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AM Frequency of the week: 700

cyberdad

cyberdad

Here in the the far northwest fringe of the Chicago metro.....

Day: With a good radio and an open, noise free location, "The Big One", WLW, is audible....if only barely

Night: WLW blasts in with one of the best skywave signals on the AM dial.

Other Location(s): On my trips to the west coast, it's usually KALL nighttime with a reliable signal. At our vacation spot near Pensacola, WLW is usually alone nighttime with a good signal.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs "The Big One" WLW is audible on my car radio and on any good radio in my house (away from noise) The signal isn't strong, but it's there.
At night a much stronger WLW is always there.

Retro/other: Like cyberdad said on the west coast it's KALL at night. On a vacation to Puerto Rico in 2011, WLW was the one constant Northern US signal always present at night. On that trip other than some Florida stations, some nights the east coast blowtorches were present and other nights only the midwest blowtorches were there, but WLW was in every night.
As a kid many many decades ago WLW was the first station I DXed outside the Chicago area. My dad told me the story about when they were 500KW. At first I thought he was kidding, but I later found out it was true.
 
Yakima WA

Days
Weak KXLX Airway Heights WA (ESPN), but stronger in winter.

Nights
KXLX, KGRV Winston OR (Religion) and KALL Salt Lake City (also ESPN) mixing all night long. KMBX Soledad CA (Spanish Religion) also common when pointing that way. WLW Cincinnati (News/Talk), heard but not often. From time to time I also hear CJLI Calgary AB (Christian Music/Talk).

Only 700 I really want is KBYR Anchorage (News/Talk), and they have been heard in the PNW but not as often as KFQD. But I still have KXLX and KGRV to deal with at sunrise.
 
From far south suburban Kansas City:

Day: Nothing but splatter from KCMO - Kansas City - 710 kHz, 10kW Day

Critical Hours: Occasionally during afternoon critical hours, WLW cuts through the splatter from KCMO.

Night: WLW is usually highly listenable even though KCMO is on the adjacent channel at 5kW at night.

Bob
 
In the downbeat phase of my DX 'career' here in NE PA, I'm surprised to find that there have been more 700 loggings (3) then in the years of the quieter dials of the 60's and 70's back in Queens NY.

Daytime here in Anthracite Country : zilch
Sunset: WWTL from Maryland, and the charming and omni WTUB from north-central Massachusetts. The latter is now 'WFAT'

Nighttimes: WLW.

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Back near JFK Airport as a kid, only WLW and a Cuban station had been logged. Those were from the -- ahem -- 'clear channel' days, when nothing else in the contiguous 48 states had been licensed. I *probably* could've gotten the newer WTUB at sunset with a null on WOR 710, and maybe the WWTL MD as well. I never tried for them, probably because they didn't exist yet, hi
 
Days.... KMBX Soledad

Nights, I'm not as lucky as crainbebo, but I can get KALL, Salt Lake City coming and going with a mix of KMBX. It's pretty much a mess for me on this frequency. I have been trying to get WLW Cincinnati, but it's just to noisy. It almost sounds like a "graveyard" frequency on my end, until something becomes recognizable for me to make out what I'm listening too.
 
East Tennessee: Knoxville/Sevierville. Daytime: The last breath of WLW's daytime signal and usually not strong enough to make out any of the programming. Night: A much stronger and listenable WLW, but when KHSE in Wylie TX is blasting it's Asian format on day pattern at night, it can be about even with WLW. Not only that, we had a week or so of strong auroral conditions where WLW was nowhere to be found, but KHSE dominated. I have heard KHSE under WLW on the Edinburgh, IN SDR.

When I lived in Dayton, OH, obviously WLW was omnipresent. During scheduled maintenance once, the Dothan, AL daytimer on 700 fired up for testing and that was my only other logging on 700.
 
No surprise in Reynoldsburg, Ohio ... all WLW, all the time. Tower is roughly 90 miles to my southwest. No nighttime cancellation at my location, regardless of season, although that is not the case as close as 15 miles from here. I would venture a guess that when our local AMs are on their usual night patterns, WLW would be the strongest AM in the far southwestern portions of the Columbus area.
When it ran IBOC several years ago, 690 and 710 sounded like buzzsaws.
Even during an aurora, WLW is there, and it sounds better than usual because there is no possible skywave interference.
When I lived in suburban Houston, WLW was there every night, although oddly enough I remember hearing it better on summer nights than during the winter. I was far enough to the southeast of Houston, roughly 20 miles from downtown, that I was out of local KSEV's nighttime lobe.
 
KR1S said:
In SE AZ, all I have is KALL, Salt Lake City, ESPN 700, nights.
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Same here in Phoenix, Arizona. All KALL, all night. I have never heard anything else, but KALL has a very favorable nighttime lobe headed straight for central Arizona: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KALL&service=AM&h=N

In fact, all Salt Lake City, Utah AM stations with any sort of night-time power makes it down here. I get a consistent HD radio lock from KSL almost every night here in Phoenix and the 1430 AM from Salt Lake also comes in consistently well.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WLW possible during daytime with weak signal
Nightime: WLW of course

DX/RETRO: not much DX done on the frequency due to WLW. My only two other catches on this frequency are KHSE (Wylie, TX) and TGHR Radio Mundial (Guetamala City).
 
In west Houston, local KSEV dominates day and night. I can sometimes null it sufficiently to get WLW, and have a tentative KHSE Dallas reception at sunset, just after KSEV powered down.
 
Daytime- nothing

Nighttime - The frequency is virtually never completely empty and there's always something there, even if not audible enough to ID.

Often, it is strong enough to ID and most of the time it's WLW.

KALL is sometimes mixing with it and dominates once in a while.

And then there was the one time it was all KYBR and stronger than the other two stations have ever been.
 
St. Louis QTH--nothing/splatter from KSTL 690. Night--WLW solid.

The first time I ever heard WLW was in December 1974. My dad was listening to the station on an old tube radio at my grandmother's house in NW Arkansas. It was the first time I ever really listened to a "Full Service" AC formatted station, and enjoyed it.
 
From NW San Antonio, daytime is KSEV with a moderate signal. There's some splatter from local 680 KKYX on my radios with lesser selectivity.

At sunset, WLW and XEDKR "Radio Red" in Guadalajara start to come up when I'm aiming NE/SW. Aiming more E/W, XEGD "La Poderosa" in Hidalgo del Parral starts to come through under KSEV.

At night it's more of the same with WLW stronger. When aiming NW, a weak KALL will occasionally pop through.

At sunrise, XEETCH in Etchojoa comes up for a bit at sign-on with rural/indigenous Mexican music.
 
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