was in BDA. No WFIL there, but if I paid attention at night, I'm sure that FIL would be there.

The reason I mentioned the Canes in BDA is that I'd think for the 50k day to work, and not to interfere with other US 560's (or Guyana, ha ha), it'd HAVE to direct the signal out that way.

cd
 
The only Miami station I ever received in New Jersey was 790 WFUN in early '75 when I was in the car with my parents on the Garden State Parkway near Ocean City around sunset.

I still remember the song playing leading up to the big station ID. It was 'Don't Call Us We'll Call You' by Sugarloaf. It was a one time only thing and a great signal while it lasted.

Then back home near Philadelphia, I would listen at night to see if I could hear it again and every time I heard top 40 music, it turned out to be WAEB from Allentown, Pa. :(

Interesting to note is that when I was in my first year of college in '80 in Bethlehem (right next to Allentown) I was nulling out WIP in hopes of hearing KFRC (a virtually impossible station to hear, I know, but I had just returned from Christmas break in California) and to my surprise, I heard WIOD Miami for a short time with a good listenable signal.

Maybe I'm wrong but weren't they 10 kw back then?
 
I think that WIOD has been 10 k since maybe 1981, to combat Cuban interference. I'm surprised that WQAM hasn't tried to get some help now. What's now WAXY 790 has been running 25 k fulltime for the same reason. It has been heard in Australia.

cd
 
Catching up on few missed posts...560 AM here in NE NC is WGAI, Elizabeth City. I'm about 18 miles from their site and I get them at night with some interference. With WGAI nulled, I have logged WFIL Philadelphia; WQAM Miami; and CFOS Owen Sound, Ontario. This is all within the past year with a portable radio indoors.
 
Days:: KSFO out of San Fransisco

Nights:: This is interesting.
KSFO seems a bit weak these days. I get two stations fighting underneath KSFO, and if I null it, I get the following.
I'm able to pick up KBLU out of Yuma, Arizona ( coast to coast )
I'm also able to pick up KMON out of Great Falls, Montana ( Country )
 
Newbie to this site here- surprised to stumble across this thread because I've been camped out on 560kz. for the past couple of days.

Daytime: Pretty much nothing- a single unID at noise level with N/S nulled.
Night: Jumble with E/W nulled
N/S nulled-
560 - 01.16.22 WHBQ (?) Memphis TN, Fox Sports @ 0535z
560 - 01.16.22 WVOC (?) Columbia, SC Coast to Coast AM/Art Bell show @ 0608z

Also a couple of other stations in the mix, one with a AC format, another with SS programming.

QTH: Fort Smith, AR
Icom R71-A, Tecsun loop, Select-A-Tenna (SAT) running passive
 
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Re: In the 70's when WQAM was broadcasting from the tower in Biscayne Bay, in daytime I was willing to listen to them (as a radio person) as far north as Ocala on I-75. I heard WQAM at night a few times within the skywave at night in North Florida as well.

In that era, I recall WQAM daytime signal rocking and rolling nicely from Fort Pierce south, probably the northern extent where civilians might be listening. At night there was interference in the background in Pompano Beach, still listenable but you could tell it would be over maybe 20 miles north. As I understand it WQAM had a Continental transmitter with the Doherty design. To my ear it had an effortless big rig sound, when compared to other transmitters, and the EMT plate reverb contributed to this.

Re: 50 KW Like many Pacific and Atlantic coast locations, many Class Bs in Miami could increase transmitter power to 50 KW (with increased ERP in the main lobe) by going directional and relocating west or northwest (or east on the west coast). In Miami, after FCC allocation factors, logistics and financial aspects of building a multi-tower array in or near the Everglades are paramount.

In southeast USA, WAPE 690 daytime may have been the most spectacular example of salt-water path, this would be northward where it crossed open water.
 
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Not much in central Ohio day or night, unfortunately.
When I lived in suburban Houston, League City to be exact, KLVI was a blaster thanks to the ground conductivity and some salt water between me and Beaumont. Excellent signal that carries like one might expect because of both aforementioned factors and the low dial position.
 
Needless to say, here in Orange County, TX it's KLVI 24/7.

Retro: Back in the '60's early one morning when KLVI was off for maintenance WQAM came blasting in and lasted for about an hour before fading.
 
WCJ said:
Needless to say, here in Orange County, TX it's KLVI 24/7.

Retro: Back in the '60's early one morning when KLVI was off for maintenance WQAM came blasting in and lasted for about an hour before fading.
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When I worked at KLVI, if we didn't go directional, QAM would be calling the hotline "I'm hearing you into headphones!" Oopsie.. ;)
 
From eastern Iowa: WIND day and night. At night, it's usually by itself but occasionally there's a station underneath it that is probably KWTO Springfield, MO.
 
Because it's sandwiched between 550 KTSA, San Antonio, and 570 KLIF, Dallas, 560 is usually nonexistent here, in central Texas north of Austin.
However, I have received KLVI, which is almost entirely syndicated conservative talk. Its signal doesn't come in often.
 
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