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AM Frequency of the Week: 670

Kenosha, WI Days- WSCR Chicago. Flamethrower @ about 47 miles from me.

Nights- WSCR with one or more Rebelde transmitters gurgling way underneath. Cuba is only about 45 degrees off, so a WSCR null also kills Rebelde.

I used to listen to WMAQ semi-regularly before the all-news format, but after country. They played quite a bit of music at night in beautiful Kahn-Hazeltine AM Stereo.
 
From NW San Antonio:

Day: Just heavy slop from KKYX on 680.

Sunset: At times when propagation is good, I’ve heard WSCR in Chicago (aiming NE) and Radio Rebelde in Cuba (aiming SE) coming up in the KKYX slop.

Night: Both WSCR and Rebelde have listenable signals as long as I tune down to 668 or 669 and apply a 1 kHz bandwidth filter. The latter is usually the most steady, and a few times I’ve heard a second Rebelde slightly out of sync. Sometimes I can hear a weak KHGZ underneath WSCR (or more rarely mixing in).

Sunrise: KLTT in Commerce City, CO, can be heard for a bit with Christian talk when it goes to day power. The signal is sometimes listenable with off-tuning/filtering.

DX/Retro: As mentioned previously, I heard Radio Progreso mixing with Radio Rebelde on a few occasions back in 2021. Also, I heard WWFE in Miami twice at night several years ago when it was likely on day power.
 
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Central Kansas:
An audible, yet weak, KLTT/Commerce City daytime. Nights, WSCR/Chicago is the common visitor.

North Iowa:
An audible, yet weak, WSCR days, much stronger at night.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Retro - given that I lived in Chicago for a couple of years, what was WMAQ, in my time a great all-news station that was killed off in the CBS-Westinghouse merger.
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I thought 670 was in the past all news. So was disappointed some years ago when I began listening to DX AM to find it was sports.
 
gr8oldies said:
Per MWList, there are 13 Rebelde outlets on 670, and they are there to block reception of WWFE, Miami across the island. Sometimes several will echo, especially on auroral nights
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While blocking WWFE may be part of the intention, those multiple Rebelde stations were there long before WWFE went on the air. 670 was one of the main channels for the #1 radio operation in Cuba, CMQ.
 
jim-satx said:
Sunrise: KLTT in Commerce City, CO, can be heard for a bit with Christian talk when it goes to day power. The signal is sometimes listenable with off-tuning/filtering.
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I often receive it early a.m., before 6 a.m., better than 670-Chicago when I turn the Grundig. Was surprised that it can be better than the clear ch. frequency.
 
Dondd said:
I thought 670 was in the past all news. So was disappointed some years ago when I began listening to DX AM to find it was sports.
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WMAQ went all-news when Westinghouse bought it from NBC, with some sports talk at night for a time. Then Westinghouse absorbed CBS and decided it didn't need two 50 kW stations in Chicago, both of them all-news, so, as Viacom, sold it after moving the "Score" sports brand (which had started on daytimer 820) from 1160 to 670. A jumble of ownership and corporate name changes later, we find 670 and 780 under the same roof with a quartet of FMs.
 
Central Kentucky:
Days: I can **barely,** hear something but can't identify it, I'm thinking the last breath of WSCR??

Nights : WSCR with a good signal. Haven't heard anything else on that frequency, here.

DX/Retro: Used to enjoy it as country WMAQ. "WMAQs gonna make me rich"
 
Got KHOW Denver the other morning.
Was moving up and down the dial. When I hit 630 from San Antonio, after turning my Grundig here in Austin, Texas, KHOW came in.
Good catch never caught before.
 
Dondd said:
Got KHOW Denver the other morning.
Was moving up and down the dial. When I hit 630 from San Antonio, after turning my Grundig here in Austin, Texas, KHOW came in.
Good catch never caught before.
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Oops. Wrong thread. Got 630 mixed up with 670.
 
The other night, Chicago wasn't coming in, here in Austin, Texas, but Radio Rebelde from Cuba was. That's the only time I received that station.
 
Dondd said:
The other night, Chicago wasn't coming in, here in Austin, Texas, but Radio Rebelde from Cuba was. That's the only time I received that station.
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"Radio Rebelde" is not "that" station. It is a set of 12 transmitters, all simulcast as a national station. They range from 50kw to 1 kw and should cover the whole 800-mile-wide country almost totally.
 
tvnut said:
WMAQ went all-news when Westinghouse bought it from NBC, with some sports talk at night for a time. Then Westinghouse absorbed CBS and decided it didn't need two 50 kW stations in Chicago, both of them all-news, so, as Viacom, sold it after moving the "Score" sports brand (which had started on daytimer 820) from 1160 to 670. A jumble of ownership and corporate name changes later, we find 670 and 780 under the same roof with a quartet of FMs.
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Remember, in the 1995 merger of Westinghouse with CBS, the resultant group had to sell various stations, both TV and radio.

If they had kept one rather than selling it, all they had to do was change format.
 
DavidEduardo said:
"Radio Rebelde" is not "that" station. It is a set of 12 transmitters, all simulcast as a national station. They range from 50kw to 1 kw and should cover the whole 800-mile-wide country almost totally.
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Pardon me, David. When I searched, I couldn't find call letters, so copied the text in how others refer to the station on this forum.

Am well aware it's a set of stations. This was 670.
 
For the record, from the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

WMAQ / WSCR Chicago, from the transmitter site it has used since 1934 (and which KYW used from the 1920s on, making it the oldest site in the area) and will soon leave; CMKP (so the guides said) San Pedro de Cacocua, Cuba (50 kW, which wipes out Chicago as close as southern Illinois some nights); and KHGZ Glenwood, Ark., heard a couple of nights in a row with 5 kW while WSCR was off for the WBBM diplexing project.
 
Today at 8:15 a.m. CT in Austin, Texas, area, 670-KLTT Denver was coming in very strong on my Grundig Yachtboy.
50kw days, 1,400 kw nights. Am assuming daytime signal here, 765 miles away. 850 KOA was also coming in. 850 has often come in during the day.

I checked the programming, Ronald L. Dart (a deceased individual whose Born to Win program airs on many religious stations), was on the website as well as the signal.

Though I've captured this station pre-dawn, have never caught it during the day.

Like with KOA (during the day), KLTT didn't last long.

Linked is a video of the radio, my cell's time and the station's website program guide.

Dropbox
670-KLTT
 
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Captured 670-KTTT this a.m. around 8:30-9:00 CT, which is highly unusual. Have captured the station around 5 a.m. CT once or twice before, but today, assuming the station's daytime pattern of 50,000 watts vs. 1,400 watts nights was in effect.

Heard a rundown of upcoming brokered religious shows.
 
A good night for Cuba here in NJ despite summer noise levels: I heard R. Enciclopedia on 530 kHz and R. Rebelde on 670 kHz, on a Sony SRF-M37W Walkman.
 


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