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AM Frequency of The Week: 710
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About 20 miles NNW of WGN:
WDSM Near sunset/sunrise.
KEEL Most of the evening and overnight.
WOR All evening and overnight. Signal not as strong from them since new towers went up.
KCMO Near sunset/sunrise; before pattern change.
KGNC Near sunset; before pattern change. Haven't tried yet around sunrise.
In the winter sometimes Cuba is heard on the frequency, especially when 570 from Cuba is coming in really good.
WDSM Near sunset/sunrise.
KEEL Most of the evening and overnight.
WOR All evening and overnight. Signal not as strong from them since new towers went up.
KCMO Near sunset/sunrise; before pattern change.
KGNC Near sunset; before pattern change. Haven't tried yet around sunrise.
In the winter sometimes Cuba is heard on the frequency, especially when 570 from Cuba is coming in really good.
Bongwater said:
That would be CHYR ("Cheer") in Leamington, Ontario. For a number of years they operated on 710 during the day with 10,000 watts and on 730 at night, first with 250 watts, then 500 and beginning in 1980 with 1000 watts. During nighttime operation the call letters were CHIR (later to be known as "CHYR-7"). CHYR made the move to FM (96.7) in 1994; just prior to the switch they discontinued operation on 730 and operated full-time on 710.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHYR-FM
www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3....ries/radio/histories.php?id=345&historyID=135
CHYR put a good signal into Windsor but overall coverage of the Detroit area wasn't really that remarkable, especially at night. Amazingly, sixteen years later the CHYR (AM) patterns can still be viewed here: www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=chyr&x=8&y=4&sr=Y&s=C But also note that CHYR and CHYR-7 are still listed in the official FCC records.
EastBay said:
KIRO does put a decent signal into Hawaii most nights. Haven't heard KSPN there on my last couple of trips.
I did my drive up 101 from Encino to San Jose. Actually split it up, got out of Encino at 4pm yesterda, spent the night in Santa Maria, then finished the rest of the drive this morning.
I didn't find a convergence zone on 710. I had KSPN (Los Angeles) for a little less than the first half the drive. By the time I got to Santa Maria, it was 7pm and skip from the east was rolling in, but still no station was on top of 710. I would have expected KIRO to blow out both California stations, but not at that point of the early evening.
The following morning I got in the car at 7:30am, and the channel was effectively blank. KFIA is apparently too directional for there to be a convergence zone.
Unlike 740, where KBRT and KCBS battle it out for a little while north of Solvang. BTW, the strongest SF station for the first part of my drive this morning (from Santa Maria) was KGO. Obviously they were aimed right at me, but I would have guessed KNBR.
I didn't find a convergence zone on 710. I had KSPN (Los Angeles) for a little less than the first half the drive. By the time I got to Santa Maria, it was 7pm and skip from the east was rolling in, but still no station was on top of 710. I would have expected KIRO to blow out both California stations, but not at that point of the early evening.
The following morning I got in the car at 7:30am, and the channel was effectively blank. KFIA is apparently too directional for there to be a convergence zone.
Unlike 740, where KBRT and KCBS battle it out for a little while north of Solvang. BTW, the strongest SF station for the first part of my drive this morning (from Santa Maria) was KGO. Obviously they were aimed right at me, but I would have guessed KNBR.
cyberdad said:
KGO has a gangbuster "north south" signal. I've heard them from Alaska down to Acapulco. However, their "east west" null is very effective. I have never heard KGO in Hawaii on any of my several trips out there.
I'd be curious to know how far to the east they can be heard. Has anyone had any success hearing KGO in Utah or Colorado perhaps?
radioman148 said:
How about Ohio?
http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive Cleveland/California Verification Optimized.pdf
... and skip down to page 55 of the PDF.
DavidEduardo said:
Very impressive, but in 1961 the frequencies were alot more vacant. I assume WGY must have been off. I wonder how far east KGO can be heard these days at night?
In February 1980, while vacationing in Hawaii, I heard KGO on the East Coast of Kauai (just north of Kapaa) on a car radio parked in a park with a clear ocean view to the Northeast. This happened just after Hawaiian sunset. It was not strong, but it was KGO. Many other stations were also heard including the now defunct KBAI-1150 from Morro Bay, CA.
Nulls in signal pattern maps aren't always what they seem just by looking at them.
WWKB 1520 from Buffalo is a good example. You'd think they couldn't be heard at all in the midwest or Florida at night but I know some here have picked them up in the midwest and I've actually heard them here in Florida.
WWKB 1520 from Buffalo is a good example. You'd think they couldn't be heard at all in the midwest or Florida at night but I know some here have picked them up in the midwest and I've actually heard them here in Florida.
KR4BD said:
I've never picked up KGO in Hawaii, but I have heard KCBS there, although weak.
gar fla said:
Totally agree. As WKBW, I used to hear it nightly during my college days in the late '60s under KOMA. Supposedly they have the same pattern now as then, but if you look at Radio Locator's map, they'd appear to be sending almost no juice to the west-southwest.
As for KGO... It's been 16 years, but I thought I remembered hearing it one night in Maui, although David responded to my post on another thread here with a comment about the null, so I just assumed my memory was faulty. Now, I'm thinking maybe I was remembering correctly after all.
(Sidebar comment for David.... Do you work in that Univision complex north of LAX off the 405? I drove by there Monday, as I do just about every time I'm in So Cal. I'm usually heading from LAX or Orange County up the hill for customer meetings in Encino and/or Van Nuys. I also sometimes stay at the Marriott Courtyard across the road and a half-mile or so north. I said "drove by". That was the case Monday, but usually it's "crawl by"!)
The old WKBW, "KB Radio", was the first station I ever DXed and that's what really got me interested in DXing when I was 10 years old.
That was when I lived up north and WKBW would often seem as strong as the local WFIL. I was right in the direction of WKBW's signal.
Wnen it would fade away in the morning, I always looked forward to hearing it again in the late afternoon.
And yes, today's WWKB still has the same old signal pattern.
That was when I lived up north and WKBW would often seem as strong as the local WFIL. I was right in the direction of WKBW's signal.
Wnen it would fade away in the morning, I always looked forward to hearing it again in the late afternoon.
And yes, today's WWKB still has the same old signal pattern.
gar fla said:
Actually I would think they could be heard in Florida since they do send a decent amount of signal that way. I don't know what the interference level is on 1520 down there now.
I do know way back in the late 50s that Dick Biondi stated that his show on then "WKBW" could be heard in Guantanamo.
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