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AM Frequency of the Week: 560

I did hear CJKL quite a bit before they moved to FM.

WIND comes in quite well near the Lansing/East Lansing area, with surprisingly little interference from WRDT Monroe. WRDT makes it difficult to hear other stations on 560 in SE Michigan, even at 13.9 watts night with the near 5/8 wavelength skirted tower in Royal Oak Township. Back when air was clean and Daytimers were Daytimers, you could hear WIND quite regularly in Genesee County between WHND...WRDT sign off and WIND pattern change back when the top loaded towers were used at WIND. I don't know if WIND changed the Day and/or Night patterns when they went to monopoles.
 
Here in the Pittsburgh area it's WFRB from Frostburg, Maryland during daylight hours.
The transmitter sits atop a 3000 ft. mountain ridge and may actually be line of sight to my home.

At night just assorted slop under WKBN.
 
Anyone remember Darrell Loughry, owner of WFRB? He had some relatives in Michigan that I encountered, his sister as I recall. I think they moved to the Keewenaw Peninsula the last I heard.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Heavy splatter from local 550 KTSA. KLVI can be heard weakly and is intelligible if I use filters or a sync detector on my more sensitive radios.

Sunset: KLVI comes up stronger amidst the splatter with KWTO often underneath it. XESRD "La Tremenda" occasionally pops in and out.

Night: KTSA splatter is reduced and KVLI is most dominant. KWTO is still usually underneath, and I sometimes hear XEOC in Mexico City, which plays salsa music. Aiming NW I can usually hear KLZ in/out.

Sunrise: KLZ is much stronger, and XESRD can be heard in/out again after going to day power.

DX/Retro: I logged XEXZ in Zacatecas and XEGIK in Monclova before they were retired. I used to be able to hear XEGIK very weakly during the daytime with careful nulling/filtering.
 
In west Houston, it's KLVI 24/7. They're <100mi east of me. At night, nulling them occasionally yields a weak KWTO, and possibly something in SS but I've not ID'd anything else on this frequency.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Here in the Pittsburgh area it's WFRB from Frostburg, Maryland during daylight hours.
The transmitter sits atop a 3000 ft. mountain ridge and may actually be line of sight to my home.

At night just assorted slop under WKBN.
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I used to listen to WFRB quite a bit on my travels between Columbus and Gaithersburg, Maryland to see one of my best friends. Considering much of the middle of that trip is a radio wasteland, WFRB was a dependably strong listen. Used to listen either to Rush or potentially an Orioles game depending on my timing.
On the best rental car radio I ever had going to Maryland, I picked up WFRB as far west as between Zanesville and Cambridge, Ohio (I was extremely impressed because of the lousy ground conductivity). Think the farthest east I've ever heard it was around Hagerstown before it was covered up by adjacent signals, especially the 570 out of D.C.
 
When I lived around Houston, like others, it was all KLVI all the time regardless of whether I was at home in League City or at work a few miles west of the Galleria. At least at home, KLVI was solid 24/7 and I don't remember any nightttime cancellation. Never thought to check at night from other parts of the area.
 
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