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AM Frequency of the Week: 750

cyberdad

cyberdad

Northwest suburban Chicago.....

Days: 750 is WNDZ from Suburban northwest Indiana. 15 kw directional daytimer aimed in my direction from a site 76 to my southeast. Signal is good, but nowhere near as strong as the blowtorches on either side of it on the dial. 720/WGN and 780/WBBM.

Nights: Typically WSB alone with a good signal. CKJH from Melfort, Saskatchewan has been known to occasionally "forget" to switch from 25kw day pattern and mix with WSB. I haven't heard that recently, however.

Housekeeping: I"m going to be traveling more often than not during the next several weeks. As a result, some of my FOTW threads may post a day or so earlier or later than the usual Sundays, OTOH, As always, while I'm on the road, I'll make it a point to share anything that may turn uo on my radio, Later this week, I'll be taking the slow route to friends and family in So-Cal. Then in early June, it'll be the beach near Pensacola. Hopefully some interesting DX along the way.
....Jack
 
Safe travels and keep us posted!

East Tennessee: Days---a weak WSB splattered with next-door WETR.
Night: WSB, pretty solid.

Retro/other: When I lived in Lafayette, IN, WNDZ came in pretty well. I've caught it around sunset in the Dayton, Ohio area. I haven't gotten much of anything else other than WSB anywhere at night, except for an occasional Radio Nacional Cordoba, the 100kWer out of Colombia.
 
WSB comes right up the Atlantic Coast evenings into N.England and lasts well into the early morning hours. The 750 signal is good. Probably as any from that type of distance with maybe 84 Louisville and 65 Nashville exceptions.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Days, it's daytimer WNDZ's 15 kw transmitter in Portage, Ind., about due east of me. It was originally 2.5 kw, then 5 kw, as various owners managed to bump up the wattage.

Nights, it's invariably WSB Atlanta, solid from 577 miles away almost every night. Rare has been the evening interloper, but two standouts are YNZ Managua, Nicaragua, a 50 kw station that wiped out WSB one surprising night, and KMMJ Grand Island, Neb., that might be heard near sunrise or sunset in the pre-WNDZ days.
 
From south Overland Park, Kansas:

Day: Heavy splatter from local 6 kW KCCV on 760 kHz. On rare occasion, 5 kW non-directional daytimer KBNN in Lebanon, Missouri will rise above the splatter during critical hours.

Night: A solid and usually quite listenable WSB. Adjacent channel KCCV lowers power to 200 watts at night. The quality and consistency of the WSB nighttime signal is impressive at 676 miles.

Bob
 
Chicago by the lakeshore:

Daytime: WNDZ. I actually didn't realize it was all the way in Portage, IN because it comes in so well here.

Nightime: WSB Atlanta is there daily and comes in quite well. There was a period a few months ago when I was getting good signals from the northwest and a few times I heard "Beach Radio" CKJH, which comes to you from the tropical beaches of central Saskatchewan.

Retro: 1980's Bay Area: KOAL Price Utah (which still exists) and KXL Portland, Oregon (which has become KXTG since then.)
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs: Daytime is all WNDZ with a good signal. At night it's all WSB with a good signal. A few times I've heard Nicaragua underneath WSB. Once or twice fighting it out with WSB.
 
Here in Wood Dale, IL in the near NW suburb of Chicago:

Daytime: WNDZ Portage, Indiana with solid signal
Nighttime: WSB with quite a good signal

DX/Retro: prior to WNDZ coming on the air in 1987 I managed to several daytimers usually during pre-sunset periods. These include KSEO (Durant, OK), KJEL (Lebanon, MO), WPDX (Clarksvurg, WV), WRIK (Brookport, IL). Others heard on this frequency include KMMJ (Grand Island, NE), CKJH (Melfort, SK) as well as several stations that are no longer on the air such as CKGB Timmins, ON), CJWW (Saskatoon, SK), Radio Trujillo (La Ceiba, Honduras), Radio Caracas (Caracas, Venezuela) and Radio Sandino (Managua, Nicaragua). Radio Sandino was quite a frequent log in the Chicago area back in 1980's.
 
From Reynoldsburg, Ohio, nothing daytime and always WSB at night. Listened to many Braves games at night in the 90s when they were still on that blowtorch ... which, of course, is known for having one of the worst groundwave signals for a 50K anywhere.
On the trip to Panama City Beach I mentioned in the 740 thread, I remember Venezuela wiping out WSB at least a few nights despite my being much, much closer to Atlanta. That was not the case when I lived in Houston, where despite a ton of KTRH slop WSB was audible most every night. I also lived in a location where my turning the radio more toward Atlanta did almost nothing to mitigate spillover from KTRH.
 
In eastern Iowa, daytimes, nothing usually, but sometimes WNCZ Portage, IN, on daytime skywave, which happens more often than you might think.
Nighttime: Welcome south, brother! WSB is almost always there. On rare occasion I've caught CKJH Melfort, SK, blasting in from up north. Not very frequently however.
 
In west Houston, mostly KTRH 740 slop day and night, but can usually hear WSB. Sometimes there's Spanish mixing w/WSB after sunset, maybe KAMA but can't ID.
 
San Jose, California

Days...Nothing but hash from next door...KCBS

Nights..I get a couple of them..
KOAL, out of Utah makes itself known on occasion
KXTG, out of Portland Oregon is more dominate
A new catch and a surprise to me.., KAMA out of El Paso Texas can be heard. Confirmed with web stream. They might be on Day power ( 10KW ) though, but IDK.
 
750 WSB has been off the air for at least an hour and I am instead hearing Radio Progreso CMFC Cienfuegos. I also checked the Athens, GA and Key West SDR, they are also getting the same thing.
 
ente said:
750 WSB has been off the air for at least an hour and I am instead hearing Radio Progreso CMFC Cienfuegos. I also checked the Athens, GA and Key West SDR, they are also getting the same thing.
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Per latest WRTH, 750 is in Palmira. The "call letters" are CMBC and are shared by all Radio Progreso network stations.
 
gr8oldies said:
I'm still not quite sure why DXers insist on using pre-revolution call letters for current Cuban stations.
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To provide historical context for which cities and transmitter sites have been heard, compared to the pre-revolution days. Some DXers have logs that go back a long way.
 
tvnut said:
To provide historical context for which cities and transmitter sites have been heard, compared to the pre-revolution days. Some DXers have logs that go back a long way.
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But there have been multiple national media rebuilds since then. The latest, done by the Chinese, relocated nearly all AM stations to shared multiplexed transmitter sites that have between two and four AMs on a single tower.

I'd guess that very little of the 1959 infrastructure remains. Some transmitter sites may be the old ones of certain pre-Castro commercial stations, but most have moved to new facilities and locations.
 
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