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AM Frequency of The Week: 630

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crainbebo

What do you guys get on 630 kHz?

In Bothell, WA it's usually KCIS Edmonds, WA (Religious, local) at about 6mi away, can't completely null them, too strong.
Rarely, when KCIS has lower power at night (only happened a couple times) I can get KFXD Boise, ID.

In Wapato, WA (near Yakima) I've gotten KFXD, KCIS, CHED Edmonton, AB and KTRW Spokane, WA.


-crainbebo

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2011!
 
630 k.c. in this area means WLAP in Lexington, Ky. at least during daylight hours. That station has come in well here during daylight for many years and the signal continues well even if you drive north from here.
 
From SW Lexington KY:

Daytime:
WLAP-A Local Signal


Night Time DX:
WLAP-Strong at night but can be nulled out
WMAL-Washington, DC (in WLAP null)
WBMQ-Savannah, GA (when WLAP was off the air)
KXOK (now KJSL)-St Louis, MO (when WLAP was off the air)
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago....

Day: Used to be a very faint KJSL (KXOK) before WTMJ turned on the noisemaker

Night: KJSL, WLAP, and CFCO....Any or all of 'em. CKRC (Winnipeg) used to show up once in a while before it went silent, and I also snagged KHOW a couple of times.
 
In the LA area:

Day: nothing/interference from local 640 KFI
Night: huge mess/interference
 
From Tampa.

Daytime - Only IBOC hiss from 620 WDAE.

Nighttime - Kind of a mess with nothing really standing out audible enough to listen to except for sometimes a Spanish station when the radio faces ESE and another Spanish station when the radio faces South.

Then sometimes a weak religious station when the radio faces NNW, and a weak talk station when the radio faces NE, neither of which I've been able to ID because of the stronger Spanish stations.
 
Daytime here in Rochester NY, it's CFCO Chatham ON, one of my most distant daytime regulars. CJET Smiths Falls ON used to be heard here during the day as well, but it's gone to FM now.

Nights, it's a mix of CFCO and WMAL from Washington, with WPRO from Providence poking in at times, too.
 
day: weak IBLOCK from 640 KFI
night: I have regularly heard KHOW Denver, CO, in the past, and I think I've also heard KIDD Monterey, CA, a few times, but I haven't checked the freq recently.
 
From Berkeley, CA

Daytime: 630 KIDD from Monterey, CA (weak signal).

Nighttime: Static/interference with 630 KPLY from Reno, NV coming in sometimes.
 
As noted elsewhere, CFCO uses the five towers that used to be a day four tower parallelogram and night three tower dogleg with 10/1 U4 (DA-2) to be 10/6 U4 (DA-2). When what used to be KDWB went to Class D status, CFCO no longer had to protect it at night, and the CFCO pattern was changed. The Twin Cities 630 is now a Class B again, but I'm sure what is now WREY by a circuitous series of call letter changes has a higher NIF than it used to. The CFCO maximum is now near that direction.
 
Thornville, Ohio
Day: WLAP with considerable hash from WTVN's IBOC. Towers are about 30 miles west. I've never heard CFCO here.
Night: Nothing really.
 
In Durham, North Carolina, 630 kHz is usually heavy interference from first-adjacent WDNC (620 kHz, 5kw directional day/1 kw directional night), but, if you hear anything there, it's WMAL/Washington, day or night.
 
Wow, WMAL could be heard in north central NC on Days...correct me if I'm wrong. I could hear WTPF here in northern VA underneath Baltimore's WCBM on days.
 
In NE North Carolina WMAL mostly all day and dominant signal at night. Never hear WPRO. Used to be CE at Savannah 630 WKBX - now WBMQ. Never heard them up here.
 
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