I remember the old "LG73" from the 1980s when I was living and stationed on Kodiak Island Alaska. Other Vancouver AMs also came in well at night...CHQM 1320 and CKST 1040 to name a couple.
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AM Frequency of the week: 730
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Hartland, VT:
Nothing days, CKAC Montreal nights.
Meriden, CT:
WACE Chicopee, MA.
Nothing days, CKAC Montreal nights.
Meriden, CT:
WACE Chicopee, MA.
In west Houston TX, during the day it's slop from local KTRH 740. At sunset, XEX starts to come up, usually mixing with Korean programming from KKDA up in DFW. XEX dominates at night but have heard XEHB at times in their null. Sunrise, it's like sunset in reverse, with XEX the last to fade out.
730 is also the home of a mystery for me. Back on Sunday 11/20/22 just before 6pm CST, I heard Alex Jones' Infowars overpowering XEX. No local content during breaks and it cut out abruptly at 6pm, presumably a power/DA change. Tried on subsequent Sundays but didn't hear again. My guess was KLOE but no mention on their website and I never figured it out.
730 is also the home of a mystery for me. Back on Sunday 11/20/22 just before 6pm CST, I heard Alex Jones' Infowars overpowering XEX. No local content during breaks and it cut out abruptly at 6pm, presumably a power/DA change. Tried on subsequent Sundays but didn't hear again. My guess was KLOE but no mention on their website and I never figured it out.
@ rjoc
I brought along a laptop on an 8-day vacation at a scenic hospital a few years back, and had found that SDR thing just before the stay. One idle afternoon in my cot I scanned the SDR site of British Colombia (on Vancouver Island, was it?). And indeed, there was 730, seemingly all traffic all the time. Vancouver-Surrey et al must be quite the rush hour maze. That was back in October 2020. I've never logged B.C., either here or in Queens NYC near JFK.
Retro, though, I did hear CKDA one overnight in Queens -- once. I remember them giving the temperature as 43 below, which in Celsius or Farenheit or Physics 1 class is awfully cold. That's a 1003 Dog Night. The announcer also said that 'The humidity is unreportable at this temperature'.
I brought along a laptop on an 8-day vacation at a scenic hospital a few years back, and had found that SDR thing just before the stay. One idle afternoon in my cot I scanned the SDR site of British Colombia (on Vancouver Island, was it?). And indeed, there was 730, seemingly all traffic all the time. Vancouver-Surrey et al must be quite the rush hour maze. That was back in October 2020. I've never logged B.C., either here or in Queens NYC near JFK.
Retro, though, I did hear CKDA one overnight in Queens -- once. I remember them giving the temperature as 43 below, which in Celsius or Farenheit or Physics 1 class is awfully cold. That's a 1003 Dog Night. The announcer also said that 'The humidity is unreportable at this temperature'.
From my spot in eastern Iowa, 730 is often a mess at night. But an interesting mess! I usually hear CKDM Dauphin, MB, XEX Mexico City, and KKDA Dallas, probably in that order. Nothing during the daytime, but just outside the city, on a good car radio, I know that KWOA Worthington, MN is sometimes faintly audible.
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...
Way back in my Realistic Patrolman 6 / 10 days, CHYR7 in Leamington, Ont., was a very occasional visitor. Even more occasionally, CKAC Montreal would be in.
In more recent years, XEX Mexico City is a quite regular visitor. It's there almost every night, usually an easy listen on the bedside radio (or it was until a leak in my power line threw a buzz over the lower half of AM). Once, on 12/19/2018, WLIL Lenoir City, Tenn. snuck in with 214 nighttime watts, matched to its Internet stream.
Way back in my Realistic Patrolman 6 / 10 days, CHYR7 in Leamington, Ont., was a very occasional visitor. Even more occasionally, CKAC Montreal would be in.
In more recent years, XEX Mexico City is a quite regular visitor. It's there almost every night, usually an easy listen on the bedside radio (or it was until a leak in my power line threw a buzz over the lower half of AM). Once, on 12/19/2018, WLIL Lenoir City, Tenn. snuck in with 214 nighttime watts, matched to its Internet stream.
I remember CKGO from, my biz trips to Vancouver. My "go to" for traffic and border crossing info. Guided me many a time to to which border crossing I should choose. As well as which ferry crossing I should use to see my customer on Vancouver Island. Those ferries were like floating restaurants business/centers/yachts! Complete with occasional marine life viewing.
I used to stay in a hotel by Sea-Tac, where most of my Seattle area customers were located. CKGO (as CKLG) was solid there.
KBOE was about 80 miles northwest of where I was in Mt. Pleasant. Signal there was still good, but not to the point where splatter was much of an issue.
Rocklin, CA
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: CKGO Vancouver
Vallejo, CA
Day & Night Splatter from KCBS 740 San Francisco
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: CKGO Vancouver
Vallejo, CA
Day & Night Splatter from KCBS 740 San Francisco
Boise Idaho
Local 730 DKDBI is no more. Off the air just over a year. Nothing daytime.
Night is a mishmash. Haven't paid too much attention but Vancouver BC, Dauphin MB, Billings MT have been in the mess.
Local 730 DKDBI is no more. Off the air just over a year. Nothing daytime.
Night is a mishmash. Haven't paid too much attention but Vancouver BC, Dauphin MB, Billings MT have been in the mess.
This triggered a memory - one very cold night in 1980 or 1981, I was driving home from doing some late newscasts at KFRU in Columbia, MO and was tuning around in the car to see what I could get. Where I normally would have expected XEX, instead I was hearing adult contemporary music and hockey scores in a Canadian accent! It was coming in loud and clear. I eventually heard an ID for CKDM. That was the only time I heard the station in mid-Missouri. My guess is that someone that night forgot to switch to the nighttime DA.
My mistake ... I thought it was closer (Centerville is about 55 miles from Osky) ... more on that when 740 is the featured frequency.
@Mark Roberts
Ha -- typo time here too, or maybe frostbite from reading about CKDM 730 climate. That was my 730 catch. I wonder if they indeed were on day / omni power on those reception occasions.
Ha -- typo time here too, or maybe frostbite from reading about CKDM 730 climate. That was my 730 catch. I wonder if they indeed were on day / omni power on those reception occasions.
730 here in Charleston is probably our best daytime AM signal, WLTQ with a Catholic format. That signal has had an illustrious history. It spent many years as one of the pioneer black signals in the country as WPAL, then was bought by Clear Channel in 1998 and became news talk WSCC, eventually knocking off heritage WTMA. After WSCC moved to FM in I think 2004, 730 went to liberal talk, played MOYL for a while, was sold by CC, then has mostly done its own thing the last 15 years.
Weirdly it has an FM translator on guess where, 106.7! 730 daytime can be heard on the entire SC coast, down thru GA and FL almost into the Bahamas with 5kw.
Even inland it does well, usually out to I-95 or so before it starts getting interfered with by the Charlotte signal. It has about 100 watts or so at night and still adequately covers a good part of the metro.
When they were off about 2009-2010, I’d reliably hear KQPN West Memphis, AR almost every night with a sports format. Not bad for a kilowatt. WZGV has been heard a couple times when the local was knocked out during a hurricane.
Weirdly it has an FM translator on guess where, 106.7! 730 daytime can be heard on the entire SC coast, down thru GA and FL almost into the Bahamas with 5kw.
Even inland it does well, usually out to I-95 or so before it starts getting interfered with by the Charlotte signal. It has about 100 watts or so at night and still adequately covers a good part of the metro.
When they were off about 2009-2010, I’d reliably hear KQPN West Memphis, AR almost every night with a sports format. Not bad for a kilowatt. WZGV has been heard a couple times when the local was knocked out during a hurricane.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: Heavy splatter from 720 KSAH.
Sunset: I can null the splatter a bit by aiming SW and hear XEX (which really ought to change its branding to “W Música y Deportes”).
Night: XEX is very strong and has less KSAH splatter to contend with. It doesn’t fade much. I sometimes hear XEHB in Hidalgo de Parral if I null XEX by aiming E/W. On a few occasions I’ve heard XESOS in Agua Prieta (which I thought was retired but have heard recently). Both stations seem to be on the air only intermittently.
Sunrise: XEX is still strong. A few times I’ve heard XESOS in its null. Also, KKDA in Grand Prairie, TX, regularly pops up for a bit when it goes to day pattern.
DX/Retro: Back in January 2019 I heard XEX via daytime skywave - the lowest frequency on which I’ve ever had that type of reception. Also, I’ve heard KQPN in West Memphis, AR, just a few times late at night.
Day: Heavy splatter from 720 KSAH.
Sunset: I can null the splatter a bit by aiming SW and hear XEX (which really ought to change its branding to “W Música y Deportes”).
Night: XEX is very strong and has less KSAH splatter to contend with. It doesn’t fade much. I sometimes hear XEHB in Hidalgo de Parral if I null XEX by aiming E/W. On a few occasions I’ve heard XESOS in Agua Prieta (which I thought was retired but have heard recently). Both stations seem to be on the air only intermittently.
Sunrise: XEX is still strong. A few times I’ve heard XESOS in its null. Also, KKDA in Grand Prairie, TX, regularly pops up for a bit when it goes to day pattern.
DX/Retro: Back in January 2019 I heard XEX via daytime skywave - the lowest frequency on which I’ve ever had that type of reception. Also, I’ve heard KQPN in West Memphis, AR, just a few times late at night.
It can definitely get lower. I've picked up WMAQ (now WSCR) pm 670 in northern Minnesota and WLW in central Wisconsin both during midday on daytime skywave. I realize that both of these were in the northern Midwest. but I've also heard WSM on 650 at midday in Perdido Key, Florida (Pensacola). The oddity with that occasion was that WLAC on 1510 from Nashville was completely missing. Despite 1510 and adjacents being almost totally blank daytime at that location.
I also heard WMAQ in northern Minnesota during the day in summer.
@ anwar
Perhaps you or someone else can provide me with a new PA logging on 730.
In the car once with the analogue dial, I was listening one afternoon to The Greaseman. He was snarking away with his usual euphemisms for biological parts and functions of the human anatomy.
My best recall is that it was off 730 kHz.
Was The Greaseman ever on that Alexandria station? Even for a short while? I found I don't have them im the log book as 'received'.
Perhaps you or someone else can provide me with a new PA logging on 730.
In the car once with the analogue dial, I was listening one afternoon to The Greaseman. He was snarking away with his usual euphemisms for biological parts and functions of the human anatomy.
My best recall is that it was off 730 kHz.
Was The Greaseman ever on that Alexandria station? Even for a short while? I found I don't have them im the log book as 'received'.
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