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AM Frequency of the Week - 650 kHz

When I was "out west" last month, I was really impressed with KGAB's signal. Almost like a local in the Denver area.
 
KGAB has only been heard here once in five years of DXing. It's an ultra-rare station to get in WA. WSM probably could have been heard here 40 years ago, but if C&W fades in on 650, 99.9% of the time it's KMTI in Utah.

-crainbebo
 
Crain,

If you ever suspect that your .1% is happening, WSM streams online and plays a lot of classic country. Grand Ole Opry is unmistakable when listening through AM signals.
 
Here in Orange Beach, AL this week, I've been getting a reasonably good signal from WSM, but with Spanish underneath.
 
Lawppy said:
Crain,

If you ever suspect that your .1% is happening, WSM streams online and plays a lot of classic country. Grand Ole Opry is unmistakable when listening through AM signals.
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And with winter coming on, The Opry will air at/after sunset in WA...not so during summer.
 
Seem to remember when 650 in Richmond/Vancouver first came on they were 50 kw daytime.
Going east I could hear them almost to Pendleton daytime in the summer.
Now they are just there under all the others (KSTE KMTI KGAB).
 
boiseengineer, do you ever get WSM? If KMTI just flipped to a format like N/T or Sports, then it would be easier to ID country and western on 650...

-crainbebo
 
boiseengineer said:
WSM still shows up several times a year.
Dug up a tape of their sign-on from the early 70s as heard in Boise. Clear and all alone.
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I picked it up in Spokane once, as I said before. Not a BOOMING signal, very weak, but there was no real co-channel interference and I was able to clearly ID it.....
 
Springfield, IL:

First, nighttime: WSM obviously (but I have heard some Spanish--possibly Cuba--punching in on occasion).

Daytime: Mostly nothing but a very faint WSM on a car radio (mainly before sunset).
 
South King County, Washington:

At night, KSTE, with CISL behind it. I've also logged CKOM, Saskatoon, probably heard it a few times before I finally IDed it.

Rare loggings include KORL, Honolulu (once in the late 1970's), WSM (ditto, except more than once), and KYAK, Anchorage (once in the 1980's).

Usually there's plenty of splatter from 660.
 
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