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AM Frequency of The Week: 710

Here in the downtown St. Pete area I cannot pick up 1520 out of Buffalo at all, party due to the fact that a 400 watt daytimer in suburban St. Pete often "forgets" to sign off at sunset. (the FCC fined them for this very same thing 2 or 3 years ago, but apparently the FCC is lax in this area.)

At my alternate listening post about 73 miles n.n.e. of here I can sometimes pick up KB albeit a very weak signal barely identifiable. (this is indoors) haven't tried on a car radio at night up there). I would imagine that on the east coast of Florida, it should come in more frequently and stronger.


Of course, when I spent a week in Albany earlier this month, it boomed in there at night.

I did notice on the latest PPM ratings for Buffalo that several Toronto stations (AM and FM) had higher ratings that KB!

drt
st pete
 
I always figured WWKB could never be heard down here because of the signal pattern so I never geve any real effort to hear it.

More recently, I had started listening and did hear them with an ID once when the St. Pete station had signed off. It was struggling with some station whose call lettters started with a "K" but I forget the exact call letters and didn't know where they were from.
 
I'm a snowbird about 80 mi S of gar (Englewood FL). Gotten KOMA w an ID a few times (weakly) but no KB Buffalo on 1520. 1 or 2X on WOR w/ ID when NYC stations were unusually strong in Englewood. And that's in a 5+ yr span.
Here in MA it's WOR w/ no other stations recd.
 
vibe said:
I'm a snowbird about 80 mi S of gar (Englewood FL). Gotten KOMA w an ID a few times (weakly) but no KB Buffalo on 1520. 1 or 2X on WOR w/ ID when NYC stations were unusually strong in Englewood. And that's in a 5+ yr span.
Here in MA it's WOR w/ no other stations recd.
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Good job getting KOMA in Fla. They send most of their power in the other direction at night.
Last year as KOKC I heard them everynight I was in Hawaii. Over 3,000 miles.
 
stormy01 said:
radioman148 said:
Good job getting KOMA in Fla. They send most of their power in the other direction at night.
Last year as KOKC I heard them every night I was in Hawaii. Over 3,000 miles.
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More like 3,700+ miles! http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm?d&pt_1=usokocit&pt_2=ushihono
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Well I knew it was over 3,000. KOKC & KFAQ Tulsa can both be heard in Hawaii--at least as of last winter. In the case of KOKC fairly easily on a car radio just about every night.
 
I think I may have received KB 1520 for the first time last night; the local 1520 managed to sign off only 42 minutes late last night (8:12pm vs the 7:30 sign off) when they went off the air, I rotated my antenna to get the best reception I could of a very faint talk station. (talk station on the AM band, that really narrows it down, doesn't it!)

At any rate it was English, but it was so weak and fading in and out, that I could not make a positive i.d., but when I rotated my AM antenna to the n.n.e./s.s.w. postition that is when it came it the best. (using the word "best" loosely!)

Buffalo is n.n.e. of here, so I'm thinking maybe I was receiving KB, this was from around 8:12 - 8:20, then it faded out completely.

drt
 
From Vermilion, OH:
710 is blank during the day. Near sunset I start hearing WOR/New York and later mixed with Cuba. Much easier to DX since WLW shut off IBOC at night. I have heard KCMO/Kansas City around sunrise.
 
For me, it's KIRO, the great splatter master. ;D Although I did log KMPC, Los Angeles, a long time ago, probably when KIRO was off the air.

Of course, KMPC is KSPN now......
 
I've logged KFIA at sunset a few times. Try it out around 4 in the afternoon in the Nov/Dec/Jan months. You might be able to hear Christian in the background. That would be KFIA.

-crainbebo
 
KIRO is something of a "holy grail" for me. I've never heard it here in the Chicago area or anywhere else in the Midwest. The farthest east I've heard it is one evening in Kenora, ON....which is a little over 100 miles north of International Falls, MN, and a little over 100 miles east of Winnipeg.

710 is tough duty where I live, because I'm about 25 miles northwest of WGN's tower. Nulling WGN usually produces WOR. But about a year or so ago I was hearing KEEL on a semi-regular basis for a few weeks. I think this was when they were doing antenna work for both KEEL and co-owned KWKH. One thing I haven't heard on 710 here is the "Cuban Chorus".....which is probably because at my location, nulling WGN would also have the effect of nulling Cuba.
 
SW OHIO

I've been listening to a Miami Heat game in SS on WAQI Miami about quite a while. 9:30 - 10:05 pm.

First time I've ever heard them. Cuba is in the background.

I'm guessing they are on their day pattern.
 
Still KIRO day/night. It's very faint during the day hours but it's there.
 
Just heard a station on 710 tonight just after 5:00 PM EST. They had Sean Hannity on Sunday. I knew WOR didn't have Hannity, so I proceeded to check WFNR, WDSM, and KCMO schedules. I was surpised that all carried Hannity on Sunday. WFNR should have been signed off, and the other two showed it at a different time, so I'm not sure what it was.
 
Heard the ID for WFNR 710 Blacksburg, VA at 5:00 PM today. November Sunset is 5:15 PM according to the FCC program. It was nowhere near as strong as yesterday. I remember hearing them do testing during the Experimental Period in the 1970s. Does anyone remember the original call letters?
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Does anyone remember the original call letters?
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They signed on as WQBX.
 
I used to pick up KFIA in Eastern WA before the winter power down/pattern change. They were running Contemporary Christian (what attracted me was "Every Heartbeat" Amy Grant, I'm not particularly crazy about the song, I thought I had tuned in a previously unknown AC station.) Then they ID'd as "710 The Light" and ran a religious commercial - INSTANT tune out for me.

KFIA's sound quality was surprisingly good, were they AM Stereo?

Daytimes in Eastern, WA, it's pretty easy to pick up KIRO and KOMO-AM clear to the Idaho panhandle. 1090 Seattle would come in for about an hour just after the daytime power boost (at the time, it was a CHR simulcast of KBKS Kiss 106.1) But it would fade into the murk later (seems like 1090 didn't have a very strong east lobe. Or at least not one like KIRO and KOMO.) I know they boosted their eastward signal up since then. But I haven't been that far east in a while.
 
KOMO is a fair signal in Yakima, and KIRO is poor-fair. I could even hear a weak KWYZ 1230 a few hours after sunrise there...

-crainbebo
 
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