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AM Frequency of the Week - 610 kHz

What do you all get on 610 AM?

In Vermilion, OH it is WTVN/Columbus, OH during the day with a moderate signal with CKTB/St. Catharines, ON behind it. At night it's usually a jumble of WTVN and WIP/Philly
 
Pickerington, Ohio
WTVN, of course, by day and a shaky signal at night roughly nine miles east-northeast of the six-tower array. My apartment is in a mild null, so it's very weak on a couple radios and comes in pretty well on my best radio. There is a very deep null less than a mile south of me.

I've personally heard WTVN as far northwest as Remington, Ind., as far north as Mount Pleasant, Mich. (at night), as far east as Washington, Pa. and as far south as Huntington, W.Va. All during the day except for Mount Pleasant.
When I traveled to extreme northeast Ohio last weekend, WTVN lasted until about Painesville, 30 or so miles northeast of downtown Cleveland, before CKTB made its presence known. At my final destination in Conneaut, CKTB was very listenable with no trace of WTVN.
 
From Tampa ...

Daytime - Only IBOC hiss from 620 WDAE.

Nighttime - A mess of weak stations, including WIOD which often dominates but not for very long periods of time where it often fades into the background with the others.

My dream catch is to get WIP but having tried for so long, I doubt it's possible with so many other stations on the frequency and many much closer.
 
In Monroe, WA it's usually nothing in the daytime, but sometimes I get a very weak KONA Pasco, WA.

At night I get usually a mix of KONA and KRTA in Medford, OR. Sometimes CKYL in Peace River, AB comes in with country, sometimes CHNL in Kamloops, BC, and once or twice I received KEAR in San Francisco, CA.

-crainbebo
 
Northern VA,

I get a weak 500W of WXVA Winchester, VA, with an adult hits/oldies format. Nights, it a fuzzy mess with Radio Rebelde and WTVN on top. WTVN sometimes have had the best signal here.
 
Houston - daytime and nighttime dominated by KILT 610. But in the mid 1970's I DX'ed the frequency from Lubbock, TX. Daytime with a Radio Shack 12-655 I was able to hear KILT, with what is now KNML Albuquerque in the background. Both were approximately on the same line so nulling one to hear the other wasn't really possible.
 
ddsparxx said:
Northern VA,

I get a weak 500W of WXVA Winchester, VA, with an adult hits/oldies format. Nights, it a fuzzy mess with Radio Rebelde and WTVN on top. WTVN sometimes have had the best signal here.

You must be in the one lobe they send southeast (just under the very deep Philadelphia-bound null), but I'm shocked. I've never heard WTVN in Logan or Athens, Ohio at night (45 and 75 miles southeast), let alone any farther out. Nice catch!
Cincinnati Kid: I remember during a trip to Cincinnati in December 1996 to visit a few college buddies, I was on 275 North around 75 and the only 610 that was coming in was Kansas City. WTVN was nowhere to be found. I've never heard a trace of it coming up 71 until you get to around Washington C.H., and even then it's not particularly strong until you're in Franklin County.
 
I needed to make a correction...I meant to say, "it a fuzzy mess with Radio Rebelde and Philly's KYW on top", But I did heard WTVN a couple of times. Looking at WTVN's nighttime pattern, I would think that be awesome to hear the Columbus station at night.
 
Here on the southwest coast of Florida, broadcasting from a location 113 miles distant from my house, it is WIOD out of the Miami area. They are licensed at 5000 watts but have an ongoing "temporary" dispensation from the FCC to instead use 10,000 watts, to overcome "interference" from station(s) in Cuba. Even on a portable radio using only the internal bar antenna, my Sangean 909, it is a very readable signal, showing one to two bars on the radio's rather rudimentary digital VU meter. Most notable about the signal is the exceptional audio, which is crisp and clear, having really great modulation and imperceptible levels of distortion. Not the slightest trace of any other station coming from any other direction is apparent on this frequency during the daylight hours. At night, this frequency is the essentially useless jumble of stations and noise one would expect on a non-local, non-clear channel frequency.

On a programming note; WIOD has evolved from what was once all very liberal programming and personalities, to become ideologically mixed, local and national political talk throughout the day, ranging from conservative to liberal, to now, pretty much mostly conservative talk, along with good traffic and news programming too.
 
In central Indiana, WTVN rules the roost during the day (very listenable in the car as well at 170 miles). When WTVN goes directional at sunset, it's GONE--even if there's nothing to replace it. Sometimes Russellville,KY is there at the instant that WTVN exits if no skip has developed yet. At night, it's a jumbled mess with Kansas City being the most likely one to float to the top. Still hoping that WIOD will make it through someday. 400' end fed inverted V with a Drake R8.
 
@ Gar FL ....

WIP has such a good signal in these parts, and is ~ sort of mildly directional, that you'll hear 'em one of these quiet-Aorora nights. I've heard KYW 1060 on a few occasions in FL, and the two stations do have quite similar patterns.

By 'mildly' directional, I mean of the two-tower kind. Every 2-stick pattern I ever saw did not have the really cleaved nulls.

@ BobOnTheJob : same two-tower signal generosity bodes well for WIOD. Check your classified for the next Aurora, hi.

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On the rare times WIP was off, 610 on Long Island was a pretty good DX place. WTVN often was there, though weak. Sometimes WIOD would bleed right through and over WIP (with Islanders hockey games!) ; no doubt some water path was taking hold. WDAF KC was there really loud once with their omni pattern. A weak WAYS 610 from Charlotte bled through one night when nothing else was on. And at SRS, WSLS Roanoke often would be there.
 
I remember sometimes passing by WIP's two towers in New Jersey which are right around the intersection of Rt. 42 and Interstate 295 a few miles south of where I grew up.

It made DXing on 610 impossible but I still remember the time I heard WIOD on top of WIP 50 miles northwest up in Bethlehem, Pa.

Had a better signal than it does most nights here in Tampa. :eek:
 
Boise

Day
KONA KPR WA and KVNA Logan UT about equal.
Used to be a listenable KONA until KVNU bumped up to 10 kw.

Night
KONA's been on top for some reason lately. Normally hard to hear.
KEAR SFO
KVNU Logan
CKYL Peace River occasionally
CHNL Kamloops occasionally

Used to hear CJAT Trail BC.
 
boiseengineer said:
Boise

Day
KONA KPR WA and KVNA Logan UT about equal.
Used to be a listenable KONA until KVNU bumped up to 10 kw.

Night
KONA's been on top for some reason lately. Normally hard to hear.
KEAR SFO
KVNU Logan
CKYL Peace River occasionally
CHNL Kamloops occasionally

Used to hear CJAT Trail BC.

Been trying for KVNU forever. Never have picked it up here.

-crainbebo
 
When I start hearing KBHB on 810 at 6AM again, once October/November comes, I'll try for KVNU.

-crainbebo
 
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