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AM Frequency of the Week: 560

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@ FM32 DXer ......

A long time ago, a group of us from Queens used spend Easter vacation getting a house near Kingston-on-the-Hudson spiffed up for summer use. Lotsa time to DX for a few of us disposed to spin dial.

During the day off the Stromberg-Carlson radio in the house, we'd get WFIL 'okay'. If weturned the radio antenna in back, in would come a much-weaker WHYN. 560 was a fairly dead spot.
Lo and behold; some entrepreneur noticed this vacuum and put on a 1000-watt daytimer, licensed to Catskill NY.
The company really didn't give a flying one about the actual Catskills -- they wanted the signal to colver Albany. The WCKL signal would've sat comfortably in Albany next to WROW 590.

Back in our usual teenaged stomping grounds of Queens, near JFK Airport , we never heard WCKL. Did you ever get them in Western Mass.? They left the air some years back.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
On the converse from some of you folks, I've never heard WIND, either here or back in Queens near JFK Airport.
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Not surprising. WIND doesn't send much signal to the east. The main lobe is northwest. Especially at night.

You mentioned WCKL in another post. Back in the '90s, I spebt a night in Saugerties, New York, which is on the Thruway between NYC and Albany. I want to say I was about 20-25 miles from WCKL, and within range of their night signal. Neither the signal, audio, nor the automation system serving up the music were very good!

Not long after my visit, they went dark.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
A long time ago, a group of us from Queens used spend Easter vacation getting a house near Kingston-on-the-Hudson spiffed up for summer use. Lotsa time to DX for a few of us disposed to spin dial.

During the day off the Stromberg-Carlson radio in the house, we'd get WFIL 'okay'. If weturned the radio antenna in back, in would come a much-weaker WHYN. 560 was a fairly dead spot.
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That's a great catch for WFIL.

And I thought I was lucky to hear WFIL in North Jersey.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Heavy splatter from local 550 KTSA. On my sensitive radios with good selectivity/selectable bandwidth filters, I can hear a weak KLVI.

Night: KTSA splatter is reduced, but bandwidth filtering is still needed. Aiming east, KLVI is fairly steady with only occasional fades. Aiming north/south, I can null it partially and sometimes hear a weak XEOC "Radio Chapultepec" in Mexico City and XESRD "La Tremenda" in Santiago Papasquiaro. Aiming northwest, I usually hear a weak to moderate KLZ in/out.

Sunrise: XEOC and especially XESRD come up stronger when they go to day power, and they cover KLVI for a while. KTSA wreaks more havoc on the frequency again once it goes to day pattern.

DX/Retro: I used to hear a weak XEGIK in Monclova mixing with KLVI during the day before it was retired. Also, I occasionally heard XEXZ "Lupe 93.3" in Zacatecas at night before its retirement.
 
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A little more to the 560 WQAM story. Because of the growth of the highrise buildings the WQAM signal was starting to suffer from being hemmed in. Both WKAT 1360 and WQAM 560 shared a tower on Virginia Key off the Florida coast until the land was reclaimed.

Now there are 3 stations sharing a tower on NE 71st Street in Miami. Some may remember that as the old WLTO site. Anyway now days it's home to 1450, 1360 and 560. One of the engineers in charge of the move said they were very surprised that 560 still performed better than all the rest even though the tower is not as tall as it should be to be efficient at 560.
 
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A little more to the 560 WQAM story. Because of the growth of the highrise buildings the WQAM signal was starting to suffer from being hemmed in. Both WKAT 1360 and WQAM 560 shared a tower on Virginia Key off the Florida coast until the land was reclaimed.

Now there are 3 stations sharing a tower on NE 71st Street in Miami. Some may remember that as the old WLTO site. Anyway now days it's home to 1450, 1360 and 560. One of the engineers in charge of the move said they were very surprised that 560 still performed better than all the rest even though the tower is not as tall as it should be to be efficient at 560.
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When I was in the Tampa Bay area a couple of months ago, WQAM was audible there. But noticeably weaker than when I used to visit on business trips in the 90s and 2000s. Now I know why. Thanks for posting.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
A little more to the 560 WQAM story. Because of the growth of the highrise buildings the WQAM signal was starting to suffer from being hemmed in. Both WKAT 1360 and WQAM 560 shared a tower on Virginia Key off the Florida coast until the land was reclaimed.
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Interesting about the WQAM signal, but it makes sense.
 
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