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AM Frequency of the week: 710

cyberdad

cyberdad

40-ish miles northwest of downtown Chicago.....

Days: Splatter from local blowtorch WGN (720).

Nights: Thankfully, WGN turned off their iboc noisemaker a number of years ago. The result, with WGN nulled, is usually a weak WOR. I've also heard the Kansas City 710 (as WHB) with a very weak signal. Also around sunset, the now-defunct CHIR from Leamington, ON. (About 40 miles east-southeast of Detroit.

What I haven't heard here is The "Cuban Chorus" of R. Rebelde. Nulling WGN at my location also nulls Cuba.

Other Location: At our usual spot on the beach near Pensacola, I can hear said "Cuban Chorus" 24/7 via saltwater path. Days it's under a weak WNTM from Mobile. WNTM is a standard-issue mostly canned news-talk outlet, 1kw ND from about 50 miles northwest of the place where we're at. No nulling required. R. Rebelde is weaker than WNTM, but still audible and easily identifiable. Rebelde is only present along the beach and for a couple of miles inland. So I doubt if it's audible daytime at Tomservo's location, which is about 15 miles inland, and about 25 miles northwest of the place where we stay. If he's lurking, perhaps he can confirm this....or correct me, as the case may be.

At night, WNTM switches on the DA and disappears. After which, the "Cuban Chorus" takes over the channel with a very good signal.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's all WGN splatter during the day. At night a very weak WOR is present. Years ago WOR was stronger. I've also heard Kansas City around sunset and a few times KEEL Shreveport, but that hasn't appeared in a long time.
 
By day, KNUS Denver despite almost no signal/pattern in my direction

At night, KGNC amarillo now and then, and some spanish stuff from Mexico
 
Daytime
KIRO Seattle (Sports), very good signal for over 100 miles.

Night
KIRO mixing with a weak Radio Rebelde from Cuba most nights. The 'Cuban Chorus', as you all call it. Sunsets, KFIA Carmichael CA (Religion) is strong under KIRO. KSPN Los Angeles (ESPN) has been heard but not often. KXMR Bismarck ND (Fox Sports) is semi-regular at sunrise, especially in October when the sunrise here isn't until after 7:30am.

Wanted
KBMB Black Canyon City AZ (ESPN Deportes) - With most of the power pointing south at night, I need them to be on day power under KIRO...and not have it be Cuba!
KNUS Denver CO (News/Talk) - Possibly at sunrise? 5KW
 
From west Houston, days mostly splatter from local KSEV 700. This time of year I can often hear KEEL a few hours before sunset. Nights I have heard KEEL, KGNC Amarillo, the Cubans, and KCMO.
 
To clarify my OP....

At the place where we stay near Pensacola, 710 from Cuba is audible 24/7. Daytime (under WNTM) it's one signal. At night, R. Rebelde's multiple transmitters on 710 are audible. The effect is not just a single echo, but multiple echoes. Hence the term "Cuban Chorus", because the effect is not unlike multiple voices all saying the same thing.
 
East Tennessee (Knoxville/Sevierville): Day: A weak WEKC, Williamsburg, KY. Night: WOR and/or the Cuban chorus. Not much different anywhere else I've lived.

Just checked the Key West SDR and it's all echoing Rebeldes.
 
Here in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, 710 is nothing except WLW slop during the day. At night, it's WOR, except it seems weaker than it did several years ago. It used to put some slop onto WLW at night but I don't remember that being the case in the past few years.
 
Addendum: WOR would make it to Dayton, Ohio even with WLW, and even occasionally slop onto it, but it was tough to actually listen to. Sometimes I'd catch a little bit of Joe Franklin's Saturday night/early Sunday show if I could actually null WLW.

Quincy, IL, 1985-86. WHB (before they and KCMO calls switched places) with oldies. Gone at night.
 
Orange County, TX days KEEL Shreveport with a listenable signal under splatter from local 1600 spur on 700. Nights KEEL, KGNC Amarillo and Spanish language usually on top with same splatter.
 
From the far south Kansas City metro:

All KCMO, all the time. They are 10kW directional day, 5kW directional night. Occasionally at night, I hear splatter from either WLW or WGN, more often WLW. Due to high ground conductivity, during the day KCMO puts quite a listenable signal into Des Moines, Omaha and Wichita. I have heard them as far east as Macomb, IL. Years ago, this station was Top 40 powerhouse WHB, a Storz owned station.

Bob
 
From SE AZ:

KNUS Denver CO CBS News Night only
KBMB Black Canyon City AZ ESPN Deportes Mostly night, sometimes day

Black Canyon City is about 40 mi N of Phoenix.
 
DXBob said:
From the far south Kansas City metro:

All KCMO, all the time. They are 10kW directional day, 5kW directional night. Occasionally at night, I hear splatter from either WLW or WGN, more often WLW. Due to high ground conductivity, during the day KCMO puts quite a listenable signal into Des Moines, Omaha and Wichita. I have heard them as far east as Macomb, IL. Years ago, this station was Top 40 powerhouse WHB, a Storz owned station.

Bob
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As WHB, the Kansas City 710 was a "go to" for me during my college days in southast Iowa. Fast forward to my days when I traveled in my work, and I can confirm that the station was listenable daaytime in Des Moines, Omaha, and Wichita...as well as far west-central Illinois (if you didn't mind a little splatter from WGN). At night the nortrh-south directional signal basically hugged I-35 from Duluth to Austin. That includes Minneapolis, where (then-) WHB was solid every night.
 
DXBob said:
From the far south Kansas City metro:

All KCMO, all the time. They are 10kW directional day, 5kW directional night. Occasionally at night, I hear splatter from either WLW or WGN, more often WLW. Due to high ground conductivity, during the day KCMO puts quite a listenable signal into Des Moines, Omaha and Wichita. I have heard them as far east as Macomb, IL. Years ago, this station was Top 40 powerhouse WHB, a Storz owned station.

Bob
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Growing up in Tulsa in the 70's, I remember WHB was solid during the day, but somewhat weak at night. Somewhat surprising given its N-S directional signal, but maybe groundwave-skywave cancellation? I was about 250 miles from their tower. In those days I also ID'ed WOR (Monday morning), and Denver, Amarillo, and Shreveport.
 
My first year of college was spent at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. WHB on 710 was solid like a rock every night. After that I transferred to NIU in De Kalb and there was no WHB to be heard, but in Norman it was strong at night.
 
cyberdad said:
As WHB, the Kansas City 710 was a "go to" for me during my college days in southast Iowa. Fast forward to my days when I traveled in my work, and I can confirm that the station was listenable daytime in Des Moines, Omaha, and Wichita...as well as far west-central Illinois (if you didn't mind a little splatter from WGN). At night the north-south directional signal basically hugged I-35 from Duluth to Austin. That includes Minneapolis, where (then-) WHB was solid every night.
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Thank you for the additional comments on vintage WHB. I grew up in Peoria, IL but I could not hear WHB there due to splatter from WGN. However, my grandfather had a farm halfway between Macomb and Quincy, IL and WHB was quite listenable there as was KXOK. Both WHB and KXOK were my two favorite Top 40 stations in the 1960s. I had the opportunity to tour the KXOK studios in 1966. It was a small but impressive operation. They played all of the music from "carts" in order avoid the local "record spinners" union in the St. Louis of that era...

Bob
 
wildthangjim said:
Growing up in Tulsa in the 70's, I remember WHB was solid during the day, but somewhat weak at night. Somewhat surprising given its N-S directional signal, but maybe groundwave-skywave cancellation? I was about 250 miles from their tower. In those days I also ID'ed WOR (Monday morning), and Denver, Amarillo, and Shreveport.
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I suspected daytime reception in Tulsa but I have not been there since a travel through the area in the late 60s on U.S. 66...

Bob
 
radioman148 said:
My first year of college was spent at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. WHB on 710 was solid like a rock every night. After that I transferred to NIU in De Kalb and there was no WHB to be heard, but in Norman it was strong at night.
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Impressive! Thanks!

Bob
 
During the day, I get a weak ( but listenable ) KFIA from Sacramento.

Nights...KIRO from Seattle booms in, with a mix of KFIA Sacramento and KSPN Los Angles, underneath.

A lazy Suzy really helps here.
 
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