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AM Frequency of the Week: 740

Yakima, WA
Daytime - nothing
Nights - Usually KCBS San Francisco (all news), mixing with CBX Edmonton, AB (CBC Radio 1). On good winter nights, KVOX Fargo (ESPN) is a mini-flamethrower with 940 watts. I'm always surprised how strong they can be at times. I also hear CFZM Toronto on occasion in the winter, when conditions to the east are really good.

On my wanted list - KTRH Houston and KBRT Costa Mesa. KTRH has been tentatively heard here, but KBRT is MIA even in aurora. This is very surprising. KRMG Tulsa is also on the want-list.
 
Would love to snag KTRH here in Ohio but I can't see it ever happening. Too much working against it ... neither its day or night patterns send much in this direction (particularly the night pattern, the null for which is aimed at Toronto and pointed squarely toward me), Zoomer is way too strong, etc. It would have to be a freak occurrence.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Daytime: local daytimer WVCH from Chester(religious talk).
Night: CFZM(Zoomer Radio) from Toronto.
 
WVCH Chester is the * sometimes * catch on 740 here in the day, Ryan, when the dial is silent and the reception is conducive. We're about 100 miles north-northwest of Chester.
(Might you remember when WVCH signed off at sunset with something like: 'WVCH now concludes it's four thousandth, seven hundred and fifty-fifth day of broadcasting' ? :- )

Sunset propagation here (my second DX home) have reaped WRNR West Virginia, WMBL North Carolina and WNYH Long Island. I only have taped IDs from those first two.

Nighttimes, in the car or even on the cheesiest radio I own, it's CBL Toronto. Or whatever they're calling themselves now. God bless 'em, because they're certainly keeping the faith through music on the AM dial.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Nighttimes, in the car or even on the cheesiest radio I own, it's CBL Toronto. Or whatever they're calling themselves now. God bless 'em, because they're certainly keeping the faith through music on the AM dial.
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I stand to be corrected by mimo or someone else with more knowledge. But, IIRC, when the CBC decided to move CBL to FM and give up 740, there were 23 applicants to take over the frequency. Each made their case to the CRTC that their application would best serve the public interest. Long story short, the CRTC determined that the biggest underserved demographic slice in the "GTA" (Greater Toronto Area) was the the "50-plus" age group. Hence the winning application being awarded to what was then CHWO, operating on 1250khz in suburban Oakville. Subsequently, the station was sold, and the call letters changed to CFZM. But the target audience remained the same, although the format was tweaked slightly, primarily to add a small amount of talk program and more "traditional" top 40 oldies. Not a bad idea in light of format flips away from the former oldies formats on CHUM and CKOC.
 
Anyone else notice this Summer that CFZM 740, WTVN 610, and other normally reliable groundwaves are even weaker than usual, presumably due to the abnormally hot, dry weather? I keep checking to see if my car antenna is loose. But it seems to be on all radios. Over the years, I have verified that there is a real Summer Winter difference, with a field strength meter, and this is also observable from the Mile Marker where the Seek and Scan stops on signals. I know we have people here who have an extreme attachment to M-3, but I think it is unfounded over nearly all paths.
 
Schroedingers, you are absolutely right as far as I'm concerned. WTVN is a local for me, with its tower about 10 miles away, but I've noticed it with WLW, WJR and WTAM among others on multiple radios.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Anyone else notice this Summer that CFZM 740, WTVN 610, and other normally reliable groundwaves are even weaker than usual, presumably due to the abnormally hot, dry weather? I keep checking to see if my car antenna is loose. But it seems to be on all radios. Over the years, I have verified that there is a real Summer Winter difference, with a field strength meter, and this is also observable from the Mile Marker where the Seek and Scan stops on signals. I know we have people here who have an extreme attachment to M-3, but I think it is unfounded over nearly all paths.
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I first realized the relationship between seasons and reception range when I owned HCRM in Quito. This was a 1 kw facility on 570.

I frequently visited a friends hacienda on weekends. In the wetter, cooler months between October and April, the station was listenable in the daytime, although the location was obviously in the fringe area. But during the warmer and very dry months of May to September, the signal deteriorated to the point of not being listenable.

I did not have a field strength meter, but did have a signal strength meter installed in my car radio and there was a definite difference in seasonal strength. In this case, I do not use the terms "summer" and "winter" as a location that is only a few miles south of the Equator does not have traditional seasons.
 
Like with MARCB, it's CFZM-AM 740 of Toronto at night (on FM in Toronto proper on 96.7 FM, of course!) and Long Island during the day. The Huntington, NY station is very weak. I have to have the walkman sitting in the right spot, with no electrical interference, to hear anything. (I'm about 10 miles southwest of Hartford, CT.)
 
Here in Lexington, KY, on 740, it's a rather weak WNOP during daylight hours. At night KRMG and CFZM are the two main contenders battling it out. Usually, I can null one or the other out. In years past however, KRMG was not nearly as strong, making me think their night pattern is chronically outta whack. As for the comments on WTVN being weaker on 610...I must concur. Lately it is very weak between my two local powerhouses on 590 & 630 (WVLK & WLAP). In the past, on a good AM radio, it was listenable during the day here. I should also note that WLS from Chicago is still detectable at mid-day here, so any effects of ground wave changes have not affected them.
 
In Northwest Arkansas -

Daytime-Early evening -

KRMG, Tulsa

Nighttime - I may sometimes hear a station mixing with KRMG -- Possibly KTRH, Houston
 
south of Minnesota River (suburban Minneapolis)

Daytime - WDGY (Weegie) Hudson, WI

Nightime - usually CFZM Toronto right when WDGY signs off for the night (they are a daytime only station but they now have a FM translator and piggyback on the HD2 of another owners station...assume to feed the translator)
 
Here in Cincinnati I able to receive WNOP really strong but at Night.
CFZM will appear moderately strong in some nights. In other nights will be in the background of WNOP.

Daytime - 740 WNOP (Strong)

Nighttime - 740 WNOP (Strong at times) and CFZM (Weak and Moderate at times)

That what I hear in My area, Anyways 1st Post!
 
Schlep82 said:
Here in Cincinnati I able to receive WNOP really strong but at Night.
CFZM will appear moderately strong in some nights. In other nights will be in the background of WNOP.

Daytime - 740 WNOP (Strong)

Nighttime - 740 WNOP (Strong at times) and CFZM (Weak and Moderate at times)

That what I hear in My area, Anyways 1st Post!
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Welcome to the board.
 
My welcome to you also, Schlep.

Most of those on the board are familiar with the fact that I traveled quite a bit in my work, and even now in my (sort of) retirement I'm still on the road for several weeks in a typical year.

My experience in Cincinnati is relatively limited compared to other destinations, but I recall WNOP as having a good local signal, yet easy enough to null and hear CFZM. I've also heard KRMG in the mix on occasion.
 
cyberdad said:
My welcome to you also, Schlep.

Most of those on the board are familiar with the fact that I traveled quite a bit in my work, and even now in my (sort of) retirement I'm still on the road for several weeks in a typical year.

My experience in Cincinnati is relatively limited compared to other destinations, but I recall WNOP as having a good local signal, yet easy enough to null and hear CFZM. I've also heard KRMG in the mix on occasion.
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I live in kinda up in the north from Cincinnati of the suburbs. I'm not all the way up in the suburbs, but My suburb is called Saint Bernard. So that's why I hear CFZM and WNOP mixing.
 
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