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AM Frequency of the Week - 660 kHz

Here in DFW we have of course KSKY on 660....20KW day, 700 watts night and their 3 curious "translators" at 92.9 Dallas, 95.5 Arlington and 99.9 in Ft. Worth.

The 3 "translators" were granted because KSKY claimed foreign interference on the 660 signal. Last time I looked the 3 were not in the translator database.

Props to Salem's engineering department for pulling that one off!

K-SKY (now The Answer). What a great set of call-letters, around since 1941.
 
317C50KW said:
The 3 "translators" were granted because KSKY claimed foreign interference on the 660 signal. Last time I looked the 3 were not in the translator database.
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Actually they're deemed "emergency repeaters" and the only way to locate the technical info on them is by sorting through KSKY applications from a few years back.

317C50KW said:
Props to Salem's engineering department for pulling that one off!
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Since they're still around I guess you could say the "emergency" still exists. BTW, the 92.9 in Dallas is "better than a translator," since they're running 800 watts!
 
Memphis:

Days nothing

Nights usually something in Spanish I've never identified. I've caught KTNN a few times. I've picked up WFAN no more than 3 times ever from here.
 
Days-- only splatter from WSCR. Nights-- almost alwas WFAN, but under unusual conditions I did pick up WBHR once and I've also heard KEYZ a couple of times, but that is a very rare occurrence.
 
From Houston - daytime KSKY. Nighttime a mixture of stuff.
 
Even though WFAN would be impossible to get on the west coast now with all the other stations sharing the same frequency, has anyone here ever heard WNBC back when 660 was actually a clear channel?

Though I've heard a weak WCBS in northern California in the 70s, I was never able to get WNBC on 660 and the frequency was empty too.

The most I ever heard was fluttering noise but nothing aubible to identify. And I listened a lot too.
 
gar fla said:
Even though WFAN would be impossible to get on the west coast now with all the other stations sharing the same frequency, has anyone here ever heard WNBC back when 660 was actually a clear channel?

Though I've heard a weak WCBS in northern California in the 70s, I was never able to get WNBC on 660 and the frequency was empty too.

The most I ever heard was fluttering noise but nothing aubible to identify. And I listened a lot too.
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In the early & mid 60s when the channels were REALLY clear, I heard WNBC, WABC, WCBS, WCAU, WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, & the four Chicago clears many, many times on the west coast.
 
Here near Jacksonville, FL 660 gets some slop from the 50 KW 690 blow torch known as WOKV during the day and Spanish most of the time nights. WFAN is rare these days. Better if right on the Atlantic coast.
 
The four Chicago clears (WSCR, WGN, WBBM, WLS) have been heard here in Washington. Plus a bonus (WYLL 1160 u/ KSL). I get WBBM very often in the winter, sometimes way over KKOH when conditions are superb to the East.

-crainbebo
 
gar fla said:
Wow. I wish I was older and could have experienced that kind of thing.
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I heard WCBS in Southern California as late as the early 80s when KRVN signed off at midnight CST.
In the 70s & up to the mid 80s I could hear WLS pretty well at times out there. WLS used to have the best signal of all the stations in the eastern half of the US out west. You could hear it easily on a car radio.
 
I can confirm that too from northern California.

The last time I heard WCBS there was winter of 80/81 after KRVN went off and also WCAU when the station on 1210 half way across the country (forget where) signed off.

And I remember hearing an easily listenable signal of WLS after sunset on my portable radio as late as early '83 which was also from Palo Alto.

Last time I did nighttime DXing out there was from Santa Cruz in 2011 and it was sad how all those frequencies where you could once hear stations from the midwest and northeast have much closer stations on them now.
 
In all the clutter on 660 last night, I heard somebody playing KC and the Sunshine Band "that's the way I like it". It was not a musical bed, it was the complete song. And yet I don't see an oldies / classic hits 660 anywhere on Radio Locator. Anybody have any idea what station might have flipped?
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
In all the clutter on 660 last night, I heard somebody playing KC and the Sunshine Band "that's the way I like it". It was not a musical bed, it was the complete song. And yet I don't see an oldies / classic hits 660 anywhere on Radio Locator. Anybody have any idea what station might have flipped?
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The Cuban stations often play that kind of music. Probably them.
 
In Vallejo

Day: Slop from KSTE Sacramento Valley

Night: KTNN Window Rock, AZ

Last night right before 2 AM, I got Spanish & News for a second, I couldn't tell, But something about NBC Radio or News...What station runs NBC News
 
MarioMania said:
In Vallejo

Day: Slop from KSTE Sacramento Valley

Night: KTNN Window Rock, AZ

Last night right before 2 AM, I got Spanish & News for a second, I couldn't tell, But something about NBC Radio or News...What station runs NBC News
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Some stations run NBC news updates at the top of each hour. WLEC 1450/Sandusky, OH for example does that. Although WLEC has a standards/gold-based AC format there are stations of other formats that have the NBC news radio top of hour updates. Were you getting the Spanish station and the NBC news station in KTNN's null?
 
I heard the Spanish in the null of KTNN..like booming in

The NBC Radio thing, I heard it forlike 10 seconds, To weak to get a ID..It faded out - couldn't hear it anymore

Just wondering does WFAN go by the Fan or FAN spell the letter, I don't know if my ears playing tricks on me or not..I heard fainty FAN
 
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