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AM Frequency of the Week: 710

cyberdad

cyberdad

Up the dial we go once again. This week our tour of the former "multi-dominant" clears stops at 710. What are you guys hearing these days on that channel.

Here northwest of Chicago, there's not a lot to report. Daytime it's all splatter from local WGN (720).

Night, nulling WGN usually produces a weak WOR. On very rare occasions (but not recently), I could sometimes hear Kansas City, then-WHB, underneath. I also heard KEEL a couple of times. Sunrise/Sunset would occasionally bring on CHIR on day power before they flipped to 730 for the hours of darkness.
 
A weak KCMO, if anything, daytime. Pretty much all KCMO at night. Have heard WOR on occasion, but very seldom. WGN splatter sometimes. Have never heard KEEL or WDSM that I can recall.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's nothing but WGN splatter during the day. At night WOR, but not nearly as strong as it used to be at my location. I have heard KEEL a couple of times.
 
Houston daytime - pretty much all splatter from KSEV on 700. Nighttime, pretty much a weak KEEL with mush from other stations underneath.

Dallas was an interesting location for 710. Daytime it was KEEL, but close underneath was regional powerhouse KGNC Amarillo. If you nulled KEEL, KGNC came right in. At more than 300 miles, the signal was amazing for 10,000 watts. Nighttime Dallas was a mess with KEEL, WHB mainly.
 
Here in Central Arkansas all I have picked up at night was KCMO ~300 mi. away. During daytime hours it's all static.
 
East Tennessee: Daytime, WEKC, Williamstown KY. Night, WOR mixed with Cuban Chorus,, often the multiple Rebeldes dominate. I've IDed WAQI once
 
icybluelake said:
A weak KCMO, if anything, daytime. Pretty much all KCMO at night. Have heard WOR on occasion, but very seldom. WGN splatter sometimes. Have never heard KEEL or WDSM that I can recall.
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Surprised you've never heard KEEL. During my Iowa days it was a regular around sunset. Frequently overpowering my top 40 listening pleasure from then-WHB (albeit with a similar format). Bottom line is I heard KEEL a lot more in Iowa than I have here at home.
 
Daytime in Yakima is always a fair KIRO Seattle (Sports).
Sunset is always a dogfight of KFIA Carmichael (Religion) and KIRO.
Nights is always KIRO, sometimes mixing with Radio Rebelde out of Cuba.
KXMR ND and KSPN CA have also been heard here.

As for my "710 Wishlist", I still haven't confirmed KBMB AZ (ESPN Deportes), KNUS CO (News Talk) or WAQI FL (Spanish News/Talk) yet. Notice I marked WAQI because it was heard in Alberta several years ago...it can happen here too! KNUS is really surprising, I've had many other Denver AMs (even KPOF-910), but they haven't etched out of the noise yet. KBMB should be a possibility at sunrise. WOR is probably impossible, so I didn't mark it.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
Daytime: Splatter from WLW. Stronger during the winter, weaker during the summer, and also varies in strength depending on where you are in the Columbus metro.
Nighttime: Usually WOR, not all that strong, under weak splatter from WLW. Not so long ago, when WLW, WOR and WGN all ran IBOC ... *shudder*. That channel sounded like a blast furnace. WOR's IBOC often could be heard over WLW here. That was pleasant.
 
crainbebo said:
KNUS is really surprising, I've had many other Denver AMs (even KPOF-910), but they haven't etched out of the noise yet.
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KNUS has a really tight pattern, as you probably already know (with protecting KIRO obviously part of the deal). In my travels, I haven't haven't heard it to speak of unless I was somewhere where it was aimed right at me (example: New Mexico). Have you ever tried for/heard WDSM?
 
I caught 710 out of Denver one night in Phoenix in Spring of '89. They were simulcasting KBPI at that time. It was different hearing "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle and "Dream On" by Aerosmith on AM Radio.
 
Daytime in S.A. is just splatter from local KSAH on 720.

At night there's still some splatter, and it's a mix of KGNC, KEEL, KCMO, and XEDP in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. KGNC is usually most dominant, and the others can pretty much be nulled out when I aim NW. I logged Radio Rebelde a couple of years ago but haven't heard it in a long time.

Pre-sunrise it's those same stations with KCMO being more rare and both KEEL and XEDP coming up stronger. This morning I logged a new one around 0645 CT - XEMP in Mexico City. It had a fairly good signal but dropped out completely at 0700.

One of these days I hope to log KURV in Edinburg, TX, from S.A. The closest I've come is hearing it on my car radio while about 80 miles SE of San Antonio during a mid-afternoon last February.
 
710 in Charleston is a wide mix. Daytime, it is Miami, Cuba, and St. Matthews, SC mixing, while it is mostly Cuba at night. WOR comes in sometimes here, but it is by far the rarest of the NYC clears. Even WINS comes in more often with their directional antenna.
 
In NE PA here it's WOR 710 all day and night. Car radio, portable; they're
always there.
One late afternoon there was an EE station under them. I sat through like :45
minutes of the Savage Nation on WOR to ID it. (Amazing how much he sounds like my
Dad -- politics, voice, accent -- the whole 27 feet.)

CJRN Niagara Falls was the station in the back.

Add to the impressive 'totals' list here the always-charming Radio Rebelde.
 
@ Ryan: Back when all of the stations in the ratings got listed, WOR was pretty much a regular in the Philly book because of their signal.
They'd get their 0.4 or 0.5, but they did have some traditional listenership down the NJ Turnpike.
Word has it that they'll be broadcasting Devils hockey soon. *Perfect* signal for the state and the Devils' fan base.

It was back in 1963, when I was a kid, when WOR was audible on a GE clock radio all day.
In Norfolk Virginia.
They've changed their tower site since then; since 53 years ago. I wonder if they still go sailing down Chesapeake Bay the way they once did.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
It was back in 1963, when I was a kid, when WOR was audible on a GE clock radio all day.
In Norfolk Virginia.
They've changed their tower site since then; since 53 years ago. I wonder if they still go sailing down Chesapeake Bay the way they once did.
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In 1964 I was in Washington DC and WOR was the only NYC station I could hear during the day. Granted it was fairly weak, but it was there.
 
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