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AM Frequency of the Week: 610

cyberdad

cyberdad

So what comes out of the speaker (or headphones) when your radio is tuned to 610?

Here northwest of Chicago, it's splatter and IBOC hiss from WTMJ (620) daytime.

Night, WTMJ is much less of a factor than during daylight hours. KCSP from Kansas City is a reliable catch. Fair to good signal, and usually either alone or comfortably on top.

Several DXers in the Chicago area have reported at least occasional daytime reception of WTVN from Columbus, OH. I've never heard them at my location during the day. On rare occasions, I have heard them around sunrise and sunset.
 
At my location in the near north Chicago burbs I used to hear WTVN during the day on a good radio. Now with WTMJ's IBOC that's impossible. At night it's KCSP most of the time.
Many years ago I occasionally heard WIP Philadelphia at night. I know their call letters are different now and I have not heard the Philly station in a long time.
 
WTVN comes in both Day and Night here in SE Michigan. I also heard WIP on occasion. Also heard CKTB St. Catherines on occasion, probably mainly during nondirectional STAs.
 
Back in the 90's on my Chrysler minivan radio, WTVN used to play oldies in AM Stereo and sounded quite good- now it's just the usual iHeart news/talk blather. It does appear that they turned-off the iBoc noisemaker on 610 as did their two AM's in Toledo- I wonder if an edict came down from iHeart HQ to shut-off IBOC on all but their 50KW 1A stations?
 
radioman148 said:
Many years ago I occasionally heard WIP Philadelphia at night. I know their call letters are different now and I have not heard the Philly station in a long time.
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Same goes for me, but IIRC, the last time I heard WIP was one night on a bedroom GE tabletop clock radio when I was still a freshman or sophomore at Wauconda High School.
 
In North Georgia is is WPLO (Not the REAL WPLO) days. WIOD dominates at night. Have heard WTVN from time to time here
 
"The flagship home for your Houston Texans, Sports Radio 610" KILT Houston. The 4 towers are around 5 miles north of me, so I get an exceptional signal from the old girl.
 
Here around Columbus, Ohio, it's local WTVN day and night. 5,000 watts omnidirectional by day, quite directional to the north with deep nulls especially to the east toward Philly and west-southwest toward Kansas City at night. I am less than 10 miles east-northeast of the tower as the crow flies, and it's quite a bit weaker here at night than during the day.
When I went to college in Toledo, WTVN often came in better at night than during the day. There is some cancellation up that way, but I remember listening to the Reds many nights on WTVN instead of WLW, of which Toledo falls in the cancellation zone.
Toledo also is the only place I've ever heard WIP. This was maybe in 1999 one summer night before WTVN's pattern change. It was faint but it could be heard when there was silence on WTVN. Once WTVN goes directional, at least back then, it sounded like a balloon was filling with air. You actually heard the signal getting stronger.
I have heard it as far northwest as Remington, Indiana on the way to Chicago, but really never tried any farther up 65 from there.
As far as Houston, I lived in the main lobe for KILT, right down I-45 in the Bay Area. Great signal to the south, marginal at best in some other directions, especially north. I remember one time driving on the ramp from the Sam Houston Tollway getting onto southbound I-45 and hearing the 610 signal phasing maybe two miles north of its towers.
 
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Daytime - WDAE IBOC hiss

Nighttime - Mostly WIOD slowly fading in and out and also Cuba. Sometimes, I can also get WAGG from Birmingham.

I've tried hard to see if WIP would ever drift in but no luck yet.

One of my most interesting AM catches was on 610 when I was in college in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in early 1981.

I had just gotten back from spending the long winter break out in California with my brother and one night I was wondering if there was a slim chance I could hear KFRC since it was easy to null WIP which was around 50 miles away.

Never heard KFRC, of course, but for a short time I had a nice unexpected signal from WIOD and what made it strange was that I had my receiver (my Zenith Allegro stereo system) in the position where WIP was most nulled out, which was pretty much the same direction what should have nulled out WIOD too.
 
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When I lived in Dayton, it was a strong WTVN daytime and no WTVN from sunset-sunrise, though Kansas City and Roanoke would often make it in. I could still get WTVN near Lafayette, IN and with some interference near Lake Erie. Here in East TN, splatter from WRJZ on 620 is an issue, but I have recieved WTVN near winter sunsets.
 
When I lived in Lubbock, TX, 610 was interesting in the daytime. Primary station on the frequency was (what is now KMNL) Albuquerque. But if you nulled it, you could get a listenable signal from KILT-610 in Houston - back when it was one of the top-40 greats.
 
Daytime in S.A. it's XEBX "La Primera" from Sabinas (southwest) with a signal that varies from weak to moderate. Aiming dead east I can just barely hear KILT underneath.

Shortly before sunset and into the night, KILT becomes a lot stronger. Both it and XEBX can be heard somewhat steadily, depending upon antenna orientation, although the latter is the most dominant and will sometimes take over completely. Also, KCSP will occasionally pop in for brief spells.

Prior to sunsrise, XEGS in Guasave usually comes in pretty strong and can sometimes overtake XEBX.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
WTVN comes in both Day and Night here in SE Michigan. I also heard WIP on occasion. Also heard CKTB St. Catherines on occasion, probably mainly during nondirectional STAs.
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I have heard CKTB on visits to Conneaut, Ohio before. WTVN's signal gives out right around Painesville going northeast on 90, and by the time you hit the Ashtabula/Conneaut area CKTB is very listenable. Don't remember hearing it at night, however, not that I have had many chances to DX up there.
 
610 here daytime is WIOD Miami with a very good signal for how far away it is (about 500 miles). It gets splatter from 600 in Jacksonville, but anywhere within 10 miles of the ocean it is audible.

At night it is a bunch of blabber. I've heard Charlotte a couple times, but nothing ever stands out on that channel at night.

When I was in Athens, OH a couple years ago WTVN was one of the strongest daytime signals.
 
That sounds like a great place to be for AM reception in the daytime, charlestondxman.

Can you get WQAM 560 during the day at all or does WVOC or WGAI interfere too much?

And getting back to 610, I'm surprised WIOD doesn't dominate there most of the time at night. I wonder if one of the stations in the mix you hear at night could be WIP.
 
From the "Palm Springs of WA", Yakima...

Days - KONA Pasco, WA (semi-local)
Nights - KONA, nulling it out I can usually hear KRTA Medford OR (Spanish) or KEAR San Francisco CA (Family Radio). Rarely, CHNL Kamloops BC (News/Talk) and CKYL Peace River AB (Country) are in the mix.

Wanted stations - KOJM Havre MT, KVNU Logan UT and KCSR Chadron NE. All 3 are needed here, but Pasco would need to fade down for those to show up.
 
Speaking of 610, when I was Kansas City in 1999, they had an excellent country station- WDAF (in stereo) on 610KHz with a "W" callsign to boot, but about 2001-2003? flipped it to sports, lost their heritage "W" callsign on 610AM and was assigned the proper "K" callsign for the new sports station. It was a shame, as it was a real top-notch operation, a WSM of the plains states. I think they moved the heritage call to the FM at least. Anybody in KC that can say what's up now with 610? Is it just an 'as-ran' sports station now?
 
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That sounds like a great place to be for AM reception in the daytime, charlestondxman.

Can you get WQAM 560 during the day at all or does WVOC or WGAI interfere too much?

And getting back to 610, I'm surprised WIOD doesn't dominate there most of the time at night. I wonder if one of the stations in the mix you hear at night could be WIP.
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Here we get WQAM mixed with WVOC. I also get 940 from Miami close to the water, but there's a semi-local on 950 that bothers it. I don't try that frequency enough at night. I'd probably get WTEL (WIP) sometimes. Nothing stands out at night.
 
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