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AM Frequency of the week: 750

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40 Miles Northwest of downtown Chicago,,,,

Days: Fair signal from WNDZ, Portage, Indiana. Catholic Radio, (Formerly brokered multi-ethnic variety owned by Baruch Broadcasting). 15kw from a "marble shooter" pattern aimed right at Chicago. Which also means aimed right at me. Distance is 76 miles.

Nights: All WSB from Atlanta after WNDZ signoff at sunset. Usually with a good signal. Sometimes CKJH from Melfort SK intrudes underneath.

Other Location: During daytime what's left of KKNO, a 250-watt non-directional coffeepot from New Orleans, is barely audible right along the coast near Pensacola. At night, that beach location is WSB. Typically with a very good signal, although omce in a while, there's something in Spanish underneath.
 
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East TN: Day/The last breath of WSB with splatter from local WETR. Night: all WSB. Retro-other: WNDZ southeast of Dayton, OH at sunset. WNDZ was a daytime regular in Lafayette IN
 
gr8oldies said:
Retro-other: WNDZ southeast of Dayton, OH at sunset. WNDZ was a daytime regular in Lafayette IN
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I think the "marble shooter" WNDZ pattern was primarily designed to proteect WJR (760). Although perhaps a secondary objective was to protect WNOP (Newport, KY) and WVLN (Olney, IL). Both of those on 740.
 
Near north Chicago burbs: days all WNDZ with a good signal. Nights all WSB usually good. Once in awhile I hear a Caribbean station in the background but I can’t remember where it is.
 
750 WSB - Atlanta GA 95-5 - WSB News, talk //95.5 - 2023

750 CMBC - Palmira, Cuba - Radio Progreso - La Onda de la Alegria - 2016

750 YVKS - Caracas, Venezuela - Radio Caracas Radio - 0900/open in Spanish - 2001

kw -Melbourne FL
 
Pickerington, Ohio ...
Daytime: Nothing
Nighttime: A solid WSB. Not necessarily overpowering, but always there. I do think I've heard Radio Caracas on this channel once up here. I definitely heard it the last time I was in the Florida panhandle.
In the bad old IBOC days, hiss from WJR was clearly audible on 750 and 770 even this far south.
 
East-central Iowa: nothing during the day. If there are daytime skywave conditions, WNDZ is a good candidate and sometimes shows up when that happens. Nighttime is a strong WSB. Sometimes CKJH appears with beach radio from Saskatchewan.
 
Tyler, TX:

Daytime is blank. Have tried unsuccessfully for years to catch KSEO up at Durant, OK, but I've never been at the right place at the right time, I suppose. A buddy of mine in Mineola, 18 miles to my north, has it logged. Would be nice to do the same.

Nights is WSB with a moderate to good signal, under typical conditions.
 
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 hear several stations including 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. My most recent new log on 750 is Radio Progreso from Palmira, Cuba in September 2022. WSB was off the air when I heard them.
 
Wilmington Delaware

Days - A very weak signal from WBMD in Baltimore MD on my car radio. In my apartment just splatter from WJFP on 740.

Nights - A good signal from WSB. One of the better signals from a non directional 50 KW station after dark.
 
Here in Canyon Lake, Texas nothing by day. WSB arrives at Sunset and Sunrise; like most 50KW’s east of here, they fade into the mush between Sunrise and Sunset.

Many years ago, a Spanish Language station was in the forefront; figured it was from Mexico, but they kept mentioning Caracas. Turned out it was from Caracas: first and only South American catch from here.
 
South Mississippi:

Day: KKNO Gretna, LA - K-75, Unmistakably Christian Radio
Night: strong signal from WSB Atlanta's News & Talk, and rarely Radio Progreso
 
I've lived in two places since moving to PA some 20+years ago, each cattycorner to the other in the same town. In between the two QTHs is about one air mile, if that.
Back when days actually made for far-less-aggravating reception here in the houses with all their swell equipment, middays at the old NW house brough in a faint 'WMXH', from Elyphant PA. There a 1600 (?) watt daytimer a few miles NE of Scranton, and is now WQOR.
They'd mix sometimes at SSS with Anwar's WBMD Baltimore (we're actually closer here to the MD line than to the NY state line).
WSB at nights. Unlike Anwar's observation, though, I often find them fairly weak when I tune 'em in. Different styles for different dials .......
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago ...

In order of their appearance over the years:

• WSB Atlanta; 50 kW NBC charter (or nearly so) affiliate. "It's 83 degrees at White Columns." I had no idea what that meant until someone explained they named their plant White Columns and the front looked like Tara from "Gone With The Wind."
• YNX Managua, Nicaragua, during heavily auroral conditions that wiped out WSB.
• KMMJ Grand Island, Neb., 10 kW daytimer.
• WNDZ Portage, Ind., first at 2.5 kW, then 5 kW, now 15 kW, always directional toward the Loop. Audible in Wisconsin, which delights a pal who buys time to air a golf show so his clients can hear it.
• CKJH Melfort, Sask., 10 kW nights with WSB off for towel light replacement overnight on 9/22/2022.
 
Loganville, GA

Approx 17.5 miles almost due east from Tower Center, WSB, 24/7. FWIW, Tower Center is the name of the shopping center that their tower is in the middle of. Their guy wires go into what look like large planters in front of the stores.
 
@Mitch Brewer, how far does that groundwave carry in your experience before it starts to struggle? How their signal struggles thanks to that bad ground conductivity has been notorious in these parts over the years. I've never heard that for myself.

Mark Roberts said:
Oakland, CA -

Split, splat
KCBS sidebands
Are where it's at
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Reminded me that where I lived in suburban Houston, KTRH and WSB were about 75 degrees different so I usually could somewhat null KTRH at night to hear WSB. Even then, there was a lot of slop from KTRH.
 
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