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AM Frequency of the week: 750
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DFW, Texas
Daytime: A fair signal from KSEO Durant OK with oldies.
Nights: WSB is consistently heard with a good signal and R. Progresso sometimes underneath. When northern conditions are good, CKJH Beach Radio from SK is often heard by nulling WSB. One overnight when WSB was temporarily off the air, I heard KAMA from El Paso mixing with CKJH and R. Progresso.
Sunrise: KMMJ from Nebraska can be heard with religion in Spanish. I heard KOAL from Utah once.
Daytime: A fair signal from KSEO Durant OK with oldies.
Nights: WSB is consistently heard with a good signal and R. Progresso sometimes underneath. When northern conditions are good, CKJH Beach Radio from SK is often heard by nulling WSB. One overnight when WSB was temporarily off the air, I heard KAMA from El Paso mixing with CKJH and R. Progresso.
Sunrise: KMMJ from Nebraska can be heard with religion in Spanish. I heard KOAL from Utah once.
@rosecitymedia KSEO puts a fair daytime signal into the northern DFW suburbs. I have also heard them on the air at night on multiple occasions.
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Well...maybe I need a new receiver! To hear that, on top of it being pretty common just a couple dozen miles north of me, is rather disheartening.
In west Houston, TX, daytime is all KTRH 740 slop. Around sunset, WSB starts to come up, often mixing with the Cuban. In the wintertime I sometimes hear KMMJ with religious music in Spanish before they drop power for the night. At night, it's all WSB and Cuba, although I've heard CKJH occasionally. Around sunrise, WSB and Cuba fade out and the KTRH slop gets worse. I've heard KMMJ in the morning, but haven't been able to log KSEO (or KAMA, or KOAL), despite hints of them mixing together.
The station in Venezuela is the one I’ve heard under WSB
Until Mitch answers the question directed to him, I can shed a little light on the matter from my travels. Going north, it's comfortably listenable until around Chattanooga. Beyond there on I-24, WSB is usually audible (barely) for about half of the 120 mile drive to Nashville Nashville, WSB Going west, it's weak but audible until about the outskirts of Birmingham. This all assumes a good car radio during daytime.
@schmave TBH, the only time I have ever listened to WSB is when they aired Atlanta Braves games, for local traffic and morning news back before news was easily available on a phone. @cyberdad thanks for the report, I really wouldn't imagine they would get out that far with our horrible conductivity here. I can't pick up most local AM's during the day.
It’s been a couple years since I drove the route, but going south it seems to get sketchy around Macon, which is about 90 miles from the transmitter. There’s really an argument from more than 50 kW, at least days. At night it’s a blowtorch, of course.
I can add a couple of different directions: I have a relative who lives in Hendersonville, NC (32 miles north of Greenville, SC). You can pull in WSB, but it is definitely about done. It might make it to Asheville, but that would be it.
It’s been 40 years since I have driven south on 75 out of Atlanta, but back then, relatively listenable in Perry (just over 100 miles from Atlanta) and pretty well spent by Tifton (180 or so miles).
I've been on that stretch of road a number of times. Haven't tracked WSB for a while, however. But that's pretty much what I remember, as well. I've also spent a couple of nights in Tifton. But IIRC, the hotel room was by the elevator plus other electrical equipment, and too high of a noise level for DXing.
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I know what you're talking about. Atlanta was a regular stop for me back in the '90s. I used to stay in the Peachtree-Dunwoody area on most of my visits and was astonished by how weak the Atlanta FMs were up there. (IIRC, about 10-12 miles north of downtown), I think WSB, and perhaps WCNN (680), were the only ones listenable after sunset.
From NW San Antonio:
Day: Just heavy-duty splatter from local 760 KTKR.
Night: There's still a lot of splatter, but WSB comes up with a fairly strong and steady signal. During times of good propagation in fall/winter, I'll occasionally hear CKJH in Melfort or KOAL in Price, UT, when aiming NW.
Sunrise: WSB hangs in there for a while, while KOAL comes up with a decent signal. After WSB fades, KMMJ in Grand Island, NE, is usually heard for a bit with Spanish-language Christian pop when it goes to day power. I've heard XEJMN in Jesús Maria a few times when it signed on for the day.
DX/Retro: One-time loggings include KAMA in El Paso, XEURM in Uruapan (retired), and XECSI (possibly retired). Also, I heard Radio Progreso in Cuba once back on Dec. 14 when WSB was off air for a while after midnight.
Day: Just heavy-duty splatter from local 760 KTKR.
Night: There's still a lot of splatter, but WSB comes up with a fairly strong and steady signal. During times of good propagation in fall/winter, I'll occasionally hear CKJH in Melfort or KOAL in Price, UT, when aiming NW.
Sunrise: WSB hangs in there for a while, while KOAL comes up with a decent signal. After WSB fades, KMMJ in Grand Island, NE, is usually heard for a bit with Spanish-language Christian pop when it goes to day power. I've heard XEJMN in Jesús Maria a few times when it signed on for the day.
DX/Retro: One-time loggings include KAMA in El Paso, XEURM in Uruapan (retired), and XECSI (possibly retired). Also, I heard Radio Progreso in Cuba once back on Dec. 14 when WSB was off air for a while after midnight.
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Hartland, VT, and Meriden, CT:
Nothing days, WSB Atlanta nights.
Growing up in the Boston area, I used to listen to WHEB(AM) Portsmouth, NH, on 750. It went silent on AM in 1991, the first station I remember shutting down its AM in favor of its FM.
Nothing days, WSB Atlanta nights.
Growing up in the Boston area, I used to listen to WHEB(AM) Portsmouth, NH, on 750. It went silent on AM in 1991, the first station I remember shutting down its AM in favor of its FM.
Wow, in my experience the "loud and local" starts wearing off of WSB at 40-50 miles and it gets to be work to listen to at 60-70, same for WSM here... but then again, I lived in Texas for ten years where things like WBAP are "five-by-five" for 100 miles so my commitment to daytime DX maybe ain't what it once was.
First of all bigfred, welcome to the board! You're always among friends here who look forward to hearing what you have to say.
As for WSB's daytime range, I can only speak for myself, but the experiences I've had tracking WSB have been with a car radio, driving along interstates. So undoubtedly, WSB would figure to be less listenable in "denser" locations with more noise. Interstate highways are definitely mor DXer friendly than most other locations.
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I was trying to think of WHEB. I never heard it but a friend briefly worked there in the late 70s.
Thank you! Love the Flora-Bama ball cap, that's awesome.
We spend most of our Februarys at the condo building right next door. Handy location on the beach...
to put it mildly! Made lots of friends at the Bama down through the years, including the owners and some of the regular entertainers. Also a great DX spot!
Finding my notes from when I lived in Columbia, MO from 1980 to 1984, I see that, on 750, I received Nicaraguan stations twice. They might actually have been the same station. The first reception was of "La Radio Sandinista" in October 1980; the second, also on 750, was "Radio Sandino" in September 1984. It's certainly interesting to me to go back through these old notes, which were actually written in a copy of White's Radio Log, 14th edition.
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