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AM Frequency of the Week: 600

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MarioMania

Carmichael, CA

Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime KOGO (Weak) San Diego, CA

Vallejo, CA

Daytime: Splatter from 610 KEAR San Francisco, CA
Nighttime KOGO (Weak) San Diego, CA
 
Tyler, TX:

600 KTBB "97.5 FM and 600 AM KTBB" which is our news, traffic, weather, and home of the John Tyler Lions radio station.

Depend on it.

Blowtorch here. Even bleeds a little onto 610 and 590, but given my location it should be. Signal has certainly degraded over the years, and it never was as good as others that occupied low dial positions like this one, due to the shitty soil conductivity of this sandy clay we East Texans walk on. Great for growing pine trees and roses; not so much for a radio station.
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, absolutely nothing daytime next to local powerhouse 610 WTVN from about 10 miles west of me.
At night when they switch pattern and shoot most of their signal north, becoming "Radio Free Canada," the channel opens up enough to hear a few things faintly. I caught WMT from Cedar Rapids about this time last year if memory serves (as in I know what I caught but don't remember the exact date). It is the only time I've ever heard that one.
I caught Memphis' WREC several times when I lived in Houston. It all depended on where I was in the area given how directional KILT is on 610. I would catch WREC at the Campbell Center, only a few miles directly east of KILT's towers, and sometimes at my home in League City despite being right in front of KILT's pattern.
 
DFW, Texas

Daytime: Fair steady signal from KTBB Tyler, TX.

Nighttime: Aiming E/W KTBB with a steady signal. Depending on conditions, R. Rebelde can be heard under or mixing with KTBB. Aiming N/S, WMT Cedar Rapids, IA is the dominant station, with WREC Memphis sometimes sneaking in. I've also heard KSJB Jamestown, ND with classic county a few times. WBOB Jacksonville, FL was logged during their 2022 DX test.
 
Traditionally, the start of the AM dial has always been noisy in the day; thus, 600 and others like it are pure nighttime DXing here in NE PA.
On a table radio Zenith during my first nights as a Skook, WCAO Baltimore was there, fuzzy and faint and directional and religious for quite a while now. With that SOUTHEAST signal they once finished in the Top Ten 12+ ratings in Salisbury-Ocean City MD, 85 miles away across Chesapeake Bay!
Three months' later one night, a steady WICC from Bridgeport CT was there all alone*.
CMKA (?) R. Rebelde was another catch one eve,Jan '94.
The WBOB DX test showed up on 5-14-'22. I studied for that one; piece of cake. GE SR 2.
Same radio, barefoot, Jan '23, for an early pre-SRS half-hour of Country from C-KAT from Ontario; good tape IDs.

* In their Top 40 days, WCAO was heard ONCE in Queens; a real female canine what with WICC being so close to 'home'.

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WICC's meager 1000 watts got OUT! With that Long Island Sound water-path and that reproachless dial spot they were darn-near a local on transistors, car radios and the shabbiest of clock radios by us. Feel free to drag that purple coverage contour down on that map to drape over the 'r' in the word 'New York'
 
East Tennessee (Knoxville/Sevierville): Days-A weak WCVP, Murphy NC. Sunset-WKYH, Paintsville KY, WSJS, Winston-Salem NC or WBOB, Jacksonville FL.
Night-WREC, Memphis, WSJS, Winston-Salem or when it runs late, WBOB. WBOB ran a DX test awhile back and it was widely heard.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area-WKYH was a daily critical hours catch, next to WTVN. Lafayette, IN-the last breath of WMT, Cedar Rapids, IA.

WMT is the most distant daytime regular on the Edinburgh, IN SDR.
In the 80s, Cuba relayed Radio Moscow in English after 3pm daily on 600.
 
Denver, CO -
Day and night - 600 KCOL Wellington-Fort Collins, CO. Steady, moderate strength, with, oddly, less interference at night than during the daytime. Another iHeart cookie-cutter syndicated talk station. Generally, you can hear the same programs at the same time on 590 KCSJ from Pueblo. They might as well create a mini-network.

Historically - Rarely has this been a good DX frequency for me, since I've lived in so many places with full-time stations on 610: San Francisco, Houston, Kansas City, Albuquerque...and I grew up in part in Iowa, where WMT from Cedar Rapids dominates much of the state. I did get KTBB from Tyler, TX once in 1984 in central Missouri near sunset at my location.
 
Near north Chicago suburbs, days WMT decent, nights WMT weaker but there, nights I’ve heard Memphis and Columbus mostly in addition to WMT
 
West side of Houston TX. Despite the presence of local KILT 610, I've had some success on 600.

Daytime, slop from KILT
Sunset, KTBB Tyler TX and WREC Memphis are usually in there. I've also heard WMT Cedar Rapids IA, Radio Rebelde from Cuba, and KROD, sports from El Paso.
Nights, KTBB, WREC, and Rebelde are most commonly heard. I also heard WBOB Jacksonville FL on a DX Test in May 2022 and once, WVOG "Gospel 600" from New Orleans near midnight (probably day power).
Sunrise it's WREC and KTBB mixing it up, with WMT and WVOG there at times.
 
boiseengineer said:
Boise Idaho
Day nothing.
Night not much. CKSP, KCOL, KSJB all weak.
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This reminded me! A couple of months ago one evening in Denver, KSJB was stomping all over KCOL. I don't know what was different, but it was certainly strong. When I listened this weekend, only KCOL was present.
 
Mark Roberts said:
This reminded me! A couple of months ago one evening in Denver, KSJB was stomping all over KCOL. I don't know what was different, but it was certainly strong. When I listened this weekend, only KCOL was present.
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I can recall any number of winter mornings in Cleveland, OH, in the earliest 60's when the sun was up where I was but it was dark half-way to the Dakotas and I'd hear KSJB absolutely booming in.

I recall the first time I ever heard "Teen Angel" was on such an occasion. I stuck around to see if the station would say what that song was, and it turned out to be one of my more rare South Dakota catches.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WMT, Cedar Rapids, IA
Nighttime: fairly open frequency with WMT and CKAT being common catches

DX/RETRO: In 1980's Cuba ruled this frequency at night with their blowtorch (WRTH claimed it was 150 kW) carrying Radio Moscow World Service as well as Radio Rebelde. I remember driving on Lake Shore Drive with Radio Moscow blasting on 600 kHz on my car radio. These days the Radio Rebelde outlet is listed as 50 kW and is still frequent log at night. Other catches include KSJB (Jamestown, ND), WREC (Memphis, TN), WCHT (Escanaba, MI), WICC (Bridgeport, CT), WCAO (Baltimore, MD, WKLW (Paintsville, KY), WSJS (Winston, NC), and WBOB (Jacksonville, FL with full power during a hurricane in 2017). Barranquilla, Colombia also heard on this frequency in the past. Latest new log on this frequency is WCVP Murphy, North Carolina in 2022.
 
DavidEduardo said:
I can recall any number of winter mornings in Cleveland, OH, in the earliest 60's when the sun was up where I was but it was dark half-way to the Dakotas and I'd hear KSJB absolutely booming in.

I recall the first time I ever heard "Teen Angel" was on such an occasion. I stuck around to see if the station would say what that song was, and it turned out to be one of my more rare South Dakota catches.
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Um, KSJB is licensed to Jamestown, which is in North Dakota. Nobody in my home state wants it to be confused in any way, shape or form with our "neighbor" to the South.
 
Clifton, New Jersey

Days: I get a weak signal of WICC "WICC 600 AM and 95.9 FM" Bridgeport, CT. It is a News/Talk station that recently added an FM simulcast (95.9 WFOX Southport, CT).

Nights: It's either WICC Bridgeport, CT, CKAT North Bay, ON, or Radio Rebelde from Cuba depending on propagation. On 09/04/2021, I received WBOB Jacksonville, FL during its DX test.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Blank

Sunset: WREC in Memphis, WMT in Cedar Rapids, and KTBB in Tyler, TX, start coming up, with WREC most often the dominant one.

Night: It's WREC usually dominating, with WMT sometimes taking over. KTBB is rarely heard at night these days. However, if I aim NW/SE, KROD "ESPN Radio" has a fairly good signal and the other stations are nulled. Occasionally Radio Rebelde in Cuba will mix in weakly at that direction.

Sunrise: Similar to nighttime but with KTBB coming to the fore at times when it goes to day power/pattern. A weak KSJB in Jamestown, ND, sometimes comes up when it goes to day power, as does XEHW "La Mejor" in El Rosario.

DX/Retro: XEMN "Acustik Radio" in Monterrey used to be a regular nighttime vistor, but I haven't heard it in at least a couple of years. XELAZ (another "La Mejor") was occasionally heard at sunrise before the station was retired.

As I noted in the "Post your latest DX" thread today, I logged "La Nueva Radio Ya" in Managua, Nicaragua, for the first time ever early this past Friday morning.
 
Cool idea!

On top of 2,700 foot mountain outside of Mathias, WV listening with SDR Play Duo, SDR Console, and W6LVP loop. Also have an AirSpy HF+ Discovery, but the Duo can record the entire MW band. Recording the entire band on the hour makes station ID like shooting fish in a barrel (tho, still not always a sure thing, of course :) ).

Listened to 600 KHz last night and this morning. Logged CKAT (North Bay - Toronto hockey game and country) and WCAO (Baltimore - religious). There may be something else swimming around in there - will have to listen to the recordings again.
 
Here in Austin, KTBB Tyler TX occasionally, but always very weak, hard to hear.
The other night, captured WREC Memphis for the first time. That was a treat. Given its nighttime signal, not such a surprise, but hadn't heard it here before.
Will be on lookout for KSJB in Jamestown, ND.

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The other night here in central TX, scanning the dial on my Grundig Yachtboy had these stations all airing the same nationally syndicated non-political talk show:
-560 Beaumont
-570 Dallas
-580 Topeka KS
-590 Austin
-600 Tyler

It was the first time IIRC that I got all those stations simultaneously.
Usually, 600's the weakest, followed by 580 and 560.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

WMT Cedar Rapids is an easy catch days and sometimes nights, but then it has company:

CFCF Montreal (R.I.P. North America's first station, dating to 1919, when the Canadian Marconi Co. established it); WREC / WEEC Memphis, Tenn.; CMKV San German, Cuba (150 kW, it is said); CKAT North Bay, Ont., 5 kW, way up there in Canada; and WBOB Jacksonville, Fla., with 50 kW during a 9/4/2021 DX test.
 
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