AM Frequency of the Week - 660 kHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What can you all get on 660 kHz?

For me in Vermilion, OH it is a rather weak/scratchy daytimer WMIC/Sandusky, MI with country music and some talk programs such as Rush Limbaugh from 2 - 5pm. Critical hours and at night is WFAN/New York. Sometimes daytime winter skywave will cause WFAN to come in overtop of WMIC.

 

[ftballfan]

Nothing during the day and WFAN at night.

 

[radioman148]

Near north Chicago suburbs WSCR splatter during the day. At night WFAN combined with some WSCR splatter.

 

[ddsparxx]

In northern VA, I get a very weak WFAN during the day, and WFAN as usual at nights.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

660 has been fairly good to me here in NE PA.
On 12-3-96 there was some sort of winter daytime skip aloft, and WESC's C&W from South Carolina was coming in -- no sign of the usual day/night WFAN.
(WCBS 880 also was getting Charles-Bronson'ed around by WRFD in Ohio that session).

And on 12-10-11, off the portable GE SR II, some modern form of urban racket was chewing up Mike Francesa's WFAN show with the sun still pretty high. I guess it was another daytime winter-skip reception -- 'WAMO 100' from Pittsburgh.
(WAMO, formerly 860 in the Steel City, now are the letters of a small FM station on 100.1 in PGH. Evidently that FM is the frequency they want for imaging, rather than the AM daytimer)

There's always the Cuban station during the nights, of course. When they are loud, they also have their counterpart on 880 disrupting WCBS. WCBS and WFAN broadcast from the same tower off the Bronx shore.

 

[tomservo]

In the Mobile, AL metro it's Fairhope-licensed local WXQW day and night, with black gospel music. It's our area's most powerful AM with 10 kW day but it's just a repeater for in-town AM 900 WGOK. Waste of a good signal!

 

[crainbebo]

In Monroe, WA it's KAPS Mount Vernon, WA during the day, and mainly CFFR Calgary, AB at night. KXOR Junction City, OR has been beating them up however lately. I've also logged KTNN Window Rock, AZ, that can be picked up a couple times a year. No New York...yet.

-crainbebo

 

[gar hi]

From Tampa...

Daytime - Very weak WORL Orlando

Nighttime - The Cuban station, WORL, and WFAN.

Most of the time, the Cuban is dominating at night but sometimes WFAN or WORL is on top.


Back when I first came down here in '84, it was WNNNNBC! after sunset. I could hear the stereo broadcast on my Sony AM Stereo Walkman.

Most nights then in the winter of 84/85, I could easily listen to Howard Stern after dusk.

 

[DaveArnold]

All WFAN just north of Charlotte,NC.Greenville,SC in the daytime.

 

[icybluelake]

In eastern Iowa, it's always WFAN in my experience, if anything at all. WSCR splatter can happen, too, even during the day I think.

I've always wished I could pull in KTNN sometime, but have never given much likelihood to that wish.

 

[gar hi]

All WFAN just north of Charlotte,NC.Greenville,SC in the daytime.

That's a big surprise.

What about the local 50 kw WLFJ ? ???

 

[KyleSmith1988]

From Gaffney SC -

Daytime - WLFJ-AM (does pretty well from 50 miles away)
Nighttime - WFAN-AM (pretty well most of the time)

 

[BMR]

Radio Wales on 657 is my closest. On 666 after dark I can sometimes pick up spain.

 

[DaveArnold]

Yes LFJ is good in the daytime.WFAN is in after sunset and quite good late night,all-night on a CC2 north of Charlotte,NC.

 

[schmave]

Here in Columbus, Ohio, it's a weak but decent WXIC from Waverly daytime and all WFAN at night. WFAN isn't one of those stations that starts coming well before sunset, but it's dependable every night.

 

[RyanHoward]

Here in Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs), it's always WFAN.

 

[N4GBK]

From NE NC. Nights is all 660 WFAN. Daytime in the winter is also WFAN even at noon. When conditions are not so good, nothing on 660 in the day. I have heard something else in there around sunset but have not been able to get an ID. It is probably the 50 kW from SC with gospel programming.

 

[cyberdad]

Near north Chicago suburbs WSCR splatter during the day. At night WFAN combined with some WSCR splatter.

Same here in the far northwest suburbs (of Chicago).

 

[LKidd]

From McPherson, KS a weak but consistent KCRO Omaha during the day. During the winter months KTNN is often picked up right before our sunset and until they go to night pattern. I have been able to catch them a time or two in the early mornings. I've never been able to pick up 660 from New York, with WMAQ/WSCR and WSM usually dominating on either side.

 

[cyberdad]

IME, WFAN gets problematic once you get west of the Mississippi River. Still do-able for a while, but becoming problematic. WABC "holds out" a little longer, as does WCBS until it starts running into KRVN and CKLQ.