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AM Frequency of the Week:660

cyberdad

cyberdad

Far northwest suburban Chicago....

Day/Night: Not a lot to report from my home location. All splatter/all the time from WSCR (670) and their iboc noisemaker. If they turn the noise machine off during the pre-dawn hours, I can sometimes hear WFAN with WSCR nulled. KTNN and CFFR are two other gorillas on the channel. I've heard them in multiple locations west of the Mississippi, but never hear at home.

Other location: When we're on the beach near Pensacola, WXQW (Fairhope, Alabama) provides an example of what terrible ground conductivity does. 10kw non-directional daytime from 30 miles away, and a fair signal at best. (At night WFAN is usually there, but mixing with....if not underneath....Cuba. WXQW drops to 850 watts, goes directional into Mobile Bay and the Gulf and disappears.)
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs daytime & at night is all WSCR splatter. When WSCR turns off their noisemaker at night WFAN comes in.

Retro/other: Many years ago when WFAN was WNBC, the station came in regularly at my home location. In the early 1960's when we still had clear channel stations
WNBC could be heard on the west coast during the nighttime.
 
In S.E. AZ, it's KTNN in Window Rock, AZ, "The Voice of the Navajo Nation." Someone I know in Hawaii regularly hears them, even on simple home-made receivers.
 
Day - If anything, a very weak KXOR Junction City OR (Spanish Christian), only audible on the big 3 foot loop outside of the apartments. CFFR Calgary (All-News) shows up in the dead of winter sometimes. Sunset usually brings KAPS Mount Vernon WA (Country), which used to be the daytime regular in Bothell. Quite strong, actually.

Night - CFFR and KTNN Window Rock AZ (Country/Najavo) mixing all night. Sometimes KXOR if they left day stick on. KGSV Oildale CA (Radio Punjab) quite rare, only during aurora.

Wanted on 660
WFAN New York (of course! But unlikely I'll ever hear it with the west coast interference.)
KEYZ Williston ND (News/Talk. Not often heard in the lower 48 due to the main lobe going northeast towards Canada. But maybe I'll hear them at sunrise when they go on day pattern, if I can listen carefully under CFFR.)
 
In west Houston, daytime is KSKY "the Answer" talk radio in Balch Springs Texas (DFW). At night it's a mess with KSKY mixing with Cuba and others in Spanish. I have heard KTNN here, but never WFAN.

Retro early 1970's from Tulsa, the Dallas station (religious then) was alone in the daytime. At night the dominant station was XERPM in Mexico City with a top 40 format as Radio Juventud. I did hear the then-WNBC on early Monday mornings.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime: Nada.
Night: Mostly WFAN and maybe a Cuban or 2.

Retro/other: I'll just talk about WXIC, the 1000 watt Gospel powerhouse in Waverly, Ohio. It comes in decently in Dayton, still can be received in Fort Wayne, and I've even heard it in Lafayette IN;
 
It's WFAN in the daytime here, plus at night. The day signal is weak, but steady, more often than not the same listenability as WCBS 880. The other 50 K's from NYC -- WBBR, WABC and even WFME 1560 are generally better in the midday. You folks in the West who have difficulty getting WFAN (and I'm guessing WCBS as well) might note that both those stations operate from the same tower. The shared stick is, essentially, north and east of the 5 boroughs' population bulk. WABC, WBBR and WOR are northWEST of the same potential audience, on the west side of the Hudson River. With WFAN's reciprocal water-path signal on Long Island Sound it's no great surprise to've seen them show up in like a dozen different ratings books over the years. I once saw 'The Fan' make the Cape Cod book in Massachusetts. And they'd regularly rout then-sports WPOP Hartford -- in the Hartford ratings!

I do have two winter-time catches taped here, in the new NE PA log. One was a daytime nab, maybe 3PM : WESC from South Carolina. Must've been that darned daytime-skywave nuisance :). There was no sign at all of WFAN.
The second was nearer sunset. Some modern-rock / rap station was giving WFAN fits. They IDed as 'WAMO 100' and are out of Pittsburgh. Back when I heard them off the GE SR II while painting a basement, 660 was carrying the 100.1 LPFM in PGH. They were quite a wound-up station, a fun listen despite the music. Never heard 'em again.
 
From my location on the far south side of the Kansas City metro:

Day: KCRO - Omaha, NE - 1kW Daytime [Weak but listenable]

Critical Hours: KCRO, KTNN - Window Rock, AZ

Night: One of the Cuban formats, KTNN, WFAN [None of these signals are ever strong and listenable]. At times, 660 kHz is near "quiet" here at night with only light fading heard.

Bob
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: nothing but WSCR splash/IBOC hash
Nightime: WFAN if WSCR turns IBOC off

DX/RETRO: in the absence of dominant WFAN (WNBC), the following DXing catches were achieved on this frequency in the past: KSKY (dallas, TX), KTNN (Window Rock, AZ), WVAL (Sauk Rapids, MN), WESC (Greenville, SC) and the following foreign catches CMEB (Santa Clara, Cuba), XERPM (Mexico City), HRNN (La Ceiba, Honduras), YNALN (Esteli, Nicaragua). Strangely, I have not
 
KR1S said:
In S.E. AZ, it's KTNN in Window Rock, AZ, "The Voice of the Navajo Nation." Someone I know in Hawaii regularly hears them, even on simple home-made receivers.
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KTNN is the nighttime regular here, though the signal is often not that strong.

But only recently 660 was all CFFR one night and a good steady signal too.
 
In Pittsburgh, daytime it is WAMO-AM (not to be confused with the former heritage station at 860/105.9).
This one is basically just a placeholder for a translator at 100.1.

Nighttime it is WFAN, booming in, almost strong as local.
 
Nothing during the days. At night in eastern Iowa, I regularly hear WFAN. But it's considerably weaker than the adjacent channel regulars, WSM and WSCR, as well as the other New York "clears" WABC and WCBS (if we can still call them clears). I used to occasionally be able to listen to my beloved New York Mets sometimes during late summer games, although it was a rarity and a stretch. The Mets broadcasts are headed back to WCBS, which is good news for me.

Years go by and I have still never heard KTNN or CFFR. I keep trying.
 
From Reynoldsburg, Ohio, by day it's religious WXIC with a moderate signal from Waverly, Ohio, some 60 miles south. 1,000-watt daytimer.
At night, of course, it's WFAN, usually with a solid signal.
A few years ago driving to visit a buddy in suburban D.C., I caught WFAN groundwave during the last hour or so of the trip. Pleasant surprise considering not only the worse conductivity in that part of the country, but also that it took place in July. I even heard a very weak WFAN driving around Gaithersburg during that trip. No other NYC 50Kers could be heard.
 
By day: nothing

At night, a mish mash of Calgary and Window rock
 
Daytime in NW San Antonio is a weak mix of KSKY and XEFZ "ABC Radio" in Monterrey with a bit of splatter from close-by local 680 KKYX.

At night they're both a lot stronger with XEFZ usually the most dominant of the two. Occasionally XEDTL "Radio Ciudadana" in Mexico City can be heard popping in. XEEY "La Kaliente" in Aguascalientes used to do the same, but I'm not sure if they've already migrated to FM.

Aiming SE a few nights ago I logged a new station: XECPR "Radio Chan Santa Cruz" in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo. I've heard it just twice so far, and the signal has been weak.

Prior to sunrise, XEDTL dominates. It must go to daytime power early. XEFZ and KSKY smother it once they go to day power.

I've only managed to hear KTNN once, and that was briefly one sunrise back in March of 2016.
 
Days...KWVE, but extremely weak, but it can be heard

Nights...KTNN is strong. Surprisingly, KTNN comes in better than KFI about half the time, considering the distance. Seems propagation over Arizona/Nevada high deserts is quite a bit better than over central California.
 
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