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AM Frequency of the Week: 640 (Re-start)

KFI was a regular nighttime catch especially in the winter in the Chicago area before they filled up 640 with more stations. (Just as they did the other clear channels)
Sometimes I could hear KFI on my car radio driving around the Midwest in the 80s.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WMFN since they moved to Peotone, IL. Prior to that WMFN Zeeland, MI and WBOW Terre Haute, IN were common
Nightime: Again these days WMFN Peotone rules the frequency but can be nulled.

DX/RETRO: In the good old days KFI used to make it on regular basis. Cuba (Radio Progreso) used to be common as well. WHLO, WOI, WWLS, WCRV, WGST also heard. Foreign catches include TGW Guatemala City and FR3 Arnouville, Guadeloupe
 
Back in the 60s when there was nothing else nearby on 640 during the day, WOI could be heard during the day in the Chicago area. Weak, but there.
 
DavidEduardo said:


It's also listenable most of the way to Blythe on the AZ border on the 10; only in the noisy Coachella Valley is it hard to listen to most places.
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I recall on a 1983 vacation drive from Los Angeles to Prescott, Arizona I had KFI all the way to the I-10/U.S. Hwy 60 split near Hope, Arizona. Signal died past that point. Not bad considering the terrain and presumed poor ground conductivity.

This was during KFI’s music days which I really enjoyed listening to at night in west Texas.
 
KFI used to verify reception reports .... not with a QSL card or a letterhead.... but with a tall postage-stamp depicting an orange grove. There were a lot of us back in the day who were both DXers and insomniacs.
Or whatever stamp collectors are called.
Flatulists?

The famed Brooklyn Dodger Edwin Donald 'Duke' Snider was from out that way, back in the orange-grove days.

* Philatelists
 
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in the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (LeSueur, MN)

daytime-WOI
nightime-faint WOI with some other garbage but usually WOI comes out on top
 
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