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AM Frequency of the week 730

cyberdad

cyberdad

What have you been hearing lately on 730?

Here in Chicago's far northwest suburbs daytime for me it's splatter from local WGN (720).

Nighttime: Fortunately WGN's "experiment" with iboc is long gone. Even though the WGN tower is only about 25 miles from me, it is "null-able". Doing that sometimes produces a weak XEX. But more often it's CKDM, fair-weak. Not much else seems to be present on the channel. CKAC used to somretimes turn up. But that one has been missing-in-action here for quite a few years.
 
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Used to be CHIR and later CHYR-7 from Leamington at night on 730. Originally 250 watts, then 500 watts, and eventually 1000 watts as I recall. Then CHYR, which was finally operating with 1000 watts with 6 towers on 710 at night, moved to 96.7 on FM. In the daytime, WVFN still comes in in most areas of Southeastern and Central Michigan. Of course, like WITL 1010 was by WCFL/WMVP, WVFN is cramped by WGN on the West. Occasionally you would hear a Canadian on 730, but can't remember a Mexican station on 730 that I ever heard. For years, there were no night facilities in the US on 730, and the daytime stations were generally limited to 1000 watts. 5000 watts was the limit, if far enough from either border, and even then I don't think there were many grants made for 5000 watts, and there were no in between powers then. Oh, there was CJNR Blind River and CKDM Dauphin that I heard occasionally at night.
 
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730 here is WLTQ, the Catholic station. It used to be WPAL and WSCC. It has a huge signal at 5kw daytime. It can be heard through almost all of eastern SC, and into southeast GA and down past Jacksonville daytime. Biggest AM signal in town daytime.

Even the nighttime signal at 103 watts serves most of the area.
 
For me, it's pretty reliably CKDM at nighttime. I have heard XEX, but surprisingly seldom. But remarkably, many times I have heard KKDA Dallas at night. Also fairly rarely, but regularly.

Nothing during the daytime except maybe spillover from WGN, if anything.
 
icybluelake said:
For me, it's pretty reliably CKDM at nighttime. I have heard XEX, but surprisingly seldom. But remarkably, many times I have heard KKDA Dallas at night. Also fairly rarely, but regularly.
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KKDA! I used to get a kick out of listening to that on my biz trips to Dallas back in the 80s. I liked their slogan, "kickin' butt and takin' names". Fun "R&B" station. I've never heard it here in the Chicago area, however.
 
Here in the near north Chicago suburbs I used to get XEX most often & CKAC. Haven't listened in awhile around the WGN splatter which is tougher for me to eliminate.
 
Daytime is usually WTNT Alexandria, VA

Nighttime is a mix, because it's really an open frequency in this part of the country (Richmond, VA)
All the US stations I've logged over the last few years are less than 214 watts at night.
WMNA Gretna, VA
WLTQ Charleston, SC
WLIL Lenoir City, TN
WFMC Goldsboro, NC
WZGV Charlotte, NC
WPIT Pittsburgh, PA
WMTC Vancleve, KY
WOHS Shelby, NC

but CKAC Montreal is 50kw and
CMHC (allegedly) Cuba is 30kw (allegedly).

If anything breaks free of the soup, it's usually Charlotte.
 
The nominal daytime 730 here is WNAK Nanticoke PA (or whatever they are now). In recent times, though, some copper thieves reportedly have done bad things to their ground system. The 730 Nanticoke is part of that Gem-FM Oldies phalanx through Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
(For some reason I'm reminded of the old bit on Laugh-In called Kleptomaniacs Anonymous, where the 'attendees' wound up stealing everything, including the signs, the podium and then the MC).

One wild SSS, still very daylight, I got to hear the French PBP of an Expos game off CKAC Montreal. My French is beyond 'tragic', but I believe I heard the call of an inside-the-park home run by 'Maawww - Keeeese GREEEEESOM!! Maaww-keeese GREESSOM!!!!'

There are taped SSS IDs from WDOS in upstate NY plus WPAL in SC.

Un-taped are catches WACE from Central Mass, and WEZL South Carolina.
 
Days:
Adjacent channel interference from our local on 740.

Night:
XEX Mexico DF - Haven't heard them since 2009.
WJYM Bowling Green OH
WLIL Lenoir City TN

SRS/SSS
WTNT Alexandria VA - SSS
WFMW Madisonville KY - SSS
 
Daytime in S.A. is just heavy splatter from local norteño station KSAH on 720. At night XEX can be heard decently, but there is still slop (though reduced) from KSAH as well as some slop from 740 KTRH. XEHB, Ke Buena, can be heard faintly in the background of XEX, and it perks up a little when I loop E/W.

Haven't heard KKDA in over a year, although I haven't tried in quite a while. KSAH might've been off the air or at reduced power at that time.
 
Around Columbus, Ohio ...
- Daytime: Not much of anything, other than a weak WJYM out of Bowling Green. They throw almost all of their power to the south-southwest and Columbus is not in the heart of their main lobe, but the station still gets here.
- Nighttime: Can't remember any signal standing out. Most of what I have heard there is slop either from WGN or CFZM.
 
WJYM has an interesting patter, somewhat like a bowling pin. Makes it almost to Cincinnati, East to Vermilion and even NW of Indianapolis. Not bad for 1kW.

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Around Columbus, Ohio ...
- Daytime: Not much of anything, other than a weak WJYM out of Bowling Green. They throw almost all of their power to the south-southwest and Columbus is not in the heart of their main lobe, but the station still gets here.
- Nighttime: Can't remember any signal standing out. Most of what I have heard there is slop either from WGN or CFZM.
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In the St. Louis area during the day, KWRE Warrenton, MO covers the region with its 1 kW signal. At night it used to be XEX, and in recent years I would hear KKDA-AM Dallas, but I'm not sure what is on at night here now.
 
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Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: zippo
Night: WTNT Alexandria VA or maybe XEX Mexico City
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I'm surprised if you haven't heard CKAC. They keep most of their juice in Canada, but the pattern isn't all that tight. I'd thinl it could make it into the Philly area. Easy enough to ID...French.
 
gr8oldies said:
WJYM has an interesting patter, somewhat like a bowling pin. Makes it almost to Cincinnati, East to Vermilion and even NW of Indianapolis. Not bad for 1kW.
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If I were to mention WJYM to my mother who grew up in St. Marys, it would mean nothing to her. If I were to mention the station that always interfered with WGN when she and her family listened to Cubs games in the kitchen back in the 1960s, the light would come on. Still gives WGN fits in that area when the radio is turned "correctly."
 
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